“I can take you to those places that aren’t open to outsiders~” Hanaka proudly puffed out her chest and said to the two of them.
“For example the Holographic Hall?” Nadeshiko asked curiously.
The Holographic Hall was a section that had already been prepared when the aquarium project was first established.
Through holographic projection technology, those giant aquatic monsters that had appeared during the monster tide were projected inside the enormous body of water.
Unfortunately the effect had been a little too realistic, and it had been urgently halted.
If there was a chance, Nadeshiko really wanted to see to what degree the Holographic Hall could restore those monsters.
She had once, at a 2000-meter-deep ocean trench, slain a 300-meter-long whale-like monster all by herself.
“Nadeshiko-san actually knows about it?” Hanaka was a little surprised. “But recently the Harusame Group has indeed restarted the plans for this venue. Want to go take a look?”
“Rakuraku… I want to go see it.” Although she felt a little sorry toward Rakuraku, Nadeshiko was truly very interested in the Holographic Hall.
Anyway you two are both magical girls. Building a good relationship is necessary, right?
“Alright… I’ll listen to Nadeshiko.” In the end Rakuraku still lost to Nadeshiko’s watery big eyes and said to Hanaka.
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“Harusame Hanaka, verified.”
The three of them wandered around and around inside the aquarium.
Led by Hanaka, after passing face recognition, they finally opened the doors of the Holographic Hall.
The entire venue was shrouded in darkness.
Only the projection of a giant jellyfish-like monster in the body of water emitted a bright yellow light, like the frequency of a heartbeat.
“Wow— so amazing, it’s exactly the same!” The moment Nadeshiko saw the projection, she was like a happy little bird, dashing to the glass and making contact through the glass with the giant tentacles of the jellyfish-like monster.
“Nadeshiko-san is really cute, isn’t she?”
“Mm…” This was the first time Rakuraku had seen such a happy smile on Nadeshiko, like a carefree child.
It felt like she had lost something…
“Actually… I came to confirm something with you.” Hanaka glanced at Nadeshiko, then turned her head and said to Rakuraku.
“Eh?”
“Have you noticed that there are abnormally few people in the aquarium today?”
Reminded by Hanaka like that, Rakuraku finally realized why the sense of wrongness that had existed since earlier had arisen.
“It’s a rest day, right? And I know the aquarium extremely well. Popular exhibits like some of these absolutely couldn’t have not a single person.”
“You mean…” Rakuraku looked at Hanaka and discovered her expression was just as grave as her own.
“I think a monster incident has occurred.”
After the monster tide ended, the probability of monsters being born naturally was vanishingly small.
If a monster attack incident occurred, then there was a high probability it was an attack launched by an evil organization.
An organized attack was even more terrifying than a monster riot.
And at present there was only one evil organization in the new urban district.
[Night Theater]
Both of them had crossed hands with cadres of [Night Theater] and knew well how terrifying their strength was.
For a moment neither of them could think of a good countermeasure.
“Just now in the jellyfish hall, before you two arrived, I already called the Demon Hunting Division. Their detection devices detected that there is indeed a magic abnormality here at Seika Tower.” Hanaka took a deep breath. “The special operations squad is already on the way.”
“Then should we go out to meet the enemy now? What about Nadeshiko-chan?” Rakuraku said anxiously.
“My plan is to leave Nadeshiko in the Holographic Hall. The Holographic Hall has very high-level protective measures. Nadeshiko will be very safe inside.” Hanaka paused. “I was originally still worried Nadeshiko would be scared by the projections. I didn’t expect she actually likes them quite a bit.”
Rakuraku thought about it.
There really was no other better method.
So she nodded at Hanaka.
“This is the only way.”
Hanaka shouted in Nadeshiko’s direction.
“Nadeshiko-san, Rakuraku said she’s a little afraid of the dark and wants me to go out with her. Will you be okay staying in here alone?”
“I super love it here. Staying a whole day is no problem!” Nadeshiko responded.
“In a bit the Holographic Hall will lock from the inside for a while. We’ll be right back!” As she spoke, Hanaka pulled Rakuraku out the door.
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