Chapter 175
"Yuihama, hurry up and use your attack to cut off the opponent's tentacles!"
"No, don't do it now!"
Hachiman wanted Yuihama to make a move, but Yukino told Yuihama not to.
"Huh? So, should I make a move or not?"
Yuihama looked towards the Yukino.
"Fine, Xiaoxue, I'll listen to you!"
"Hey, if we don't do anything, how are we going to deal with these tentacles?"
"Hachiman, use your shield! Quickly!"
The order was given under the Yukino.
"Okay, you're the captain, so you call the shots."
Hachiman obeyed the order and immediately activated his Elemental Burst. A 2-meter-high spherical shield enveloped all three of them, the amber-colored shield completely covering them.
"My shield will only last for five minutes at most. After five minutes, it will end. Have you thought about what to do?"
"It's all decided. We'll all gather together; that will make it easier for it to launch an attack."
"Wouldn't that just let it come and beat us up?"
Hachiman looked at Yukino in surprise. Although the three of them were hiding inside the shield and very close together, now was not the time to talk about this. Was it really okay to voluntarily cower and take a beating?
"No, what I need is for it to attack us on its own initiative."
She looked towards Yuihama from under the Yukino.
"Yuihama, what you need to do now is to remember the position of the other person's head. I will fix its position later."
"Are you trying to stall the enemy by making them attack us, thus preventing them from moving and making it easier for Yuihama to attack?"
Hachiman was trying to guess what Yukino meant.
"That's right, that's what I think."
Yukino, the ground began to freeze.
"I see, so I'll use your move."
Hachiman understood Yukino's meaning and looked up at the octopus in the sky. After seeing the three of them gather together, the octopus immediately began to attack them with its tentacles. However, the shield successfully blocked the octopus's tentacle attacks, but one of the tentacle attacks caused the shield to flash with a bright light.
"Okay, I feel like my shield won't last five minutes. At this rate of power and speed, I'm afraid I won't even last a minute."
Hachiman could clearly feel the shield's energy being rapidly depleted, and its durability was completely insufficient.
"Being able to hold on for even a minute is enough."
Yukino stared intently at the octopus in the sky.
"Just wait for it to release a few more tentacles."
The octopus realized that its tentacles couldn't break through the shield, and the three people remained completely still. So it landed and began to wrap the spherical shield with its numerous tentacles. The tentacles kept wrapping and tightening, and it planned to use them to crush the shield so that all three people inside would be caught and none of them could escape.
"Now!"
Yukino raised her right leg and stomped hard on the ground. A large number of ice spikes suddenly burst out from the ground, directly piercing through the octopus's tentacles. The ice spikes spread outward from Yukino as the center, avoiding Hachiman and Yui. These ice spikes, which were over 1 meter high, directly pierced through a large area of the octopus's tentacles and pinned them to the ground.
"Yuihama!"
"I see!"
Yuihama raised her wand, gripped it with both hands, and aimed it at the octopus's head, which was immobilized by its tentacles being pinned down, and fired directly.
The combined Anemo element created a powerful gust of wind that tore apart the octopus's tentacles, transforming them into projectiles that pierced through the octopus's massive head. The Anemo element projectiles then transformed into a streak of azure light that shot into the sky, even tearing a hole in the clouds.
"It's a success!"
"It's solved!"
The three took turns using Elemental Burst: one deployed a shield, another unleashed a wide-range burst of ice spikes to immobilize the enemy, and the last delivered a precise decapitation strike. This team of three, relying on their ultimate abilities, successfully pierced through the octopus's head.
However, they immediately set a flag after the attack, which dashed their hopes.
A large hole was blasted into the octopus's head, but the octopus did not die instantly.
Instead, he screamed in pain.
"Damn it! That hurts!!!"
"I've been playing with you guys all this time, and you dare to hurt me like this?!"
"He's still alive!!"
Yukino stared wide-eyed in horror at the screaming octopus. All three of them had used their Elemental Burst and were completely out of fighting power. If the octopus was still alive, then the three of them were doomed.
"You bastards! I was originally going to play with you for a while, but since you don't want to play anymore, then you can all die!"
The Wrath octopus twitched all its tentacles, instantly crushing Hachiman's shield, and prepared to crush the three of them to death with its tentacles.
At that critical moment, a purple lightning bolt flashed, severing all the tentacles.
"That light belongs to Mr. Bleach!"
Hachiman immediately looked excitedly in the direction of the light, only to see Shizuka Hiratsuka dressed in a purple magical girl outfit.
"Huh!?"
"Teacher Hiratsuka? You're a magical girl too!?"
Yui Yuigahama exclaimed in surprise.
"Don't shout so loudly, you bastard!"
When her name was called, Shizuka Hiratsuka blushed deeply. It was really embarrassing for her to be dressed in such a revealing magical girl outfit in front of her students.
The girl who had been watching from the sidelines looked surprised when she saw Shizuka Hiratsuka.
"I didn't expect teachers to start showing up. Who will be next? The principal?"
299. The Four Gods who were arrested because they had no money
With Shizuka Hiratsuka joining the team, the Magical Girl Squad finally managed to defeat the octopus.
The three of them had exhausted their Elemental Power by using Elemental Burst, leaving them helpless against the octopus they hadn't killed even after depleting their Elemental Power. However, the appearance of Shizuka Hiratsuka gave them hope.
Shizuka Hiratsuka was in perfect condition and possessed the Electro element, making her more powerful in attack than the other three who possessed the same element. Although Yui Yuigahama's Elemental Burst did not kill the octopus, the piercing damage severely injured it. Therefore, Shizuka Hiratsuka successfully killed the octopus using her Electro element.
On the very first day they learned their ultimate technique, the four of them teamed up to kill an evolved evil spirit. Although the first three's attacks did not kill the octopus, they severely injured it, which was very important. So this can be considered the first time the four of them worked together to defeat an evil spirit.
In front of a girl who thinks she's dreaming.
"Although the teamwork isn't perfect, it's already starting to resemble a boss-fighting team."
Li Yue, who had been watching from the sidelines, nodded in satisfaction as the four of them finished off the octopus.
In reality, the so-called octopus is an illusion, all the magic wands are illusions, and the so-called magical girls are all illusions as well. After all, Li Yue can't create all sorts of random things out of thin air. At most, he can plant trees, make wind, ice, thunder, and smash rocks, but he can't actually create so many things. So they are basically all illusions.
The magical girl's clothes are also an illusion. They think they are transforming by changing clothes, but in reality, they are still wearing their own clothes, only their skin has been changed to that of a magical girl. This is an illusionary projection that Li Yue has built into the Vision. The same goes for the magic wands in their hands; they are all illusions, but they are projected around them from the Vision in their hands.
Those around them, upon seeing them, will also be affected by the dream's power, but they can only see them wearing the projected magical girl's clothes and holding magical girl wands. As for the attacks, they cannot see them at all, because those attacks do not exist in themselves. It is the influence of the Dendro element in the Vision on the holder that makes the holder able to see them, and outsiders cannot see them at all.
To put it simply, the four of them were playing a VR game, while the passersby were just watching them play it and couldn't understand what they were doing.
But that's exactly what Li Yue wanted them to do: to create evil spirits that only they could see, and then force them to play VR games in front of normal people. That would be much more interesting!
The first octopus demon was killed in front of a girl, and for the second demon, Li Yue would have to arrange for it to come out and play when there were many people around.
After all, the more people there are, the more exciting it will be, right?
The Magical Girl Squad's preparations were now complete. After the first boss battle, Li Yue gave them a few days to rest and prepare. In particular, the fact that their teacher, Shizuka Hiratsuka, was also a magical girl truly surprised them. The addition of an older magical girl gave them another attack method.
Qi Li Yue, on the other hand, temporarily returned to Tokyo, but problems arose as soon as she Tokyo.
"I can understand if you want to have fun in Tokyo, and I can understand if you bring people to Tokyo, but could you please not make me go to the police station to bail someone out?"
"Well, there's nothing I can do about it. After all, I'm not a local, so I can't go over there to bail people out."
"..."
At the entrance of the police station, Kasumigaoka looked at Li Yue, who was sprawled out with his hands slumped over, and sighed helplessly.
Kasumigaoka also knew that Li Yue hadn't returned after dealing with Eriri's matter, but she didn't know where Li Yue had gone these days. She only knew that Li Yue hadn't returned. Kasumigaoka had been wondering if Li Yue had gone out to cause trouble, and it turned out that he had indeed gone out to cause trouble. However, she didn't know what Li Yue had done in Chiba. All she knew was that Li Yue had summoned a group of people from Teyvat.
The gods of Teyvat, including Raijin, Geo God, Anemo Archon, and Dendro Archon, whom Li Yue had previously mentioned, suddenly appeared—all four of them came to Japan.
When Kasumigaoka heard this, her first thought was that Teyvat was about to attack Japan.
Then, after hearing the second sentence, she was speechless.
The four gods who came from Teyvat were arrested after someone called the police, and Li Yue asked her to help get them out.
This is not what she imagined. These gods, who are no less powerful than human nuclear bombs, are being arrested because they have no money. Is this reasonable?
Regardless of whether it's reasonable or not, at least these four gods didn't take any action, even though they were detained by the police. This shows that they had no intention of invading Japan, which makes Kasumigaoka feel a little more at ease.
How much did they spend?
"Not much, two million yen."
"Um!?"
Li Yue's answer left Kasumigaoka completely stunned.
"What did you say? Two million yen isn't a lot?"
"There's nothing I can do. I didn't want this either. Who knew the four of them would end up like this? But only one million is for expenses, and the other one million is for compensation."
"Compensation?"
Let me explain.
Although it sounds outrageous, Li Yue was also helpless. He only found out that the others had been arrested and imprisoned after returning to Tokyo.
On the first day the Four Gods arrived in Japan, they went out to have fun with the tens of thousands of yuan that Li Yue had given them. Given Venti's social skills, Li Yue felt that he didn't need to give him much money and he could handle it. But while he could handle it, Venti only managed to handle his own part, while Nahida didn't actively cause trouble.
But he failed to win over Zhongli and Thor.
Venti's appearance in Tokyo, Japan, gives the impression of someone who looks like a girl but is actually male, but at least she looks like a boy. Nahida is a child, so it's not a big problem. However, Thor's appearance is a big problem.
She has the face of a married woman, but when you get close to her, she has a kind of innocent foolishness. She also wears a very classic Japanese kimono and nail polish. Such a high-quality beautiful girl is rare.
So, this odd group of four, while drinking in a bar, encountered someone who tried to pick them up.
A group of people took a liking to Raiden Ei and tried to seduce her, but Raiden Ei slapped them on the ground and rubbed them in the face. Meanwhile, Zhongli was tricked by a tea seller into buying a very expensive small jar of tea made by a tea Adepti.
But as everyone knows, Zhongli never looks at the price when she buys things, and she never remembers to bring her wallet.
As a result, one of them owed a million dollars, and the other had to pay a million dollars in damages for assaulting someone.
Even Venti was helpless this time, so the two of them were arrested. Venti and Nahida, being accomplices, were also kept at the police station, but they were kept in the lobby, while Zhongli and Thor were locked in temporary detention cells. Helpless, Venti used the wind to notify Li Yue had just returned to Tokyo.
Of the four Teyvat gods, the first three have already been wanted in Liyue, while Inazuma's Thunder God was not wanted, but was imprisoned in Otherworld along with the Rex Lapis.
"That's it. I got some money from Eriri, but I've only found one volume of my novel, and I don't have that much money right now. I'm still short of some funds, so I can only rely on you."
Li Yue handed a money bag to Kasumigaoka.
"Although it sounds outrageous, when I think about what you said about their performance in Teyvat, it suddenly doesn't seem so outrageous."
After hearing the explanation, Kasumigaoka's lips twitched, but he still accepted the money bag.
"Wait for me here, I'm going to the bank."
300. Shadow: Sorry, I failed to keep a close eye on the general.
"Ah, it really feels so good to be free. Although the pork chop rice at the police station is pretty good, it's so uncomfortable to be stuck inside the police station and not be able to go anywhere else."
At the entrance of the police station, Venti, now free, stretched and shouted with joy.
"Should I buy you a pork chop rice bowl so you can enjoy a delicious pork chop rice bowl while walking freely on the street?"
Li Yue walked over from the street opposite the police station and spoke to Venti in an annoyed tone, to Venti quickly shook her head.
"Never mind, although the pork chop rice is pretty good, I still prefer drinking."
"It's fine if you like drinking, but didn't you say you could handle it? Is this what you call handling it?"
Li Yue pointed to Zhongli and Raiden Ei walking out side by side behind Venti. One of them had bought something but couldn't pay the bill, while the other had assaulted someone after being approached, resulting in the destruction of the bar counter.
Venti glanced back at the two gods speechlessly, then turned back to explain to Li Yue.
"This isn't my fault. I didn't know they'd end up like this. That's Thor, and I'm just a little Wind Spirit. I tried my best to persuade her, otherwise we might have had to pay even more in compensation. As for Zhongli, I didn't expect him to actually buy that tea. After all, I don't drink tea, so how would I know it was so expensive!"