The call Larkspur received was for Lin Yun. Fortunately, the person on the other end was not another employee, but Hong Siyu.
She had specifically called at this time because a Municipal Construction Bureau project near the outskirts had discovered signs of Aberrant Beast activity, but had not found the beast itself. They hoped the Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau could send people to stand guard.
This sort of guard duty would be something of a waste for magical girls. Although Hong Siyu herself was a magical girl, she had recently been run ragged at the Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau and certainly could not spend her time waiting around for an Aberrant Beast that had yet to appear. Asō Madoka, meanwhile, had recently taken on the defense of almost the entire urban area by herself, and Hong Siyu did not think they should place any more burden on her.
After some analysis, the best solution for this guard duty seemed to be sending a squad of Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau employees equipped with Magic Armaments. Such teams could handle low-level Aberrant Beasts, after all, and they had far more available personnel than magical girls.
And since this involved deploying the Special Operations Department, they needed Lin Yun's opinion as director.
"I think it's fine. We can approve it."
Larkspur said, "But the Special Operations Department's combat resources are valuable too, so make this clear to them: if the Aberrant Beast still hasn't appeared after seven days, have them stop. We should change the assignment from guard duty to observation, only guaranteeing that we'll deploy combat personnel immediately when the Aberrant Beast appears. We're not their babysitters. They need to learn to avoid risks that were completely unnecessary in the first place instead of dumping every little thing on us."
"Alright... approve their request for