A rusty, old compass arm pierced through the black mist, revealing a body formed from a stack of pencils wrapped in exam papers.
Compared to the papers that made up the ground, the ones covering the creature’s body bore only red check marks.
Near its tilted neck was a red-inked “100” slowly bleeding downward — an unsettling and bizarre sight.
However, the pencils within the wrapping were all damaged — the worst ones at the bottom had been gnawed so thoroughly their wooden fibers had frayed completely, practically usable as calligraphy brushes if dipped in ink.
At the base of this loosely-assembled pencil-body were two “feet”: a brand-new red booklet and a radiant golden key.
Such a “cartoonish” appearance shouldn’t have evoked fear.
Yet the moment Luo Shiyin saw the creature’s full form, a pressure surged from deep within her chest.
For a fleeting moment, she felt like she’d returned to her third year of high school, a mere hundred days from the college entrance exam, surrounded endlessly by test papers and mistakes, to the point where even taking a breath felt like a luxury.
Fortunately, the feeling wasn’t too intense.
Luo Shiyin quickly steadied herself and broke free from that suffocating pressure — her first reaction was to glance at the young girl beside her.
To her surprise, although Luo Xue was curiously watching the monster in the distance, her bright red eyes remained clear and unaffected.
“Hmm?”
Noticing Luo Shiyin’s gaze, the little girl tilted her head, looking up with a bit of confusion on her masked face.
“…Next time, I’ll find someone to tutor you.”
Seeing that pure, untainted-by-knowledge look in the girl’s eyes, Luo Shiyin suddenly understood why she hadn’t been affected.
Her gaze became subtly complicated.
Of course, that said, sending her to school might not be the best idea — a few reliable, pretty tutors would do.
She turned her eyes back to the scene.
At that moment, every single one of the thugs nearby had blank, vacant eyes, yet their faces still showed terror — more intense than before — as if they were enduring some brutal torment.
Luo Shiyin wasn’t surprised.
Even she, standing over fifty meters away and not the monster’s main target, had been affected and experienced hallucinations.
For the thugs, who were in the direct line of mental attack, getting dragged into a nightmarish illusion filled with endless testing until death didn’t seem far-fetched.
Yet the boy who had become the monster didn’t seize the opportunity to attack.
He just stood there, stunned, seemingly shocked by the transformation he’d caused.
But this wouldn’t last.
After all, a student crushed within the school, bullied into sobbing in the streets, and scolded again at home — suddenly gaining world-altering power — would take predictable actions.
Just as Luo Shiyin expected, the monster began trembling slightly as it came to terms with the situation.
Then, a suppressed laugh echoed from its paper-wrapped body.
But to her surprise, though the laugh was twisted and filled with joy, the voice was high-pitched — not that of a boy.
“Turning into a monster… also changes your gender? No, that’s too ridiculous. Probably just a short haircut, and her crying voice was too low earlier, so I didn’t recognize it.”
She shook her head, pulling her thoughts back on track.
Why was the girl short-haired?
One look at the still-stunned thugs — and the green-haired woman holding scissors among them — gave her the answer.
Seeing how the monster’s laughter grew more unrestrained, while the thugs’ faces turned visibly paler, Luo Shiyin felt even more determined to just sit back and enjoy the show.
But just as she was about to find a chair to settle in for this perfect tale of a girl’s revenge —
A voice suddenly spoke from behind her.
“So? Isn’t that a beautiful form? That is the perfect monster!”
“Huh?”
Her body tensed slightly.
Luo Shiyin quickly turned her head — and saw a young man in a rose-colored suit, holding a gentleman’s cane, standing behind her.
He wore a monocle and stared intently at the monster in the distance, his face full of admiration and obsession.
“….”
“This lovely lady — is something the matter?”
With a smiling gaze, the man turned to look at the black-haired girl before him.
His tone and gestures perfectly embodied the idea of a gentleman.
But Luo Shiyin instantly shattered his polished persona with a single line:
“Uncle, who the hell are you? Do I know you?”
“U-Uncle?!”
The man instinctively touched his face — which, no matter how he looked at it, clearly belonged to someone no older than twenty-five.
His blue-purple pupils trembled violently.
“L-Little miss, you…”
“So, was that monster your doing?”
Luo Shiyin ignored his reaction and turned her attention back to the creature, whose compass arms were now raised above its head, its laugh evolving from wild to manic — yet still refusing to attack, leaving its audience in suspense.
But hearing her question, the young man’s shock slowly faded.
After a moment, he nodded in understanding.
“Monster… I see. I understand now.”
“Huh?”
“You — though your appearance is angelic and pure — are a pitiable heretic who fails to appreciate true beauty. What a shame!”
“…That’s not what I meant…”
“I suppose you must be thinking about how to execute that beautiful being right now, aren’t you? The minds of you heretics are always beyond redemption!”
“I’m not.”
“No need to explain! As an enemy, I know you better than you know yourselves! As long as I stand here today, you won’t be able to harm that beautiful existence! I will ensure she completes her initial revenge!”
“……I’d like to see it too, so could you please stop talking?”
Looking at the young man who was agitated and wouldn’t listen to anyone, Luoshiyin felt a headache coming on at her temples.
However, the other party still didn’t pay attention to herself and continued to speak excitedly to herself: “Want to hurt her! Step over my dead body first!”
“Are you incapable of listening to others?”
Several veins popped out on her smooth forehead.
Luoshiyin simply ignored this madman, took Luoxue’s hand, and started to walk to the other side, but most of her attention was still on him, after all, the guy had appeared quite suddenly just now.
At the same time, the monster not far away finally had enough laughter, raised its rusty compass-shaped arm high, and was about to smash down hard on one of the thugs.
“Stop——”
Just like in all comic books and novels, a voice full of energy but somewhat trembling rang out just in time from not far away.
Accompanying the sound of shattering glass, a large hole was torn open in the dim sky, and a red-haired girl with twin tails, wearing a bright red skirt armor, rushed in from outside the barrier, holding a huge magic wand that was even longer than herself.
Seeing this, the young man who seemed to have escaped from a mental hospital couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment, and then shouted in a voice that was eight degrees higher in pitch:
“Magical girl! You are indeed a heretic! You actually delayed time with words to wait for the magical girl to appear! But!As long as I stand here, you won’t be able to interfere with that beautiful existence completing her mission!”
Almost at the moment the voice fell, the young man’s body turned into a shadow and rushed over.
Because of the high speed of movement, it even created a considerable wind pressure at the original place.
However, seeing this, Luoshiyin felt relieved in her heart – as long as she could see the general trajectory of the action, it would be fine.
Otherwise, if it disappeared and appeared suddenly like just now, she would really have a headache.
“Speaking of which, shouldn’t my position be a scientific researcher? How did I suddenly end up on the front line and get entangled with such a madman?”
Looking at the figure that came to her face in an instant and raised the civilizing wand high, Luoshiyin still had time to complain in her heart.
However, her body was not the slightest bit negligent.
Her right hand, which looked harmless and even a bit cute, clenched into a fist and swung at the civilizing wand that was smashing down.
At the same time, the girl who had turned into a monster also started fighting with the magical girl who had rushed into the battlefield.
The rusty compass arm exerted a speed that was hard to see with the naked eye, creating a series of sharp but disorderly auras in the air.
In response, the red-haired girl with twin tails, the magical girl, was struggling to cope, and her flying movements also seemed a bit awkward.
“Ugh, what should I do now? I ran out without thinking just now, and it’s my first time flying!”
Feeling the sharp auras passing around her body, the red-haired girl’s face was full of tension, and she kept asking herself in her heart.
Soon, a clear and childish voice responded to her:
“Don’t be afraid. Although you have just become a magical girl, she has just turned into a monster. So now what you are competing for is who can get familiar with their own power the fastest!”
“But……………….”
“Snap—”
The red-haired girl’s words were not finished when two unusually crisp sounds, like the breaking of wood but with a metallic ring, suddenly rang out, causing the two girls in combat to stop their actions subconsciously.
A half-section of the civilizing wand, with a very rough break as if it had been violently twisted off, drew an elegant curve in the air and then deeply stabbed into the nearby green belt.
The metallic luster flashing at the break indicated that its texture was not as fragile as it looked.
Indeed, because it was her first time fighting with someone, and the opponent was such a strange creature that could create wind pressure, Luoshiyin had used all her strength from the beginning, and the ten points of strength were fully unleashed in one punch without any reservation.
The two crisp breaking sounds just now, one was the sound of the civilizing wand being broken, and the other was the sound of the dislocated arm.
Ten times the strength of an ordinary person is indeed terrifying, but without the corresponding physical fitness to support it and without the correct punching posture to assist, the fragile body of a loli simply couldn’t bear it.
Fortunately, the opponent’s weapon was just ordinary metal.
If it had been superalloy or something, the arm would have suffered more than just dislocation.
However, even with a dislocated arm, the pressure carried by the ten points of strength still blew the man’s suit flapping, and finally, under the gaze of five people, it smashed into the young man’s chest.
In an instant, a cloud of black mist exploded!
SP: Everyone can guess who this monkey burning liquor is~