She was being hunted down, so she became a magical girl.

After leading Xu Ting to the office, the girl with the gun turned on the light.

She has long, almost silvery-white gray hair and jewel-like sky-blue eyes.

Judging solely from her appearance, she is no less attractive than Xu Ting, who is a magical girl.

"Let's begin the interview."

She sat in her office chair issuing orders.

"I am Yan Yuling, the acting manager of the Super Cute Maid Cafe. In principle, I cannot recruit new people when the manager is away on business, but if you are good enough, I can make an exception."

"Come on, treat this empty cup as coffee, and me as the customer. Let's start the simulation."

"This piece of paper has the standard lines for the maids in the shop written on it. Just read them."

As we all know, "in principle" means negation, and "in principle cannot" is the same as "can".

Xu Ting picked up the cup and the porcelain plate together and walked to the door.

She put on a sweet smile, walked briskly to the table, and gently placed the cup down.

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, Master. Here's the coffee you ordered. Let me cast a spell to make it even more delicious."

Xu Ting pressed the porcelain plate against her chest with her left hand and gently stroked the empty cup with her right, as if caressing the barrel of her beloved gun.

After suppressing his discomfort, Xu Ting read the lines on the paper and stepped aside, resuming his timid demeanor, awaiting Yan Yuling's evaluation.

Yan Yuling stared at the empty rim of the cup and asked:

"Your appearance is definitely up to standard, but are you really willing to work here?"

"Of course I'm willing, I have no other choice."

Yan Yuling remained noncommittal. She picked up the coffee cup with her fingers and took a sip.

"This tastes like a lie."

"You don't actually plan to stay here for long."

What is this guy saying?

Wasn't the cup empty? Was her taking a sip just a pretense?

As if hearing Xu Ting's thoughts, Yan Yuling immediately explained:

"You might think I'm deliberately making things difficult for you."

"I'm the one who's gone the furthest in the whole café when it comes to the way of the maids, so I can tell a maid's character just by looking at her behavior."

She gently set down her coffee cup and continued, incisively:

"You are an arrogant person."

"Perhaps you really have nowhere else to turn, but you're only temporarily staying in our coffee shop. Sooner or later, you'll choose to leave."

"When you called me master just now, and when you recited the delicious magic lines, I could see very slight resistance from you."

"It wasn't the shy resistance of other girls, but a much more resolute resistance."

She looked directly into Xu Ting's eyes and delivered her verdict without any mercy:

"Deep down, you don't think anyone is worthy of the title 'master'."

"People with these qualities are not suited for the path of a maid."

Great.

Xu Ting thought he had eliminated as many flaws as possible, but Yan Yuling still saw through him.

As expected, those who can serve as acting managers at the adorable maid cafe are no ordinary people.

Sipping coffee from an empty cup is also a way to create pressure. Xu Ting also likes to use some inexplicable little actions to put pressure on the other party when negotiating contracts.

Now that things have come to this, Xu Ting no longer needs to deliberately maintain a submissive demeanor.

She straightened up and looked down at Yan Yuling in the office chair.

"So you're not planning to recruit me?"

Yan Yuling shook her head and said:

"The way of the maid is just my personal standard of judgment; it's hard to say according to the store's standards."

"A lot of your story was made up, wasn't it? Post this and repeat the true parts."

Xu Ting followed Yan Yuling's finger and saw a small machine lying quietly on the table.

This is a lie detector.

She put on the heart rate monitoring patch from the lie detector and said:

"It's true that I was abandoned by my father." She was indeed an orphan who grew up in an orphanage.

"It's true that I escaped from the mafia by sheer luck." Becoming a magical girl is no ordinary stroke of luck.

"It's true that I'm homeless, desperate, and can't find a single piece of clothing that fits me."

"Most importantly, I have no ill intentions towards the adorable maid café; I genuinely just want to use it as a place to start a new chapter in my life."

After saying those four sentences, the lie detector still showed a green light.

Yan Yuling nodded gently.

"You can try it out here for a while first."

"Once the store manager returns from her business trip, she will decide whether or not to keep you."

The crisis was resolved.

Xu Ting breathed a sigh of relief. Even if she failed her probation period, she had achieved her goal of escaping the encirclement.

"Next, sign your real name on this contract."

"Starting tomorrow, I will arrange work for you."

"If you really don't like calling others 'master,' then you can just call them 'guest' like I do. Anyway, with your face, you could be a street-smart, delinquent-style maid and still have customers."

Yan Yuling pushed a contract towards her.

Xu Ting signed his name on it.

Because the lie detector had not yet been removed from her, she had to write down her real name.

This was probably Yan Yuling's intention; she would definitely use this to investigate Xu Ting's true identity.

Unfortunately, she couldn't find anything by using the name "Xu Ting".

People in the underworld only knew Xu Ting by his code name "The Color Loser," and no one knew his real name.

The vigilance of the past has paid off at this moment.

"Xu Ting...that's a somewhat androgynous name."

Yan Yuling put away the contract and said:

"Go take a shower first, then put on my clothes and go to bed to rest."

"Some of them might not fit, I'll take you to buy new clothes later."

......

The super cute maid café is indeed well-funded, even new employees are assigned clean and beautiful private rooms.

Lying on the bed in his private room, Xu Ting began to consider his next move.

Having joined the adorable maid café, she finally has a place to belong.

After that, she had to find an opportunity to return to the safe house to gather her equipment, retrieve her anonymous bank account, and start killing the Blackwater gang leaders one by one.

There's also Tianyi Group, which betrayed her.

Tianyi Group is ultimately a behemoth that controls Hezhi City. Xu Ting cannot afford to be an enemy of the entire Tianyi Group; he only needs to kill the relevant personnel.

In order to achieve the goal of revenge, the power of a magical girl is indispensable.

Thinking of this, she silently called upon the crow with whom she had made a pact.

"I'm not a crow, call me the Black Phoenix."

A crow suddenly appeared on her chest, flapping its wings in dissatisfaction.

Because the crow is her contracted beast, Xu Ting can communicate with the crow in "team voice chat" using only her thoughts, and outsiders cannot see the communication between the crow and Xu Ting.

"How can I increase my magic power?" Xu Ting asked.

"The first month after signing the contract is a period of rapid growth in magic power. You can start by learning the finer control of magic power, and then wait for your magic power to grow naturally."

"Once you have enough magic power to transform, my power will also be restored to a considerable extent, and things will be simple after that."

"At that time, all you need to do is help me find girls with magical girl potential, have them sign contracts with me, and you can become their superior and receive a share of their magical power, enjoying a period of rapid magical power growth."

"How was it? Pretty easy, right?"

It's really easy, but it sounds like a pyramid scheme.

"And haven't you already discovered a promising candidate who's perfect for being a magical girl?"

The crow cawed twice and said:

"That little girl named Yan Yuling seems especially suited to be a magical girl."