Rebelling Against One's Allies: Miluno

(Miluno)

Although reluctant, Aldebaran's proposal doesn't seem to have any major pitfalls at the moment.

Let's start with Sirius, the most difficult one to deal with on the surface.

She was fluttering her light wings in the sky, but the production workshop was only two stories high; I could easily pull her up with a simple jump...

Surprisingly, I didn't run into her; I jumped up and grabbed nothing.

Sirius dodged with ease, raising an eyebrow and sneering in response.

"Hmph, so slow? No good, Aldebaran~ You're still far inferior to Miluno herself!"

She felt that Aldebaran was controlling me.

I'm so sorry that I'm still so slow!

This body is more difficult to control than I imagined, and I understand why the "Great Hand" controlled by Aldebaran looks so clumsy. The delay in my actions causes my movements to lag behind my thoughts, and even speeding up cannot completely offset this sluggishness.

Since the current situation cannot be changed, let's adapt to it and take this delay into account when we take action!

But when I looked again, the bubbles that had expanded from Sirius's surface blocked my view and propelled Sirius backward.

"Miluno, wake up!"

Ceruno's cries were filled with anxiety, but I...

I'll just continue pretending to be manipulated.

To prevent her from continuing to worry, let's freeze her time using "The Present Moment".

Thinking this, I reached out to my chest, only to find it empty and flat.

Then I remembered that the pocket watch had been taken separately by Ceruno and the others, in order to seal my magic.

"Tsk."

Using Time Acceleration, I'll slip behind Ceruno and close in from her blind spot, then knock her unconscious...

This is the plan.

But a series of White-Iron Lance fell from above, blocking Ceruno's back like a city wall.

It was Sun Ji.

Although she was in poor health, it didn't stop her from observing my movements.

Clearly, she noticed my intention to "attack" Ceruno.

But that wasn't all; a series of incredibly fast water jets shot out from the gaps in the lances...

No, this isn't a water gun!

This is an ultra-high pressure water jet used for industrial cutting!

Its power was so great that it could even leave clean cuts in metal walls.

This is Achernar's usual tricks, but where exactly did she get the water from?

Despite the enormous delay, I barely managed to dodge the sharp water blades and tear a gash between the lances, only to find a wall of ice rising before me.

After Sun Ji and Achernar came Fomalhaut. This rhythmic, gauntlet-like battle left me somewhat overwhelmed. I felt like a villainous boss in a turn-based RPG who was locked in a combo by the main characters for three rounds at the start, possessing great martial arts skills but unable to use them effectively.

Taking them down without hurting them is much harder than I imagined...

But to my utter surprise, after breaking through the ice, Fomalhaut and Sun Ji stood hand in hand in front of Ceruno. As their magic began to intertwine, a familiar light emanated from their bodies...

"Huh?"

Now, even Aldebaran peeked out from the belly of the "Great Hand".

"You're learning pretty fast, you've even mastered the magical girl's fusion technique?"

Sun Ji only has one Artificial Crystal inside his body, which theoretically provides limited enhancement to the already powerful Fomalhaut...

But unexpectedly, the contact between the two triggered an extremely cold current, and the entire workshop was covered with a layer of frost in an instant.

"Aurora- chan is an anomaly among witches. Her Crystal is naturally suited to containing darkness, and her unwavering will cannot be Dark Erosion. Before you appeared, I had intended to nurture her into a new god, you know?"

Aldebaran was trying to explain something to me through the necklace, but I had no time to think about that right now.

Because the union of Fomalhaut and Sun Ji was completed.

Her hair color became lighter, and her enormous antlers changed, becoming sharper at the ends and more like dragon horns. Her breath carried a chilling aura, and her slender, frost-covered dragon tail gently swayed behind her. She looked like she could use area-of-effect magic that was extremely effective against me... Oh, she already did.

Eastern Dragon soaring through the clouds.

After Sun Ji Witchification, she was clearly a Western demonic dragon, but after merging with Fomalhaut, she became Eastern Dragon.

"Whoosh~ Pretty impressive, huh?"

Aldebaran added in a tone of schadenfreude, "Hmm, Ice Dragon... Eastern Dragon wielding the power of winter, how does Mi-chan plan to deal with her?"

Currently, it still appears to be the ice magic of Fomalhaut.

Then the solution would be the same.

Fighting this kind of person can't drag on; you have to go all out from the start, otherwise getting frozen solid will be a real problem.

That's what I thought, but the latter saw through my intentions and preemptively summoned a blizzard in the workshop. In an instant, the snow and wind raged. Ceruno opened her bubble to insulate against the cold, but the group of Magical Girl Soldiers wearing transparent hazmat suits couldn't withstand the low temperature and shivered as they slipped up to the second floor.

As for me...

I had no choice but to tough it out.

If there were a "Future Moment," there would be a way to backstab them, but now we can only grit our teeth, brave the blizzard, and deliver a punch.

As their trump card, their combined power is indeed greater than that of an ordinary witch.

On the other hand...

We, as gods, are only half-baked, no, not even half-baked.

If the gods are a giant wine bottle, then we are currently only holding a tiny bit of it.

Although there wasn't much wine, the bottle was impressive!

Bang--

She could still move in the low temperatures; not only was she not frozen, but she even managed to punch Miss Ice Dragon in the face... no, she didn't dodge?

She was thrown backward and crashed far away onto the already broken conveyor belt.

"Father!"

Ceruno rushed Past, and Xiaoling gritted her teeth and rushed in front of me, raising her hand as if to cast her magic on me.

But the "Decomposer" is ineffective against non-hostile targets. Xiaoling stared blankly at me, then at her own hands, seemingly unable to understand the reason for the failure.

I chose to bypass her and head straight for the "Ice Dragon Lady" lying on the ground. Behind her was the end of the production line, and she clearly had nowhere to hide from my approach. If I could just defeat her(them), I would have completed my deal with Aldebaran, right?

"Buzz--"

Just then, the Wormhole Device behind them activated.

"Go in, you guys get out first."

It was Viktorika who did it secretly.

The Book Witch somehow opened the Wormhole Device and summoned the last card soldiers to block my way.

Aldebaran, however, seemed unhurried and even asked:

"A-Ji, do you know what kind of place that is?"

Miss Ice Dragon clearly didn't bother to answer her; she simply took a few steps back and rushed inside.

Aldebaran proceeded to introduce himself to us.

"That's the 'Breeding Facility,' a forbidden zone that even the old fogies of the 'Supreme Council' dare not set foot in. It's basically Black-Lamp Factory that produces Base Body... If that place is invaded, the 'Supreme Council' won't stand idly by, and the City School will also be at risk, you know?"

Sirius couldn't help but ask:

"Since no one can go in, how would anyone know that we went in?"

"You're not allowed to go in, but that doesn't mean you can't come out... What if there's something that's never come out before?"