"Sorry! I got too excited and couldn't help myself~"
Just as I was wondering whether to push her away, she climbed off me herself, though not before giving my waist another squeeze.
"Now, let's get down to business."
She stuck her tongue out at me, then walked over to the water dispenser in the corner of the office and started making two cups of instant coffee.
With her back still turned to me, she said, "To get straight to the point, I hope to maintain our cooperation with the Second Research Institute until the Great Will has been completely converted into light and merged with the Earth Crystal. It's a shame Miss Aldebaran couldn't come in person. I was hoping to ask her to guide our researchers~"
"She was afraid she wouldn't be able to leave if she came."
At that point, I changed tack and asked, "Before that, I want you to explain something... Why are you keeping Sun Ji and Fomalhaut imprisoned? I took such a huge risk to rescue them, and this is how Enheria treats them?"
"You've misunderstood."
The petite Proxy waved her hands.
"I'm not imprisoning them. I simply can't hand actual authority back to Sun Ji for now. This isn't my personal decision, but the will of every member of Enheria."
She picked up the two cups of coffee and invited me to sit on the office sofa.
"Milaya should have explained this to you. Sun Ji has now betrayed the organization's ideals. He believes it's wrong to turn all life into a single, unified form and advocates human supremacy, when unification is clearly the only answer to ending conflict and surviving the Eternal Night."
Sun Ji believed in human supremacy?
I hadn't expected that...
But what was this Eternal Night thing?
"The Earth