"We're back."
"Miluno, come out here!"
Only three days had passed before Mom and Dad returned with good news after taking Terra all over the place.
It wasn't just about the troops being assembled in secret.
The New World's International Space Agency really was preparing to send an expedition to the moon. The team's primary objective was to survey Lunar City and assess the possibility of bringing it back into use.
If it really had fallen into disrepair, they would send a construction team to rebuild it. Whatever it took, they were determined to get that city running again.
Clearly, the senior human officials who had become magical girls really wanted to establish a permanent base on the moon.
Lunar City, especially the interior of the World Center, still held vast amounts of lost technology from the ancients that even the Monsters hadn't mastered.
Since all of it was still on the moon, the New World's magical girls had no reason not to retrieve it. After all, Mi Xue had also resurrected the surviving ancients as magical girls. Drawing on their collective wisdom could save Earth's civilization hundreds, even thousands of years of stumbling down the wrong paths...
Besides, Lunar City could bring us closer to the deity.
"SpiCa will recommend you for the team. Of course, that's just a formality. You'll be joining the expedition regardless. But everyone going up this time is a researcher or a builder. I'm afraid there won't be anyone you know, and they weren't even magical girls originally."
"Doesn't matter. I'm not going there to make friends."
I shrugged, then continued:
"I just need to reach the moon and open a teleportation passage for you."
Dad nodded and adjusted her glasses again.
"In five days, the team will take off from the Guiana Rocket