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Chapter 35 Analysis

Binhai City Magical Girl Association.

In a spacious conference room, colorful magical girls gathered together.

This is the first time so many magical girls have appeared here at the same time. They are currently gathered around a long rectangular table, discussing something together.

With a professional smile, Shui Lan clapped her hands a few times to signal everyone to be quiet. She cleared her throat lightly, "Before we officially begin, let me introduce a new teammate!"

Upon hearing this, Shengxue stood up and politely bowed to everyone. "Greetings, seniors. My name is Shengxue, and I will fight alongside you all from now on!"

"Correction, you don't need to call me senior. Here, we all address each other as sisters," Shui Lan said gently.

Chi Yan suddenly slammed her hand on the table, stood up, and her crimson twin tails trembled like flames. "Your codename is Holy Snow? That won't do!"

"what?"

Saint Snow was a little confused. Aren't code names just randomly chosen?

"I've always been a straightforward person, so I'll just say it straight: since you're a local magical girl, you have to follow our rules."

Chi Yan pointed directly at the Jin Cheng sisters, saying, "Look at those two over there. Their names and code names are almost identical. That's incredibly foolish!"

Ignoring their dangerous stares, she continued, "Magical girls often deal with dangerous characters. If the enemy follows this clue and discovers our true identities, we might be fine, but our family and friends will be in danger!"

She paused for a moment, then said, "But those two aren't from Binhai, so they don't need to follow our rules."

Chi Yan changed the subject and pointed to the head of the group, Feng Ye, "This... senior is also a negative example. Just by looking at the code name, you can't even tell the difference by the color. It's not concise and clear enough."

Fengye immediately interrupted, "Where we come from, if we were to use color codes, we'd probably have to spin the entire color wheel and still not have enough."

Upon hearing this, the people present widened their eyes in surprise. "There are so many magical girls in Kyoto?"

Seiba chuckled softly, "Kyoto is the largest city in the country, with an area dozens of times larger than this city, and its security environment is even more important, so it naturally needs more magical girls to maintain peace."

"Wow, that's amazing! No wonder it's a big city." Someone instinctively clapped.

After being met with a barrage of gazes, Qing Ning lowered her head shyly and asked weakly, "Did I say something I shouldn't have?"

"Anyway!" Chi Yan slapped the table again, bringing the topic back to the previous one, "Since you belong to our territory, Saint Snow, you must use a code name according to our rules."

"What kind of rules are those?"

"Okay!" Chi Yan seemed to have been waiting for this question. She held up a few fingers and said, "List out the code names of our local magical girls."

"Yellow, light blue, crimson, lime..."

"Did you find anything?"

"They're all two characters!" Qing Ning exclaimed as if she had discovered a new continent.

Facing everyone's gaze, she spoke hesitantly, "Did I say something wrong again?"

"I understand." Shengxue held up one finger. "They're all colored, so people can tell which color magical girl she is just by hearing her code name."

Chi Yan grinned smugly, as if she were the originator of this naming method. "Right? Compared to their naming methods, aren't we way ahead?"

Fengye let out a disdainful sigh.

Shengxue thought for a moment, "Then... shall I be called Baixue?"

"Great, excellent!" Crimson Flame made an exaggerated gesture. "It highlights the colors and creates a beautiful image. I never expected my new companion to be such a naming genius. I approve of you!"

Shui Lan's eyebrows twitched twice, and she couldn't help but speak up, "That's enough, if you keep doing this I'll throw you out."

"Afraid of you?"

The two continued their bickering as always.

Lime scratched her head in the corner of the table. "But doesn't 'Snow White' sound a bit cheesy?"

Seeing the room fall silent again, she instinctively shrank back. "Did I...did I say something I shouldn't have?"

"Alright, let's get down to business."

Fengye pressed down with both hands, signaling everyone to quiet down.

So everyone turned their heads and looked at the first person, Fengye.

Seeing this, Feng Ye coughed lightly. "I've explored the entire city these past few days, and my conclusion is... there's no trace of the strange man!"

"ha?"

A chorus of voices rang out.

"Don't worry, don't worry." Seeing everyone's different reactions, Fengye quickly explained, "I know that the existence of strange people here is an indisputable fact, but from the open search, no related magical reactions have been found."

"There are only two possibilities: either the strange person has already left, or it is hiding very well. I personally tend to believe the second one."

"In other words, if it doesn't actively expose itself, it's very difficult for us to find its traces."

Shui Lan raised her hand and shared her analysis. "We have two leads. One is that Liu Huang's disappearance must be related to this strange person. We tried to investigate before you arrived, but with little success."

"Secondly, there were two instances of the strange creature appearing openly. The first time it appeared, it confronted the Jin Cheng sisters directly, resulting in a fierce battle. The second time, it played a prank by hanging the three girls on the roof. Perhaps we can deduce some useful conclusions from this information."

Jin Cheng interjected at this moment: "Actually, the monster had appeared before. The first time, it took my Heart Gem from Jin Ju. The second time, it appeared in the suburbs of C11 and killed a B-class disaster beast. Jin Ju was also there at the time."

"In other words, Jinju, you were there both times, so you should know the most information." Fengye rested her chin on her hand, deep in thought. "For example, why didn't it kill you? It should have had the ability and the opportunity."

Jinju sensed that the monstrous flesh and blood within her body seemed to be coming alive, as if it were trying to remind her of something.

Jinju didn't try to tell the truth, but just smiled faintly.

"Maybe he doesn't like killing? He didn't kill those three girls either. Judging from his previous appearances, the only thing he killed was actually a monster."

Jinju paused for a moment, then continued, "Do you know the mentality of a cat when it's playing with mice? It could kill them at any time, but it chooses to toy with its prey, enjoying their desperate resistance until they show signs of despair. I guess that's the mentality it had, which is why it didn't kill us."

"Um..." Shengxue suddenly spoke in a low voice, interrupting their analysis.

"Isn't C11 suburbs near my house? And with the B-rank disaster beast, Jinju, are you referring to the day we encountered it?"

Jinju nodded. This couldn't be hidden; it was public information that could be easily verified.

"That monster was killed by a monster?!" Shengxue was even more surprised. "Wasn't it killed by a magical girl?"

Shui Lan shook her head in denial, "It wasn't the magical girl's doing. Everyone knows that without the Heart Gem to collect the remains, it would normally take several days for the calamity beast's corpse to dissipate. When we went there, the corpse was still there. If it were the magical girl's doing, she would have collected the corpse."

"And," Jin Cheng added, "Jin Ju hadn't become a magical girl yet."

Saint Snow seemed to understand something. "So, the strange man was there at the time."

"Did you discover anything?" Fengye asked, seeing that Shengxue seemed to know some inside information.

"Actually, I was there the moment that calamity beast appeared, but I couldn't defeat it. When the last ray of light fell, the calamity beast was split into several pieces. I thought it was saved by the magical girl..." Shengxue recalled and pondered.

"Were there any suspicious people present at the time?!" Fengye perked up.

A hint of confusion appeared between Sheng Xue's brows. "At the time, only...Teacher Tang Feng and I were present."

"However," she quickly added, "Teacher Tang Feng is just an ordinary person. He was severely injured by the monster while saving me. The strange person must be mixed in with the crowd watching from a distance."

Jinju breathed a slight sigh of relief.

It wasn't that she didn't want to, but the current lineup had no chance of defeating Tang Feng. If his identity were revealed prematurely, she wasn't sure what would happen.

Perhaps all the magical girls present will not escape their clutches.

In her subconscious, she would only feel at ease lighting an incense stick for Tang Feng if at least three S-rank magical girls surrounded and killed him.

Before that, she tried her best to play the role of a little slave girl.

Thinking of this, she subconsciously squeezed her legs together.

Oh no, every time she thinks about these things, she feels as if she has returned to the scene, and those feelings that are hard to describe in words are still vivid in her mind, making it impossible for her to resist falling into them.

Jin Cheng noticed something was wrong. "Jin Ju, why is your face so red?"

"The thought of having powerful seniors to help us deal with the monsters makes me incredibly excited and thrilled," Jinju reacted quickly.

Jin Cheng glanced thoughtfully at her younger sister before turning her attention back to the discussion in the meeting room.

Fengye was also pondering Shengxue's words, trying to find useful information. She subconsciously asked, "What kind of person is Tang Feng, the one you mentioned?"

"He's a very good person."

Several voices rang out at the same time.

The atmosphere became somewhat eerie.

Shui Lan couldn't help but kick Chi Yan beside her, whispering, "Why are you getting involved?"

"Didn't we meet once before? I had a pretty good impression of him." Chi Yan didn't deliberately lower her voice; she countered Shui Lan's question, "Didn't you also think he was a good person back then?"

"To make a hasty judgment based on a single meeting is too arbitrary. You can keep it to yourself; there's no need to say it out loud in this situation."

"Alright, alright." Chi Yan raised his hands in surrender, but muttered something under his breath.

Although Shui Lan didn't hear clearly, she knew it wasn't anything nice. She kicked the other person again under the table, but this time Chi Yan was prepared, and their feet started fighting under the table.

Shui Lan thought this behavior was a bit childish and was the first to withdraw her foot.

As one of the first to speak out, Jin Cheng stepped forward and said, "Tang Feng is indeed a very good person. I have dealt with him several times. He can't possibly be a weirdo."

Shengxue nodded in agreement. "He's a very responsible teacher, a very nice person, and has a great reputation at school, don't you think, Jinju?"

She turned her head to look at Jinju on the other side.

"Yes, he is a well-known gentleman." Although she hadn't spoken just now, when asked, Jinju said something against her will without changing her expression.

Upon hearing these comments, Fengye's expression turned somewhat strange. "I was just asking casually, not that I suspected he was a weirdo. Please don't get too worked up."

"Who is Tang Feng?" Among them, Qing Ning, the only one who had never met Tang Feng, couldn't help but interject.

She noticed that everyone seemed to know that person and were chatting happily, while she seemed to be the only one who had been left behind...

However, after she said those words, the atmosphere fell silent, making her realize that she had probably said something she shouldn't have.

Am I...?

She couldn't finish her sentence this time. Fengye clapped her hands and said, "If no one has any new leads, then everyone should go back to their own business. Thank you for gathering everyone here."

"This is simply our job," Shui Lan said seriously.

Chi Yan also stood up, stretched lazily, revealing the beautiful curves of the girl's waist.

She stretched her body, which she had been sitting for a long time. "But there hasn't been much to do these past few days. There seem to be far fewer calamity beasts than before, with only one or two appearing every few days."

"Perhaps they knew I was coming and were intimidated by my powerful aura," Fengye said bluntly.

Although it sounds very unscientific, no one can refute this point: the number of Disaster Beasts did indeed decrease significantly after Sequinleaf arrived in Binhai City.

At its peak, monsters appeared almost every day, keeping them extremely busy. However, the frequency of these appearances was also abnormal. If it were like this every day, ordinary people wouldn't be able to survive.

"Although there haven't been any calamity beasts these past few days, have you heard about that calamity beast that recently fell to its death?" Chi Yan said with amusement as she stretched her body.

"I heard it jumped up to attack, but crashed itself to its death when it landed?" Shui Lan glanced sideways.

Chi Yan shrugged nonchalantly, "Who knows? But there were a lot of people near the amusement park at the time, and they all witnessed it."

"An amusement park?" Jin Cheng looked on with curiosity, because she had recently gone to one with Tang Feng. She kept the events of that day buried deep in her heart and would not mention them to anyone.

It was a day of complete indulgence for her; she spent a day with a man that resembled a date between lovers.

The final deep kiss, in particular, is a feeling she will never forget.

Chi Yan casually remarked, "How many amusement parks can a small place like Binhai have? The biggest one, Seven Star Amusement Park, is where the Calamity Beast fell to its death."

Isn't that the same place she and Tang Feng went to? Jin Cheng pondered.

Could the tremors felt on the Ferris wheel at that time really have been caused by the calamity beast?

But why did it die? There were no other magical girls nearby at the time besides her.

As for dying from a fall, no normal person would believe it; it's just that there's no other reasonable explanation.

And that time in the suburbs...

She subconsciously connected the two bizarre deaths of the monsters, neither of which involved any magical girl.

Is there any connection between the two? Do they have anything in common...?

In fact, Tang Feng was present both times...

Jin Cheng was amused by her own sudden idea. She smiled, banished those unrealistic thoughts from her mind, and turned to grab Jin Ju, who was about to slip away.

"Little Orange, are you hiding something from me?"

(End of this chapter)