: Blocking the Bridge

Late at night, Wu'an finished dealing with the calamity beast on the bridge and was about to go back when a barrier appeared on the bridge, blocking her way.

The next moment, a magical power appeared, but one could vaguely sense that several other magical powers were hidden around.

A magical girl appeared from the air, her head held high, her face a mixture of restraint and pride.

"Hmph~ My name is Huisen, I have something to say to you."

"What did you say?"

"You should start communicating on the same level. What you're doing makes people uncomfortable."

At this moment, Huisen was standing on the bridge, while Wu'an's feet were standing on the ground, about the height of a person.

Wu An glanced at her chest; she was a second-tier minor cultivator.

"No need, this is fine."

As he spoke, Wu An rested his left elbow on the back of his right hand, while his left hand supported his chin, adopting a scrutinizing posture.

"You're being way too arrogant!!"

If what was just a lack of manners could be considered impolite, now it seems downright arrogant!

"Don't worry about such trivial matters, just state your needs."

"Ugh..." Huisen's rising momentum was suppressed. She wanted to raise her voice and shout a few words, but she was already very sleepy. She had been squatting for most of the day and wanted to go back to sleep.

"Fine, I'll say it..." she muttered angrily, then tried hard to recall the lines she had been taught beforehand.

She had originally intended to use polite words, but since Wu An was so rude, she simply switched to rude language as well:

"Oh, Miss Mu'an, these days in the city, when people talk about magical girls, they always mention you."

"Um."

"It was one thing to start in the South City District, but now it has spread to the entire Changming City. Apart from the B-level disaster beasts, all the other disaster beasts were killed by you in less than a few minutes after they were born."

"What's wrong?"

"You, don't you think..." Huisen carefully chose his words... "Don't you think you're a blabbermouth?"

"You're enforcing the law all over the city like this. It's one thing if you're from the General Affairs Bureau, but you're a free agent. And yet everyone's praising you, as if you're the only magical girl in the city."

"I didn't say you couldn't steal it, and I can't beat a B-rank disaster beast either," Wu An replied strangely.

Huisen clenched his fist... It's as if, apart from the Bureau of Statistics, no one can defeat a B-rank disaster beast.

Wu An didn't actually claim all the calamity beasts as hers, but the problem is she can't compete with them... They fly too fast, and they're really good at fighting!

"Hmph! No matter what, you've overstepped your bounds. We don't care about other districts, but we have a magical girl with precognitive abilities in the north of the city. Even without you, she can get to the disaster site in time."

Today, I was staking out Wu An, relying on my precognitive abilities. But for some reason, I couldn't predict Wu An himself, so I just predicted where the calamity beasts would appear.

Anyway, wherever there are calamity beasts, Wu An will appear, so we can just ambush her there.

"Are you a local gang?" Wu An asked, tilting his head.

"That's not it at all! You don't even collect your salary, yet you're the one in the whole city who handles the disaster beasts the most diligently, like a scab! In short, you're really annoying."

"Does it make you feel useless?" Wu'an asked doubtfully, as she hadn't really considered this possibility.

"Idiot! Don't be so blunt, you're useless."

A typical "foolish" reaction.

I don't understand. If Wu An couldn't transform, he would love to have a magical girl who could teleport across the entire city to deal with the monsters.

However, as the future supreme, powerful, benevolent, and virtuous magical girl, showing compassion for those below is also part of her growth.

So Wu'an patiently explained:

Do you know why guns are banned in our world?

"Huh...why are you suddenly bringing this up?"

"I'm just asking if you know or not."

"Would it hurt ordinary people?" Huisen subconsciously straightened his body.

"That's one way to understand it. For ordinary people, the mere presence of a gun can be frightening; its inherent characteristic is its ability to harm lives, and this fear doesn't disappear just because it's not used."

Wu An paused, his gaze sweeping over the several hidden auras in the air. "Correspondingly, the power of a magical girl will not dissipate just because she is idle. Although it is the duty of a magical girl to exterminate disaster beasts, the essence of exterminating disaster beasts is to protect the safety of life."

"People won't stop looking at you differently just because your presence as magical girls has faded."

"Correspondingly, this situation won't last long. After a while, I won't be able to hunt down the monsters all over the city like this anymore." After all, there's not much time left before the [countdown] ends.

Huisen felt that he didn't quite understand what Wu An was saying, but it made a lot of sense.

The same goes for the magical girls in the shadows.

"Not for long? How long?"

Huisen jumped in surprise, his gaze instinctively drifting to the back of his head. "Big sister, why are you out here?"

"Idiot! Use code names in front of strangers."

"Okay! Sister Huimu!"

Wu An looked at the newly appeared fennel tree and found that it was actually in its flowering stage.

"It won't waste too much of your time, at most twenty days." It could have been faster originally, but for some reason, the number of monsters in Changming City has decreased significantly during this period...

"Twenty days? That's too long! We're not here to negotiate with you. We showed up to tell you not to be a laughing stock." Huimu was clearly much more assertive than her sister.

"So you're not planning to talk anymore?" Wu An asked.

"If you said two or three days, that would be fine, but who's going to wait for you for twenty days?"

"Do I have to beg you?" Wu An descended from the sky.

"ha?"

Hui Mu was surprised that Wu An, who had been so assertive until now, suddenly softened.

Although she backed down, her attitude was still very unpleasant.

However, since they've backed down, they must be feeling weak.

"There are many of us, we're not here to bargain with you, begging won't help!" Huimu snapped his fingers, and the hidden magical girls appeared.

After a quick count, including the two from before, there were actually seven.

It has everything from the second stage to the flowering stage.

"Want to fight?"

"Tsk... The way you talk is really annoying." Huimu frowned in dissatisfaction. "If it weren't for the fact that you've made such a big contribution, we wouldn't be discussing this with you. The way magical girls resolve conflicts is to fight."

Huimu changed the subject:

"You think you can win with such a huge advantage of seven against one? If you're still so stubborn, you'll get a spanking later, and I'll take a picture and post it on the forum."

"If you don't want to lose face, then—"

Before Huimu could finish speaking, a dark, round ball of thread appeared in Wu'an's hand.

"You said you could settle this with a fight. I thought it was illegal to fight with other magical girls." Turns out, it's not illegal to beat up ordinary people.

Actually, no. If magical girls fight in private, it's fine as long as they don't cause damage to the city. But if they do cause damage, the Bureau of Control will drag them in for magical girl university studies.

Seeing the overwhelming black lines rolling in, Huimu couldn't hold back any longer: "Arrogant!"

......

Snapped!

"ah!"

Snapped!

"Hmm..."

Snapped!

"Please stop hitting me..."

On the bridge, seven magical girls were suspended from the bridge beams.

The black threads coalesced into a whip that lashed across the buttocks of the suspended magical girl.

After smoking for a while, Wu An took out his phone and took several photos of them from behind and from the front.

One by one, faces filled with shame and indignation were saved in the photo album.

Several others bared their teeth and shouted loudly:

"Shameless! You started fighting without even saying a word!"

"I didn't have time to transform! Let's try again!"

This is a typical example of a weak and incompetent rage. In that situation, is there any option other than fighting?

"Don't bother me anymore, or I'll post the photos on the forum without blurring them out."

Upon hearing this, the few who were still muttering fell silent.

"By the way, if there are similar small groups in the east and west of the city, remember to tell them that this situation will only last for a while longer."

After saying this, without waiting for the girls to react, Wu An disappeared from the spot.

Only a group of people remained hanging on the bridge, swaying in the wind.

"Ugh! She must have cheated! She must have used some method to hide her true rank, otherwise she couldn't possibly be this strong!"

Some people cannot accept the fact that they were outnumbered seven to one and still got swept by the opponent.

"So what? If she's not very good today, she'll be the one hanging up... yawn~ What's done is done, let's go to sleep."

"Why can't these threads be broken? My chest feels so tight! She's gone so far, how come the magic hasn't dissipated yet??"

"My butt hurts so much..."

"Does it hurt? I also feel a little itchy."