You're Right, But Magic Ring Is a

Bai Yi eventually returned to her seat.

What Zhou Mo hadn't expected was that President Bai Yi, who was usually so imposing, had actually rolled around on the floor just now.

Thinking back to the girl curling herself up and rolling from one end of the classroom to the other, then rolling all the way back, he couldn't help but

burst out laughing.

"What are you laughing at?"

Bai Yi glanced at him and asked strangely.

"I was thinking of something happy."

Zhou Mo quickly waved his hands and brushed it off.

After hanging around the club for a while longer and gathering more information about Molis, Zhou Mo returned to his rented apartment.

There was still some time before his regular training that evening, so he turned on his computer and searched for information about "Magic Ring."

For the president to be so obsessed with it, he was rather curious what kind of game it was.

"You're right, but Magic Ring is a multi-platform open-world game developed by Children of Light Studio under Zohar. Here, you will play a rookie manager who has just begun work, encounter all kinds of magical girl idols who exist in reality throughout the city, train your members according to your own ideas, interact with various magical girls, and build a team of your own."

"The following is early beta gameplay footage and does not represent the final quality."

After watching the game's promotional video, Zhou Mo suddenly understood Bai Yi.

Damn it, he wanted to play too.

However, it was still in the early testing phase, and only the names of several magical girls had been revealed. He searched online and found that they all really existed. One of them was even one of the Top Ten Magical Girls, serving as the sole five-star character.

"Rabi, how much do you know about this game called Magic Ring? Can you get me beta access?"

He looked at Rabi beside him and asked ingratiatingly.

Rabi spread its paws.

"Non-disclosure agreement. No comment."

"Tch."

Zhou Mo immediately lost interest and prepared to pass the time watching some public videos.

Rabi crouched on the table beside him, its tail swishing a few times. A lightbulb suddenly lit up above its head, and then it slapped Zhou Mo's shoulder with a paw.

"Work hard. Try to get Molis into the game once it launches publicly."

"Huh?"

Abandoned construction site

Since Molis was going to hold a performance in half a month, Xia Ya's training guidance had become even stricter than before. The later sparring sessions had also been canceled, replaced entirely by specialized stage training. Everything from facial expression management to tone and movements was taken into account.

Molis could barely endure it. For some reason, she felt that the other girl took the performance even more seriously than she did.

Afterward.

Molis slumped on a pile of construction materials, looking completely worn out.

She turned to Xia Ya and suddenly asked curiously:

"Um, Xia Ya, aren't you planning to hold a performance during the popularity contest? That should help with popularity votes too, right?"

Xia Ya thought for a while, then shook her head. "Mm, idol performances can't be held whenever and wherever you want. After a performance, you need to lie low for a while before you can perform again. My last performance was a month ago, so I'm still on cooldown."

Listening to Xia Ya's explanation, Zhou Mo fell silent for a moment.

Was this some kind of anti-grind mechanic from a game?

"Besides, I already promised Miss Molis I'd help with her performance, so of course I have to focus on it."

She looked at Molis and said with a smile.

"I see."

Looking into Xia Ya's earnest eyes, Molis nodded somewhat embarrassedly.

"All right, break time is over. Let's start training!"

...The suffering continues!

After several uneventful days, aside from a few wild monsters, there had been no recent signs of anything resembling an organization.

And after Molis released her performance announcement, it was as though she had set off a trend. Many magical girls with over thirty thousand followers also began releasing their own personal performance announcements.

During that time, several original songs were rapidly completed, and the speed left Zhou Mo speechless.

"At this speed, Rabi, just what kind of big shots did you find?"

Looking at the melodies of several original songs Qin Xiansheng had just sent over, Zhou Mo was dumbfounded. Although he knew nothing about songwriting, he roughly understood how difficult it was to create a song.

Several songs finished in a single week— even genius high school girls in a girls' band anime wouldn't be that impressive.

"The power of connections, kid."

Rabi tilted up its head, extremely pleased with Zhou Mo's reaction.

"Next, familiarize yourself with these songs and the overall performance arrangements."

"Got it!"

While Zhou Mo and the others were busily preparing for the performance, someone was carrying out their usual antics on an account within an illegal livestreaming app on the hidden dark web.

[Guno (Corrupted): Antics! Messing with random passersby!]

Late at night, in an unknown alley, a middle-aged man carrying a laptop bag and wearing a faded shirt walked down a dimly lit street. His footsteps were unsteady, and his unshaven face looked extremely gaunt.

Because of a company project, he had recently been working overtime at the office until after one in the morning. Including today, it had been going on for a full week. At that moment, all he wanted was to hurry home, sleep soundly for a few hours, then return to the office for more overtime.

At that moment, he was the only person on the street. A gust of night wind blew over, and he tightened his clothes around himself before quickening his pace.

After walking for a while, he suddenly saw what appeared to be a girl crouching by the roadside ahead.

A dim yellow streetlamp in the distance shone on the girl, stretching her shadow incredibly long.

The middle-aged man looked more closely and saw that she had black twin ponytails.

He cautiously approached and faintly heard the girl crying.

In the middle of the night, a petite girl dressed in strange clothes was crying by the street. All kinds of possibilities kept surfacing in the middle-aged man's mind.

Without giving it much thought, he prepared to quickly walk past her.

"Waaah~"

Just as he reached the girl's side, her crying grew louder.

The middle-aged man paused. He glanced at her somewhat lonely figure and ultimately sighed.

He tried approaching her and carefully asked, "Kid, what are you doing out here alone so late? Did you fight with your family?"

"Waaah~"

The girl merely cried, her body trembling in little shudders.

Seeing that the girl made no further movements, the middle-aged man relaxed slightly and stepped closer, coming to stand beside her.

"Kid, it's dangerous outside this late. Hurry home."

"I... sniff... don't have a home anymore."

The twin-tailed girl spoke weakly.

The middle-aged man scratched his head, unsure what to do.

"Mister, can you take me home?"

The girl suddenly said this.

"What?"

Hearing the implication in her words, the middle-aged man froze where he stood.

He swallowed with difficulty. Looking at her petite and fragile figure, a glimmer suddenly flashed through his cloudy eyes. Then, as if possessed, he said:

"If... if there's no other way, you can stay at my place for the night first."

"Really? You're such a nice person, mister."

The middle-aged man's suggestion made the girl stop crying, and she spoke to him with some delight.

"But you just said the streets are dangerous in the middle of the night. So why..."

The twin-tailed girl's tone suddenly turned calm as she said this.

The middle-aged man froze after hearing her, staring at the girl in confusion.

"You still dared to talk to me?"

The next moment, the girl turned her head, revealing a face with no features to the middle-aged man.

"AAAAAH!"