Chapter 55: I Don’t Dare to Move

Li Chi returned to the long bench where he had been resting earlier. 

The two little lolis who had been sitting behind him had temporarily gone off somewhere. 

With noon approaching, more and more people gathered in the square. 

Li Chi began the final countdown in his heart. 

In the center of the square stood a huge dolphin statue. 

Li Chi planned to have the original Omega destroy this statue right there on the spot to showcase its destructive power. 

As for the statue… the organization could simply replace it with a new one tomorrow. 

Ten. 

Nine. 

Eight. 

Seven. 

Six… 

The fountain in the square suddenly burst to life. 

A massive water jet sprayed from the dolphin statue’s mouth, drawing the surrounding tourists closer. 

However, afraid of getting splashed, they only watched and took photos from a safe distance. 

This also guaranteed that the start of Li Chi’s plan would not harm any ordinary people. 

Five. 

Four. 

Three. 

Two… 

More and more people gathered around, but they all stopped at a distance from the fountain to admire it. 

It really left plenty of space for the upcoming fight. 

The time had come… 

…One! 

Boom—!!! 

A green afterimage dropped from the sky and smashed the dolphin statue and the fountain pool into pieces with a single strike. 

“There’s a monster!” 

“Everyone, run!” 

The crowd instantly scattered. 

Then, under the lead of several charismatic girls, they evacuated in an orderly fashion. 

Li Chi looked at the faint magical power radiating from those girls and confirmed they were magical girls. 

But… weren’t there way too many of them? 

How had the count already gone over ten? 

Had half of Canghai City’s magical girls all come here to play today? 

Oh right, there were probably some from other cities too. 

No wonder. 

Under normal circumstances, some monsters had already deeply integrated into human society, so ordinary people were used to seeing them. 

But this monster had shown overwhelming destructive power the moment it appeared. 

If that wasn’t dangerous, what was? 

If monsters were compared to a special group of people, then the one Li Chi had faced during his first mission at the amusement park had looked, in the eyes of ordinary people, like a group of street performers doing comedy skits. 

The original Omega, however, was like a rioter with a grenade blowing up the street. 

Of course people would run. 

Li Chi watched the orderly and rapid evacuation of the crowd and once again marveled at how absurdly high the average quality of people in this world was. 

Fortunately he had already mastered the secret to being a proper villain instead of a comedy act. 

Blowing up a random object in front of the crowd to create panic was extremely effective. 

After a while, only a few magical girls remained on site. 

Why were there still so many girls who hadn’t run?! 

Could they all be magical girls?! 

Originally there had been several hundred people gathered in the square. 

Almost all of them had evacuated by now, but a full fifty girls remained behind! 

No way. 

Don’t mess with me! 

The fifty girls left on site looked at one another. 

They all seemed curious why so many ordinary people were still around. 

Then their contracted beasts, apparently urging their hosts to make the “ordinary people” leave, all emerged at the same time. 

Pigeons, lollipops, speakers, tigers… all sorts of contracted beasts based on common objects appeared across the entire square. 

“……” ×50 

This was the first time they had encountered such a large gathering of magical girls. 

Everyone usually fought alone, occasionally teaming up in groups of two or three, or maybe five or six. 

Facing so many fellow magical girls for the first time left them all feeling a bit unaccustomed. 

In the end, a black-haired, straight-haired girl broke the awkward silence. 

“Everyone, let’s deal with the problem first!” 

She was a local. 

She had only come out for a stroll today and never expected to run into something like this. 

After being rallied, the girls immediately pulled out their transformation devices and began the special magical girl transformation sequence. 

For a moment the entire square filled with all kinds of colorful special effects. 

The dazzling, multicolored spectacle looked exactly like a massive concert on an enormous scale. 

Once all the magical girls had finished transforming, they finally noticed the odd one out in the crowd. 

A blue-haired boy. 

Although his appearance was somewhat androgynous, it was clear he was definitely not a girl, let alone a magical girl. 

Fifty pairs of colorful eyes all turned toward Li Chi, who was still sitting on the long bench. 

Li Chi: “……” 

I don’t dare to move. 

Not even a little. 

If he accidentally exposed himself now, he would be facing a joint beating from fifty magical girls. 

At this moment, Li Chi finally understood that Vivian’s earlier comment about “there might be quite a few magical girls here” had not been a simple reminder. 

It had been a warning!!! 

The girls only now realized there was still an ordinary person who was not a magical girl on site. 

They suddenly became aware that they had accidentally revealed their identities in front of a civilian. 

Li Chi’s face was fairly androgynous, which meant that when he had been hiding among the girls earlier, none of the magical girls had noticed him. 

It was only after everyone had finished transforming that they spotted the boy. 

A cute maid-style magical girl spoke up first. 

“Um… Mister… may I ask who you are?” 

His brain immediately went into overdrive! 

Spin, spin, keep spinning! 

Finally, a perfect excuse appeared once again! 

Li Chi raised his right hand. 

Golden bio-electricity slowly manifested around it. 

“I’m an executor from the Magic Association, here to find my magical girl partners for cooperation. Don’t worry, your identities haven’t been exposed.” 

Thankfully Li Chi had not been scared into a crash by the situation and had managed to pull out his Magic Association executor status as a shield in time. 

Right now he desperately wished Vivian were beside him. 

Otherwise he really might not have been able to get through this! 

Although he had a name listed in the Magic Association, he had no actual credentials on him! 

If these magical girls got serious and checked with the Magic Association, they would definitely notice something off, and his identity would be exposed for sure. 

“Eh! I remember him. He’s the new recruit at the Magic Association. I think Elder Xing Yao personally brought him in.” 

At that moment, a somewhat familiar magical girl with a parrot circling around her stepped out from the group. 

Li Chi immediately recognized who she was. 

She was the magical girl who had been critically injured and on the verge of death from the anti-human war armament last time! 

This girl had seen him when she woke up! 

And back then he had been in his current human form! 

Plus he had been with Xing Yao at the time! 

He was saved! 

Li Chi mentally kowtowed to this magical girl in gratitude. 

Hearing her vouch for him, the other magical girls accepted that Li Chi was from the Magic Association. 

Since magical girls often cooperated with the Magic Association and some executors teamed up with individual magical girls, this boy was, in a sense, their colleague. 

“Wow, someone personally recruited by Elder Xing Yao…” 

“His magical talent must be amazing!” 

“I’m so jealous!” 

With the risk of identity exposure gone, the magical girls chatted casually with friends or strangers nearby before turning their attention to the broken statue. 

Once the dust settled, the original Omega strode out from the rubble with overwhelming momentum and let out a domineering battle roar. 

“Gugu—Guga—Gaga—! …Guga?!” 

The moment the original Omega looked up, it saw fifty magical girls staring at it with shining eyes. 

Meanwhile its chief was stuck right in the middle of the magical girl crowd, not daring to move a muscle. 

Judging from the way he had his hands pressed together in prayer, he was probably silently mourning for it right now. 

The entire scene fell deathly silent—so quiet that even a pin dropping could have been heard clearly. 

“Starlight Ray—!” 

“Frost Edge—!” 

“Magic Power Charge Explosion—!” 

“Wind Blade—!” 

“Rainbow Beam—!” 

“Flame Whirlwind—!” 

“Light Sword Slash—!” 

“Magic Flame—!” 

“Storm Thrust—!” 

“Rapid-Fire Magic Bullets—!” 

“Water Wave—!”  

As all kinds of chuuni-sounding ultimate techniques were shouted out by the magical girls, fifty different magical girl finishing moves turned into a massive wave that swept forward and instantly swallowed the original Omega whole. 

“Gugu ga—” 

It didn’t even get to let out a complete scream… 

Original Omega—defeated! 

Dark Fang cells annihilated. 

Basic monster body destroyed. 

Returned to magic crystal core state. 

Li Chi watched with tears in his eyes as the original Omega scattered into particles of magic power. 

In the end, all that remained of this monster brother was a single cold magic crystal core. 

Bro, you suffered for nothing. 

We didn’t lose this fight unfairly…