"Heh heh heh, not bad." Hugging her knees, Kaguya gently swayed as she watched the moon radiating bright moonlight in the sky. It had to be said that, if one ignored the machine beside Jiu Ming, it looked exactly like the real thing.
Of course, they were not the only two admiring this moon. Nearly everyone who was out and about, or still awake at this hour, could not resist coming outside to gaze upon the "moon" that had not appeared for ten years.
"Moonlight?"
Silver raised her head toward the sky. Though her hollow eyes could see nothing, she could still sense that light. Yet she immediately shook her head. "No, it feels different from before..."
"Before?" Cat looked at the self-speaking Silver in surprise. After becoming a doll, an individual's independent sense of self should have disappeared. But what was with her now...? Cat tilted her head up, staring solemnly at the full moon in the sky. Its appearance was deeply strange—it had not risen normally, but had suddenly appeared out of nowhere!
It was precisely because of that abnormality that it drew such attention. Still, it had been so long since anyone had looked back on what the moon used to be like. Seeing it again so suddenly inevitably dragged people into memories of the past.
Back when the moon had not yet vanished.
Was it some sort of anomaly?
Cat shook her head. This matter definitely could not be concealed. They could see it here, and everyone else could see it too. "Do you want to keep watching?"
"Mm." Silver answered quietly.
"If you want to watch, go outside and watch." Jiu Ming spoke to Mai Kashiwagi in the bar. "You're off tonight."
"Thank you." Mai Kashiwagi nodded faintly. There was a trace of confusion on