Murder and Eyes

"Oh, Kira☆!"

"This is... the Great Scythe of Sanzu River, so powerful, so cool!"

"It's Magical Girl Blue Sky ☆Chan, yay!"

"Hey, the magical girls from the Purge Squad over here... it seems like a lot of statues have been moved... what happened?"

"..." Yes, what happened?

Xiao Cui didn't know either... Well, actually, she knew the whole story perfectly well.

The empty seat in the very middle originally belonged to Teacher Hong.

After Teacher Hong's sacrifice (which wasn't actually true), the statue was removed. As for the other missing statues...

He was killed by Cong Yu when he went to Central City.

To be honest, Xiao Cui didn't know what the mindset of a real magical girl should be when visiting Magical Girl Museum.

However, Xiao Cui's own thoughts are...

As a member of the Wind City Squad, she'll probably appear in this museum someday, right?

No, instead of saying that, let's think about why the sculptor is moving so slowly and why he hasn't finished making his statue yet.

Beside Xiao Cui, Nagashima Koki looked around, searching for her "contact person" or something.

Yes, the contact person.

It's not about attaching the head of another anime character to their body... a tribute to the legendary Street Fighter Skunk.

It was Cong Yu who said that the members of the Purge Squad, who were responsible for meeting her, would take her to fight evil.

Nagashima Koki has already made up her mind.

Learn from others first, gain experience, and once you're proficient, don't go to university after graduation. Start your own business and create your own legendary life!

Then I'll cooperate with Japan. Whenever someone encounters a bad guy, they can just shine the "Xiao Xi Lantern" into the sky and I'll go and fight evil.

(Nagashima Riko: Isn't this inappropriate?)

And what Cong Yu's brother said was that the magical girl who brought her along would meet her at the museum.

But when Xiao Xi looked around, the only magical girl she saw was Xiao Cui, who was waiting with her.

Where's the person who was supposed to take me? Are they late?

As Nagashima Koki was thinking this, Xiao Cui noticed the blonde magical girl sitting on a bench nearby, playing on her phone.

Although she didn't transform, Xiao Cui had seen this magical girl in her normal state before.

"Ah, the one who trained us before..."

Xiao Cui couldn't help but speak up, attracting the other person's attention and causing them to pause in surprise.

The blonde magical girl looked up, yawning and blinking as she stared at Xiao Cui... She couldn't recall who this was.

But the person following behind her should be Nagashima Koki, right?

The "The Nagashima family," where Nagashima Koki lives, is quite famous in Japan and even internationally.

"Oh, I remember now... Shibasaki Kumari, Shibasaki- neechan!"

As Xiao Cui spoke, she called out the name of the blonde magical girl, causing Shibasaki Kumari to glance at her.

Then, memories from a year ago gradually surfaced.

"Oh, it's that one... Ah! So you're the famous Cui from recently?" The Salamander's Thread drew out bolts of electricity.

Shibasaki Kumari raised her voice a little.

Only now am I connecting the Xiao Cui I taught during my training with the recently popular magical girl Midori...

After all, although Magical Girl☆Midori was very popular recently, she hadn't done much research on it and only knew some rumors.

Now that I think back... oh, she used to train "Cui" and had seen her in her ordinary appearance.

With that, Shibasaki Kumari understood why the Magical Girl Association had called her. She asked, "You're the magical girls I met, right? The Purge Squad?"

Xiao Cui nodded... She was indeed a magical girl.

Nagashima Koki nodded... She had indeed heard Cong Yu- nii mention something about the Purge Squad.

"Oh, you are indeed quite special... It's relatively rare in Japan for children this young to become magical girls."

With that, Shibasaki Kumari stood up, dusted herself off, and handed a paper document from inside her clothes to the two of them.

After Xiao Cui reached out and took it, Shibasaki Kumari yawned. "Yawn, the mission objective is on the document."

"The schedules of those targets for today are all listed here. Collecting crime lists from these lower-ranking cabinet members is quite a lot of work..."

"Kill them today."

Xiao Cui opened the file, which contained a series of human photographs and densely packed time information.

Is it going to be this exciting right from the start?

And isn't Shibasaki- neechan coming along? Are they really that trusting of us?

Somewhat surprised, Xiao Cui looked at Shibasaki Kumari, who left the museum without hesitation, and then at the excited Nagashima Koki.

Feeling something was amiss, Xiao Cui took out her phone and asked Cong Yu.

[Xiao Cui: Brother Cong Yu, we met with Sister Shibasaki. She told us to kill the people on the list.]

[Cong Yu: Oh, so it was Shibasaki Kumari who brought you guys? You learned some magic from Shibasaki before, do you remember?]

[Xiao Cui: Mm.]

[Cong Yu: However, she probably doesn't know that I am the King of Wind City, so don't mention me directly when you talk to her--]

Although I don't really care about it anymore.

[Xiao Cui: Okay--]

"..." It's confirmed, it really was murder!

Xiao Cui sighed... Was Nagashima Koki's first experience a little too stimulating?

--

[Masterpiece]: Huh? Didn't we agree that Cong Yu was supposed to take the kid on the mission? Where is he? Where is the person who was supposed to hand over intelligence to the Hunter Squad?

[Masterpiece]: Where are they? I'm asking you, where are they?!

Chapter 629 Murder and Eyes

Murder.

Around 50,000 years ago, in the Zagros Mountains of northern Iran, a 40-year-old Neanderthals was murdered.

He died from a spear thrown by another person, which was presumed to be a revenge killing... His tongue was cut off.

This is the oldest form of murder.

"Hmm, let me see."

Holding a monocular telescope, Nagashima Koki observed from the top of the building the route that someone on the "assassination list" would inevitably take.

"There's puddles on the ground, and electrical wires on the streetlights... How could such a coincidence happen?"

Nagashima Koki couldn't help but say this, while Xiao Cui pondered and said, "But, that old cabinet minister, he must be surrounded by a group of bodyguards, or some kind of protectors."

I don't know when it started, but Xiao Cui has gotten into the habit of calling the [bad old man] "Old Deng".

And as for the kind old man, she would naturally call him Grandpa politely.

Aside from the Pope...

Xiao Cui calls the Pope "Old Deng" because he once beat up Cong Yu's brother, but in her heart she still calls him "Grandpa Pope"...

Because he also let Cong Yu go.

Saying one thing and thinking another.

"Oh, guards? Just kill them all. If they're protecting bad guys, what good guys can they be?"

Nagashima Koki said this, but then she felt something was off and glanced at her shadow. "Not necessarily. We're so bad, but our Little Shadow sister is still pretty good."

[Little Shadow:...]

There were many flaws, but Xiao Cui was too lazy to complain anymore. She blinked.

His eyes scanned the area. "Perhaps there are other methods."

This is what is known as Plan B.

"This streetlight looks heavy and is in poor condition... If we can injure the target, it will be much easier to kill him secretly."

As Xiao Cui spoke, she gestured with her hands, nodded, and then arranged for about ten Little Sprite to take their positions.

This is the last person on the list.

The other targets that needed to be "killed" had already been White-White arranged by Xiao Cui and Nagashima Koki.

All of them, without exception, were "murders" framed as accidents... The two little girls seemed to be born with a knack for this.

Even Nagashima Koki is more shrewd than Xiao Cui.

Despite having mediocre grades and not particularly bright, Nagashima Koki possesses an astonishingly keen eye.

A casual glance is enough to easily see through the logic.

The logic of how everything is connected to everything.

Therefore, it is possible to easily create a "chain" of "false coincidences" to kill the target that needs to be killed.

"Okay - that's settled... I'm hungry, let's go back to the museum area to eat, my mom made bento boxes--"

Nagashima Koki smiled happily, her hands clasped together as if in prayer, her eyes sparkling with a beautiful light.

"Did Yaochuan make you a bento box too? Xiao Cui, let's swap and eat it--"

As she said this, Nagashima Koki blinked...

Those ordinary eyes were now staring at the ordinary street before them, at the telephone pole that would soon become the murder weapon...

Excitement sparkles.

"Um."

Xiao Cui responded, leaving the Little Sprite responsible for "triggering" where it should be, and then walked back with Xiao Xi.

Xiao Cui, who was sharing the same view of the Little Sprite, suddenly sensed something and looked towards a distant corner of the Central City.

"We've arrived... the person on the list with the earliest scheduled itinerary."

Xiao Cui, realizing that Xiao Xi was mainly observing from the perspective of the Little Sprite, led Xiao Cui away.

To be precise, it was about guiding Xiao Cui, who wasn't paying attention to where she was going.

If your eyes are looking too far ahead, you'll naturally need someone to watch the road and guide you...

At that moment, Nagashima Koki's eyes, which could see through everything, were fixed on the traffic light, and she pulled Xiao Cui to indicate that they could go.

"So... has it started?"

In response to Nagashima Koki's cheerful question, Xiao Cui smiled and replied, "Hmm... My first murder was surprisingly interesting."

For some reason, it felt quite... artistic.

Thinking this, Xiao Cui gently clenched her hands, a very sharp smile appearing on her lips.

"Boom!!!"

Along with Xiao Cui's laughter, a deafening roar erupted in a corner of this bustling city.

The cabinet scoundrels, who were only recently exposed, were reduced to shattered bones and pieces of flesh amidst the explosions and roars.

"..." Xiao Cui smiled gently, reaching out to comb her hair from her forehead to the back of her head.

Like hairspray, the hand ran through her long, emerald-green hair, as if fixing it in place, revealing Xiao Cui's forehead.

Incidentally, Xiao Cui's forehead isn't very big.

None of the members of the entire Wind City Squad have particularly large foreheads... If you really have to compare, Yaochuan Guang's forehead is slightly wider.