The rebuilt Zodiacal was several times larger than before, and the hemisphere beneath it naturally extended much deeper.
Not only had the industrial and logistics facilities been tucked underground, but even the Central Control Tower had been buried below, keeping systems such as holographic projections and translation running.
Liuzi led me down into the underground passages. Our destination was the Central Control Tower.
The Zodiacal's Core Division, buried deep underground.
"Are we walking there?" I asked.
"Of course we're taking the bus. It's much too far."
An underground bus?
A subway?
"Miss Knight, SpiCa's been in a terrible state of mind lately, so her temper's been bad too. Try not to do things that upset her... she doesn't even have time to get angry."
Liuzi said this with her back to me as she led the way.
Was she using this time to lecture me?
"If it were you, could you tell Antarctic Star, 'Give up on this child's life'?"
She closed her eyes to imagine it, then honestly shook her head.
"You couldn't say it, could you?"
"That really would be hard to say."
"If Antarctic Star weren't involved, I'd definitely give up on that little penguin. But she's a chick from Antarctic Star's colony. With that connection, it's hard for me to make such a cruel decision."
This world didn't play fair. Neither Enheria nor we were really black and white. The versions of "right" each side clung to had simply come into conflict.
But who was actually right?
Perhaps the answer to that question wasn't so absolute.
"Night Owl."
Just as I thought of Enheria, Liuzi spoke again.
"That's the editor-in-chief's name as a witch. We found it in the notebook she had on her."
"So she really is an owl?"
"But there weren't many clues. That