Go to work, and then educate magical girls.

This scene in Chapter 99 has a strong sense of déjà vu.

In the classroom, Shui Lan looked at the figure in front of her, stumbled, and kept backing away.

The once innocent and lovely girl was now covered in blood, her spine twisted in a strange way, as if it had been broken.

She was tilting her head, looking at the two people who had suddenly barged into the classroom, chewing something and making crunching sounds.

Upon closer inspection, she was holding a severed arm in her hand. The owner of the arm was not far from her feet and appeared to be not completely dead.

The chewing sound coming from the mouth was the sound of teeth and finger joints rubbing together.

"Hah... Help, help..."

The body on the ground, whose gender was no longer discernible, stretched out its only remaining arm toward the two magical girls, making a bubbling sound filled with blood from its throat.

The girl (monster?) crouching on the stool grabbed the other's outstretched arm, about to tear it off as well, when a beam of magic shot out at an extremely fast speed.

With a nimble leap, the girl dodged the attack. As she took off, a tentacle burst forth from her body, piercing through the half-dead body on the ground.

"Lime!!!"

Shui Lan screamed in despair; nothing could be more heartbreaking than someone killing her right in front of her.

If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she could continue to deceive herself.

She stared at the dozen or so lifeless corpses lying haphazardly on the ground, her lips trembling uncontrollably. "You did this?"

Qingning tilted her head, seemingly not understanding what the other person was saying.

Chi Yan finally snapped out of her shock. She tugged at Shui Lan forcefully. "Haven't you figured it out yet? Qing Ning was turned into this by a monster! We need to find that monster and settle the score with him!"

"Of course I know!" Shui Lan said with a pained expression, "But now that Qing Ning has turned into this, I don't know if she can ever go back to normal."

"We'll talk about this later!" Chi Yan pulled Shui Lan along, dodging a magical laser beam coming from the front. The enemy had already begun their attack.

"The most important thing right now is to defeat her!" Chi Yan shouted into Shui Lan's ear. "She doesn't recognize us anymore. If we hesitate any longer, she'll kill us all!"

Without any hesitation, Qing Ning cast several magic circles, enveloping the entire classroom. Dozens of beams of magic danced between the magic circles, shooting towards Shui Lan and Chi Yan like laser cannons.

The tables, chairs, and benches touched by the laser were all turned into tiny fragments, and the corpses on the ground were riddled with holes, from which blood trickled out.

Two magical girls cast a magical barrier, blocking a wide-ranging attack. Crimson Flame frowned. "She seems stronger than usual!"

Previously, she could easily defeat Qing Ning, but now, when she teamed up with Shui Lan to resist their attacks, she seemed to be struggling a bit.

Shui Lan's emotions finally calmed down a little. She stared intently at Qing Ning's movements and said quickly, "This place is too small. Let's go outside. I'll hold her off from the front, and you can look for an opportunity from behind."

Chi Yan nodded, and the two of them poured a large amount of magic power into it, forcefully pushing the magic barrier forward.

"Boom!"

Under the relentless attack, the magical barrier finally shattered, and Shui Lan and Chi Yan took advantage of the gap in the explosion to break through the window and reach the open outdoors.

Lime gave chase, leaping out from the broken glass to pursue the two.

Tang Feng, now transformed into a freak, appeared in the corridor of a teaching building, watching two figures moving in the air.

His illusion covered the entire campus, and with the level of those two magical girls, it was impossible for them to detect anything amiss.

The real lime is in his hands.

Just then, Qing Ning, who was unconscious, trembled her eyelashes twice and slowly opened her eyes.

Tang Feng was sizing up the girl when their eyes met.

Qing Ning blinked, looking at the blurry figure in front of her, which seemed a little sleepy, and rubbed her eyes hard again.

Now I can finally see it clearly.

"Wow! What a weirdo!"

Lime jumped up like a rabbit.

When encountering a strange person, the first thing to do is to transform and enter battle mode. So, Qing Ning began to search her body.

"Gemstone, gemstone...wait, where's my gemstone?"

Tang Feng handed over a light green gemstone that emitted a faint glow. "Is this what you're looking for?"

"Oh, thank you."

Qing Ning subconsciously took the gem, but then suddenly realized something, and the gem jumped up in her hand like a hot potato.

"Whoa, you, you, how could you...!"

"What's wrong with me?"

"You're a weirdo!"

"I'm a weirdo."

"Then you should... should you..."

Qing Ning was a little dazed, feeling like she hadn't woken up yet. Why was this weirdo so kind as to give her the Heart Gem?

And it seems she was just in class, although she was daydreaming and sleeping...

Tang Feng tilted his head, looking at the bewildered girl, "Why aren't you transforming?"

That said, he hadn't seen Qing Ning's magical girl form yet.

The night before, Qingning was also a hostage who fainted, and she didn't even know what happened until the end.

Qing Ning looked at Tang Feng and suddenly put away the Heart Gem.

"constant."

"???"

"You're a weirdo, and you expect me to transform just because you tell me to? That would be so embarrassing."

Tang Feng was speechless.

"If you don't transform, the monster will eat you."

As he spoke, he opened his blood-red maw toward the girl.

"Wow!" Qing Ning was so startled that she took a few steps back. She was actually very nervous. This strange person was definitely not someone she could handle alone.

She didn't even know how she suddenly fainted. If the other party had any ill intentions towards her, she would have been eaten by now.

Where are you, Aquamarine and Crimson Flame? Help me!

Lime let out a desperate wail in her heart.

.

Water Blue and Crimson Flame are still trapped in the illusion, having a great time fighting against the fake Lime.

They were proceeding according to plan, with Aqua Blue holding them back from the front and Crimson Flame waiting for an opportunity to strike from the side.

Finally, after a series of back-and-forth attacks, Crimson Flame found a sliver of an opportunity. The moment Qingning was trapped by the blue bubble magic, Crimson Flame's fiery iron fist descended from the sky, slamming the figure inside to the ground!

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Shui Lan lunged forward and, together with Chi Yan, subdued Qing Ning.

The two men each grabbed one of Qing Ning's arms, tucked them behind her back, and simultaneously pressed her neck forward.

After completely subduing Qing Ning, the two breathed a sigh of relief.

But soon another problem arose.

What should we do about her?

The two magical girls exchanged a glance, then quickly looked away.

A moment later, Shui Lan spoke in a hoarse voice, "Let's knock her out first, then go find that weirdo behind her."

Chi Yan nodded, without saying anything more.

The two of them coincidentally avoided the question of how to deal with the lime.

Just then, Qing Ning, who was being controlled by them, suddenly split open her mouth, her body twisted violently, and with the sound of viscous flesh writhing, her originally graceful girl body turned into a deformed octopus monster.

The arms that were grabbed by the two magical girls turned into two long tentacles, which wrapped around the two magical girls' bodies.

"Damn it!"

Chi Yan cursed, she and Shui Lan hadn't expected the opponent to be able to completely change their form, and their prepared backup plan was caught off guard and they didn't have time to use it.

As they tried to fight back, more tentacles surged up and completely engulfed them.

After an unknown amount of time, the tide of tentacles receded, leaving only a few key ones wrapped around the two men's limbs and waists.

Completely restricted, the two magical girls were unable to move.

"Lime!"

Shui Lan shouted at the octopus-shaped monster, hoping to awaken their former companions.

However, the octopus monster only made sharp, chirping noises, seemingly mocking them.

Two new tentacles emerged from the octopus monster and wrapped around their necks.

Gradually tightening.

"cough……"

A feeling of suffocation gradually rose up, and the scene before my eyes gradually became blurred due to lack of oxygen.

Are they going to die here? Do they really not remember them at all...?

"Lime..."

Shui Lan let out a faint murmur.

They had already lost one of their companions, and the companion before them had also been transformed into this state by the monster.

They might even target them.

A deep sorrow welled up in Shui Lan's heart.

Ryuki, if it were you, what would you do...?

As if in response to her thoughts, a golden streak of light flashed, accompanied by more than a dozen dazzling halos, and the tentacles that were binding them were all severed in an instant.

Shui Lan and Chi Yan crashed to the ground, lying face down and breathing heavily.

Recalling the golden light just now, Shui Lan's body began to tremble.

What did she just see?

Is it a hallucination?

That familiar color, here, belongs to only one person...

Golden yellow!

Shui Lan suddenly raised her head, and what she saw was that extremely familiar back view.

Her long golden hair danced in the wind, and her exquisite little dress was adorned with gorgeous patterns. She held a magic wand inlaid with golden gems and stood between the two women and the octopus monster.

Although she is petite, she gives people an unparalleled sense of security.

That was their former leader, the magical girl who had been missing for many days, whom they believed was likely dead... Ryuki!

Shui Lan's nose tingled, and tears welled up in her eyes.

Unexpectedly, at this most critical moment, the one who saved them was the very person they thought had met with misfortune.

She watched as Liu Huang charged toward the octopus monster. Her fierce attacks and unpredictable methods seemed even more formidable than before she disappeared. In just a brief moment of encounter, she had driven the troublesome octopus monster into a retreat.

Shui Lan finally felt relieved.

But the next moment, her heart jumped again.

Seeing that Liuhuang had completely subdued the octopus monster, she raised her weapon, ready to cut off its head.

"stop!!!"

Shui Lan cried out.

That's not some octopus monster, that's their partner, Lime.

Even though she was turned into this state by the monster, she is still their junior and their companion. As long as there is even the slightest chance, Shui Lan will not give up on saving her.

Liu Huang stopped what she was doing and looked at Shui Lan with a hint of doubt in her eyes.

Shui Lan struggled to her feet and walked to Liu Huang.

She looked at the figure she had been longing for day and night, and was about to say a few words of greeting when Liu Huang waved his hand to interrupt her.

"Why won't this monster let me kill it?"

Shui Lan was slightly taken aback by Liu Huang's attitude, but she didn't think much of it and went straight to the point, "She's not a monster, she's Qing Ning, and she was turned into this by a monster."

"Lime? Are you sure?"

Shui Lan nodded, looking as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.

Liu Huang frowned. "But what I sensed was a complete and utter monster, without even a shred of intelligence."

She turned her gaze to Shui Lan, "Did you just speak with her?"

Shui Lan hesitated for a moment, "She has lost herself and is unable to communicate."

"Then what makes you think you can prove she's Qing Ning?" Liu Huang asked coldly.

Shui Lan was stunned.

The other person's voice continued, "Why can't it be a monster disguised as a lime?"

Ruki criticized, "You've been magical girls for so long, how can you make such a basic mistake?"

Shui Lan sensed something strange; in her memory, Liu Huang wasn't like that.

She would joke around with them and often tease them, unlike now when she acts like a domineering older sister and lectures them.

Liu Huang ignored the other person and turned her gaze to the broken window. "Was it the one that did the tragedy in that classroom?"

Shui Lan hesitated for a moment, then said, "Yes."

She then added, "But..."

"Alright." Liu Huang waved his hand, interrupting Shui Lan again.

"There is no evidence to prove that it is a lime. What I saw was just a monster without any intelligence, who disregarded human life. If I hadn't arrived in time, you would have been killed by it."

She pointed her wand at the octopus monster on the ground, and a massive amount of energy was rapidly gathering, as if the next strike would kill it completely.

"etc!……"

Shui Lan stretched out a hand, trying to stop her, "Don't kill her before you're sure she's not Qing Ning!"

Liu Huang spoke impatiently, "Then I'll show you the evidence!"

She shot a beam of magic from her fingertips, neatly severing one of the monster's tentacles.

Liu Huang took out the Heart Gem, and energy surged. The monster's remains turned into starlight and were completely absorbed by the Heart Gem.

"See that? Only the remains of a calamity beast can be absorbed by the Heart Gem. That's the proof!" Liu Huang concluded immediately. "It's not Qing Lime at all; it's a complete and utter calamity beast!"

Shui Lan was completely stunned.

Was Liu Huang's judgment correct?

If this monster isn't Lime, then where did the real Lime go...?

Why would she allow such a tragedy to happen in her class?

Moreover, Shui Lan sensed something strange.

It wasn't just because the missing Liu Huang suddenly reappeared, or because her personality had drastically changed, that she found it strange.

But something about this scene gave her a strange sense of déjà vu...

A magical girl who wants to kill the monster, a girl who tries to stop it, and a girl who uses a severed limb to prove the monster's true nature...

It seems like just a short time ago, she was standing in the position of Liuhuang.

(End of this chapter)