A Visit After Dark

Tian Luo felt that the thing she regretted most in her life was accidentally telling Love about the First Generation.

Watching Love cling to her arm and shake it nonstop gave Tian Luo a headache.

"I told you, I only broke in by accident. If you break in on purpose, that's a different matter. You can't do something wrong just because you're one of the Association's key fighters."

Love looked at Tian Luo with an aggrieved expression.

"But... those questions have been bothering me so much. Everyone keeps hiding things."

"What if I get some answers and accidentally advance to Sunlit Rank? Then the Association would have three Sunlit Rank fighters. You know at least a little about how Magical Girls advance, right?"

Tian Luo's mouth twitched.

She really couldn't argue with that. Magical Girls were like that.

For most Magical Girls, advancing came down to clearing up whatever was weighing on their minds. Once it clicked, their strength shot right up.

"..."

She stared at Love for a full ten seconds before finally giving in with a long sigh.

"The entrance to Back Hill should be somewhere past the villa district... I was going to find Shen Yin, but I accidentally fell asleep. I'd told my device to keep going straight along the road."

"Death God brought me out, so I have no idea exactly where the entrance is."

"That's all I can tell you... If you get caught, don't say you heard it from me."

Love grinned when Tian Luo finally relented.

"Thank you, Tai... Uh, Tian Luo!"

That night.

The entire villa district was quiet. Everyone had gone to bed.

Love, however, quietly poked her head out of a window.

Invisibility, magic power concealment, sound suppression...

Love had equipped herself with every countermeasure to detection she