However, Crimson shut up when Blue pointed out. When Crimson had been a child, she had only been thinking about how she could pull one over the adults. She had been craving power since then, and she had outwitted adults who let their guard down more than a few times. She couldn't say for certain that the reverse wouldn't happen now.
“Let's put up some more tricks apart from the barrier to make sure they can't escape. That way it won't matter if they have power or not”
Green lent the confuted Crimson a helping hand. Even if there were several smart children in that group, they wouldn't be able to break through several different spells. According to Green's forecast, the chances of the children escaping after setting up several spells were next to none, and those near-none chances were almost all irregularities that could occur if the ritual was interrupted.
“Please do. I have to go out now anyways”
Crimson gratefully accepted Green's helping hand. And using that to her advantage she tried to leave to forcibly end the discussion.
“Where? We should have enough sacrifices”
However, Blue stopped Crimson. Crimson had been capturing children for sacrifices for their ritual, and having already gathered enough, there was no reason for Crimson to leave.
“I'm going to save Maki. The only uncertain element of this plan is what is going on with Maki right now, isn't it?”
While Crimson wanted to escape from here to avoid talking any more, she was also serious about saving Maki. Whether or not Maki was an enemy would greatly affect the outcome of this fight.
“Crimson, the plan I've come up with assumes that Navy-san has been mind controlled and will work against us”
Green who had come up with this plan had taken the case of Maki being an enemy into consideration. Machines, drugs, magic. There were all kinds of methods to control a human mind. It would be foolish to assume that Maki would just be a prisoner. Koutarou and the others would never actually do that, but since this was something Darkness Rainbow had done for hundreds of years they couldn't escape from the line of thinking that their enemies must be doing the same thing they are.
“But if Maki was on our side our chances of winning would go up right?”
“Well of course”
Green dropped her shoulders. There was no need to even forecast it, if Maki was an ally their chances of victory would become even more decisive.
“I've got nothing to do now that all the sacrifices have been gathered, so I think it's better than doing nothing”
”Well it is indeed better than just playing around”
After listening to Crimson, Blue changed her mind.
In this plan, Crimson was in charge of gathering sacrifices and Blue and Green were in charge of preparing the magic circle. However, Crimson had finished earlier than them. Even if Crimson joined in on preparing the magic circle they would lose time confirming the process and splitting up the work. Moreover, Crimson would be no use watching over the children, so leaving Maki to her was the most efficient way. Since if they could bring back Maki, the outcome would greatly change.
“Crimson, you just want to take back Navy-san, don't you?”
“Ahaha, you do get me, Green! I'll take her back, make her stronger and fight! Using all of my power!”
Crimson didn't want to save Maki just because of their mission. She wanted to help Maki because she saw her as her rival. According to Crimson's eye, Maki should be able to get stronger. Moreover, her strength should increase even more if given scientific magic. After that, Crimson would fight Maki. Since Crimson sought strength, she couldn't help but want to reclaim Maki so she could fight against someone strong.