That'd make the story surrounding Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot pretty awkward.
I don't see why. It's a straightforward love triangle.
I mean, if you
really want to be outlandish by this quest's standards, you could gender-flip Guinevere and have Cure Regal and Cure Peerless or whatever both be after the same boyfriend.
Two straight girls on the same magical girl team?
Shocking.
Also, just a thought...
But if Saki feels confused, Zoey certainly doesn't seem either confused or surprised. "Oh? Well, that's very helpful of you two! I didn't know the boss had planned for this. Then again, I can see why she'd prepared in advance; Ansie was never very loyal, was she?" Zoey shakes her head sadly, and her eyes are watching the two new arrivals. Who look at each other, a bit nervously. Zoey smiles encouragingly. "Now now, don't be afraid to tell me the truth. I only bite on special occasions~"
So I am reminded here that this is Zoisite.
Zoisite, primordial wielder of 'his/her/their/any lol' pronouns.
Zoisite, probably several centuries old, at least, even discounting subjective time that passed in Point Zero with Beryl between the Fall and the present day.
Zoisite, gifted enough in organization and tradecraft that they were trusted by planetary/stellar divine monarchs to tutor their children,
TWICE, despite apparently being a scandalous flirt on a semi-regular basis.
Zoisite, Intrigue monster of the Shitennou.
Now, here, Zoisite, Dark Lady, and, uh, 'Magi the female Saberface' are talking about "Ansie." By implication, 'Ansie' is supposed to be referring to either Cendrellion, Drella, or the Glass Sisters as a collective pair.
...
We've spent a fair amount of time inside the Glass Sisters' internal narrative or interacting with them. We know that whatever may be said against them,
disloyalty was never really their thing. Cendrellion, when she was on the brink of acquiring superyouman (heh) magical power, wasn't thinking about how to usurp Beryl, but about how to join her inner circle. We have no evidence of Drella being any different.
And the Glass Sisters predate the Fall. Jadeite told us about their origin as one of Beryl's old shamans. They would have been active participants in the events of the Fall, and Zoisite would
know them.
So Zoisite knows damn well the Glass Sisters weren't disloyal, and knows that any youma familiar with the Glass Sisters would probably know that, and that any youma who knows
Zoisite will know things about Zoisite (see for reference Jadeite's recent testimony).
...
The girl in black's mouth twists as she suppresses a giggle, but Magi finally manages an answer. "Ma'am, I hope you don't think we'd be working with Ansie against the interests of the company…"
whoosh
And quite suddenly, Zoey's crossed half the room to stand quite close by Magi's side. Her hand reaches up to pat Magi on the cheek. Her voice drops an octave, and she suddenly seems quite serious, without the cloud of giggling playfulness she so often trails behind her. "Don't worry, Magi darling. I don't believe for a minute that you were doing any such thing."
Flustered, Magi glances at Kuro, whose eyes have narrowed. They both seem rather tense at the sudden move. But then Magi smiles a bit shakily, and says "Good. That's good."
My hypothesis:
Our favorite zoomer magical villain gang just rolled competitive Intrigue checks.
And they went into this situation
badly underestimating how good their opposition was at intrigue.
