"Hehehe..."
"..."
"Hehehe..."
"..."
"Whoo-hoo..."
"That's enough already."
Watching Ann circle around him nonstop while making eerie laughing sounds, Duanmu Huai helplessly rolled his eyes.
"Oh my, it's just so rare to see Knight like this. It's really fresh, and so cute and pretty too. Completely different from the usual Knight, don't you think? Oh my, I never thought I'd get to see something this wonderful."
As she spoke, Ann suddenly reached out and tightly hugged the girl in front of her.
"Ah, she smells so nice and feels so soft. Hehehe, it's really addictive..."
"Haaah..."
Faced with Ann rubbing herself all over him while hugging him, Duanmu Huai silently sighed. There was nothing anyone could do about it, but he hadn't expected Ann to be the one who came... Well, strictly speaking, this was understandable.
After all, this time the problem wasn't as simple as destroying something. The entire Magical Girl System needed to be thoroughly analyzed and reconstructed before they could find a solution. In that regard, Mary's Gold Eye wasn't very useful, because the Gold Eye could only provide the answer, not the process. What Duanmu Huai needed now wasn't the answer, but the process—and to alter that process.
That required a clever magic researcher with an extremely extensive knowledge of magic. Thus, as the Inquisition's first Magic Advisor, Ann naturally came without hesitation.
And that was how the scene before him came to be.
"Ugh, it feels so nice and soft to hold, unlike Knight, who's so hard. Why don't you use this form when you go outside from now on?"
"No way."
Duanmu Huai flatly rejected Ann's request.
"All right, stop touching me. I asked you to come here not to play, but to discuss serious business—since you're here, you should understand the situation, right?"