The Pests Obey the Order and Commit Suicide

Everyone saw it in that instant.

A soft, white light emerged from the longsword in the girl's hand.

The light, sometimes bright, sometimes dim, changed constantly as Li Jiangqun's slender hand holding the sword swung out, until it transformed into a crescent moon sword aura that flew out.

"——"

This sword strike was silent, its energy as light as gauze, yet it passed through all the oncoming Demon Sky warriors without any hindrance.

Like moonlight brushing across water, the smooth, translucent floor tiles reflected the crescent-shaped image, which traveled over ten meters in an instant before slowly dissipating less than half a meter from the demon's body.

"Gurgle... Ha, ha..."

The Taiyin magic power in his body was completely drained away by this sword energy, and all the supernatural abilities on his body also disappeared.

Li Jiangqun knelt on the ground, her face pale, her forehead covered in fine beads of sweat, and her chest heaving.

Her once neatly tied ponytail came undone from exhaustion, and her black hair cascaded down her shoulders and back like a waterfall, with a few strands sticking to her sweaty cheeks.

Even so, she still gripped the longsword, Ivy, tightly in her hand.

The combatants who had been charging forward stopped when the sword energy swept past their bodies.

Their bodies remained in a forward-leaning posture in mid-air, and then a thin thread appeared simultaneously on their chests and horizontal shoulders.

"laugh--"

"Bang."

First, the severed arms detached from the torso and crashed to the ground with a heavy thud.

Subsequently, the threads on the chests of all the combatants continued to expand until everyone could see the modified organs with neat incisions in their chest cavities.

Iron-gray artificial tissue and metal fragments clattered and scattered across the ground as the combatants fell. There was no blood, only scattered blue arcs of electricity crackling and dancing among the wreckage.

Looking at the broken iron limbs and severed wires in front of her, a look of confusion appeared in Li Jiangqun's eyes.

Did I do these things?

A mysterious feeling arose in her heart.

She vaguely understood something.

The demon's wriggling mouthparts stopped, as if what was happening before it had caused it considerable confusion.

It wasn't the combatant's defeat that was surprising, but rather it was as if they had seen something incomprehensible.

"It's the Grand Duke... How could it be? It's not the Grand Duke."

After a long silence, the terrifying, androgynous voice of the demon, Fushun, resounded throughout the subway station once again.

"...Terrifying, unsettling."

"These negative emotions were supposed to be a gift from us demonic angels to you humans."

The demon raised his arm, covered in hideous armor, and placed it on his chest.

"..."

After a long silence, it spoke.

"—For the sake of the general's great cause, unstable factors need to be eliminated."

So the demon drew his sword and strode forward heavily.

But before it could even take the second step, it stopped again.

The towering demon seemed to suddenly sense something, turning its inhuman head to look at a certain wall.

A subway sign hung on the wall, and Li Jiangqun could clearly see the bright slogan on it from her angle.

"Pests, heed my command! Commit suicide and die!"

"Mighty Insecticide wipes out all pests in my home!"

What a terrible guy...

Suppressing the urge to complain in such a serious setting, the girl glanced at the insecticide on the GG sign, then at the insectoid demon who was almost half a head taller than her.

Well, trying to kill it with this is less reasonable than hoping to drown it in insecticide.

So it's quite obvious that this demon isn't looking at GG; it's more likely that it's passing through the GG wall and receiving some kind of message.

A moment later, Fu Xun turned his head, and his third eye focused its gaze back on Li Jiangqun. The latter held her sword warily, ready to take the pill again at any moment.

Although she didn't know if she could still unleash the same sword energy after taking the pill a second time, she couldn't afford to lose in terms of momentum.

Ultimately, it seemed that something was urging it on, or perhaps it was out of fear of the human girl who was launching an unknown attack.

The tall demon took a step back, his androgynous voice tinged with regret.

"...You've escaped with your life."

Fu Xun didn't say another word. With a flick of its gray robe, it shot out of the passage behind it like a cannonball, followed closely by the remaining Demon Sky combatants.

As the demon left, the scattered remains of the combatants on the floor tiles began to rust, until they were finally corroded into shapeless rusty debris.

The crowd fell silent for a moment, then erupted into a deafening roar of cheers.

"That means the little girl won!"

"I don't have to die! Waaah... Mom, I don't have to die!"

"My friend! You are the true hero!"

"Speaking of which, what was that just now? It looked like sword energy from a novel."

"Have you gone mad from reading too many fantasy novels? Do you even need to ask? It's definitely magical girl magic!"

"Huh? But didn't that angelic apprentice say that little girl wasn't a magical girl?"

"Foolish! You actually believe the enemy! When the Archangels invaded before, they said it was for our own good!"

"Mom, that magical girl older sister wasn't transforming, but she was so amazing!"

"..."

It is well known that people tend to have a lot of say in areas where they only have a superficial understanding.

Although insiders know that magical girls cannot use magic when they are not transformed, this is not known to the general public.

People whose understanding of magical girls is limited to official sources and online sources unanimously regard the sword energy wielded by the girls as so-called magic.

But those who truly understand magic, such as Jiang Qing, a magical girl, or the demon Fu Xun who had been idling and watching the entire game, are different.

In their eyes, Li Jiangqun's Yin magic and the sword energy she unleashed were undoubtedly things that would greatly surprise them.

To borrow a line from a novel, that's it.

Before you became a magical girl, you viewed me as a frog in a well gazing at the moon.

—If you were to become a magical girl, you would know what it means to be a mayfly seeing the blue sky when you see the magic in my hands, Li Jiangqun.

People who had escaped death joyfully surrounded the girl who had just relaxed from the crisis, and the subway station was filled with excited thanks and cheers.

Several teenagers even squeezed in, wanting Li Jiangqun to sign their autographs, which made her feel a little flustered.

Behind the crowd, a slender figure wearing a baseball cap watched the girl surrounded by people, a slight smile playing on her lips.

A few strands of silvery-white hair cascaded down her side, and she raised her pale, almost transparent fingers to tuck the hair back into her hat, revealing her swan-like, beautiful nape.

Her lips moved slightly, but no sound came out. However, the girl in the crowd seemed to have heard something and looked around in astonishment.

But the figure had already turned and left the subway station, and no matter how hard she searched, she couldn't find him.