Regarding the fact that my best friend is a magical girl

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Spica spoke like an old-fashioned person, even though she looked only seventeen years old.

Realizing she had lost her composure, she cleared her throat.

"Ahem, let's get back to the main point. I hope you'll meet with your father when you get back. I'd like to hear what he really thinks..."

Seruno raised her hand to interrupt Spica.

"Excuse me, Miss Spica, but I'd like to ask what my father's role was in the past wars? Was he a liaison officer? Or a tactical officer?"

Hesitantly, Spica did not answer.

"You still don't know?"

Sirius, however, looked surprised. She cupped Seruno's cheeks in her hands and looked at Spica, asking, "When you made this child a magical girl, you didn't tell her anything?"

"There's no need for that; doing so would only make her feel worse."

While saying things that would make people pay attention, Spica also secretly observed Serino's reaction.

“Serno, if you want to know about your parents, just ask your father directly. I think it’s only meaningful to let him tell you this in person.”

Although reluctant, Serino, being as timid as ever, was destined not to ask any more questions and finally nodded, obeying Spica's arrangement.

The latter smiled with satisfaction.

“Good boy, we’ll discuss this again when you get back to Changkong City… I have to go to the Hawaii branch, so I won’t stay here any longer.”

"Huh? Is Miss Spica leaving already?"

Seruno seemed to want to persuade her to stay for the barbecue, but Sirius, the island's owner, didn't say anything, and it wasn't appropriate for her to bring it up.

“Yes, the theft of the pseudo-factor is no small matter. If the power of that Kraken XIII is absorbed by UI-31, it will be very troublesome. He may also be targeting Seruno. You should not be too careless and should still be wary of him coming to the island.”

These words sound like hindsight to me.

Because it's all already happened, it's a disaster for me...

An unfamiliar small boat was already docked at the pier, presumably there to pick up Spica for their trip to the Hawaii branch.

"Sirius, I hope you can also consider this: humanity cannot continue to unilaterally endure the enemy's harassment. If we cannot retaliate..."

Sirius simply brushed his hand at her, not even looking at her, and said, "Alright, I don't need you to tell me that. Get lost!"

After Spica left, Sirius came close to me.

"That's hilarious. As the director of the Tactics Department, he couldn't see anything at all. With this level of understanding, he still wants to organize a second counterattack?"

Why are you telling me all this? I don't want to get involved in their argument.

I glanced at Serino; she was completely absorbed in the barbecue atmosphere and, with Zara's guidance, was planning to try barbecuing herself.

"After all, he is a weirdo who specializes in infiltration missions and is born with the ability to disguise himself as others. If he can be seen through so easily, then the level of 'the other side' is nothing special."

Sirius narrowed his eyes upon hearing this.

"Speaking of which, it seems like Spica is quite fond of that guy?"

I glanced again at "that guy" who was helping Antarctic Star process sand sculptures, and couldn't help but sigh and rub my forehead.

"That kind of thing just gives me a headache."

After all, she's using my face to perform. The thought of Spica having feelings for me makes my scalp tingle, but there probably won't be any of those developments, given the nearly twenty-year age difference... However, magical girls don't get old.

Let's not talk about these things anymore.

Pulling the frightening thought out of my mind, I asked again, "What do you plan to do with ui-31?"

Sirius's expression turned serious.

“If he is telling the truth, we certainly can’t deal with him arbitrarily. Even if he was modified, he was once human. I will start by investigating his human identity. If he is not lying, then we can let him move freely.”

Freedom of movement?

I couldn't help but frown and question, "Are you really going to let an unstable, untrustworthy, and constantly evolving weirdo who can absorb pseudo-factors to become stronger move around freely?"

"That's why I said I would investigate beforehand~"

"Aren't you going to report this to the Tactics Division?"

"I won't report it! Anyway, Spica will investigate on its own. If it gets caught while operating freely, it just means this infiltration monster isn't all that capable after all."

The sand palace built by ui-31 is big enough for little Antarctic Star to sit inside with his knees drawn up... These two are having a lot of fun.

"Wang!"

Golden ran up to my legs and frolicked. Sirius picked up the dog, who was not much shorter than her when she stood up straight, and then rubbed her cheek against the soft golden fur.

"Miluno-chan, you've always been very wary, even towards me. While that's not necessarily a bad thing, living like that must be exhausting, right?"

"Because it's necessary, I don't want to lose my life because of carelessness."

"Come on, who would want to kill you when there are no weirdos around?"

Sirius, holding the forepaws of the Golden, pressed a few shallow plum blossom marks on my belly.

"Enjoy life to the fullest when it's time to enjoy it! Magical girls should have a rosy life, right, Milno-chan!"

Sirius is free, so free that it's almost unrestrained.

However, I couldn't maintain such an optimistic attitude as her. I rubbed the Golden Ship's head and then walked towards the UI-31, who was using her little fingernail to carve out hollow decorations on the sand sculpture.

"Stop playing around, I have something I want to talk to you about."

"Ow?"

He looked up at Seruno, then clapped his hands and stood up.

I pointed in the direction of the mountain path.

"Come with me."

"Ow!"

Chapter Thirty-Five: Feeding the Dogs

(Sun Yao)

Holding the meat I'd personally grilled (Zara can't speak, so I couldn't ask), I couldn't find Yezi or Miluno. I really wanted them to taste my cooking...

I asked the blonde idol who was lounging in a deck chair enjoying the sunshine, "Miss Sirius, do you know where Miss Milno and Leaf went?"

She pointed in the direction of the mountain path.

"She took her boyfriend, Jun, to the grove."

"...Huh?"

The word "grove" often evokes images of certain inappropriate films.

Ye Zi is handsome, but surely not handsome enough to win over Miss Miluno?

Besides, they had quite an unpleasant argument at the mansion before...

"Then, I'll go deliver some kebabs to them."

Miss Sirius laughed and said, "Hey, don't spoil their fun, okay?"

There seems to be a hidden meaning in what he's saying.

Stepping onto the mountain path, my sandals clicked against the bluestone paving stones. I wouldn't usually notice, but this time the sound was alarming. I hurriedly summoned my magic wand and wrapped myself in bubble wrap to reduce the noise and make myself less noticeable. I also wrapped the grilled meat I was carrying in bubble wrap to prevent the smell from escaping and to preserve its temperature.

I don't know why I was sneaking around, but I just wanted to see what they were doing.

"Ok?"

The woods at the foot of the mountain were sparser than those on the mountain, making it easy to spot the two figures. They weren't looking in my direction, so I used the low bushes for cover and quietly crept up behind them. Through the gaps in the bushes, I could barely see their lower bodies... that is, their four legs.

Miss Miluno's legs are longer than those of models on TV. This is because she has practiced kicking techniques for a long time... No, it's because her legs are long that she is used to kicking techniques, right?

Although magical girls' appearances are mostly drastically different from their original forms, judging from Miss Milno's consistently dashing style, her true form wouldn't be much different from her magical girl form. I would be very surprised if I ever saw Miss Milno's true form.

I have this feeling.

As for Ye Zi's legs...

Well, it seems there's nothing more to discuss here.

However, his skin tone was darker than I remembered, obviously tanned by the Hawaiian sun, since he didn't have the habit of applying sunscreen.

Without seeing their upper bodies, it's impossible to determine the atmosphere between them.

The bubble wrap reduced the volume of my own voice, but it also made it difficult for me to hear their conversation.

Just as he was thinking this, Ye Zi was knocked to the ground by Miss Miluno. His face was pressed against the grass and mud, and his hands were pinned behind his back by Miss Miluno's knees.

How did they start fighting? Is it because of what happened earlier?

On one side is the idol they admire.

On one side are her childhood best friends.

I sincerely hope that there will be no conflict between them.

I immediately gave up eavesdropping, released the magic membrane around my body, and stood up from behind the bushes with the plate in my hand.

"Stop hitting me!"

"Serno?!"

Miss Miluno seemed quite surprised by my sudden appearance, and even a little... panicked?

"Miss Miluno, please let him go!"

"Don't come any closer!"

She yelled at me and demanded, "Did you hear everything?"

"Huh? What...did you hear?"