“When the Demon disasters grew ever more severe, many Elves who fell into despair chose to flee from our Homeland, escaping into the depths of the Starry Sky.”
“But it was all too late. That Demon Emperor had already cast a great net, unwilling to let even a single prey escape its pursuit. The messages sent back by those who fled were nothing but desperate cries, telling us that the path ahead was shrouded in utter Darkness.”
Walking beneath the bright, sunny sky, a girl with pointed ears softly recounted the story of her hometown.
That was the darkest moment before the destruction of the Elves, a time that, even now when she recalled it, twisted her heart with pain.
“Some Elves didn’t even use ships built for interstellar travel, but instead, boarded machines like this, meant for work. Their speed in space was so slow, it was impossible to ever cross the Starry Sky to find a safe land.”
Yi lifted her head and looked at the massive Machine slowly moving in the distance.
On her sorrowful face, a faint glimmer of Hope appeared.
“I’m glad they can be useful here. At least now, they carry not Despair, but Hope for the future.”
“It’s you I’m more concerned about. A suitable amount of pressure can help people improve, but too much will only break your heartstrings. Shuangxing, you should rest for a day.”
Turning to look at the silent white-haired girl at her side, there was a hint of worry in Yi’s voice.
The girl with golden eyes didn’t look at her friend, but instead gazed into the faraway sky.
After a long time, her cherry lips finally parted, “Someone is waiting for me—my Sister, my Mentor. They’re waiting for me.”
What can change in a month?
For most people, perhaps nothing at all. But for Magical Girls, a single month can bring earth-shattering change.
Luo Shuangxing had changed.
After banishing the two people she loved most with her own hands, she fell into a deep silence.
Yi accompanied her for three days and nights before finally pulling her out of her gloom.
Yi’s method was simple: she told Luo Shuangxing that it wasn’t over, that her two Sisters weren’t dead. They’d only been exiled.
Since you could use Exile Magic once, you can use it a second time.
As long as you perfectly reproduce that Magic, Luo Shuangxing could find the destination of the Exile Magic.
Once she found that destination, she could naturally find her two exiled Sisters.
It was a daunting task, but for Luo Shuangxing, it didn’t seem all that impossible.
After that first Exile was completed, the White Night Hair Clip fully merged with Luo Shuangxing’s body, becoming a part of her transformation.
Her realm also broke through from Bud Level to Initial Bloom Class, showing no sign of stopping and moving rapidly toward Full Bloom Class.
As Luo Shuangxing reignited her fighting spirit to bring her Sisters home, her progress became nothing short of meteoric.
According to the Magic Department’s estimation, all Luo Shuangxing needed to break into Full Bloom Class was an opportunity.
All the Blooming-Rank Magical Girls had now gathered around Luo Shuangxing, ready at any moment to help her advance.
After all, Luo Shuangxing’s ascent was visible to the naked eye.
This was humanity’s next White Night—and even her power had come from White Night!
The Magic Department knew exactly where Luo Shuangxing’s surge of power in this month had come from.
The only way she could leap from Bud Level to almost Full Bloom Class in a single month was with White Night’s magic.
Otherwise, even with a cheat, Luo Shuangxing could never have accumulated so much magic in so little time.
“There’s no rushing this in a day or two. How far have you gotten with learning the Exile Magic Circle?” Yi sighed.
“I’ve learned about half. The Magic Circle Mother used is very complex. Even with everyone’s help, it’s still really hard for me to master it.”
After casting Exile Magic, that spell hadn’t vanished from Luo Shuangxing’s mind, but hid deep within it, resurfacing only when her fighting spirit rekindled.
White Night had never cut off her two daughters’ path back.
She had used her younger daughter’s hand to exile her elder daughter, but left a chance for the younger to bring her Sister home.
Once she mastered Exile Magic, she could go after her Sister!
“But just being able to go isn’t enough—you have to be able to come back, too.”
Yi placed a hand on Luo Shuangxing’s shoulder, reminding her seriously, “There are so many people here who care for you and like you. Don’t abandon one side for the sake of the other.”
“So I can take it that you don’t want me to leave, Yi?”
“If that’ll help you calm down a little, then sure, you can think that. I don’t mind.”
“Unfortunately, I’m already very calm now. I’ll definitely find a way so that no one gets hurt. I’ll show Mother that I’m even stronger than she is!”
“All Elves… Looks like this thing wasn’t made in our world.”
Luo Shuangyue, who had just finished dismantling the Demon Spider, looked at the pile of Elf jigsaw pieces on the ground, feeling her San Value being relentlessly battered.
Even knowing these weren’t people she recognized, even knowing they were just Demon-forged fakes made of demon energy, seeing things like this in front of her, how could her San not drop?
Anyone would lose their San Value!
Especially those heads, each face frozen at the moment of Despair—just looking at them gave Luo Shuangyue the creeps.
She didn’t even dare imagine what horrors these people endured before they died.
“Is there something wrong with these things?” Zheng walked up to one of the heads, frowned, and picked it up to study it closely.
She felt a strange emotion stirring in her heart, but when she tried to grasp it, that feeling darted away like a mischievous little Elf.
“No, nothing’s wrong. I was just thinking about why these things appear here.”
Turning her gaze away from them, Luo Shuangyue had a vague thought: could the Demons in this world really be existences that once died in their world?
Not just people—not only things that died in the human world could return here as Demons.
So what exactly is it that turns into a Demon? Soul?
No, if it was the soul, it couldn’t explain why there were mechanical Demons.
This Demon was the same.
Its core wasn’t the ‘filling’ inside, but rather the ‘shell’ outside.
It was really no different from the Excavator Luo Shuangyue had encountered before, just with a few added gifts inside.
The key to becoming a Demon wasn’t life, but something else.
What could it be? Information?
Luo Shuangyue still had too few clues.
Even stretching her imagination to the limit, she couldn’t come up with a conclusion that convinced herself.
“I can only look around more.” If she wanted more clues, Luo Shuangyue needed to find more Demons and take them apart.
Though…this job was a bit at odds with what Anxing was doing.
But with Anxing’s personality, she probably didn’t care about the fate of Demons that couldn’t communicate.
She just needed to go easy on the humanoid Demons, that was all—pretty simple.
“Let’s go see if there are any other Demons nearby.” Luo Shuangyue’s gaze swept over the pile of parts in front of her, and she beckoned the always-mascot Xiaozi.
“Xiaozi, I’ll leave these to you.”
Wasting food was shameful, but Luo Shuangyue couldn’t bring herself to eat these things.
The best solution was to let Xiaozi, the somewhat clueless little Demon Queen, act as the energy relay.
Xiaozi would eat these things, and Luo Shuangyue would then absorb from Xiaozi. That way, none of the food’s energy was wasted, and Luo Shuangyue
wouldn’t feel any psychological burden.
Humans are just that hypocritical—even knowing that absorbing the magic after it’s passed through someone else was pure self-deception, Luo Shuangyue still felt it was easier than absorbing it directly.
Xiaozi had no objections to Luo Shuangyue’s orders.
Unlike Zheng, who had some faint memories, Xiaozi’s memory was a blank slate.
Without Luo Shuangyue’s restraint, she was just an ordinary Demon.
She just happened to have a human face and a little more intelligence.
She needed a long time to learn before her personality would stabilize and she’d truly become a ‘person.’
So she felt no sympathy.
The things on the ground that Luo Shuangyue couldn’t eat were nothing but regular food to her.
Since Luo Shuangyue had already allowed her to eat, of course she happily began.
Xiaozi ate incredibly fast. Within minutes, she’d swallowed all the Demon fragments on the ground.
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