“Monsters are not biological beings in the conventional sense. Their entire core is resentment—only resentment. There are no vital points, no cores. The best way to kill a Monster is to use the strongest attack Magic to completely purify all the resentment inside it in one blow.”
“Simply destroying the body is useless.”
The scene from Ning Rong’s class a few days ago was vivid in her mind.
And why was she recalling this particular point…
The white-haired girl stood beside the silver car, its front compressed into a ball, the A-pillar slightly bent.
She kicked open the door she’d caved in with one strike.
Staring at the massive Monster whose lower half had been smashed into a shapeless mass of muscle and broken bone—yet was still brimming with life, black energy pouring off it as its legs began to reform—she let out a small sigh.
“I have to admit, Jiang Yin’s learning ability is less than ideal.”
She muttered to herself.
Remembering a lesson only at the last moment felt a bit like traveling as an adult to a scenic spot described in poems memorized as a child.
You try to recall the beautiful lines, but nothing comes out, and in the end, you can only say, ‘Awesome, beautiful!’ Then you quietly take a photo, knowing you’ll probably never look at it again.
“All I thought about was smashing it, and forgot how tenacious its vitality is…”
For a normal creature, even an elephant hit by a forty-ton Industrial Monster traveling over 200 kilometers per hour, with its lower half obliterated and kidneys gone, wouldn’t last an hour.
But a Monster is a Monster.
It doesn’t care about physics, so why would it care about biology…
The only thing it acknowledges is the metaphysical.
—Only an equal amount of Hope can eliminate an equal amount of Despair.
Jiang Yin hadn’t understood the deeper meaning of the first sentence written in the Magical Girl training manual before.
Now, she did.
It was literal.
A unit of Magic destroys a unit of resentment. Quantity is the only truth in the battle between Magical Girls and Monsters.
“No wonder even the official classification of Monsters is based solely and brutally on the Energy Level System. So that’s why…”
She looked calm, but in reality, she was panicking.
According to the previous plan, using the nearly scrapped car and the last of her Magical Devices’ Magic, she could at least take down this absurdly large Monster, then easily dispatch the smaller puppet Monsters before regrouping with the other two.
She still had three Magical Devices left, enough for them to get through this crisis safely.
—Jiang Yin didn’t believe the Puppeteer Hunter had even stronger puppets. If they really did…
If they did, certain departments responsible for city resentment monitoring and patrol would be visited by the Inspection Unit, to check whether it was corruption and neglect or infiltration by traitors.
Right, the Magical Girl Administration Bureau is theoretically a military unit. When they investigate, it’s the Inspection Unit that comes knocking.
And according to the principle that there’s no such thing as a small matter of public safety, the ones dispatched are usually not the White Hats but the Blue Hats, or even a General in person.
Of course, at the moment, things were still under control.
—Mainly because there hadn’t been large-scale civilian casualties in the city yet. The only one was the poor lady killed by the Puppeteer Hunter at the start. Qv Si Nan should have been the second, but Jiang Yin intervened.
Although it wasn’t zero casualties, honestly, for a high-risk Monster invasion, this was already a good result.
A Monster over three meters tall was unexpected enough, let alone if there were two more—right now, none of the three Magical Girls in North City were even in the city center!
Jiang Yin didn’t dare imagine the casualties such a creature would cause if it appeared.
Fortunately, Monsters were all obsessive.
And fortunately, this Monster originated from the English District.
Why?
Because the Brits don’t treat people as people!
Monsters from the Hua Xia District all know that taking ordinary people hostage is the best way to escape from a Magical Girl—note, it’s best not to kill anyone, or you’ll have to face not just the Magical Girls stationed in the District but certain… well, unspeakable secret pursuit squads.
But globally, this kind of situation isn’t the norm.
Some countries would want to do it but can’t, like those in the Third World—there’s really nothing they can do.
Compared to Monsters, filling your stomach is more important.
As for some countries…
John Bull, step forward!
Bear, step forward!
Eagle Sauce, step forward!
Fa Chicken, step forward!
All step forward!
Britain, an old capitalist colonial country, has long stopped treating people as people.
Bear, world-famous for Russian anti-terrorism rescue operations—Magical Girls are about the same, mainly focusing on mutual destruction.
Eagle Sauce, where the harm caused by a Monster is less severe than that of armed civilians—utterly absurd.
As for Crow…
Uh, they can’t even deal with pickpockets in their own Capital. Maybe let’s not talk about them?
Even Hans Meow is better than you!
Back to the main topic, the current situation was like a gathering of geniuses and idiots.
If the Puppeteer Hunter had understood the Hua Xia District a bit more, releasing this three-meter-tall giant to cause chaos in the District to force Ning Rong to return or Xiao Zi to act, it would have already escaped.
But as it came from the English District, it simply didn’t believe the government would treat civilian lives as valuable, and with its obsession, it targeted Lu Zhizhi, the daughter of a capitalist, and Jiang Yin, an unawakened Magical Girl.
Qv Si Nan was purely collateral.
On the human side, Jiang Yin, a weirdo, had forcefully countered its cunning move, though not entirely.
Defensive Magic is defensive Magic—no matter how creatively Jiang Yin used it as attack Magic, its physical damage far exceeded magical purification, so it couldn’t purify this thing, which should be a C-Class Monster.
So the Monster was slowly regaining its strength.
And Jiang Yin was helpless—she couldn’t just leave it here after almost killing it and then call someone else to finish it off.
What was the point of risking her life then? Wouldn’t it have been easier to let Xiao Zi handle it from the start?
But she couldn’t just leave it here, either.
This was a national highway.
Even if it was the least trafficked stretch, cars still passed by occasionally.
So Jiang Yin couldn’t move.
“Hey, have you confirmed their identities? If you have, help me contact the Traffic Department and have them block off this section of the road based on my location. Also, ask Logistics if they have any way to deal with this thing.”
“What?”
“No way, man! You guys don’t have any methods at all!?”
Jiang Yin shouted into her phone, incredulous.
“If not, can you at least dispatch a couple of sniper grenades? The Bureau is a military unit after all—can’t you coordinate with the allied forces?”
“Call it a training exercise!”
“Besides, this thing can’t move right now, so let the soldiers use it for target practice!”
“….”
The line was silent.
Clearly, no one had ever encountered such a situation before.
“If sniper grenades are out, at least send me half a ton of gasoline to set it on fire. We can’t just stand here staring at it, right?”
“No, have you never served in the military? Why do you know so much about ‘flexibility’ in the system…”
“Don’t ask! Just tell me if you can do it!”
“Oh, and remember to pick up those two girls on the road on your way here~”