I wasn't particularly close to Director Hephaestus, so if I wanted to ask her to make something, it would be best to have SpiCa or Metal put me in touch with her.
But if my guess was right, the former was busy hashing things out with Sirius over a crush that had ended before it even began, so I could only try Metal... Maybe she even had a ready-made Magic Supply System I could nab?
With that in mind, I called Metal on the cable car ride down the mountain.
"Miluno? Now there's a rare caller. What's up?"
"Well, I wanted to ask if you still have any Magic Supply Systems."
"I thought you couldn't use magic anymore? What do you need a Magic Supply System for?"
Everyone really did know I'd lost all my powers. They meant no harm, but walking down the street knowing every man and his dog knew you'd become disabled didn't feel great...
Ordinary people who had never possessed magic might not be able to relate, but losing magic was a severe disability for a magical girl.
"I asked Betelgeuse to prepare a mechanical body for Azura, but her magic needs an external power source to keep it going."
"Oh, I see. Hang on, let me look..."
Metal fell silent for a moment. Did she not even remember whether she had a Magic Supply System?
"I should be able to cobble one together with what I have on hand..."
She could already build Magic Supply Systems from scratch?
"Just come straight to my workshop. Remember where it is?"
The workshop at City School was surely a write-off by now, so she probably meant her old workshop in Skyreach City's Industrial District.
"The C4 Area?"
"Yep."
"Then I'll head over now."
I hopped off the cable