Superman Termination Manual - Chapter 413

Chapter 413: Chapter 224: The Witch and the Comet, Xizi Yue and Ke Mingye_2

Xizi Yue paused for a moment, “Secondly, after becoming a witch, the malice within them gradually contaminates the comet fragments stored in their magic wands or within their bodies, so the Qiyamate Comet does not reclaim the fragments inside them, because for the Comet… those fragments have become dirty, worthless for reclamation.”

Xiaohongmao paused slightly, murmuring, “So it’s true, witches don’t lose their power due to the arrival of the comet… Then after a year, couldn’t they just slaughter us, who have turned back into ordinary people, at will?”

“That’s why they are so dangerous, if we can’t destroy them in this generation, the next generation of Magic Girls who haven’t yet grown will fall victim to their evil hands.”

“Teacher Xizi Yue, how many witches are currently known to exist in the world?”

Xizi Yue lifted her teacup, took a sip of hot tea, and then slowly said, “The Lost Witch, Crown Dream Witch, Rose Witch, Puppet Witch–these four are the members of the Witch Church currently known. ‘The Lost Witch’ is rather infamous; you must have heard of her. She can control people’s emotions and once drove an entire town to despair, leading to mass suicides–that infamous Denmark mass suicide incident was her doing. The authorities, wanting to curb the spread of her influence, concealed the incident, and did not publicize any information about the Lost Witch.”

“Do all witches… indulge in wanton killing?”

Xizi Yue shook her head, “No, not all witches do; it depends on the extreme part of their personality. If they have a vague inclination toward bloodlust while still Magic Girls, then upon becoming witches, this trait gets immensely magnified, eventually evolving into a desire to slaughter, which they cannot control. Witches are more or less dominated by a specific desire: those who seek attention, upon becoming witches, pathologically crave others’ attention which further evolves into possessiveness. The previously mentioned Puppet Witch turned all the residents of a Norwegian village into her puppets.”

Hearing this, Xiaohongmao thought for a while and then asked, “So, the Witch Church is targeting Senior Ash because she has killed people?”

“No, I don’t think it’s that simple; they have other reasons,” Xizi Yue said, “But since they are adamant about turning Ash into a witch, it indicates that after becoming a witch, Ash’s powers must not be underestimated, enough to let them accomplish some objective, like…,” she paused briefly, “toppling the Magical Girl Alliance.”

Upon saying this, her tone suddenly shifted, becoming more relaxed: “Of course, if we set their goals a bit broader, they could also aim for something like conquering the world, exterminating humanity, and so on… Although I think they won’t manage to get past us, and even if they did, they would be completely devoured by Diviner Zeus… so there’s no need to worry.”

“Completely devoured?” Xiaohongmao was startled, thinking to herself, Isn’t Zeus a righteous figure? Why would Xizi Yue speak of Zeus in such a tone? It’s a bit eerie…

Could it be that there is also something wrong with Zeus?

“Oh…” Xizi Yue’s finger paused while flipping through the pages of a comic book, and she looked up from the book, “It seems I’ve said too much. Xiaohongmao, please forget what I just said, and don’t delve into it, there’s only benefit in not knowing.”

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Xiaohongmao bowed her head, silent for a moment, “Okay, I understand, Teacher Xizi Yue.”

She paused, “By the way, Teacher Xizi Yue, you trust me a lot to tell me so much.”

Xizi Yue was silent for a while, then slowly said, “I don’t know why, but I always feel a sense of familiarity with you, so subconsciously I feel you are not a bad kid.”

“A sense of familiarity?”

“When I was a child in the orphanage, I knew a boy who always called me ‘sister,’” Xizi Yue said, “I’ve forgotten the boy’s name and what he looked like, but you feel very similar to him…”

She continued nonchalantly, her eyes lowered back to the girl’s comic she was browsing through, her expression calm.

However, this seemingly ordinary speech spread in the quiet classroom, sending chills down Xiaohongmao’s spine, even shaking her, her face maintaining as calm an expression as possible, yet the corners of her eyes involuntarily twitched.

Wait, the orphanage?

Xizi Yue also came from an orphanage?

A boy?

Sister?

If I’m not wrong, Xizi Yue is 18 this year, 2 years older than this body of mine.

Wait a minute…

Wait wait wait…

No way?

Xiaohongmao searched through the blurry fragments of memory in her mind, finally seeing in Ke Mingye’s memories from the orphanage a simple-looking short-haired girl.

That girl did not socialize with other kids, often sitting alone hugging her knees and staring into the sky, but she was more active than anyone else when waiting for meals in the cafeteria–always the first to arrive, and always the last to leave. She ate a lot, even more than the boys.

At that time, Ke Mingye always felt that he and the girl were alike, so he quietly observed her for a long time. Then one day he gathered the courage to initiate a conversation, only to find out this seemingly starved, yet big-eater was two years older than him.

“I don’t make friends,” the girl in his memory said.

“Why?”

“They’ll steal my food.”

“What if I save the tasty parts for you, will you be my friend?” saying so, Ke Mingye handed her a pack of small buns he had in his arms.

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