"Take care, boss."
"Stay safe on the way."
Work was over!
One of the happiest moments in life.
As a salary thief who had risen into the ranks of management, he had done his utmost to avoid unnecessary conflicts with his subordinates and reduce the risk of them reporting him for slacking off.
Ye Qing treated subordinates of all races as though they were friends.
There was no pressure, and the office atmosphere was exceptionally friendly. As a result, he was beloved by his subordinates.
So whenever work ended, he received a chorus of polite concern.
"See you next week. Have fun this weekend!"
Ye Qing gave a uniform response to everyone's concern in the office, then hurried toward Karina's office without stopping.
He absolutely would not forget that she had promised to give him a limited-edition figurine.
After getting the Magical Girl figurine, he forcefully suppressed the urge to lose his mind out in public, stuffed it into his bag, and efficiently left the base.
Before getting off work, he had specifically ordered a build-your-own 1+1 meal from a burger place.
He could pick it up on the way home and take care of dinner at the same time.
Since he had not done any work at all, he was not particularly hungry. This was enough to fill him up.
Dusk.
The lingering light of the setting sun dyed the sky orange-red, while the breeze before the weekend felt especially pleasant.
After leaving the burger place, Ye Qing saw couples everywhere he looked.
He walked alone down the familiar streets, his back carrying a faint air of desolation.
The laughter and chatter of strangers lingered by his ears. Though not all of them were human, the harmonious sight made him recall the past.
Once, he too had kind parents and close friends, chatting about everything beneath the sun as they walked the streets.
Regrettably, on his twenty-sixth birthday in his previous life, he had been hit by a truck that ran a red light while carrying a cake home, and his life had been taken from him.
He had reincarnated into the body of an infant with his memories intact. Under the abusive upbringing of his biological parents, he had survived until the age of five purely through the memories of his previous life combined with his young body.
After being cruelly abandoned, he had been taken in by kind adoptive parents, successfully received an education in this world, and lived until his current age of twenty-four.
Ye Qing, twenty-four years old, was a reincarnator who had lived on Demon Star for more than twenty years.
Demon Star was short for Magical Girl Galaxy.
It was a world where vampires, beastkin, demons, and many other races coexisted, with Magical Girls maintaining peace among them.
It sounded colorful and diverse, so the various facilities surely had to be different.
Yet after actually living here, he found it was not all that different from a world inhabited entirely by humans.
Just as the beautiful girls he happened to meet on the street had nothing to do with him, the other races had no special connection to Ye Qing either.
Though Demon Star's technology, education, healthcare, and all sorts of measures that made life more convenient for ordinary people were no worse than those of his previous world, he still reminisced about his past life.
He simply could not stop missing it.
People were like that—nostalgic, and especially attached to things they had lost and could no longer possess.
He had not stood out in his previous life, nor did he stand out in this one.
He had no painful memories constantly surging up, nor any deep-seated grievances he needed to pour out.
He could only sigh at the unpredictability of life.
Still, he had been given another life. An ordinary, peaceful life was what truly mattered.
So once he came of age and graduated, he had followed the path of his previous life, bid farewell to his adoptive parents, and gone out to work for a living.
Like any other ordinary member of the masses, he lived a life of his own.
If he had to name something unusual about himself, it was this job.
A cadre of the Evil Organization, Abyssal Echo!
Why would a Magical Girl fanatic become an evil villain in a world of Magical Girls?
Do not condemn him. This job ran from nine to five, with two days off every week.
Not only that, it came with six types of insurance and two housing funds, and a monthly salary of nearly ten thousand.
That was after taxes. Before taxes, it was over ten thousand!
And the work was easy, simple, and stress-free. Every week, he only needed to use AI to put together a work report for meetings and submit it for the BOSS to hear.
It sounded wonderful, did it not?
It was not just wonderful in theory—it was wonderful in reality too. Hoh hoh hoh.
Why did he think he never saw any other lonely office drones on the streets? Because he got off work early.
Only when he had free time did he have the leisure and means to reminisce about the past.
But joining Abyss Return was no simple matter.
Only those recognized by the BOSS as "evil" qualified to join.
Back then, Ye Qing had also gone through immense trouble to prove his "evil."
His evil was...
"Outsider species, get off our planet!"
"Look at her! Those sharp teeth and red eyes are ugly as hell!"
"It's a freak, a freak! It doesn't deserve to eat food made by us humans."
The malicious, cutting mockery interrupted Ye Qing's memories. He turned toward its source.
Two little boys were blocking the path of a young Bloodkin girl.
Without a shred of courtesy, they snatched away the two lollipops clutched tightly in the girl's hands.
"G-Give them back," the Bloodkin girl said, angry yet nervous.
Her large eyes were misty with tears as she struggled to retrieve the candy that belonged to her.
But how could her delicate body resist two boys older and larger than her?
"Admit you're an inferior species, and I'll give them back."
"With those short arms and short legs, you shouldn't waste our food anyway."
The two boys spoke over each other, not allowing the Bloodkin girl to get a word in as they viciously demeaned her.
Impatiently, they shoved aside the girl who was waving about in front of them. She lost her balance and fell to the ground.
The pain in her bottom only deepened her grievance, and tears spilled from her eyes.
A figure approached from afar, silently arriving behind the three children.
"Hey, brats. My mouth feels a little bland. Hand over the candy."
The mature male voice stood out sharply amid the children's normally childish voices. The two boys had only just turned around.
Before they could react, the candy in their hands was seized away by overwhelming force.
Yellow hair gleaming beneath the sunlight, a vicious expression, a body far larger than theirs, and a savage tattoo on his neck—the two boys were instantly overwhelmed by fear.
"What are you looking at? Get lost already." Ye Qing gripped one boy's cheek in each hand and spoke menacingly. "Want to compare yourselves to me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he violently shoved the two boys away.
They hit the ground with solid thuds, clearly falling far more painfully than the Bloodkin girl had just now.
The authority of an adult left them too frightened to think. They scrambled away on hands and knees.
They had no time to see whether he was chasing them. They only knew to run with their heads down, terrified of being caught.
"Hey, kid." Ye Qing could not be bothered with the two boys. He crouched halfway down and called out to the girl before him.
The Bloodkin girl had calmed down slightly. She stared blankly at Ye Qing.
"Waaah!!"
The next moment, she cried even harder, even crying out loud.
Ye Qing's head started aching from the sound. He took out one lollipop and forcefully shoved it back into the girl's hand.
"Take it!"
The young girl struggled to understand what had happened. Looking down at the candy, she forgot to cry for a moment.
"If I give you candy, you're not allowed to cry!" Ye Qing ordered fiercely.
"Mm..." The Bloodkin girl immediately stopped crying and stared longingly at the other lollipop in Ye Qing's hand.
"Do you want the second one too?" Ye Qing asked.
The Bloodkin girl looked straight at Ye Qing with her watery eyes and answered timidly, "I do."
"Hehehe..." Ye Qing grinned, revealing an evil smile. He tore off the wrapper in one motion and popped the lollipop into his mouth. "Nope! What I snatch belongs to me."
"Bad guy!" Tears welled up in the Bloodkin girl's eyes again as she "fiercely" cursed him.
"You think I'd give it to you? The first one is mine too."
Ye Qing reached out, pretending he was about to take away her remaining lollipop.
The Bloodkin girl hurriedly pulled her hands back and stepped away, hugging the candy tightly to her chest.
"No! Bad guy! Villain!"
"Resistance is useless. Hehehe."
Ye Qing was about to scare the girl a little more and savor being a villain for a while longer~
Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted an adult sprinting toward him.
"You damned human thug! Are you trying to die, bullying Yun'er?!"
"Holy crap! An adult Bloodkin!"
Ye Qing trembled all over in fright and hurriedly stood up.
The instant he started running, he pushed himself with the same desperation he used during the final few meters of a thousand-meter fitness test, fleeing in panic.
The candy I snatched belongs to me!
I did a good deed, so asking for a reward is not too much, right?!
You Bloodkin old monster had better not chase me!
His movements were pathetic, but Ye Qing felt that the arrogance in his heart was very cool.
His panicked expression and level of fear seemed no different from those little brats he had just scared into fleeing in terror.
That was right. Ye Qing's "evil" was the ultimate evil of attacking even those weaker than himself!
Among the five cadres of Abyss Return, he was also the only one whose evil made no distinction between men, women, the old, or the young.
This behavior of bullying the weak, using his status as an adult to bully children, and snatching lollipops from an adorable little girl—
Even the BOSS could not help but call him scum.
Though his actions during the previous tests had been somewhat different, the general idea had been the same.
In any case, he was "evil" certified by the leader of the Evil Organization.
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