Volume 1 Chapter 76: Do I Look Like a Magical Girl to You?
Blinding firelight and the sound of a violent explosion shook the entire building as if it were about to collapse.
Flying pieces of broken glass cut Liu Li’s face, bringing a burning pain.
That was the last thing she felt before losing consciousness.
When she woke up again, she found herself sitting properly in the comfortable chair inside her office.
Strangely, there were no ropes or chains on her body.
But she felt as if she had been nailed to the chair. No matter how hard she struggled, she could not move even a little.
A terrible pain spread through her whole body, fully waking her from her dazed state.
She quickly looked around.
A huge hole had been blasted into the office wall.
Broken ceiling pieces and ruined furniture were scattered everywhere.
Dust and smoke filled the air, making it hard to see clearly.
Luckily, although the building had been badly damaged by the explosion, it was still standing and had not collapsed.
Damn it...! Is this person crazy?
Making such a huge mess in the middle of the city, aren’t they afraid the Special Investigation Department will come after them?
Is it a magical girl?
Did those little brats discover something about me, so they came here?
No... impossible.
Those girls are still immature. They’re just students who know nothing about the real world.
If they really found out about me, they would come openly. They would never use such sneaky methods.
Then it must be some weirdo again? Using my place as an experiment site?
But even those lunatics should know about my relationship with that person, right?
They should at least show me some respect...
This person is clearly here for me!
Liu Li’s ears were ringing.
She forced herself to look through the heavy smoke, trying to find the one responsible for all this.
“My, my~ Our great Boss Liu is awake now?”
That familiar soft laugh sounded again beside her ear.
Liu Li quickly turned her head toward the voice.
There, sitting on her office desk, was a small girl wearing a gorgeous dress.
Her skin was pale and fair. Her long hair, mixed silver-gray and black, flowed over her shoulders.
Under her thick eyelashes were eyes of two different colors, filled with playful amusement.
Her delicate and beautiful features were stretched by the cold moonlight into long shadows, making her look even more mysterious.
The one sitting before Liu Li was naturally Bai Muxue after transforming, Kaguya.
In one hand, she held a colorful lollipop.
In the other hand, she held the jade qilin ornament Liu Li had once spent a huge amount of money to buy, carelessly playing with it.
“Sigh, I thought the famous Boss Liu, who can even command disaster beasts, must be hiding some great secret in this company...”
“But in the end, there was nothing here at all.”
“What a huge disappointment...”
Kaguya played with the jade qilin for a moment.
Then, seeming bored, she casually threw it behind her.
The expensive jade ornament shattered into pieces the moment it hit the floor.
Her small tongue slowly slipped past her rose-colored lips and gently licked the lollipop in her hand.
Perhaps in her eyes, this priceless antique, something many rich businessmen fought hard to buy, was worth less than the candy she was holding.
Looking at the broken qilin that was now worthless, Liu Li felt like her heart was bleeding.
But luckily, the secret files inside the safe had not been destroyed by the explosion.
That was at least one bit of good luck in all this bad luck.
As long as those documents still existed...
She could rise again.
“I like hearing little secret stories that cannot be shown to the public the most. Boss Liu, can you share one or two with me?”
Kaguya raised one hand to her lips and softly laughed as she looked at the messy middle-aged woman before her.
When Liu Li heard this, she unconsciously raised her head.
She opened her mouth, but no words came out. Of course, she understood what Kaguya meant.
While pretending to stare blankly at Kaguya, her mind was working quickly in secret, trying to judge the current situation.
This girl clearly knows some of my secrets, but she does not know the full details. She does not look like one of those weird people.
And she definitely is not working with that person...
Could she really be a magical girl?
After all, only those fake little girls like dressing up in such flashy clothes!
Liu Li organized her thoughts in her mind, thinking about how to gain the upper hand in the next conversation.
It’s fine.
This girl caused such a huge disturbance.
The Special Investigation Department must have already sent people here...
And that person will definitely learn what happened here soon.
I only need to buy time!
But before she could speak, the girl in front of her elegantly yawned and casually waved the slim hand holding the lollipop.
Before Liu Li could react, a black flash of light shot forward like a blade and pierced straight through her right hand.
“AAAAAHHHHH!!!”
Blood sprayed everywhere at once, staining the floor red.
Liu Li’s heartbreaking scream sounded especially sharp in the silent building.
“Using silence as an answer is bad manners, Boss Liu~”
Kaguya clasped her hands together.
The smile on her face was still graceful and bright, as if the painful screaming beside her did not affect her at all.
“Hah... hah... are all of you magical girls this kind of person?!”
But Kaguya’s provoking actions only stirred stronger resistance inside Liu Li. She stretched her neck forward, and her eyes, bulging from pain, shined with hatred.
“You think I’ll tell you anything with methods like this?! Impossible! Using such dirty torture methods! So the noble and righteous image you show on TV is all fake, right?! A bunch of hypocritical little brats!”
Perhaps she believed rescue would arrive at any moment.
Or perhaps she did not want to give up the wealth and power already in her hands.
Even with the terrible pain in her palm, Liu Li had no plan to surrender.
Instead, she raised her head and cursed fiercely.
“Magical girl?”
Kaguya could not help smiling when she heard that.
“Do I look like a magical girl to you?”
Uh... speaking honestly, she really was a magical girl.
But considering that what she was doing was very different from what normal magical girls would do, it was better to separate herself from that image now.
Otherwise Amber, Amethyst, and the others might suffer damage to their reputation.
Throwing aside that pointless thought, Kaguya casually snapped her fingers.
The black blade that had pierced Liu Li’s palm slowly pulled itself out.
“Changing the subject casually is also bad manners, Boss Liu~”
Facing Liu Li, whose face was twisted by pain, Kaguya’s smile only became brighter.