SpiCa made no attempt to hide her disappointment with the outcome of the high-level meeting. She even proposed reopening Zodiacal Magic Academy as a new support organization for magical girls.
"Is this something you only started considering recently?" I asked.
"No. That idea was actually part of my original intention in founding City School."
In a room under absolute secrecy, SpiCa revealed her hidden ambition.
"Just imagine it: an independent organization made up entirely of magical girls. Not only could it support the whole world through the Wormhole Device, it could also keep national powers from infiltrating it, maintain its integrity and neutrality, and even use magic to become self-sufficient in all sorts of resources..."
If we mobilized the magical girls' powers, self-sufficiency certainly wouldn't be a problem. Still, the way she put it sounded like...
"Like you want magical girls to found their own country."
SpiCa shook her head in denial.
"Not quite. A country with a total population of fourteen thousand at most? Besides, City School can't accommodate that many people, and not every magical girl wants to live there..."
At least SpiCa still trusted me, and everyone else present. Otherwise, she wouldn't have told me any of this.
She took a cigarette out of her Star Crystal, then glanced at Barbara and Azura beside her. She picked up her lighter, then put it down again. In the end, she merely held the unlit cigarette between her lips to satisfy the craving.
She asked, "Miluno, do you think magical girls need the Association?"
In the past, my answer would definitely have been no.
After all, during my first year as a magical girl, I had received practically no support from the Association. Aside from Yin Lu, who acted like we were old friends and took the initiative to