(Babaluno)
"..."
"..."
Even with Miss SpiCa's soft White Silk beneath me, it felt as though Mono were crawling under my backside. Every second, I wanted to flee this place steeped in awkwardness... So this was what it meant to sit on pins and needles.
"Yao."
"Huh? Yes!"
Suddenly called on by Miss Ice Dragon (Dad), I felt both unfamiliar with my own name and utterly at a loss...
I was supposed to be the one questioning her, so why was I the nervous one?
She continued, "You must never use that power again."
"That power... you mean..."
"The power of the 'Star Guardian.' A-Ji... your father accepted my invitation to prevent that future. That power is dangerous, even more deadly than darkness."
She meant the power of the Earth Crystal.
"To prevent that future?"
"The Supreme Council has a prophetic system called the 'Oracle,' which can peer into the future and avert destruction. One of its prophecies pointed to you, Ceruno... Before your first transformation, the Council already knew you would become a magical girl. The 'Oracle' judged that you would become the greatest obstacle to our occupation of the New World."
"Did that prophetic system show a future where I became the 'Star Guardian'?"
Miss Ice Dragon nodded.
"You would become the Earth Crystal's agent, filled to the brim with its power and reduced to its tool. That was the outcome the 'Oracle' foretold. To change that future, we would have to kill you, but I believed there was a better solution... So I took that prophecy to A-Ji and persuaded him to join us and work for us."
At the moment, Fomalhaut... Miss Aurora's consciousness was in control.
In other words, Dad had gone into hiding.
SpiCa, however, questioned Miss Ice Dragon's account:
"Wait, Aurora. You were