(2P)
Hundreds of Magical Girls had been canned up, packed tightly together in three layers.
The sight was rather horrifying.
And the Enheria version of me sat atop those cans.
She had used the power of Present Moment to freeze the Magical Girls' time, but freezing things on such a massive scale consumed an astonishing amount of energy...
"Can you handle it?" I asked.
"No problem. This should also lower the darkness concentration in the Zodiacal, right?"
The agent had opened a wormhole in the Zodiacal to release darkness. The other me used another wormhole to plug that one, like connecting water pipes, channeling all that darkness over as backup power to sustain Present Moment.
Maintaining Present Moment might not be a problem.
But whether it could lower the darkness concentration was still unclear.
Darkness might turn into sludge, but it was not oil. It was not something that simply disappeared once burned.
"See? As long as we make good use of it, darkness is nothing more than a new kind of energy. The key is how to use it in a controlled manner, rather than blindly rejecting it..."
"Are you saying it doesn't matter if we don't convert it?"
Having raised that question, I continued before the other me could answer.
"Don't you find it strange? Light and darkness can actually transform back and forth. Once light is used up, it becomes darkness; once darkness is depleted, it becomes light again. In the end, nothing is consumed at all... The existence of the world is like a coin. No matter how you flip it, it remains the same size. What happened to the law of conservation of matter?"
Even when sustaining Present Moment, the darkness had not decreased. It was simply no longer inside "me."
The total amount in