SpiCa needed a reason.
A reason to let the Zodiacal take full control of Lunar City. If she didn't have one, she would make one herself, so she had orchestrated this drone attack.
Aldebaran's theory was highly plausible, but there was no evidence.
Still, from what I knew of SpiCa, she really was capable of something like this.
Especially after becoming a witch. Although the Witch Persona hadn't consumed her, her methods had grown increasingly underhanded. No matter how dirty a scheme was, she would use it if it achieved her goal.
I knew she was still acting for the sake of humanity and the magical girls. It was just that everything happening around her had wound her nerves far too tight...
"How well hidden are Enheria's bases?" I asked.
The little witch frowned and answered:
"The Proxy's side is fine, but our bases closer to the surface need to move farther down, or scatter. We could split into smaller groups, hide our identities, and move into those matchboxes."
By matchboxes, she meant those square metal houses.
They were empty houses left behind by the Natives. There were plenty of them, and they had no windows.
Most Monsters and witches currently lived in those houses. Staying there would, at worst, get us registered as undocumented residents. It probably wouldn't get us flagged as people connected to Enheria.
Of course, if SpiCa came knocking herself, no one could keep a secret from Mental Overlay's brainwashing ability, apart from the very few witches who had no brains.
I looked at Xiao Qilan and asked:
"So what are you planning to do?"
"If we scatter, it'll be harder to carry out operations later, so I'm planning to take my team farther down and establish a new base in the space Beneath the Lunar