"The second question."
She spoke again, her voice ominously chilling:
—"I, no, we with the Residual Beast Magic in our Heart's Gem. Who exactly, or rather, when did you put them inside?"
Had this question been asked outside this crevice of time, the information implied within the words would likely have thrown any Magical Girl into chaos.
However, the two present clearly both knew this truth.
The evidence is that, upon hearing this question, the Queen not only showed no surprise but smiled instead.
"What do you think?"
No denial, no argument, no disguise.
The world would never know, the world would never understand.
The "Claw Mark" organization, called "traitors," called "fallen," though it later became a cradle for villains, a sanctuary of sin, was pursued and joined by all magical girls who defected from the Kingdom—but at its inception, this organization was merely an escape.
The initial group of magical girls who established Claw Mark had only one wish—to survive.
