An unusually tall Emperor Penguin with glossy feathers emerged from the gathered flock. Waddling on comically short legs and flapping her stubby wings, she ran toward me...
She tipped forward, slid up to me on her fat belly across the ice, then struggled a little to get back on her feet... She raised her little head, intelligence gleaming in her eyes.
I had no proof, but I knew she was Antarctic Star.
Cluck, honk-(Miluno? What brings you here?)
This translation device could even translate penguin calls.
"SpiCa sent me... How did you know it was me?"
I was wearing fully enclosed Exoskeleton Armor. Not even my face was visible.
Cluck-(Come with me first.)
Apparently unwilling to answer, she simply waddled along on her short legs, leading me toward a little cabin beneath the ice wall...
Yes, there was a simple little cabin there that looked intended for human habitation.
It covered a dozen or so square meters and stood more than two meters above the ground. There was no heating equipment to speak of, and it did not even have electrical wiring.
It looked cold.
Beneath the cabin, Antarctic Star transformed from a penguin into a magical girl.
Short black hair, with a tuft of white over her forehead.
A tailcoat with long tails and shorts that left her slender legs bare-everything was just as before.
She climbed the ladder to the cabin's platform... I flew up.
"Aren't you cold?"
Standing bare-legged in a frozen wilderness dozens of degrees below zero...
"It's fine. The cold doesn't bother me."
She was as emotionally reserved as ever.
"Sirius is calling the Zodiacal magical girls back, so she asked me to bring you the message."
"I know. She emailed the Antarctic Branch, and I explicitly refused."
Liuzi had told me they had lost