In her assigned dorm room as the magical girl Golden Scales, Luo You was still stubbornly using Xingyue’s pillow as a footrest, eyes closed for a little nap.
That’s right, she had brought Xingyue’s pillow all the way from Xingyue’s own dorm to her own, just to use it as a footrest.
The main point was simply companionship.
Suddenly!
The dorm room door was slammed open.
A group of magical girls burst in, exuding an aura as if they were about to gang up on her.
“Lady Golden Scales! Lady Golden Scales! Something terrible has happened!”
“What is it?”
Luo You hurried out of bed, only because the intensity from this group of magical girls was too wild!
[Shocking! Flower Sea City Division’s magical girls burst into a new magical girl’s dormitory — the newcomer faces a brutal ordeal…!]
“Lady Golden Scales, look at this!”
“Xingyue and Manjusaka are facing off abroad?”
Luo You wasn’t particularly surprised; she only thought this was inevitable.
It would be strange if there wasn’t a confrontation.
Attacking the number three figure of another country — the Magic Alliance had now thoroughly become a thorn in the side and a pain in the flesh for human society.
“When did this happen?”
“Around… ten minutes ago?”
“Oh, then it’s fine. No need to panic. For matters like this, it all depends on the attitudes of those major countries.”
Luo You comforted them.
Previously, Manjusaka’s actions had only prompted loud objections from the weaker nations, while the countries that truly shaped the world’s situation hadn’t made a single statement.
In fact, the lack of response from the Five Permanent Members was already the best possible response.
Those who collude with forces from the Realm Sea must be eliminated.
If someone tries to redistribute global order and resources, it’s equivalent to reaching chopsticks into those countries’ rice bowls — of course, those people would have to pay with their own hands.
Therefore, the silence from those countries meant not only would they not condemn the Magic Alliance, but they might even offer support if necessary.
But any dirty work still had to be handled by the Magic Alliance.
Of course, they would never openly justify the Magic Alliance’s actions.
Instead, they’d take the chance to undermine the Magic Alliance’s international reputation and influence.
Letting the Magic Alliance purge dissidents while weakening it at the same time — it was killing two birds with one stone.
Even this time, though the situation had blown up, over a dozen minutes had passed and, with Manjusaka’s plans clearly already leaked, none of the major countries had come forward for urgent PR.
Their meaning was tacit approval.
But after this, the Magic Alliance’s reputation would plummet.
“Hmm… Is a real fight about to break out?”
Luo You wondered doubtfully.
Very soon, she looked up and scolded the gossiping magical girls, “What are you all looking at? Is it that entertaining? Get back to your posts!”
“Yes!”
The magical girls scattered at once.
Then Luo You began to prepare to head to the scene.
Not just to be a bystander — she was going to get involved.
As the magical girl Golden Scales, a powerful candidate for the future Ten Seats, how could she just stand by?
***
So Luo You decided to go in the guise of the Aurora Witch.
Mediation?
As if.
What a joke.
If Xingyue and Manjusaka really started fighting, it’d be her best chance to reap the rewards!
She’d already spent two nights with Xingyue — there was no need to fight her to the point of groveling anymore. But the saintly elder sister had to be captured!
Fight her till she kneels, make her vomit, then bring her back to fuel the Star Fury!
Before training the saintly sister until she couldn’t live without her, she absolutely wouldn’t let her go!
“Let’s go!”
Riding the brilliance of Guang Tianlan, Luo You sped off toward Europe.
The capital of a certain European country.
The sky above this city was already covered by two distinct auras of magic, blending into strange colors.
“Haa—”
Xingyue sighed deeply in pain.
“Manjusaka, until now I always turned a blind eye, but this time you’ve set your sights on someone you shouldn’t have. I can’t just stand by any longer.”
She looked past Manjusaka at the two behind her — Broken-Winged Butterfly and King of Progress. They’d come here to capture someone. “You two as well?”
“Xingyue, this is the only way to break the deadlock now.”
The golden cross-shaped pupils of King of Progress gleamed with intimidation.
She spoke: “You may not advocate drastic action, but you haven’t proposed an effective way to resolve the crisis either.”
“…I have my own plans.”
“But we can’t see them.”
Broken-Winged Butterfly’s gaze was razor sharp on her.
“If you could see them, then the enemy surely could too. Even if there is a plan, it’d be as good as nothing.”
Xingyue’s brief answer made both of their expressions change.
They glanced at Manjusaka, then back at Xingyue, each deep in thought.
Facing Manjusaka again, Xingyue said, “Go back. I have no desire to fight you in a place like this.” At such a time, only Manjusaka could steadfastly hold to her own position.
“I’ve already received the intel. The other side is about to silence the witness. This person holds high status and the quantity and quality of information they possess is leagues above those small fry we’ve captured before. It might even break the deadlock in one go.” (Deputy)
“What if they’re just cannon fodder?”
“That’s not a valid assumption. Everything has two sides. If we only ever account for ‘what ifs,’ then nobody would ever make decisions.”
Manjusaka even criticized her, “If you hadn’t made such a big show of coming here to block me, I could’ve quietly taken the target down.”
Xingyue shook her head helplessly. “Ah… I truly don’t want to fight you.”
With that, she finally stopped suppressing her magical power.
Her aura erupted at full strength, no longer concealed, now fully revealed!
In an instant, fierce winds swept through the sky above the city, swirling clouds as if a typhoon were passing through!
“Then show me — how much have you grown in the past seven years? If you truly have the strength to quell all disasters from the Realm Sea, then I’ll withdraw.” Manjusaka’s eyes snapped open as she stepped forward!
The two of them turned into afterimages, disappearing in a flash.
She showed the world why, despite being the Second Seat, she could still be mentioned in the same breath as Xingyue.
“Third Rank, Second Rank… even support magic… more than twenty spells deployed at once?!”
Broken-Winged Butterfly’s eyes flew wide in disbelief. Even she could only use seven simultaneously.
Quantity begets quality — and in this case, the quality hadn’t dropped at all despite the numbers.
This was the power of the Second Seat!
“. . . As expected, they’ve been ahead of us by one or even several levels for a long time.”
Even King of Progress at the side couldn’t help but sigh.
For someone as tough as her, all she could feel watching the two fight was admiration.
“If only Xingyue had been around four years ago…!”
Broken-Winged Butterfly gritted her teeth in frustration.
She believed that if Xingyue and Manjusaka had joined forces four years ago, what crisis couldn’t they steamroll?
Even if they’d faced the Black Candle Titan, they could have put up a fight!
Seeing her state, King of Progress said, “Let’s go calm the people below.”
“Let’s go. Even if we want to capture the target, Xingyue will surely step in to stop us.”