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

"Qi Li, how can you fall asleep at this hour?"

Xu Ting woke up the sleeping Qi Li in a bad mood.

After getting on the back of the motorcycle, the girl quickly leaned against Xu Ting's back and fell asleep.

For Qi Li, this day's experience was definitely full of ups and downs.

It's understandable that she felt tired.

"Get up, you're all wet, you'll catch a cold if you stay in bed like this."

Qi Li opened her eyes sleepily and looked at the small apartment in front of her.

"Where is this?"

It is one of the properties under the name of the Christian Church.

The cult leader had no children, and these assets should have been confiscated after his death.

However, several former high-ranking members of the Confucian tradition, controlled by the Eye of Fear, fully exercised their initiative and made political donations to several important figures.

Therefore, these properties were all registered under the name of Luo Ruowei, the "saint" of the Christian church.

"This is where you'll be staying from now on."

Xu Ting parked the car at the door and knocked on the door with Qi Li.

The door opened quickly, and Luo Ruowei opened the door.

She received a message from Xu Ting and arrived at the apartment ahead of time to prepare.

"Why is it so wet?"

She quickly welcomed the two into the house, and then hurriedly went to the bathroom to get towels.

Only after Xu Ting and the other person were wrapped up in towels did she ask:

"So the important matter you mentioned is going to find Qi Li?"

"Yes, she'll be staying here from now on," Xu Ting replied.

"Take her to take a shower and change into warm clothes first, then I'll explain to you."

After Luo Ruowei led Qi Li towards the bathroom, she belatedly added:

"Don't be scared by Qi Li's hands."

After the two girls went into the bathroom, Xu Ting also turned a corner and waited in the living room.

"crow."

Xu Ting called out to her contracted beast.

There was no response.

"Black Phoenix".

A crow hopped out.

It glanced at Xu Ting, its eyes filled with an arrogant disdain for the world... or it could be interpreted as "I'm angry and I won't be happy if you don't comfort me."

Are you angry?

"Yes," the crow said bluntly, "You shouldn't have said I wasn't a contracted beast."

"...Then I apologize to you."

Xu Ting sighed.

"But it's not a lie to say I have no concerns about you."

"Why does Tianyi Group possess the power of magical girls? And what is the origin of your contracted beast? These questions have been swirling in my mind, but I haven't been able to ask them."

"This doubt was amplified, especially after hearing the story of the Grey Raven."

"And what you said today was really...cold, so I couldn't help but say those things."

The crow turned its body and looked at Xu Ting.

A hint of melancholy flashed in its eyes as it spoke with a touch of sadness:

"Xu Ting, you don't actually know what a contracted beast is."

"You're just projecting stories and characters from cartoons onto us."

"Our enemy is an evil god, far more powerful than any evil god apostle or magical girl. If no external force intervenes, he could wipe out this planet in the blink of an eye."

"In order to defeat Him, my master created me and made an oath to me—"

"Stop the evil god, at all costs."

"It's not just me; those magical girls are also prepared to sacrifice everything."

"They are fighting a war with us, a war fought out of despair for the future of human civilization."

"You call me cold-blooded? I'm just exploring the optimal solution driven by self-interest."

Xu Ting remained silent for a long time before saying, "So you're saying... your contracted beast has always been in your current form?"

"That's not entirely true, but I've always been this way," the crow said sincerely.

Xu Ting then asked, "Who was the 'master' who created you?"

"The creator of the contracted beast... you can think of it as another god, except that it is more like a collection of laws than an individual."

"You remember, I called the evil god the 'Extraterrestrial Evil God,' and the creator of the contracted beasts was also outside this universe."

"He sensed the state of the world, so he sent contracted beasts to create magical girls, which led to what happened next."

Xu Ting leaned forward curiously: "That contract...?"

"Contract documents are something new that appeared after the fall of the evil god."

"With the fall of the evil god, the remaining evil god apostles are no longer a catastrophe of world-ending magnitude, and many contracted beasts have chosen to leave this world. In order to prevent a shortage of magical girls, they created contract documents as a substitute."

"But you didn't leave." Xu Ting keenly noticed this. "Why?"

The crow opened its beak and said:

"Because I saw a terrible possibility."

"The apostles of the evil god are making a comeback? That's impossible. After the evil god died, his followers became like water without roots."

"Even though the four divine messengers are still creating new evil god apostles, they are essentially just distributing their abilities to their subordinates. Their power has its limits and they cannot reverse the established situation."

Xu Ting took a deep breath: "Then what possibility did you see?"

The crow closed its eyes, spread its wings, and cast its shadow on Xu Ting's face.

What I see is the possibility of magical girls ruling the world.

"Magical girls changed the war, and the war changed the magical girls. At first, they were really just stopping the evil god's dominance, but later, many magical girls believed that they were fighting for dominance."

"Now that the evil god has fallen, his apostles are no longer a threat."

"For those magical girls, isn't this the perfect opportunity to 'conquer the world'?"

Xu Ting's expression became more serious than ever before.

She asked seriously, "Has what you called 'possible' already become a reality?"

"That's right."

The crow replied, "Didn't you just ask why the Tianyi Group possesses the power of magical girls?"

"Actually, it wasn't the Destiny Group that controlled the magical girls, but rather the magical girls who created the Destiny Group."

"Do you remember what that mysterious magical girl said during the [Epitaph Incident]?"

Magical Girl, My Comrade

Their power was stolen by the Tianyi Group, and they were exiled, suppressed, slandered, and murdered.

Seeing that Xu Ting had remembered, the crow continued:

"A huge disagreement arose within the magical girls regarding whether or not to rule the world."

"That mysterious magical girl belongs to the faction that does not support magical girls ruling humanity and was purged and persecuted by other magical girls."

"They were falsely accused of 'colluding with the apostles of evil gods' and were purged and stripped of their power one by one."

"The ruling magical girls persecute the egalitarian magical girls, and the egalitarian magical girls also believe that the latter no longer deserve to be called magical girls."

"And so, in the end, the magical girls broke out into a civil war."

"A war far more destructive than the anti-god war of yesteryear."

Ironically, the evil god cherishes the planet beneath your feet.

"He believes that every inch of this planet should be under His rule, so the battles between the evil god's apostles have been kept in check, rarely causing great destruction to the earth."

"But magical girl battles... really have no sense of proportion."

"And this, perhaps, foreshadows the end of the world."