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The Proxy asked me a question.
"Miss Fomalhaut, why do you have this?"
Knowing that I was currently fused with Fomalhaut, she... this "Alternate-Space Ceruno" pointed at my crotch as she questioned me.
She had finished bathing and changed into clothes, but she had not left the bedroom.
Apparently, if she left this room without her helmet, some indescribable force could easily erase her. The helmet concealed her existence, so she absolutely could not take it off.
Fomalhaut, who had taken over as the dominant consciousness, only murmured:
"This is because of the... medicine Miluno made me take back then?"
I didn't do it on purpose!!
I cried out inwardly.
Fortunately, the antidote was still inside the Morning Star Crystal. Although it had spent more than half a month soaking in the Dark Seal along with the crystal, it probably had not gone bad yet?
"Giving a girl something like that? Miluno, you're so naughty! Haha!"
She scolded me, but covered her mouth as she laughed.
She even leaned closer and asked, "What's Miluno thinking right now?"
Not wanting to be a third wheel, Fomalhaut quietly brought my consciousness to the forefront.
Faced with the Proxy's inescapably curious gaze, I could only answer honestly:
"Ahem. 'So this is what the girl I love is really like.' That's what comes to mind when I look at you."
"Oh? Are you disappointed?"
"No. I just thought you'd be a little more innocent. But considering everything you've been through-all those separations and deaths, the collapse of civilization, even witnessing the apocalypse-there's no way you could have held on to that innocence."
Just thinking about it felt cruel, yet she could still smile like this.
But when I said that, she shook her head.
"No, your Ceruno and I are different, you know?"