The Magical Girl Who Lost Her Mind? I Picked Her Up and Remade Her!
Chapter 8

The Mindless Magical Girl? I Picked Her Up and Remade Her!

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The woman immediately spoke anxiously. "It was right in the residential complex! Two men snatched my child away right in front of me! While they were doing it, I desperately tore the mask off one of their faces and recognized him as a neighbor who lives on the same floor as me!"

"Then did you report this to the Knights' Order?"

The Knights' Order was this world's public security organization, equivalent to the police in Bai Yu's previous world. Hearing that, anger appeared on the woman's face!

"They said the surveillance cameras were broken, so there was no footage of my child being taken!"

Clenching both fists, the woman shouted, "They said my word alone wasn't enough to count as evidence! They wouldn't even investigate, let alone call anyone in for questioning. They just threw me out!"

"But you're certain you weren't mistaken. The one involved in abducting your child really was that neighbor of yours."

"Of course!"

Gritting her teeth, the woman said fiercely, "The person who took my child right in front of me... I wouldn't mistake him even if he turned to ashes!!"

Bai Yu glanced at the crystal ball sitting on the coffee table between them. It had been emitting a faint blue glow the entire time. As long as it did not turn a glaring red, it meant the woman was not lying...

"Tell me his address. If it's only been two days, your child should still be all right."

Offering a casual reassurance, Bai Yu stood up and took out his phone. "Everyone... time to work!"

"This guy... still isn't back!"

After breakfast, Meng Yue waited for Bai Yu for quite a while, only to find that he had not returned quickly like last time.

Realizing that Bai Yu might not be back anytime soon, Meng Yue started getting ideas again! Barefoot, she paced around the room, trying to find the Dark-Energy Converter...

"Something this important should be hidden in the final boss's room, right?"

After searching for a while, Meng Yue muttered, "Like some kind of mechanism in the room, maybe a vase fixed to a cabinet... or a bookshelf hiding a secret."

Unfortunately, Bai Yu's room had neither vases nor bookshelves. But just then, Meng Yue suddenly had an idea and turned her gaze toward the large photograph hanging on the wall.

"A magical girl's photo hanging in a monster leader's room? There has to be something suspicious about it!"

As though she had thought of something, Meng Yue walked over and grabbed the bottom of the photo, trying to take it down! She exerted some force... but it did not budge. The frame seemed welded to the wall.

"Could it be..."

Her eyes shifted as Meng Yue pushed the photo sideways... Accompanied by the creak of turning gears, the photograph on the wall actually rotated slightly clockwise!

"So it really was this thing!"

She was startled at first, but Meng Yue soon put on a smug expression! Giggling, she said, "I'm such a genius! I figured out a mechanism like this just by thinking about it. A fool like the monster leader is no match for me!"

As she spoke, Meng Yue immediately rotated the picture frame one hundred and eighty degrees... then waited excitedly for something to happen! But several minutes passed, and no secret entrance opened anywhere in the room.

"Huh?"

Realizing something was wrong, Meng Yue turned the frame back. Yet still, nothing happened.

"Could it be... I have to rotate the frame in a specific pattern?"

With that guess in mind, Meng Yue could only let go of the frame unhappily. Her clever brain had clearly figured out the mechanism! Yet because she did not know the proper way to turn it, she could not open the secret passage she had imagined...

"Damn Master, why make the mechanism so complicated!"

Looking irritated, Meng Yue paced furiously around the room! When she inadvertently walked in front of the mirror, she saw her embarrassing outfit reflected in it again. This embarrassing outfit! This outfit...

Actually wasn't that bad?

But at that moment, such a thought suddenly surfaced in Meng Yue's mind! Looking at herself in the mirror, dressed like a lewd catgirl, she somehow felt excitement welling up from deep inside! It was as if dressing like this genuinely brought her joy, and even the corners of her mouth curved upward beyond her control...

"No! This isn't right!"

Taking two steps back, Meng Yue said with disbelief, "How could I possibly like this kind of outfit... That's absolutely impossible! It's all that dead pervert Master's fault! If he hadn't kept making me wear things like this, how could I have developed such strange feelings toward these clothes!"

She had to quickly find something decent to wear and change out of this, so she could offset that bizarre excitement!

Wearing the Monster Soldier Leather Suit

But if the monster leader found out that she knew how to dress herself, she would no longer get to enjoy the feeling of having clothes put on her...

Still, compared to that, Meng Yue was even less willing to become some pervert who liked wearing such revealing, lewd clothes! She had a feeling that if she truly came to like this kind of outfit, she would definitely become strange!

With that thought, Meng Yue looked at a square box on the coffee table. She had noticed earlier that it contained folded black clothes. She had ignored it while searching for the Dark-Energy Converter, but now it seemed that only by putting on those clothes could she stop herself from becoming strange!

So Meng Yue immediately took the clothes out of the box. It was a black leather bodysuit, and the size clearly fit her... Master, that dead pervert, must have measured her while he was touching her all over!

"It feels... kind of like what those monster soldiers wear."

Looking at the clothes in her hands, Meng Yue felt a little embarrassed about wearing the same outfit as monster soldiers. But considering that what she was currently wearing was even more embarrassing, she decisively took off the fuzzy fabric on her body and changed into the full-body leather outfit, fastening the belt in the middle that bore a small cat-head emblem.

"Huh?"

But as soon as she fastened the belt, Meng Yue felt something strange about the outfit. It felt as though flowing liquid were wrapping around her body, and she could actually control the clothes with her magic power!

"Could this be..."

A guess formed in her mind. Meng Yue poured magic power into the bodysuit and focused her thoughts. The next second, the long leather pants covering her lower body turned into a black leather skirt that covered the tops of her thighs, while her legs became wrapped in black stockings and a pair of small black leather boots.

"So it really can change according to my wishes! What kind of material is this clothing made from to be able to do that?"

Seeing her outfit transform, Meng Yue immediately showed an excited expression! She had never worn clothes like this before. Even after transforming into a magical girl, she could not alter her clothes at will. She promptly changed the leather covering her entire arms into a pair of leather gloves that only reached her elbows. Compared to the bland full bodysuit that made her no different from a monster soldier, she preferred this style...

"This outfit really suits me better!!"

Looking at herself in the mirror in her more normal outfit, Meng Yue still felt a strange emptiness in her heart. But she forced herself to say, "Wearing shameless clothes like that too much will mess with your mind. For the sake of my mental health, this is definitely better!"

Unfortunately, while the clothing could change shape, it could not change color. Meng Yue still preferred white, and dark-colored clothes made her feel less like one of the good guys.

"In combat... I should be able to use it too."

Thinking of that, Meng Yue focused her thoughts again. The leather gloves covering her hands instantly transformed into cat paws. The black claws extending from the tips looked extremely sharp, giving Meng Yue a sense of satisfaction!

"Not bad~~~"

Meng Yue did not realize why cat claws had been her first thought when she imagined weapons. Before being captured, she had always fought with a magic wand. She subconsciously swiped a cat paw forward, and the sound of it cutting through the air once again filled her with satisfaction! It was as though fighting like a cat would make her excited...

"Now I have the ability to fight too!"

Turning her other hand into a cat paw as well, Meng Yue clapped her paws together happily. Her magic power was three times that of an ordinary magical girl. Even without considering its unique properties and simply burning it as fuel, she could provide this leather suit with enough energy to fight for a long time!

"Even though it definitely can't compare to a magic wand... I quite like this kind of fighting style I've never tried before!"

At that moment, Meng Yue noticed that there seemed to be something else at the bottom of the box. She took it out... It was a cat-face mask that could cover half her face.

"Is this for me to use when I go on missions as a monster soldier?"

After all, every monster soldier wore a mask. Ordinary ones wore skull masks that covered their entire faces, but hers looked rather special. Meng Yue subconsciously put the mask on, then looked into the mirror...

"It looks pretty good..."

Staring into the mirror, Meng Yue murmured, "With how I'm dressed now... it would be more believable if I told people I was a monster executive rather than a magical girl, right?"

Dressed in her new outfit, Meng Yue stood before the mirror and changed the shape of her leather clothing. She had already decided that when Bai Yu returned, she would say she had found this outfit and suddenly remembered how to dress herself, so she put it on! Since Bai Yu had custom-made these clothes for her anyway, he would probably be happy to see her like this, right?

But even by ten o'clock, Meng Yue still had not seen Bai Yu return. She began to feel restless, and her face even took on the expression of a pet eagerly waiting for its owner to come home! Because... she was hungry again!!

She had just eaten after eight, and it was only ten now. It was nowhere near lunchtime, yet she was already hungry. Even Meng Yue herself felt a little embarrassed at that moment...

"Seriously... I used to be completely fine even without eating."

Rubbing her stomach, Meng Yue muttered, "It's all Master's fault... You raised me into being like this. Don't tell me you deliberately spoiled me so I couldn't leave you..."

But despite saying that, Meng Yue had no desire to leave this place at all. She looked around the room... Over the past three days, she had explored this enormous room almost completely. Was it not about time to search the unknown areas outside?

What if there was something outside too! There might be more secrets of the Monster Organization outside the room... And if Master did not return, she could not exactly starve to death in here, could she? She had to go find food!

With that thought, Meng Yue decisively placed her hand on the room's doorknob. She had not gone out to investigate before because, according to her setting, she could not walk... and she had not had any proper clothes!

But things were different now! Meng Yue could openly search outside on the excuse that her master had been gone for too long, so the poor little kitty wanted to go look for him.

Besides, her current outfit fit the Monster Organization quite well. Even moving around within the organization would not seem out of place. Maybe the other monsters would not be wary of her... and she might even overhear some important intelligence by accident!

Thus, Meng Yue immediately twisted the doorknob. Outside the room was first a reception hall, but Bai Yu mostly operated in the inner rooms, so there was probably nothing worth investigating in the reception hall. Meng Yue did not stop and went straight to the entrance hall, throwing open the door leading outside.

I'm the Leader's Personal Slave Soldier!

A flash of white light made Meng Yue, who had not seen sunlight for three days, reflexively shut her eyes. At the same time, she cursed Bai Yu in her heart for being a pervert who kept magical girls in captivity...

But when she opened her eyes, Meng Yue's mouth fell open... Before her stood an imposing, magnificent black castle!

"Did... I take a wrong turn?"

Blinking, Meng Yue took two steps forward. Then she realized that she was also at quite a high elevation. Outside Bai Yu's residence was a corridor lined with floor-to-ceiling glass. She pressed her little face against the glass and looked outside...

There were castles not only ahead of her, but to her left and right as well! That meant the place she had been staying in was probably one too. Four castles stood arranged in a square, and the empty space between them was a spacious courtyard covered in grass!

"This is too much... Is this really the Monster Organization?"

With both hands pressed against the glass, Meng Yue's expression was full of astonishment! She remembered that the Monster Organization base she had stormed last time was just a simple basement. Other than the grand hall where Bai Yu had been, the other rooms were extremely shabby. It was utterly incomparable to the interconnected castles before her!

"A mere Monster Organization... living somewhere this nice? One day, I'll tear the whole place down!"

At that moment, Meng Yue inexplicably felt a sense of unfairness! As a magical girl of justice, she lived every day in a cramped rental apartment, with no three meals a day... she could not even take a bath! Yet this evil Monster Organization lived in such a grand castle, with no worries about food or clothing...

If she did not enjoy herself here properly, it would be an insult to all her effort!

With that thought, Meng Yue stomped around angrily in her small leather boots! She wanted to see what was inside such a huge castle built by a Monster Organization. It could not possibly just look impressive on the outside while being empty within, right?

And so, Meng Yue began searching the Monster Organization's castle!

However, this floor was filled with closed doors and had nothing interesting. Reaching the end of the corridor, Meng Yue discovered that there was actually an elevator here!

"You can clearly use teleportation magic, so why bother installing an elevator?"

Meng Yue casually complained, only to see a floor guide posted beside the elevator! Anyone who did not know better would think this was a shopping mall!

"This castle actually has thirty floors. Floors twenty through thirty... are a hotel?"

Frowning, Meng Yue continued reading. "Nineteenth floor... Starry Sky Grand Bathhouse. It can effectively relieve the aches and injuries from fighting magical girls."

"Eighteenth floor... Game City. It can effectively relieve the mental stress caused by fighting magical girls."

"Seventeenth floor... Grand Cinema. It can effectively relieve the emotional gloom caused by fighting magical girls."

"Sixteenth floor... psychological counseling room. If you are killed by a magical girl, you may develop psychological trauma after reviving. That is when you need appropriate counseling."

Meng Yue took two deep breaths before barely managing to suppress the negative emotions in her heart! Just thinking about monsters who had fought her... who received treatment like this even after dying, made her want to destroy everything!

And you people are actually this lazy! After losing a battle, instead of immediately training harder so you can win next time, your first thought is relieving stress? What kind of joke is that! You people are making it seem like...

You people are making it seem like I... like I'm...

At that moment, tears actually welled up in Meng Yue's eyes. She wiped them away and quietly encouraged herself, "What am I even jealous of?! The Contract Spirit already promised me that as long as I eliminate the Monster Organization, it will free me from poverty and let me live a good life! There's no need to envy these people at all, and I even cried... Meng Yue, you're really pathetic!"

With that thought, Meng Yue tried hard to calm herself down! She continued reading the floor descriptions with the mindset of conducting a search, but when she saw the fifteenth floor, her expression froze...

"Fifteenth floor... Grand Cafeteria. No need to say much—just eat! Let's all eat and drink our fill, then raise a toast to a wonderful tomorrow!"

Grand Cafeteria! Could the food the monster leader brought her have come from there?

In an instant, Meng Yue's eyes lit up! She stuck out her tongue and licked her lips. She could not be bothered to read the descriptions below the fifteenth floor anymore and eagerly reached for the elevator button...

"No! According to my setting, I shouldn't know how to use an elevator!"

Suddenly remembering that, Meng Yue quickly pulled her hand back. According to her setting, she had only just learned how to walk and dress herself. If she even knew how to use an elevator, it would be easy for people to suspect her!

"It wouldn't be good if someone saw the elevator go up to the thirtieth floor either. I should take the stairs!"

Meng Yue glanced at the stairwell nearby. Unlike ordinary magical girls, who had no combat ability at all before transforming, she could still use some of her magic power even without transforming.

Combined with the mysterious black leather outfit she wore, Meng Yue felt that even climbing thirty floors would not leave her out of breath. She rushed into the stairwell and ran rapidly downstairs, reaching the fifteenth floor in no time!

"Sniff, sniff~~~"

Before she even arrived, Meng Yue could already smell the enticing aroma of food! She felt as though she was about to drool. She used to be fine even without eating... yet now, before it was even mealtime, she was craving food this badly. It was all that awful monster leader's fault!

Meng Yue furiously blamed Bai Yu in her heart, as though having someone to blame made every one of her actions perfectly justified! While cursing Bai Yu internally, she stepped out of the stairwell...

An enormous Grand Cafeteria that stretched as far as the eye could see soon appeared before her! Countless long wooden tables were arranged inside. Perhaps because it was not yet mealtime, only a few monsters sat within.

The dishes before them varied. Some were rich platters of meat and fish that looked extremely greasy, while others were light dishes such as rice porridge and noodles. Monsters of all shapes and appearances moved through the hall, happily devouring the food before them! Meng Yue was stunned by the sight. After licking her lips countless times, she walked toward the cafeteria entrance...

"Um... you there in front."

But just as Meng Yue was about to enter, a deep voice rang out. Meng Yue's heart tightened... Turning around, she saw a massive Black Bear. Scratching its head, it asked, "Which department are you from? Why do I feel like I've never seen you before?"

Damn it, you blind bear! Don't stop me from eating!

Meng Yue had thought nobody would question her dressed as a monster soldier, but she was stopped before she could even enter the cafeteria! Countless delicious foods were right inside... In that instant, Meng Yue was utterly furious, and in a burst of anger, she blurted out, "I'm the leader's personal slave soldier!"

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