But she still never expected that the one she had to capture wouldn’t be a person at all.
From a building dozens of floors high, that strange girl just jumped without hesitation.
After leaping out, the girl didn’t use any momentum or cushioning techniques—she purely relied on her powerful physical strength to withstand the fall damage, then immediately charged straight toward a densely crowded area, hoping to escape Xie Jingci’s pursuit.
But Xie Jingci was not so easily shaken off; behind her was an elite squad from the Magic Department.
After a round of chase and pursuit, Xie Jingci finally caught up with that peculiar girl in a narrow alley.
As she issued a warning, the weapon in her hand, resembling a mirror, emitted a seven-colored beam targeting the girl.
Xie Jingci wondered if this person might obediently surrender, so she launched her attack without hesitation.
Knock her down directly!
Naturally, the girl wouldn’t surrender easily.
Countless black tendrils burst out from beneath her black clothes, lunging toward Xie Jingci, causing a flicker of surprise in Xie Jingci’s eyes.
“So it really is a remnant of that organization! Today, I will not let you escape!”
“The Magic Department in Jidong City has issued a Summon Order. I need to head there and assist,” Xia Mo said to Luo Shuangyue and Yuan as she glanced down at her phone.
The issuance of a Summon Order indicated that the current situation was no longer optimistic.
The Magic Department in Jidong City believed they could no longer handle the crisis alone and needed the help of other Magical Girls in the city.
At this moment, like the Magic Department in Jidong City, Xia Mo, also belonging to the Magic Department, had to go and assist—it was her duty.
“What about you two?”
Yuan was the first to shake her head; she had to guard Jingan Palace and couldn’t leave casually.
Moreover, because of Scarlet Feather Flame Princess, she had never liked the Magic Department very much, so don’t expect her to help out there.
As for Luo Shuangyue, her thoughts were simple: being alone in unfamiliar Jidong City was never as safe as being with two people, so naturally, she would stick closely to Xia Mo.
“I’ll go with you.”
“Good!” Xia Mo nodded in satisfaction. “Then, Miss Yuan, we’ll take our leave first.”
After bidding farewell to Yuan, Xia Mo took Luo Shuangyue directly toward the Magic Department’s headquarters in Jidong City.
Perhaps to demonstrate the Magic Department’s neutrality, the Jidong City Magic Department was located at the junction of the city’s three districts, and overall, it was much larger than the Magic Department in Xinghai City.
Upon arriving at the Magic Department in Jidong City, Xia Mo saw Scarlet Feather Flame Princess, whom she had recently encountered at Jingan Palace, and a slightly mature-looking unfamiliar girl.
“I’m Lin Xixuan, considered her deputy,” the girl introduced herself. “Thank you both for coming to help. We are really short on manpower right now.”
The places experiencing strange phenomena were increasing. There weren’t many Magical Girls in Jidong City, and even fewer were available to monitor these locations.
Currently, every Magical Girl in Jidong City had to juggle multiple roles just to barely cope with the situation.
At this moment, the arrival of Xia Mo and Luo Shuangyue, both Initial Bloom-class Magical Girls, was like a life-saving transfusion for the Magic Department in Jidong City.
Lin Xixuan was deeply moved.
No wonder they are comrades in magic! This timely help is truly a godsend!
“We also encountered these kinds of demons near Jingan Palace. Their appearance is very strange. Do you have any leads?” Because she was speaking to colleagues from the Magic Department, the task of communication naturally fell on Xia Mo.
As for Luo Shuangyue, she was just an emotionless background figure.
“You handled the demons?” Scarlet Feather Flame Princess looked up from her book and asked.
“Miss Yuan purified the demons, but even after they disappeared, the demonic aura remained. New demons will quickly emerge again,” Xia Mo nodded and then shook her head. She wasn’t sure if this counted as a solution or not.
“Yuan can’t completely purify them either…” Scarlet Feather Flame Princess showed a regretful expression.
However, she wasn’t too surprised since Yuan’s purification ability wasn’t as powerful as hers.
Even she couldn’t solve these current problems.
“In any case, please patrol and keep watch over these locations first. If any demon activity occurs, report it to us immediately!”
“Understood. We’re heading there now,” Xia Mo nodded and was about to leave with Luo Shuangyue when she noticed Luo Shuangyue’s eyes fixed intently on the corridor.
Following Luo Shuangyue’s gaze, she saw a Magical Girl carrying a badly beaten girl entering a room labeled ‘Shenxue Room’.
The beaten girl looked somewhat familiar.
“Both of them look familiar,” Xia Mo said—she recognized one, and Luo Shuangyue recognized both.
Not only that, Luo Shuangyue sensed a faintly familiar scent emanating from the defeated girl, somewhat similar to Mo Four.
“Mirror is back? Looks like she has something to show for it,” Scarlet Feather Flame Princess also looked up and quickly stood, moving toward the interrogation room like a gust of wind.
Yesterday, Xie Jingci reported the investigation results to her, and today, Xie Jingci had caught someone. Scarlet Feather Flame Princess naturally guessed who the person caught was.
It had to be the one who had cut off every clue ahead of the Magic Department—that is, the close aide of the Royal-Class Magic Beast!
“This is…” Luo Shuangyue’s curious expression showed she sensed there was something interesting.
There was definitely some juicy information here, and having seen it, how could she not dig in?
“You know about that recent commotion, right? We’ve been tracking down the remnants of that Royal-Class Magic Beast. The person caught just now is one of them,” Lin Xixuan didn’t hide anything.
There was nothing to hide about this kind of matter.
“Moreover, very likely one of the Royal-Class Magic Beast’s trusted lieutenants!”
A trusted lieutenant of a Royal-Class Magic Beast?
Honestly, Luo Shuangyue found it hard to believe. Wouldn’t the Royal-Class Magic Beast’s trusted lieutenants have fled with it already? How could any stay behind in Jidong City?
Wouldn’t that be cannon fodder?
Besides, the Royal-Class Magic Beast already had Mo One through Mo Four—all fully accounted for. And this one? Mo Five?
Ranked fifth and yet still single-handedly brought back by an Initial Bloom-class Magical Girl? Could that really be a trusted lieutenant? Somehow, it just didn’t add up.
“We fought the Royal-Class Magic Beast’s subordinates in Xinghai City. They were very strong, but that one just now didn’t seem so powerful,” Luo Shuangyue tactfully reminded them.
The person you caught is too weak. Doesn’t feel like someone important at all.
Lin Xixuan smiled. “You’re probably talking about those guards Mo One and the others. The Royal-Class Magic Beast’s organization doesn’t just have fighters. Naturally, there are also those specialized in handling other tasks.”
This world isn’t like, if you’re strong, you can do everything.
Look at Magical Girls—they’re strong in battle, but the Magic Department still has a large number of ordinary people handling logistics and support.
Evil organizations also have many ordinary strategists—brains who don’t fight on the frontlines.
“If you two are interested, you can go inside and take a look. You’ve faced the Royal-Class Magic Beast before, so you might hold some clues we don’t know.”
With Lin Xixuan’s permission, Luo Shuangyue and Xia Mo exchanged a glance.
Figuring they had nothing to lose, they followed Lin Xixuan into the interrogation room.
By then, Scarlet Feather Flame Princess and Xie Jingci had already strapped the captured girl tightly onto a large metal bed, binding her with various metallic straps so firmly there was no chance of escape.
As for the girl’s clothes, they had long since been mercilessly stripped and thrown aside. When dealing with these traitors to humanity, Magical Girls never showed mercy.
“She only had some loose change and weapons on her, plus a phone—but strangely, the phone has no power and is quite old-fashioned,” Xie Jingci said without much expression upon seeing Xia Mo and Luo Shuangyue enter.
She hadn’t recognized Luo Shuangyue as Moth, the Magical Girl she met yesterday.
She thought these were other Magical Girls who responded to the Summon Order and came to help.
“Charge it and turn it on to check.” Scarlet Feather Flame Princess immediately suggested.
“We tried. There’s nothing on it—completely clean, as if it’s never been used since purchase.”
As the two whispered about how to extract information from this assassin who was still loyal to the organization even after its leader’s death, Luo Shuangyue had already walked over to the side of the girl.
She observed the girl’s tightly bound body—pale and lifeless, with many fresh, bloodied wounds, likely from a recent fight.
While she studied the girl, the girl’s pure black eyes locked onto her.
Those still, deep eyes seemed to be brewing some emotion, as if finally seeing her master and feeling like a loyal hound.
“What’s her name?” Luo Shuangyue asked the others, looking up.
Of course, no one knew the answer.
The girl carried nothing to verify her identity, and no records of her existed in Jidong City’s archives.
“What’s your name?” Seeing she couldn’t get an answer from the others, Luo Shuangyue turned to the girl and asked, not expecting much.
She had a feeling that these kinds of death soldiers would never answer; their minds were twisted to the extreme, and no amount of torture could make them speak.
“Molin.”
See? She wouldn’t…
Wait, what did she say?
Luo Shuangyue was stunned for a moment and couldn’t react immediately.
“What did she just say?” She turned to the others, who looked equally confused.
Xia Mo slowly raised her right hand and answered uncertainly, “It seems she said her name is Molin?”
Wasn’t this supposed to be a death soldier? Weren’t they supposed to die rather than talk?
Have some backbone, will you! Luo Shuangyue was speechless. She hadn’t expected her question to actually get a response.
“Speak! What exactly are you plotting?” Xie Jingci, noticing the girl’s resolve wasn’t as firm as expected, quickly stepped forward to interrogate.
But her questions fell on deaf ears—no responses at all.
Molin’s eyes remained locked on Luo Shuangyue, not a hair’s breadth of deviation.
“Could it be that she’s not stubborn, but Moth has some strange effect that makes people spill the truth?” Scarlet Feather Flame Princess whispered, then called out to Luo Shuangyue, “Moth, ask her what the conspiracy is!”
Luo Shuangyue scratched her head, utterly confused.
Why was Molin only answering her questions?
Forget it, just ask the questions that need to be asked.
“What conspiracy are you plotting?”
“I don’t know. My mission is to eliminate any obstacles that might disrupt the plan. Those people became obstacles, so I was ordered to kill them,” Molin said in a flat, emotionless tone.
So she was just an assassin? Did she have someone backing her?
“Who gave you the orders?” Without needing Scarlet Feather Flame Princess to remind her, Luo Shuangyue already knew what to ask.
“I don’t know her name. I only know she’s the master’s most trusted person. Even though the master has left, she continues to carry out the plan according to the master’s instructions.”
So it’s a single line of contact again? Luo Shuangyue’s head ached. Capturing this person or not, does it even make a difference?
“Is the city’s current anomaly your plan?”
“I don’t know.”
“The people you killed, the ones you’re supposed to kill—are they all related to this plan or helping with it?”
“I don’t know. I only received orders to deal with them.”
“How do you receive orders?”
“Phone. After the mission is completed, she calls me to tell me who the next target is.”
Having asked all the questions in one breath, Luo Shuangyue glanced at the others, silently saying, ‘I’ve done all I can.’
All that’s left is to see how well you solve this puzzle.
Oh, no—Luo Shuangyue realized she had missed one question.
“Why do you not answer their questions but answer mine?”
The girl tilted her head; she didn’t think this was a question.
“Because you are my master, the one who grants all that I have.”