Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 228 Semi
"Positioning...completed, circuit...normal, magic power...sufficient."

Faint whispers sounded from the top of the mountain. A petite black cat fairy squatted on a tall stone tower, constantly feeling the patterns on the tower with her claws, as if confirming something.

It wagged its tail, its pupils flickering, looking quite intelligent. Pitch-black magic particles scattered around its body, making its already inconspicuous figure even more concealed.

“…Almost done.”

Ultimately, it came to this conclusion.

The ritual for destroying the city's defense net has been prepared. For it, the next action will be much easier than the previous preparations. It only needs to mobilize external magic power to smash the defense net directly above.

As a fairy that does not need to abide by human morals at all, it has no psychological burden about the disaster that may be caused by "breaking the protective net".

Looking at the hillside in the distance, the red and black magic was still flickering with the fluorescent blue and orange-yellow, and there were strange noises from time to time. It nodded and sighed subconsciously: "Although Yuan said he was backing down, he still worked hard."

"Well, since she has persisted for so long, I should finish my work quickly."

It lowered its head, staring at the patterns on the stone tower, and said to someone unknown: "…If you want to hate me, then hate me. I am just a bad goblin anyway."

As it said this, the magic power around it began to fluctuate unusually.

And at this moment, before it could officially start the ceremony, a pale flame passed straight past its side.

——“Stop it!”

"Meow!"

Semi was startled by the sudden attack and scolding. He didn't care about the few hairs on his body that were burned. He kicked his limbs and fell to the ground from the stone tower.

After landing, it quickly rolled twice to put out the fire on its body, and then stood up angrily: "Who is it! So uncivilized!"

Before it could utter the next sentence, with a burst of "whoosh" flashes, a group of magical girls of various appearances appeared in front of it.

It widened its eyes and counted casually, and found that there were six magical girls in front of it.

"Stop what you are doing now and surrender immediately! Otherwise, don't blame us for using force!"

The azure-colored magical girl in the lead did not respond to Semi's question, but declared seriously: "If you have other accomplices, call them out now. This is an ultimatum!"

She spoke righteously, as if she were the embodiment of justice. After she made her declaration loudly, she lowered her head to confirm what the enemy she had just encountered looked like.

But she soon found that there was no one in front of her.

Looking up into the distance, I saw a tiny black shadow passing through the trees and grass, and it was fleeing towards the cliff.

"Escaped!" shouted Mu Lily beside her.

"Chase him!" Lin Xiaolu behind her had already rushed forward with her magic wand in hand.

"Wait a minute, I think we should first confirm what that strange device over there is used for..." Bai Ji tried very hard to stop the two young men, but she was still a step too slow. The two men rushed out after shouting.

After a chaotic commotion, two more magical girls who were slow to react flew up and rushed forward in a chaotic manner. In the end, only Bai Ji and Xia Liang remained where they were and did not rush to chase after them.

She turned her head wordlessly and exchanged glances with Xia Liang, but all she got was a gesture of spreading her hands and a helpless smile from the other party. So, they could only sigh at each other.

Semi, who was moving through the bushes, was unaware of these circumstances.

At this moment, it was running wildly, cursing Yuan and her ancestors frantically in its heart, and expressing deep regret for praising the other party for "working without compromise" a few minutes ago.

There are only nine people in total, how could I have missed six of them?

If it wasn't clear that Yuan was not a deep-minded person, Semi would have suspected that the other party was trying to kill someone with a borrowed knife - did he think he could handle this number of people?

But after running wildly for a while, thinking gradually calmly, and confirming that the noise behind it was getting smaller and smaller, it couldn't help but stop.

Because it knows that it can't just run away like this.

The stone tower prepared for the ceremony was left behind. Although the magical girls might not know that the stone tower was the key to the ceremony, there was no guarantee that someone would notice it.

At this time, Yuan is still fighting with at least the remaining three magical girls. Judging from the fluctuations of magic power in the forest, they must be the strongest ones among this group of magical girls. In other words, the opponent is still buying time for their actions.

If he just ran away like this and left the stone tower to those magical girls and let them destroy it, then even if he could survive, the action would be doomed to fail, and Yuan might not even be able to escape. By then, he would have lost both the wife and the army.

At that point, the leader must be extremely dissatisfied. Once the leader blames me, it will be all my fault, and the punishment and disciplinary action will be quite severe.

And when I think of the possible punishment from the leader...

Semi silently turned around and looked in the direction he came from.

Rather than being punished by the leader for failing to do the job well, it would be better to fight with those magical girls right from the start. At least there is a chance of winning in a fight, but facing the leader would only lead to death.

Not long after it stopped, the four magical girls that followed closely appeared in front of it.

And when Semi and several magical girls saw each other's faces clearly, they raised different questions.

"…Fairy?"

"Only four people?"

The magical girls probably had never thought that the enemy they would face would be a fairy, and they were a little unsure for a moment.

As for Semi, when he found out that the other side only had four people, he knew something bad was going to happen, because he could guess where the remaining two people were at a glance - they were definitely staying under the stone tower.

Although it had attached protective spells to the stone tower just in case, there was no guarantee that the other party would not use some strange means to destroy the core of the ritual.

When he thought of this, Semi felt like he was suffocating.

But it also knew that the more this situation happened, the more it could not show weakness. Once it showed any sign of being anxious, the other party would definitely know that the stone tower was the core of the ceremony, and then it would be really doomed.

So it tried hard to remain calm, trying to make its movements appear as unhurried and graceful as possible, and said in a pretentious tone: "Very good, this place is wide enough and is a truly suitable place for fighting."

"Are you in the same group as that magical girl with the claw marks?"

Lin Xiaolu, who was standing in the front row, looked at the black cat fairy in front of her suspiciously: "Are you the one responsible for destroying Fangting City's defense network?"

"Humph, I have no obligation to answer your questions."

Sammy wagged his tail and replied rather coldly, "Unless you defeat me here, you will never get any answer."

"Who the hell is this guy? So arrogant!" Lin Xiaolu couldn't help smacking her lips. "That's right, it's just a goblin. We have four people on our side!"

Mu Baihe on the side also shouted: "What are you talking about defeating you? Don't say we bullied you later!"

"No... it's weird."

Only Mimosa looked serious at this moment, and tugged at the sleeve of Lily beside her: "It's a goblin."

"Huh? What's wrong? It's really a fairy." Lily looked at Mimosa with confusion on her face.

"My sister said that fairies will not betray the royal court."

Mimosa looked in Semi's direction and said word by word: "But the claw marks are all traitors."

"Ah, you mean to say that goblins like it are actually rare?"

Mu Baili nodded and said, "Because there are very few fairies who would betray the royal court, so it is a rare fairy?"

"That's not what I said!"

Mimosa seemed a little annoyed. She pouted and tugged at Mu Baihe's sleeve, almost pulling her to the ground: "Sister said, it's not about whether you want to or not, but that you can't!"

"Don't want to? Can't?" Mu Lily looked confused after listening to Mimosa's words.

"You mean to say that there might be some secret in it?"

Lin Xiaolu naturally heard the conversation between the two, so she turned around and looked at Mu Baihe: "A normal fairy cannot betray the country, so it has mastered some secret?"

"...I don't know." However, when it comes to the real answer, Mimosa can only shake her head: "Fairy, I have only seen Polly."

The Polly she was talking about was the sower of Baian City, and it was actually the norm for most magical girls to only recognize the sower fairies in their own city.

"secret?"

After hearing their conversation, Semi, who was originally pretending to be arrogant, could no longer maintain his expression: "Huh? So the kids nowadays don't even know about this kind of thing?"

"What do you want to say?" At the critical moment, Lin Xiaolu calmed down for once. She did not interrupt the other party but continued to ask questions.

Because even she had a hunch that the other party's subtext might be a very important message to them.

"... Oh, forget it. If you don't even know my origins, there's really no point in fighting."

Semi licked his paw, straightened up slightly, and looked at the group of magical girls in front of him with a sharp gaze: "Then let me introduce myself. My name is Semi, and as you can see, I am a fairy."

"However, unlike those pets kept in captivity by the kingdom as you said, I was not born in the magic kingdom, but from the other world."

"In this world, fairies are not the only ones found in magical kingdoms."

Its words undoubtedly aroused surprised reactions from several magical girls.

"Intermediate world?"

“There are fairies in the other world too?”

However, the things that surprised them were different.

No matter what the reason was for the surprise, it didn't matter anymore. At least, Bai Jingxuan, who was standing at the back of the group, had already grasped the wand in her hand with some solemnity.

"...It smells like the remains of an animal." She spoke, quietly reminding everyone.

"Yes, very sharp perception." Sammy wagged his tail and continued, "If you can sense this, then at least you won't be caught off guard."

"What?" Its words naturally made Lin Xiaolu and others feel that something was wrong.

And just a moment later, they all understood where this strange feeling came from.

Because Semina, who originally looked quite petite, about the same size as a pet cat, had been stretched out at some point.

Just like stuffing cotton into a doll, the originally regular shape expanded in an extremely distorted way. However, the doll did not break due to too much filling, but instead grew bigger and bigger, and became what Semi looks like now.

Of course, it’s not just about getting bigger.

Fangs, sharp teeth, fur, these things also became more conspicuous as Semi's body expanded. The black fur on his body became longer and longer as he grew bigger, and protruded outward. I don't know when the two eyes originally came closer and closer, and finally merged together to become a huge one-eyed monster.

A shaking cat's tail also split into two thick and long tails, stretching straight up to the sky, like two dead tree branches.

Strange patterns clung to its fur and merged with the other patterns, making it impossible to distinguish one from the other, as if they had been born on this monster.

There is no doubt that what appeared in front of everyone was no longer a fairy, but a crippled beast.

Its appearance still looks a bit like a cat, but the huge single eye and double tail don't look like a regular material world creature. Whether from the appearance or the background of magic, it is just a remnant beast.

"The fairy... also turned into a beast?" For Lin Xiaolu, this was something she had never seen before in her life.

She had seen humans transformed into beasts, and had even seen what the magical girl Yuan, who had mastered the power of beasts looked like. But she had never imagined that she would actually see fairies transformed into beasts.

In fact, this fact had a much greater impact on her than the previous two.

Although she has now tried her best to eliminate the influence of magical girl animation on her cognition, and has increasingly seen that the magical girls in reality are different from those in animation, the fairy in her impression should still be "pure, kind and cute little animals." Even a fool like Moko at least follows this law.

It can even be said that in Lin Xiaolu's cognition, fairies and "having combat capabilities" have always been parallel lines and seem to have no intersection.

And now, this cognition has been broken, in the most brutal way.

A fairy turned into the enemy of the magical girl, a cripple beast, right in front of her.

"I didn't want to use this form in a place like this. It's too conspicuous."

The one-eyed beast opened its huge mouth, and magic power gushed out like ink: "But since you have come to me, you should just leave your lives behind."

It raised its head, took steps, and its tails intertwined like two snakes, forming a pair of spirals in the air that reflected each other. The ends of the spirals pointed directly to the dark sky.

On this moonless night, which was supposed to be moonless, a full blue moon had risen.

——"Or rather, sink into my lair."

(End of this chapter)