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“I’ve been waiting for you, both. Dinner is ready.”

Half an hour later, Mo walked out of the kitchen with two hands, plus a head, each holding a large porcelain plate.

She moved through the spacious living room into the dining room with a light and steady pace, and elegantly placed the three large plates in the center of the table.

“Hey, Mo, your culinary skills have clearly improved again!”

Looking at the roast squab, pan-fried steak, and fried fish fillets in front of her with a joyful expression, Kim Erise, who was sitting beside her, savored the aroma:

“I remember the last time you made roast whole lamb, you burned the whole leg, and it tasted as bad as charcoal.

It looks much better today!”

“It’s just practice makes perfect,” the silver-haired girl, who had tidied her black gloves, said softly:

“However, it’s a pity, Erise, your haircutting skills haven’t improved at all in a year, and have even become worse.”

“Eh? What do you mean?”

The red-haired girl looked at Xiaoyu, who was sitting next to her, with a puzzled expression, and touched the pink explosion hairstyle that she had just styled for the other person:

“This hairstyle is perfect, right, Xiaoyu?”

The girl, with her head bowed, sat obediently in the chair and nodded heavily, but her shy cheeks and the act of tightly biting the lollipop perfectly revealed her inner thoughts.

“Don’t make it difficult for her; she just doesn’t want you to lose face and feel sad,” gently shaking her head, Mo turned and went to the kitchen to get the remaining dishes:

“It’s not as good as the Mohawk hairstyle you did for me last time.”

“Is that so?” Kim Erise, who had put another lollipop in her mouth, crossed her legs and looked thoughtful:

“Since you say that, I’ll give Xiaoyu a Mohawk later.”

“If you dare to do that, I guarantee you won’t get out of bed for three days.”

The soft tone came from the kitchen, which immediately made the red-haired girl feel like she was sitting on pins and needles, and cold sweat involuntarily dripped from her back.

Recalling Mo’s gaze at her before, she had a premonition that the other party was definitely the type to do what she said!

Forget it, let’s do something else to divert our attention first.

Thinking of the headset communication that Mo had forcefully hung up before, Kim Erise could roughly guess the content, which was nothing more than the same set of rhetoric to persuade her to become mayor day after day, but after she met Xiaoyu and Doctor Zeng Man, her mentality had undergone some subtle changes.

She originally thought that she had successfully completed her mission and would be an epicurean who didn’t care about anything else and focused on enjoying the second half of her life, but now there was a little girl who needed to be raised and taken care of.

If she let herself be so decadent, she was afraid that she would fail the oath she made that day.

Doctor Zeng Man’s attitude also made her have some slight changes in her impression of humans: she didn’t expect that people who could let go of their past deep hatred really existed, although the number was not large, it was better than nothing.

Lying was also possible, but just based on the fact that the other party endured the disdain and cold words of the nurses and performed the surgery for Xiaoyu without asking for extra money, it was likely that they were sincere.

What’s more, when she came up with the method of hiring Miss Silver Sakura as the chief physician of Yinbin City on the Osiris Bridge, it was equivalent to using her special rights as mayor.

Since she had used the power, then if she didn’t become mayor, it seemed a bit unreasonable?

How about, give it a try?

The red-haired girl, who reopened the headset, was about to call back, but she unexpectedly found a super-brief email from the other party in the pop-up holographic window:

“Look at these two news items, as soon as possible.

Eagle.”

There were also two long links inside.

Kim Erise, who clicked on the first link, scanned it line by line, and her action of lightly sucking the lollipop became slower and slower.

“The United Nations was provoked; is a second full-scale war between magical girls and humans about to break out?”

“In broad daylight, the evil magical girl did such a cruel and inhumane thing to innocent civilians!”

Two main and secondary titles with extra-large bold font occupied the center of the webpage.

The illustration was a photo of Mo subduing the bearded uncle in the hospital, but the bomb hidden in the other party’s body hadn’t been pulled out yet, and they even deliberately enlarged the man’s extremely painful expression.

“(Reported by Rock, a reporter from Truth Daily) At 4 p.m. on July 23, an incident of malicious injury by a magical girl occurred at the Konsu Hospital in the Gamma District, at least 15 people were injured, one of whom was seriously injured, and as of the release of this news, they were still not out of danger.

Insiders told the Truth Daily reporter that at the time, two magical girls suddenly broke into the outpatient hall and asked the doctor to treat them.

Their words and deeds were extremely rude.

Some members of the public stepped forward to persuade them, but instead were maliciously insulted by one of the magical girls, and they used an extremely cruel method to injure a dozen people.

The two of them hurried away after the incident.

The Gamma District Police Headquarters issued an official statement at 6 p.m. on the same day, saying that it would strictly punish the perpetrators and give the innocent victims justice.

The Governor of the Gamma District urgently summoned the local magical girl ambassador that night, strongly condemned this evil behavior, and urged the Autonomous Federation to cooperate in finding the perpetrators to prevent the situation from further expanding and worsening.

…”

The comments below were all insulting and cursing.

The comment “Not of our race, their hearts must be different, magical girls get out of Earth!” ranked first and had received tens of thousands of likes and reposts, and was crazily increasing with every refresh of the webpage.

Good heavens, turning black into white, and turning the dead into the living, with not a single true word in the false news.

As expected of humans, just had a little good impression of you, and now you have to return to the original point.

However, considering that the photo was taken so coincidentally and so bizarrely – after all, it took Mo less than three seconds to subdue the suicide bomber and reveal the bomb inside the clothes.

Being able to capture this opportunity to take a photo and publicize it, could only mean that she and her party were definitely being tracked, and this damned tracker was really good at seizing opportunities.

And he hadn’t even been discovered by Mo, who was skilled in anti-tracking and reconnaissance.

The water inside was definitely very, very deep.

With a scornful hum, Kim Erise opened the second link, and then the lollipop in her mouth fell to the ground and shattered.

“Shocking! Magical girls and the Commonwealth Party are brewing such a shocking conspiracy!”

“The United Nations declared the Commonwealth Party an ‘extremely evil and dangerous’ illegal organization.”

Again, two main and secondary titles, and an extra-large bold font occupying the entire holographic screen panel.

“(Reported by Fester, a reporter from Truth Daily) At 7 a.m. on July 24, the Federal Government’s Counter-Espionage Committee Investigation Statistics Bureau issued an official statement, claiming that after various unremitting efforts and detailed investigations, it was confirmed that behind yesterday’s magical girl attack, there was an unknown shocking conspiracy.

‘We already have sufficient evidence to prove that these two magical girls are actually members secretly developed by the Commonwealth Party.

They are helping the Commonwealth Party win more seats in the United Nations’ next election through assassinations, bribery, threats, etc., thereby getting rid of the situation of being a small, unknown party.’

The representative of the Federal Government’s Counter-Espionage Committee Investigation Statistics Bureau, Stucoot, the commander-in-chief of the city defense forces in the Gamma District, said in an interview with our station reporter,

‘Anyone with a discerning eye knows that they have completely become puppets and pawns of some evil magical girls, working tirelessly for their masters.

Fortunately, we have taken action one step ahead of time last night and arrested a large number of Commonwealth Party members, successfully preventing the brewing and fermentation of this conspiracy.’

He also stated that the Commonwealth Party had been officially included in the United Nations’ blacklist of organizations, and they would spare no effort to completely eliminate this anti-human organization in the future.

As of the release of this news, the Autonomous Federation has not yet responded to this incident.

The comment area under this news was even more lively than the previous one, but the content was similar. This could be seen from the likes-ranked comments of “Eliminate the tyranny of magical girls, the world belongs to humans!”,

“Delighted, it should have been purged long ago of those who betray their own people!”, and “My sister said she wanted to be a magical girl. I beat her up and then had s*x with her. Brothers, am I doing the right thing?”

If it were herself a few years ago when she had just signed the contract to become a magical girl, she might have gone berserk immediately?

Shaking her head with a wry smile, Kim Erise closed the holographic screen and reattached the headset to her ears.

Human pessimism is not the same; I just think they’re noisy.

“Sister Erise, what are you playing?”

Xiaoyu, still gnawing on the lollipop, looked at the girl’s headset and the holographic screen just now with curiosity.

Although she didn’t understand the big words, her intuition told her it must be something fun.

“Ah, this, it’s called a headset,” Kim Erise, who took off the headset again, showed her the high-tech product with a chuckle, and deliberately avoided the previous email and news links:

“It can help you communicate very easily with people thousands of miles away, and it also comes with internet surfing services oh~”

“Wow, that, so, so awesome, can you show it to Xiaoyu? Xiaoyu promises to be very well-behaved.”

“Tsk, Xiaoyu is a well-behaved child anyway, you don’t need to emphasize it, just say what you want directly.”

“Mm-hmm, okay.”

This child is really too well-behaved. She didn’t know what kind of past she had experienced in that refugee camp; she would ask her about it someday.

But now, she should enjoy the big meal after the long trip.

Looking at Mo, who walked out of the kitchen again, holding a steaming bowl of white rice in one hand and a large bowl of well-made udon noodles in the other, topped with three servings of tableware plus three large barrels of soda, Kim Erise smiled knowingly.

Let all the other worries go to hell now.