"This girl, always boasting that she had everything under control, and then she went and made a complete mess of it."
High above Bai'an City, a girl's voice suddenly rang out. "Ugh, she reeks. What on earth did she do to end up like this?"
"Wood Lily said... she said she saw someone suspicious." Another female voice was as soft as a mosquito's buzz.
"I know. That's why I'm curious about why she ended up like this."
The first girl's voice was full of confusion. "Whether she won or lost, she shouldn't be passed out in an alley completely unharmed, right?"
Flying through the air while carrying the blonde girl, the blue-haired magical girl frowned and tried to think. Yet the waves of sour stench constantly wafting from beside her scrunched up her features and made it impossible for her to focus.
"W-White Thistle." The soft voice spoke again.
"What is it?" The blue-haired magical girl called White Thistle raised her brows.
"There seems to be someone ahead."
Those words made the blue-haired girl freeze. Focusing her attention ahead, she looked over—there really was someone there. More precisely, with a magical girl's eyesight, she could clearly tell that it was a girl.
A girl wearing a dark navy dress, with a golden mage's robe draped over her shoulders.
Larkspur was waiting for them here.
After watching this squad of magical girls take to the air from within the crowd earlier, she had made a brief decision and followed them.
Although her original purpose in coming here had been to visit the Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau, this concerned the Investigation Institute's missing investigation squad. The magical girls were clearly more worthwhile targets to question than the Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau.
Her initial plan had been to contact the Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau first, gather