Enemy and ally shared the same origin

:(Bai Ziye)

"Oh, here I am! My boyfriend~"

The organizers' temporary office area was also set up in this stadium, Sirius was waiting for my arrival in the reception room.

Ceruno was downstairs rehearsing and practicing with the band, and Aunt Yuehan naturally accompanied her.

However, I'm not alone. Golden, who has taken human form, is with me too. She's always been like this, and she's more attached to me than Ceruno.

However, even after transforming, she is still a young girl with a decent figure, and she lacks common sense as a human being, making her prone to doing things that challenge the limits of male rationality, including but not limited to...

While walking, he suddenly lay down and started crawling;

Use your head, the tip of your nose to nudge any part of your body;

I like to lick.

Moreover, this behavior was a habit she developed when she was Doggy, and it didn't bother her at the time, but it became rather awkward when it extended from Doggy to a young girl.

I gently rubbed Golden's face (her hair was a bit rough on my hands) and asked, "Is there something you need from me?"

Actually, it was Yin Wei who was looking for you.

Sirius said so.

Wearing glasses, Yin Wei peeked out from another room.

Judging from this, she must be working there... It was the same in Hawaii; she really is working wherever she goes.

"Yezi, you've come at the perfect time."

"How come you're wearing glasses all of a few days now?"

My contact lens fell out, so I'll have to make do with this for now.

Adjusting her nose bridge, Yin Wei added, "Take these two packets of potions. Barbara specially made them for you and called me to pick them up first thing this morning."

She took out two packets of magic potions from behind her back.

They still come in the same unbranded, jelly-like packaging; one pack is blue, and the other is green.

"What effect?"

"The blue potion can reduce your compatibility with the Star Crystal, which theoretically can suppress the mutations occurring in your body. However, the side effects are not hard to imagine. Your strength as a magical girl will weaken, and you should feel it quite clearly."

This is acceptable.

Compared to becoming weaker, physical mutations are more frightening.

Sirius shrugged and added, "Oh? This is poison for magical girls, forcibly reducing their adaptability. Some magical girls might even lose the ability to transform... Only a freak with a synchronization rate off the charts like you would treat this as medicine."

He put the blue potion in his pocket.

"What about this one?"

There's one packet of green potion left; this one really looks poisonous.

"That's a booster, a byproduct of Barbara's research on 'Crystal Compatibility,' and it just so happens to be the antidote for blue potions... If you feel powerless in battle, you should drink this."

Antidote.

But that sounds like it would worsen my situation.

What are the side effects?

When asked about this crucial information, Yin Wei shrugged irresponsibly.

"We don't know yet. Neither potion has been tested, but if you experience any adverse effects after using it, the 'Compatibility Enhancer' will be put into mass production and become a brand new product of Barbara's Workshop."

A magical potion that can instantly enhance a magical girl's power—such an easy way to become stronger sounds like it might have some terrible side effects.

That Ancient Tree magical girl has a deep-seated obsession with making money.

As a lab rat, didn't I receive any material compensation?

"Yes, please thank Miss Barbara for me... Is that all I wanted to say?"

That's all I wanted to say.

Yin Wei looked at Sirius.

The latter was resting his chin on his hand, his expression unusually serious.

"Miluno, the results of our research on that Oil Monster are in, regarding the hypothesis you proposed to me before..."

I previously speculated that the Simulacrum Factor and the Star Crystal are actually the same thing.

"Has anything been found out?"

"Let's talk about how this Simulacrum Factor differs from the previous ones."

Sirius raised her hand, and intricate rays of light wove a three-dimensional projection in her palm, creating a strong sense of science fiction.

There are three Simulacrum Factor in total, each different from the last.

"First, there's the first type, which is the most numerous. These are the Simulacrum Factor of ordinary Monster... Although they look like ordinary raw minerals with irregular bumps, they have undergone strict encryption, so at the time we couldn't analyze these Simulacrum Factor and once considered them worthless."

"Back then... can the meaning be interpreted now?"

Sirius didn't answer my question; instead, it brought up the projection of the second Simulacrum Factor.

It was a prism with a gray-iron texture, more refined than typical Simulacrum Factor, exuding a cold, industrial feel...

I know this.

This is the UI-31, Infiltration Weapon, also known as the flow Simulacrum Factor.

This thing was always embedded in his chest, where his armor was also stored; it was the source of his power.

"The flow -Simulacrum Factor is very advanced and special; it carries a variety of functions, the most important of which is..."

The projected prism-shaped Simulacrum Factor absorbed the ordinary ore-shaped Simulacrum Factor beside it.

"... It's a decoder. It can analyze other Simulacrum Factor, those Simulacrum Factor that we can't understand in depth, and absorb them into its own power... The flow's ability hasn't reached its limit yet. If we feed it all the Simulacrum Factor we've collected so far, what will it become?"

I think it's better not to do that.

"I know, he's a dog who came to rely on me, I wouldn't use him for any dangerous experiments."

Sirius waved his hand and said that.

I'm not worried about Liu's safety; I'm just afraid that his abilities are too strong for him to handle. Although we've gotten along fairly well lately, he's still a Monster at heart, and we can't forget that. Who knows if they've left any dangerous backdoors in his body on the Other Side?

"Now, let's look at the last Simulacrum Factor."

A golden cross.

"This is Simulacrum Factor extracted from the body of the Oil Monster captured alive by SpiCa."

"This is a product of Aldebaran."

"Well, from the perspective of product iteration, theoretically this is the most advanced Simulacrum Factor, and its appearance is more high-end than the previous two. But surprisingly... the encryption of this Simulacrum Factor is very imperfect, full of loopholes, and it's a 'defective product' that even our current technology can easily detect."

Aldebaran doesn't seem like a careless person; if she were, she wouldn't have become the head of the Monster Development Department.

I can roughly guess the reason for this.

"When I was setting up and installing the Simulacrum Factor on the Oil Monster, I kicked Aldebaran, causing her 'data cable' to be forcibly pulled out of the Oil Monster's body... Because of this hot-swapping, the Simulacrum Factor malfunctioned unexpectedly."

Sirius replied, "Yes, SpiCa thinks so too. If that's the case, then your kick was quite significant."

"So, what did you notice through that vulnerability?"

When I asked that, Sirius's expression became complicated again.

She sighed deeply, and after a long pause, she said, "Just as you guessed before, the Simulacrum Factor is the Star Crystal from 'the Other Side,' which, after being input into the 'phenomenal concepts' of this world, serves as a pass for movement here... This is the conclusion reached by the research department."

The people he had been fighting against all along were his own kind.

Sirius, the largest Star Crystal on Earth, was truly devastated upon hearing this news.

The Star Crystal is the manifestation of protective power and the embodiment of the Will of the Stars.

If the Simulacrum Factor is the Star Crystal, then "the Other Side" is using the power of "protection" for "aggression".

What exactly are they trying to do?