This grass-green fellow whose name I did not even know had only known me for a few short days, yet he was willing to stake his life for a stranger who had even deceived them...
What a genuine soul.
And genuinely reckless, too.
I had to stop him. With the violent temper of that radish-munching Fierce Horse Witch, she definitely would not care whether he lived or died.
SpiCa had clearly told him that in a situation like this, all he had to do was stall until reinforcements arrived.
Had he judged my condition on his own and decided I was about to die?
Tsk, though it certainly looked that way...
"Cough, cough, don't come over!"
The Witch did not even need to act. Before Locust Man could reach me, the maid blocked him with her mop. The Fake Magical Girls were about as strong as the Negative Variant, perhaps even slightly stronger, and they also had the advantage in numbers...
Locust Man had no chance of winning.
Yet after being driven back, he pulled a Contaminated Crystal from behind his back.
"When did this idiot hide that... No, don't tell me he wants to..."
Absorb the Contaminated Crystal and undergo Witchification.
When "Negative Variants" directly used Contaminated Crystals, the death rate was extremely high without any adjustments.
Aldebaran's top-tier technology could let Halley undergo Witchification without risk and even retain her sense of self, but this research institute clearly did not possess that technology.
They only used human lives to accumulate experience. It was precisely because too many "lab rats" had died that Locust Man and the others had escaped from the institute.
And that was why...
The Radish Witch even turned around with interest, making no move to stop him.
"Trying to risk your life to save the