The Avatar of the Great Will was like a phantom that had never existed. We searched all over the Lunar City and Enheria's base, but could find neither the avatar nor A-Yao anywhere...
I was pretty anxious about it, but the Proxy wasn't worried at all.
Even though she was the avatar's primary target, she dragged me into bed at home every day to sleep the hours away.
She said we should get used to a life of "nothing to do but sleep" sooner rather than later, and that she was speaking from experience.
So after human civilization had been destroyed, the surviving witches had spent all day huddled together sleeping because they had nothing else to do?
Still, that image seemed rather unsuitable for children.
I didn't feel safe leaving her alone, either. If the Great Will really absorbed her, the whole world would be doomed, so Aldebaran had also told me to stay with her as her personal bodyguard.
How personal?
Close enough that we had to stick together even in the bath.
As for Aldebaran herself, she had shut herself away in the laboratory with Mono and the great blood. Who knew what they were plotting...
"Miluno~"
The Proxy rolled over and drawled lazily.
"Here's to the next thousand years together~"
"Get up first."
I tugged on her arm, trying to drag her out of bed.
"Today is the last chance for any magical girls who want to leave, and for the witches and negative variants still on Earth to come up. Let's go for a walk."
After tomorrow, the physical connection between Earth and the moon would be severed, and testing would begin on the Lunar City's Time Acceleration.
But I kept feeling that something was going to happen. My intuition had always been accurate.
Only