"Oh? Looks like a skill that can make underlings? Not bad, not bad. I just wonder if it works on magical girls..." Li Xuan grinned wickedly as he pried Xu Rou's mouth open and activated the skill on her.
Chapter 3: Does It Feel That Good in Front of Your Fans?
[Activation failed. Insufficient Evil Energy.]
The system's prompt came through without mercy.
"Uh..." Li Xuan awkwardly let go of Xu Rou. He had indeed flung around a lot of Evil Energy during the fight, and he had just summoned a huge pile of tentacles. All things considered, the consumption had been rather high.
Once the tentacles stopped moving, Xu Rou slowly came back to her senses. Her gaze toward Li Xuan remained full of fury—but this time, it was not because they stood on opposing sides. It was naked personal hatred.
"Yo! You recovered that fast? Just what I'd expect from a magical girl."
"You... unforgivable!"
Li Xuan's taunting drove Xu Rou's anger to its limit. Somehow finding the strength, she forcibly tore her right arm free from the tentacles and cast magic at Li Xuan.
"Moonlight!"
With Xu Rou's cry, a stream of clear light poured down from the ceiling. Li Xuan had not expected her to have enough strength left to fight back, so he hurriedly coiled the tentacles above his head to block it.
Perhaps because Xu Rou was already extremely weak, the clear light only left Li Xuan dizzy and dazed rather than causing any real damage. He recovered quickly, steadied himself, and looked at Xu Rou with a cruel grin.
"It's wonderful to see you still have so much spirit. Let's begin the second half."
This time, Li Xuan showed no mercy. He found ropes and other tools in the box, first tying Xu Rou's hands behind her back with a handcuff knot. Then he used a dragonfly tie to secure both of her arms tightly behind her. Her thighs were pulled apart to either side, with knots at her knees binding them to the rope loop behind her. Finally, he suspended her from the ceiling with a thick rope.
Considering that a magical girl's physique could not be judged by ordinary human standards, Li Xuan deliberately infused the remaining Evil Energy into the ropes to reinforce them.
With that, Xu Rou could no longer stretch her limbs, while Li Xuan's tentacles had been freed from their binding duties and gathered around her, poised to strike.
"Come to think of it, even tentacles have places they can't easily get into." After confirming the knots were secure, Li Xuan circled back to the front and carefully examined Xu Rou's body.
"What are you going to do?" Xu Rou asked shakily.
"Help you relax." Li Xuan grinned wickedly and reached down to grasp Xu Rou's small foot hidden inside her knee-high boot.
"Ah..." Xu Rou cried out instinctively, then immediately realized it was inappropriate and hurriedly shut her mouth, forcing herself to hold it in.
Xu Rou's boots were tight. Even after loosening the laces, Li Xuan still had to put in some effort to remove them. Then he gently pulled off her stockings, exposing the soft, fair little feet beneath them. Her pink toes, like flower buds, were curled backward from excessive tension.
Li Xuan jabbed a finger hard into Xu Rou's sole. She felt a numb, swelling ache shoot from the bottom of her foot straight to her brain, and her toes spread apart involuntarily. Several thin tentacles immediately wrapped around all ten of her toes, the fine granules on them rolling across her sensitive skin like tiny beads. The sensation flowed through her body like an electric current.
Xu Rou gritted her teeth and endured it. She did not want to show another shameful expression in front of the monster.
But for Li Xuan, this was only the beginning.
A long tentacle covered Xu Rou's eyes. In the darkness, something slowly moved up along her calves. Xu Rou could tell that it was not a tentacle, but a pair of real hands.
A masculine presence drew closer and closer. A hot breath and whisper suddenly sounded beside her ear, uttering obscene words. The tip of a tongue lightly brushed her rounded earlobe while her sensitive soles were roughly kneaded. Deprived of sight, her sense of touch became extraordinarily sharp. Coupled with not knowing where she would be touched next, the tension further intensified the stimulation Xu Rou was receiving.
At that moment, only by gritting her teeth and enduring it with a martyr's resolve could she barely preserve a sliver of sanity amid the increasingly overwhelming sensations.
"Still holding out? Just what I'd expect from a magical girl." Li Xuan smiled, then lightly clapped his hands.
Xu Rou thought he had come up with another trick to torment her. Her entire body tensed involuntarily, but what happened next once again exceeded her expectations.
"Big sister... why are you here? And why are the tentacles putting you in such a weird position..."
A young voice reached Xu Rou's ears. She recognized it as the girl who had been taken hostage. Apparently, she had woken up and witnessed Xu Rou being toyed with.
"Monster! Let big sister go! Big sister! Don't worry about me, run away!" The young voice came again. The girl had clearly realized her situation and guessed that Xu Rou had been captured here because of her.
"Don't look at me... Don't look at me like this!" Xu Rou screamed in a voice on the verge of collapse. She was supposed to be a role model, yet now she was appearing before her fan in such a humiliating pose. The overwhelming shame provoked a response from her body, and Li Xuan chose that moment to intensify the stimulation as the tentacles became active across her skin.
"Your body is far more honest than your mouth. Does being played with by tentacles in front of your fan feel that good?"
"Don't be ridiculous... This much... this much doesn't feel like anything at all!" Xu Rou shouted back, but her breathless voice sounded more like empty reassurance for herself.
With Xu Rou's looks and figure, she naturally had no shortage of admirers. But she had devoted herself wholly to exterminating monsters and had never shown interest in anyone. Forget romance—even a boy's hand was something she had never touched.
And now, her chastity was about to be taken by a monster. Not someone she loved, not even a human, but a monster she hated to the bone!
Xu Rou could not accept that reality. Yet something that had long been pent up within her was swelling, surging like a tidal wave until it finally swallowed her consciousness whole.
[New CG unlock failed. The maximum number of CGs unlockable from a single defeat has been reached.]
"There's actually a limit like that? Is the system afraid I'll exploit a bug to farm points?" Li Xuan was slightly disappointed, but when he turned to admire his "masterpiece," he could not help becoming excited again.
After all that torment, Xu Rou's eyes had lost their focus and her face was flushed red. Fragrant sweat mixed with tentacle slime, soaking the short skirt that symbolized her magical girl identity. None of the heroic air she had possessed when she first appeared remained.
"Since I can't fill up the CGs in one go, I might as well forget about efficiency and just enjoy myself."
Thinking that, Li Xuan once again fed the endlessly noisy little fan some liquid to put her back to sleep. Then he lowered Xu Rou, lifted her legs, and arranged her in a completely defenseless position.
"No reaction at all anymore?" Li Xuan patted Xu Rou's cheek, intending to wake her. But perhaps he had gone too far just now, because Xu Rou was already out of it and barely reacted no matter how he called to her.
"Fine. I'll just treat her like a doll." Li Xuan smiled and stepped forward to use the first magical girl of his career.
After the series of humiliations she had suffered, although Xu Rou's heart had resisted the entire time, her body had already been thoroughly prepared. Li Xuan's movements therefore went smoothly. Aside from overcoming a small obstacle along the way, he encountered virtually no resistance.
"First blood—Crouching Dragon Descends the Mountain!"
Afterward, Li Xuan imagined the system prompt for himself. Seeing signs that Xu Rou was about to regain consciousness, he calmly pulled up his pants and prepared to enjoy the magical girl's expression when she woke.
But at that moment, the Hunting Radar suddenly issued a warning.
[Two magical girls detected nearby.] [Distance: 50 meters, 45 meters, 40 meters...] [Detailed information will be displayed after visual lock-on.]
Chapter 4: Sister, You Smell So Good!
"Xiao Rou, are you in there?" An urgent shout soon came from outside the door.
Li Xuan frowned. This basement was an abandoned warehouse belonging to a clothing factory, located deep in the remote suburbs where even buses did not pass. It seemed magical girls could sense their companions' locations, or they could never have found this place so quickly.
Though he really wanted to see Xu Rou's expression after she woke up, Li Xuan knew which head mattered more. Most of his Evil Energy had already been used up, and he had finished what he came to do. Retreating was the wisest move now.
So he immediately set Xu Rou down, grabbed the camera with a tentacle, opened the ventilation duct in the ceiling, and crawled inside.
"Let me do it!" An impatient voice sounded outside. The warehouse's main door was immediately blasted open by an Explosive Flame, and a magical girl with red twin-tails leaped inside. She wore a brilliant gold-and-red gown, its side slit exposing a section of snow-white thigh adorned with a golden leg ring. Two silk ribbons that drifted like flames were tied around her wrists, and her outfit was as extravagant as though she were about to perform onstage.
After seeing Xu Rou in such disheveled condition, the red-haired girl flew into a rage. Waving a ball of fire, she searched in every direction, seemingly eager to find Li Xuan.
[Magical girl locked on.] [Name: Wu Yan] [Magic Power Level: Grade C] [Type: Fantasy Type]
"Flame Dance! Don't rush in like that. Watch out for traps or anything else around us!" A magical girl with short golden hair hurried in behind her. She wore a pale yellow Lolita dress with a layered skirt as elegant as a yellow rose. Flesh-colored stockings covered her legs, and she held a bright yellow wand. Based on appearance alone, she fit the traditional image of a magical girl better than either of her companions.
The moment the blonde girl entered, she rushed toward Xu Rou. Ignoring the slime on Xu Rou's body, she helped her up, then waved her wand to erect a barrier around her.
[Magical girl locked on.] [Name: Qi Mo] [Magic Power Level: Grade C] [Type: Sealing Type]
"A classic red, yellow, and blue three-person squad." Just as Li Xuan was musing over that, Wu Yan discovered his position and flicked her ribbon, sending a streak of fire straight at him.
Li Xuan hurriedly released black mist to block their vision, casually placed Hunting Marks on the two magical girls, then climbed upward through the duct as fast as he could.
"You turned Xiao Rou into this and think you can just walk away?"
Wu Yan seemed to have crawled into the duct as well, but the tentacles' flexibility made Li Xuan exceptionally agile in the narrow space. Unless Wu Yan turned into a loach, there was no way she could catch him.
"Flame Dance! Stop chasing him! Saving people comes first! We found an ordinary civilian here!"
"Leave me alone! I'm going to burn him to ash!"
"The terrain here is complicated. Be careful—it could be a trap!"
Qi Mo kept trying to persuade her from behind. By the time Li Xuan reached the exit above ground, the two magical girls' voices had become too faint to hear.
"Experience +3. See ya!"
After running some distance, Li Xuan saw no sign that the two were pursuing him. He found a quiet spot and slowly absorbed the Evil Energy back into his body. From the outside, he now looked completely human, without the slightest trace of monster aura. Thanks to Cognitive Obstruction, the magical girls could not identify him as the monster either.
Seeing that evening was approaching, Li Xuan called a taxi home and lay in his bedroom to organize the information he had gathered.
Though it was irritating to have been interrupted at the end, today's gains had still been quite good. Moreover, the Hunting Radar marks had not disappeared even at this distance. Li Xuan could still see three glowing dots—blue, red, and yellow. Their positions showed that all three magical girls had returned home, and all three lived in the same city.
As he watched, Li Xuan suddenly noticed that the glowing marks seemed clickable. He tried touching the blue dot, and a window actually popped up on the interface, displaying the sights and sounds around Xu Rou as if it were a live broadcast.
Li Xuan glanced through the skill description and realized that, because he had leveled up, the Hunting Radar had gained a new function that allowed him to view the audio and visuals around marked targets.
"System bro, you're amazing!" Li Xuan immediately became excited. With this ability, they would be out in the open while he remained hidden. With such an enormous intelligence advantage, would he still have to worry about finding chances to strike?
Of course, he could also secretly use it to watch other things...
Li Xuan enlarged the image. After transforming back, Xu Rou's clothes and hair had become ordinary again. After returning home, she merely took a quick shower before wearily going to bed. There was nothing else worth watching afterward.
So Li Xuan opened the feed marked in red. The magical girl named Wu Yan was on a rooftop, violently kicking and punching a sandbag as if venting her anger. Her movements were sharp and clean, her thighs springy and powerful. One glance was enough to tell that she had received specialized training.
Compared to Xu Rou's slender build, Wu Yan's body was more athletic. Yet she did not have the muscular look of an athlete, instead striking a delicate balance between the two.
"Just wait, Xiao Rou! I'll avenge you! I'll tear that monster who humiliated you into pieces!" Wu Yan roared, then sent the sandbag fixed to the ground flying with a spinning kick.
"Looks like she's a dangerous one. I'll need to be extra careful when dealing with her."
While Li Xuan considered strategies for taking care of Wu Yan, he opened the yellow-marked feed and saw Qi Mo...
Holy shit. Qi Mo was lying on her bed with a piece of blue-and-white-striped women's underwear pressed over her face, inhaling deeply! As she sniffed it, she kept chanting Xu Rou's name. Her legs were clamped around the protruding bones of her wrist, rubbing them in short motions, while an utterly intoxicated expression filled her face.
"Miss, why is your whole genre so different from everyone else's? A pervert like this can be a magical girl?" Li Xuan was deeply shocked, but he still could not stop watching.
The small piece of fabric that had come from Xu Rou seemed to be providing Qi Mo with intense stimulation. Just by squeezing her legs together, Qi Mo shuddered and reached release while defiling her companion.
Only after a long time did Qi Mo remove the fabric from her face and sit up. Looking toward the moonlight outside the window, her eyes became hollow and vacant, as if she had glimpsed the truth of the universe. Everything in the world felt dull and meaningless, and she could not help contemplating the meaning of existence.
After the post-release haze passed, Qi Mo picked up a sealed bag from beside her bed and carefully placed the fabric inside.
Then she opened a locked drawer and put the bag away. Li Xuan noticed there were many other sealed bags in the drawer, containing accessories, photographs, and girls' personal clothing. There was even a five-nut mooncake with a bite taken out of it. Every bag had a label marked with a different date, presumably the time each item had been collected.
"Unbelievable."
Li Xuan was mildly stunned. Who would have guessed that the most mature and dependable-looking older sister among the three was secretly such a pervert?
Still, this seemed like an opportunity he could make use of...
Chapter 5: About the Battle Plan
Inside a private room at a cold drink shop sat three high school girls dressed for the summer heat. Various chilled drinks were set before them, and the air conditioning was at just the right temperature. It was the ultimate luxury in the scorching summer, yet not one of the three wore a smile.
"Xiao Rou, sorry for calling you out again so soon. I had planned to give you some time to recover, but this monster really is unusual..." Qi Mo apologetically pushed a cup of lemon tea toward Xu Rou.
"Don't worry about me. From the moment I became a magical girl, I was prepared to go through things like this..." Xu Rou forced a smile, but the gloom in her eyes made it difficult not to worry about her.
Seeing Xu Rou like that, Qi Mo felt a pang of heartache. But she knew there were more important matters at hand. "Then please describe everything that happened when you encountered the monster that day. There may be important information in it."
"Before that, I want to know how the girl captured by the monster is doing."
"She wasn't injured, but she suffered a severe mental shock. To keep it from affecting her future life, I sealed that part of her memory before sending her home," Qi Mo answered.
"Thank you. Then I'll begin." Hearing that the girl was safe, Xu Rou felt slightly relieved. She described her encounter with Li Xuan from beginning to end, but when she reached the part after being taken to the warehouse, she blushed and claimed her consciousness had been hazy, so she could not remember clearly.
Qi Mo knew Xu Rou did not want to recall that humiliating experience, so she did not press her. She simply recorded the available information in detail on paper.
"It seems we're facing a particularly cunning and ruthless enemy. We need to carefully formulate a battle plan," Qi Mo said, looking up.
"A plan? What good is a damn plan? If you hadn't stopped me, I would've burned him to ash yesterday!" Wu Yan said dismissively.
"If I hadn't stopped you, you would have used Explosive Flame in that cramped space. Whether you could have killed the monster is debatable, but you probably wouldn't be sitting here in one piece right now," Qi Mo calmly reminded her.
"Tch..." Wu Yan stacked her feet on the table and leaned backward, balancing her entire weight on only the back two legs of her chair. She knew Qi Mo was right, but she was too embarrassed to admit fault just like that.
"Flame Dance, isn't it bad to put your feet on the table? It's where food goes..." Xu Rou could not help reminding her.
"If you want to eat them, that's not impossible." As she spoke, Wu Yan opened a can of cola and gulped it down.
"That's not what I meant..."
"All right, all right. Wu Yan, why are you still joking around at a time like this? We should be discussing how to deal with the enemy." Qi Mo tried to persuade her.
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