Living with a Magical Girl, but a Freak Executive Chapter 50

Cong Yu (annoyed):...

Chapter 67: Can't a Fellow Traveler Let People Sleep?

Yaochuan Guang and Cong Yu had a late-night heart-to-heart between friends... meaning they each played on their phones while chatting.

In the end, the two did not go to sleep until very late.

Yaochuan Guang normally had a fairly decent routine, but she was especially excited today, so she chatted with Cong Yu until late at night.

During that time, Yaochuan Guang heard Lantian Zhu's door open, followed by the sound of "thump thump thump" as she rushed into the bathroom, and then the sound of Lantian Zhu's door closing again.

It probably happened two or three times...

Yaochuan Guang was usually already asleep by then, so she never heard it. Today, she had been about to curiously ask what was going on, but Cong Yu stopped her.

"For the sake of your friendship, you'd better not go... It's also important to give your good friend some private space."

That was what Cong Yu-chan had said. Yaochuan Guang did not really understand it, but it sounded impressive, so she felt it made a lot of sense.

And even though she had gone to sleep very late, tomorrow was Saturday!

Yay!

With that thought in mind, Yaochuan Guang drifted off to sleep... Hoo-hah! Tomorrow would be another day full of hope!

...The Idiot's Dream...

"Hoo-hah?"

The golden-haired idiot stood blankly atop a mountain, staring at everything before her in confusion. Then, her eyes widened in shock.

"BOOM!!!!"

A huge, illusory Giant Serpent swept past her ear, then let out an enormous roar behind her.

"Huh?"

Still hesitating, the golden-haired idiot turned around and saw a huge group of magical girls lying motionless on the ground, every one of them sprawled out in a strange position.

Then, because their injuries were too severe, every magical girl's transformation was undone in that instant.

Those lying face-down on the ground extended their left arms and pointed forward with one finger. Crimson blood spread beneath them and flowed forward along their fingers.

"Huh?"

The blond idiot voiced her confusion again as she watched the blood at every magical girl's fingertips begin to gather in one place.

Slowly raising her head along the path of the blood, she saw someone—someone whose face she could not make out clearly, someone whose gender she could not distinguish.

"???" As the blond idiot stood there dumbfounded, that person noticed her too and waved at her. "Yaochuan Guang? Come here."

"..." Though she was still dazed, the blond idiot felt her body begin moving freely on its own.

She could feel an overwhelming sense of happiness. Her body ran over there as joyfully as a frolicking puppy while she called out in greeting, "Woof woof woof!"

What was this, a dream about a dog named Yaochuan Guang?

"..."

"???" Isn't Yaochuan Guang my name?!

Amid her confusion, electronic sounds that did not belong in the dream reached her ears...

[Emergency broadcast! Emergency broadcast! This is Wind City Radio Station, this is Sugisaki Hideo!]

...The Idiot's Dream...

"Eh? Ugh!"

Yaochuan Guang suddenly raised her head. Still groggy, she could only wonder why her bed felt especially hard today...

Then, she fumbled around in the darkness and touched the hard floor, as well as the soft beanbag chair beside her.

Only then did she remember that she had fallen asleep in Cong Yu's room.

[Emergency broadcast! Emergency broadcast! This is Wind City Radio Station, this is Sugisaki Hideo!]

[Repeating: Just moments ago, a Freak appeared near Heart Commercial Street! A poison-type Freak! Let me stress this! It is a poison-type Freak!]

[According to injured witnesses, the enemy can release poisonous mist! Please evacuate immediately! Please evacuate immediately!]

[Property is secondary. Lives are the priority! Please evacuate immediately!!]

[Repeating! Just moments ago, at...]

The familiar broadcast came from the public-address equipment near the street.

Since this had happened in the middle of the night—or rather, the early morning—Sugisaki Hideo's voice sounded extremely exhausted.

Yaochuan Guang was also extremely exhausted, but muscle memory still made her bolt out of the room while immediately preparing to transform.

Yes, although most Freaks slept at night as well, keeping roughly the same schedule as magical girls.

Some Freaks who truly wanted to [Do big things, do big things!] would deliberately choose nighttime to act.

As a magical girl, Yaochuan Guang had long grown used to that.

"Transform... Ah!"

Before the flustered Yaochuan Guang could finish shouting, she rammed headfirst into the already-transformed Lantian Zhu.

The recoil sent her crashing onto her butt.

"..." Lantian Zhu, already transformed and dressed in a sky-blue combat outfit, stared in shock at Yaochuan Guang, who had rushed out of Cong Yu's room.

With her mouth hanging open, Lantian Zhu immediately recalled the manga she had read last night... But why had things progressed so quickly?

Or had the two of them actually been entangled for a long time already?

Was she also just one part of their Play?!

Or perhaps... No, no. Maybe Yaochuan Guang had been scared of cockroaches or something and begged to sleep in Cong Yu's room.

Quick-witted Lantian Zhu made that judgment, then immediately gave up investigating the matter because the Freak broadcast kept ringing in her ears and the situation was serious.

"I'll head over first. Little Guang, you can go back to sleep if you want."

With that, Lantian Zhu immediately flew out through the doorway, leaving Yaochuan Guang still unable to react.

Was this really okay?

Yaochuan Guang thought so, and after learning yesterday that Freaks were actually terrifying, she was a little worried about Lantian Zhu's safety.

"Hmm... A Freak that uses poison?"

Cong Yu slowly walked out of the room. Squinting, he casually commented, "That really is a troublesome one."

"Poison is manageable if it has a target and can be controlled... but 'poison mist' is clearly something that causes indiscriminate harm."

"If this goes badly, many innocent people could die. The matter would also become huge, and it would do nothing but harm the future of an entire district."

As he spoke, Cong Yu called to Yaochuan Guang. "Transform... Let's go take a look too."

Yaochuan Guang had no reason to refuse Cong Yu's words.

"Transform!"

"..." Amid the dazzling effects of Yaochuan Guang's transformation, Cong Yu stood with his arms folded, looking out at the still pitch-black night.

Beneath the glow of flashing neon signs and the lights of some twenty-four-hour supermarkets, it was clear... Cong Yu did not look very happy.

"Disturbing the king's enjoyment" obviously would not be a capital offense.

But disturbing someone's sleep... That was really going too far.

And anyway, showing up in the dead of night—wasn't that a little too hardworking? What group did this guy belong to, working this ridiculously hard?

Cong Yu would find out what exactly was going on today?!

The destination of workaholic kings was to be buried in the midnight that belonged to workaholic kings!

Chapter 68: Sorry, I'm a Cop

"Hahaha! This is the feeling! This is the exhilarating feeling!"

"Die... All of you, die!"

Shouting those words, a man raised the snake head in his hand and indiscriminately released poisonous mist onto the roads of Heart Commercial Street.

Fortunately, most of the surrounding shops had already closed. Even the twenty-four-hour stores had urgently turned off their lights and shut down.

So there did not seem to be too many casualties.

"Die die die!!"

This Freak had no arms. In place of his two arms were two cobras... Poisonous mist continuously spread from the heads of those snakes.

It was worth mentioning that even if his template was a "spitting cobra," what he spat should have been venom, not poisonous mist.

Even if it really was poisonous mist, it should have been white or colorless, not purple like it was now... Freak transformation had its basic rules too.

So it could basically be determined that this guy was not a transformed Freak.

Like the Freak who had blown up the café before, he had probably already been a little mentally unstable, then mutated after being affected by magic power.

For magical girls, people like that were relatively easy to deal with.

And a magical girl had indeed arrived.

"Is it a snake? You bastard."

A resentment-filled voice, like something from the abyss, like a vengeful ghost, came from above the Freak.

When he raised his crazed eyes, he saw a magical girl dressed entirely in sky blue, surrounded by wildly burning dark-blue flames.

Lantian Zhu raised one hand high. With a furious tone entirely unlike her usual calm demeanor, she mercilessly began chanting, "O Kiteflame born of the abyss!"

[Magic Power Loading 31.4%]

[Upper-Level Emotional Loading · Hatred Loading +15.5%]

[Determination Loading +7.4%]

[Chant Guidance · Manual Control Mode Activated]

[Manifestation Type · Emission Type · Directed Type · Confirmation Complete]

[Kiteflame · Abyss]

In an instant, azure flames erupted beneath the Snake-Hand Freak's feet, bringing with them a terrifying heat.

"Ahhh! A magical girl?!"

With a furious roar, the Snake-Hand Freak immediately ran, trying to escape her attack. But the blue flames beneath his feet continued following him.

They roasted the scaly skin on his legs until the smell of cooked meat filled the air.

"Bastard! Die!"

Declaring that, the Freak, continually scorched by the flames, aimed his hands toward Lantian Zhu. Murderous intent filled his eyes. "I'll bite you to death!"

As soon as he said that, the snake heads on the Freak's arms instantly stretched out. Opening their huge bloodstained mouths toward Lantian Zhu, they fiercely lunged at her calves.

But against such a slow attack, Lantian Zhu merely pulled back her foot and dodged it.

"Sure enough, so weak."

Lantian Zhu sounded somewhat regretful as she said it, but beneath that regret seemed to be a trace of delight... and even relief.

"What a pity. You are not that person... It seems that even with the same snake template, there are differences in rank and strength."

Lantian Zhu sighed, then smiled and corrected herself. "But it seems my luck is good... I still haven't figured out my last words."

The Freak obviously could not understand what she was saying. He loudly demanded, "What the hell are you talking about?!"

Clearly, he would receive no answer from Lantian Zhu.

What greeted him instead was Lantian Zhu's brief chant, carrying an icy chill...