Chapter 216: Luo Zining: The Sudden Happiness Defense Seawall

The engineering team had been evacuated to a much farther location in advance.

“I say, do we really have to let her come?”

Zhizhi asked Ji Yue.

“We can only give it a try.”

“What if she’s actually here to cause trouble?”

“…The Dark Witch’s character is hard to judge, but Herrera’s should be trustworthy, right?”

Ji Yue uneasily shifted her shoulders.

Ahead, the Dark Witch Ariel had already stepped onto the seawall.

The surrounding engineering team had been temporarily dispersed, leaving only the three of them.

They had cast a magic on the Dark Witch beforehand that could alter her appearance, not daring to let it be known that the Dark Witch was here to help.

After all, this was the witch who had brought shame upon the Fifth Seat’s…

Broken-Winged Butterfly, and with the Aurora Witch as her role model, she was undoubtedly considered an enemy of the magical girls.

At least in the eyes of ordinary people, that was the case.

If they found out that the Dark Witch suddenly came to curry favor, who knew what kind of rumors would spread?

At the very least, a certain miscellaneous butterfly’s reputation would suffer again.

These were extraordinary times.

They couldn’t let the Magic Alliance and the magical girls’ image fall any further.

Yet, under their stunned gazes—

The Dark Witch stepped directly toward the inner boundary of the sea.

“She went in?”

The cannon at Zhizhi’s side instantly lost its target.

Before she could go over to take a look, a sea breeze from the direction of the boundary instinctively made them clamp their legs together, as a cold so bone-chilling that it defied reason suddenly dropped the air temperature by more than ten degrees Celsius.

“What’s going on?!”

Zhizhi finished speaking and was shocked to lower her head—the breath she’d just spoken had turned into a cloud of white mist.

If the soul had a form, perhaps it would look just like that cloud.

In this intense cold, it was as if everything without a physical form left traces visible to the naked eye.

Even scenes from the past condensed into shapes, stirring memories long sealed away in Zhizhi and Ji Yue’s minds.

Like being dead, yet embraced by memories.

It was this beauty of death unconsumed and coldness unending, this frozen magnificence, that made “that thing” so powerful… “Black Candle Titan.”

Zhizhi clenched her fists tight.

She’d only seen this kind of power a few days ago in Huahai City, but that had just been a glimpse—a far cry from the shock of this moment.

【Eh!? Not long ago, Youyou… Golden Scale helped the Dark Witch in Huahai City, so could the magical girl who invited the Dark Witch actually be Youyou!?】

Zhizhi suddenly thought, her face full of fear.

Though it was hard to say if Magical Girl Golden Scale really helped the Dark Witch back then.

“O-oh… Oh oh oh?!”

People inside the boundary control post discovered through remote drone monitoring that a massive black iceberg had appeared along the seawall, stretching for thousands of meters!

From a distance, it looked like a giant dragon carved from black crystal, coiling motionless across the vast boundary sea, emanating a terrifying aura.

“Maybe I should carve it a bit?”

Luo You figured, since she was here, she ought to show she was doing something.

So she started to sculpt the iceberg a little.

Emmm…

But after carving just the tail, Luo You realized her sculpting wasn’t turning out so well, so she stopped when it was still far from finished.

Leaving some blank space was a kind of high art too, right?

Would this be enough to deter those dimensional beasts who wanted to sneak in from Jiuying Sea’s boundary post?

Luo You thought it was probably just psychological comfort.

But it was logical psychological comfort—after all, there weren’t any dimensional beasts in the boundary sea who weren’t afraid of predators at the Predator level.

Sensing such a powerful presence, they’d instinctively avoid it, especially the Black Candle Titan.

Unless it was a highly intelligent Dragon-class dimensional beast, nothing else would dare approach these waters.

“All done.”

Luo You finished and returned.

“That’s it?”

Ji Yue found it hard to feel the reality of it.

Well, it was just too easy.

Could this really be enough to stop a dimensional beast invasion?

“It should be enough to scare off some King-class dimensional beasts. As for the Dragon-class, I can’t guarantee that—that’s your job.”

“But how long will this iceberg last?”

“Hmm?… Well, probably a year or so?”

If the Black Candle Titan’s ice could melt like ordinary ice, its rank would be way too low, right?

Besides, in the boundary sea where material was never lacking, Luo You even thought if nothing interfered, this iceberg might last forever.

“Bye now~”

Luo You left without a backward glance.

Having finished her business, she dusted off her sleeves and departed, not seeking praise or fame.

On her way back, Luo You saw that rebellious daughter of hers heading toward the boundary post, and they brushed past each other at a distance of a hundred meters.

“Ah, that reminds me,” Luo You thought of something.

Back in the northwest, she’d said she would take Luo Zining as her disciple, but first she had to gain the Dark Witch’s approval.

After that, though, she was too afraid of giving herself away to approach her rebellious daughter again.

But with the situation only getting more severe, Luo You felt she had to give this rebel a few more life-saving trump cards.

She couldn’t let her die on the front lines.

“Hey, you over there, yeah, I mean you! Stop right there!”

Luo You shouted at Luo Zining from afar.

“Hm?”

The girl turned back, confused.

“Dark Witch!?”

Luo Zining’s skin tightened, her battlefield-honed instincts making her instantly slip into a combat stance.

Luo You slowly descended in front of her.

“Are you the magical girl Herrera mentioned?”

“What’s with all the ‘this’ and ‘that’? Don’t you know who I am?”

Luo Zining frowned in displeasure.

“I don’t care who you are. Anyway, you’re the underhanded magical girl colluding with Herrera, right? I just don’t get why Herrera would take a liking to a rookie like you.”

Luo Zining’s annoyance only deepened.

Where did this person get off talking to her like that?

But then she thought about it, and her anger faded.

【Tch! Dark Witch, Aurora Witch? I bet they’re the same person!】

Luo Zining was eighty percent sure the person before her was actually her own old man in disguise.

She’d already received messages about the boundary post incident, so she asked directly, “Was that your doing at the boundary post?”

“So what if it was?”

But Luo Zining didn’t care about the answer.

What really mattered to her was that this old man Luo You actually had a bit of a sense of justice and went to do something good at the boundary post.

【…No, could it be she was worried I was under too much pressure, so she went to the boundary post for me?】

Suddenly, Luo Zining covered her mouth with both hands, as if she’d been fed a mouthful of sugar, her eyes stretching into sweet ribbons.

Just like last time, when she’d gone on a rampage at the boundary sea for her sake—even if she didn’t say it, learning about it after the fact made her feel the thick fatherly love!

“Why did you do it?”

Luo Zining asked in a soft voice.

Because your aunt served me with her plump body, Luo You thought.

And for your little sister Ji Nai’s sake, too.

But of course, she couldn’t say that. Luo You folded her arms and said,

“If you’ve got the time to ask that, you’d better think about how you’re going to officially become Herrera’s disciple. I’m curious—how will you earn my approval?”

【Hah~ Dad really is so tsundere~ Even when he helps, he has to act like he doesn’t care. Ka~wa~ii~~!】

Luo Zining wiggled like a little worm.

Besides, what’s with all this disciple business?

They were father and daughter, and he’d even come all the way to the boundary sea to help her.

Was the disciple bit even necessary at this point?

Luo Zining figured that as long as she showed off a little, even if she pointed at the Dark Witch’s nose and cursed her out, she’d have this in the bag!