Regarding the fact that my best friend is a magical girl

"The Mermaid Witch simply ran away; she didn't fight her."

"So what do we do now?"

"The last eyewitness saw her dive into the Chonghui River."

“Chonghui River? That’s a reservoir all the way north. Once that happens, no one will be able to control it. The association can’t just drain the reservoir.”

That is the main river that runs through the entire Changkong City. Once she enters the water, her whereabouts will become unpredictable.

Moreover, in places with water, the threat posed by that mermaid witch is no less than that of the legendary witch, and it would be even more troublesome if she were dragged into the water.

"But all we can do right now is search."

"With so many messes to clean up, the association is really in a tough spot..."

Yin Wei pushed open the door to a research room.

"Hey, Miluno, how are you feeling?"

A spirited magical girl with short, brown hair waved at me, a cigarette dangling from her lips, exuding the aura of a working-class man.

"You've come at the right time! Come and try out the powerful new battle gear I developed for you!"

"What...are these?"

Iron gloves;

A shirt made of iron;

A jacket made of iron;

A short skirt made of iron;

Iron boots.

I always feel like wearing it will create some kind of matching effect, but who wants to wear such stiff and uncomfortable clothes?

"The immense pressure you endured during acceleration would have been enough to damage your ordinary combat gear, so I've coated it with a layer of heat-resistant, wear-resistant, lightweight alloy steel..."

I interrupted Metall's serious yet slightly pretentious introduction by pressing my temples.

"Change it back."

"Huh? Hmm?"

"immediately."

1. Flow, drift with the current

I'm very distressed.

The fact that the princess's knight had come to her door was something to be happy about.

But the information she brought him didn't make him happy.

"The monsters weren't created from humans or other animals. These are just materials that allowed them to enter this world. Even witches are just monsters who treat magical girls as 'simulation factors'... right?"

He lay on his back in the tent, murmuring to himself.

"Hmph hmph awooooo!!!"

Another wolf howl erupted, releasing its pent-up emotions.

"Then what am I?"

He was just a spy, a spy who didn't even know his own identity, and didn't even have a face of his own.

"Just a slightly eccentric person?"

Even so, the knight lady was willing to trust me.

goo—

hungry.

Time to go to work.

Regardless, life must go on.

With that thought in mind, Liu climbed out of his tent.

He simply straightened his clothes and started running on foot towards the dock several kilometers away. Even though he could have run there quickly, he had to keep his pace at a normal level, which was quite painful.

When I have the money, I might as well buy a used electric car.

Looking at the pedestrians on the roadside, he thought to himself.

Liu found a simple job.

Temporary unloading workers at the dock.

It's a job that only requires strength, and they even provide meals.

Once the cargo ship arrives, you can board it and unload sandbags, cement bags, and the like. You'll receive a meager but daily wage based on the amount you unload.

Money wasn't important to him; the main thing was that he could have two meals at the dock. As for his wages, he would just buy a dozen beers on his way back and save the rest.

Living one day at a time, like a Sanhe God (a deity associated with Sanhe).

"Hey! Ah Liu, why didn't you come yesterday?"

The foreman was a dark-skinned, burly middle-aged man.

His hair was naturally curly, making him stand out in a crowd, so the dockworkers called him the Curly-haired foreman.

"Um, something's come up..."

I spent yesterday feeling down at home.

I only went to the riverbank to buy some fried noodles when I was starving.

The curly-haired foreman patted Liu's arm and laughed, "If you're not feeling well, you can tell everyone. We'll help you if you have any difficulties."

"Thank you."

Liu answered very softly. He rarely spoke in his daily life. Sirius had modified his voice, but mischievously gave him a female voice. Combined with his current face, it was easy for people to mistake his gender.

"Warm up, get ready to get to work."

Perhaps because of his good looks, the dockworkers took good care of Ah Liu, the newcomer, and didn't assign him much work at first. It wasn't until he took off his shirt in front of everyone, revealing his strong muscles, and lifted four sandbags in one go that he proved himself with his strength.

thump—

Just as they were about to unload the cargo, an unusual collision sound came from under the small cargo ship.

It seemed as if something had hit the bottom of the boat, but the other workers didn't pay any attention. The ecological management of the Chonghui River was quite good, and occasionally some small fish would bump into it, which was a sign of abundant aquatic products.

But Liu's nose detected an unusual scent.

As if to reinforce this intuition, the water formed a whirlpool around the cargo ship.

"Foreman, the water... something's not right."

Curly-haired foreman had worked at the dock for over a decade. Even without Liu's prompting, he noticed the unusual activity on the water's surface and recalled the association members who had come to investigate the day before.

"*Swearing*, stop it all! There's something strange in this river—"

boom--

Before the curly-haired foreman could finish speaking, the small river cargo ship, weighing several hundred tons, was slowly lifted into the air by the surging whirlpool. Faced with this obviously strange scene, everyone who wanted to survive ran back for their lives, while the people on the ship could only leave their fate to chance.

At this moment, only Liu was still standing in the same spot...

The foreman shouted from afar, "Ah Liu! Run!"

But Liu remained unmoved.

The enemy is most likely targeting us, and staying with other workers at this time will only affect them.

Even knowing he might be a weirdo, he still felt like a human being.

Moreover, these people were quite friendly to me.

He didn't want to let this kindness go to waste.

Just as he had predicted, the small cargo ship, having risen high, crashed down on the river still on the dock, along with its crew and cargo.

But Liu also spotted a vibrant green figure in the water below the boat.

So, before being hit by the cargo ship, he reacted quickly and jumped into the water.

Although he only has wolf-like traits, he is quite confident in his swimming ability, and most importantly, he doesn't have to worry about other people's opinions underwater...

The black wolf-shaped armor radiated outwards from the simulated factor on the chest, and the high-temperature steam formed a churning bubble in the water.

Armor covering his entire body, he locked onto that patch of emerald green in the water and charged towards it like an oxygen torpedo.

But the latter was more agile than he had imagined, and even used magic. The water around him tried to crush the flow like a hydraulic pump, and even his armor made a creaking sound. But the hot flow that burst out again in the burst mode disrupted the water flow, and he used the reaction force to rush out of the enemy's range of influence.

He fled north along the Chonghui River, where there were fewer people and more mountains and forests where he could use his skills.

But he didn't expect that the enemy swam faster than him and even had a way to catch up with the current when it activated its burst mode, giving it an obvious underwater advantage.

Left with no other choice, he darted out of the river and onto the shore ahead of time.

This is a residential area, and there's a row of fishermen along the river.

As soon as he got ashore, he pointed at the group of people and shouted, "Hey! You! Fishing is prohibited in the Chonghui River! Get out of here right now!"

His female voice lacked power, and the fishermen simply stared at him until the pursuer surfaced, standing on the water and revealing a set of jagged fangs. Only then did the fishermen flee in panic.

Because they were all sitting on the slope outside the guardrail, one of them slipped and fell into the Chonghui River.

But at least they escaped.

Liu began to sized up his opponent.

A strange person with the appearance of a woman.

That is, a witch.

With her long, smooth, emerald-green hair, beautiful and refined face, and eyes as deep as the ocean, she would be a rare beauty if it weren't for her fangs that looked like a saw blade and were menacingly sharp.

Apart from her face, her entire body was covered in emerald-silver scales, which looked like a bodysuit, but were actually just scales on her skin. Although it was clearly a non-human feature, it was quite beautiful, like those gorgeous tropical fish.

A beautiful witch.