Hearing Penny's explanation, Suwako glanced to Alicia for confirmation. Seeing how her expression was normal, she must have been telling the truth. Suwako wasn't really that well-informed about this little "truce" among the Beacon and Penny, which apparently was also a monster girl. She only knew her as an ally of Beacon, and nothing more.

Well, on a personal level, she didn't really care whether she's a monster girl or not. But on a professional level, she simply didn't want to get scolded by the higher ups.

The girl she brought, on the other hand, had no such pact with them. Penny suggested to think of it as them working with her, while the new girl, named Thalia, worked with her, so that they wouldn't have the problem of working together with an unaffiliated monster girl.

Sounds dodgy, she thought. If she were a Beacon supervisor, she wouldn't have let it slide for sure.

And the attitude of the new girl certainly didn't help matters.

"...I don't like it," she replied to Thalia. "But we really are in no position to fight amongst ourselves right now."

"Very well," she said to Alicia after hearing her suggestion about going back to their normal lives. "I have no problem with it. I'm getting a little tired myself." Suwako could feel how her mana pool was pretty depleted after all those vines she had summoned. "I just hope the higher ups wouldn't be angry at us for letting a monster girl go, though I'm ready to explain how disadvantageous our current situation is if they ask for the reason."

Suwako then eyed Thalia once more. It seemed this girl was pretty close to Penny, meaning if the Beacon were to order them to attack Thalia, there would be a good chance that Penny would turn against them. At any rate, she just had to keep a close eye on the two.

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