Roughly ten minutes had passed. The dust storm on the moon lasted longer than I had expected.
Miluno still had not returned.
"This is the case of the mysterious bathroom disappearance!"
Holding a magnifying glass she had found somewhere and wearing a deerstalker hat, Mono searched the small bathroom for clues.
Naturally, she found nothing.
She even muttered, "Weird! I didn't hear any teleportation sounds, either. Did she really just vanish on the spot?"
She really had vanished on the spot.
If I was right, she had probably gone back to reality to find the other Miluno.
If the virtual New World was like a VR game, then, to put it simply...
She had logged out right where she stood.
Miss Night Owl was a little sleepy from continuously using magic and was lying on the bed, hugging her camera lens as she rested.
Mono, meanwhile, felt stifled without an internet connection. Unable to sit still by nature, she soon began showing withdrawal symptoms, wriggling and crawling around on the floor.
Miss Sirius kept me company over the radio.
"Don't worry. It'll pass in another fifteen minutes. Normally, periodic solar storms are predictable and don't last long. This one was a natural disaster Mi Xue forcibly created, so our forecasting system was no help."
"That girl really went too far, didn't she?"
Mi Xue really would stop at nothing to get things done. I wondered who she took after...
"She used the solar wind as an excuse, claiming her livestream connection had been interrupted. Since ours went down too, no one will question her story," Sirius said.
"Then all we can do is wait."
Leaning against the window, I watched the monotonous gray-white dust storm outside the rest station. Just then, a noise came from the bathroom, and the missing