In this world.
The rest omitted.
Anyway.
"AAAAAHHHH!!!"
At the end of explaining the Lake Shore Factory incident, Magical Boy accidentally revealed something he should not have. Ling caught it at light speed, and most importantly, his attempt to use Sharon as a shield failed.
Magical Boy once again suffered a brutal fate, transforming into a spinning, charging human Meteor Hammer.
As he was launched into the air again, Fang Ran felt nothing but regret—deep, profound regret. If he had known this would happen, he would have explained things in greater detail the first time.
At least then he could have gotten it all out in one go and only been beaten once.
Fortunately, this time Ling let him down after only five minutes. Maybe because she had already given him a thorough beating earlier, or maybe because she felt that swinging him around for another half hour would be too much of a waste of time.
"Ahhh! Ahhh! Aaaah—!"
Watching Fang Ran continue screaming himself hoarse with his eyes shut even though everything had stopped, Ling looked at him calmly, her exquisite face utterly unmoved.
"Are you done screaming? If you are, continue. You ran into another Nevernight Palace operation afterward, right?"
"You said you saw Numbered Monsters in that Covenant base beneath the company?"
Hearing Ling question him again, Fang Ran, who had been howling uncontrollably, finally realized that the Meteor Hammer had stopped. Afraid that Ling might do it again if she got annoyed, he hurriedly pushed the conversation onward.
He was determined to shift the focus away from the A-7 incident.
"Yes! Yes! There were Numbered Monsters! Your Majesty, you have no idea how shocked I was!"
During his efforts to resolve the Fies Erde crisis in North America, Fang Ran had twice come into contact