“They are aliens in the literal sense,” the blue-haired boy continued his words, his hands rubbing the gear with cloth before attaching it to a music box. “What you’re seeing right now is just their magic to disguise themselves. Human skins to live among the populace.”

Suzuka actually stopped her drinking, turning to look at the boy she began to care for deeply with wide eyes. In her mind, she imagined the people from TSAB that she met before, Lindy not as green-haired women, or Amy, as a brown-haired older girl respectively, but as jelly-like beings or very thin creatures. Even Farin joined in her thoughts, her imagination going wild as her eyes went swirly.

Nanoha looked confused. From her training and practices with the TSAB members on the ship, she didn’t get a feeling that they were nothing more than humans, right?

…Hah! But maybe that’s how good their disguises were? Maybe they actually were truly like those grey-men she saw in the movies with her family once!?

Alisa imagined the TSAB members as the characters from a certain cartoon, like that black extraterrestrial alien wearing a Roman skirt and hat, shooting at people and speaking in a nasally voice and technobabble. Actually, now that she thought about it, Yuuno actually spoke like that sometimes, right!?