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"Why hasn't Qingyin arrived yet? Are those damned Bloodkin really that hard to deal with?"

Inside the largest factory at the center, Feiyan sat at the table with her cheek propped on one hand, voicing her confusion after much thought.

Yuyan and Yalin, her squadmates, sat on either side of her.

Bound before them were an adult male and female Bloodkin, making the scene look like an interrogation.

Who knew how long ago they had finished dealing with the Evil Organization members in the factory, and even cleared out the remote-controlled bombs along the way.

They had waited in the central factory for a long time. Even after all three members of their squad had gathered successfully, there was still no sign of Qingyin.

The tedious wait was far too boring, and they had no idea when they would see Sister Qingyin.

When the three of them got together, ideas naturally started flowing, and Feiyan suggested acting ahead of schedule.

The Bloodkin of the Blood Purity Court were nothing more than a rabble.

Making their decision on the spot, the three of them had stormed in and turned the central factory upside down.

All the outer members had been knocked out and tied up outside. As for these two Bloodkin, they were internal members with some standing in the organization, so they could be interrogated for information.

But since intelligence interrogation was key to the mission, they did not dare act rashly.

They were afraid they would not be able to distinguish truth from lies, so they wanted to wait for Sister Qingyin to oversee things.

"Could she be watching us perform from somewhere in the dark?" Yuyan voiced her guess.

Wasn't that what instructors usually did?

"I think that's very possible." Yalin nodded in agreement.

Suddenly, a chunk of rubble appeared and fell before them.

Right after that, Qingyin seemed to blink into the scene, moving so fast that even fellow Magical Girls could not catch her.

"Am I late?" Qingyin had apparently performed a spatial transfer, like the Flying Thunder God.

It would have been a cool entrance if not for the ceiling beneath her feet and the huge hole in the roof overhead.

What Flying Thunder God? She had simply kicked her way down from somewhere high up.

If there were higher-level Magical Girl evaluations, Qingyin would have had extra pay deducted for causing unnecessary damage.

"You're way too late, Sister Qingyin!" Feiyan complained lightly.

"Not that late." Qingyin defended herself as she looked around at the situation.

"Looks like you've already taken care of everything."

"Yeah, yeah. Next comes the part where we torture and interrogate the Blood Purity Court's internal members." Feiyan pointed at the two bound vampires.

"I surrender. I'll report all the information truthfully, without a single lie," the male Bloodkin said.

After he spoke, every Magical Girl present looked at him with suspicion or confusion, and then he continued.

"My name is Iron Magnet, and hers is Blood Drinker. We never wanted to join this Evil Organization. We had no choice."

Their names made them look like obvious disposable extras.

"What do you mean, you had no choice?! If you didn't want to join, couldn't you just quit?!" Feiyan immediately snapped back.

"The Blood Purity Court doesn't have any distinction between outer members and internal members. We're all just slaves enslaved by those above us." Iron Magnet sighed helplessly.

"Do you know what Bloodkin normally eat?"

"Iron? Because your name is Iron Magnet?" Feiyan asked in confusion.

"Hey, hey, hey. Just because I'm called Iron Magnet doesn't mean Bloodkin eat iron." Iron Magnet looked at Feiyan speechlessly.

"Rice?" Yuyan said.

"We do eat it, but it isn't necessary." Iron Magnet shook his head.

"Fries with ketchup and bread with strawberry jam!" Yalin wiped at the corner of her mouth.

"That's what you want to eat, damn it!" Iron Magnet could not help shouting before looking at Qingyin, the last one who had not spoken and seemingly the most mature among them.

"Blood." Qingyin gave the answer he wanted to hear.

"That's right. We Bloodkin must replenish blood on time to maintain our health." Iron Magnet calmed down again and slowly explained.

"But they added addictive ingredients to blood food and developed specially made blood food."

"If we can't find a substitute, then for that soul-touching rush, we have no choice but to work for them."

"The Blood Purity Court is an Evil Organization established specifically to purify Bloodkin bloodlines. They extract various pure bloodlines and use them to purify their own."

"Outer members and internal members alike are nothing but the black slaves of the executives."

"Impossible!" Feiyan blurted out without thinking.

"If blood food addictive enough to enslave you existed, Magical Girls would have wiped it out long ago!"

Not allowing any DP that enslaved living beings was one of the most fundamental principles.

"To put it bluntly, you're indulging your own selfish desires. You couldn't control that little craving and willingly helped evil," Yuyan added.

"I don't believe no Bloodkin ever resisted the blood food craving you described. Do you dare say you've never seen one?" Yalin pressed on with the interrogation.

"Heh, a bunch of young girls." Iron Magnet laughed in anger. There was no communicating with Magical Girls who knew so little.

"You don't understand at all. It's like being addicted to smoking—you can replace cigarettes with alcohol and quit smoking."

"If you're addicted to alcohol, you can chew big fruit instead and quit drinking."

"When you're addicted to something, it's very difficult to get rid of that craving. You need another addiction to replace it, and then it becomes easy."

"You understand what I mean, right, you cold and aloof Magical Girl?"

Iron Magnet looked toward Qingyin, who led these little Magical Girls.

As long as she acknowledged and understood him, the opinions of the other Magical Girls did not matter.

"I understand." Qingyin nodded slightly.

"It's wonderful that you understand. I really had no choice," Iron Magnet said gratefully.

"That isn't a reason. If you think you can't easily quit the pleasure of specially made blood food, then just find something else to get addicted to," Qingyin said as if it were only natural.

"How could it be that easy?!" Iron Magnet argued.

"As an adult male Bloodkin, I don't smoke, drink, or chew big fruit. I simply don't know what else in the human world is worth getting addicted to."

"Boobs." Qingyin calmly uttered the word.

Boom.

A bolt from the blue struck Iron Magnet's head. In a daze, he lost all strength to argue and slumped against the back of his chair.

"If you're a normal adult man, you know what I mean. Would you refuse? Isn't it addictive?" Qingyin pressed on.

"Huh?!"

"Mm!?"

"Eh??"

Feiyan, Yuyan, and Yalin all displayed obvious shock upon hearing Qingyin speak.

Could that kind of topic really be discussed so openly? Adults truly were something else!

"I was wrong. So terribly wrong," Iron Magnet said with deep emotion.

His world lost its color and turned black and white as he leaned back slightly, gazing through the hole at the starry night sky.

The stars were beautiful, like boobs.

If he got another chance, he would change his name and stop calling himself Iron Magnet.

The pleasure of the Blood Purity Court's specially made blood food in his memories now seemed like nothing much. He had realized there were better things in life.

"He has something else to get addicted to, but what about me?" Blood Drinker seized the chance to speak.

"I'm the one who really has no choice. I'm not a lesbian, so I'm not interested in that kind of thing."

"Then you can suck—mmph!"

Before Qingyin could finish, Feiyan and Yuyan's hands piled together over her mouth, firmly covering it.

"I hope it isn't what I think it is. It can't be what I think it is. Don't say that kind of thing again!" Feiyan strictly forbade her.

"If it isn't what we think it is, then we'll let go of you in a moment, Sister Qingyin, and you can say it," Yuyan added in agreement.

After seeing that Qingyin was not struggling, the two slowly released her mouth and looked at her with a certain expectation.

Qingyin did not say a word.

The hearts of the two Magical Girls, which had been hanging in suspense, died.

"Why can't she say it? Isn't it perfectly normal?" Yalin asked from her seat in confusion.

"For the sake of life, don't say it."

"For the sake of tomorrow, don't say it."

For the sake of serialization, don't say it.

Feiyan and Yuyan, along with some unknown narrator, wore smiles that had burned themselves out.