Although Zodiacal had entered energy-saving mode, its orbital transit system was still operating and carried us to Satellite Island No. 5, where Alpha lived.
Azura, who wanted to see Betelgeuse, came with me as well.
Although all the Satellite Islands were residential districts, each island had its own architectural style. After passing through the passage connecting it to the main island, rows of pure-white Mediterranean-style apartment buildings came into view...
"Wow! What beautiful houses!" Azura could barely contain her excitement.
After getting used to stone-and-wood villas, these white houses with pointed roofs really did have an exotic charm.
Still, the buildings here were smaller than those on Satellite Island No. 1, more like serviced apartments.
"They're much smaller than the ones where you came from, right?"
Alpha explained, "Besides the Magical Girls who live here permanently, this island also houses Witches like us who are staying temporarily. The reinforcements you brought from Lunar City are living here too."
The Dantai Family trio?
Alpha's apartment was near the center of the island. However, all the apartment buildings on this island followed the same design, so aside from the upper floors of the outer apartments, where one could see the scenery beyond the dome, the inner apartments all looked about the same...
Only after getting closer did I notice how densely packed the buildings on this island were. The streets were much narrower than those on Satellite Island No. 1, and between the apartments, I could clearly feel the urgency of, "The planned housing won't be enough! Build more here!"
That was why Satellite Island No. 1 looked like a villa district, while this place felt more like cramped pigeonhole housing in an area starved of land...
Still, no matter how limited the land was here, it was bigger than Heat Haze's