Superman Termination Manual - Chapter 409

Chapter 409: Chapter 223: Xiaohongmao’s Enemy, If She Becomes a Witch

July 23, Yandai Commercial Street, a neglected elementary school.

Looking up from an empty playground, two girls were walking along the corridor of the school building opposite. The one in the front was dressed in a Goth skirt, and the other was in a Christmas outfit.

They kept the distance of a window between them. Each time the girl in the front passed a window, her figure was obscured by the wall, while the girl following would appear next to that window.

Thus, they proceeded one after another, their silhouettes alternately appearing and disappearing at the windows, as if separated from the world by a thin, alienating membrane.

As dusk approached, the warm, orange light filtered through the windows into the corridor, accompanied by a hot breeze that fluttered their hair.

Xiaohongmao glanced sideways, saw no one on the playground, and noticed a Ferris wheel in a distant amusement park turning slowly.

“Why are you so late today?” Ash suddenly asked, leading the way.

“Slept in. Considering Teacher Xizi Yue is also known for being late, I lingered in bed a bit longer.”

Hearing this, Xiaohongmao yawned and slowly added.

“Ha, you guessed right, the master did arrive late.” the girl in the Goth skirt said.

“As expected.” Xiaohongmao spoke, then quickly shifted the topic, “Speaking of which, I’ve always been curious why we have to meet here. Wouldn’t it be better and safer at the Alliance building?”

“It’s tradition, don’t you know?”

“What if someone planted bugs in this school?”

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“You think something like that would happen and my master wouldn’t notice?”

“Oh, right.”

While they talked, the two had walked to the middle of the corridor. The Goth-skirt girl paused, turned her face to look at a classroom connected to the corridor.

Inside, a girl with shoulder-length hair, dressed in a light blue cheongsam, was already waiting with a cup of hot tea in her hand.

Seeing this, Magical Girl Ash turned around, stepped into the classroom, pulled up a chair next to a “conference table” made of desks, placed her magic umbrella at the corner of the table, and crossed her legs.

Xiaohongmao followed closely, pulled up a chair next to her, and looked up at Xizi Yue, quietly waiting for her to speak.

[Name: Xizi Yue]

[Power Level: A++]

[Title: The head of the three magnates of the Magical Girl Alliance.]

Xizi Yue sipped her hot tea, casually flipping through a manga as she spoke in a mild tone:

“I called you here today mainly to inform you about something: over the next period of time, five Magic Girls will be coming to our city. They will stay here for at least a month or two. I hope you can get along with them well and help each other out, avoiding unnecessary conflicts.”

She paused, looked up at the girl in the Goth skirt opposite her, and said, “Especially you, I don’t want to see you pulling out their hair, otherwise I’ll send you to the Magic Girl division in Siberia.”

“Heh, you’d have to ask her Crow Man dad and all the ghouls and ghosts at home about that…” Xiaohongmao thought to herself, but kept silent outwardly.

Magical Girl Ash pouted and drew out her words, “Got, it, ok—-!”

“What about you, Xiaohongmao?” Xizi Yue nodded, then turned to ask Xiaohongmao.

“I already knew about this.” Xiaohongmao said.

Xizi Yue raised her head, met her gaze, and casually asked, “How did you know?”

Upon hearing this, Ash suddenly panicked a bit, lifted her foot, and kicked Xiaohongmao’s shoe with her black leather shoe as a silent signal not to speak.

“A senior told me.”

Despite being intimidated, Xiaohongmao chose to ignore the mischievous shoe under the table and courageously reported the issue.

She thought: Heh, sister, you always torment me at home, now it’s my turn, isn’t it?

“I see…” Xizi Yue didn’t seem surprised and said casually, “No wonder, our Ash is known for being ‘tight-lipped’.”

Upon hearing this, Magical Girl Ash shot an irritated glance at Xiaohongmao.

Knowing it was pointless to get angry with her, since she would probably just retort with something like, “Do us girls raised on trash not have the right to speak the truth, doomed to live in deception all our lives?”, she sighed and said resentfully to Xiaohongmao, “…always so talkative.”

Having said this, she looked at Xizi Yue and asked, “But Master, didn’t you say earlier that there were supposed to be four Magic Girls coming over, why has it now changed to five?”

Xizi Yue replied with an impassive face, “The situation has changed, you’ll know soon.”

As she finished speaking, a series of footsteps suddenly echoed. Xiaohongmao, following the sound, turned her head, hesitated imperceptibly for a moment, and then quickly adjusted her expression.

Approaching was a regal red-haired girl in an ochre kimono, followed by a girl with a bob cut.

[Alias: Magical Girl Kokonoe Sakura]

[Real Name: Amemiya Sakura]

[Age: 17]

[Gender: Female]

[Combat Power: B++]

[Background: The youngest of four children from the curse-wielding Amemiya Family–being the only girl and overlooked due to her lack of innate curse abilities. Yet, upon awakening the fragments of a bright star within her, she became a Magic Girl and quickly progressed, becoming a spokesperson for Japanese Magic Girls within two years and finally gaining recognition from her family.]

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