Agent's Identity: Saiba

(Babaluno)

"SpiCa!"

Sirius kicked open the command center door and threw his father... and Miss Ice Dragon on the ground.

Now that the surface is no longer safe, SpiCa has retreated underground, dragging her giant cocoon with her. But the underground is not necessarily safe either; each of those shells can cause an earthquake, and this is even more pronounced underground.

Covered in extremely tight bandages, SpiCa emerged from the giant white cocoon, but the White Silk remained firmly attached to it...

Who knows how many enemies are being brainwashed inside that cocoon?

"Sirius, Ceruno, it seems you are both well."

"No time for a calm greeting, something more troublesome than the Great Hand is on its way!"

Sirius, however, seemed impatient and questioned, "Why didn't you retreat? Didn't I tell Zara to inform you that something was wrong and then run away?"

"Don't be impatient, you can't change the situation by being anxious."

SpiCa answered calmly and methodically:

"Not only is the surface suppressed by firepower, but those Monster used heavy artillery and mechs to dig through the ground and enter underground tunnels. Metal and the rest of the Engine Department are unable to return, but our aura still exists. When there is nowhere left to retreat... let's abandon the City School and let everyone leave directly through the wormhole."

Miss Metal shrugged, looking utterly helpless.

"How could we possibly give up! Giving up this City School would turn it into an outpost of the 'Supreme Council,' and then we would truly let A-Ji succeed!"

SpiCa glanced at the person at her feet with a complicated expression and asked again:

Where is Miluno?

I replied to this:

"Now it's Mono, she's flying a kite up there... A huge mass of Dark Energy is chasing her, but it's not as fast as her, and it automatically takes care of the enemies along the way. Having her drag us along can help us solve a lot of problems."

Mono didn't come to command post with us; if she had, we would have been doomed.

Black Pool relentlessly pursued Mono, even overturning mechs and tanks along the way. It was a highly efficient means of eliminating enemies. Before Mono could figure out a way to deal with Black Pool, it was already running in circles with it.

Anyway, given her running speed, "Black Pool" couldn't catch up with her.

Professor Stratos asked:

"You said there was a huge aggregate... mud-like thing? Why didn't it turn into a human shape?"

The gathered Dark Energy gradually condenses into crystals, then into a girlish human form, and finally into individuals with concrete outlines, such as Mono and "The Great Hand," which Miluno calls seeds.

But the "Black Pool" remained just a pool of black mud.

"This is very unusual. I'll go out and take a look."

Unable to find the answer through mere contemplation, the professor muttered to himself and simply walked out of the command post.

SpiCa then extracted a White Silk mummy from the cocoon...

She has a great figure, but is a bit short, about the same height as me.

"Instead of this, Sirius, look at who this guy is!"

Sirius raised an eyebrow and ripped the White Silk covering the other person's face...

"Huh? Sister Luer? What's she doing here?"

"She is the Proxy you arrested."

"Miss Luer... is she also a magical girl?"

SpiCa sighed:

"Once the magical girl stops transforming, she's just like an ordinary person. As long as she doesn't carry the Star Crystal with her, no one will know she's a magical girl... She even keeps it a secret from her own sister."

Don't Sister Luer and Miss Yin Wei live together?

Sirius scratched his head.

"Because I trusted Yin Wei, I never suspected Luer. I never imagined that she was actually A-Ji's spy planted among us."

Who could have predicted this?

But considering her situation, it seems there are clues to it...

Putting everything else aside, Aunt Hefi's actions back then were very suspicious. Then she even showed up at home to deliver pizzas to my mother. But at the time, I didn't think much of it. After all, in the prevailing view at the time, my father's informants were Fake Magical Girl who transformed using Contaminated Crystal. They not only had Dark Energy in their bodies, but they also couldn't undo their transformations... So I never thought that Sister Luer would be an enemy.

"Does Yin Wei know about this?" Sirius asked.

"Not yet."

SpiCa shook his head.

"Communications are unstable, and most of the drones have been shot down. We are temporarily unable to contact Earth."

Xiao Yi also sighed:

"Xiao Wei must be really upset, right? After all, they're quite close sisters."

After re-wrapping Luer in White Silk and returning her to the cocoon, SpiCa said:

"Now that everyone's here, let's have a strategy meeting."

Sirius then asked, "What are your plans? You are the chief of staff; we will adopt and implement your suggestions to the best of our ability."

"We need to clear out the enemies in the underground passage first, but we have limited manpower. The 'Supreme Council' sent more Monster Soldiers than A-Ji, and the Elite Monsters are also very strong... Our men are already exhausted."

I asked, "What's the situation regarding casualties?"

"There's no way to get a precise count right now... but it's probably already in the triple digits."

"Really?!"

Have hundreds of magical girls and our witches already sacrificed themselves?

The topic suddenly turned heavy...

The cruelty of war is chilling. Perhaps it was because he had personally experienced war that Dad felt it was acceptable to exchange some sacrifices for peace?

If there really is a way to end this war, then I'll merge myself into the Earth Crystal...

"Well."

The Sigh of Sirius.

"I'll take charge of clearing out the underground passages."

"I knew you'd say that, but you alone aren't enough."

SpiCa looked at Metal as he spoke, and the latter pulled out several map-like drawings from behind his back.

"Take a look at this."

She extended her slender fingers to gesture on the map and explained:

"This is a map of the underground pipelines of the City School. The central intersection area is our current temporary command post. I have marked the roads in all directions for you. Following those roads down will lead you to the Engine Department... But in order to protect the temporary command post and to prevent SpiCa and the others from being exposed prematurely, I have sealed off every passage leading here."

"So, this also blocks the possibility of me returning to the Engine Department?"

When I asked that, Metal sighed again.

"Not only must we reclaim the Engine Department, but we must also secure those forty-eight Power Crystal... The City School can't take off without losing a single one."

The passageway back to the Engine Department must be cleared.

We must also ensure the safety of the Power Crystal;

The surface front faces immense defensive pressure;

There's also "Black Pool," which chases Mono wildly.

"We finally escaped the Breeding Facility, but we still have to face so much trouble."

Sirius tried to smooth the space between his eyebrows.

"On the bright side, as long as we can find a way to get rid of that lump of energy chasing Mono, the enemy won't need the necessary Base Body to produce Monster and witches."

"I'm afraid it won't be that easy."

Professor Stratos, with a stern face, came down from above.

"That's not a second-stage Dark Aggregate. Like the 'Great Hand,' it's a high-level aggregate capable of serving as a seed... Since it's in that form..."

He paused, then said:

"You may call it 'The Great Blood'."