Nono and Caesar's expressions instantly turned grave. "Leave the hotel first. Run somewhere open."
With that, they each pulled a suitcase from beneath the table and headed outside.
"How could there be a Deadpool here!?"
"No idea." Caesar looked back at Lu Mingfei. "Stay here and don't come out. It's safe here."
Then he shoved open the meeting room doors and rushed out.
Lu Mingfei had heard the message over the radio too.
His expression shifted as he hesitated.
He had searched online for the monster from that day and found nothing. Yet now, it had come looking for him.
And those two clearly seemed to know something. Otherwise, they would not have looked like that. That blond, muscular guy named Caesar was probably really a Magical Girl.
Listening to the sounds of fighting outside, Lu Mingfei hesitated for a moment before ultimately deciding to obediently wait in the meeting room.
But not long after, with a thunderous crash, the meeting room doors were smashed open from outside. A figure flew backward into the room, wrecking the conference table before finally coming to a stop.
A flash glinted with a crack. A military hunting knife about half a meter long spun through the air and sank into the marble floor without resistance.
Caesar struggled to his feet, pulled Dicktator from the ground, and turned to Lu Mingfei. "Run! We'll hold it back!"
With that, he charged back outside.
He had never expected the universally acknowledged most dangerous Rank A Deadpool to appear here. Its Word Spirit was Bronze Throne, specialized for close combat. Deadpools at this stage still retained their combat experience and Word Spirits from when they were alive, making them the most troublesome kind. Especially in a country where large-caliber firearms could not be brought in, Caesar had only managed to fight it for this long thanks to Nono's intermittent pistol fire disrupting it.
Lu Mingfei jumped in fright. If he had not dodged just then, Caesar's impact would have smashed right into him.
And when Caesar had spoken just now, blood had already started spilling from the corner of his mouth. He had definitely been seriously injured.
Lu Mingfei hesitated. On one side was himself, unable to transform and incredibly fragile; on the other was the life of someone he had only just met, yet who was willing to hold back a monster so he could escape first. It was hard for Lu Mingfei to decide which side weighed more.
In the end, Lu Mingfei gritted his teeth, grabbed the gemstone necklace around his neck, and walked out, shouting, "Familiar, I want to transform!"
Saving a life was better than building a Seven-level Pagoda! You never showed up when I called before, but this time you have to come out! Fortunately, it seemed that either his wish had been heard by the familiar, or the familiar had suddenly discovered that its underworld account had no merit and wanted to come out and earn some. Time abruptly slowed, until it stopped.
"Actually, we can communicate through our thoughts. You didn't need to shout so loudly." The pitch-black familiar Chu Ke had transformed into appeared out of thin air and scratched his ear.
Ever since the precision of the Fundamental Forces had reached a certain level, Chu Ke, who could sense bioelectricity, had already gained the ability to read minds. Even the current "time freeze" was merely the result of Chu Ke accelerating Lu Mingfei's thought processes. Time had not truly stopped.
If the total amount of Fundamental Forces later reached that of an entire universe, then true Time Stop should be possible.
"Where were you before—no, where were you, magically?" Lu Mingfei finally let out a breath of relief. "Forget that for now. Hurry and teach me how to transform. Those monsters suddenly appeared outside, and people are waiting for me to save them. This counts as something a Magical Girl should handle, right?!"
Chu Ke put one hand on his hip, rubbed his chin with the other, and nodded solemnly. Then he clapped his hands. "That's true!"
"Come to think of it, I really did forget to teach you how to transform."
So he had simply forgotten!
Lu Mingfei's fist clenched, but he still put on a fawning smile. "Please teach me, Mr. Familiar."
"It's simple. Hold the gem and shout, 'Magical Girl Lumingfei, transform!' Oh, right. You have to be louder than eighty decibels, or you won't be able to transform."
"..." What kind of humiliating torture was this?! Adding his own name after Magical Girl was bad enough, but why did it have to be above eighty decibels?! Lu Mingfei felt that after this battle, he could book a flight to Mars overnight.
"Well then, good luck!" Chu Ke gave a casual farewell and vanished again. Time resumed.
Lu Mingfei's expression fluctuated. In the end, he charged outside with the momentum, pouring every last scrap of dignity and volume in his life into a shout:
"Magical Girl Lumingfei, transform!!!"
Meanwhile, Caesar and Nono were locked in a grueling battle.
The three-meter-tall Deadpool was covered in scales, its knotted muscles seeming to have been cast from molten iron. Its pair of Golden Eyes, like automobile headlights, radiated immense pressure.
Its claws lashed out like venomous snakes from every tricky angle, striking at Caesar.
"Clang!" Caesar barely blocked with the hunting knife Dicktator. His footing gave way as he slid backward, using the motion to disperse most of the force. Even so, the web between his thumb and forefinger split open and bled, and he was nearly unable to hold his blade.
Nono continuously fired her pistol and submachine gun to support Caesar, but the bullets only threw off sparks when they struck the scales strengthened by Bronze Throne. They could not inflict any damage at all.
"Where is the Execution Department?" Caesar asked distractedly.
"They said they're applying for flight clearance. The helicopter will be here soon," Nono replied after tapping her earpiece.
Just then, a figure burst from the meeting room and ran toward them.
Nono's pupils contracted. What was Lu Mingfei doing? Hadn't she told him to run?
Even with a Rank S bloodline, facing a Rank A Deadpool without training or an awakened Word Spirit meant there was no chance of victory.
Lu Mingfei came sprinting over, shouting:
"Magical Girl Lumingfei, transform!!!"
"Huh!?" Nono whipped around, wondering whether she had misheard. Was this the time to have an episode?
Caesar, who had activated Weasel Sickle to enhance his hearing and aid in battle, froze as well.
Could even his Weasel Sickle hear things wrong?
The next moment, dazzling multicolored light erupted from behind them.
"Move!" With a roar, Caesar instinctively stepped aside.
What entered Caesar's vision amid the gale was first a Heart-shaped Scepter with a pink handle adorned with white wings, then the elbow-length lace white glove gripping it, and finally Lu Mingfei's figure, dressed in a gorgeous pink skirt.
Perhaps the visual shock was too overwhelming, because Caesar even felt time slow down. He could clearly see the leg hair poking through the white stockings beneath Lu Mingfei's lifted skirt.
Whatever the outcome, at that moment Caesar decided that once he returned to school, he would immediately replace every pair of white stockings in the ballet troupe under his command.
Then the scepter collided with the Deadpool's skull, harder than refined steel.
"Boom!" The deafening blast erupted. Caesar felt as though someone had detonated a high-yield grenade beside him. His body flew backward uncontrollably, and only after stomping hard against the floor for a long time did he regain his footing. His ears began ringing.
After all, he was a genuine Rank A Hybrid, one of the only two strongest students in the academy.
When he opened his eyes again, he saw a mist of blood scattered throughout the hall, the Deadpool with a half-meter-wide hole blasted clean through its chest, and, standing in the center, covered in blood and radiating incomparable pressure and power—
Lu Mingfei, wearing an adorable pink dress.
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