SpiCa had clearly done this on purpose. This fictional world used the Skyreach City we all knew so well as its setting, and even the apartment's layout was exactly the same as my home.
But the timeline was not that of present-day Skyreach City. It was from a year ago, or perhaps even earlier...
It was Skyreach City during the war against the Other Side.
Before the final battle had begun, when wormholes and Monsters would occasionally appear to wreak havoc, and Magical Girls would hunt them down for bounty money.
In this environment, Proxy and I had to play a pair of Magical Girl spouses. While protecting the city, we also had to raise Mi Xue, the Avatar of the Great Will, into an obedient, sensible child...
That explained why "Dad" was a girl too.
At the moment, Proxy was in the kitchen preparing formula for Mi Xue's breakfast.
Mi Xue and I sat on the sofa watching the morning international news. The still-growing Avatar absorbed every bit of information she came into contact with, so despite looking like a three-year-old, she watched the news channel without even blinking.
Mom had said that this thing hardly ever left any trace of thought behind.
In other words, she didn't think things through.
Everything she had done before had relied on instinct. Even disguising herself as A-Yao to lure us in, something that seemed to require thought, had still merely been instinct.
Judging by her Black Mud form without a physical body, it was questionable whether she even had an organ called a brain in her head...
After all, I didn't have one either!
Since this was Virtual Reality, the entire world was under SpiCa's control, so the news had been made to sound quite convincing. Things like "A former prime