Volume 1 Chapter 35: I Am the Strongest Magical Girl
Why was I the person in those paintings?
Wasn’t this amusement park created by the Disaster Beast using the children’s memories?
But I was clearly never controlled by the beast...
Thinking of how Sister Wang, an adult, had also been strangely affected by the beast...
Maybe my coming to this amusement park was not an accident at all.
Maybe someone had been secretly controlling everything from behind the scenes.
Even though she did not want to believe it, Bai Muxue felt this guess perfectly explained all the strange things from before.
But how was I targeted?
Was that bat woman causing trouble behind the scenes again?
But judging from how timid she acted, she did not seem like someone who could think of a plan like this...
Or maybe I’m already on that so-called Empire’s blacklist?
So now they want to find a way to kill me?
“Xiao Xue? Xiao Xue?”
Amber, standing nearby, saw that Bai Muxue had been frowning and thinking for almost five minutes.
She could not help waving her hand in front of the girl’s face.
“Hey, hey, are you still alive?”
“Hm?”
Hearing Amber call her, Bai Muxue finally came back to her senses.
“What is it?”
“Wake up. Stop spacing out.”
Amber puffed her lips in dissatisfaction and snorted lightly.
“You’ve been acting strange this whole time... If you get lost later, I’m not coming back to find you!”
“Mm, I understand.”
—If I really have been targeted by someone...
Then if I stay openly with Amber like this, I might drag her into danger too.
Bai Muxue looked deeply at the blonde girl standing there with folded arms.
She pressed her lips together and pushed away her messy thoughts.
No matter what, as long as we defeat this Disaster Beast successfully, all problems should be solved, right?
Along the way, the two girls did not meet any other strange things.
But when they finally passed through the tunnel, they found that only a narrow path remained ahead.
Farther in front, the road looked as if it had been forcefully broken apart, leaving a huge gap.
The two carefully looked down from the edge of the road.
They could clearly see the beast’s half-transparent umbrella-shaped head below.
Its dark blue glow, under the moonlight, strangely carried a kind of eerie beauty.
Its countless transparent tentacles surrounded the entire amusement park.
“Damn...”
Amber cried out in shock.
Passing through the ocean tunnel had brought them directly above the Disaster Beast.
While exploring the tunnel, neither of them had noticed any change in height.
Because of that, she and Bai Muxue never realized they had actually been climbing upward the whole time!
Or was this also part of the beast’s ability?
“I’ll approach this broken jellyfish from the side.”
“At this distance, its shield might not be able to block my bullets.”
Amber was not some beginner facing Disaster Beasts for the first time.
She quickly recovered from her shock and spoke to Bai Muxue in a serious voice.
The beast’s huge size meant it would not be very agile.
That was her advantage.
“Xiao Xue, find a place to hide.”
“If anything goes wrong, run immediately.”
“Don’t worry about me.”
Amber was about to fly off when Bai Muxue suddenly grabbed the corner of her clothes tightly.
Amber looked at her with slight confusion.
The girl before her had wandering eyes, and a faint blush had appeared on her pretty face, as if she wanted to say something.
“...Be careful.”
After hesitating awkwardly for a long time, Bai Muxue finally seemed to make up her mind.
She looked at Amber with bright clear eyes and said each word slowly and seriously.
Amber was slightly stunned for a moment after hearing that.
Then she raised her eyebrows and slowly showed a confident smile.
“Don’t worry. Didn’t I already say it? I am the strongest magical girl!”
The girl pulled out both guns and spun them around her fingers.
Then she used the gun barrel to push her slightly crooked cowboy hat back into the right position.
Without saying anything more, Amber bent her knees slightly and suddenly leaped forward.
She turned into a streak of pale golden light and rushed toward the Disaster Beast below.
“......”
Watching the girl’s lovely and slender back, and her long golden hair shining like glowing wheat under the bright moonlight, Bai Muxue became absent-minded for a moment.
Amber quickly closed the distance between herself and the beast.
Small points of golden light flashed beneath her feet.
Her beautiful golden eyes were locked firmly onto the huge monster now so close before her.
“At this distance... it should work!”
She had already calculated the force and angle.
This bullet should be enough to blow a hole in the beast’s head.
The bullet had just left the gun when the invisible barrier Amber had seen before appeared again between her and the beast.
The bright star-shaped bullet hit the barrier, exploded like fireworks, and slowly disappeared into the night sky.
Amber’s test attack did no real damage.
But it had clearly drawn the beast’s attention.
With a strange sound like a ship horn, countless transparent tentacles stretched out from around it and rushed toward Amber.
“This is exactly what I was waiting for!”
Facing the fast incoming tentacles, Amber showed no fear at all.
She proudly smiled.
With one hand, she kept firing and shooting down the attacking tentacles.
With the other hand, at the moment the tentacles curled back, she quickly threw out her whip and swung herself directly onto the top of the beast’s head.
“At this distance, you can’t use that shield anymore, right?”
Standing on top of the beast, the smile on her face grew even wider.
Star-shaped bullets fired one after another, leaving several large holes in the beast’s huge head.
The severe pain made the beast let out a roar.
Countless transparent threads quickly filled the holes in its body.
As it violently shook its huge body, trying to throw Amber off, it sent out many more tentacles to strike her again.
Amber ignored its struggle.
She quickly threw one chocolate ball after another from her waist.
The small black balls exploded the moment they touched the beast’s body, causing it to roar in anger again and again.
“No good. Even without the barrier, this thing’s healing ability is just as troublesome… Should I transform? Or...”
Meanwhile, Bai Muxue was still hiding nearby and watching the battle.
She tightly held the music box in her arms.
A trace of worry and hesitation flashed across her pretty face.
“Wait... that is...”
Before she could make up her mind, the girl suddenly noticed something and sharply raised her head.
When the beast’s body was pierced by bullets and it shook violently to throw Amber off, inside the wound that had not yet healed. Deep within its body was a black egg-shaped object giving off a faint light.
It looked ominous and strangely sad.
“Amber!”
Ignoring the hundred-meter drop below, Bai Muxue leaned forward in panic and shouted:
“Do you see that black thing below!? That must be its core!!”
Amber did not hesitate at all after hearing this.
There was no time to ask how Bai Muxue had discovered it.
She loaded bullets into her revolver, leaped into the air, and fired several shots toward the place Bai Muxue pointed at.
The sharp bullets pierced through the beast’s body again.
But the black egg was no longer there.
The beast had moved its core somewhere else inside its body using the flowing threads within it.