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Lin Yu took the yellowed photograph with some surprise.
The corners of the photo were already worn, clearly having been handled countless times.
The background was the company’s familiar pantry.
There were two girls in the photo.
One of them looked slightly younger, with straight black hair and a cool, reserved expression.
Beside her, the woman with her arm around her shoulders had warm, wavy curls and was smiling with crescent-shaped eyes, radiant like the midday sun.
“Never heard of her, right? That’s normal…”
Manager Qian lit another cigar.
“Chen Bing’s sister was called Chen Die.”
“She joined our company five years earlier than Chen Bing—she was a true founding veteran around here.”
“That girl’s talent… tsk, how should I put it.”
“It was even more terrifying than Ye Yeman is now.”
“She was promoted to A-rank in less than a year after joining, with the codename 【Flower Butterfly】.”
“She fought for the company for a full five years.”
Manager Qian held up an open palm.
“Five years…”
“In the high-risk profession of magical girls, that’s practically a miracle.”
“She was like a war goddess who never fell.”
“No matter how badly injured she was, no matter how horrifying the pollutant she faced, she would always stand back up with a smile and block the way for everyone else.”
At this point, Manager Qian’s voice sank.
“But Xiao Lin, you have to understand—”
“A human soul isn’t made of steel.”
“It suffers from metal fatigue.”
“Long-term battles against those indescribable filth…”
“That negative energy was like a chronic poison, seeping bit by bit into her marrow.”
“By the fifth year, her 【mental barrier】 was already riddled with holes.”
“She began to lose control of her spiritual energy overflow.”
“Even the most basic transformation became excruciating.”
“There was no choice.”
“To save her life, the company could only forcibly make her graduate.”
“Then… what happened afterward?”
Lin Yu asked instinctively.
“Since she graduated, couldn’t she just rest and recover properly?”
“Heh… that’s what we thought back then too.”
Manager Qian tugged at the corner of his mouth bitterly.
“At that time, the company’s system wasn’t complete yet, and memory cleansing wasn’t strictly enforced.”
“We naively believed that as long as we kept her away from the battlefield and let her return to an ordinary life, those wounds would slowly heal.”
“But we were wrong.”
“Terribly wrong.”
After leaving the battlefield, Chen Die did not find peace.
The horrors lurking deep within her memories began to lash back at her every single night.
“She started having nightmares night after night, waking up screaming.”
“She would talk to empty corners, saying there were monsters watching her there.”
“Even while eating, she would suddenly mistake the meat on her plate for the remains of pollutants and vomit uncontrollably…”
“Her family took her to the best psychiatrists, tried every kind of psychiatric medication…”
“But… it was useless.”
Manager Qian took a deep drag on his cigar.
The ember flickered faintly in the dim office.
Until that day arrived.
“That was a rainy night five years ago.”
“One of our squads was handling a troublesome high-level pollutant in a certain district.”
“The battle situation was dire.”
“The entire team was pushed to the brink of desperation.”
“And right at that moment…”
“Chen Die appeared.”
“She was wearing rain-soaked pajamas, barefoot.”
“With hollow eyes, she walked straight into the sealed-off zone.”
“The team members all recognized her.”
“She was the senior they had once admired the most.”
“They thought Flower Butterfly had come to save the day.”
“Some of them even rushed forward, trying to protect her…”
“However…”
Manager Qian’s fingers trembled slightly, ash sprinkling down.
“No one expected it.”
“The nightmare descended.”
“She wasn’t wearing a transformation device…”
“But at that very instant, a jet-black spiritual energy erupted from her body!”
“That wasn’t the radiance of a magical girl.”
“That was black sludge from the abyss.”
“She transformed.”
“Into a monster… with butterfly-like, brilliantly colored wings.”
“And then…”
“She raised her butcher’s blade toward her former comrades.”
“That massacre cost us dearly.”
“Three A-rank, one S-rank…”
“A total of four magical girls.”
“Caught completely off guard, they were torn to pieces by the senior they trusted most.”
“And it was that incident that confirmed a fact for us—”
“This… is witchification.”
“The end of a magical girl was never flowers and applause.”
“But degeneration into a monster even more terrifying than pollutants.”
Lin Yu felt his throat go painfully dry.
“Then… then Chen Bing’s sister…”
“What happened to her in the end?”
“Was she purified?”
“No.”
Manager Qian shook his head, his tone turning distant.
“After that slaughter, she disappeared.”
“No one knows where she went.”
“From that day on, there was no longer a city-protecting hero named Flower Butterfly in this world.”
“Only a terrifying legend with an S-rank codename remained—”
“The Butterfly Witch.”
“As for Chen Bing…”
Manager Qian picked up the photograph again, his thumb gently brushing over the young girl’s face.
“When she joined the company, she said it was because of family tradition—”
“That she wanted to inherit her sister’s will.”
“But actually…”
“I know very well.”
“The reason she risked her life to become a magical girl.”
“The reason she turned herself into a block of ice with no emotions at all…”
“Was to find that sister of hers who had already become a monster.”
“There was once, outside the training room, that I heard her muttering after extreme overexertion.”
“She was crying, repeating the same sentence over and over—”
Manager Qian imitated that heart-wrenching tone and spoke softly.
“She said—”
“Big sister… are you here?”
“I miss you so much…”
“When I find you…”
“I will personally… kill you.”
“Now… do you understand, Lin?”
“Now, do you understand, Xiao Lin?”
Manager Qian pressed the cigar into the ashtray.
The final spark struggled a few times before going completely dark.
“Why must all magical girls undergo memory erasure after graduation?”
“Letting them completely forget everything and return to being ignorant fools…”
“Is still better than turning into man-eating monsters in endless nightmares.”
“Don’t you think?”
Lin Yu fell silent.
At this moment, he finally understood the crushing despair Chen Bing kept suppressed behind her always distant coldness.
“f*ck, this plot…”
“Isn’t it way too heavy?”
“Wasn’t this supposed to be a magical girl show?”
“Shouldn’t the main theme be ‘love and justice,’ ‘hope and dreams’?”
“How did it suddenly start sprinting down that dark, grim Urobuchi Gen route?”
“Seriously, shouldn’t we just change the screenwriter?”
“Can’t we have something simple and brainless like Li Qing?”
“Just daily stuff like drinking milk tea, gossiping, Ultraman beating up little monsters?”
“Why does it have to be this kind of fratricidal tragedy…”
“Gulp.”
Lin Yu swallowed, a chill running down his spine.
He suddenly remembered being “blessed” by the 【Myriad-Change Demon Lord】, and those times he’d hovered on the edge of losing control.
“According to Manager Qian’s science lesson just now…”
“Doesn’t that mean my condition…”
“I already got my early admission ticket to ‘witch-in-training’?”
“Will I awaken one day, turn into some freak myself, and then get hunted all over the world by Chen Bing and the others?”
Thinking of that, Lin Yu could no longer sit still.
“Um… Manager Qian.”
“You know my situation.”
“Then I… am I also not far from turning into that kind of monster?”
“You?”
Manager Qian raised an eyebrow, clearly having expected the question.
“This happens to connect perfectly to the masked man’s question.”
He didn’t answer directly.
Instead, he slowly pulled open a drawer, took out a thick folder, and tossed it onto the coffee table in front of Lin Yu.
“Pa.”
“This is your in-depth medical report.”
“Fresh off the press. Take a look yourself.”
With trembling hands, Lin Yu opened the report.
【Codename: Gray Crystal ( )】
Below it, the dense data made his head spin.
But the string of red warning markers was downright terrifying.
【First Comprehensive Evaluation ( )】
Spiritual pollution index: 87%
(Detected extremely high-concentration 【 】 compound pollution response.)
Diagnostic conclusion:
This individual is highly likely to become an uncontrollable high-risk pollution source.
Handling recommendation:
Immediately initiate Level-One isolation procedures!
Recommend directly mobilizing 【 】 to carry out eradication operations…
(This section was viciously crossed out in red pen.)
“Holy shit…”
Lin Yu felt his vision go black.
Eradication operations?
Doesn’t that just mean straight-up humane destruction?!
However, just beneath that crossed-out horror, there was a line of flamboyant red handwritten annotation.
The handwriting was wild and arrogant, filled with disdain:
【Directive: Bullshit!
The tech department should focus on diagnostics only.
This isn’t Fuxiao Company under Skyvault Capital!
We’re not some anti-magic-route fossils!
Our lab researches how to control subspace energy.
Fire the idiot who wrote this recommendation—
don’t come to work tomorrow!
Retest. Re-evaluate!】
The corner of Lin Yu’s mouth twitched.
He continued flipping downward.
【Second Comprehensive Evaluation (Re-examination)】
Spiritual pollution index: 12%
(After rest, the pollution index has dropped significantly.)
Diagnostic conclusion:
The individual’s pollution remains within a controllable range.
Final opinion:
The potential of the 【Void】 constitution is enormous and warrants further exploration.
“Um… Manager Qian?”
Lin Yu pointed at that wild handwritten note, his tone subtle.
“This opinion… looks like someone altered it?”
“And this tone…”
“Oh, that.”
Manager Qian calmly took a sip of his long-cold coffee.
“That was personally approved by Director Bai.”
“Although the tech department’s data junkies sentenced you to death at first—”
“Thinking you were a ticking time bomb ready to explode at any moment—”
“Director Bai insisted on a retest.”
At this point, Manager Qian looked Lin Yu up and down with a gaze like he was examining a monster.
“And the result…”
“You can see it yourself.”
“We were shocked to discover that although you look fragile as hell on the surface…”
“Your 【mental barrier】 is insanely strong.”
“Just sleeping once lets you digest most of that high-risk pollution.”
“Looks like…”
“With that body of yours, you can keep slaving away for the company for quite a long time.”
“So that means…”
Lin Yu swallowed and asked tentatively.
“That means—”
Manager Qian spread his hands and delivered the final verdict.
“Although your current composition is indeed a bit complicated…”
“It’s precisely because of this special 【Void】 constitution that you’re actually still a fairly safe distance away from ‘witchification.’”
“At the very least…”
“You’re not that easy to go insane.”
“Phew—”
Hearing that, the heart that had been stuck in Lin Yu’s throat finally dropped heavily back into his stomach.
He slumped into the sofa and let out a long breath.
“That’s great…”
“You scared the hell out of me…”
“I thought when I came back this time, I’d get that damn collar slapped on again and be locked in that pitch-black observation room as a lab rat.”
Manager Qian lazily stirred the coffee in his cup.
“Of course.”
“The one suffering this time isn’t you.”
“Huh?”
“It’s Luo Shaotian.”
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Well that’s tragic
Does that mean she can purify other magical girls