Even if you're a corrupted magical girl, you still have to try to redeem yourself.

Afterwards, Yuuki Yuki and Baqi discussed whether they should go somewhere for a late-night snack and take a stroll around the streets of Nijiha City.

Then, the two headed towards the city center and randomly found a late-night diner that was still open. They each ordered a regular fried rice and some fried fish to fill their stomachs.

After eating and drinking to their hearts' content, they left the shop and headed back to their hotel.

"Wouldn't this count as a date?"

Walking down the street, Baqi put her arm around Yuuki Yuki's arm and revealed a sly look in her eyes.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Yuuki Yui complained, then awkwardly turned her head away, letting Baqi pull her arm as they walked down the street.

“Xiao Yuan didn’t deny it.” Ba Qi moved her body even closer: “How about it? How about we take advantage of this rare date and walk around the streets a bit? We never had this experience of holding hands and strolling around the streets late at night in Yuehai City.”

"Whatever you want." Yuuki Yuuki shook off Baqi's arm that was holding her, reached out and grabbed Baqi's fingers, and led Baqi away into a nearby street.

If the two of them had gone straight back, maybe nothing would have happened.

But who would refuse to take a walk on an almost deserted street to clear their head in the middle of the night when they have mixed feelings?

It was this simple decision that led Yuuki Yuki and Tomoe into their current predicament.

Two people walking under the streetlights always stand out, especially on such a quiet street.

At this moment, Yuuki Yukino and Inuyama Tomoe could only see each other, chatting casually about their past experiences.

Perhaps they were chatting too seriously, perhaps their sense of crisis had decreased after eating, or perhaps their bodies were less sensitive due to the late hour of rest. There could be many other reasons as well. In any case, the two of them were completely unaware of the changes happening around them.

Just as the two were slowly rounding the street corner, an uninvited guest suddenly rushed out from the side and quickly separated her and Baqi, pulling Baqi and Yuuki Emi apart.

Yuki Yukari recognized them clearly; those two were the two delinquent girls who had approached Lin Jiezi and her during the day.

The slightly taller magical girl still had a cast on her arm; it seemed unlikely that her arm, broken by Yuuki Yukino's counterattack, would recover so easily.

And then, things turned out the way they are now.

The two delinquent girls yelled and created some distance between themselves and Inuyama Tomoe and Yuuki Yuuki, who were being held hostage.

It's possible that the sense of closeness that came between her and Baqi while walking on the street led them to misunderstand their relationship, which is why they chose to kidnap Baqi to control her.

These feelings about Yuuki are understandable.

Yuuki Yuuki couldn't understand the purpose of these two people at all.

She was a magical girl who could control both of them with a single blow. Did they think that hostages alone would make her submit obediently?

And once the hostages are back with them, won't the two of them still be at the mercy of others?

Revenge? Trying to teach himself a lesson this time? That's incredibly stupid.

Of all people to provoke, why did they have to provoke me, the one who once taught them a lesson? Even if they wanted revenge, they wouldn't be so blatant.

However, the fact that they use the power of a corrupted magical girl to threaten and blackmail suggests that they might not be that powerful. Yuuki Yui really doesn't dare to think too highly of them.

What are you two trying to do?

Yuuki Yukino raised her hands, making herself appear cooperative.

Yuuki Yui wasn't worried about Inuyama Hatsuki at all. In terms of destructive power alone, Inuyama Hatsuki was definitely one of the top in the magical girl genre.

Perhaps only Helica, who has achieved divine liberation, is qualified to compare with Baki. Unfortunately, Helica has not yet achieved divine liberation.

Helica wouldn't, but Baki would.

So these two delinquent girls want to threaten Baqi? Impossible. Just don't let Baqi threaten the whole street.

The lack of response to Yuuki Yuki's question only propelled the situation forward further.

"Transform! Transform quickly!" Taiga urged, and a magical aura shimmered around her first. As the light faded, she had transformed into a magical girl.

The severed arm hung limply to one side, while the other hand was still resting on Baqi, presenting Baqi as a hostage to Yuuki Yukino.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Qu also completed her transformation, but without making any unnecessary movements.

Yuuki Yui was fully confident that she could subdue the two of them at any time, and she was not in a hurry to transform. She just wanted to see what would happen.

"Since we're all going to die anyway, should we take this opportunity..."

Seeing that his companion had also completed the transformation, Dahe took two steps back and hid next to Xiaoqu, whispering something.

"No, it's not that bad..." Xiao Qu replied softly.

"Think about what we've been through today! My arm is broken, and we've been forced to do all sorts of things. Anyway, we can't escape it!" Dahe said viciously, his eyes filled with hatred that seemed to drip water.

"But if we do that, there's no turning back."

Do you think we still have a way back?

After a moment of silence, the two seemed to have made up their minds.

Yuuki Yukino, who was a short distance away from them, heard nothing, but knew that they seemed to have some new plans.

But Baqi, who was sandwiched between two delinquent girls, heard everything clearly.

"Xiao Yuan! It looks like they're about to attack me!"

Baqi raised her voice, speaking to Yuuki Eri as if she were stating something unrelated to herself, completely devoid of any sense of crisis.

"Shut up!" Dahe, his eyes bloodshot, tightened his grip on Baqi's neck.

"If you're going to do it, could you be a little gentler? Don't go too far."

Taiga saw Yuuki Yukino calling out to him nervously.

"Don't go too far? Idiot! How could I! You dare do that to us? We'll let you taste our anger! Even we have tempers!"

They want to negotiate with me? Dream on! Dahe thought to himself, preparing for a desperate gamble.

Dahe gritted his teeth, raised the arm that was hooked around Baqi, and roared with all his might as he launched an attack on Baqi.

If an ordinary person were to be hit by that attack, they would definitely be either killed or seriously injured.

Unfortunately, Baqi was no ordinary person.

The next second, the river cried out even more desperately.

The magical armor on the raised arm had vanished, and it was now charred black and limp.

Along with it, Dahe's body also went limp, flying backward amidst the explosion and impact, rolling twice on the street before lying still.

The only indication that she was still breathing was from her heaving chest.

"Sigh." Yuuki Yuki looked at the river that had flown away, rubbed her head and sighed, "I wasn't talking about you when I said 'don't go too far'."

"What happened?"

Baqi was surprised and withdrew her fist.

The chains wrapped around the fist slowly disappeared, and the fist that had sent the river flying was now spread out like a palm, patting the magical armor worn by Baqi.

"No, Xiaoyuan, wait a minute, how come this guy is so weak? I even deliberately didn't summon my magic wand! But how come... she just... exploded once and then she's done for?"

Ba Qi was clearly belatedly panicked, gasped, glanced at Dahe with a twitching mouth, and then looked at Xiaoqu beside her, who hadn't moved at all.

"Didn't I tell you? Those two are ridiculously weak. If you were to summon your wand, it could kill them."

Yuuki Yukino completely ignored Ono Kogure, who was standing there dumbfounded, and walked towards Tomoe. She stood next to Tomoe and looked at the river on the ground in the distance.

"That's it? This is the kind of magic girl who dares to go out and extort money? Is this all the magical girls in Rainbow Leaf City are capable of? They can't even handle someone like this?" Baqi followed Yuuki Yuuki's gaze and turned her eyes back to Taiga Oki lying on the ground, her facial expression becoming somewhat distorted.

“You’re right, the corrupted magical girls in Rainbow Leaf City are a bit too weak. There’s nothing we can do about it, after all, this isn’t Moonsea City. This is the best we can do.”

Unlike anyone else present, a voice came from Baqi's ear, instantly attracting everyone's attention.

A girl who looked slightly older than Yuuki and the others, but closer in age to Lava Mountain Lantern.

The girl was touching her chin, looking thoughtfully at the river lying on the ground.

The only difference was that the girl wore an expression that said, "I knew it."

Her short hair, a gradient of cyan and blue, stood out under the lights, and the high-necked long coat she wore was made of highly saturated fluorescent color blocks.

She's somewhat like a hot girl, but gives off a different vibe.

A hot girl wouldn't get a black magic tattoo on her face.

More importantly, no one has figured out how she got there.

Where no one was watching, Ono Kogure's nerves were even more tense, his face was terribly gloomy, his eyes were fixed on the tips of his shoes, his hands, which were hanging by his sides, were placed behind his back, but then, feeling too awkward, he moved them in front of him and clasped them together.

"Never mind, I only told you to go find the magical girl I saw during the day to scare you. I didn't expect you to actually find her, and more than one at that? Forget it, hurry up and take your reckless friend and run away."

The girl waved casually.

Having received permission, Ono and Kogure seemed to have been granted a pardon. They ran over, picked up the fallen river, and ran away in a flash.

No one went after Ono and Kogiri.

Without anyone telling them, Yuuki Yuki and Inuyama Tomoe both knew that the person who suddenly appeared in front of them was the root of the problem in the bizarre magical girl ecosystem of Nijiha City.

"Ah, the troublesome guy is gone."

The girl stretched and stared with her fox-like, half-closed eyes at Inuyama Tomoe, who had already transformed and was pointing her gun at her, and Yuuki Yuki, who was a little further away and was watching her cautiously.

"Now we can have a proper chat, magical girls of Moonsea City."

Chapter Seventy-Five: Psychedelic Color Blocks

Hours earlier, in the alleyways of the shopping street.

"Who is that magical girl who rules over the entire Rainbow Leaf City?"

Led into the alley by the river and the stream, Yuuki Eri, who had bound the two creatures into crab shapes with her tentacles, asked a question.

Yuuki Yui firmly believes that beneath the unusual order of Nijihae City, there must exist an order setter, an entity capable of restricting all the magical girls in Nijihae City.

Just like what Kuroba did in his next life.

Although Kuroba Reise failed to take control of Moonsea City.

Because Kuroba's reincarnation is not strong enough.

Even disregarding the extraordinary combat power of Lava Mountain Lantern, I alone am capable of successfully defeating her.

But the principle remains the same: the person who can maintain an alternative order in Rainbow Leaf City must be much stronger than these ordinary magical girls.

Although doing so might seem like meddling, it's never wrong to learn about someone else's rules when you're on their turf.

Yuuki Yui certainly didn't want to encounter another mess like today during her school trip.