The orange cat and the red little pony exchanged a glance, reaching a consensus without words—notify their respective magical girls!
The orange cat turned into a golden light, whooshing back to Gu Qingchuan’s ear, whispering urgently: “Sister Gu! There’s a monster! In the northwest direction, not far away!”
Almost at the same time, the red little pony turned into a crimson stream of light, breaking through the corridor window, speeding toward the school gate—Chi Zaozao and Li Guang had just run out of the teaching building not far.
“Zaozao! Xiao Guang! Situation! Northwest park, a monster has been born! Energy reaction… a bit strange, not like an ordinary small monster!”
The little pony’s voice rang directly in their minds.
The two girls who were discussing whether to buy ice cream first or go straight home suddenly stopped in their tracks.
“A monster?”
Chi Zaozao’s eyes lit up, instantly switching from vacation mode to battle mode, but then her face fell.
“Ah—why now! My vacation just started!”
Li Guang was much calmer; she quickly scanned the surroundings.
School had been out for a while, and the campus was mostly empty of students and teachers, appearing vast and quiet.
“Where’s the location? Specifically where?”
“Follow me! It’s close, just in the street park northwest of the school!” The red little pony turned direction.
“Go!”
Li Guang decided immediately, pulling the still-wanting-to-wail Chi Zaozao and turning back to run toward the teaching building, “To the changing room or find an empty classroom to transform!”
“Wait, Xiao Guang! Over there—” The panda plush pointed toward the teaching building where the orange cat and Gu Qingchuan were.
“There are still others who haven’t left…
“No, I mean over there there’s—”
“No time for that, handle the monster first!”
Li Guang spoke rapidly, not giving her contracted beast a chance to interrupt.
She knew transforming rashly risked exposure, but the monster wouldn’t wait.
The two girls and two beasts rushed back to the nearest teaching building, found an empty music classroom, and locked the door.
“Sparkle✨! Crimson Star!”
“Sparkle✨! Azure Star!”
Skipping the full chant that made Chi Zaozao extremely embarrassed, two lights flashed, and school uniforms were replaced by gorgeous battle skirts.
“Let’s go!”
Magical Girl Crimson and Sea Blue pushed open the music classroom door, about to rush out—
“Eh?!”
“Ah!”
“Uh…”
At the door, wearing a yellow battle skirt, holding a magic wand, with a face still showing some pallor and confusion, Magical Girl Gold was being pushed by the orange cat, seemingly having just completed her transformation and preparing to set off.
The three parties collided in the empty corridor.
The air suddenly went quiet.
Six eyes (plus three contracted beasts making twelve) stared at each other, the scene extremely awkward for a moment.
Crimson’s inner thoughts: Wow! Jackpot! Gold! The real person is cuter up close! But this complexion… didn’t sleep well last night?
Speaking of which, the three of us standing like this looks like a girl group’s promotional photo… No! It’s battle time now! Focus! Focus!
Sea Blue’s inner thoughts: It’s her from that day… She looks in bad shape, can she really fight?
But since she transformed, it means she’s resolved.
Now’s not the time for pleasantries, need to establish command quickly… Hm, I have the most experience, should lead. But will she think I’m too overbearing?
Gold’s inner thoughts: It’s them… the two Teacher mentioned.
Me like this… will I hold them back?
They look so reliable. I… I need to pull myself together.
At least, I can’t run away.
Finally, it was Sea Blue who broke the silence first, her tone steady and quick, with an unquestionable decisiveness: “Hello, newbie, we’re Crimson and Sea Blue. Emergency situation, monster appeared in the northwest street park, abnormal energy reaction. We need to hurry over. Can you fight?”
Gold took a deep breath, gripped her wand tightly, nodded forcefully, her voice light but firm: “I can. I’ll go with you.”
“Good!”
Sea Blue nodded, “Crimson, you’re fast, go to the park airspace first to scout, sync the situation via contracted beast channel. Gold, you and I approach from the ground, maintain triangular formation, cover each other. Contracted beasts handle perimeter alert and possible civilians. Any questions?”
“No problem!”
Crimson couldn’t wait, a red light flashed on her body, and she disappeared instantly.
“I’ll go ahead!”
Her figure shot out from the corridor window like an arrow, pulling a red trail like a meteor in the air.
“Let’s go too.”
Sea Blue signaled to Gold, and the two lightly leaped out the window, landing on the green space behind the teaching building, then dashing toward the northwest.
The azure and golden figures flickered between tree-lined paths and rooftops, so fast that they left only blurry colored lights in ordinary eyes.
The orange cat and red little pony flew above their sides, acting as high-altitude eyes.
“Found it!”
The red little pony’s voice rang in the three’s minds through the contracted beast network.
“In the park center fountain square! The monster has completed transformation… appearance is… uh, a pile of moving, huge… colorful modeling clay? No, more like gummy? Anyway, it looks sticky, a big lump! It’s… sticking park benches and trash cans to itself?!”
“A gummy monster? Sticking things? What the heck?”
Sea Blue frowned slightly.
“Don’t approach rashly. Crimson, don’t land, continue high-altitude observation, watch for remote attack means.”
“Roger~”
Crimson’s voice carried a bit of excitement as she circled above the park.
“It’s rolling around! Eww~ stuck full of leaves and trash, so gross! Doesn’t seem to have obvious attack organs…”
The three magical girls soon arrived at the park edge.
Since it was a weekday evening, there weren’t many people in the park, and the few tourists and exercisers had already been scared away by the gradually expanding, emitting a mix of sweet and rotten smell, huge colorful “gummy”.
As Crimson described, the monster was three to four meters tall, shaped like a constantly wriggling, shape-changing giant colorful gummy aggregate, with an unnaturally vibrant pink, bright blue, and fluorescent green surface.
It was slowly rolling across the square, and wherever it passed, benches, trash cans, even small decorative sculptures were stuck, wrapped by its viscous body, then seemingly melted to become part of its volume, colors becoming murky.
“It’s… growing by eating things?”
Sea Blue analyzed, “Gold, use your magic bullet for remote probe, attack an edge without swallowed objects.”
“Okay!”
Gold raised her wand, steadied her mind, and a small but condensed golden light bullet shot out, precisely hitting a pink pure area on the monster’s side.
Puchi!
The light bullet sank in, like a stone into a mire, only rippling a bit, then disappearing.
The hit area slightly dented, then quickly restored, except the color seemed brighter, as if nothing happened.
“Magic attack… insulated?!”
Gold was shocked, her expression turning strange.
The last time a magic attack had no effect left a deep impression on her.
“Sister Gu, don’t be afraid.”
The orange cat’s voice rang in the girl’s mind, with a soothing tone.
“It’s ‘assimilation’. Sister Gu, your magic was ‘eaten’ by it, becoming part of its energy. This thing… may have special affinity and conversion ability for magic energy.”
The panda plush and red little pony also analyzed the monster’s characteristics and informed their hosts.
“Magic resistance? Or magic food?” Crimson clicked her tongue in the air, “So our attacks would feed it instead?”
“Try a physical attack.”
Sea Blue made the decision at once. Her hands curled slightly as azure magic gathered between her palms, condensing into two flowing, water-light short swords.
“Crimson, coordinate with me! Gold, provide cover and watch for any possible changes!”
Before the words fell, Sea Blue’s figure shot out like an arrow, the dual swords drawing two intersecting water-blue arcs, slashing at the monster’s bottom support—where a bench was stuck, structure perhaps relatively unstable.
At the same time, Crimson in the air shouted delicately, condensing a hot crimson fireball in her hand, but not smashing at the monster body, instead arcing a parabola over its head, bombarding the ground behind!
Boom!
The fireball exploded, the blast and flames forcing the monster’s wriggling to pause.
Now! Sea Blue’s dual swords slashed down fiercely!
Clang—!
The expected feel of cutting soft object didn’t come; instead, like chopping extremely tough rubber!
The swords only cut less than five centimeters before stuck dead, the colorful gummy substance instantly becoming hard as iron, and rapidly spreading up the blades, trying to engulf Sea Blue’s arms too!
“Bad!”
Sea Blue leaped back fiercely, decisively discarding the swords.
And the slashed area, after swallowing the swords, quickly softened, color slightly blue-tinged, as if digesting part of Sea Blue’s water attribute magic.
“Really troublesome…”
Sea Blue stared intently at the monster, thoughtful in her heart.
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