Leng Xuan

A very faint but clearly audible heartbeat throbbed at the black-clad girl’s fingertips, and so the blue magical girl had the breath of life once more.

Ye Huasheng could feel the magic power within Lilia’s body begin to circulate, repairing the terrifying injuries at an extremely fast rate.

In just three or four seconds, the girl’s delicate body became soft again, her pale face regained its color, and even her barely perceptible breathing gradually became smooth.

If one ignored the still-unhealed wounds on her body, she was like a sleeping beauty slowly waking up.

“It’s just shock. Although it was dangerous, you could have handled it by calling an ambulance. What’s the use of just wailing when something happens?”

The black-clad girl said in a slightly helpless tone.

Ye Huasheng clearly didn’t hear her.

Seeing Lilia’s condition gradually improve, she immediately threw herself on top of her and started crying.

‘Well, still a little kid… but this time her performance was better than the last.’

The black-clad girl shook her head and stood up, giving the two magical girls their space.

“…Chengzi?”

The vitality of a magical girl was indeed astonishing.

In less than five or six minutes, all of Lilia’s terrifying injuries had healed.

Her jewel-like eyes slowly opened, as if she had just woken up from a nap, her gaze dazed and confused as she looked around.

Then she saw Ye Huasheng lying on top of her.

“Nannan! You’re okay!” Ye Huasheng looked up, her tears turning into a smile.

Her face and hands were covered in clearly visible snot and tears, sticking to her clothes.

…

After a brief silence, the blue magical girl let out a sharp shriek!

“Aaaaaah, get off of me!”

Just then, a powerful cyan light flashed in the distant sky and landed on the ground in an instant.

A tall figure walked out of the light—this was also a magical girl.

However, unlike Ye Huasheng and Lilia, she appeared more mature and had a more Chinese style.

The girl held a three-foot-long green-edged sword.

She wore a flowing, wide-sleeved celestial maiden dress of pure white.

The hem of the dress swayed with her light steps, like a nimble white line.

She looked more like a classical fairy than a magical girl.

She seemed to shrink the ground with each step, crossing a distance of several hundred meters in just a few steps to arrive in front of Lilia and Ye Huasheng.

Her beautiful and gentle face, however, revealed a murderous aura.

“Don’t worry, I’m here. You’re… alright?”

However, the girl’s exclamation turned into a question after seeing the state of the two.

Because she saw Ye Huasheng currently pressing down on Lilia, her face and hands sticky, while the one beneath her had a look of terror and was screaming.

…

The scene was a bit too much.

“Leng Xuan, you’re finally here!” Ye Huasheng turned her head and saw the newcomer, a look of relief on her face.

But the next second, she was flipped over.

Lilia stood up in anger and shouted, “Stay away from me!”

With that, Lilia wanted to search her pockets for a tissue to wipe herself clean.

However, after fumbling for a long time, she couldn’t find her school pants pocket, but instead felt a miniskirt.

Only then did she immediately realize—she was a magical girl right now, in the middle of a battle!

The enemy had not yet been eliminated!

“No, be careful!” Lilia immediately entered a battle stance.

She did a flip to pick up the wand that had fallen to the side and looked around warily.

However, she was met with Ye Huasheng’s innocent eyes.

“It’s alright, the Anomaly has been eliminated. We’re safe.” Ye Huasheng got up from the ground and stepped forward to press down Lilia’s wand, sending a signal of reassurance.

“Eliminated?” Lilia looked around and indeed did not find that huge silver spider.

Her magical girl’s spiritual senses had also stopped, which meant there was no longer any threat.

However, she vaguely remembered that the last thing she saw before she fainted was that half-blown-up but still standing silver monster.

“Who did it? You did it?” she asked, looking at Ye Huasheng with suspicion.

After all, it was obvious that the newly arrived Leng Xuan hadn’t done it.

“You did it?” The newly arrived Leng Xuan also had a strange expression.

As a high-star magical girl, she had a more acute spiritual sense, but she didn’t sense anything special, which proved that it was indeed safe.

But as the captain of this three-person magical girl team and the guide for the two, she knew very well what Ye Huasheng was capable of.

Faced with their suspicious gazes, Ye Huasheng was a little embarrassed.

She really wanted to proudly shout, “That’s right, I did it. What about it?”

But in reality, she could only say in a low voice, “No, it wasn’t me.”

“That’s right… no, that’s not right! If it wasn’t you, who could it be?” The confusion in Lilia’s eyes grew stronger, and Leng Xuan also approached with a strange look.

“It was someone else. She saved us, and she was the one who defeated the Anomaly,” Ye Huasheng said, scratching her head.

“Who is she?” Leng Xuan stepped forward and asked.

“She’s a black…”

“Knight?” Lilia said excitedly.

“Magical girl,” Ye Huasheng said with a very certain tone.

“Huh?” Lilia was stunned for a moment, then looked at her with strong doubt. “How could it be a black magical girl? It should be a black knight! Did you mistake their gender?”

“If you don’t believe me, see for yourself,” Ye Huasheng was a little unhappy at being doubted by Lilia and pointed behind her. “She’s right here.”

Leng Xuan and Lilia looked in the direction she pointed, but saw no one.

In the distance, there was only a school that had been half-demolished by the battle’s shockwaves.

“Where is she?” they said in unison.

Ye Huasheng turned her head and also saw nothing.

That black magical girl had just disappeared.

She scratched her head even harder. “Uh… right, where is she?”

“Who are you asking!”

“It’s true, it’s really a black magical girl, and she’s super strong!” Ye Huasheng felt that she was being doubted and became anxious.

“You know what, she cut that big spider in half as soon as she appeared. An instant kill! How amazing is that? Later, that spider didn’t die and launched a sneak attack from behind, trying to bite off the magical girl’s head. And guess what? Nothing happened!”

“…Have you been watching Madoka Magica recently?” Lilia crossed her arms, still not believing her.

“You’re the one who’s been watching too much Kamen Rider! I bet it wasn’t some black knight who saved you yesterday, but a black magical girl!”

“How could I be mistaken! It had such a clear metallic style, and those sharp punches. It couldn’t possibly be a magical girl.”

“It was a magical girl, it was a magical girl!”

Leng Xuan looked at the two who had inexplicably started arguing, and sighed with a face-palm.

To be honest, she didn’t believe either of them.

She had never heard of a black magical girl.

If it was a newly awakened magical girl, no matter how heaven-defying her potential was, it would be impossible for her to defeat an Anomaly alone, unless she could master magical techniques and the use of her own power in her first transformation.

Under normal circumstances, a magical girl in her first awakened transformation fought like a primitive person holding a modern weapon.

There was no possibility of defeating an Anomaly, especially an aggressive one like this.

Xia Cheng was the new magical girl with the most potential she had ever seen.

She had managed to hold off an Anomaly for more than ten minutes with her newly awakened power until she and Lilia arrived.

Although it wasn’t an Anomaly that was good at fighting, it was still the most terrifying talent she had ever seen.

And a black knight… even more unbelievable.

Something that looked like that could only be an Anomaly, but Anomalies didn’t save people.

They were just monsters that killed indiscriminately.

Unless he was…

Leng Xuan shook her head, shaking the complicated thoughts from her mind.

Looking at the calm (but dilapidated) surroundings, since there was no danger, there was no need to stay here.

So she said to the little sprite that had been following her silently from the beginning, “Liuliu, let’s go.”

“Okay!” Upon closer inspection, it was a white lion with a lion dance style, only the size of a palm.

It flapped a pair of wings and instantly rose into the air with Leng Xuan, leaving this area.

Lilia and Ye Huasheng only realized that they were the only ones left after arguing for a long time.

They felt like fools and quickly turned into a streak of light and left.

However, they didn’t go too far, but came to a small corner not far away to cancel their transformation.

The other teachers and students were in a nearby shelter.

They had to pretend that they had found a corner to hide in.

Otherwise, there was no way to explain where the two of them had been while the battle was raging outside.

After confirming that there were no more threats, Lilia and Ye Huasheng canceled their transformations together and turned back into two beautiful but definitely not suspicious ordinary middle school girls.

There was a huge difference between a magical girl before and after transformation.

Not only the clothes, hair, pupils, and even the body shape could change.

And the damage caused during a battle as a magical girl would basically not affect the normal state before transformation.

Until the next transformation, they would be as good as new.

Pan Nannan and Xia Cheng had discussed this issue before.

She had proposed two possibilities.

The first was that after becoming a magical girl, one would have two bodies at the same time.

The so-called transformation was a necessary step to switch bodies, and after switching, the other body would be stored in a different dimension.

The second possibility was that transformation was a process of material reshaping, using magic to change one’s clothes and body to achieve a certain material transformation effect.

But this theory couldn’t explain where the energy generated from the material transformation went, let alone why the states of the two forms were not shared.

And at that time, Xia Cheng’s suggestion for these two possibilities was: “Nannan, what are you talking about? I don’t understand.”

Although how a magical girl transformed was still a mystery, one fact could be confirmed: everything that happened in the magical girl form would not affect the human form.

However, Pan Nannan was starting to want to overthrow this theory, because she sniffed her school uniform hard and felt that it still smelled a bit bad.

The expression on her face became even more disgusted.

“I think it still smells.”

“What did you say?”

“…Just be quiet.”

On a distant rooftop, the black magical girl descended from the sky, looking at the city that had come to a complete standstill because of the Anomaly.

She didn’t move by turning into light like other magical girls, but simply used her own power to leap between the tall buildings.

And Reina had been observing here for a long time.

“So, Knight?” Reina put away her series of observation equipment and recording instruments, her face flushed for some reason as she looked at her. “How does it feel to be a magical girl?”

The wind turned the windmill on the rooftop.

The black-clad girl’s form changed in the wind, and a tall, muscular man appeared before Reina.

It was Bai Hai.

He was silent for a long time before he raised his right hand and gave a thumbs-up.

“Not bad.”