Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 227 Hunting
Yuan looked at Margaret in silence.

She didn't ask any more questions, but just smiled meaningfully, then raised the wine glass in her hand, put it to her lips, and drank the glass of strange-colored wine in one gulp.

Then, she put down the cup and smacked her lips, as if she was savoring the taste she had just tasted. She said with a hint of disdain, "It tastes bad. It's a bit like someone mixed some soy sauce into the wine, and then added water. And there's no aftertaste. It feels like the wine disappears after it passes through my throat, without any extra taste left."

Although she said "it tastes bad", when she saw the empty wine glass slowly filling up with the same liquid as before, she raised the glass again and drank it all in one gulp.

This time, the expression on her face changed from obvious disdain to understanding. She shook the empty wine glass in her hand and added, "Rubbish wine."

"I have received your evaluation. I am very sorry that I was unable to provide you with a drink that satisfies you."

Margaret, who was standing opposite her, nodded obediently, as if she were really a bartender: "This is my negligence in my job. Would you be willing to give me another chance to mix the drink in your hand a little bit?"

"Oh? And you're bringing someone to help with the readjustment? Then I'll respectfully obey your orders, please."

Yuan was stunned for a moment, then smiled as if he really agreed, and put the cup in his hand on the bar: "Personally, I hope the intensity and taste are more stimulating, and it is best not to have too many other flavors..."

But halfway through her words, she suddenly changed her tune, took back her wine glass, and said in a cold tone: "...Do you think I would say that?"

As she asked this question, the originally relaxed atmosphere around them suddenly became tense. In the originally quiet wonderland, only sparse whispers and the still melodious music remained. However, even the music could not ease the chill, and only made the scene more awkward.

In this atmosphere, facing the other party's questioning, Margaret just maintained an elegant and decent smile and did not answer.

Seeing that the other party didn't speak, Yuan didn't get angry, but continued to talk to himself: "I'm a person who doesn't worry about whether the wine is poisoned or not, because my internal organs are full of "qi", which can help me isolate the things I drink at any time, and poison has no effect on me."

"But just now, in order to verify my hypothesis, I used air to wrap the wine in the glass and took it into my stomach. But I found a very interesting phenomenon - the wine didn't enter my stomach at all. It just slid through my mouth and then disappeared."

"And after they disappeared, the cup in my hand was filled again. In other words, this so-called 'endless wine' was only one cup from beginning to end."

"This is very interesting. A glass of wine remains unchanged from beginning to end, and everyone happens to have a glass in their hands, all of which are influenced by your wonderland..."

He raised the cup in his hand again, letting the warm yellow light around him shine through the wine in the cup. Yuan watched the swaying light being broken by the waves, and said firmly: "I'm afraid this cup of wine is not a simple symbol, but a direct correspondence to my true self, right?"

Margaret remained calm: "Maybe this is just my bluff?"

"What's the point of bluffing? I have thought about it countless times. What should my true self and magic be like after leaving this body? After seeing this glass of wine, I already know: it is the answer to the question. My true self should be like this."

Yuan just shook his head: "And if it is my true self, then will the change in the wine in the glass cause a corresponding change in me? Can you tell me the answer, bartender?"

"Very interesting inference. I can answer you that your guesses are very close to the truth."

Margaret's hand gently brushed across the table and opened next to Yuan's wine glass: "Unfortunately, it's a little late to come to this conclusion now."

There was silence at the bar for a moment.

"You said 'too late', what do you mean..." After understanding the other party's words, Yuan widened her eyes slightly, but before she could finish, she felt an irrepressible emotion erupting from the depths of her heart.

Sadness, pain, regret, frustration... countless bitter emotions suddenly filled her mind, almost completely destroying her thoughts.

The uncontrollable sadness made her subconsciously cover her chest. She felt as if her heart had been dug out, and the pain was so severe that she was left with only suffocation and numbness.

Along with this emotion, there was also a change in the cocktail in front of her.

At some point, a faint blue color had quietly blended into the distinct layers of black and red wine, and like drops of thick ink falling into clear water, it quickly spread throughout the entire wine glass.

For humans, emotional experiences often have a reverse effect on physical actions. For Yuan at this moment, the extreme sadness was like a spell that made her stand still and unable to move.

"--Go ahead." Then, the bartender standing behind the bar withdrew his hand and announced.

The next moment, in this small world that looked like a tavern, magical lights of various colors suddenly flashed.

The first to attack Yuan were Cuique, who had regained her ability to move after a short rest, and Hong Siyu who had been following her.

The current situation was exactly why she asked Margaret to use Fankai.

Margarita's flourishing, hot intoxication at will, as an advancement of passion, possesses the ability to finely control the liquid magic in the cup, and this form of control is just like mixing a cocktail.

By placing different emotions into the glass, Margaret can customize the effects of the magic in the glass without having to worry about her own emotional state.

She can stack the effects of healing and protection together, just like preparing a potion, to create the best positive effect; she can also stack attack effects of different natures such as fire, lightning, etc. to create a more ferocious attack effect.

What’s more important is that this kind of “cocktail mixing” behavior is not limited to one’s own wine glass.

With her own magical world, Aso Yuanxiang can project everyone's true self into a cocktail, and she can take this opportunity to control the wine in other people's glasses.

When the "wine" changes, everyone's true appearance will also change accordingly, and regardless of whether the other person has drunk the wine in the glass, it will directly affect their true appearance. This is the truly terrifying thing about Aso Yuanxiang's ability.

Just now, she had "mixed" Yuan's wine glass, which had a reverse effect on his emotions, causing him to fall into great sadness for a while and unable to extricate himself.

This effect will not last too long, and the more magic power the target has, the shorter it will last. However, in a battlefield that changes rapidly, even a moment is enough to determine the outcome.

The silk thread in Kuei-jae's hand turned into a dagger-shaped masterpiece, which arrived in front of Yuan almost at the same time as Hong Siyu's technique. But until this moment, Yuan still did not move.

It was not until the moment when her body was about to be hit that she finally blinked and found a bit of self-recovery from the negative emotions that were almost uncontrollable.

She exerted a little force with the hand holding the wine glass and twisted her body a millimeter. At the same time, the "qi" in her body flowed together and began to move along a certain trajectory, protecting the vital parts of her body in the shortest time possible.

Then, a surge of magical power burst out from its body, and the powerful impact blocked the dagger thrown by Delphinium and Hong Siyu's spell.

After narrowly blocking this wave of attacks, she was about to resolve the emotions that still occupied her mind, but suddenly found that she had no chance because the next wave of attacks had already arrived.

The bartender standing behind the bar tilted the glass in his hand slightly and splashed the liquid in the glass towards her.

The wine escaped from the cup, and each drop of liquid seemed to have received the most precise instructions, dispersing as far as possible from each other, like an open net bag. This net bag made of liquid fell from the sky and covered Yuan's position directly.

Yuan had to react in a very short time, but the emotions in her mind became a huge drag, making her reaction slow and numb. Therefore, almost at the moment when the liquid was about to touch her body, she suddenly accelerated and fled from the area covered by the liquid at the terrifying speed before.

Then she found that she still had not become safe.

Because when she forced her body to speed up and escape as fast as possible, there were already other things waiting on the paths around her.

——They were fluorescent blue, imperceptible silk threads, as dense as a spider web, connecting every direction around her.

There is no doubt that this is the work of Delphinium.

There are a lot of these threads, but their strength is not that high, because the most important thing for the Delphinium is to ensure that the coverage area is guaranteed, so that no matter which direction the kite escapes, there will be threads blocking the way in front. Under normal circumstances, these threads are not a big threat to the kite, because they are not strong. It is easy to break them with your body, let alone with weapons. With the speed of the kite after it has spread out, it can even cut these threads while moving forward.

However, Yuan couldn't do it at this time.

Because she forced herself to speed up in a panic, she did not expect that there would be so many silk threads in front of her. Even if the strength of these silk threads was not high, if they collided with them at such a high speed——

——It’s no different from being hit by a knife.

This is exactly what Yuan has been avoiding, and it is also the goal that Cuiqiao and others have decided to achieve.

She couldn't let the other party succeed.

So, she tried to mobilize her Qi again, wanting to use it to fight against these magic threads. After all, the deployment of energy in the body is just a matter of thought, which is faster than her driving her body to move.

If she successfully used Qi, she should be able to soften the magic threads in front of her, thus avoiding being hurt by bumping into them...

……?

Yuan's thoughts came to a halt again.

Because she found that she could no longer use her energy.

After a brief pause, I felt suddenly enlightened and relieved.

Yes, isn't it this ability of the opponent that she has been guarding against from the very beginning?
What he saw from the corner of his eye was the petite blue-haired girl not far away, standing in mid-air with an expressionless face, standing on a magic net woven of fluorescent blue silk threads, with countless silk threads wrapped around her ten fingers, extending from them to form a dense encirclement around Kite.

More importantly, there was the girl behind him who silently opened the huge library and the small pair of scissors in her hand that looked like a phantom.

At the moment when the silk thread touched Yuan's body, she used it as a medium to temporarily cut off the concept of "qi" from the other party.

Thus, the prey is caught in the net.

Driven away by the sound of gunfire and weapons, the dark beast rushed hastily into the trap that the hunter had set long ago.

In the wine glass, the dark red cocktail seemed to be spilled, and a layer the width of a finger disappeared in an instant.

The magic power flew high into the sky like flying ashes, and the black mist surrounding the body shrank visibly in an instant. Yuan's body was entangled and bound by heavy silk threads. Finally, after swaying a few times, he was tied firmly in mid-air.

Yuan, who had previously relied on his own speed to evade attacks and had only suffered a few injuries, finally revealed his biggest flaw.

Of course, the battle is not over yet.

Because even if Yuan was bound in a certain position, these silk threads, which were not strong in themselves, would be useless. For Yuan, as long as she could recover from her emotions, it would only take a moment for her to break free from these silk threads.

But she still didn't get the chance to "recover".

Under the silk net that bound her, there was a group of magical girls, each holding their own magic outfit, with spells and magic bullets ready to go.

The remaining six magical girls all gathered here, just to give her the most crucial blow.

It didn't matter whether it could actually cause damage, because Delphinium had already instructed, "Just hit it."

Looking at the magical lights of various colors, Yuan in the center of the silk screen was stunned, then he grinned and revealed an extremely happy smile.

"Great cooperation!"

A roar from the bottom of their hearts was released along with the magic power in the hands of the girls.

All the magic power in her body was mobilized at this moment. Even if she lost her "qi", the remaining momentum would infinitely increase her strength, once again suppressing the flickering light.

While shouting, she mobilized her willpower, suppressed all the negative emotions, and then swung the weapon in her hand.

She accepts that she is at a disadvantage, but she will never accept that she loses everything because of one disadvantage.

No matter what, she had to break free from the silk net on her body and avoid the next attack.

The speed of the body was exerted to the extreme, all the mist turned into shadows, and countless weapons stabbed out from the hands of the shadows, and it seemed as if they were stabbed out from her own hands.

Fast, extremely fast, Yuan's figure overlapped with the numerous phantoms in the weapon at that moment, and these countless overlapping figures swung their weapons towards the net almost at the same time.

"Snap!"
It was a loud noise like a sudden storm and waves like a raging sea. In an instant, it was as if hundreds or thousands of swords were slashed out, and with endless power, the surrounding wire mesh and even the roof of the bar were swept away and cut off.

The originally densely-woven blue threads all turned into debris all over the sky, and fluorescent blue magic particles spread all over the sky like starlight. The originally dark night was revealed above the broken roof, and this night, with the embellishment of the magic of the stars, was as graceful as a galaxy.

Bathed in the star rain formed by the magic power, Yuan held a knife in one hand, breathing slightly, lowered his head, looked in the direction of the Delphinium, and then revealed a chic smile.

Delphinium didn't respond with any expression.

She just waved her hand, dispersed the broken silk threads that were wrapped around her fingers, returned the phantom scissors in her hand to Hong Siyu, and gently combed the slightly messy ends of her hair.

Then, he waved gently behind Yuan.

Only then did Yuan realize that he seemed to have missed something.

She looked back and saw six magical trails of different colors rising from under her feet and extending forward towards the mountain peak in the distance.

There is no doubt that from the beginning to the end, those young magical girls never thought of confronting her head-on.

The waves of magic they released, the dashes they launched in their own directions, were not intended to attack together, but to... fly.

While Yuan was still clearing the silk net to avoid the attack, these magical girls had already bypassed her and headed towards the top of the mountain.

"...How do you know that direction?" Yuan turned around and asked Kuija helplessly.

In response to this question, Cuiqiao simply raised her hand, revealing her wide cuffs, inside of which was a purple-black crystal that was faintly glowing.

Yuan could recognize it at a glance. It was one of the goals he had been pursuing on this trip - the Origin of Beasts.

"I borrowed it back temporarily because it can be used as a detector when it comes to the magic power of the remnant beast."

Delphinium gathered her sleeves, blinked, and gave this answer as if it was a matter of course.

(End of this chapter)