Sakura Emma, ​​I'm going to control you fiercely!

Emma wondered if she was just too stupid...

Yang Wen watched as the warden began to ramble on.

It's here! The cutscene before the boss battle!

He manipulated Emma to tighten her grip on the bowstring.

"Tell me everything you know."

"no--"

The warden seemed to want to say something more sincere than it actually was.

Yang Wen knew that this was an unavoidable step before the BOSS battle: to create a character who said things against his will through pre-battle cutscenes, thereby deepening the plot.

Unfortunately, he had no patience to listen to anything other than plot clues.

thumping!

Without any warning, the pink arrow was instantly launched, transforming into a brilliant, colorful streak that flew swiftly towards the warden.

There was no obstruction, no defense; the attack hit its mark instantly.

collapse! ! !

The warden instantly turned into fragments scattered throughout the room, black particles falling to the ground like snowflakes.

In the blink of an eye, it vanished.

Emma watched as a black particle drifted down in front of her, marveling at how ruthless the gods were.

Sherry turned to look at Emma, ​​scratching her blue hair sheepishly.

"Oh dear... I always feel like I'm not as reliable as my juniors."

Emma also put down her bow and arrows for the time being, and looked at the warden's mangled body, which was mostly blown apart.

Yang Wen confirmed that his health bar was indeed empty.

However, for a boss, this amount of health...

Isn't it too brittle?

And he's also the mastermind behind the Demon Bureau...

"In short, let's retreat from here first."

Shirley's voice came.

She rarely put on a serious expression.

"I'll try to report this to higher-ups, and then—"

Crash—Bang!

A deafening sonic boom and the sound of bulletproof glass shattering rang out simultaneously!

A violent gust of air instantly rushed into the office.

Emma didn't even see the attack's trajectory. Before she could even see it, a poignant red flower had already bloomed in her field of vision.

"Hey, what happened?"

"A magic sniper attack? Why would that happen at the Magic Bureau?!"

The incredulous voices of the other magical girls drifted in from outside the window, but Emma and Yang Wen paid them no heed.

Because Shirley's chest had a hole cut in it.

"...Huh?"

The blue-haired girl's eyes widened, still not quite understanding what was happening.

She stared blankly down at the bloody hole in her chest and the blood all over her body.

"You're lying... right?"

With a thud, Shirley fell to the ground.

Blood splattered onto Emma's pure white stockings, burning hot.

A candy slipped out of Shirley's pocket and fell into the pool of blood.

Emma stared blankly at all of this.

'Sherry...?'

Everything happened too suddenly.

The girl who was smiling at her just five minutes ago now has a gaping, bloody hole in her body...

How strange...

Was it a dream?

Emma's face was pale, and tears welled up in the corners of her eyes.

Yang Wen realized what was happening and quickly controlled Emma, ​​taking the important NPC Sherry to the blind spot of the sniper's view outside the window.

A sound of wings flapping rang out.

The warden reappeared from the shadows, flew back to his desk, and calmly looked at Emma and Sherry.

"I'm sorry, but now that you know about this, I can't let you leave."

It looked at Emma with a pitying yet mocking gaze.

"What a promising talent... If she were to give up, she would likely become an extremely powerful witch. But it's a pity..."

The warden sighed.

"You must die."

Emma noticed the panel on the warden's new body:

【Witch's Familiar - Warden: Lv42 (Yellow Rank)】

In the hierarchy of white, blue, yellow, orange, red, and black, the warden is in the third tier: yellow.

Yang Wen has made it completely certain:

This is not a beginner's guide, at least not the first chapter's storyline.

It's either a hidden boss, or a story boss from the second or even third chapter.

In other words, Yang Wen's BOSS was activated too early.

"Well then, it's time for us to say goodbye."

The warden flapped his wings.

wow——

In an instant, the entire office building of the Demon Administration was shrouded in a magic circle.

The warden said, "All we need to do is destroy this place, and we can make it look like a terrorist attack."

It looked at Emma and tilted its head.

"Please remember. Everyone who dies next will do so because of you."

Upon hearing this, tears streamed down Emma's face.

'No, no... I don't want even more people to die...'

The warden looked at Emma Sakura, who, though expressionless, was honestly shedding tears.

This delicious treat, inspired by the beautiful girl's tears, brought it great pleasure.

Even if she pretends to be calm on the surface, and even if she has the ability to help other magical girls fight off wreckage as soon as she becomes a magical girl...

But in the end, Emma Sakuraba is nothing more than a failing genius whose mentality and strength have not yet matured.

The warden looked out the window at the massive magic array in the sky.

Before the "terrorist attack" arrived, it wanted to "lament" for this genius one last time.

But then, when I looked at Emma Sakura again...

She had already vanished without a trace.

At that moment, the warden's magical perception triggered an alarm.

A magical power exceeding that of ordinary white-level beings erupted within the office!

It instinctively looked at Shirley Tachibana and found her still unconscious on the ground, motionless.

It wasn't made by Tachibana Sherry?

That's... Sakura Emma?!

A powerful magical aura filled the entire office, temporarily disabling magical perception. The warden simply used his naked eyes to see for himself.

Following the light, the warden looked up at the ceiling of his office.

It saw Emma Sakuraba, who had somehow moved to the very center of the sky...

And a pink and black arrow that Sakura Emma had just shot.

[Switch to execution mode. Magic nature changes to "hard". Use skill: Gravity Arrow - Pierce.]

thumping!

The arrow pierced straight through the warden, carrying it all the way through layers of walls, actually creating a passage on the 13th floor of the Demon Bureau!

collapse!

In the end, the warden was nailed to the wall at the far end of the 13th floor.

Long——! ! !

A force as powerful as a mountain collapsing instantly pierced through its body!

clack clack...

The load-bearing wall behind the warden began to crack wildly, spreading like a spider web.

It was as if every feather was caught on a dump truck, and it couldn't break free for a short time!

"This is... gravity?"

Gravity caused the surrounding magic to tremble slightly, greatly reducing the efficiency of external magic condensation.

It would take at least fifteen seconds to break through the hard arrow embedded in its body.

wow——

Emma Sakura floated lightly through the large hole and arrived in front of the warden.

Beside her was the rose bow, which was accumulating magical power.

The girl took two steps forward, lifted her foot, and stepped directly on the warden's face.

"Gulp... What's the point of humiliating me like this?"

The warden remained calm, as if gravity and penetration posed no threat to him.

"I won't let this strange trick work a second time. Once I'm free from the gravity restraints, you'll understand that this arrow was nothing but a death throes. At that time, you and all the magical girls of the Magic Bureau will still face death—"

"You might have misunderstood."

Before the warden could finish speaking, a glimmer of light appeared on the gem at the tip of Emma's Rose Bow.

The warden didn't even glance at Emma's gathering magic, wondering what her "indifference" was about.

Emma then spoke slowly,

"Go ahead and release the magic circle. No matter what kind of terrorist attack you launch, I will not be affected at all."

"...Huh?" The warden was slightly surprised. "You call yourself a magical girl?"

"Of course it counts."

[Magic Attribute Switch: Combustion.]

The jewels of the rose bow ignited with pink flames, scorching the air and causing it to twist and contort in a strange way.

But the warden had only one question on his mind: