Is there any start more desperate than that of Yinbin City?

“Thank goodness you’re finally here, Erise.”

As Kim Erise entered the hall, having ascended the long steps leading up to City Hall, a black-haired girl with a single braid rushed over from the side, trying to hug her tightly, but Erise sidestepped, causing the girl to fall flat on her face.

“Sorry, Xiao Ying, I really can’t handle any more hugs today,” the girl, who had shaken off the terrifying experience in the hospital, smoothed her red ponytail and said apologetically.

“Ah…haha, it’s okay.” Xiao Ying, got up, brushed off the dust on her body, and adjusted her glasses, which were askew on her nose.

“I’m really, really happy that you agreed to be mayor because then the second full-scale war between magical girls and humans won’t break out, and then the world will be saved from destruction…”

“Stop, stop, stop,” Kim Erise, made a T-shape with her hands to immediately interrupt the other party’s long-winded speech.

“I get your point, I get it, really, really no need to repeat it so many times, okay?”

“Ah, ah, ah, okay, okay.” Scratching her head in embarrassment, the black-haired girl gave an awkward smile.

“Sorry, sorry, I’ve been doing too many speeches lately, and it’s really easy to lose control of myself.”

“Oh yeah, do you have any lollipops?” Kim Erise, who had touched the little white ball on her waist, realized that she had eaten all the lollipops she had brought out today, and asked, “I always feel uncomfortable when I don’t have anything in my mouth.”

“Yes, yes, there are a lot in the reception room, all kinds of flavors, including your favorite strawberry flavor,” Xiao Ying smiled slightly and turned to walk towards the luxurious elevator next to her:

“It’s specially prepared for your arrival today, hehe, be sure to take them all away.”

“Then I’ll accept your kind offer.”

Hearing that there were lollipops to eat, Kim Erise breathed a sigh of relief, placed her hands on the back of her head, and followed the other party into the elevator.

“Hey, why are you in battle mode now?”

Once inside the elevator, she looked at Xiao Ying’s gray, translucent bodysuit and high-heeled boots, and couldn’t help but ask curiously.

“Because besides you, there are two other councilors in the council hall on the top floor today,” Xiao Ying, bent down, pulled the long socks with brown patterns to the roots of her thighs, her words filled with bitterness and helplessness. “If I don’t get ready for battle at any time, the two of them might just lift the roof off.”

“Oh, is that so?” The red-haired girl’s curiosity was completely aroused: “It seems they haven’t been idle in the council in the past year I’ve been away, I wonder how much things have changed?”

“A lot, a lot,” the black-haired girl shook her head gently and replied with exhaustion, looking up at the constantly changing floor numbers. “I won’t lie to you, I haven’t changed back into my original daily clothes for three months, I’ve almost forgotten what I used to wear.”

“Tsk tsk, is it that exaggerated? They were all pretty united when I was around.”

“Because they had you, the so-called ‘threat’, back then, and after you were successfully ostracized, they naturally started to infight.”

Xiao Ying, with her arms crossed, looked down with a gloomy expression, her voice much weaker.

“Basically, they have to quarrel once or twice in the council hall every day, sometimes two councilors fight, sometimes three or four councilors point fingers at each other, and sometimes all the members are present in a chaotic dance, and it’s too common for them to fight if they don’t agree with each other.

The roof has been renovated at least five times in the past year.”

“And then you have to clean up the mess,” Kim Erise patted the other person’s shoulder gently, shook her head, and chuckled:

“I bet, you, the chairman of the council, have long been a figurehead, just like they did to me before.”

“I’m not surprised at all,” Xiao Ying raised her middle finger and adjusted her glasses, implicitly expressing her inner displeasure:

“The Autonomous Federation is now torn apart, and its cohesion is simply incomparable to the Free Alliance of the past – if the first message I receive tomorrow morning is the renewed outbreak of war, I might just respond with a faint ‘oh’?”

Ding——

With a crisp sound, the elevator, having reached the top, began to slowly open its doors, revealing a central area no less luxurious than the main hall on the first floor.

“I was originally going to explain the current situation in Silver Shore City and some things to pay attention to in the council hall with you,” Xiao Ying and Kim Erise stepped out of the elevator.

They were warmly greeted by two handsome young men in red tights in the reception room on the side, who also brewed two cups of green tea. “But it’s occupied, so we’ll do it here. Here, take this.”

She pulled out a thick file of about a hundred pages from her arms: “You take a look first, and I’ll check on the two lunatics to see if they’re still arguing.”

“Then I’ll leave it to you.”

After watching the black-haired girl walk away, the red-haired girl lightly unwrapped the strawberry-flavored lollipop in the reception room, crossed her legs, and began to read.

“May I help the head with a massage or other special services?”

The two fair-skinned young men stood straight in front of Kim Erise and asked respectfully.

“No need, you two can leave.”

She had had enough physical contact today, no matter whether it was boys or girls, it didn’t matter how handsome and beautiful they were.

“As you command.”

Considering that magical girls have little to no high school education, the files were written in a graphic and colloquial manner, sacrificing the rigor of official language for the sake of easy understanding.

It could be seen that the humans who wrote this file had definitely put in a lot of effort to ensure that their superior could easily understand the contents.

Then the more Kim Erise read, the more serious her expression became, and the mouth that was holding the lollipop had been pursed into a straight line.

Half an hour later, having finally finished the file, she spat out the lollipop stick she had finished eating with a vengeance, which caused the trash can that was hit to open a hole with a dull thump, showing how much force it was:

“This is simply digging a hole for me.”

Silver Shore City, located at the border between the United Nations and the Autonomous Federation, is a peninsula surrounded by the sea on three sides. It was originally a super-large human city in the old days, and relied on its excellent port to maneuver between the great powers.

After the war ended, due to the fact that the extent of its damage was much smaller than that of other major cities, it was chosen as the first pilot city for the peaceful coexistence of magical girls and humans after both sides had negotiated, and would officially start trial operation in a month.

However, this city was simply not prepared to be put into operation.

The anti-war organization, the Wings of Angels, once set up its headquarters here, merged with the local government, declared neutrality during the war, and accepted a large number of human refugees and a few magical girls who refused to join the Free Alliance due to fear, rejection, or other reasons.

It was once a paradise of peace that civilians longed for.

However, as the population grew, problems began to surface one after another.

The first and foremost was the food and water supply crisis: The war destroyed large areas of farmland and livestock.

The few agricultural powers within the United Nations were still short of grain under the strict rationing system, not to mention that 95% of the food and fresh water in Silver Shore City were imported.

Although the Wings of Angels had obtained some overseas aid through unremitting efforts, it was simply a drop in the bucket for Silver Shore City, whose population had exploded from 8 million to 60 million.

The magical girls in the city were relatively better off because of their own hard strength, but for ordinary people, going hungry and robbing others of food was simply commonplace.

Several photos in the file showed corpses on the streets, next to which were skin-and-bones survivors, vultures, and flies fiercely competing for rotten meat – according to incomplete statistics, the number of people who died in Silver Shore City during the war was close to ten million.

Even today, more than a year after the end of the war, the famine problem has still not been essentially improved.

After all, the United Nations and the Autonomous Federation, which are busy licking their wounds to recover their vitality, have a lot of war legacy problems that need to be solved, and naturally have no extra experience to help Silver Shore City, which does not belong to either side.

Kim Erise now strongly suspects that the reason why the two sides agreed to make Silver Shore City a neutral pilot area for the so-called peaceful coexistence of magical girls and humans without being incorporated was because there were tens of millions of mouths to feed, which was a huge burden no matter which side it was on.

And now, this hot potato has been thrown to herself by Xiao Ying, the chairman of the council – according to the description in the file, at least twenty human politicians and magical girls had been invited to become mayor before her, but they all chose to give up after investigation.

In addition to the food and water crisis, the hygiene and crime crisis followed closely behind:

Tens of millions of people’s bowel movements are definitely not a small amount, and they can pile up into a small mountain in a day; although Silver Shore City declared neutrality during the war, it still could not avoid being affected by the war’s artillery fire.

The sewage system had been completely paralyzed after multiple bombings, and the landfill only had a few members of the Wings of Angels to help manage it, but it was to no avail.

The refugees simply defecated and urinated wherever they went, and they didn’t even bother to clean up after they were done.

Over time, the entire city basically became a huge toilet filled with stench, a breeding ground for bacteria and viruses.

Under the crazy background of war, the ugliness of human nature was also vividly displayed. Refugees often had the food and water provided by the Wings of Angels stolen by others or even killed on the spot, and many criminal organizations like gangs specialized in robbing food, medicine, water, and even women.

Therefore, a considerable portion of the corpses on the streets did not die of illness or starvation, but of the hands of their own people.

Although many magical girls and enthusiastic citizens in the city chose to join the Wings of Angels to maintain order, it was of no avail, not to mention that many refugees from other places regarded magical girls as demons and monsters, and often did not cooperate with law enforcement, even shouting at the magical girls to get out.

And the magical girls, who were already pure and fragile in their hearts, would also lose control under such verbal violence, either turning around and running to the Free Alliance, or directly taking drastic measures and killing the humans who dared to defy them in front of them, causing a bloodbath.

Some unlucky magical girls didn’t take care of their soul gems, which were stolen by refugees and crushed on the spot.

Even they were forced to do some heinous things.

This vicious cycle added fuel to the fire, constantly intensifying the conflicts and friction between the two sides.

In addition to the four crises mentioned above, there were also many other medicine crises, energy crises, clothing crises, plague crises, cult crises, education crises, unemployment crises, smuggling crises, corruption crises, etc…

It was just that they all appeared dim compared to the four heavenly kings.

The several hundred-page file was full of descriptions of the doomsday scenes in Silver Shore City, filled with helplessness and despair that could not be saved, and could not find even a single piece of good news.

Even the only light – the Wings of Angels – had lost a large number of members due to funding and psychological problems, and was constantly on the verge of disbanding at any time.

Once the Wings of Angels disband and disappear, then Silver Shore City will really enter a state of anarchy, becoming a purgatory on earth.

Kim Erise, who had thrown the file onto the table, put her hands on the back of her head and looked down at the scenery of the Brussels district outside the window, lost in thought.

This was far worse than she had imagined before – no, it should be said that the current scene in Silver Shore City could not get any worse. To put it in the way of a game, it was the hell mode start, without any cheat system for her to use.

Hmph, if it’s really like Xiao Ying said, that the world will be destroyed if she doesn’t manage Silver Shore City well, then she certainly hopes that the world will be destroyed.

Otherwise, as the supreme leader of the Autonomous Federation, she would not have allowed the half-dead state of Silver Shore City to continue until now.

But, her current state is indeed like being a figurehead, so this pot really can’t be put on her back.

Is there really a way to save Silver Shore City from chaos with her own strength?

Even as a magical girl, it is certainly impossible to face a super-large city with tens of millions of people.

A faint sense of pessimism welled up in the red-haired girl’s heart, and she even had an impulse to cry, but it was quickly suppressed, as if it had never existed.

Why think so much? Even if you want to die, you won’t let Silver Shore City change in any way.

So what to do? Find some help!

Use her former influence and network to gather a team to help her manage Silver Shore City as much as possible, and solve many crises little by little.

You have to eat your meals one bite at a time, and take the road one step at a time, otherwise, it’s no use to sit in a chair and frown.

Kim Erise, who got up, stretched her body, and started to tidy up the files on the table.

Bang——

The wooden door at the other end of the hall suddenly flew up with a loud bang, crossed the entire hall horizontally, and crashed into the end of the corridor next to the reception room, shattering into countless pieces.

A scarlet halberd with flowing patterns was also inserted on top, the top of which, along with the crescents on both sides, had been deeply embedded in the wall.

The two handsome young white faces who had been waiting on the side had long since disappeared, and it was estimated that they had skillfully hid away.

It seemed that things were indeed frequent and violent, as Xiao Ying had said.

It’s just the right time to see old friends.

So Kim Erise gently pulled out the halberd and played with it in her hands at will.

She accidentally broke the glass of the reception room, and it shattered all over the floor.

The sound of the clanging of the machines came from the council hall, it seemed that they had officially started fighting.

How boring.

The red-haired girl, yawning lazily, walked into the entrance that no longer had a door, watching the three girls fiercely fighting in the empty council hall.

Then the red-haired girl raised the halberd in her hand high, and started to knock on the ground, thereby attracting the attention of the other party.

“My two old friends, long time no see.”