“Tell her to get lost.”
Su Mu naturally didn’t have a good expression.
What was that about refusing a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit?
Had they even asked the B-rank Magical Girl Motes standing right next to her?
Upon hearing this, the woman’s expression instantly darkened, and her gaze became terrifyingly heavy.
After a moment of silence, she suddenly broke into a smile.
“If that is your answer… then please, suit yourself. However, my master also told me to give you a message — you cannot stay by their side forever.”
“I say I can, so I can. Blehh!”
Su Mu boastfully linked arms with Motes.
The latter sighed helplessly, but she did not resist the gesture.
“The road ahead is long. Take care, young lady.”
“Pah, do you think I’ll be scared just because you’re acting all profound? I’m lying to you — you’re talking so formally that I wasn’t even listening! By the way, a word of advice: you shouldn’t wear such revealing clothes next time. After all, you don’t seem to have the assets to back them up…”
Su Mu’s eyes curved like crescent moons.
She looked mockingly from top to bottom at the shallow curves the woman had been trying so hard to push out and display.
A punchable grin quirked at the corner of her mouth, causing several veins to pop on the forehead of the woman who had been trying to maintain her surface-level decorum.
Before she could finish, Motes had already dragged Su Mu away by the arm.
But as she watched Su Mu’s retreating figure and that provocative expression, the woman couldn’t help but clench her fists.
‘If you endure for a moment, the sea and sky remain calm; if you take a step back, the more you think about it, the angrier you get!’
“Just you wait. Daring to defy the Master…”
Her confidence didn’t come from thin air.
In fact, there were many powerful individuals who kept a low profile in the Surface World but caused storms in the Dream World.
Among them was the hidden master of Yanyu Tower, a B-rank Witch.
If her name were mentioned, Su Mu would surely say, “Oh~ never heard of her.”
But if her real name were brought up, Su Mu might actually have a moment of realization and perhaps even agree to meet.
However, that Witch did not want to hear any more offensive words jumping out of this pink-haired brat’s mouth, so she simply let her go.
***
“Hey, Senior Motes, why were we in such a hurry to leave?”
“We don’t know her background. It’s better not to start a fight recklessly. It wouldn’t be good if we caused trouble for Little Hui,” Motes replied calmly.
Hearing this, Su Mu’s eyes darted around.
‘Doesn’t that mean I should have fought even more?’
“Why would it cause trouble for her? Is she someone very famous?”
It was a very ordinary question, but after Motes heard it, a ripple appeared in her eyes, and she started laughing for some reason.
Although it was only a light chuckle, such pure laughter was very rare for her.
Her quiet, smiling face was exceptionally charming.
“Hey, don’t just laugh. Give me some lines…” Motes’s laugh made Su Mu even more curious, as if a cat were scratching at her heart.
“You can try to guess.” Motes stopped laughing, but her narrowed, pale pink eyes still held a hint of amusement.
Since the other party’s hint was so obvious, Su Mu naturally already had an answer in her heart.
“Uh, infamous?”
Hearing Su Mu’s description, Motes lightly tapped her on the head and scolded with a slight pout, “Mind your tongue. Though, if you want to put it that way, you’re not wrong. Among those who consider themselves ‘transcendent,’ her reputation is quite terrible… but that actually means it’s good. Do you understand?”
“Mhm, mhm, my mistake.” Su Mu rubbed the spot where she had been tapped.
While her mouth agreed, she couldn’t help but grumble in her heart.
‘Yikes, is that girl a “good girl” in Motes’ eyes? Back then, I just wrote a little… cough, cough, and I got a thorough thrashing. Given her personality, that shouldn’t be right…’
“By the way, using the word ‘infamous’ isn’t quite accurate. A more fitting description would be — world-renowned.”
The moment she said those words, the two of them crossed an invisible barrier.
Su Mu felt a blur before her eyes, and a more vast, open area appeared in front of them.
Cold rain fell from the colorless sky.
Su Mu playfully stuck out her tongue to taste it.
It was salty, causing her to spit several times in succession.
“Heh, those are the tears of a deceased Witch.”
Su Mu stuck her tongue out and didn’t say a word.
She looked around.
Besides the increasingly dense flow of people, the most noteworthy thing was the incredibly tall, gilded statue standing in the center of the square.
This was inside the Dream World, so there was no way to take out a tape measure or anything to measure the height of that thing, but the concept it gave off was an “immense presence.”
It was impossible to ignore.
Su Mu’s gaze climbed up the statue, and as she saw those familiar, smooth body curves, an uneasy feeling arose in her heart.
“I say, could this be…”
“Yes, it’s Tang Nai. She is the Savior from the most severe Great Disaster since the birth of Magic Power — and also the most recent one. She did something that was good for everyone but benefited only her in no way — she killed her father.”
At this moment, Su Mu could also clearly see the statue’s face.
It was identical to Tang Nai herself, but those exquisite features had a similar effect to Su Mu’s current appearance, forcibly instilling the concept of “beauty” into the audience.
“Ah, it seems her father really was a man burdened with heavy sins…”
Su Mu subconsciously wanted to act up again, but seeing Motes’s solemn expression, she swallowed the second half of her sentence.
‘I’ve been a bit too aggressive online lately and brought my speaking habits back offline. No, no, this won’t do.’
She wanted to say that being Tang Nai’s father was enough of a crime to convict him.
“The one who started that Great Disaster was her father, a guy known as the Demon King. He was the original Familiar of a certain Witch, but he was the only one who awakened a self-awareness. After that Great Witch completely perished, he inherited all of her power and finally became so strong that no one could suppress him. At that time, all the Magical Girls, including me and your mother, almost died at his hands.”
“Huh?” Since it involved Su Ya, Su Mu was no longer in the mood to joke.
“If he had actually won, it would have been a good thing for Tang Nai. He started the disaster with the intention of conquering the world; in a sense, he was a very pure over-ambitious man. If he had succeeded, the current world would be under a dictatorship, and Tang Nai would have naturally inherited endless wealth and power as the eldest daughter… In the end, I don’t really understand how Tang Nai became a Magical Girl under those circumstances. Perhaps it was a miracle.”
When mentioning Tang Nai, Motes became more talkative.
She was in the same class as Tang Nai, both of them juniors to Su Ya.
During the Great Disaster, their strength had indeed reached B-rank, but they were actually still far from the previous generation of Magical Girls.
But the Demon King was just that strong.
Whether it was a Strange Person or a Magical Girl, he killed them all if they stood in his way, overwhelming the entire world by himself.
“Senior Su Ya probably never mentioned these things to you. I can guess why — she didn’t want you to be dragged into this. But since things have come to this, let’s keep talking as we walk.”