Chapter 37: Stepping

In the past two years, the authorities began deploying the latest “Wangyue-class” super-large star rings across various regions, optimizing the detection range to between 1,200 and 72,000.

This value was already sufficient to capture dimensional beasts at the early Ghost level, and the maximum detection limit had expanded to mid-Dragon level, further ensuring border security.

If Fei Yu remembered correctly, the star rings around the Jiuming Sea were upgraded to Wangyue-class a year ago, so logically, the detection error tolerance should have improved as well.

Yet, a mid-King-level dimensional beast still slipped through.

The first and easiest conclusion to draw was the age-old, common factor…

This colossal behemoth was like a spaceship, with a diameter of 10 kilometers and a single unit costing nearly a hundred billion.

Replacing star rings for over a hundred border sectors would cost an astronomical sum, with enormous profit margins hidden within.

“I must report this issue to Master Xing Yue when I return. We cannot let those scumbags cause the Magical Girls to die in vain!”

Outside the hospital:

“Aww, what a pity. Looks like this is as far as I can take you.”

Xingyue looked down at the white-furred bundle still burying her face in her chest and asked, “So, can you get off me now?”

“Ah, sorry! We’re already here, huh.”

Luoyou reluctantly loosened her legs tightly wrapped around Xingyue’s waist.

But as soon as she let go, her body swayed unsteadily and she stumbled forward, clawing forcefully at the surface and leaving a claw mark dent that lingered on Xingyue’s clothes for several seconds.

“Ah, ah, ah! Sorry, sorry! I didn’t mean to!”

“It’s fine, just go see a doctor quickly.”

Xingyue didn’t care at all and instantly soared into the sky, heading to guard the border customs.

Her speed was astonishing.

The howling wind roared past her ears as the city below shrank rapidly.

Within minutes, she was approaching the neighboring city.

During this time, only one thought filled her mind.

“Her legs… they were so tight…” Xingyue rubbed her waist.

The sensation reminded her of that night seven years ago when she had also been squeezed so tightly that her waist ached incessantly, making bending over painful afterward.

It felt like the force was even stronger this time…

If it happened again, would her waist hold up?

In the future… she should find time to strengthen her body.

She couldn’t afford to embarrass herself during the real battle because of a fragile body…

***

On the other side, after watching Xingyue leave, Luoyou smacked her lips regretfully a few times and lingered in place savoring the moment for over a minute before finally entering the hospital.

“If only there had been no clothes blocking it just now, it would have been even better.”

Undeniably, Xingyue was far more delectable than seven years ago.

Back then, though Xingyue demonstrated superb skill, her feminine charm was still immature.

After seven years of refinement, Xingyue’s allure now radiated from the inside out—riper, more flavorful, and utterly irresistible.

“Wonder when I can get a chance to take her down too… Enjoy a good seven days and seven nights with her!”

Once inside the hospital, Luoyou did nothing else and entered a restroom, never coming out.

She was not actually injured; earlier, she had deliberately dislocated herself to play along with the act, and had casually put herself back together.

“Well then, time to deal with those guys.”

A glint of cold light flashed in Luoyou’s eyes.

Transform!

“Speak. Are you guys sent by the Inhuman Organization?”

Meanwhile, Zhou Xi was interrogating four kidnappers her own way.

The results, naturally, were unsatisfactory.

Restricted by the Magical Girls’ own code, brutal interrogation methods were sealed off, making it impossible to extract anything.

【At the meeting, Master Xing Yue said Ellera has defected from the Inhuman Organization. They want to interrogate me about Ellera—are they trying to find her to settle scores?】

Zhou Xi was puzzled.

Did the Inhuman Organization really have the means to deal with Ellera?

Or was it…?

A magical fluctuation came from the southwest!

She barely had time to turn her head toward that direction before an object tore through the air at high speed.

Strong wind pressure whipped her hair wildly.

Boom!

An unknown object slammed into the ground, kicking up a massive dust cloud as rocks sprayed like bullets.

Zhou Xi’s magical shield rippled under the barrage of flying stones.

“This power… is it to silence us?”

She hurriedly looked toward the four kidnappers nearby: three were gravely injured, covered in blood and gore, and the fourth was nowhere to be seen.

Where did the last one go?!

Answer: Two kilometers away

Plop!

The man wearing the bull’s head mask crashed heavily to the ground, groaning in pain.

“You should be thankful. If I hadn’t protected you with the Three Lives Ten Directions Pure Land, the acceleration of my movement alone would’ve blown you apart.”

“Cough, cough, c-cough—who… who…!”

The bull-masked man looked up, his eyes instantly lighting up with joy.

“Lord Ellera!?”

“Y-yes, the brilliant, magnificent, stunningly beautiful, and peerlessly elegant Lord Ellera~”

“Lord Ellera, you came to save me, pfft!”

Only her bare feet clad in socks pressed heavily on his face.

Not coming.

Usually being stepped on by a beautiful girl was a reward, but Ellera’s force crushed his nasal bone flat.

He was in no way enjoying it.

According to rumors within the Inhuman Organization, the woman beneath the mask was said to be hideously ugly… Yue—!

“How’s the organization doing lately?”

Ellera asked, slowly lifting her foot with a smile.

The bull-masked man wiped the blood off his face nervously, his speech slurred.

“It’s… it’s been tough… Yes! That woman Xingyue has returned. Lord Ellera, you must stand up for us! Strip that woman naked, completely shatter her dignity as a Magical Girl, and make the government not dare to have any thoughts against us!”

Ellera listened, growing increasingly annoyed.

Though the bull-masked man praised her extravagantly, as if handling Xingyue was like controlling an ant, in reality, she had been utterly defeated by Xingyue in bed once.

This made her all the more irritable.

“Just tell me straight, how’s Yue doing?”

“Yue… Yue…? Oh, oh, Lady Yue, right? She’s now the leader of the organization, and she’s…”

“Enough.”

Bang!

The bull-masked man’s face took another heavy blow and he collapsed to the ground.

“Lord Ellera, why—”

“Just because I played along with your act doesn’t mean I won’t settle accounts later.”

Ellera kicked him twice more with ruthless force.

The man was now semi-conscious.

“Acting…?”

“Don’t understand, huh?”

Ellera removed her mask.

“Now you know, right?”

“Y-you are—!?”

The moment the bull-masked man saw her face clearly, he froze cold as if he were dead.

“N-no, please listen to me, I just…”

“Oh? Just now you boasted you’d rape me in front of a Magical Girl, and now you’re all scared like a mouse? Oh, kawaii kudasai~”

In just two seconds, her expression shifted from playful mockery to cruel menace, and Ellera’s killing intent surged.

“You want to violate me? I don’t mind—that would be a recognition of my beauty, but—”

“The foot you pressed on me? That’s you kicking yourself straight to hell.”

“I absolutely hate being stepped on! Even when flirting with a Magical Girl in bed!”

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The punishment lasted over five minutes.

The bull-masked man had long since lost consciousness.

His head looked shriveled and cracked like a rotten melon, with sticky blood strands dripping onto the floor, while the girl’s fair feet remained impeccably clean.

“What level do you think you are to step on me? Trash!”

Ellera scoffed disdainfully.

A flash of deep blue light erupted, and the bull-masked man’s body turned to dust and vanished.