If only that Emperor-class monster could be lured out so easily, Long Wen would already be waiting here, ready to kill it the moment it showed itself.
“The monster escaped with her four most trusted subordinates, all at the Initial Bloom-class level. And they’re all human, which makes it easier for them to blend into the city.”
Xia Mo explained that this time, their target wasn’t the monster itself, but its subordinates.
And they weren’t planning to clash with those subordinates head-on, either.
“Didn’t you make a temporary Sealing Card before? We’ll put on a show, fighting over the Sealing Card you made, then pretend to be both badly injured, and try to lure out the monster’s subordinates.”
“If it doesn’t work the first time, we’ll try twice. If twice isn’t enough, then three times. If there’s still no reaction, then maybe the monster really isn’t anywhere near Xinghai City.”
Actually, this kind of operation had already begun in other cities, but Xinghai City had a unique advantage compared to the others—there really was a Villain here who could go toe-to-toe with a Magical Girl and end up in a draw.
And this Villain could even make a Fake Sealing Card—that was just perfect.
“Dark Moth, please help me out this time!” Xia Mo pressed her palms together and bowed her head deeply.
If the situation wasn’t so inappropriate, Luo Shuangyue felt Xia Mo might even do a dogeza in front of her.
“What if that Emperor-class monster really does show up?”
“Senior Long Wen will be watching from the side when that happens.”
Well, looks like she couldn’t find any reasonable excuse to refuse now.
Luo Shuangyue let out a helpless sigh in her heart.
Fine, what else could she do? Since Xia Mo had already made up her mind, she’d just go along with it.
“But let me say this first: I’m not helping you for free. If the price you offer can’t satisfy me—”
Before Luo Shuangyue could finish, Xia Mo held up a few fingers and quoted a shockingly large number.
“You’re not trying to sell me to your Magic Department, are you?” Luo Shuangyue sucked in a cold breath.
That amount was almost three years of her salary!
The Magic Department was really this rich?
Wow, filthy rich dogs!
“If you’re willing to join our Magic Department, you’d get at least this much every year. And no matter what happens to you in the future, as long as you don’t betray humanity or the Magic Department, this money will be paid to you until the day you die.” Xia Mo scratched her head.
Wasn’t the treatment Magical Girls got in the Magic Department public knowledge?
According to their strength level, each Magical Girl’s base salary was about the same.
Then, depending on how many battles they fought against monsters each month, there were extra bonuses.
Even a complete newbie who just became a Magical Girl could live comfortably on just their base pay.
Basically, as long as a Magical Girl was willing to join the Magic Department, the Magic Department would never let her down.
When it came to fawning over people, the Magic Department was a true expert!
“Fine, for that much money, I’ll take the job!” Luo Shuangyue admitted that faced with such a huge sum, all her little hang-ups instantly vanished.
Even though she didn’t really lack money working for Eternal Night, sometimes she did feel a little pinch when something came up.
But after this job with the Magic Department, she’d be rich in no time.
Luo Shuangyue had always been a very pragmatic person—so pragmatic she hardly seemed like a Magical Girl.
Other Magical Girls were always sacrificing and fighting for their ideals, treating money as something unimportant, something they could take or leave.
But Luo Shuangyue? She didn’t think that way at all.
If other Magical Girls had thoughts like hers, their faith would collapse and their strength would plummet.
But she wasn’t affected in the slightest.
It was as if the laws that applied to Magical Girls simply didn’t exist for her.
“If you just want a simple Sealing Card, I can make one that’s about seventy percent authentic, and it’ll last for about a week.”
“If you want to add something special to the card, though, then it’ll only be stable for a day. After a day, the card will lose stability and could break at any time.”
As a Villain, Luo Shuangyue had thought she might one day be captured by the Magic Department or break into it to cause chaos.
But she never imagined her first time entering the Magic Department would be as a collaborator.
“So, how do you like it here?” Xia Mo smiled at Luo Shuangyue’s odd expression.
Xia Mo had brought Luo Shuangyue to one of the Magic Department’s most vital departments, the one that specialized in dealing with Magical Girls and monsters—outsiders had absolutely no way of getting in here.
But the style wasn’t as unique as Luo Shuangyue had imagined.
It wasn’t much different from any other department these days.
The biggest difference was that the corridors were lined with portraits of Magical Girls.
All the Magical Girls in these portraits had achieved legendary feats for humanity over the past decades.
And at the very front of the line was the figure Luo Shuangyue was most familiar with.
Four white ponytails, dazzling golden eyes, a slender green-bladed sword hanging at her waist—she was also one of the rare Magical Girls in this lineup who didn’t belong to the Magic Department.
Normally, the Magic Department wouldn’t hang up portraits of Magical Girls who weren’t under their command—unless her achievements were so outstanding that the Magic Department simply couldn’t ignore her.
And White Night was exactly such a person.
She was an unavoidable presence among Magical Girls.
Whenever people talked about Magical Girls, they would always mention White Night.
After all, she had been the world’s number one for so many years, slaying monsters beyond count.
Even powerful Emperor-class monsters—she could charge alone into their lair, cut off their heads, and return victorious.
“All these seniors are my role models!” Xia Mo said as she saw Luo Shuangyue looking at the portraits along the corridor.
But when these words reached Luo Shuangyue’s ears, the meaning changed.
She knew that not many of the Magical Girls in these portraits were still alive.
This was The List of Martyr Heroines!
“But they all… sigh.” Luo Shuangyue let out a sigh.
Here, it was better not to say anything disrespectful.
After all, Long Wen was also here.
If she overheard, she might come over and give Luo Shuangyue a little lesson.
Magical Girls usually had good tempers, but if you spoke ill of their comrades, they’d show you what it meant when even a bodhisattva could glare in anger.
Although Luo Shuangyue didn’t finish her sentence, Xia Mo still understood what she meant.
She knew very well that Luo Shuangyue was worried she’d end up like those seniors, burning out in battle against monsters.
Being a Magical Girl was never a safe job.
Why did the Magic Department offer such good treatment? Wasn’t it because Magical Girls risked their lives in every fight?
This was literally life-risking money!
“Don’t worry, I’ll take good care of myself.” Reaching out to put her arm around Luo Shuangyue’s shoulders, Xia Mo whispered in her ear.
Luo Shuangyue instinctively replied, “Mm,” and then realized something was off.
Wait, this isn’t right!
I, Dark Moth, don’t have that kind of relationship with Xia Mo, do I?
Why is Xia Mo putting her arm around my shoulders and telling me not to worry?
Shouldn’t you be saying that to your friends, not to me, your enemy?
“Whether you live or die is none of my business, get off, get off!” Luo Shuangyue immediately put on a defensive attitude, determined to keep up her enemy persona.
Dark Moth is Rosemary’s enemy—enemy!
Pushed away by Luo Shuangyue’s cold rejection, Xia Mo’s face showed a subtle, unreadable smile.
Watching Luo Shuangyue act like this, she found it genuinely amusing.
When Shuangyue learned the truth later, she’d probably want to crawl into a hole from embarrassment!
Just thinking about it made Xia Mo want to laugh even more.
Shuangyue, Shuangyue, you think you’re acting so well, but you have no idea that Shuang Xing and I already know your identity.
That ambiguous half-smile on Xia Mo’s face made Luo Shuangyue feel uneasy.
The longer she looked, the stranger it seemed, as if she was a bug caught in a spider’s web, and Xia Mo was the spider slowly approaching.
So creepy, so scary.
Fortunately, that feeling didn’t last long.
Soon, the two of them arrived at a room with a “Rest Room” sign hanging outside.
“Lily Siam is here today, let’s all talk over the details of the next operation…” As she spoke, Xia Mo opened the door.
Then, the two of them heard loud voices coming from inside the room.
“Wenwen-jie, you let your guard down! Watch my infinite combo!”
“What? You caught that opening too? You’re totally cheating, you must be cheating!”
“That’s called keen observation, Wenwen-jie!”
What do Magical Girls do when they’re on break? Have a tea party and chat? Read novels? Reminisce about their glorious battles with monsters?
All possible.
After all, when there’s no mission, Magical Girls are just ordinary girls.
So two Magical Girls huddling together to play video games was perfectly normal, right?
Watching Long Wen and Luo Shuangxing playing heatedly with their game controllers in front of the console, Luo Shuangyue’s expression turned a little stiff.
Well.
She could accept her younger sister playing games—after all, Shuang Xing was still a young girl.
But Long Wen, playing games with Luo Shuangxing—that was just too much! Luo Shuangyue clearly remembered that Senior Long Wen was from her mother’s generation!
In other words, Long Wen was her mother’s peer, and now Luo Shuangxing was calling her “Wenwen-jie” and Long Wen was happily responding?
Although Long Wen looked very young, her real age was pushing fifty!
“Has your life always been this lively and colorful?”