014 The Mass Production Plan of Magical Girls

Mo Mo took a deep breath and pushed open the laboratory door.

Among a cluster of strange devices, a man wearing a white lab coat and glasses was slurping instant noodles while watching the magical girl Illya on the large demonstration screen in the lab.

Hearing someone enter, he paused the video and turned, a half-smile playing on his lips as he looked at Mo Mo.

“Hello, Dr. Ye Zhi, long time no see. You haven’t changed a bit.”

Glancing at the white-haired little girl on the screen, Mo Mo’s face remained expressionless. “There are some things I want to discuss with you.”

“Oh, Team Leader Mo, it has indeed been a while.” Ye Zhi shook Mo Mo’s hand. “I heard you’ve been investigating matters concerning the Black King and the Red Moon recently, but…” He adjusted his glasses. “That’s not really my area of expertise.”

“You might want to find someone else instead of wasting your time on me.”

“No.” Mo Mo shook her head and got straight to the point. “I didn’t come to see you about the Black King or the Red Moon.”

“But about the magical girls.”

“Magical girls?!” Ye Zhi suddenly became excited, looking at Mo Mo with enthusiasm. “Could it be that, Team Leader Mo, you want to become a magical girl too?”

Mo Mo: “…”

Both Ye Zhi and her brother Mo Bai were like this. Why did these people have such an affinity for magical girls?

Life was difficult, Mo Mo sighed.

“No, I have no intention of becoming such a being.”

“I just need to confirm something.” Mo Mo fixed her gaze on Dr. Ye Zhi. “The mass production plan for magical girls…”

“Has it really ended?”

Ye Zhi’s eyes narrowed, a dangerous smile crossing his face.

“Of course.”

“Of course it has ended.”

He spoke with a tone full of emotion. “After all, the plan was a failure.”

“A mistake that needed correction.”

“Besides, aren’t you, Team Leader Mo, the one responsible for eradicating the existence of magical girls?”

“You should know better than anyone that magical girls no longer exist.”

Mo Mo lowered her eyes.

She knew, of course.

The so-called magical girl project was born because this very man had watched an anime called Magical Girl Illya and had taken a keen interest in the character Ruby.

Ultimately, using his own bloodline, he created magical armaments that ordinary people could wear and use.

However, for some unknown reason, these armaments were restricted to girls aged 14 to 16, pure of heart.

The magical girl project was a systematic cultivation of magical girls to replace soldiers and protect the city under regular combat conditions.

There were many advantages to this approach, the greatest being that theoretically, these magical girls, being ordinary people, had no risk of losing their minds.

Their stability was much higher.

After the plan began, the Administration Bureau secretly recruited a group of girls around sixteen years old, who voluntarily took part in the first batch of magical girl experiments.

Then, a fatal flaw was discovered.

Empowering ordinary girls was still too much to ask.

Fighting unknown enemies and entering the realm of supernatural beings as ordinary humans inflicted immeasurable psychological damage on these girls.

They still lost their sanity.

Then, what good were they?

Thus, the plan was quickly halted.

Mo Mo served as the cleanup agent for the plan.

Her Alaya Consciousness could capture anything, including memories.

All memories related to magical girls were thoroughly erased by her. Those brave girls only remembered participating in a social survey, with no unusual events occurring.

They returned to the ordinary world where they belonged.

“Sure enough, reality and the second dimension differ considerably. Being a magical girl isn’t so easy,” Mo Mo said coldly, looking at the regretful Ye Zhi.

“But my subordinates overheard the words ‘magical girl’ from the mouths of the Dark-born during surveillance.”

“How do you explain that?”

Ye Zhi blinked. “Maybe... they like watching magical girls as much as I do?”

Mo Mo: “...”

She thought of her own slightly crazy brother and a headache crept over her.

“Don’t look at me like that, Team Leader Mo,” Ye Zhi said shyly. “Being stared at by such a cute girl makes a guy like me, who’s never even held a girl’s hand, want to explode.”

Mo Mo stepped back two paces. “Pervert.”

“I’ll take that as a compliment,” Ye Zhi said nonchalantly. “Unfortunately, I don’t know why they mentioned magical girls.”

“Maybe, just maybe, a real magical girl has appeared in our city.”

“Besides,” Ye Zhi suddenly grew serious, “please remember, Team Leader Mo, magical girls are righteous allies and deadly enemies of evil.”

“That’s the basic premise. Anything else is impure.”

“Don’t overcomplicate things, Team Leader Mo.”

A magical girl who doesn’t fight evil lacks purity.

Mo Mo was silent for a moment before speaking.

“I still think the existence of magical girls was a mistake.”

She said seriously, “If they are girls, they should just live their daily lives. Fighting is simply not suitable for them.”

“There’s no magic in this world, only curses that resemble magic.”

“All I feel is irony and frustration.”

Ye Zhi looked thoughtfully at Mo Mo. “If I’m not mistaken, Team Leader Mo, you’re still a girl yourself, right?”

“And you have a brother. When you’re fighting so hard for this world, does your brother know? And if he did, how would he feel?”

Her brother Mo Bai’s feelings?

Mo Mo grew troubled.

He would probably feel heartbroken, then excited, and maybe even...

Uh, no good. Her brother’s mind was a mess. She truly couldn’t guess what kind of feelings Mo Bai would have.

Better not think about it.

Besides, her brother...

“Thank you for your cooperation, Dr. Ye Zhi. If there’s anything else, I’ll come find you again.”

“Goodbye.”

Mo Mo left Ye Zhi’s lab decisively, never answering his questions in the end.

Ye Zhi shook his head helplessly. “Looks like it can’t be hidden anymore.”

“But even if it’s discovered, it’s none of my business. After all...”

He smiled and resumed playing Magical Girl Illya. “She’s just a small accident I never even imagined.”

“Oh no, or should I say, a miracle?”

“Heh, as expected.”

“Magical girls are miracles.”

Outside the door, Mo Mo, frustrated with the lack of useful information, noticed Ye Zhi’s demeanor and felt it really had nothing to do with him.

Better to try a different lead.

Checking the time, Mo Bai had already finished work, and it was time for her to go home.

As a sister, she couldn’t let her brother worry.

However, Mo Mo’s phone rang. She answered to hear Ji Yue’s anxious voice on the other end.

“Mo Mo, big trouble!”

“For some reason, those three little blacks started fighting with a magical girl I don’t even know, and it looks like a fourth person showed up!”

“I didn’t bring my gun, I can’t fight. I’ve retreated outside the scene. You have to come quickly!!”

Then, Ji Yue sent her an address swiftly.

Mo Mo’s brows gradually relaxed.

It seemed the case was finally progressing.

Whether it was the Dark-born or the magical girls.

Night would pass, and people liked to laugh under the sunlight.

Mo Mo responded,

“Stay put. I’m coming right now.”