I'm a magical girl in the future

Chapter 174 Who Wins, Whom Do They Help?

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"That concludes all that I have witnessed and observed during this period."

Yao Guang's holographic projection bowed slightly, concluding her half-hour-long report.

In the meeting room of the Council of Seven, apart from Chief Kui Biao who was in charge of presiding, only Tian Quan and Tian Xuan were present; the rest participated in the meeting via holographic projection.

"The conclusion is that the information provided by the corrupted magical girl, Mizuki, largely corroborates Noah's account. The information Yuheng obtained earlier can be considered accurate. However—Noah seems unwilling to elaborate on how they defeated three 'Eternal Glory' level corrupted magical girls."

"Oh."

Kaiyang's holographic image scoffed.

"They won, but they won't tell us how they won. How interesting. This Miss Noah, she's still holding back some things from us."

"While I agree on that point, we'd better not dwell on it," Tianxuan said. "Yaoguang's report has confirmed Noah's abilities. What we need to discuss now is how to deal with this situation and whether we should reassess our approach to Noah."

"Oh?" Kaiyang glanced at Tianxuan. "You mean we should change our stance now and support Noah? Don't forget, we reached a neutrality agreement with 'The Future'."

Tianquan shook his head. "There's no need to go to that extent. I personally think we can take a more moderate approach—providing her covertly. Without revealing our own stance, we can provide Noah with the necessary intelligence and supplies. This way, we can strengthen her without putting ourselves in a passive position too early."

Tian Shu nodded: "Tian Quan's suggestion is excellent. The value Noah has demonstrated is worth investing in at a higher risk."

Tianji echoed, "A magical girl who could defeat even three members of the Council of Seven—regardless of how she did it, that strength alone is enough to make us reconsider our position. Noah has also shown a willingness to cooperate with us; now is the perfect time to win her over."

Hmph, what an opportunist.

Tianxuan snorted coldly in her heart, feeling a sense of disdain for the change in attitude of Tianshu, Tianquan, and Tianji.

She vividly recalled that in the initial vote, all three of them wanted to kidnap Noah and send her to the future forces. Now, seeing Noah demonstrate her formidable strength, the tide has turned, and they've immediately begun plotting how to extract benefits from her.

It's a classic case of "whoever wins, they'll help them."

However, she did not show her disdain.

"If you're going to help Noah, just be open about it. Why all the secrecy?" Yao Guang said dismissively. "I propose we openly give Noah our maximum support! Let's show that so-called future our stance! Let them know that this era isn't a place where they can act with impunity!"

This radical proposal stunned everyone.

"Noah alone can withstand the attack from the future assassins. If we add our support, we can completely ignore those people from the future, right? Even if a full-scale war breaks out..."

"No." Tianquan reacted and immediately interrupted her. "All-out war? Even if we can defeat them, the battlefield will still be on our side of the world, right? The damage will be entirely on our side, and even if we win, we will pay a huge price. I cannot agree to your proposal."

Tianxuan nodded. Although she looked down on Tianquan's opportunistic behavior, she acknowledged this point: "Noah's combat power is indeed unfathomable, and that so-called future force doesn't seem as powerful as we initially thought. However, publicly supporting them is tantamount to pushing ourselves completely to the forefront, and the risks involved are too great."

"Personally, I really want to work with Noah again," Yuheng's holographic image said. "However, I think we can adopt a 'semi-public' approach to support each other."

"Semi-public?" Kaiyang frowned, clearly unable to understand what she meant.

Supporting this kind of thing—how can it be done in a semi-public way?

"It's very simple." Yuheng held up one finger. "For example, accidentally" leaking some information, or accidentally" losing some supplies that she could find.

"If the forces of the future come knocking on our door demanding answers, we'll pretend we know nothing. We just had poor information management, or accidentally lost something; we didn't intentionally help her. That way, we can absolve ourselves of all responsibility, right?"

Kaiyang was speechless. She looked at Yuheng's holographic projection with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot.

What kind of thinking is this? Do they think people in the future are idiots?

However, Kaiyang had already begun to feel that something was amiss.

She's already secretly supporting this. However, if this becomes a consensus within the Council of Seven, Noah might receive too many resources, thus ruining the plan to "make Noah and the future forces mutually destructive."

In that case, if Noah receives too much support, this uncontrollable and dangerous individual will gain too much influence in the world. Kaiyang doesn't see this as a good thing.

At this point, she had to find a way to guide the council's direction. "Gentlemen, I think it's best to be cautious," Kaiyang said after a moment's thought. "Whether it's open support or covert assistance, it's essentially a gamble. Once our actions are noticed by the future forces, who can guarantee that they won't direct their anger at us?"

We have absolutely no idea what level of power we possess over that future. Meanwhile, they have already experienced our past and know us inside and out. Given this complete information asymmetry, any form of intervention is an extremely dangerous gamble.

"Ultimately, I won't completely trust Noah, but I also won't stand by and watch her be eliminated. I support providing her with covert assistance, but this assistance must be kept as reasonable as possible."

"Oh? 'Within reasonable limits'?" Tian Shu became interested. "Tell me about it?"

"Well, what I mean is, we should try not to involve too many people. Because if too many people are involved, the risk of exposure will increase significantly. So we should entrust this task to a small group of people, so that it is less likely to be discovered by the future forces, and it can also serve to support Noah."