I didn't distance myself from Ceruno because she was a Simulacrum Personality. Since she was a completely identical copy inside and out, I had no reason to express dissatisfaction with her.
But...
We still needed to maintain a certain distance when spending time together.
After all, we weren't truly lovers.
Even without my memories, the person I loved had always been the Ceruno who belonged to me.
The one before me could, at most, count as a... little sister?
Today was the last day of our promised week. Sister Ceruno and I had come to a rather remote...
No, I should say an extremely remote place.
"Why did we come all the way to Antarctica?"
"Because Antarctica doesn't have polar bears."
"Huh? A dad joke?!"
"Just kidding. I came to see an old friend."
Antarctic Star, the smartest penguin lady in the world.
I wanted to borrow her wisdom...
I also wanted to ask Aldebaran or SpiCa for help, but Mi Xue wouldn't let me see anyone else. Antarctic Star was the only one she hadn't stopped me from meeting, though I had no idea why.
Naturally, the staff at the Antarctic Joint Research Station had all become Magical Girls as well.
On the day the New World arrived, Antarctic Star lost all her dads and gained an equal number of moms.
"Huh? Miluno?"
My timing was a little unfortunate. They were watching a livestream of another me on television.
So even the clever Antarctic Star wore a dumbfounded, ghost-seeing expression when she saw me.
"If you're here, then who's the person on TV?"
I scratched my cheek and considered my answer.
"Well, that's actually... uh... the Enheria Knight? She's temporarily acting in my place. Please keep it a secret."
That explanation wasn't wrong. Wasn't that Black Rabbit the Enheria