3
“Hunh. So that was the queen?”
Lord’s office, conference room.
Mei sat cross-legged on a desk as she stared at Alice.
“Well, fine… The Lord makes the final call, but I’ll bite that you guys aren’t itching to fight the Empire. So that means that Hydra witch decided to attack Kelvina’s lab all on her own.”
“That is what I have to assume,” Alice said.
Alice quietly agreed as Mei continued to watch her.
“The Hydra were also responsible for the explosion that attempted to take Her Majesty’s life. I cannot forgive them for that. I will stop Mizerhyby.”
“Cool. I’m all for witches fighting each other.” Mei smiled, showing her canines. “They already disappeared into the wind, but I’ll take you as far as we’ve tracked them.”
While Mei and Alice were talking, Iska turned to the side and saw Commander Mismis looking down with a frighteningly serious expression on her face.
“Commander? Is something the matter?”
“Huh?!” Commander Mismis raised her face and seemed to come back to her senses. “E-everything’s fine! I’m fine!”
“You obviously aren’t fine whenever you say that, boss,” Jhin muttered. Beside him, Nene seemed to have noticed, too.
“Did something happen?” she asked, sounding worried.
“No… I was just thinking about something, really.”
Commander Mismis laughed and gave them a strained smile.
The smile was forced.
The commander normally wore her heart on her sleeve, so seeing her with such conflicting emotions was unusual. That just showed how worried she must have been.
“Well, Ms. Mei and Miss Alice are worried about the Hydra, but…I’m more worried about Noro.”
“You mean Shanorotte?”
Jhin looked up at the monitor.
Only a few minutes earlier, the former Imperial forces commander, Shanorotte, had been on that screen. She had talked to Mizerhyby about something.
“Noro, huh? Geez, that name’s just like you, boss.”
“…”
“She betrayed you like that at Mudor, electrocuted you, and even tried taking you as a prisoner of war.”
“Yeah…I know that, but…” Mismis awkwardly let out a large sigh. “I just can’t see Noro as an enemy yet… Oh, but I’m not trying to be friends with her, either. It’s just…”
Mismis trailed off.
They had worked together.
They all knew that the kindness Shanorotte had shown Mismis had all been calculated.
Mismis should have known that the most. But still…
“I wish I could talk to her again…”
“Don’t,” came Jhin’s quick reply. “Instead of answering you, she’ll probably electrocute you or shoot you. If you really need to talk to her, wait until she’s locked up in our custody.”
A long, long silence followed.
“You’re right…” Commander Mismis smiled wanly and nodded again.
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