Regarding the fact that my best friend is a magical girl

In the center of the room stood a familiar coffee table and sofa, with tea and snacks on the coffee table.

The teapot was still warm to the touch.

It's clear that someone was having a tea party here not long ago.

Is anyone there?

I called out again, but no one answered my call except for the echo in the empty room.

There was also a remote control on the coffee table.

A simple, black, long, rectangular TV remote control.

However, there was no television or similar equipment inside.

I couldn't help but wonder, what exactly is this remote control for?

With the idea of ​​trying it out if I didn't know, I pressed the top switch according to my operating habits.

In an instant, the scene inside the room changed drastically.

The gray stone walls are covered by holographic projections, transforming the room into a magnificent palace. Through the balcony, one can even see bokeh of the lunar surface.

"Is this the Moon Palace?!"

I realized it.

But things have also become increasingly complicated.

Michelle filmed the live stream here, so what exactly was this "new world" we were in before?

Press the switch button on the remote control again.

Another projection appeared in the empty space in front of the sofa.

It's a projection of Seruno bound up; I saw it before in Michelle's livestream...

So the kidnapping of Seruno is also fictional?

Could it be true, as Aldebaran said, that Seruno was the one who orchestrated all of this?

What is her relationship with Michelle now?

What was that distress signal all about?

What has this world really become?

I do not know anything.

Even after being overwhelmed by this massive flow of information, I still can't come up with a clear and logical conclusion.

Since the teapot is still warm, it means they were living here not long ago, after all, there are three teacups on the table...

Besides Seruno and Michelle, there is a third person in the Moon Palace.

who is it?

"There's no need to analyze my identity; I'm right here."

Whose voice is that?!

Before the conversation could even begin, a sudden sense of crisis compelled me to raise my hand to block.

A powerful uppercut sent me flying against the wall, half my body disappearing into the false projection of the palace.

"Quick reaction, as expected of Miluno."

The effortless praise, and the sound of clapping.

"But in terms of speed, you might be my match."

A black bunny girl combat suit... and fake breasts filled with high-performance thermal silicone...

I know that.

"You are me too?"

Another version of me, who should have been completely absorbed by Michelle, has appeared here. Is it possible that the agent and Ayao have also been freed?

No, I am not you.

The black rabbit in the mirrored helmet shook its head, facing me with its opaque visor.

“I am Michelle’s mother, and you… must forget all this, go back to sleep, and return to the wonderful new world.”

"Sorry, I may have slept too long and my head is still foggy. I'm not going to sleep until I figure out what happened."

Of course, there's no brain inside my empty shell.

Although I expressed myself politely, I was already prepared for battle, and I began to unleash the magic of the Crystal Heart after a long time.

This guy clearly possesses the power of the Morning Star Crystal.

Even if I'm faster, my capacity for radiance far surpasses his...

If Sirius was enough to stump me back then, how much more so would I, who knows the Morning Star Crystal better than anyone else...

It might be difficult to take me down like this.

She snorted coldly and disappeared.

But I know what she'll do. A corner kick is one of my usual tricks, but a sneak attack requires a difficult question to answer. How could I possibly be hit by this move when I know him so well?

As I crystallized, I shone with dazzling light. However, these "lights" were actually solidified needles that instantly pierced through everything in the room. Even with a hundred times the speed of time, the speed of light is still unavoidable, isn't it?

"That's brutal, just like Sirius."

But the black bunny girl behind her was completely unharmed, and even raised her hand to pat her combat suit.

The shrapnel did indeed hit its mark.

But it didn't hurt her...

The combat uniform was not the same one he had worn before; it was clearly a new one that Michelle had prepared for him.

"Hey, hey, fighting me while wearing such high-performance protective gear, that's just too unfair!"

"It's not like you're being unreasonable to say you're crystallized."

I didn't want to completely destroy the room, and considering that she was another version of myself, I held back...

It seems unnecessary now.

"Since that's the case, are you prepared? I'll make you spill all the facts!"

Chapter 404 Arrival

In a daze, I think I said something harsh.

"Wake up, Miluno! We're on the moon!"

But then someone patted my cheek and woke me up. Through my half-closed eyes, I seemed to see Seruno, but when I opened my eyes and became fully awake, I saw Sun Ji instead.

With her hair tied up, she was standing next to my hibernation pod with her arms crossed. Because of her posture and the low angle of her view, I could only see her lower chest, not her face.

Turning around, the view outside the other window was now the pale surface of the moon...

Upon closer inspection, it wasn't a window at all; it was just a long, rectangular monitor displaying footage from an external camera.

However, we are indeed on the surface of the moon.

"Hmm, is this it?"

I slept for ten hours straight, and I didn't even wake up when we landed!

"You seem to be sleeping a lot. Are you too tired these past few days?"

Even if Sun Ji asked me that, I myself don't know the reason.

He simply replied, "I probably felt more comfortable in the low gravity environment, so I slept too soundly."

This reason is not very convincing, but I can't think of any other explanation.

But I feel like I've forgotten something...

But it's nothing, isn't that how dreams are?

If you don't record the contents of your dream upon waking, you'll quickly forget it, completely forget it, and you won't even be able to recall it...

This is a dream.

I woke up to find some... bruises on my body for some reason?

It doesn't hurt much, but I can't remember where I got injured.

After putting on my "Taibai" combat suit again, I followed Sun Ji to the spaceship's landing bay.

The hatch was not yet open, but the engineers had already prepared the equipment for the survey.

Where are we now?

There was nothing to see inside the landing module, so I asked, "Are we already in a lunar city?"

When I asked this question, the survey team members in scientist uniforms shook their heads.

“Miss Miluno, in the process of the moon being restored from digitized debris into a complete celestial body, the lunar cities were buried by more soil.”

Huh? The lunar city has been buried?

My memory is slightly off...

How come I remember that lunar cities were completely exposed on the lunar surface?

So, are the lunar cities underground?

The survey team member then replied, "No, there is still a part on the surface. We can first analyze where this part originally belonged, and from that, we can deduce the direction of the world's center, and finally dig through the tunnel."

The mission was supposed to be to explore lunar cities, but their actual destination was the center of the world.

The lost technologies and civilizations of "the other side" are all buried in the lower layers of the world's center, a true treasure trove that humanity will never easily let go of...

The lunar city can be rebuilt, but the lost technologies cannot.

It's hard to say how the ancient inhabitants of Avalon view this, after all, their ancestral graves have been dug up...

The airtight door connecting the landing module and the main module was completely sealed, and everyone put on helmets and conducted a final check on their spacesuits.