(Miluno)
"No, there is an entrance."
There was a real, tangible way in and out. We had even been beyond that entrance.
When Xiao Yi saw me staying silent, she urged me impatiently:
"Miluno, stop keeping us in suspense! Where is it?"
"There's a passage through the ark's outer wall that leads inside... and there definitely won't be any enemies guarding it."
"Huh? Where?"
Ceruno seemed puzzled, even raising her adorable eyebrows.
"In the Breeding Facility."
Under everyone's increasingly impatient stares, I revealed the answer:
"The Breeding Facility is in the deepest part of that world, but that also means it's closest to the outer wall. Remember how far that passage went down? There's actually a passage at the bottom of the Black Pool leading outside. At least, that's how it's drawn on the map in the Life Management System."
The Life Management System was a seed-sowing machine left behind by the Great Will while she still possessed radiance. She had also left an emergency exit inside it. The monsters born afterward never entered the Breeding Facility, so they couldn't possibly know that passage existed...
"So we can teleport nearby, then fly inside?"
Ceruno propped up her chin and began thinking along those lines.
"But we'll still need to deal with their interception forces. The fluctuations before the wormhole opens will definitely draw their attention, so we'll also need a force to launch a diversion from the front and keep them too busy to watch their flanks."
A diversion?
That was certainly necessary.
But just as few conventional weapons worked in space, few magical girls could fight there, either.
Phoenix and Jaeger should have been capable of it, but both were out of action with injuries. For now, we could only find suitable candidates among the remaining magical girls and