"Shortly after Sophia joins the Wards" is not as precise a timeline as you might think. This is still Earth Bet.
Sophia has already asked to join the Wards. If she asks to talk to Taylor, to attempt to make amends, they're probably going to say yes. Then it's just a matter of the cat speaking up about the warning for a third time, hopefully while Inari is in the room, since Sophia has no idea who the Queen of the Sea is and Taylor has no idea why the To Vathy are important.
Except the PRT are, understandably, weary of Sophia and Taylor being in the same building, let alone in the same room or subjecting them to the prolonged exposure of being on the same Wards team. While the Locker Incident in this continuity may not have been directly caused by Sophia, she did spend the entire last school year bullying Taylor still. Sophia is also willingly offering to join instead of being strong-armed in, so there is more leeway on both the part of her and the PRT on just what is going to happen with her as soon as the process to induct her officially starts.
Oh, dear... How drunk is she at this point?
I think becoming a neko has made her less hostile enough that she no longer needs to depend on divine wine to help her keep cool.
Taylor still hasn't done anything with the trident. Not even trying to get access to it. It'll probably be another 5 chapters before that message is brought up again.
That too.
Too bad. I wanted to see the faces of the PR team when it was revealed that to keep the next magical girl from going off the deep end she had to stay pleasantly buzzed all the time.......now I want to see a Ward Taylor story with her having superpowers only when she's drunk just to see how the PR team would spin it.
The only time that Taylor has even seen the trident was when she visited Armsmaster's lab. I don't think that she or Inari have really grasped that it was supposed to go to her. Which makes sense, there's kind of been stuff going on.
They saw pictures of the trident that Danny took before the PRT whisked it away to their vaults.
Inari was basically saying someone made a trident that has your symbols on it, that's interesting. No further inquiries.
I had forgotten that, fair point. However, there have been things going on which have been occupying Taylor and Inari's attention. Considering that it's currently in the custody of Armsmaster, in a lab full of tinkertech, I think that it would be exceptionally difficult to convince the PRT to let Taylor have access to the trident at this time.
My guess is that the Trident will become important to the "To Vathý" issue at hand...
