“She’s pretty badly hurt…”
Wrapping bandages around Luo Shuangyue’s left shoulder, Monice let out a heavy sigh.
“That Demon was too strong. I think it’s already touched the threshold of a Royal-Class Magic Beast. Tch, how could something like that show up in Xinghai City?”
When a Royal-Class Magic Beast appears, the commotion is enough to shake the heavens and the earth.
The Magic Department would immediately send a whole team of Full Bloom Class Magical Girls to its birthplace to wipe it out as soon as it emerges.
But the Demon Luo Shuangyue just encountered showed no sign of appearing beforehand.
It just materialized out of nowhere.
Rather than calling that thing a Demon, it’s more like a failed product that was forcefully catalyzed into existence.
Its body would self-destruct in countless internal conflicts.
Even if you left it alone, it would vanish on its own in half a day at most.
Unfortunately, the consequences of ignoring something like that for even half a day were far too severe.
Neither Luo Shuangyue nor any Magical Girl could accept such an outcome.
“That really is something worth worrying about… I’ve seen this sort of thing before. Injecting a high concentration of purified magic energy into a living organism can have this effect. But to create the opponent you faced, the amount of magic energy needed would definitely be Royal-Class.”
Monice muttered as she bandaged Luo Shuangyue’s wound.
In battles between evil organizations, this kind of suicide attack wasn’t rare.
Some utterly inhumane groups would even kidnap innocents to use as expendable resources.
But the magic energy they used was at most General-Class.
Even Wang-Class was impossible, let alone Royal-Class.
After all, to produce so much magic energy, you’d need a Demon to supply it endlessly.
And powerful Demons never live that long.
Even if they did survive, those people wouldn’t be able to extract so much magic energy from such a strong Demon.
No matter how much those freaks modified their bodies, their strength would always be capped at Initial Bloom Class.
The realm above, Full Bloom Class, was only accessible to Magical Girls and Demons.
In the end, the strongest in this world are Magical Girls.
“If a Royal-Class Magic Beast possesses intelligence equal to a human, and one managed to survive the Magical Girls’ siege, could it be hiding somewhere, building its own organization?” Luo Shuangyue frowned deeply, a vague sense of foreboding rising in her heart.
A Royal-Class Magic Beast hiding among humans—if that news got out, it’d be like dropping a nuclear bomb.
“…It’s not impossible. Heh, looks like this calm pond is about to get stirred up.”
“Royal-Class? Are you sure it wasn’t a machine malfunction?”
Magical Girls could rest after a fight, but the Magic Department’s work was just beginning.
After the battle, they had to handle the aftermath, collect and upload all kinds of combat data to the database, hunt down any potential survivors, and so on.
That was the Magic Department’s job.
“Director, if one machine was malfunctioning, maybe. But every single instrument here picked up the same thing. That’s impossible!” The researcher in a white lab coat and black-rimmed glasses shook his head.
All the machines on site detected the presence of Royal-Class magic energy.
That could only mean that Royal-Class magic energy had really appeared here just now.
And that monster—anyone could see it was forcibly catalyzed by magic energy.
The chain of evidence was complete!
“Also, we found a few things at the scene: an unidentified person who died from poisoning, and several members of Snake Fang. According to their statements, we can basically confirm that the monster’s true form was the Mad Python.”
“Mad Python… Snake Fang?” The Director showed a thoughtful expression. “So they were involved after all.”
Huancheng had never managed to fully wipe out Snake Fang.
There were many reasons, but the main one was that Huancheng’s Magic Department never considered Snake Fang a must-eliminate target.
This time, though, Snake Fang probably wouldn’t escape.
Now that they were involved with a Royal-Class Magic Beast, no matter how powerful or influential they were, tomorrow Full Bloom Class Magical Girls would be waiting at the door of every branch, ready to wipe out the entire organization.
The Magic Department had that ability, but usually wouldn’t go to such lengths for a small group.
After all, Full Bloom Class Magical Girls all had their own assignments and couldn’t leave easily.
But the appearance of a Royal-Class Magic Beast was reason enough for the Magic Department to react this strongly.
“Report this immediately. A Royal-Class Magic Beast has infiltrated human society. Looks like the Magic Department’s been too gentle these past years, and they’ve forgotten who once wiped the rampaging Demons from this land.”
A cold glint flashed in the Director’s eyes. If anyone dared to cross that line, the Magic Department wouldn’t hesitate to wipe out their entire clan.
Snake Fang, you’re finished!
“Big Brother isn’t coming home today~ Why isn’t he coming home?” Sitting in Luo Shuangyue’s room, Luo Shuangxing hummed a cheerful little tune as she looked around.
She wanted to find more evidence while her brother was out—to prove that her brother was no longer the person he used to be.
But even after turning the whole room upside down, she still hadn’t found any valuable clues.
Luo Shuangyue’s room was plain—so plain it was almost featureless.
Aside from the basic necessities, there was nothing else, almost as if the place was stripped bare.
The closet, which Luo Shuangxing had already searched before, was just as unremarkable.
There were only a few cheap, ordinary men’s clothes.
Seeing this, Luo Shuangxing felt a pang of sadness.
Just what kind of life was her brother living? How could it be this miserable?
“Shuangxing, did you find anything?” Xia Mo poked her head in from outside the room.
She still didn’t quite dare to go rummaging through Luo Shuangyue’s things, so she just waited at the door.
After all, her relationship with Shuangyue was still unspoken, completely different from the blood-deep bond between Shuangxing and Shuangyue.
“No, there’s nothing in Big Brother’s room, barely even any clothes.” Luo Shuangxing shook her head helplessly.
It seemed there’d be no breakthrough here.
“But it’s fine if we can’t find clues here. As long as we can match Big Brother’s scent with Dark Moth’s, he won’t be able to deny it!”
It didn’t matter if they couldn’t find women’s clothes in Luo Shuangyue’s room.
As long as Xia Mo could match the scent of Dark Moth with Luo Shuangyue, it would be irrefutable evidence!
Even without the final proof yet, Luo Shuangxing was already convinced that her good brother was actually the bad woman who loved bullying her.
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