"Wait! We didn't volunteer that information!"
Noticing the distrust in my eyes, Dantai Xue hurried to explain:
"Miss Chris sensed the crystal inside my sister and figured it out right away!"
"...Is that true?"
I looked at Chris with a pained expression for confirmation. She folded her arms and nodded.
"Don't underestimate the Tactical Division's intelligence analysis capabilities. The flow of magic inside a fake magical girl is weaker, so they're not difficult to identify. We've also investigated the Dantai Family because of Sun Ji. Add in that crate of Contaminated Crystals in the photo you showed SpiCa yesterday... Put all that information together, and the truth isn't hard to work out."
Tch. So I was the mole all along.
Chris said quite a lot in one breath, even though she'd previously struck me as a woman of few words.
No, she'd barely spoken before because of the language barrier.
"Since you did it to save someone, and the crystals weren't under Association control, I'll turn a blind eye for now. Otherwise, you'd be spending six months to a year in Jadeite Stone Prison, too..."
"Thanks!"
Naturally, I had to be grateful for escaping jail time.
"But you're speaking so fluently now. Don't you need a translation device anymore?"
"Can't you tell? Everything I'm saying right now is coming from the translation device."
Miss Chris's Battle Dress was an intricately crafted suit of light knight's armor, with a silver gorget around her neck.
She pointed to it and explained, "It's right here. An Instant Translation System that works on the same principle as City School's Central Control Crystal. It's still experimental, but it works just fine. We'll consider mass production in the future."
Back when the Central Control System was still operating, City School had been able to break down