"We don't plan to get married."
SpiCa gave her final answer.
"Can you tell me why?"
I hadn't expected her final choice to be giving up.
"Marriage is a human formality. As long as we live together, that's enough. There's no ethical or moral burden either."
"Living together means all three of you?"
"Of course. Wasn't that the result you voted for?"
"...Can you and Achernar accept each other?"
"No."
But SpiCa had more to say after that answer.
"Not yet, but we can slowly adapt and work things out. Getting along is a relative process. I bear her no ill will—I even think rather highly of her... After all, she's the first Witch to try accepting human values."
I merely shrugged.
"Mainly because she doesn't think much of the Supreme Council either, and after being assassinated, she switched to our side so quickly."
SpiCa's fingers continued flying across the keyboard as she drafted some sort of operational plan.
Yet she said, "If Terra is worried that mental stress will make me misjudge things, tell her not to worry. I'm not as fragile as she thinks, and on paper, we hold the advantage in this operation."
That was the kind of thing one shouldn't say. It was inviting defeat.
"Still, do you have any new plans? Can you tell me beforehand?"
"A plan? Drilling holes into the moon and punching through the barrier. Basically, we'll still follow the plan Xiao Yi and the others discussed~"
"You're not going to change anything? I don't believe it."
At that, she grinned.
"You understand me pretty well at times like this."
I knew it.
She turned around, and Liuzi pulled over a chair for me to sit in.
"Xiao Yi's plan will most likely fail, so I've prepared a backup plan to proceed