The subway leading out of the city was peculiar; it was guarded by soldiers, and entry required security clearance.
Logically, as someone capable of flight, Green Field shouldn’t have needed the subway to leave the city.
How would she pass security? After all, her suitcase contained a hidden Magical Girl.
As she pulled the suitcase toward the checkpoint, the voices of soldiers were already audible.
Inside the case, Yin Lin grew nervous, pondering how she would explain herself if discovered.
I definitely don’t have some weird fetish, she thought. I’ll have to pretend I was kidnapped—that I’m not here voluntarily.
Green Field was escorted to a private inspection room rather than the standard express lane.
Once inside, there was only Green Field and one staff member.
They whispered something to each other, but the words were muffled.
Finally, the suitcase had to be opened. Yin Lin closed her eyes, pretending to be unconscious as she lay curled inside.
The zipper was pulled back, and their voices became clear.
“The goods are fine, right? This is what you asked for,” Green Field said.
The staff member clearly saw Yin Lin inside the box but showed no surprise. He touched her hair, examined her features, and felt her neck to check for a pulse. Finally, he used a device to measure mana, confirming that the girl’s dress carried a magical signature.
Yin Lin was shocked. She hadn’t expected the staff member and Green Field to be accomplices. Strangely, Green Field had intentionally allowed Yin Lin to witness this, acting as if she didn’t care about exposing her connections.
After a few minutes of inspection to confirm the “cargo” was indeed Yin Lin, the suitcase was zipped back up, leaving a tiny gap for air.
“Everything is in order. Take Out-of-City Line 1. Someone will find you when you arrive at the destination,” the staff member whispered. The suitcase was pulled again; they had passed security.
At the platform, she saw two people waiting for the train far in the distance. The out-of-city subway was usually deserted with infrequent service, requiring a long wait. Green Field pulled the suitcase to a secluded corner. Once they were alone, she finally spoke to Yin Lin.
“I’m sorry for keeping things from you,” she actually apologized, sounding like a completely different person from the stubborn girl at Next-Day Square.
From inside the box, Yin Lin asked, “So, what exactly is going on?”
Green Field began her story: “That night at the Grand Theater…”
That night, Green Field had also been at the theater. After leaving, she encountered a person—a woman, to be precise. The woman was mysterious and claimed to have the power of prophecy. She not only revealed Green Field’s true identity but also predicted the events that would occur during the day.
A day later, she met the woman again. The stranger claimed that Next-Day City was doomed to destruction, and the only way to save it was to attack Yin Lin with everything she had on the day the Eastern Alliance destroyed the portal.
Truthfully, Green Field didn’t care if the city was destroyed; it was none of her business. Knowing this, the mysterious woman added that the three sisters—Gold, Silver, and Red—would also die.
This successfully put Green Field on high alert.
As she reached this point in the story, the subway arrived, slowly gliding to a halt at the platform. Green Field pulled the suitcase into the carriage and found a corner seat. After checking to ensure no one was nearby, she continued her hushed explanation.
Yin Lin interrupted with a question about the mysterious woman’s appearance. Green Field remembered her vividly; she felt the woman had intentionally shown her face just for this moment, as if everything was part of a calculated plan. She described her: female, 175cm tall, wearing a bodysuit and a trench coat, with an exceptionally good figure.
Bingo. An acquaintance. It was the same mysterious woman who had taken the Gravity Orb—the suspected lapdog of the Goddess of Contracts.
Green Field continued. Because the woman’s prophecies had been unerring and she knew Green Field’s abilities intimately, Green Field had tentatively trusted her. Thus, the battle at Next-Day Square occurred.
The mysterious woman had mentioned two timelines. In the first, if Green Field didn’t show up, the portal at Next-Day Square would have been activated, allowing a massive influx of Abominations to destroy the city and ambush the three sisters. In the second, if Green Field followed instructions, the city and the sisters would be saved.
How exactly did it save them? Green Field hadn’t understood then, but she did later. The portal wasn’t triggered and was successfully destroyed.
After her injuries partially healed and she was discharged from the hospital, she was tracked down by weirdos just a few days later. It wasn’t the mysterious woman—she hadn’t been seen since the square. This time, it was a man wrapped tightly in clothing, his figure and face hidden by a brown robe and a hood that only exposed his eyes.
They called themselves the [Star-Summoning Society]. They claimed they could help Green Field capture Magical Girls for her entertainment, provided she killed Yin Lin or brought her to them. Of course, everything else was negotiable—money, more beautiful women, anything.
Only then did Green Field realize what the battle at Next-Day Square truly meant; the mysterious woman had been working for the [Star-Summoning Society] all along. Green Field had feigned acceptance, leading to the current operation.
“You aren’t really going to kill me, are you?” Yin Lin asked, still a bit worried.
“Hehe, guess,” Green Field joked.
Naturally, she wouldn’t. As a “lover of Magical Girls,” she had made her decision the moment the [Star-Summoning Society] ordered her to kill Yin Lin.
As they chatted, Yin Lin sensed something. The number of Abominations was increasing; they were nearing the city boundary. Green Field hadn’t sensed them yet; her perception range was much shorter. It wasn’t until the subway crossed the border that she sensed the Abominations moving above them, and her talking ceased.
An hour later, the train approached the first station. It was a place Song Wuli had only visited once—a forest farm that served as a cargo distribution hub. Green Field hadn’t expected to get off here, but once the train stopped, an ordinary-looking man entered the carriage and sat pointedly beside her.
“You should get off now,” he whispered.
Green Field pulled the suitcase out onto the platform. The man did not follow. They both grew tense—more nervous than they were when facing Abominations. This was likely their first time facing a private organization intent on killing Magical Girls—neither a Special Task Force nor a “Failure Squad.”
There was no security at the exit. After passing the turnstiles, ordinary citizens had to walk up an incredibly long staircase, as they weren’t authorized to use the freight elevator.
Lifting the suitcase up the stairs, Green Field sneakily extended a small section of her whip from her sleeve to help support the weight of the case, making the climb slightly more bearable.
“Seeing you struggle so much, just let me out so I can walk,” Yin Lin said, her fear growing.
“We’re almost there. We can’t give up halfway. Just bear with it a little longer,” Green Field comforted her.
The climb took a full 40 minutes. There were over a thousand steps from the Forest Farm station to the surface, and it was pitch black without any lights. The exit was further guarded by a series of security doors that would be a hassle for any normal human to bypass.
Inside the suitcase, Yin Lin was playing with her phone. Despite the cramped space, she had managed to pull it out and was watching things on silent. Signal returned once they left the underground station, and she was immediately hit with over twenty messages from Huang Yi. He was clearly worried.
Essentially, his people were tailing them and knew they were currently at the forest farm outside the city. He told her to stay calm, promising they would protect her and that everything was proceeding according to plan.