More People, More Ideas

"I think this might be the highest-profile meeting in history."

"...Really? It'd be even better if we invited Arthur and what's-their-name too."

The scarlet-haired girl sat at the round table and spoke to the blonde fox girl beside her.

The others said little. They silently read the account the Familiars had worked overtime to prepare, then looked up at the magical screen showing the battle from start to finish:

The scarlet Shadow of the Stars, shotgun in hand, had confronted the Obsidian Winged Folk head-on. With help from Gray Wolf and the fox, she had brought it down before it could cast an unknown spell, allowing them to escape the Phantasm Dream Mindscape.

"Let me confirm something first." The blue-haired girl across the table set down the report and met Heartmoon Fox's eyes. "Miss Heartmoon Fox, are you certain you saw a giant egg hatch in the Phantasm Dream Mindscape today?"

"Yes," Scarlet Snow and Heartmoon Fox answered in unison, nodding together.

Everything that had happened in the Phantasm Dream Mindscape was recorded in the report. To make sure nothing was missed, Su Tianqing had even assigned several Familiars to check one another's accounts. She was afraid they might forget some detail.

The red-haired fox sat to one side, eyes narrowed. After thinking it over, she said:

"If that's the case... could you go through everything that changed after the giant egg hatched one more time?"

"I agree with Inari. More details would help us piece together the whole sequence of events," another girl in red added.

Red Rose, Inari, and even Mercury, who almost never took part in operations, had gathered around the temporary round table on the Villain Rooftop to discuss everything that had happened the night before.

But more than the reassurance of having a veteran like