Magical Girl with Lost Sanity? I Picked Her Up and Remade Her! Chapter 36

"So that's how it is... Then let's start rehearsing for tomorrow."

"Meow!"

What did it mean to be proficient at fighting like a dog?

Xinghua blinked, full of questions about what Meng Yue had specifically come to tell her just now. But at that moment, the puppet attacked again. Having been ordered to move only on all fours, Xinghua could only leap to the side like a dog--

Wait... wasn't she a little too skilled at moving on all fours?

At that moment, Xinghua finally realized something was wrong! Even if a normal person had been given such an order... could they really crawl around on all fours so nimbly?

And after being ordered by the monster leader, she'd pounced on and bitten the puppet as though it were instinctive. Xinghua had only considered whether biting wood would hurt after she'd already lunged at it. Pouncing and biting felt like an instinct to her, and that wasn't normal even with an order!

Could it be...

So Xinghua began trying to wholeheartedly become a dog! She was a dog, a dog... If she were a dog, how should she fight this puppet?

Easy!

For Miss Xinghua, who had always wanted to become a dog, putting herself into that mindset wasn't difficult! She sank her teeth straight into the puppet's calf, then violently yanked, throwing off its balance and sending it crashing onto its back!

"Woof!"

The instant the puppet fell, Xinghua pounced and bit down! While her claws firmly pinned its arms, she successfully sank her teeth into its neck!

If the opponent was holding a weapon, bite their wrist first. If they weren't armed, just attack directly! I did it, woof!

The biggest downside of updating at night... was that she might accidentally fall asleep for no reason.

Volume One: Chapter 82 — Unable to Pull Herself Out of Immersing in Power...

"Rip!"

At that moment, the excited Xinghua instinctively exerted force and actually tore off a huge chunk from the puppet's throat with her teeth!

Huh?

Although the puppet's material was like soft candy, it was extremely tough. Logically, human teeth shouldn't have been able to inflict any real damage on it, but...

Thinking of this, Xinghua subconsciously licked her canine teeth. Her formerly slightly pointed canines had now become long, sharp fangs!

So that's it! This was the power of a magical beast!!

At that moment, Xinghua, who could clearly feel the changes in her body, revealed an excited look! She could sense a powerful force faintly surging within her---

This was power she could use even without transforming into a magical girl! Power outside Papi's control! Power she could use for revenge!

Opening her mouth again, Xinghua bit clean through the puppet's entire neck this time! She also grabbed the puppet's left arm, and a burst of violent power erupted from her hand, ripping its arm straight off!

This was wonderful~~~

Looking at the puppet she had destroyed, Xinghua wore an intoxicated expression! Even though, in terms of raw strength, this power was far inferior to when she transformed into a magical girl.

Compared to the power of a magical girl, she could clearly feel that this was power that truly belonged to her! Only now did Xinghua truly experience... the joy of an ordinary human gaining supernatural power for the first time!

"Oh? For your first time, you did pretty well!"

Bai Yu's voice came from beside Xinghua. She turned to look at him... Perhaps because of the feeling of gaining power, even the monster leader looked more pleasing to her now!

"Hmph~~~"

Xinghua had indeed wanted to snort coldly on instinct, but for some reason, it came out as a somewhat seductive hum instead. However, her mind was no longer on that sort of thing...

I need to find a way to properly master this power. For that... I'll be a little gentler toward the monster leader for now! After all, I can't lose my intelligence and reason before I get my revenge, right?

"Since you can already beat one, I'll arrange five for you next!"

As though he had read Xinghua's thoughts, Bai Yu waved a hand and summoned another five puppets! Xinghua immediately blinked, then excitedly pounced on them. What she needed now was this kind of battle to uncover her power!

29%... 30%. Rather than falling quickly, wasn't this girl deliberately craving power?

Watching the color of Xinghua's Magic Core change, Bai Yu thought this to himself. But this time, he really wanted to see just how quickly a person's Magic Core could be completely contaminated if they deliberately wanted to fall!

After all, revenge... was the finest medicine for falling into darkness!

Revenge... was the finest medicine for becoming stronger!

Elsewhere, Papi watched Crimson Blade grow stronger by the day and couldn't help thinking so. Telling her that Xinghua had died that day had truly been an incredibly correct decision! It couldn't help praising its past self for being so wise!

"Whoosh!"

Crimson Blade's hand blade slashed out, and a razor-thin, fierce sword aura split a distant boulder cleanly in two!

"Using the least amount of magic power to unleash the most efficient attack... To think your control over magic power could reach such a precise level!"

Floating nearby, Papi praised her. "Not bad! You're the first magical girl like this I've ever seen. If it weren't for your low amount of magic power... you should have been the strongest magical girl!"

"Thank you."

Crimson Blade gave Papi a bright smile as usual at its praise. Then she turned to Eileen beside her and thanked her, "I should also thank Sister Eileen for sparring with me. That's the only reason I've improved so quickly in such a short time!"

Xinghua and Crimson Blade... It had to be said that, despite being so far apart, what they were doing was surprisingly similar! Both of them were undergoing special training, and both of their training sessions were progressing very smoothly!

"I am merely following Lord Papi's orders."

Eileen... the magical girl Judgment, spoke in an emotionless voice. Crimson Blade simply smiled, seemingly already accustomed to Eileen's robot-like manner of speaking.

"Oh, right."

Papi added, "Don't forget to give the new skill you just created a name."

According to Papi, the reason magical girls had to name their skills was that giving one's moves names seemed to strengthen their power!

For example, if someone named their slash "Sky-Shattering Slash" and shouted it during an attack, then at that moment, they would unconsciously feel that their slash could truly tear apart the sky!

With such an image in their mind, it would undoubtedly greatly reinforce the user's mental state. It wasn't impossible for psychological suggestion to increase a skill's power!

However... Crimson Blade, who used to eagerly name every new skill in excitement, remained silent. Only after a long while did she slowly say, "I'll think of something myself later."

After all, whenever Crimson Blade came up with a name for a move in the past, she would always eagerly share it with her sister! And naturally, Papi knew that, which was why it had deliberately brought it up...

"Sigh... I just don't understand why you're so bad at condensing magic power. If only your total magic power were a little higher..."

"..."

Hearing Papi's words, Crimson Blade could only silently clench her fists. At that moment, the crack on her Magic Core lengthened by another tiny bit...

And so, time came to the next day. Just as Crimson Blade was preparing to do her morning training... she suddenly sensed monster magic power coming from the same place as last time!

"They've come again after such a short time, and this ostentatious magic power feels like a provocation."

Papi appeared nearby, frowning with its plush face as it said in confusion, "Could it be... that guy has some kind of scheme?"

"A scheme?"

At those words, Crimson Blade's expression darkened as she said coldly, "It's nothing more than another human-wave tactic... At most, they'll set up a magic formation barrier in advance. What else can those guys possibly do?"

"True... I can't imagine what else they could do either. And as for magic formations that isolate the outside world... we already have a way to deal with them!"

Volume One: Chapter 83 — Summoning

Based on the lingering magic aura left behind last time, Papi had roughly figured out what kind of magic formation Bai Yu had set up around Xinghua. And against that kind of formation... Papi had already prepared countermeasures!

Besides, in Papi's view, the overwhelming combat strength of the magical girl Judgment alone was enough to deal with any scheme! As the saying went, one force could overcome ten techniques. After all, this was a magical girl it had created only after years of painstaking effort!

Meng Yue was certainly stronger than Judgment when dealing with magical beasts, but Judgment was definitely the strongest overall! Even without Meng Yue's cheat-like Purification ability, Judgment could crush the Monster Organization through another style of combat!

"Since they're provoking us like this, we must wipe out even more of their members this time!"

Papi spoke up. "Even if those monsters can revive, their revival requires negative energy and time... Once the negative energy in their hands is depleted, the Monster Organization will exist in name only!"

"Understood!"

"By your command."

The two magical girls responded at the same time. Crimson Blade drew the small katana in her hand and completed her transformation. Judgment, meanwhile, didn't take out a transformation device. She merely closed her eyes... and in an instant, black armor appeared around her from thin air, completing her transformation!

Then the two vanished through teleportation magic. But the instant Crimson Blade arrived at their destination, her breathing became hurried!

Because right in front of her... that black-haired boy with demon horns on his head stood there with a carefree smile.

"You! It's you!"

Crimson Blade stared at Bai Yu with hatred in her eyes, raised her hand without hesitation, and shouted, "Die--"

But just as Crimson Blade raised her hand blade, a familiar purple thread tightly bound her wrist! Then threads wrapped around the rest of her body as well, turning her into a marionette once more.

"Well~~ calm down first."

Looking at Crimson Blade, whom he had restrained once again, Bai Yu chuckled and asked, "Did Papi tell you your sister died at my hands? Let me tell you..."

"Shut up!"

Yet in the next second, Crimson Blade hadn't even moved... but the threads wrapped around her body were somehow severed as though cut by something, snapping into countless pieces. Crimson Blade glared at Bai Yu with rage-filled eyes and roared, "Don't use that mouth of yours to talk about my sister!"

Uh... This mouth of mine has done more than talk about your sister. It even tasted your sister last night... Ahem!

"Forget it. I knew something like this definitely couldn't be explained clearly."

Shaking his head helplessly, Bai Yu continued, "Whatever. You're not the target this time anyway--"

Before Bai Yu could finish speaking, Crimson Blade swung her hand blade and slashed a sword aura at him! But just as it was about to hit Bai Yu, it dispersed with a bang!

Frowning, Crimson Blade discovered that there seemed to be an invisible object in front of Bai Yu! Her sword aura had been blocked by that object. Was this the monster leader's magic shield?

"This is..."

At that moment, the executioner girl beside her narrowed her eyes. A faint red glow shone from the pupils beneath her mechanical helmet, and she said, "Detected a mobile stone statue three meters tall in front of the execution target."

"A mobile stone statue?!"

Crimson Blade's expression changed at the name. But before she could process the information, a cat's claw attacked from her blind spot--

"Clang!"

The sharp cat claw struck the black armor. Crimson Blade had completely failed to react to Meng Yue's concealed attack, while Judgment had turned aside in advance and blocked it for her!

"Tch~~~ Don't think I can't do anything to you just because you're wearing that thick armor!"

With that, Meng Yue suddenly opened her little mouth--and instantly sprayed purple venom all over Judgment's helmet!

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle..."

White smoke from corrosion rose from the mechanical helmet, but Judgment remained unmoved. Instead, she calmly raised her palm, and the circular hole in it instantly sucked away all the venom on her head!

[How is it?]

Bai Yu's voice came through the communication formation placed in Meng Yue's ear.

"It's very sturdy..."

Meng Yue replied softly, "But not sturdy to that extent. As long as you give me about a minute..."

"Whoosh!"

While replying, Meng Yue's figure vanished again at top speed. Having received his answer, Bai Yu mentally gave an order to the Boulder Golem before him--

The Boulder Golem wasn't a magical beast, but a controlled puppet made from a special kind of stone. It had originally been developed to deal with Meng Yue, because Meng Yue's magic power only targeted magical beasts... Back then, Bai Yu had planned to have the non-magical-beast Boulder Golem fight Meng Yue if Forbidden Magic proved ineffective!

The Boulder Golem even carried invisibility magic. When Bai Yu had cast Forbidden Magic, this thing had actually been hiding nearby. If Forbidden Magic had failed, the Boulder Golem hidden at the side would have immediately launched a fierce assault on Meng Yue!

Of course, since Forbidden Magic had succeeded, it hadn't been needed afterward. But now, facing the magical girl Judgment and Crimson Blade, who had grown stronger through hatred, the Boulder Golem finally had a use again!

"Mobile stone statue detected moving. Beginning calculation of combat methods..."

Facing the stone puppet stepping toward her, Judgment said softly, "Thirteen combat methods calculated. Random selection now in use--"

As she spoke, the executioner girl pulled out a black mechanical handgun with her right hand and took out a card with her left. Then, as though loading a bullet... she inserted the card into the gun's magazine!

[Reading—Abyss Scorpion]

After the mechanical voice sounded, Judgment raised her gun toward the stone puppet and pulled the trigger--

[Summon]

With Judgment's finger movement, a purple-black light bullet flew from the muzzle! The instant it struck the ground... a massive mechanical venomous scorpion emerged from the light!

"You turned a magical beast into a mechanical form?"