"R-really! I promise!"
A-Yao hurriedly sat up from where she had been lying on top of me and waved at the Proxy behind the bedroom door.
"As long as you stay in your own independent little world, you don't have to worry about disappearing. You could even wait out Aldebaran's 'Millennium Plan' on the moon and live until you don't want to anymore!"
Over a thousand years, some magical girls or witches might genuinely get tired of living...
But whether that plan could move forward still depended on SpiCa.
In other words...
The negotiations we had finally managed to secure would be the key to deciding how things unfolded, and I had to do my best to make that goal a reality.
"Fine, then I'll trust you this once!"
The Proxy seemed to have rushed out halfway through her shower. She hid behind the door with only her head poking out, water dripping off her body, a sliver of her fair shoulder visible.
With that affirmative answer, A-Yao smiled.
"Then please close the Dark Seal! The Earth Crystal only has one demand: that you uphold the bare minimum needed to keep the world stable..."
She faithfully carried out her duty as a negotiator, but the Proxy refused.
"No!"
"Huh?"
That shameless attempt to flip the negotiating table left A-Yao at a loss.
"If I'm not going to die, why should I give up my leverage? Is the Earth Crystal going to kill me if I don't stop? Besides, I haven't damaged that seal!"
Her dripping head withdrew behind the door, but she kept shouting.
"Wait there! Once I'm done showering, we'll go to Zodiacal together and have it out. I'm going to take SpiCa down a peg!"
SpiCa probably wasn't at Zodiacal anymore.
Although she had no reason to fear