(Miluno)
Ceruno's warning came.
"Miluno, Miss Proxy may be in danger."
The Proxy wasn't the only one in danger.
If that Mi Xue's goal was to erase the Tool Witches packed into coffins as dark collectors, stopping the Mi Xue in reality from continuing her all-you-can-eat buffet...
Then killing producers like Aldebaran, Metal, and Stratos would solve the problem once and for all.
That included the Proxy, of course.
"You heard that, right? Stop producing those Canned Witches for now, or that impostor might come knocking."
I contacted the Proxy through the Thought Network, but she refused my request.
"Huh? How could we possibly stop at a time like this? If we don't replace the witches she kills, all the progress Mi Xue finally made will start going backward!"
Even as she spoke, her hands kept working, using magic to sever the connection between Mi Xue and each witch arriving on the conveyor belt.
Yet in the time it took us to exchange those few words, more bad news arrived.
"The witches at the Moscow Branch have been deleted too."
She could clear out a branch in five minutes, and each branch had been assigned exactly five Canned Witches to absorb darkness. That averaged out to one a minute.
That meant that even without attacking Nabu Island, that Mi Xue was deleting Canned Witches faster than our assembly line could produce them.
And we still had to send them through wormholes to the various branches. Our efficiency couldn't compare.
"If she's deleting them faster than we can make them, then there really isn't any point..."
A brief silence fell over the Thought Network chat room. After thinking it over, the Proxy posed a question.
"I have two questions. First, why doesn't she attack this place directly?"
That really was hard