Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 375 Opinion
The larks didn't glean much from the beasts.

After all, it was just a distant observation, and the time was short, so the information that could be obtained was very limited. In addition, some of the beastmen had very sharp senses. For example, the magical girl codenamed "Arrowroot Potato" seemed to sense that "someone was watching her" even though Lark had concealed her magical fluctuations and deliberately blended into the crowd, and tried to find the source of the gaze.

Of course, it was impossible for them to discover the lark. While its keen senses were commendable, the difference in magic, experience, and skill determined the information asymmetry between the two sides.

"To be honest, although I can sense the gap between them and other children, I think it's just a difference caused by their background and education."

While recalling the information she had secretly observed, Celestia organized her thoughts: "Although it may seem too lenient to say it like this, I think that in essence, they seem to be no different from ordinary magical girls."

"Ah."

The fairy doll shook its head: "That's normal."

"normal?"

"That is to say, it is normal for you to have this feeling, because we have reached similar conclusions by simply observing their appearance and behavior."

Emerald's voice remained languid: "However, this confirms our previous suspicions, doesn't it?"

"Us?" Lark looked doubtful, because she had no recollection of ever speculating about anything with Emerald.

"Your daughter, Bo Xue."

Emerald pointed out, "Do you remember what I told you when you brought her to me?"

“You said a lot back then,” Lark nodded. “But which specific sentence?”

"What I'm saying is—she's a natural beastman, and after she became a magical girl, she was born with 'claw marks'."

Emerald coughed twice, reciting as if reciting a memorized text: "A true 'claw mark' that is purer, more complete, and closer to the complete form than the white wolf."

The larkspur remembered those words.

Without a doubt, the words Emerald used to describe Bai Jingxuan can now be perfectly applied to those beasts.

"So, just like you can't see anything special about your little girl, these beasts are naturally the same."

Emerald offered her conclusion: "Their existence proves that Thin Snow is not an isolated case; this trait is a common characteristic of these beasts."

"This was expected?" Lark looked at the doll.

"No."

Emerald said succinctly: "But it's not that surprising. Once it happens, it will happen again. After meeting your little girl, I had more or less guessed it, but I didn't expect to see so many examples so soon."

After listening to Emerald's analysis, Delphinus hesitated to speak.

"What's wrong? Is there something you can't tell me?" Seeing the larkspur's reaction, the doll tilted its head, looking rather cute.

"...It's not that I can't say."

Cui Que pursed her lips: "But when I think of Bo Xue, I can't help but have some thoughts when I look at these 'beasts'."

"Oh, so that's what you mean."

Emerald suddenly realized: "No wonder you were acting strange. Are you still thinking about these things? Do you feel sorry for them? Do you want to help them?"

"It hasn't reached that level."

Cui Que sighed, "I just can't help but wonder if there might be a child like Bo Xue among them." "Young man."

Emerald's voice suddenly became much more serious: "You shouldn't have forgotten that I told you yesterday that just trying to protect that examinee named Mint has already put us under a lot of extra risk. Don't forget, their identities are first and foremost our enemies, and only secondly our 'children.' And the situation we're about to face will be incredibly chaotic. You don't need to, and you can't, save everyone. Even we, the reigning jeweled scepters, can't do that."

In fact, Delphinus had already discussed this topic with Emerald yesterday.

In Emerald's view, the larkspur not only kept her "old comrade-in-arms" from Claw Mark in mind, but also inexplicably felt compassion for the beastmen of Black Ember Dawn. If this kind of hesitant thinking was not pointed out, it might cause trouble in the following actions.

And the larkspur itself knew what the emerald was thinking.

“I know, and I’ve explained it to you many times already. I’m not so arrogant as to think I can mediate all disputes.”

Lark said calmly, "In fact, the more I know, the more I loathe Black Dawn."

That's disgusting, it makes me want to vomit.

This is how Lark feels about what Black Dawn has done.

Emerald had previously stated that the origin of Claw Mark, this unconventional beastification technique, remained a mystery. Although White Wolf was the former Gem Scepter, he was not a research talent skilled in technological development. Therefore, it was entirely illogical that he could develop a complete system of beastification, combat, and ability development after more than a decade of defection.

Previously, if Black Dawn was merely a "suspect" on the list of potential providers of this technology to Claw Mark, now, after learning what "Beast Children" are and that some of them can become magical girls, she is certain that Black Dawn's people are definitely among the sources of Claw Mark's technology.

She couldn't help but think of Hong Siyu.

The memory of Hong Siyu's ordeal on the day of the full moon festival is still vivid. And how many victims like Hong Siyu will there be on the path of Claw Mark's exploration of this forbidden technology?
Lark simply couldn't think deeply; even guessing a number made her feel heavy-hearted.

"The claw mark technology seems highly likely to be related to them. These 'beast children' who have become magical girls are also their doing. These scum not only disregard taboos and abuse the power of broken beasts, treating human life as worthless, but now they are even reaching out to magical girls, to children who originally harbored beautiful dreams and wanted to help others..."

She looked at her palms, then clenched her fists loosely: "That's why, no matter what conspiracy they're plotting right now, I absolutely don't want them to succeed. Not only that, I'm determined to find that disgusting guy hiding behind the scenes, using the magical girls as shields while he plots his own schemes."

"Hmm, you sound quite motivated. Let's just say I was overthinking it."

The sound of drinking water came from the doll's head, probably from Emerald herself. She hesitated for a moment, then shook her head: "Are you free tonight?"

"night?"

“Let’s add another meeting. Since you’re so motivated, our security plan should be adjusted again,” Emerald suggested.

"It should be fine. In fact, I have some ideas right now..."

Lark nodded in agreement, and the two of them began discussing the draft directly.

The locations of some points need to be changed, the patrol logic in some areas needs to be reconsidered, and many plans need to be modified if we need to both defend against external enemies and deal with the trouble caused by the beasts.

Just as the two were having a heated discussion, Emerald suddenly received a message from the Magic Mirror.

The conversation between the two had to be temporarily suspended. Seeing that they had been in the examination room for almost 20 minutes, and that staying any longer might delay the rest of the exam, Cuique took the initiative to leave.

The emerald did not stand in the way.

Just as Larkspur thought the conversation was over and strode confidently to the exam hall door, her hand already outstretched towards it, Emerald's slightly surprised exclamation came from behind her:

"What did you say? The file I just modified access to was viewed by a VIP member?"

(End of this chapter)