Chapter 29
: It feels... better to share a meal.
As it was getting dark, Mu Ming was about to leave when Li Huanhuan called out to stop him:
"Aren't you staying for dinner? I'll cook you a couple of dishes to try."
"You can cook?" Mu Ming asked.
Li Huanhuan's family is very well-off; the probability of a rich kid cooking well seems very low.
"Of course! I took home economics classes in elementary school."
Seeing that Mu Ming was preoccupied, Li Huanhuan clearly perked up.
"Okay, call me when you're done cooking. I'm going out for a bit."
After saying that, Mu Ming jumped out of the window first, followed by a black streak of light flying out.
"Huh???"
Li Huanhuan stared at the direction where the black light disappeared, her eyes twitching.
Shouldn't this situation involve two people picking vegetables together, cooking, and having a memorable dinner together?
What does it mean when you ask her to cook, but then she runs off on her own?
"Hmm..."
Li Huanhuan pursed her lips and let out a soft moan, recalling the events of the day as if it were a dream.
"A cunning fellow..."
She cursed angrily, already realizing that Mu Ming was deliberately keeping her hanging.
It truly excels in both offense and defense.
"How about we order takeout?"
With Mu Ming gone, her urge to cook vanished almost entirely, as she usually ate out most of the time anyway.
"No! How can we be so pragmatic? Haste makes waste."
The idea of ordering takeout was quickly put out of my mind. Sincerity is always useful, and I shouldn't be so worried about losing a little bit of profit.
While Li Huanhuan was out buying groceries, Mu Ming, now transformed into Wu An, had already found a rooftop in a building.
She stood on the tarmac, below which a sea of light shimmered, vibrant reds and purples, dividing the deep black night in two. A dragon-like stream of cars weaved through the road network, captivating the viewer for a moment.
Wu An blinked, and the accumulated filthy magic was released, flowing through her body. Wherever it passed, a chaotic aura raged, and a pure desire for destruction gradually rose in her heart.
However, as always, it was suppressed instantly.
She first dispersed the corrupted magic throughout her limbs and bones, and only after confirming that the magic would not harm her did she gather a little corrupted magic towards her right eye.
goo-dong-
A buzzing sound rang in his ears, and Wu An closed his left eye. His vision was now completely different.
The once brilliant night view turned gray and white, with only a few moving red dots. Those were living people, exuding an allure, enticing something to devour them.
Some of the red dots were particularly bright, their light almost completely obscuring the surrounding smaller red dots; those were... magical girls.
Above those little red dots, a faint, purplish-black line connects them. The black line gathers in the air, and tiny clumps of thread are coiled up in various parts of the city.
Some are big, some are small, some have already taken on a rough outline, while others are completely spherical.
One of them has already become a decent-looking shoe. That place is a gathering place for people. Although not every little red dot is connected to a black line, there are still a lot of people there.
As evil thoughts gathered, the scorpion's body began to tremble slightly, and then... it opened its green compound eyes.
The black liquid was shaped into a longbow. Wu An determined the location, opened his other eye, drew the bow, and nocked an arrow, the string as full as a moon.
In the gray world, the scorpion trembled and let out a joyful cry, as if it had connected with reality.
The next moment, above the bustling night market, the figure of a D-level calamity beast emerged from the air.
At the same moment, an arrow as thick as a baby's forearm pierced the night sky, gradually shortening and thinning as it rubbed against the air.
The crowd at the night market had just begun to scream and shout, but before they could even yell twice, the newly born D-class disaster beast had its head pierced instantly.
[Fake Work - Reverse Curve]
With a flash of black light, the Heart of Calamity was enveloped by magic, and the Calamity Beast vanished into thin air as if it had never existed, before it even had a chance to land.
Wu An caught the Heart of Calamity, crushed it, and devoured it.
"The forum was right."
This was the first time she had used this skill. A few days earlier, she had confirmed that the corrupted magic filtered through [Devour] was not dangerous.
Wu An chuckled softly, opened his phone, and saw that it was Thursday and a famous chain fried chicken restaurant was having a promotion.
She planned to give the author a reward of fifty silver dollars as a token of her gratitude.
I searched for a long time but couldn't find the post. When I checked my favorites, I found that the post had been deleted because of "inappropriate guidance," and the author's account was also banned, so he couldn't send private messages.
"pity."
She'll thank that conscientious author when the opportunity arises again.
This technical post is quite useful, but it's also true that it has some issues.
During the day, Li Huanhuan's reaction when she came into contact with her own magic showed that normal magical girls cannot directly come into contact with unclean magic.
I wonder if there's any way to make them develop resistance to corrupted magic...
That's something we need to consider.
I wonder how the original poster solved the problem. I also have a few questions I'd like to ask them.
Hopefully, the poster can get unbanned. She hasn't even named this ability yet. If it were Wu'an who had to name it, she could only think of something like "Aura Observation"—an inappropriate name. The slightly better one would be "Filthy Magic Vision."
For Wu An, the "Aura Observation Technique" is very good, but it has some drawbacks:
The gray-white world in Wu An's right eye only occupies a very small part of Changming City.
To see further, you have to focus your gaze in one direction, but even so, you still can't see the end of Changming City.
Her magic wasn't enough.
I wonder if it can be improved so that the largest area can be explored with the least amount of magic.
She ran around again, casting her Qi-gazing spell in various places. Although there was a possibility of calamity beasts appearing everywhere, there were no more calamity beasts on the verge of birth like before.
The food is ready, come back and eat.
It wasn't until Li Huanhuan sent a message that Wu An lost interest and flew back to Li Huanhuan's big house.
After the transformation ended, Mu Ming sat down at the dining table and began to eat.
"How does it feel?" Li Huan asked excitedly, watching Mu Ming eat but not touching her own chopsticks.
Mu Ming gave her a troubled look; Li Huanhuan had probably forgotten everything her home economics teacher had taught her, and had forgotten everything her PE teacher had taught her.
The food in front of me tasted far inferior to "a bowl of fried rice that I risked my entire culinary career for".
Directly calling her a fool would definitely lower her favorability, but Li Huanhuan just wouldn't take it, so I couldn't let her realize the problem herself.
Mu Ming chose a more tactful way of putting it:
"If you open a restaurant, I will definitely put your place on a special list."
"Hehe~ Of course."
"Yes, of course."
Eating should be a pleasant experience, and bad restaurants should be blacklisted.
"Aren't you going to eat something?" Mu Ming asked, holding up a bowl, trying to make Li Huanhuan realize the problem.
"No, this was made especially for you. I'll just eat out later." Li Huanhuan smiled and shook her head, showing no sign of malice whatsoever.
Mu Ming sighed inwardly; Li Huanhuan was indeed difficult to subdue.
When they are strong, they want to ride on your back; when they are weak, they want to trip you up.
When you train her later, take a whip and give her a good thrashing.
Such unruly behavior and mischievous antics.
As a benevolent and virtuous magical girl, and her "leader," I have every reason to guide her.
If you're not strong enough, you should focus on training instead of doing these unnecessary things.