NOVEL NEXT Chapter 24 - Late arriving WuYue
“Boom!”
“Your reaction is good, and your willpower is decent, but your movements… still can’t keep up with your reaction.”
“Have you really been going through this period of ‘revenge’ like this?”
“Do you really think you can kill all those guys like this?”
“Answer me, Blue Night.”
“Cough, cough…”
Struggling through the pain and rising from the ground, Bai Yu looked at Ouja, slowly approaching her, but she didn’t even have the strength to try to put up another stance.
The reason was simple: Ouja was just too strong.
If, in the past, she had the ability to fight against the enemies she faced, then now, facing Ouja felt like a crushing defeat—and she was the one being crushed.
For example, she couldn’t even remember how many times she had been knocked down and then gotten back up.
And now… she found herself increasingly enraged and perplexed by Ouja’s behaviour.
Why didn’t he just kill her? But to do these meaningless ‘lessons’?
Moreover, these lessons… she could sense were not simply meant to cause her pain. It seemed like they were specifically targeting her in combat.
Was it to train her, to improve her fighting abilities…? No! That’s absurd!
What is his real purpose?
“Heh… What you’re asking now… what does it have to do with you?”
“What? Are you trying to stop me? Stop me from killing all your ‘kind’?”
“You are clearly… the one who’s being the most ‘excessive,’ aren’t you?”
“……”
Hearing her words, Ouja paused for a moment, then said:
“Stop you? Perhaps in a way, yes, you could say that. Because right now, you indeed lack the ability to ‘take revenge’ on your own.”
“It’s well-known that magical girls grow stronger as their heart’s desire gets stronger, and their desires amplify… But if you die early, then that premise becomes useless.”
“And there would be …… no fun in it~.”
As he spoke, Ouja seemed to smile, extending his right hand towards her and saying:
“So, I’ll be honest with you. Right now, you don’t have the capability to fight them. You would only suffer a terrible defeat.”
“So why not leave it to me? I’ll take care of killing all those things for you, and you… haha, just focus on doing your own part…”
“After all, you’re not capable of doing anything, right? If every battle ends like this, with you losing, what’s the point of fighting?”
“If all efforts ultimately come to nothing… then it would be better not to do these things from the start.”
“……”
“Telling me all these things on your own… and doing all these things…”
Grinding her teeth and suppressing her anger, Bai Yu said:
“What exactly do you want to do?!”
“Of course, it’s to keep you from dying so quickly~.”
For the first time, Ouja gave a straightforward answer to her question.
And this was something Bai Yu hadn’t anticipated.
Preventing her from dying quickly? Why? Wouldn’t it be more beneficial for these guys if she died sooner?
Uh… just to clarify, it’s not that she’s thinking about dying; she’s just not understanding the logic…
“If you were to die now, it would be such a shame…”
As he spoke, Ouja’s tone carried a sense of pity.
“After all, what I want to do… besides killing all those guys, is to have a fight with you ‘magical girls’…”
“So…”
Saying this, Ouja suddenly appeared right in front of Bai Yu before she could even see it and continued:
“I won’t stop until I’m completely ‘satisfied,’ okay?”
“But then again, relying on you to grow on your own … is just too slow~.”
“So~ I couldn’t help but use some special means to make you stronger~.”
“…What do you take me for? A toy?!”
“Talking about making me stronger is just your own selfish desire, isn’t it?!”
Unable to contain her anger any longer, Bai Yu gathered her mana into her fist and quickly threw a punch at Ouja’s face.
However…
“Slap!”
Ouja effortlessly blocked this seemingly forceful and sudden punch with just one hand.
Moreover, he tightly gripped her hand, making it impossible for her to break free.
“?!”
Seeing the situation was not in her favour, Bai Yu exerted all her strength trying to free herself, but she couldn’t pull her hand out of Ouja’s iron-like grip.
At this moment… Ouja seemed to have returned to his “normal” demeanour, no longer mocking her with a playful tone.
He simply watched her futile efforts quietly and said:
“Even in this situation… you still have the courage to resist me.”
“In some ways, you really are quite reckless.”
Never giving up and never backing down? Such a spirit is admirable, but it also brings risks.
Although she had temporarily lost her liquification ability, that didn’t mean there were no chances of escape.
But she didn’t choose to escape; she remained steadfastly in place.
Such a “character” can indeed be troublesome to handle carefully.
Moreover, if he were to engage in conversation with Bai Yu now, she might not even listen.
…Then, now, it was time to change his identity.
“……”
With this in mind, he raised his other hand high, preparing to strike her with a hand chop to knock her out.
However, just as he lifted his hand—
“What are you doing to her?!”
A voice, one he was all too familiar with, suddenly came from behind him.
“?!”
Looking back, sure enough, he saw the Magic Girl Firebird—WuYue—charging at him with a flying kick.
“You are only arriving now?”
But didn’t it seem to be a bit too late?
With this thought, he quickly tossed Bai Yu aside to prevent her from being accidentally injured by WuYue. He then braced himself, preparing to experience WuYue’s strength personally.
“Boom!”
The flaming flying kick struck Ouja like a meteor. Sensing the rapidly rising temperature around him, he frowned and threw WuYue away with a powerful push.
“?! Ehhhhhh!”
Seeing that her attack didn’t work, the somewhat flustered WuYue spun through the air before finally landing smoothly on the ground.
She then looked at Ouja with a nervous expression.
Because this seems …… to be a cadre-level enemy, right?
It was just her second fight, and she was facing this kind of level of enemy?
Moreover, looking at the severely damaged surroundings, she felt uncertain.
What exactly happened here before she arrived??