Magical Girl's Judgment

Huang Xing walked ahead, her footsteps light.

Huali followed behind her, doing his best not to make any unnecessary noise.

He could tell as well that the strange man's voice was coming from somewhere not far ahead.

The alley led to a drainage ditch outside the wall of a private residence, a place where no one would normally come. Up ahead, they could see a man dragging a huge cloth sack along, panting heavily as he walked.

Huali had not seen many Fierce Beasts. Most of the Fierce Beasts in textbooks had bizarre appearances and did not usually maintain human form.

But the man ahead was shaped no differently from an ordinary person.

Could he be another Witch? A Witch disguised as a man, perhaps?

Huali was puzzled, but the two senior Magical Girls remained calm, so he simply continued following behind Huang Xing.

Huang Xing's steps were light, but she moved quickly. Her frequently trained body possessed impressive stamina even without transforming.

Huang Xing had no intention of observing any longer, and her footsteps drew closer and closer to the man.

"Crunch!"

Huang Xing suddenly stepped on an empty can.

Hearing the sound, the man turned around.

At that instant, Huali saw an abnormal red gleam in the man's eyes.

His face was twisted, and the corners of his slightly split mouth seemed to be curled in wild delight. Even his heavy panting was mixed with breaths of uncontrollable pleasure.

And at the very moment the man turned around, Huang Xing's already-raised leg flipped up her short yellow skirt and struck his face with perfect precision.

The man, around six feet tall and somewhat muscular, was kicked in the face by Huang Xing and staggered back two steps, his head nearly slamming into the nearby wall.

The man was clearly enraged. He released the sack in his hand and opened his mouth to say something, but Huang Xing stepped forward with her front foot after the kick, spun her back leg around, and struck his face again.

"Urgh!!"

This time, the man's head hit the wall full-on. With a loud "thud," he let out a pained howl.

Huali hurried after her, raised his foot, and kicked the man on the ground twice as well. Then he asked:

"Senior Huang Xing! Do you need help?"

"Be careful. He may have a weapon on him." Huang Xing pulled him slightly farther back.

"Shouldn't we transform?"

"There's no need to transform to deal with someone like this."

No need to transform?

Huali froze for a moment.

This was the first time he had heard of Magical Girls using their physical bodies to deal with a Fierce Beast. The red light in that man's eyes was terrifying. Just meeting his gaze for that instant had sent a slight chill through Huali's body.

There was definitely something wrong with this man.

The man sprawled on the ground had been stunned by the sudden kicks. He slowly climbed to his feet, his face already covered in blood.

His eyes were even redder now. "Who are you? What do you want?"

The red gleam in those eyes gave Huali a strange sense of familiarity.

Huali paused slightly, only to see the man bare his teeth. "You dare bully me too? You girls dare lay a hand on me?"

The man's words were slurred. The kicks had broken his teeth, and as he spoke, saliva and blood sprayed from his mouth.

Huali struggled to make out what he was saying, but Huang Xing suddenly pulled him a step backward.

Only then did Huali notice that, at some point, a silver-glinting dagger had appeared in the man's hand, which he swung at him and Huang Xing.

Huali stumbled as he was pulled back. Huang Xing leaped backward, then raised her leg high again and landed another precise kick beneath the man's chin.

"Awooo!!!!" The man staggered back several steps from the kick, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and growled, "I have no grudge against you, but you look down on me too? You little girls think I'm worthless too, don't you? Damn it! You all deserve to die! None of you treat me like a person! I can't go on living anyway, so I'll make you die with me!"

"Careful, he's gone mad," Huang Xing said. "Transform if anything feels wrong. At least if you're injured while transformed, you won't die."

"You aren't transforming?"

"There's no need to transform to deal with an ordinary person. Just watch from the side." Huang Xing smiled.

Meanwhile, Green Yi had taken advantage of the fight to reach the cloth sack the man had been dragging and untie it.

Inside the sack was the corpse of a pale woman. Her wide-open eyes had already clouded over, and her body was covered in knife wounds that had been cut open. Her blood had clearly drained away long ago; the deep wounds were no longer bleeding.

After seeing the corpse, Green Yi stood up and took a few steps back.

The instant Huali saw the corpse, he felt as though his heart had leaped into his throat, his eyes widening.

A corpse!!

A real, fresh corpse!!!

The pungent smell of blood spread from the cloth sack.

He had seen countless murder cases on television, but seeing one at the scene was far more shocking and nauseating.

Still, neither senior Magical Girl showed any unusual reaction. As a man, he naturally could not embarrass himself too badly.

He merely covered his mouth on instinct.

Having always lived a pampered life at home, he had rarely even participated in fights from such close range, much less seen a dead person.

The man, whose face had already been kicked bloody, charged at Huang Xing while brandishing his knife.

Huang Xing spun and kicked again, knocking him to the ground.

"Big sis is so cool!" Green Yi clapped from the side.

Huang Xing frowned. "Call the police already."

Seeing that the man on the ground seemed to have been kicked unconscious, Huali hurriedly asked, "Is he a Fierce Beast?"

"Mm, he should be the culprit," Huang Xing said.

"No, he's a murderer, not a Fierce Beast," Green Yi added.

Huang Xing glanced at Green Yi, walked over to the man, and nudged his face with her foot.

"Not a Fierce Beast? Then what was that chill just now... and the red light in his eyes?"

"It was Evil Intent." Huang Xing looked around as she spoke. "He isn't a Fierce Beast himself, but he must have been influenced by a Fierce Beast or a Witch and gone mad."

"Evil Intent?"

"You must have read about it in the textbooks, right? We Magical Girls can sense Evil Intent. Not bad, pinkie. Did you sense the Evil Intent he was giving off?

"I didn't expect you to master sensing Evil Intent on your first patrol. If it were a Fierce Beast, your feeling would be stronger—many times stronger." Green Yi smiled.

Huali hesitated slightly.

The textbooks had indeed said that Magical Girls, who represented love and justice, possessed the ability to sense dark evil. Ordinary people tainted by the aura of dark evil would be unable to restrain the Evil Intent in their hearts and would release the evil within them.

Because only Magical Girls possessed such an ability and ordinary people could not sense it, he had not paid much attention to those words when he first heard them.

So this was what they called Evil Intent?...

Influenced by Evil Intent, this man had killed that woman?

The red light in his pupils...

It seemed no different from the red light Huali had seen in Fu You's eyes before.

Yet when he had seen that red light in Fu You's eyes, he had not felt any discomfort at all.

He had only thought his senior looked cool.

His senior really was special, wasn't he?

"If someone influenced by Evil Intent has no sinful thoughts in their heart, at most they'll become irritable and quick-tempered. He killed someone, so he must have already wanted to kill," Huang Xing explained. "So when you encounter someone like this, don't show mercy."

Green Yi smiled. "The enemies of Magical Girls aren't just Fierce Beasts and Witches. These evil villains are our enemies too! Our goal is to bring love and peace!"

"Mm!"

In the name of love and justice, judge all evil!

That was what Magical Girls were.