Xiao Yi's sitewide broadcast ended.
"Hey, you really weren't planning to ask her to stay?"
Heat Haze angrily dragged me outside and started lecturing me in the small courtyard in front of the apartment.
Already troubled by this, I couldn't help snapping back, "Then what do you think I should do? I bet you'd love for me to get together with Barbara so you could take over my girlfriend, huh?"
"Huh? I never thought that! Why are you saying something so mean?!"
She grabbed my collar and raised her fist as if to hit me, but Falcon rushed over and caught her hand before she could swing it down.
"Yoko, calm down, okay?"
"Don't stop me! This blockhead is so infuriating! Barbara gave up even being herself for her, and she's still acting so stubborn! If someone could do that much for me..."
At that point, Heat Haze fell silent.
Falcon shook her head and sighed.
"I think it's precisely because she isn't a blockhead that Miluno can't easily accept Barbara's feelings. She has too many concerns, while you think too little."
"I think too little? I—"
Falcon covered her mouth, then added, "All right, go back inside and comfort Barbara first. Let me talk to Miluno for a bit."
"Hmph!"
Heat Haze returned to the apartment without looking back, while Falcon scratched her head.
"Miluno, would you mind talking somewhere else?"
"The Zodiacal is about to lift off. Where are you planning to go?"
"Over there?"
She pointed at the windmill tower in the center of Satellite Island No. 1, though I had no idea what it was for.
"I like high places. When you stand high enough, you can see farther—and see the full picture of things that were once unclear."
"I'd like to go up and get