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Metal dragged several tubes over and connected them to the hexagonal containment tanks.
"All done."
"Then I'll be off, okay?"
I moved away from the containment tanks. The Energy Crystal Array could power the Present Moment, too.
No matter how powerful its effects were, the Present Moment was still magic. With an endless supply of magical energy, the spell could keep running even without me.
Next, the Dark Seal.
I stepped out of the teleportation passage and into the magically lit hall of the Dark Seal.
"Oh? You're both here already?"
Proxy and Aldebaran had already arrived.
But there was something odd about the atmosphere between them. I had no idea what they had been talking about...
"What's going on with you two?"
I asked, but Aldebaran only gave me a meaningful glance.
"Nothing. You're just in time, Mi-chan~"
She seemed to be hiding something, and Proxy knew what it was, but was helping her keep it from me... Being left out like that rubbed me the wrong way.
"Did you find anything before I got here?"
"We need to check inside the seal. That Simulacrum Personality might have been dragged in."
As she spoke, Aldebaran pointed at Proxy.
"That's what she said. I only just got here myself."
"The Simulacrum Personality... A-Yao? Who dragged her in?" I asked.
Aldebaran answered:
"The great will, you know?"
"Its offspring?"
"No, the great will itself! Our esteemed deity has personally entered the fray!"
I frowned. That was hardly an answer anyone could laugh at.
"Isn't the great will a chaotic aggregate with absolutely no ability to think?"
"You could say it underwent some kind of adaptive change to break out of its sealed state... In short, it grew a brain again."
"We shouldn't have let A-Yao come alone."
Proxy sighed.
"That