The Magic Boy Has Nothing to Fear

Su Bai's brain froze for a full three seconds.

Then he lowered his head in shock.

His gaze traveled down the length of that tall, graceful body. The Purple-Gold Lace Magic Outfit felt astonishingly real as it outlined perfect curves, while tight black stockings hugged her slender thighs. Finally, his eyes reached... a flatness so despair-inducing it was almost cruel.

With trembling hands, he touched the cold, smooth metal armor covering his body, then tentatively reached downward.

The most crucial part of being a boy had been optimized away.

Completely optimized away.

"I..."

Su Bai opened his mouth, and that cool, mature woman's voice rang out again, raising goosebumps all over his own skin.

One second ago, he had been a rough college student worrying over his student loans. The next, he had become this... this stunning, aloof beauty whose very gender had changed.

The intense sense of dislocation and shock made his head spin.

He instinctively tried to throw away the heavy Dark Gold Giant Scythe in his hand. The thing stood taller than his entire current body, and just looking at it made his wrist ache.

Yet when he released his grip, the heavy weapon—which looked to weigh at least a hundred pounds—floated weightlessly above his palm instead of falling. It felt as light as a plastic rod.

It completely defied the laws of physics.

Su Bai tried to take a step forward, but the expected stumble from walking in high heels never came.

His body abruptly broke free of gravity's restraints, and he floated upward uncontrollably. With a soft thud, the back of his head gently struck the ceiling.

Purple-gold motes of magical light drifted around him like starlight, illuminating the rental bedroom, which was less than ten square meters, like a divine realm.

Suspended in midair, he instinctively clenched his fist. A surging power that completely defied the law of conservation of energy flowed through his body.

The power was crude and unreasonable, yet it obeyed every one of his thoughts with perfect docility.

As a student at Tianqiong University, which was affiliated with the Monster Hunting Bureau, he knew exactly what a [Germination Stage] monster hunter was capable of, according to the school textbooks.

They could not hover in the air, nor could they release these glowing particles of light.

Was this what a Magical Girl was?

Before he could study it carefully, he lost control of his balance while hovering, and the heel of his shoe lightly struck the wardrobe beside him.

"Click."

It was an extremely soft, crisp sound.

"Who..."

From the room next door came Su Xiaoxiao's muffled mutter as she suddenly turned over.

"Magical Girl... hee-hee... come eat barbecue..."

Su Bai's heart jolted!

Hadn't she said she was going to visit her best friend? Why was she still at home sleeping?!

That lying Hajimei!

Su Bai desperately suppressed the uncontrollable magical effects surrounding him, which continued to glow without pause.

Like an assassin caught red-handed while committing a burglary, he held his breath and did not dare let even a single mote escape.

Fortunately, steady, even breathing soon came from next door. It seemed she had merely been sleep-talking.

Only then did Su Bai slowly descend from the air to the floor.

As both feet touched the worn floorboards, the return of that sense of security finally allowed the suffocating shame he had been slow to feel to completely engulf him.

He looked at the black-stocking magic outfit he was wearing, its use of fabric so scandalously minimal it was almost outrageous. The purple-gold lace trim was delicate yet eye-catching, while the cutouts at his chest and waist practically challenged the moral limits of humanity.

If he went outside dressed like this...

Su Bai shuddered. He dared not imagine it.

No, he had to transform back immediately!

But that damned "Transformation Guide" only explained how to transform. It did not say a word about how to undo it!

Just as he was anxiously pacing in circles, the phone on the desk suddenly lit up, accompanied by a high-frequency silent vibration.

Su Bai had no choice but to bend awkwardly at the waist and lean over to look.

A full-screen red emergency alert from the Monster Hunter Mutual Aid App had appeared.

[Emergency Bulletin! F-rank mutation at the West District Abandoned Factory! Official investigation confirms that the Blood Curse Species Monster, initially assessed as F-rank, has actually risen to Tier 2!]

Each rank was divided into Tiers 1–9, with Tier 9 being the strongest. Although they were both F-rank, a Tier 2 Blood Curse Species far surpassed a Tier 1 one in both vitality and destructive power. It was already beyond what an inexperienced rookie like him, who had not yet graduated, could handle alone.

Immediately afterward, a bounty update appeared at the bottom of the screen.

[The Monster Hunting Bureau's frontline squad has been trapped. An emergency request for assistance is now open to all verified hunters nationwide! Anyone who kills or assists in killing the target will receive double the bounty—100,000 Federal Coins!]

100,000.

Su Bai stared fixedly at the glaring number on the screen and the long string of zeroes behind it.

His thoughts of backing out because of his extreme embarrassment came to an immediate halt.

He turned his head toward the full-length mirror beside the wardrobe.

The woman in the mirror had purple-gold hair reaching her waist, a graceful figure, and features so exquisite she looked unreal. Her bearing was as cold as a frosty moon. Yet in this revealing outfit, she would unquestionably become the focal point of any convention, where people would crowd around to photograph her to death.

Walking down the street, he would suffer instant social death.

"No, if I go out to hunt monsters looking like this, what if some shameless influencer films me and uploads it to the internet? My dignity as a man, Su Bai, would be buried forever..."

He furrowed his brow tightly and fell into a brutal internal battle between dignity and money.

A hundred thousand...

That could cover two months of student-loan payments. He could also buy Xiaoxiao the new game console she had been talking about for ages, and the rest would last until next month's living allowance arrived...

But his dignity...

At that moment, a new text-message notification popped up at the top of the phone at the worst possible time.

"Dear Mr. Su, your remaining student-loan payment for this month is 5,888.00 yuan. Please complete payment by the 25th of this month to avoid affecting your personal credit rating..."

He had not even finished reading the message.

The coffin lid called "dignity" was kicked open by the overwhelming fury of a poor working man.

"Fine, I'm doing it!"

Su Bai gripped the enormous Dark Gold Giant Scythe tightly. His originally cool, distant gaze instantly became as cold and resolute as a miser who had spotted a fat sheep.

He stared at the extravagantly beautiful—and extravagantly embarrassing—mature-woman form in the mirror. The corners of his lips curled into a greedy, money-grubbing smile utterly at odds with that ice-cold beauty's face.

"It's only a hundred thousand in extra cash. What does this Magical Girl... Magic Boy have to fear?"

The night was as dark as ink.

The West District of Xinghai City. An abandoned factory.

Flames soared into the sky, and explosions rang out without pause. Amid the rubble, several official Monster Hunting Bureau agents in black standard-issue combat uniforms had been thrown heavily onto the ground.

They were all injured, gasping for breath, their faces filled with despair.

Before them, a Monster as massive as a heavy truck, its entire body covered in writhing crimson tentacles, advanced step by heavy step.

A Tier 2 F-rank Blood Curse Species.

Every breath it exhaled sprayed out intensely corrosive, filthy darkness, melting pits into the concrete beneath it with a sizzling sound.

"Captain... we can't hold out... My Abyssal Energy Gun is out of power..." a young agent said shakily. A tentacle had torn open his arm, leaving a deep wound that exposed the bone.

The middle-aged man called captain gritted his teeth and used half of a broken spirit-energy blade to support himself. He roared, "Retreat! Call headquarters for reinforcements! This is beyond what we can handle!"

"It's too late..."

The enormous shadow of the Blood Curse Species had completely engulfed them. Dozens of crimson tentacles shot forward like arrows loosed from a bow, slicing through the air as they stabbed toward the agents from every direction.

It was over.

All the agents closed their eyes at that moment, preparing to meet death.

Just as the defensive line completely collapsed,

the clouds high above were violently torn apart by a force that was utterly brutal and unreasonable.

A dazzling purple-gold meteor, bright enough to blind, carried terrifying pressure beyond the power of words as it crashed toward the center of the battlefield!