If the Witch Domain did not need to maintain its integrity.
If the Witch manipulating everything was also hiding in such a tail-to-head connected space.
How on earth were we supposed to drag her out?
This possibility made me want to turn back and report to SpiCa, but Achernar and the others would also be heading back, so SpiCa would definitely find out anyway.
Therefore, setting aside this anxiety, I could only keep moving forward.
However, I chose to turn around and move toward another passage.
Which meant stubbornly walking left.
Passing through the curved passage into the hangar once more, what appeared before me was a huge isolation door with a hole corroded through it.
"As expected, the left and right passages lead to different places."
This was the hangar we had fought in earlier. Mom and the others should have rendezvoused with Xiaoyi by now, but they were nowhere to be seen... Had they already moved on ahead?
"What a pain."
The moment I thought that my previous problem-solving approach might not work, I felt a deep sense of annoyance.
Tap-tap-tap--
A rush of hurried footsteps came from the passage on the other side.
I instinctively retreated into the passage I had come from, only to see a few black-cloaked witches rushing out from within...
No, there was only one Modified Witch, and she was leading a few Fake Magical Girls.
To still retain such a large force, the enemy's foundation was deeper than I thought, but after all, this was an illegal research facility, so their upper limit was just the level of a Modified Witch.
"Wait here, those guys will come this way!"
The Witch was ordering the Fake Magical Girls. Were they still in a superior-subordinate relationship?
Were they ordered to intercept here to block