Living with a Magical Girl, but a Monster Executive

Even people with ulterior motives should be welcomed, no questions asked.

As long as one looked patiently, one could even find Monster Group recruitment ads online, so why...

But thinking about it carefully, even if "beware of scams" was repeated ten thousand times, people would still get fooled.

After all, there were so many people in the world that it was understandable for all sorts of strange ones to exist.

"..." Thinking that, Cong Yu placed Yuan'an Alisa's phone on the table, then gently pushed it toward her.

Under Yaochuan Guang's wary gaze, Yuan'an Alisa snatched her phone back. She had no idea what Cong Yu meant, but...

She immediately prepared to delete the chat messages!

Then Yaochuan Guang grabbed her hand, leaving her unable to move.

"Let her delete them..."

Cong Yu stopped Yaochuan Guang as he said this, explaining simply, "Lixe records can be restored anyway."

After hearing Cong Yu's words, Yuan'an Alisa gave up on the idea.

Before she could ask anything, Cong Yu played with his own phone and pointed at Yaochuan Guang with his other hand. "Let me introduce her. She's a magical girl."

Yuan'an Alisa: "Huh?"

At the shocked pink-haired Gourmet Club senior, Yaochuan Guang chuckled and confidently puffed out her chest. "That's right, it's me! Magical Girl Shining☆-chan!"

It was here! One of the top-ranked "Ten Most Exhilarating Magical Girl Moments"—revealing her magical girl identity in front of someone after they had come into contact with the inner world!

Yet, unexpectedly, she did not feel particularly thrilled.

Perhaps this sort of "revealing a magical girl's identity to an ordinary person" only felt best the first time.

But she had already given her first time to Cong Yu.

Huh? That wording seemed a little wrong somehow?

Yaochuan Guang fell into deep thought.

Cong Yu obviously had no idea what kind of nonsense Yaochuan Guang was thinking again. He simply said, "I'm interested in hearing about this destiny of the Yuan'an family you mentioned."

Then Cong Yu learned the cause of the matter from Yuan'an Alisa.

"..." Then Cong Yu fell silent.

"Ha... hoo..."

Cong Yu took a deep breath. He sighed, lamented... then poked Yuan'an Alisa's forehead with a finger. "You wanted to become a chef, but your parents and family wanted you to inherit the family business. After arguing with them, you wanted to join the Monster Group."

With that, Cong Yu summarized the huge rambling mess Yuan'an Alisa had said in remarkably concise terms.

He also omitted the pile of adjectives and personal bias she had added.

But put bluntly... wasn't this just a child throwing a tantrum?!

It was such a classic case of XXX (Already Corrupted)!

"Are you an idiot?! You completely fit my image of the dumbest high school girl!"

Unable to hold it in any longer, Cong Yu shouted the insult. Yaochuan Guang, who was also a high school girl, raised her head in confusion.

Yaochuan Guang: 0vo

But then she thought about it and realized that she was indeed an idiot, and the person being called "the dumbest" was Yuan'an Alisa, not her.

That made Yaochuan Guang secretly delighted: Cong Yu-chan was actually really nice—

Yuan'an Alisa, who had just been sprayed in the face by Cong Yu's rant, did not come to her senses. Instead, her face was filled with anger. "That's because you don't understand my family's destiny at all! I'm joining the Monster Group. I'll make my parents regret it for the rest of their lives!"

"..." Cong Yu: I...

At a loss for words, Cong Yu ultimately said nothing. He merely lamented inwardly that modern high school girls were truly something else.

Then Cong Yu calmed down and finally realized something.

Sure enough, people could not understand one another...

Just as children found it hard to understand why adults liked tea and alcohol, adults found it hard to understand why children thought warm water was scalding.

Because they did not want to understand, they could not understand.

So Cong Yu needed to try understanding Yuan'an Alisa.

Suppose she truly wanted to become a chef, but her parents simply could not understand... even then, she would not immediately turn evil and become a traitor!

Her train of thought was way too bizarre!

"Why Monster, though?"

Cong Yu muttered to himself in confusion.

"Because the Monster Group is cool, right? Way cooler than magical girls."

That was Yuan'an Alisa's answer.

"..." Yaochuan Guang: "..."

All right, case closed.

Yaochuan Guang and Cong Yu stood on the right, watching Yuan'an Alisa, her hands bound, get escorted by the police into a patrol car.

"Ah, Yaochuan Guang's gaze has become sharper."

Cong Yu said that.

Yaochuan Guang: ???

What nonsense was that?

Not knowing what Cong Yu meant, Yaochuan Guang asked him, "Cong Yu-chan, will Senior Yuan'an... go to prison?"

Cong Yu gave an affirmative answer. "Sentence suspended until she turns eighteen. If she behaves well during the observation period, she'll be released without charges."

Muttering words Yaochuan Guang could not understand, Cong Yu patted her as her eyes spun in circles. "Don't underestimate that surname."

This way, Yuan'an Alisa would probably understand just how "cool" the power in her parents' hands was.

If nothing unexpected happened, the Monster Group would probably be willing to work for the Yuan'an family.

They had to make a living somehow... they could not rely entirely on robbing banks, after all.

More than Yuan'an Alisa, Cong Yu was curious whether her phone, which had been submitted as evidence, would end up in the hands of Magical Girl Headquarters.

Ordinarily, it would not.

Yuan'an Alisa's case was fairly common... not enough to attract much attention from those important people.

But if it did reach them and caused a reaction...

That would prove that the people from Magical Girl Headquarters had not come for the 21st Group... eliminating one possibility.

The scope would narrow.

He only hoped it would not narrow down to him in the end.

"So, Cong Yu-chan, what do we do next?"

Yaochuan Guang said this while looking as though she were thinking. "It feels like Wind City High School has been targeted by Monsters."

Seeing Cong Yu thinking about something as well, Yaochuan Guang poked him in the waist. "Right? What do you think, Cong Yu-chan?"

Right, right, right—right my ass.

Cong Yu was interrupted from his thoughts and irritably pushed away the Yaochuan Guang who had leaned closer with one hand. "What do we do? Do what you're supposed to do."

"Students should act like students. Isn't Magical Girl Headquarters coming to the sports festival? Maybe they came because they already know about this."

Cong Yu said it casually, but Yaochuan Guang agreed with his conclusion. Her eyes immediately sparkled. "Oh! That makes sense! No wonder they're coming to visit!"

As she said that, Yaochuan Guang looked at Cong Yu with open admiration. "Just as expected of Cong Yu-chan! You're so smart!"

"..."

"Ha... Coming from an idiot like you, I don't find that very encouraging. It's not worth being happy about at all."

Cong Yu smiled helplessly. Unable to do much about this idiot, he reached out and poked her forehead. "Still, whatever... thanks for the compliment."

Ciallo—

"Unconfirmed Codename... really isn't that easy to find."

A loli said this while standing atop a tall building, holding a... monocular telescope in her hand.

She casually surveyed the streets of Wind City.

The girl beside her felt that it was too high up. The wind made her a little cold, and she rubbed her arms. "Teacher Qili, what are you looking at?"

And what was this "Unconfirmed Codename" thing, anyway?

"I'm looking for that person who might be a Monster. The one I told you about before."

The loli called "Teacher Qili" looked around through her telescope. "Of course, I'm only looking."

The girl blinked and said nothing.

But after a while, she could not help asking, "Unconfirmed Codename sounds like it's just a Monster..."

What else would it be? What were you thinking?

Qili was puzzled by the girl's words. She raised her head to look at her disciple, who was much taller than herself. "You don't know what an Unconfirmed Codename is?"

As for that question...

The girl clearly did not know.

After confirming that, Qili stressed her words. "It's a 'King,' the King of Monsters—a Monster King who obeys only the orders of the 'Emperor.'"

"Did you really listen during class?"

As Qili said this, she learned something else from the girl's expression and sighed. "After we return to the hotel, I'll make up this part of your lessons."

Girl: "Teacher, NO!"

"NO doesn't work!"

As Qili said that, she failed to notice the black-haired figure and the yellow-haired girl handing the pink-haired girl over to the police.

Though even if she had seen them, it would not have meant anything.

"The reason I hope to find the 'King' here isn't to find him, but to find him beforehand... do you understand?"

The girl could not understand what Qili meant.

"All right, what I mean is... I don't want our future actions to cause that King Level Monster to misunderstand, so I want to find them in advance and apologize."

As Qili said this, she saw her disciple's face clearly saying, "That seems so cowardly," and veins immediately bulged on her forehead.

"Idiot! You can barely fight ordinary executives to a draw. What makes you think you're qualified to wear that expression?"

The girl showed no respect for her loli teacher's scolding. "Yeah, yeah, sure—"

"..."

"..." Her fist clenched!

Qili's fist clenched!

"Bang!"

With a punch powerful enough to split mountains and shatter rocks, the girl immediately clutched her head and cried out in pain. "That hurts... So, Teacher, can you beat the Monster King?"

"..." You sure think highly of me!

Qili once again realized her disciple lacked common sense. She opened her mouth, then gathered her thoughts again. "Do you know why we don't give Monster Kings nicknames, and instead directly call them 'Unconfirmed Codenames'?"

Girl: "W-why?"

"On one hand, it's difficult to determine their original forms. On the other, we don't dare... because we fear that a careless codename might anger them."

As Qili spoke, she described humanity's cold reality beneath her disciple's disbelieving gaze. "A group of two or three 'Kings,' along with some insignificant Monsters, casually slaughtered their way through an entire city's magical girl defense line, easily broke through the barrier, then promptly buried the reinforcements from other cities... they had not even gotten serious."

As she spoke, Qili, who looked and was built like a loli, propped up her chin and rotated the telescope in her hand. "Mm, perhaps they should not even be called Monsters."

Qili shook her head, denying her own wording. "Calling them 'Monsters' makes it too easy for you to misunderstand the actual gap in strength... they are Calamity-level."