"We can't tell Enheria's Proxy about this. She'd definitely come looking for trouble with SpiCa. I know I'm talking behind her back, but she's pretty petty... We still need SpiCa to help us come up with a plan. We can't have her barging in and messing things up now."
Mom sounded optimistic, but I didn't agree.
"Neither Antarctic Star nor Aldebaran could do anything. SpiCa probably won't have any ideas either..."
I rubbed the pressure points at the inner corners of my eyes and tried to lay out our next steps.
"First, we need to organize a search. Not for SpiCa, but to hunt down the Avatar of the Great Will. If she's really hiding in Zodiacal, we're in trouble."
"No, a large-scale search wouldn't work, would it?"
Mom folded her arms and rejected the idea, adding:
"Her thought traces are too faint to sense, and she can change her appearance. Sending more people would only make it easier for her to slip away. Let's call Aldebaran and have just a few of us go catch her..."
"Hmm? Did I hear someone asking for me?"
Aldebaran came out of the meeting room, pretending she'd only just overheard our conversation, but I figured she'd listened to every last word from beginning to end...
After all, she did that all the time.
I glared at her.
"Just tell me. Are you helping or not?"
"Hey, is that any way to ask someone for help?"
Aldebaran planted her hands on her slender waist and swayed from side to side before adding:
"We won't be enough to deal with her... We'll need some witches who can fight!"
"Witches?"
"Of course. She's an incarnation of darkness. Magical girls can't handle her~"
In the end, Aldebaran brought Alpha and Achernar, both combat-oriented witches from Zodiacal.
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