Chapter 84: Playing Dirty

“Wait a minute, why have I never heard about any of this?” Xia Mo couldn’t help but interrupt.

It wasn’t that she doubted Luo Shuangyue was lying to her.

After learning that Dark Moth was actually Luo Shuangyue, her trust in her childhood friend was almost absolute.

But just because she didn’t suspect Luo Shuangyue of lying didn’t mean she wouldn’t question the authenticity of this information.

After all, Luo Shuangyue might have simply believed some mistaken news, thinking it was true, only to have been deceived herself.

“It’s because White Night isn’t a Magical Girl affiliated with the Magic Department. She’s a lone wolf, and only ever brags about her battles to her close friends.” Luo Shuangyue scratched her head. Wasn’t this easy enough to understand?

Her mom never had a good relationship with the Magic Department, and after defeating monsters, she never told them how the fights went.

So how could the Magic Department ever know how White Night dealt with the leftover Demonic Energy?

As for why the Evil Organization knows about the Sealing Cards, that’s thanks to those reckless villains—who knows which one of them discovered the existence of these cards and started treating them as a prime source of pure Demonic Energy.

Monice had heard White Night mention Sealing Cards a few times before, but she never paid much attention—until a few years ago, when Sealing Cards first started circulating in the Black Market.

That was when she finally took the matter seriously.

And it just so happened that was when Luo Shuangyue’s body started to mutate and she gained the ability to Transform.

Monice, troubled over how to recover the Sealing Cards, immediately set her sights on Luo Shuangyue and put her in charge of the task.

Tsk.

With such a handy tool right in front of her, why not make use of it?

“Our Eternal Night’s boss was once close friends with White Night, so she knows about these things…”

“But if what you’re saying is true, why doesn’t White Night handle these things herself? With her current strength, clearing out the lingering Demonic Energy should be a piece of cake, right?”

Yeah, if the real White Night was around, none of this would even be a problem…

But the issue now was that White Night wasn’t here!

Luo Shuangyue’s mom had been missing for years, not a word from her!

“Who knows, maybe she just doesn’t have the power to deal with these things anymore.” Luo Shuangyue’s lips twitched slightly as she answered.

But when Xia Mo heard this, the meaning changed in her mind.

She recalled White Night’s strange state before—the Transformation that couldn’t last, the face pale as a sheet.

It all hinted at one possibility.

Maybe Luo Shuangyue was right.

Maybe Mentor really didn’t have the strength to handle the Sealing Cards she left behind…

As Xia Mo was thinking about this, a very faint voice suddenly sounded in her ear, “Isn’t White Night already dead?”

Huh?

Xia Mo’s mind blanked for a moment when she heard the voice.

Dead? That can’t be. And where did that voice come from?

“I’m in your pocket… I’m not completely dead yet, so don’t treat me like a corpse.”

The one speaking was Ye Lin, whose body had been torn apart by a monster earlier.

Her true form was Demonic Energy sealed away by White Night.

As long as the Demonic Energy didn’t fully disappear, she wouldn’t die.

Having her body torn apart was indeed a serious loss, robbing her of the ability to interact with the outside world.

But talking to people was still no problem.

“The seal White Night left behind is actually very solid. As long as she still exists in this world, the seal’s power keeps getting replenished, and the Demonic Energy inside the cards won’t leak out.”

“But four years ago, the magic power maintaining the seal vanished. That’s when I finally found a chance to break through a gap and see daylight again.”

Ye Lin continued to explain.

Actually, the seal that Luo Shuangyue’s mom created was extremely reliable.

As long as nothing happened to White Night, the Sealing Cards couldn’t be destroyed, and the Demonic Energy inside would be gradually purified by White Night’s magic power.

Take Ye Lin, for example.

Her current state was already vastly different from ordinary monsters’ Demonic Energy.

Now, she was more like a mixture of White Night’s magic power and monster Demonic Energy that had gained sentience.

“But I just saw Mentor White Night a few days ago—she clearly still has the ability to Transform!” Xia Mo immediately retorted. How could Mentor possibly be dead?

If Mentor was dead, then who did she see a few days ago? A ghost?

Since when do ghosts have the strength of a Full Bloom Class Magical Girl?

“Huh? Are you sure the one you saw was the real White Night, and not a fake?”

“It was definitely her! Mentor looked exactly the same as she did ten years ago, and her aura was unmistakably Full Bloom Class… Dark Moth, why are you sweating? Is it too hot in here?”

Xia Mo and Ye Lin weren’t hiding their conversation from Luo Shuangyue, and their topic was so dangerous that Luo Shuangyue couldn’t help but sweat.

Most of what Ye Lin said was true.

The current White Night really wasn’t the real one, but a fake she’d created using her mom’s power!

But there was one thing Ye Lin got wrong: Luo Shuangyue’s mom definitely wasn’t dead. Otherwise, Luo Shuangyue wouldn’t be able to use the White Night Hair Clip to borrow White Night’s power.

This way of borrowing power was something Luo Shuangyue’s dad had developed, and his first and only creation was the White Night Hair Clip that Luo Shuangyue was using now.

“It’s nothing, you two keep talking…” Luo Shuangyue’s gaze darted around, but she still tried to act calm.

But in Xia Mo’s eyes, this reaction only raised more suspicions.

Why did Luo Shuangyue get so nervous when Ye Lin and she talked about White Night?

If what Ye Lin said was true, and the current Mentor White Night wasn’t the real one, then who was playing the role of the fake White Night?

The fake White Night first appeared right after Xia Mo got Disintegrated by Dark Moth.

As soon as Dark Moth left, Mentor White Night showed up.

The timing was just too much of a coincidence.

And Shuang Xing said that Luo Shuangyue’s training plan was exactly the same as White Night’s.

Before, both Xia Mo and Luo Shuangxing suspected that Luo Shuangyue’s boss was White Night.

But thinking about it now, maybe there was another possibility.

Could it be that Luo Shuangyue wasn’t just wearing one mask?

Dark Moth was her.

White Night… was also her.

“Oh, let me think…” Xia Mo withdrew her probing gaze, feeling she needed to find another way to confirm Mentor White Night’s identity.

“Ahem, don’t forget to hand over the Sealing Card to me.”

“…Sorry, I originally thought this card was useless to me, but now that it concerns Mentor White Night’s safety, I can’t give it to you just yet.”

Faced with Luo Shuangyue’s request, Xia Mo shamelessly refused. “I’ll give it to you after I figure out what’s going on with Mentor.”