Unfortunately, Bai Yu had only been smug for a little while before Meng Yue took her turn... Although Meng Yue no longer had any Purification magic in her body as long as she did not reverse her core, thanks to her Beast Core having been converted one hundred percent, the sheer boost from a fully converted Beast Core was already more than enough to cause trouble!!
Thus, the three of them spent the entire night tormenting each other, leaving none of them able to get up the next morning... As a result, their originally scheduled revenge plan was postponed by a day.
"I told you... We had an important mission today..."
With her cat ears drooping, Meng Yue said lazily, "You shouldn't have gone with her..."
"Shut up! Li Li's stamina doesn't even count as an appetizer. You were clearly the main problem last night..."
"But Master had a problem too, meow~~~ Since you couldn't beat me... why didn't you just surrender and let me do whatever I wanted? You even insisted on using enhancement magic on yourself to trade blows with me..."
After trying and failing to move her cat tail, Meng Yue muttered, "Now none of us can move... The acting leader and the leader are both done for. If a Magical Girl invaded right now... let's see what you'd do."
Volume One: Chapter 113: I Was Here First, Meow!
"Don't worry. Magical Girls can't find this place."
Bai Yu said fearlessly, "If this place were so easy to find, the Monster Organization would've been wiped out long ago."
That was certainly true... If Meng Yue at her peak had been able to find a way into this place, the Monster Organization really would have been annihilated! But in reality, even the Magical Girl team back then could only locate the organization's outer bases, much less now, when the team was practically falling apart.
"Seriously... I was thinking that since you couldn't move, I could go enjoy being the leader by myself..."
Lying limply on the bed, Meng Yue said unwillingly, "But... I'll probably be the first of the three of us to recover. When that happens, I can still go..."
"Are you okay? Didn't I already agree to let you be leader for three days?"
Bai Yu kindly reminded her, "You protected me well for ten minutes before, so even if you hadn't kept me from getting out of bed, I wouldn't have stopped you."
"R-Right!"
She had been thinking about other things so much that she had nearly forgotten about that!
"Why didn't you say so earlier! Then I can only wait until I'm able to get up, meow!"
Meng Yue had originally wanted to angrily use her tail to wrap around Bai Yu, but her body still felt like it had fallen apart, leaving her unable to lift even her cat tail. Last night's madness had not only tormented Bai Yu; she herself had been thoroughly exhausted too... It could only be called reaping what she had sown!
"It's just a shame Li Li still hasn't woken up..."
Glancing at Xinghua, who was still unconscious beside them, Bai Yu said regretfully, "Otherwise, we could hold another strategy meeting in bed... I mean a proper one, to discuss whether there's anything else we can optimize in the plan."
"Speaking of which... Master, there's something I've always wondered."
At that moment, Meng Yue asked somewhat jealously, "Why do you call her Li Li? Why give her such an intimate, mushy nickname? Does she deserve it?"
"Uh... At first, I just thought it was fun to call her that, and then I got used to it."
Bai Yu was not lying. At first, he had called Xinghua that because he wanted to make her physically uncomfortable with such an embarrassingly intimate name. She had indeed shown considerable resistance at the beginning...
But now, Xinghua not only no longer resisted it, she even regarded it as Bai Yu's pet name for her. Last night, she had become excited the moment he called her that... It seemed she had been trained quite successfully.
"But Master has never called me something like that. I was obviously here first, meow!"
Meng Yue raised her cat ears and said unhappily, "Anyway... I want one too!"
"Uh... Then what do you want me to call you? Yueyue?"
"No, no... That name doesn't feel right for me."
However, Meng Yue blurted out instinctively, "Call me Liu Liu instead!"
"Liu Liu?"
Bai Yu was rather surprised to hear that. When Xinghua had called out Meng Yue's real name, Xing Liuyue, Meng Yue had shown no reaction at all. Logically, she should have lost all memory of her true name, so why did she instinctively choose one character from it as a nickname now?
"Mm!"
Meng Yue answered with a beaming smile, "I don't know why, but being called that by someone important just makes me happy!"
Meng Yue did not want to dig too deeply into the specific reason. She had no interest whatsoever in her own past. As long as being called that made her happy, that was enough!
"Fine, then, Liu Liu. Let's talk about tomorrow first..."
The next day arrived, in an alleyway in Moonstar City...
"Big brother! Please give me a few more days!!"
A haggard man in his thirties begged a one-armed man with a scar on his face. "You clearly promised that I could repay the loan after a year! My wife hasn't even come out of the emergency room yet, and you've come demanding money---"
"Well, there's nothing I can do about that! My boss suddenly asked me for money, so there's nothing I can do as his underling!"
The one-armed man pressed the flat of his machete against the man's face and said with a vicious grin, "Paying back debts is only natural! Even if I did say you could borrow the money, if I, the creditor, suddenly have an urgent need, can't I ask for it back early?"
"If you only wanted money, that would be one thing, but this is clearly usury---"
"Watch your mouth! You should be grateful I lent you money at all. Otherwise, your wife, who was crippled by that car accident, would've died long ago!"
He patted the man's face with the flat of his blade. As the planner behind the entire incident, the one-armed man suddenly softened his expression and said gently, "Fine, I know your family's situation isn't easy... You definitely can't come up with that much money right now."
"So... use your five-year-old daughter to settle the debt! That way, not only can you reduce your debt, you can lighten your burden too!"
The next second, the one-armed man revealed his true goal. He smiled and said, "Your family can't afford to raise her anymore anyway, right? Why not use her to save your wife? Don't worry, I guarantee I'll sell her to a good family--"
His tone and words made it sound as though he were granting the man an enormous favor! Upon hearing this, the man's pupils suddenly contracted. In that instant, it seemed he understood something...
"Could it be... you planned all of this?"
Clenching his fists tightly, the man remembered how he had always felt someone watching him when he took his daughter out not long ago. His eyes filled with bloodshot veins as he trembled and asked, "All of this... was to make me hand my daughter over to you myself?"
"Haha, don't make things up! I'm the great benefactor who lent you money!"
Waving the machete in his hand, the one-armed man looked arrogantly at the pitiful father and laughed. "Instead of indulging in these pointless fantasies, why don't you hurry up and give me an answ---"
"I never thought there'd be a day when I had to deal with gang members."
"Long time no see, Ling Bazi."
Just then, a woman's voice suddenly came from behind him. The one-armed man shuddered all over and instinctively turned around... Only to see that three figures had appeared in the alley at some point.
And one of them had actually called out the name he used back in the village!
"So you really only have one hand left. That's what happens when you become addicted to gambling!"
Before him stood a brown-haired girl wearing a black leather jacket on top and tight leather pants below. Her outfit was rather cool, but she wore a collar around her snow-white neck. At the center of the collar, a thin silver chain connected to a palm-sized black cube.
Volume One: Chapter 114: Xinghua's Good Mood
Another silver-haired girl wore a strange half-mask over her face and a black skintight bodysuit. Standing in the middle was a delicate-looking black-haired young man.
A trio like this did not look like they should have been here at this moment, at least not in the one-armed man's mind... He immediately pointed his machete toward them.
"I advise you not to meddle in other people's business!"
The one-armed man said in a cruel, vicious tone, "I don't care who you are, get the hell out of here right now! Otherwise, I'll capture you too and sell you--"
"Didn't you already sell someone once ten years ago?"
The brown-haired girl replied softly, "Don't you think I look a lot like your biological daughter?"
"Y-You're Ling Li??"
The one-armed man instinctively revealed a shocked expression! Looking more closely, the girl before him really did resemble the daughter he had sold ten years ago! No wonder she knew his old name!
"You recognize me?"
Curling her lips into a smile, Xinghua said happily, "I never expected that after all these years, that worthless bastard who was addicted to gambling and only knew how to vent his anger on his family would become so capable!"
Xinghua's relaxed, cheerful tone made it sound as though she and the man before her truly were nothing more than an ordinary father and daughter. Meanwhile, Ling Bazi's gaze quickly shifted from shock to greed!
"I heard that even after being sold to your adoptive parents, you still wouldn't behave yourself and even tried to run away!"
With a greedy smile, Ling Bazi said, "Those two have been looking for you, you unfilial daughter! If I send you back to them... do you think I'll get an extra reward?"
"Maybe... They seem to have money now, after all. They can even afford health supplements!"
Xinghua looked up at the sky and murmured softly, "Why is the world so strange? You and those two are all beasts who deserve to die... so why are you all living better and better lives instead?"
"Hahaha! You don't think you can scare me with talk of karma and make me let you go, do you?"
Ling Bazi dismissed her words with contempt. "Sorry, but I've never believed in karma. Go capture her for me!"
He issued the order casually, as if it were no big deal. In his eyes, what could be difficult about ten strong gang members capturing an unarmed, frail girl who only knew how to talk back? Thus, he shifted his gaze away from Xinghua and looked once again at the stunned, pitiful father...
"I'm telling you, it's about time you gave me an answ---"
But before Ling Bazi could finish, he noticed the strange look in the man's eyes. The man was staring behind him... as though something unbelievable was happening at his back.
Wasn't it just a few underlings grabbing a girl? What could possibly be unbelievable about that?
That was what Ling Bazi thought, yet he still felt something was wrong! So he turned around... and immediately saw his ten underlings enveloped in a faint purple mist, standing completely still.
"I never thought I'd have a day where I had to deal with street thugs too."
At that moment, the masked girl in the skintight suit said lazily, "I can't even be bothered to get motivated against opponents this low-level."
Huh? What was going on...
Before Ling Bazi could finish being shocked, Meng Yue lightly waved her hand... Then his ten underlings suddenly roared and began brawling with one another!
Every one of them had fury in his eyes, as though he saw the other as his mortal enemy! As they fought, all sorts of curses rang out nonstop, like "Fuck your mother!", "So you were the one who cheated on me!", and "I treated you so well, and you slept with my brother!"...
Bang! Bang! Bang...
Because every one of them threw punches with all his strength, the ten men trapped in the illusion quickly collapsed to the ground one after another, motionless. The bizarre sight made Ling Bazi stagger backward repeatedly!
"No... You are..."
As though he had realized something, Ling Bazi's legs went weak with terror! He instinctively wanted to run, but then he saw that Xinghua had somehow equipped a pair of sharp mechanical black claws on her hands. She slowly walked toward him...
"Don't come over! Don't come over! Don't--Aah!!!"
Accompanied by excruciating pain, Ling Bazi let out a scream of agony. His right hand was violently torn apart by Xinghua's mechanical claws! Flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the pale white bone inside could even be vaguely seen...
"Now you have no hands left at all!"
Pressing her claw against Ling Bazi's shoulder, Xinghua said brightly, "Of course, I won't let you die that easily. Later, I'll cut off both your legs too, then slice out your tongue..."
"Alright, hurry up and take him away!"
Meng Yue urged from the side, "Before the Magical Girls arrive. The Master's plan comes first... You'll have plenty of time to play afterward!"
"Oh, got it."
Hearing Meng Yue say that, Xinghua immediately activated teleportation magic while holding Ling Bazi by the shoulder. Once the two disappeared, Bai Yu, who had remained silent all this time, looked at the man on the ground as he gradually regained his senses and said softly, "No one will come looking for you anymore. Live however you need to live from now on."
With that, Bai Yu and Meng Yue vanished from the spot together. Only the stunned man and the ten unconscious thugs lying on the ground remained...
"Who exactly were those three..."
"Hm?"
At the same time, the purple-haired girl seated upon the Silver Throne suddenly frowned. She shifted her gaze away from the enormous Magical Beast before her and looked in a certain direction...
"Special magic... It only appeared briefly, but there's no way I could have sensed it wrong."
Her finger lightly traced across the armrest as the purple-haired girl said softly, "Monsters again? I wasn't looking for you... yet you came looking for me? Counting the crocodile that died yesterday, this is already the third time you've invaded my territory this month."
Roar!!!
Seeing that the girl before it was ignoring it, the enormous rhinoceros Magical Beast was about to charge its horn at the purple-haired girl--
"Die."
Yet the next second, at the girl's arrogant command, the rhinoceros Magical Beast crashed to the ground and stopped moving, instantly losing all signs of life... as though it had truly died because of a single sentence from her.
"Since that's the case, it's time to meet the rumored Monster Leader."
Volume One: Chapter 115: A Magical Girl Killed Someone in Broad Daylight!
Starry Sky City... On a busy street, three people suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
"Huh? What's going on?"
The middle-aged man and woman among them stared in shock, still unable to understand the situation. Just moments ago, they had been chatting with this young man who often came to their door selling health supplements. Then he had suddenly walked over and pressed down on their shoulders, and... they had inexplicably appeared here!
"Uncle, Auntie..."
The young man scratched his head and said with a smile, "Well then, I wish you both good luck!"
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