Regarding the fact that my best friend is a magical girl

(Sun Yao)

A crackling sound, like deep-frying, came from all around.

The Golden Witch frowned, then jumped back to create distance between us.

Do not……

To be precise, it means withdrawing from the coverage area of ​​phosphorus.

"what?!"

Burning flames descended from the sky, turning into a fiery inferno centered on me. Yet, these flames seemed to possess a spirit, and they did not touch me at all...

Even at such close range, I was still sweltering in the heat.

The park and amusement park area will likely suffer similar heavy losses.

"Hey, Seruno! Are you alright?"

Falcon landed in the only remaining open space beside me and pulled me out of the inferno.

"I'm fine...cough cough...where's Kagerou?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Yan spread his Wings of Destruction and swept over his head, swooping down towards the Golden Witch.

The latter drew his bow, nocked an arrow, and fired a brilliant arrow as dazzling as a shooting star.

The Golden Witch's attack melted into a pool of liquid gold in front of Yang Yan, who dodged it with a somersault in the air, but this also gave Yang Yan the opportunity to continue to widen the distance.

Yang Yan shouted, "Gold's melting point is only one thousand degrees. You think you can deal with the sun? You're being far too naive!"

"Kagerou! She's using magic to turn inorganic matter in the human body into gold, including water... Be very careful!"

In an instant, the density of fire phosphorus around Yang Yan increased greatly. Not to mention arrows, Yang Yan even had the ability to burn Aldebaran herself to ashes—she herself couldn't be pure gold, could she?

"Hey! Wait a minute, I'm not here to fight."

Aldebaran raises his hands above his head in a gesture of surrender.

Although her smug expression showed no sincerity whatsoever, leaving people confused about her true intentions.

“Well, I’m different from Fomalhaut and Betelgeuse. I’m not responsible for combat. In your terms… I’m a researcher, a scientist! Science knows no borders, doesn’t it?”

"Hmph, a researcher, huh? Do you even know how much damage your arrow caused?"

"Losses? How could that be?"

She looked completely surprised.

"According to my calculations, the association should have actually made a profit, right?"

The underground hangar is not small; the amount of material that could be converted into gold on the spot, including the ground and the walls, is enough to fill the vaults of several banks... It is indeed no small amount.

However, because gold is too soft, it is very likely to collapse, so Metal and the other engineering magical girls are still working overtime to repair it, and this part of the project is quite huge.

“…What we’ve lost is time,” Yang Yan replied.

"Yeah, right? I postponed your suicidal plans, shouldn't you be thanking me instead?"

With a bang, Yang Yan ignited Bi Su Wu, but the latter stood in the fire as if nothing had happened and continued, "You can melt me, you can change my form, but you can't change my stable nature... Moreover, when did you develop the illusion that I can't control the molten gold?"

"Varied--"

Covered in burning fire scales, Aldebaran, in a semi-molten state, rushed through the fire scale belt and stretched out its tiny hand to clamp down on Yangyan's throat.

"Kagerou!"

"Just because I don't intend to kill the second generation of Vega doesn't mean I won't kill others. You're too arrogant. Don't you know what 'true gold fears no fire' means?"

Damn it, it really is made of pure gold.

The ecology of witches is truly outrageous...

"Cough, cough, cough!"

The heat-insulating and flame-retardant bubble wrap expanded on Yang Yan's body surface, also blocking Aldebaran's initial attack.

Yang Yan coughed violently, clutching his throat which had been burned by the hot metal, looking quite pained. Falcon's gunshot had no effect on the pure gold Aldebaran.

But Aldebaran's gaze did not fall upon me; instead, it turned toward the once-forgotten deformed man.

"Why are you so surprised? I came here today to provide after-sales service..."

The four thorny golden spikes pierced through the bubble and plunged into the deformed mass of fat.

"...The user's mutation has obvious errors, the form is unstable, and it lacks the necessary intelligence. This is unacceptable; it damages my reputation."

The strange man's fat began to shrink, as if he had undergone some kind of liposuction.

"What are you doing?"

"You can understand it at a glance, right? Adjusting the simulation factor for the malfunction... Don't get in my way. How you deal with him afterwards is your business, but I must ensure that the customer can use my product normally..."

"Aww! Caw caw!"

The strange man roared and reached out his hand towards the Ferris wheel.

It turned out that the children who had been unable to escape before had finally come out of the gondola.

"Miss Falcon!"

"Leave it to me!"

She bypassed the strange man and the witch, rushed forward, and carried away the three children.

"Oh, really? You really like children? Because you don't have any yourself, you want to steal other people's children to play with? Your rotten thoughts really match your appearance..."

Aldebaran, however, was whispering to the strange man.

"Yes, yes, it is indeed my responsibility. If I hadn't turned into this ugly form, my 'wish' would have come true, right? As compensation, let me grant your wish... Yes, of course I'm your friend, but I can't stay in this world for long... Trust my skills, I'll add two more... The fusion process will be a little painful, but if it succeeds... you'll have the power to defeat magical girls!"

"Aw! Aww!"

The strange man was contorted in pain, convulsing exaggeratedly inside the weightless bubble. His fat was indeed decreasing, and even his entire body was shrinking rapidly.

"...Why are you torturing him like this?"

"Torture...? How can there be no price to pay for gaining power? Let me introduce myself... I'm Aldebaran, the current director of the Fusion Soldier Development Department. In your terms, it should be called the 'Weirdo' Development Department, right?"

In other words, she was directly responsible for creating the monsters.

"Are these monsters that have recently turned from humans your creation?!"

Aldebaran shrugged.

"That's right, do you like it? Although it's weaker than traditional monsters, it excels in stealth and has achieved considerable success..."

The attacker's method of intrusion changed, apparently due to personnel changes within the department...

"The former director was a stubborn old man who only thought about using his own soldiers to modify them and then deploying them through wormholes. In the end, he was defeated by a well-prepared magical girl... That was too stupid. Therefore, I offered my research results to that person: special monsters based on humans. In exchange, I got this position."

Boasting and empty talk only makes people angry.

"Your so-called victory is the lives of nearly fifty innocent civilians?"

"Hmm? I don't mind doing this as long as it can spread panic."

She answered with a smile on her face.

Expecting witches to have any sense of ethics was indeed my mistake...

boom--

The sudden explosion caused the deformed man, whom Aldebaran called the client, to burn fiercely, with the crackling sound of grease exploding incessantly, and his body turned charred black.

This was clearly Yang Yan; the sun behind her was shining brightly.

"So you're planning to attack my guest just because you can't burn me to death? How cruel! He's a human being, don't you know that?"

"Even if we capture him alive, you'll silence him... so it's better to just get rid of him directly..."

Yang Yan stood up, clutching his throat, but Bi Su Wu did not deny it.

"Yes, that's certainly true! But unfortunately, you're still a step too late..."

The shrunken monster staggered through the flames.

"He's become an unburnable monster, hasn't he?"

Chapter Forty-Four: Sneak Attack

(Albinocotyledon)

The no-man's-land was indeed a no-man's-land. If Yin Wei hadn't called to inform me, I wouldn't have known what had happened.

"They've been keeping quiet for so many days, but they just had to cause trouble while I was away..."

And is this operation targeting Seruno because of the Association's operations the other day?

"The other side" seems very worried about our large-scale counterattack. Could it be that their strength is not as great as we thought?

We have to get there no matter what.

I maintain a running speed of about 20 times the normal speed, and considering the winding roads in the city, it will probably take me... 8-12 minutes.

"D3 area, right? I'll fly you there."

Halley spread its huge wings and flapped them twice.

"It's at least faster than running on the ground, right?"

"That one is hard to say."

Her normal flying speed should not be faster than mine.

But if the speed increases, can her seemingly fragile succubus wings withstand the pressure of acceleration?

Liu suggested, "If you can't fly fast in the air, you can also take the river. Go down along the Chonghui River and you'll pass through the D3 area... Miss Shuiwei is very fast underwater. Even my burst mode can't shake her off. She can take you underwater and make sure you can breathe underwater."

I glanced at the Mermaid Witch; she seemed interested in the proposal as well, blinking her azure eyes as she awaited my reply.

They certainly don't seem to be hostile.

I had a vague feeling about it before.

Perhaps it's because I saved her life that she seems to have a natural affinity for me and...obedience?