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

"Aren't you afraid of me?" Emma tilted her head expressionlessly.

Hannah didn't quite understand, and the paleness on her face lessened considerably.

"why?"

"Because I (Emma) am a pink little silly dog."

Hannah: "..."

Emma exclaimed inwardly, 'What a wicked fellow!'

Why would this person both help her and subtly mock her?

Emma was a little angry.

Yang Wen wondered if Hannah's AI was actually that intelligent, since it couldn't answer the question.

Emma patted Hannah on the shoulder, gesturing for her to come behind her. Then... she picked up a branch from the roadside.

Emma's mind was filled with doubt, and Hannah asked the question on her behalf:

"Junior... what are you doing?"

Emma didn't answer. She picked up a branch and gestured with it a couple of times, looking at the poodle.

"Wang!"

The dog howled and charged!

"Junior!!!" Hannah exclaimed, already imagining herself taking Emma to the infirmary.

But who knew what would happen next—

when!

A crisp, metallic sound, completely defying the laws of physics, exploded in the air.

Hannah watched in disbelief as the withered branch in Emma's hand deftly deflected the poodle's sharp teeth, as if it were made of steel.

It was even accompanied by a burst of sparks that you only see in fighting games.

Her emerald eyes were completely blank, then trembled, and finally trembled violently:

"what???"

This is allowed??

[Detected a violent emotional fluctuation in the main character Hannah Tohno; 3 units of Pink Filth obtained]

Hannah pointed in shock at the tree branch, then at the fleeing poodle, "What... what is going on here?"

Emma's consciousness also witnessed this scene.

'Wow, I'm actually that amazing?'

Why do tree branches make a metallic sound...?

The poodle incident was just a passing phase; Emma and Hannah returned to their usual routine.

Having gone through the poodle incident, Hannah was no longer opposed to holding hands with her junior.

"Ah! Tono-senpai!"

Hello, senior!

Several girls greeted Hannah from a distance, and Hannah responded with an elegant smile.

When acquaintances occasionally approach to chat, they inevitably see Hannah and Emma holding hands and always make a teasing remark.

"They have such a good relationship!"

"Ha, ha..." Hannah would then laugh awkwardly.

They were so close, like best friends, that you couldn't tell they'd only known each other for less than two hours.

Yang Wen, who was still eating instant noodles, did not see these details.

After the meeting, he commented, "Not as good as Lao Tan," and then remembered his business:

Magical girl.

The presence of a magical girl in "The Judgment" was something Yang Wen hadn't expected.

After all, how could there be magical girls in "Magical Girl's Witch Trial"? Unheard of.

This game doesn't even have a tutorial, and there's absolutely no explanation for the "magical girl" concept.

Want to know the game's setting? Ask an NPC—that might be the game developers' intention.

So Emma turned directly to Hannah beside her and asked,

Do you know about magical girls?

Hannah looked at him in surprise.

"The junior's topic shift was really abrupt..." she added after organizing her thoughts.

"You probably don't have many friends, right?"

Emma thought of her past experiences: '...We've been discovered!'

Yang Wen glanced at his phone, which had received no messages: "Should we kill them all?"

"I-I'm sorry?" Hannah realized she had said something she shouldn't have and quickly changed the subject. "Magical girl? Of course."

When the topic turned to magical girls, Hannah's eyes sparkled!

"That's every girl's dream!"

"They were born to protect hope and to defeat the remnants and witches, symbols of despair!"

"It is said that each city is guarded by several magical girls who are divided into areas for protection."

"They are free and receive official assistance, unlike us who have to worry about our studies or what to do after graduation..."

"That's wonderful..."

Emma nodded repeatedly in her mind.

Yang Wen also controlled Emma and asked,

"You want to be a magical girl?"

“Of course—” Hannah said, then realized her lapse in composure and lowered her head.

She looked down at the pebbles on the asphalt road ahead, her eyes lowered, and her voice gradually faded.

"If I also had the powers of a magical girl... perhaps my life would be even more wonderful now?"

Emma and Yang Wen watched her silently. Before she could say anything, Hannah regained her composure.

"Alright, let's not talk about this anymore."

She pointed ahead,

"We have reached our destination."

Upon hearing the arrival of the main quest, Emma, ​​now under control, looked up and saw the school music hall at the end of the road.

Emma then realized that the so-called "partner test" was actually a test of music.

Speaking of which, it seems there are indeed concerts coming up soon...

Then, out of the corner of her eye, she saw the security booth next to the music hall, where two security guards were waving at Hannah.

Emma thought to herself, 'Does my senior even know the staff?'

Yang Wen, watching from the screen, kept his eyes glued to the tops of the two security guards' heads.

The two arrived at the security booth.

A security guard saw Hannah and immediately came out of the pavilion.

"Isn't this Tono? What brings you here today?"

"Yes. You work hard."

"How polite. Here, have some candy."

Watching Hannah chat amiably with the security guard, Yang Wen walked towards the pavilion not far away.

Hannah asked her as she walked away.

"What's wrong?"

"Go borrow something."

After saying that, Emma walked into the security booth without looking back. She then spoke with the remaining security guard inside.

Hannah and the security guard exchanged glances, then exchanged a couple more polite greetings.

"I'd like to borrow a musical instrument today, so please don't inform the teacher."

"Tono is truly multi-talented! No problem, no problem!"

thumping!

They didn't even realize the security booth door was closed.

Thump! Thump!

During Hannah's conversation with the security guard, the security booth trembled slightly.

Hannah was still smiling as she responded to the man's compliments, but she could hear strange background noises.

Boom!

It sounded like a heavy object hitting flesh with a dull thud.

Click!

It sounded like the cracking of bones.

"Ugh—!"

And a short, sharp scream that didn't even have time to escape.

Hannah's smile froze on her face.

"Um... sir, is there any sound coming from inside?"

The security guard turned around in confusion: "Did something fall over?"

Whoosh!

A streak of bright red blood, like splashed ink, splattered violently onto the glass window of the pavilion.

The warm, red liquid slowly slid down, obscuring the view inside.

The two of them froze in shock—

boom! !

The glass shattered!

A twisted humanoid object burst through the window and crashed heavily at Hannah's feet.

Hannah and the security guard looked over when they heard the noise.

Then, their faces turned pale instantly.

"Huh? What is this...?"

That was another security guard.

His head was bent backward at an odd angle, clearly indicating that his cervical vertebrae had been instantly broken by some blunt object.

Hannah's mind went blank.

Snap, snap...

Emma stepped out of the security booth, her face expressionless, stepping on the broken glass.

Hannah stared blankly.

Emma's once pristine white sailor uniform now looked as if it had been splashed with red paint, with warm liquid still dripping down.

She was carrying a badly deformed rubber baton covered in red and white grime.