As expected, this Pioneer who had only been resting for a few days was set to be used as a beast of burden by the Magic Department once more.
Lately, she felt like she had become the head of a subsidiary of the Magic Department, spending every day doing research there.
Jiu Ye, who was guarding the house at the Eternal Night Headquarters, had even called to check if she had been double-crossed and locked up by the Magic Department.
But what could she do? It was the Magic Department’s own fault for being so incompetent that even she could outthink them.
“So that’s why Die looked for me back then for this? I was wondering what he was sneakily doing behind my back.”
“That bastard White Night knew all along? The two of them kept it from me for that long, and as soon as the research was done, they ran off together?”
“You are their research result?!”
One heavy revelation after another left Monice breathless. She only now realized she had been nothing more than a tool. It turned out everything was a plot by that bastard White Night. She had wondered why White Night would invite an exiled Magical Girl like her to Xinghai City for no reason.
She wanted to exploit her brain for free! And in the end, that woman actually pulled it off. Tsk.
“Those two… if they dare come back, I’m going to give them both two firm punches,” Monice said, gritting her teeth and clenching her fists.
Although she hadn’t seemingly lost anything in this scam — she had even founded the organization Eternal Night with White Night’s help — her heart was wounded. Severely wounded at that.
‘So I’m just a part of the roleplay for you two?!’
“Ssss… Haaa.” Taking a deep breath, Monice temporarily steadied her emotions and began to ask what Luo Shuangyue meant by her last sentence.
“You said you were their research result. What is that about?”
Before answering, Luo Shuangyue gave her sister a hesitant look.
She felt that what she was about to say might make Luo Shuangxing a little unhappy.
But Luo Shuangxing gave Luo Shuangyue a look that said she didn’t mind.
She likely guessed what Luo Shuangyue was going to say.
“Well, Shuangxing and I are actually artificial humans,” Luo Shuangyue said, pointing at herself and then her sister.
“Mhm.” Monice nodded. This result didn’t surprise her.
The Magic Department’s technology for two women to have children was still under research.
Given White Night’s personality, if she had mastered such technology, she would have handed it over to the Magic Department long ago to benefit everyone.
Therefore, White Night must have used some illicit means to give birth to two children.
“They placed the hope of the future on Shuangxing and me, stuffing us with all the best things…” Luo Shuangyue didn’t know much about the specifics of her birth.
The Holy Sovereign and White Night had never discussed those details at length.
She only knew she was definitely born from her mother, but she knew little of what happened before her birth. “As for me, my mission was to go to the other world to save my dad. Shuangxing’s mission is to take over Mom’s position and continue guarding that rift once she’s exhausted.”
This was why Luo Shuangyue underwent a mutation just as she was about to reach the Full Bloom Class. Only then would she have a proper reason to go to another world.
One could say all of this was within White Night’s plan — every single step.
Of course, Luo Shuangyue’s failure to complete her advancement was an accident, as was the failure to find the Demon Holy Sovereign in time.
But how could everything possibly go without a single hitch? White Night was, after all, only someone favored by the world — and only by one world.
In the eyes of the other world, she was a calamity.
The process didn’t matter as long as the result was right.
“Artificial humans, huh? That woman is quite impressive…” After hearing the explanation, Monice didn’t have many thoughts.
As a Magical Girl who dabbled in human modification, she had no grounds to criticize White Night.
Furthermore, White Night’s actions weren’t that big of a deal in a certain sense.
She had simply tampered slightly with the reproductive cells taken from her own body so that her children could grow up according to her wishes.
Aside from the high technical difficulty, it was fundamentally no different from the technology the Magic Department was currently researching.
Luo Shuangxing didn’t have any special feelings about it either.
She could even accept the fact that her dad was actually her mom, so the fact that she wasn’t born naturally was nothing.
Would her mother stop being her mother just because of a small detail like that? Would her sister stop being her sister? She was just a very ordinary girl now, just with a slightly different way of being born. It wasn’t a major issue.
“Then according to what you’re saying, shouldn’t White Night just have another child who can solve the problem of the world’s destruction?”
“My Boss, my mom isn’t a deity. She can’t do something like that,” Luo Shuangyue said, spreading her hands helplessly.
To put it bluntly, the tasks on her and Luo Shuangxing’s shoulders weren’t that heavy.
White Night only had them do those things because she was busy guarding the spatial rift and couldn’t leave.
If she could truly go to the other world, Luo Shuangyue wouldn’t have had to go through such life-and-death hardships.
White Night could have settled the issues there with ease. But she couldn’t go, so she needed Luo Shuangyue to go in her stead.
As for Shuangxing… White Night probably just wanted to raise a cute daughter. After all, Shuangxing’s task was quite… simple. She only needed to do certain things at the right time based on White Night’s guidance.
White Night had many ways to achieve similar results, but in the end, she chose to have another daughter. These things were within White Night’s capabilities, but what Monice suggested was different. Making two worlds declare a truce was something White Night couldn’t even do herself. How could she pass such an impossible mission to her own child?
“Doesn’t she want to try struggling a bit? She might just succeed.”
“Having children is also an exhausting task, and my mom doesn’t have much time left,” Luo Shuangyue shook her head. It took time for a child to grow up, and her mom couldn’t exactly pop out ten or twenty babies a 1 year. Was it possible to pull a super-rare from a single pull once a 1 year? It was very difficult. “Anyway, that’s the gist of it. Boss, try to think if there’s any way to mediate the fight,” Luo Shuangyue sighed.
“You’ve really given me a difficult problem… White Night said there’s only 1 month left. Is it really only 1 month?”
“You could say yes, but you could also say no. 1 month is the time Mom can hold out. Her power will weaken after 1 month to the point where she can’t stop those monsters, and they will rush out to destroy us.”
“Then can we gain more time by killing those monsters?”
“Theoretically, yes, but their numbers are simply too vast. If they all descended on our mother star, the Magical Girls might be fine, but ordinary people would certainly suffer heavy casualties — they might even be wiped out entirely.”
In the face of the encroaching monster army, the Magical Girls could resist, and the Full Bloom-Class Magical Girls could stall those Demon Emperors, but that was all.
It would be difficult enough just to maintain a stalemate. Protecting ordinary people in such a battle was almost impossible.
Therefore, once White Night’s defensive line fell and a massive number of monsters descended, human society would surely suffer a blow no less devastating than the first Magical Beast Disaster.
“And this is only a stopgap measure after all. If the root of the problem isn’t solved, we will never see hope for our future.”
Stalling? Luo Shuangyue didn’t think that was a good solution.
With a monster army of that scale, even if every one of the Magic Department Mentors sacrificed themselves to block them, how long could they stall monsters that could be resurrected in that wasteland after death?
Magical Girls would die, and once they were dead, they were gone for good.
But these monsters were different.
Furthermore, once a large number of Full Bloom-Class Magical Girls died, the other world would suffer.
The scales would completely lose their balance, and life in both worlds would perish together.
Thus, while there seemed to be many paths before Luo Shuangyue, there was only one true road.
That was to make the two fighting World Consciouses stop within this short period and look at the children who were suffering because of their celestial conflict.
‘Stop fighting. The life forms of our two worlds can coexist peacefully and even have children together. Can’t you two just give it a rest?’
“Stalling for time doesn’t do much. Heavy casualties on our side will immediately cause the current, precarious balance to break,” Luo Shuangyue explained to Monice, indicating they had no other choice.
“Then… what is the prerequisite for communicating with the World Consciousness?”
After hearing Luo Shuangyue’s words, Monice also realized her previous thoughts were indeed naive.
This dangerous balance that couldn’t tolerate the slightest disturbance was truly giving her a headache.
“Counting on her to take the initiative to talk to us is impossible. Even the call of a biological daughter like White Night couldn’t calm the World Consciousness down. It’s even less likely that she would listen to the words of us non-biological ones.”
That was the crux of the problem. How could they make the consciousnesses of the two worlds obediently stop?
“Actually, as long as they can calm down for a moment and hear the voices of the living beings of the two worlds, it’s not impossible to get them to stop fighting,” Luo Shuangyue repeated her mother’s words.
The current situation was that Luo Shuangyue and the others had to mediate the fight. If they could stop it, everything would no longer be a problem.
“Hmm… if talking nicely doesn’t work, what if we use slightly more violent means?” Monice shifted her way of thinking.
Mediating a fight could be done in two ways: one through reasoning, and the other through force.
Now that the path of reasoning was blocked, they could try the physical route.
“Then the strength required would probably have to be more than my mom and dad’s combined…”