"That was roughly how it happened."
"We found Albatross's whereabouts, but during that period of contact, she seemed to have completed a powerful spell she had been preparing for a long time, trapping herself and that Astral Jellyfish inside the Mindscape [Millennium]."
That evening, at a barbecue stall in the heart of an oasis city amid the Gobi Desert, Bai Lili spoke to Scarlet Snow across from her.
Then, without thinking, she licked the cumin off the corner of her mouth and fed herself another skewer.
The girls were wrapped in thick furry coats or blankets, enjoying the oversized lamb skewers and grilled lamb chops specially prepared by the stall owner.
Heartmoon Fox gnawed away happily, while Alice and Little Jack had never seen anything like this before and were enjoying themselves just as much.
As for Fenrir, her eyes gleamed as she ate. With a lamb kidney skewer in her left hand and a rack of lamb ribs in her right, she ate until her mouth was slick with grease, showing her true Gray Wolf colors.
"Delicious. This is so delicious." The gray wolf girl swallowed the lamb in her mouth and looked up at the owner some distance away.
"Boss! Two more lamb kidney skewers and two extra-large lamb skewers!"
The owner nodded in agreement, and the gray wolf girl lowered her head and continued eating.
Watching Fenrir devote herself wholeheartedly to the lamb barbecue, Scarlet Snow glanced down at the few bamboo skewers on her own plate, slumped her shoulders helplessly with a sigh, and turned her gaze back to Bai Lili.
The two old hands exchanged looks across the table—although Bai Lili was regarded as the foremost figure of the new generation in most magical girl circles, that did not affect how the actual new generation