Even the honorable knight never saw the despicable ninja appear in the end.
That Witch had either slipped away or was waiting for another opportunity.
The Association's transport vehicle arrived quickly, loading the seven unconscious, completely naked Fake Magical Girls aboard. After greeting Chris, it left first.
"Where will they be sent?" I asked.
Chris, still deeply regretful about letting the Witch escape, answered just as regretfully:
"Jadeite Stone Prison. Once they wake up, they'll be interrogated, but... we probably won't get anything out of them, right?"
Their organizational structure had long been understood. The only thing that couldn't be explained was...
With Yin Lu already under arrest, who had taken over as the organization's agent, and by what means?
The war was over, and peace had finally been achieved. What was their objective now?
For the moment, none of those questions had answers.
I looked at Locust Man. The Witch had slashed his shoulders twice, and he had forcibly grabbed the blade in an attempt to restrain her. Both his arms were ruined, nothing but mangled flesh hanging at his sides.
"So you really decided to stay behind and serve as... bait?"
What could they even do if they stayed in that condition?
"Yeah. We want to learn the truth. If she really is being controlled, then we'll find a way to wake her up... She saved all our lives. We can't just abandon her."
According to them, that Ninja Witch had been one of the Special Monsters subjected to the Witchification Process experiment after being implanted with a Contaminated Crystal.
She had used the surge in power from the implanted Crystal to create an opportunity for Locust Man and the others to escape. Yet she herself had endured that highly failure-prone procedure and ultimately become a true Modified