Meeting: Miluno

(Miluno)

"I'll leave you here."

"I'm leaving now, see you this afternoon."

Mono and I were left behind, and Halley hurriedly headed to the office area.

Is he going to find Sirius? I wonder if this number one idol still has the mind to think about concerts.

The sudden opening of a teleportation portal inside the Wormhole Laboratory startled the researchers still there... including a Werewolf with a female face.

"Miss Knight? You have Wormhole Device and you're using teleportation magic? Are you trying to scare us to death?"

"Flow?"

I greeted the Werewolf as well.

"The one who should be surprised is us. SpiCa is already in jail, and you weren't taken away?"

I haven't seen him for a while.

Surprisingly, when SpiCa was taken away, he was still wearing a white lab coat (with a skirt on the bottom) and strolling around the research department in a very professional manner.

Almost everyone knows he's with SpiCa, so it's surprising he hasn't been implicated in the current tense situation.

"My current role is the security chief of the research department. Apart from magical girls, who else can suppress an experimental subject when it goes out of control? Besides, I don't have horns on my head. How would someone who doesn't know the situation know I'm not human?"

He was originally Monster who carried out infiltration missions, and after disguising himself, he was no different from a human.

Mono, sporting short horns, pulled down the brim of his hat and complained sullenly:

"Hey, does the absence of horns mean you're not an enemy? Is classification really that simple and crude?"

It's that simple and straightforward.

After SpiCa's arrest, a blind and ignorant wave of violence swept across the internet, igniting public outrage and calls to drive out all the horned enemies. A witch-hunting campaign was launched, reminiscent of a medieval re-enactment...

But real witches are generally unattainable and beyond the reach of ordinary people, so some unfortunate horned animals have been falsely accused by the ignorant of being the incarnations of witches.

Behind these ridiculous behaviors lies a spreading panic, causing the Corruption Rate to rise even faster.

Clearly, this is Sun Ji's inside game setting the pace again.

"Do you know what SpiCa is planning?" I asked.

"I can probably guess."

He only said that without discussing the matter in detail, since there were other researchers present, and it wasn't appropriate to discuss such things.

"I understand. Then you can wait here for her to come back."

Following my mother's instructions over the phone, I also opened the teleportation portal to the Metro Shopping Street.

"So ostentatious, huh?"

Mono, who was wearing a baseball cap to hide his forehead, said this.

This time, I didn't revert to Bai Ziye; instead, I walked the streets as Miluno. My long white hair was so striking that quite a few people recognized me...

Times have changed.

There was a time when I could walk down the street without pretending and nobody would recognize me.

"So many people are secretly taking pictures of you, and you're actually quite pleased with yourself?"

I don't deny it, it's definitely better than being unknown.

"Go ahead and take pictures. What's wrong with me being so good-looking and getting a few photos taken?"

As I pushed open the restaurant door and saw that it was me, the "magical girl waitress" at the front desk was taken aback for a moment.

"Miluno? My elder sister... the shop manager and the others have been waiting for quite some time. Please come with me."

Because of the fighting a few days ago, the entire Skyreach City was shrouded in a low-pressure atmosphere, but business here remained booming. Several private rooms had already been booked this morning—the doors of the rented rooms had light boxes that read "In Use," making them easy to spot.

The receptionist also glanced behind me.

"Didn't Ceruno come today?"

"She has other things to do."

He's just sleeping in at home.

I didn't want to wake her, so I didn't have her come along this time.

"What a pity, I wanted to take a picture with her."

Can't I take a picture with you?

The waiter led us to a private room at the end of the corridor, which was closer to Dantai Xue's secret passage and made it easier for her to cast spells on the guests.

"The manager is inside, so I won't go in."

"Thank you for your help."

Upon entering, I saw familiar faces in the private room.

Besides her mother and Dantai Xue, Dantai Zhengchu (JK style) and Duan Yin were also sitting around the dining table. They were all witnesses who had direct contact with the Proxy, so it was normal for them to be called in.

But I didn't see Dad?

"Miluno ~ my dear daughter~"

My mom came up to greet me. Why am I still acting like this in front of so many people?

Then he hugged Mono.

"Yes, little Mono is very cute today too."

"Hehe, thank you, Mom."

This little one, why is he calling my mom "Mom" too?

"I'm your Witch Persona! Your mother is my mother!"

It even stuck its tongue out at me.

Mom asked again, "Where's Ceruno?"

Why does everyone have to care about Ceruno?

"She's still sleeping; something happened last night and she didn't sleep all night."

"Is that so? No problem, let's get to the bottom of the mole thing today!"

I was led to the dining table and sat down. My mother sat between Mono and me, while across from us were the Dantai Family father and daughter and Tiger Cub. Although we were there to deduce the case together, the atmosphere was more like a tabletop negotiation.

Let's start over.

With her usual frivolous smile, Mom asked, "Let me confirm one more time, you really don't know that Gong Ling is the enemy's informant?"

"Have no idea."

Dantai Xue's answer didn't seem like a lie.

I pressed further:

"Then why did you try to turn her into someone like Gong Zhenglong?"

"... I knew she was a magical girl, but I didn't know she was an informant. Isn't it normal for magical girls to hide their identities? Do you guys transform in front of other people all the time?"

"Don't you find her suspicious that she's always acting like a magical girl?"

"She was introduced by Grandpa Gong, and she took meticulous care of my father, even wanting to use the Star Crystal to cure his illness... Thinking about it this way, even if she really is an inside agent, she doesn't seem to have any ill intentions towards our Dantai Society."

She even came back to help deal with the witch when the invasion occurred... making me unsure if she was an inside agent.

Seeing that Dantai Xue was still dodging the question, I looked at Dantai Zhengchu, who was the current head of the Dantai Society.

"It was understandable that you didn't know before, but after Ceruno came to investigate, she basically confirmed that there was an informant within the Dantai Society. You should have suspected it was Gong Ling back then, right? Why didn't you say so then?"

My tone was unfriendly, Dantai Zhengchu's expression also turned sour.

Although her appearance was molded into that of a young girl by Dantai Xue, her terrible body wouldn't improve as a result. Just as Ceruno said, the "Many-Faced Guest" could only change her appearance.

"A Ling has been kind to me, and how could I possibly push her forward when things are still uncertain?"

Dantai Zhengchu this answer, and Tiger Cub chimed in from the side.

"Exactly! In our line of work, loyalty comes first!"

If loyalty truly mattered in the underworld, how could she have ended up all alone?

I think it's more like profit is the primary motivation.

"Her magic is even more troublesome than invisibility. If we let her escape this time, it will be difficult to catch her again."

It can disappear at any time, pass through walls, and even possess beings, causing stalking phenomena.

It was a ghost in the truest sense of the word.