“Gugu! Gugu! Gaga! Gaga!” (Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!)
The original Omega beside him imitated his superior and let out a rather strange laugh.
Li Chi: “……”
I miscalculated, Li Chi thought.
Even after his modifications, the basic monster’s voice was still that bizarre squawking sound that had inexplicably become popular online—the one that sounded like some kind of penguin noise.
He had even made some small adjustments to the creature’s vocal cords. Could it be… that all monsters who evolved without absorbing magic crystal cores would make these kinds of sounds?
Li Chi placed his hand on the original Omega’s throat. Under the monster’s puzzled gaze, he kept it there for a long moment before finally lowering it.
“How do you feel now?”
Under Li Chi’s expectant gaze, the original Omega spoke.
“Gugu gaga guga!” (I feel so strong now! Extremely strong! Super super strong!)
Li Chi: “……”
Great. It seemed his modifications to the vocal cords had zero effect.
What exactly was going on here?
What he didn’t know was that the sounds these basic monsters made were actually governed by something akin to a rule or law of this world.
As long as they did not evolve by absorbing magic crystal cores, no matter how much they strengthened their bodies through effort, no matter how much their intelligence increased or how their appearance changed, they would only ever make these strange cries.
Not willing to give up, Li Chi placed his hand on the original Omega’s throat once more.
After fiddling with it for a while, he signaled for the monster to try speaking again.
“Gugu gaga!”
(Chief, I feel so strong now! So powerful! But it feels a bit different from when I turned into a cat last time? Still, I think I’m even stronger than I was back then!)
The original Omega clearly hadn’t understood what Li Chi meant. He thought his chief simply wanted to hear how he felt in his new form again.
The “cat” transformation the monster mentioned was most likely referring to the time it had absorbed the magic crystal core from Lina and turned into a tiger-like creature.
Li Chi: “……”
Fine. Although he had failed to make the monster capable of normal speech, that was only a secondary goal.
The main objective was to make this basic monster significantly stronger, and that had been achieved.
“Listen to my plan first.”
Li Chi motioned for the original Omega to lean its ear closer, then explained the entire mission he was entrusting to it.
Essentially, while Li Chi already had relatively deep interactions with the magical girls connected to his little sister, he had no connection at all with the other magical girls in the city.
He needed a way to interact with them, but not as the Dark Organization executive Dark Fang. Instead, he wanted to approach them as Li Chi, executor of the Magic Association.
Almost all magical girls had some connection to the Magic Association.
For example, the teacher of the three little ones, Trixiu, had retired from active duty but still served as an advisor for the Magic Association, giving basic guidance to the new generation of magical girls.
Although Li Chi had encountered and briefly interacted with other magical girls before, they had clearly viewed him as an enemy.
At the time, he had quickly left the scene to avoid drawing attention.
He never got the chance to build any real connection with them!
There were currently twenty active magical girls in Canghai City.
This number included the recently debuted Gu Qingchuan.
Oh right, Xing Yuan Cai didn’t count. She was only passing through Canghai City.
Besides, that idol magical girl might have already figured out his true identity.
Even though Xing Yao had repeatedly guaranteed that he wouldn’t reveal Li Chi’s identity, the two were grandfather and granddaughter after all.
There was no guarantee she hadn’t received some subtle hints.
Therefore, the best course of action whenever he encountered Magical Girl Ying Guang in the near future was still to run away immediately.
It wasn’t that he didn’t trust Xing Yuan Cai. It was just that after being “baptized” by his bio-electricity, the girl’s brain seemed to have developed some minor issues.
She had become a bit too self-absorbed and would occasionally have some rather strange ideas.
Yesterday, Xing Yao had even mentioned in their communication that his granddaughter was determined to drag Li Chi into debuting with her.
She had said something along the lines of, “A face like this handsome young man not debuting would be such a waste.”
Even Xing Yao himself probably never imagined that as a 500-year-old elder, he would one day face the possibility of his own granddaughter trying to make him debut as well.
Whether she had recovered from that phase or not, it was best not to have any contact with her for now to avoid unnecessary trouble.
As for Xing Yao, Li Chi could only hope the old man would soon return from his rejuvenated state. Otherwise, his granddaughter might actually give him a heart attack one of these days.
After ordering the original Omega to cause trouble on the streets at the appropriate time, Li Chi returned to the streets he had been on earlier.
He was confident that the new generation of magical girls in Canghai City currently stood no chance against the original Omega.
As long as he showed up at the right moment to play the hero and save the beauty, his goal would be perfectly achieved.
A few minutes later, Li Chi arrived at a public square.
Since it was currently summer vacation, besides the usual elderly people who came to dance square dances or take walks, there were also quite a few young people around.
A very suitable location…
Li Chi chose a spot next to a long bench as his resting place.
For the next part, he simply needed to sit back and wait for the prey to take the bait.
“Vivian, I have some super super good news to tell you!”
“What news?”
“I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. After all, this is a really important matter, and I’ve been hesitating whether I should tell my best friends or not.”
“So what exactly is the good news?”
“Actually—I’m a magical girl!”
The moment Li Chi sat down, the two little girls not far behind his bench openly revealed their shocking secret without caring who might hear.
Li Chi turned his head and saw that it was the daughter of his boss playing with her good friend.
Why was Vivian here?
Could it be that Black Dragon had leaked something?
No, he hadn’t told anyone about going out this time.
Was it just a coincidence?
In the end, the relatively simple-minded young man concluded that it was nothing more than a coincidence.
And he was right. It truly was a coincidence.
It was summer vacation.
As an elementary school student, Vivian naturally had the right to go out and play.
Since she could come outside, why not enjoy herself and have a great time with her friends?
That was why she had come here with her close best friend.
Running into Little Li was simply a coincidence within a coincidence.
“Oh my god! For real?!”
Vivian had clearly gotten into character and put on a very surprised expression.
Of course she already knew her best friend was a magical girl. After all, this little loli’s concealment skills… were honestly quite low-level.
The classic scene of suddenly saying “I need to go to the bathroom”—a flimsy excuse that anyone could see through—to slip away and transform into a magical girl during what was supposed to be happy playtime or important activities was something that appeared in almost every one of the old discs that Black Dragon treasured.
Vivian looked at her playmate solemnly.
“Sorry, Canis. Actually, I also have a very, very important secret that I’ve been hiding from you.”
With a flourish, Vivian changed into her nun outfit.
The area around them had already been set up with a magical force field by Vivian’s friend, so they weren’t worried about anyone noticing the two of them.
This was also the reason they had been boldly discussing their secrets out loud from the start.
“Actually—I’m a magical girl too!”