After all, it wasn't a rocket.
Ascending too quickly would carry the risk of structural disintegration.
The ascent of the Zodiacal lasted for a full two hours before it reached the designated orbit hundreds of thousands of meters high in the sky, becoming a hub space station between the Earth and the Moon.
We arrived at the edge of the satellite island, and looking down from here, the overall outline of the Earth had completely entered our field of vision...
"Wow, how ugly!"
Azura, lacking the filter of children's words, said right to Miss Terra's face:
"It looks like a moldy pear!"
"Isn't that going a bit too far! When it all comes down to it, that perfect sphere was only ever a product of your imagination; the Earth has always looked like this, never anything else..."
The Earth's envoy muttered in such a manner.
"This really means the Zodiacal and the Association have completely broken ties, right? SpiCa still plans to take over the Lunar City afterward; she wants to strip all unnatural elements like 'Magical Girls', 'Witches', and 'Monsters' from human society, and return human civilization to the right track..."
I spoke thus, yet Barbara asked:
"But what is the definition of the right track? Must human civilization truly be forbidden from having Magical Girls?"
She wasn't one to ponder such matters before, so it was quite rare for her to take the initiative to ask a question.
In response, Yuehan answered:
"The right track in SpiCa's mind is the world as it was twelve years ago."
I also said: "Magical Girls emerged to resist external enemies. Although they won't disappear now that the crisis is resolved, their numbers will no longer grow. Therefore, relying on the power of Magical Girls for development is unsustainable; only shortsighted leaders