“Now, make your choice.”
In the empty building, Mo Bai revealed a wicked smile: “Will you continue to hold it in, or watch a life die right before your eyes?”
“Think of my lovely sister, oh, I’m her only family. If I’m gone, a warm little family will just disappear, oh.”
“My sister will cry, she will despair of life, and maybe even turn into a big villain.”
“All because of you, oh.”
Heh, moral blackmail is so damn satisfying!
Dying is impossible; he would never kill himself. What Mo Bai held in his hand was a quack doctor’s scalpel.
Mo Bai himself had said earlier that he was his sister’s only concern. Even for his sister, there was no way he would just die like that.
But it was quite effective to scare these justice-filled, naive teenage girls who didn’t know the wickedness of society.
It’s time for the girls’ innate ability to love people to be activated, right?
“You, you…” Looking at Mo Bai, who was threatening her with his own life, Shen Qiqi was on the verge of tears: “How are you even a normal citizen?!”
Would a normal citizen point a knife at their own head without a word?
Perhaps customs were different; normal citizens where she came from wouldn't do that.
“How rude.” Mo Bai blinked: “I am a hundred percent normal person, oh.”
“Aside from my face, if you just grab a few people from a crowd, they’d all be normal people like me.”
“No.” Shen Qiqi retorted: “With your mother out being a pirate and your father dying in childbirth, I don’t think you’re normal at all.”
She actually listened seriously; I’m dying of laughter.
“Don’t mind such trivial details.”
Mo Bai urged: “So, are you going to tell me or not?”
Knowing that Mo Bai was threatening the Magical Girl with suicide, one might think it was a big villain from some hentai anime using a possession skill, possessing the Magical Girl’s friend, and threatening the Magical Girl with her friend’s life to make her surrender without resistance, then happily beginning a 40-minute-long lewd scene.
“Ugh…” Shen Qiqi bit her lip: “I, I don’t believe you’d commit suicide.”
“I’m not easily scared!”
“Oh, really.”
Mo Bai said expressionlessly: “Then that’s truly regrettable.”
“Remember to tell my sister my last words: I love her.”
“Also, I’m really not a siscon.”
The next second, Mo Bai tightened his grip on the fruit knife and mercilessly attacked his own temple.
That momentum, that look in his eyes.
No one would believe he couldn’t do it.
Shen Qiqi caved.
Her self-awareness as a Magical Girl forced her to make the final choice: “Hey! Wait a minute!”
“I believe you, I believe you! I’ll tell you everything, okay?!”
“Put the knife down!”
The tip of the knife was less than a centimeter from Mo Bai’s skin.
“Very good, you made the right choice.”
Mo Bai put down the knife with a pleased expression: “As expected of a, partner of justice.”
Just like in anime, so easy to deal with.
Watching Mo Bai finally put down the knife, Shen Qiqi breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Mo Bai with an incredibly resentful gaze.
“You bad guy!”
Mo Bai merely smiled: “To be called that by a Magical Girl, I am honored. So.”
“May we begin?”
… …
“The preliminary investigation has concluded.”
In the conference room, Mo Mo Jiang sipped her coffee with milk, taking the thick stack of documents Ji Yue handed her.
“Because Mo Mo Jiang, you said the Darkborn People were just cannon fodder to cover up, and there’s someone else behind them, the intelligence department adjusted their priorities.”
“The focus is on the keywords you captured, Mo Mo Jiang.”
“Fingers, sacrifice, death and tyranny, scarlet moon…”
Mo Mo Jiang opened the document, and on the first page, she saw countless files marked in red, encrypted, and bolded.
One of the Lords, the scarlet moon.
In terms of both danger and importance, it was among the highest tier.
Even with Mo Mo Jiang’s current authority, she couldn’t see the scarlet moon’s complete file, only an encrypted, censored version like this.
But it didn’t matter; she still had the information she needed.
【Project Name: scarlet moon】
【Containment Number: None】
【Containment Status: Uncontained】
【Project Class: Keter】
【Project Description: The scarlet moon is typically described as an RGB (138, 3, 3) oval spherical body, without any facial features. The initial record was discovered through data encryption】
【Under non-special circumstances, after directly looking at the scarlet moon, an individual’s thought patterns will change within 1-1452 days. In current data, 44% become more bloodthirsty, 23% show no significant change, 24% begin to act erratically, and 9% uncontrollably begin to commit suicide. Under the experiments of the great scholar Russell, it has been confirmed that the scarlet moon’s influence comes from the individual’s desires】
【The true form of the scarlet moon is unknown, and its location is unknown. Individuals affected by the scarlet moon invariably claim to have seen a crimson moon in the sky, while individuals unaffected by the scarlet moon cannot see it. Data encryption has not found any celestial body suspected to be the scarlet moon in the universe】
【Under special circumstances, individuals irradiated by the chaotic moon will perceive the scarlet moon as an East Asian human girl with crimson hair, golden eyes, and snow-white skin, aged between 14-18, occasionally 12. Due to the data encryption characteristics of the chaotic moon, this description is disregarded】
【Containment Description: None (Containment not completed)】
【Project Association: Audio (Click to play)】
【Project Log: …】
Mo Mo Jiang closed her eyes, somewhat fatigued: “There are four such existences as the scarlet moon, if I recall correctly, right?”
“Yes.”
Ji Yue tilted her head and thought: “The Silence’s Blue Moon, the Chaos’s Purple Moon, the Fecundity’s Green Moon, and the Desire’s scarlet moon.”
“Each one is of the highest danger level.”
“Each one has extraordinary abilities, each with their own unique skills.”
Ji Yue sighed: “Oh, when I think about our world being constantly targeted by so many terrifying existences, I get shivers down my spine.”
“It’s a miracle our world hasn’t perished yet.”
Mo Mo Jiang lowered her gaze: “It’s not a miracle; it’s the efforts of our predecessors up to now.”
“Now, it’s our turn.”
Mo Mo Jiang fell into contemplation: “The scarlet moon’s existence is recorded; it only incites desire and usually doesn’t directly cause destruction.”
“So, what does it have to do with death and tyranny?”
“Fingers, sacrifice… What are they sacrificing to the scarlet moon? What will the scarlet moon give them?”
Aside from the scarlet moon, the other pieces of information Mo Mo Jiang captured were too vague. Existences fitting the description of death and tyranny were as numerous as turtles in a river in this world, like the “strongest ever” in tokusatsu.
And don’t even get started on fingers and sacrifice.
These seemed like unrelated things.
But they still appeared at the bottom of her thoughts, which meant there must be some connection between them.
Mo Mo Jiang’s eyes suddenly lit up.
“Black King’s ability manifests as shadows, but its essence is actually the authority over souls.”
“They kill people to collect souls.”
“The little black one we caught yesterday, his ability is undoubtedly at the very bottom of the clan; he can only hold two souls at most simultaneously.”
“But there were only five of them, and they killed a total of twenty-four people.”
“There must be something carrying the extra souls.”
“It’s the fingers!” Ji Yue also thought of it, looking at her palm: “Five people, isn’t that five fingers?”
“Yes, report this so they can narrow down the search area.”
Mo Mo Jiang drank all the coffee in her cup in one gulp: “Let’s not be idle either. Sacrifices with souls as offerings are often the most heinous kind.”
“We need to find them before things get worse!”
Otherwise, what if the sacrifice summoned a Godzilla, Gomora, or Gortz? Then they’d be screwed!
However, Mo Mo Jiang didn’t yet know that this terrifying plan had already stalled due to a small mistake.
Because…
“Where is it…”
“Where the hell is it…”
In a corner of the city, the little blacks were desperately searching for their companion’s death location.
“Third Brother, you bring the container…”
“Where the hell did he die, you bastard!!!”