Volume 1 Chapter 78: Shameful Things Are Best Done by One Person Alone
“Ahaha, Boss Liu still doesn’t want to talk? Then forget it. I’m not that interested anyway~”
In Kaguya’s eyes, Liu Li’s silence seemed to gain a new meaning.
“I’ll talk! I’ll talk! I’ll tell you everything! Please, don’t... don’t!”
The girl’s clear and pleasant voice sounded like a demon from hell to Liu Li.
The black glowing blade was pressed directly against her face. The cold touch made her swallow hard, and fear made her whole body tremble.
“That person made me do it all! I only followed her orders!”
Liu Li had completely lost control now.
She only hoped the moody girl in front of her would show a little mercy.
“Oh? That’s better. So our great Boss Liu is willing to share little secrets with me after all~”
Kaguya gave a soft laugh and moved the blade a little farther from Liu Li’s face.
“Go on then~ Who is that person?”
“I-I don’t know that person’s real identity! I only know those weird people all call that person... Professor!”
Liu Li’s shaking voice was close to tears as she answered in a hurry.
“All the detailed information is in the safe behind the wall! For all these years, that person has been forcing me from the shadows!”
This world was one where the strong ate the weak.
Liu Li had always treated those words as her life belief.
Ever since the day the Bai family ended their partnership with her, and her status fell badly, she had secretly sworn to take back everything she lost.
With that person’s help, she had climbed higher and higher over the years.
Quietly, she had also made many people disappear forever.
Some were business rivals.
Some were so-called friends who once helped her.
She felt no guilt at all.
Wasn’t the world always like this? There are no eternal friends, only interests.
Human feelings, conscience, kindness...
None of them were as real as money flowing into her wallet and rising social status.
But today, she had kicked an iron plate. Now she had become the one about to be eaten.
Forced?
You looked like you enjoyed it quite a lot.
Kaguya almost laughed out loud when she heard that, but she was too lazy to mock her.
It would ruin the villain image she had built for herself.
“Professor?”
“Yes! That person seems to be in charge of researching disaster beasts and weird people! But I really don’t know the exact identity or details... please believe me!”
Research?
Come to think of it, Amber once said normal disaster beasts usually did not have cores.
But the jellyfish at the amusement park had a so-called core...
And during the daytime that day, the bat woman named Heidi called her disaster beast a “Synthetic Beast.”
Could it be that the jellyfish... and that Synthetic Beast... were both made by this so-called Professor?
Heh.
Didn’t everything connect together now?
Though her expression did not change, Kaguya was smiling in satisfaction inside.
Looks like this trip truly wasn’t wasted.
Thinking this, the girl biting the lollipop nodded happily. Her slightly raised feet gently swung once.
At that moment, Liu Li suddenly felt lighter. Then her whole body fell stiffly onto the floor.
“What is your goal?”
“I don’t know! I only helped provide places for that person’s experiments! I really don’t know anything else!”
Now Liu Li had completely lost her usual proud and superior attitude. That pride and contempt had disappeared without a trace.
She twisted and struggled on the floor, not caring about her image at all. She cried loudly like the kind of child she usually hated most.
At first, Liu Li believed she had already experienced the darkest and scariest things in this world.
She thought this little girl’s so-called interrogation was nothing.
She thought she could endure it if she simply gritted her teeth.
But now, Liu Li finally understood. She was completely wrong.
The fear Kaguya gave her was both mental and physical.
When she had been tightly trapped in the chair, facing pain like a nightmare, she had not even been able to kill herself.
...And if she died just like this, what about her daughter?
What would happen to her daughter?
“Yes! The files! All the files and records of my dealings with that person are inside the safe behind me! Take them out and read them, you’ll understand everything!”
Liu Li had completely lost all hope now.
She no longer worried about what revenge that person might take after hearing these secrets. She only wanted to tell Kaguya everything she knew.
Even though Kaguya’s actions were so crazy, Liu Li could not see any panic, fear, worry, or struggle with conscience in that delicate smile.
To this young-looking girl, doing such things seemed as normal as eating or drinking. It was nothing worth caring about at all.
“That’s right, that’s right. If you had just told me clearly from the start, then none of this would have happened.”
“Sigh... bad children who refuse to be honest are always the ones who get punished...”
Kaguya let out a deep fake sigh and lightly waved her small hand.
The strong safe instantly turned into dust.
The files inside flew by themselves into her hands.
Ignoring Boss Liu, who was lying on the floor crying in pain, Kaguya changed into a more comfortable sitting position and began reading on her own.
Oh...
It seems the Professor behind Boss Liu was trying to control construction company owners like Liu Li.
Through them, they could gain places to hide disaster beasts, and also get materials to create disaster beasts and strange creatures?
Materials? What materials?
Do monsters like these really need materials to be made?
Kaguya raised an eyebrow and continued reading.
And these people wanted even more than that. They also wanted a chance to secretly enter and influence the whole city of Wangdu.
But that was clearly not easy. So later, they set their eyes on the Bai family.
As long as they killed her, the Bai family’s only young lady, the Bai family would fall into chaos.
At that time, Liu Li and the other business rivals could easily swallow the Bai family’s businesses.
Since Liu Li had more than ten years of hatred toward the Bai family and knew them fairly well, both sides quickly agreed and came up with all the later plans.
Heh... no wonder there was a portrait of me inside the undersea tunnel of that amusement park...
No wonder they tried so hard to kill me...
I thought they attacked because they knew something was strange about me...
But now it seems they wanted to kill me simply because I am the Bai family’s young lady?
Heh heh... how amusing.
A smile that made hearts tremble appeared on Kaguya’s face.
She put down the files, lightly coughed, and returned to her earlier elegant calm manner.
“What materials did you provide to that Professor?”
“A-a lot... usually building materials and things like that. They also asked me to provide locations. Sometimes they wanted very strange items too. I didn’t dare ask questions.”
A thoughtful look flashed through Kaguya’s eyes. Then she casually asked again,
“Oh~ I’m a little interested in this Professor. How do you usually contact that person? I’d like to become friends too.”
Liu Li quickly answered, “We usually go to an agreed meeting place, and messages are passed through a middleman! It’s at that... mental hospital outside Wangdu!”
Eh, that mental hospital outside Wangdu?
That sounds a little familiar...
Kaguya’s clear eyes moved slightly. Then she suddenly could not help laughing.
The coldness on her face melted like snow, blooming into a beautiful smile.
That unusually lovely smile entered Liu Li’s eyes, but it made her shiver in fear.
This girl... what is she planning now?
Before she could think further, the girl in front of her playfully winked.
“Ah, happy times always pass so quickly...”
“Thank you for sharing your story, Boss Liu~”
What?
Liu Li froze for a moment. Then she felt a small pain in her neck.
Cold air entered.
Endless darkness completely covered her world.
“Phew... keeping up a character really isn’t easy...”
Kaguya jumped down from the desk with a small sound, rubbed her stiff cheeks, then turned to look at the person lying in a pool of blood.
She quietly clicked her tongue.
Honestly, killing her this easily feels too kind...
Forget it.
There’s no time to waste on such a minor character.
For some reason, Kaguya suddenly remembered one of Liu Li’s curses.
— “So the noble and righteous image on TV is fake after all! A bunch of hypocrites!”
Heh.
A faint smile rose on Kaguya’s lips.
Thinking carefully, there were probably many people who believed things like that.
“Well... someone like Liu Li could never understand the stubbornness and innocence of those girls...”
But it was exactly because magical girls like Amber and Amethyst existed, who seem incomprehensible to ordinary people, that this imperfect world had not been destroyed.
“Which is why... shameful things like this are better left for me alone to do...”
The girl stood before the window and softly spoke to herself, letting the bright moonlight swallow her whole.