A beautiful girl with long, straight black hair was currently pinning Li Chi against the wall.
Because her features were far too distinctive, Li Chi immediately recognized that this long, straight black-haired girl was the same long, straight black-haired magical girl from earlier.
Li Chi remained perfectly still.
The long, straight black-haired girl stared fixedly into his eyes.
The long, straight black-haired girl: ⊙_⊙
“……”
“……”
Can someone please tell me what the hell is going on right now?!
What does this girl want?!
Li Chi screamed internally.
He was still hoping to hurry back to the organization to revive that poor monster brother who had been beaten into a magic crystal core.
One magical girl wasn’t particularly frightening, and Li Chi wasn’t afraid of her.
What he feared was that the other fifty magical girls hadn’t left yet.
Otherwise, his fate might end up even worse than that monster brother he had screwed over.
Though in his case, he would probably be beaten into a pile of mush rather than a clean, pollution-free magic crystal core.
If he really got smashed into meat paste, it would probably scare that entire group of magical girls unconscious first.
Even though Li Chi couldn’t feel pain, that kind of scene would still be terrifying!
“Um… Miss, you must be that magical girl from earlier, right?”
After a long silence, Li Chi was the first to speak, trying to break the awkward atmosphere.
“How did you know?”
The long, straight black-haired beauty pinning him against the wall looked surprised.
“Could it be that you have Magic Eyes? Or some ability to see through essence? Or maybe…”
The long, straight black-haired girl studied Li Chi’s face thoughtfully.
“Come on, all the other magical girls have flashy transformations. You’re the only one with long, straight black hair. It would be weird if I couldn’t recognize you!”
“Huh? Is it that obvious?”
The long, straight black-haired girl was clearly stunned.
She continued, “But why didn’t the people around me recognize me?”
Though the question sounded a bit naive, there was actually an information gap at play.
“Cognitive Distortion,” a rule-level concealment magic, was actually a technique from the contracted spirits.
It was also a passive skill.
Every time the host transformed into a magical girl, this ability would automatically activate.
Because most magical girls looked vastly different before and after transformation, these girls didn’t know about this skill.
Only a small portion were aware of it, and the spirits had never brought it up proactively—not because they couldn’t, but because they felt it was unnecessary.
When a magical girl formed a contract with a spirit, she would automatically receive some magical knowledge to study.
In the spirits’ view, these magical girls would surely have thoroughly mastered hidden magics like Cognitive Distortion.
However, the magical knowledge was ridiculously lengthy.
Just reading through all of it would take an entire year, and that was assuming one didn’t eat or drink and spent all their time comprehending it.
Take the long, straight black-haired girl in front of him.
She hadn’t finished studying all that knowledge yet, which was why she didn’t know about this passive-type magic.
But Li Chi knew about it.
While he didn’t understand the specialized magics that these magical girls studied, he had some knowledge of the auxiliary little magics that every magical girl had, including the Cognitive Distortion skill.
After Li Chi finished explaining it to the long, straight black-haired girl, understanding dawned on her face.
“No wonder.
I always thought it was just my personal feeling that I looked quite similar before and after transforming, and that’s why no one recognized me.
So there was something like this… As expected of a Magic Association executor.”
The long, straight black-haired magical girl smiled brightly at Li Chi…
Wait, when did she transform?!
Could she have noticed something?!
Fearing that the long, straight black-haired magical girl might call over the forty-nine other girls from the square, Li Chi had already prepared himself to transform at any moment.
The second she made a move, he would instantly transform and execute a smooth combo: knock her out, tie her up, take her hostage, and then send her back.
The long, straight black-haired magical girl didn’t speak.
She circled around Li Chi, as if trying to take in every detail of the boy.
After a moment, under Li Chi’s nervous gaze, the long, straight black-haired magical girl finally spoke.
“So… Magic Association executors must be really powerful, right?”
“They’re decent, but the magic power reserves of other executors aren’t as exaggerated as you magical girls’.”
Li Chi used the explanation Black Dragon had taught him.
“I see… Then what about you?”
“Me?”
“Yes, you.”
The way she looked right now somewhat resembled a female guest on a dating show.
“As for me, my magic proficiency is actually even lower than the other executors.”
Under the long, straight black-haired magical girl’s doubtful gaze, Li Chi once again manifested the golden bio-electric current.
“After all, I joined the Magic Association primarily through superpowers.
While I know a bit of magic and have some mana, I’m ultimately still an outsider when it comes to it.”
The long, straight black-haired magical girl nodded thoughtfully.
“So that’s how it is.
But if you say you’re an amateur when it comes to magic, then why do you know about Cognitive Distortion—a skill that even we magical girls didn’t notice?”
“……”
Li Chi paused for a second.
In that one second, he had already thought of how to answer this question.
Black Dragon had once said that since he was operating in the magic world as a Magic Association executor, any magic-related problems he encountered could be directed to President Xing Yao.
Sometimes, he could even use him as a scapegoat.
So he said, “President Xing Yao forced me to study all these things every day.
I don’t know why, but he just made me do it.
He said it might come in handy in the future or something?”
Seeing that the other party had brought out the magic world’s supreme titan to take the bullet for him, the long, straight black-haired magical girl found it difficult to press the question further.
To her, this suspicious Magic Association executor really had a lot of issues.
First, from the words he had said earlier in front of all the magical girls, he must have known that the green dinosaur-like monster would come attack the park today.
Otherwise, why would he have shown up in advance?
Second, how could a young man with such potential—someone valued by President Xing Yao himself—possibly be an amateur at magic?
Although most of the magical girls had accepted Li Chi’s identity as a Magic Association executor after another magical girl’s confirmation, and it was indeed true, this particular magical girl still felt that something was off.
Could it be… that this new executor had some special qualities?
It was obvious that this long, straight black-haired magical girl often interacted with the Magic Association, and the androgynous-looking boy before her completely didn’t match the executors she knew.
As an executor, and one who cooperated with magical girls no less, how could he possibly be an amateur at magic?
With so many suspicious points, the long, straight black-haired magical girl shifted her attention to that golden electric current.
Noticing the magical girl’s gaze, Li Chi explained the functions of the bio-electric current in his hand.
Upon contact, it could strengthen objects and physical abilities, heal certain injuries, and even possess some offensive power.
It was practically the perfect support skill.
After listening to Li Chi’s explanation, the long, straight black-haired magical girl’s eyes immediately sparkled.
“That’s wonderful!”
“???”
Under Li Chi’s confused gaze, the long, straight black-haired magical girl said,
“I heard that some executors can cooperate with multiple magical girls at the same time.
And right now, I happen to be short one assistant who can provide support for me.
Are you interested?”