Starting with magical girls, I'll reign supreme for eternity.

The number of magical girls in the Disaster Management Bureau is increasing, and even a considerable number of military personnel and staff controlled by the Bureau have come to Anyang. Of course, this doesn't matter to the Complete Witches.

After all, these guys have special abilities, so hiding them isn't difficult.

However, for ordinary members of the Witch's Guild like Zhang Ling, it was quite a hardship.

He couldn't just abandon the mission from the Witch's Guild, since he wouldn't get paid if he didn't do it. But it was really asking too much of an ordinary person like him to deliver supplies and pass on information to the Complete Witch right under the noses of the Disaster Management Bureau and the magical girls.

I don't know how much longer we can hold on...

Today, I barely managed to complete the task under various interrogations, but if things continue like this, it's only a matter of time before I'm exposed.

Should I leave the organization...?

He initially started this part-time job just to make some quick money, but he ended up earning more than his main job. Due to his outstanding abilities, there are currently no members of the Witches' Guild in Anyang who hold a higher position than him.

If this continues, I'll get caught sooner or later. I'll just do one last job and call it a day.

Having made this decision in his mind, he pushed open the door, loosened his tie, sighed wearily, took off his coat and hung it on the hanger beside him, found the light switch on the wall, and turned on the light. "Wife, why didn't you turn on the light..."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw the living room in complete disarray.

So I immediately turned off the light, and just as I was about to step back, the wall-mounted TV, which had been in standby mode, suddenly lit up.

A hissing white noise started up, forcing Zhang Ling to stop.

"Hello, Mr. Zhang Qiling." The fox-headed doll rode a children's bicycle in a rather comical manner, then slowly turned its head and stared straight at him.

"I want to play a game with you."

The doll's voice was unusually hoarse and strange: "You don't know me, but I know you. You used the guise of delivering goods to antique shop clients to contact other members of the Witch's Guild, working for them, passing on intelligence and supplies, and earning a hefty reward in return..."

"My name isn't Zhang Qiling, you've probably got the wrong person." Zhang Ling ignored the voice on the TV and quickly scanned the surrounding corners. After not seeing anyone, she glanced at the bedroom and bathroom doors with a very subtle movement.

He cautiously opened the other doors, but still didn't see the figure he was looking for, nor any enemies. When he returned to the living room, the TV was still showing images of the doll.

"...For years you have been enjoying a life of happiness and a high position by harming innocent people. Today, this journey will come to an end, and the time has come for you to work for your own life."

"The game is simple. There's only one test on the road to the end, a test that concerns the lives of your wife and daughter. The key to saving them is in your hands. All you need to do is..."

"You've mistaken me for someone else. My family and I are the innocent ones," Zhang Ling replied calmly, ignoring the sound of the television and taking out her phone to make a call.

"Hello, is this the police? Contact Dom, this is Paul..."

A gun was pressed against the back of his head.

"I thought the Witch's Guild members were all orphans."

A little girl's voice came from behind him, and he hung up the phone without hesitation.

A dagger slipped from his sleeve, and he turned and stabbed it towards the other person's forehead!

Bang!

Without hesitation, he fired, smashing Zhang Ling's hand to pieces. Then, he kicked Zhang Ling in the back of the knee, causing Zhang Ling to kneel down involuntarily.

"So you guys have parents and children too."

Zhang Ling's heart sank lower and lower.

When he heard the voice belong to a child, he bet that the other person would hesitate and not dare to shoot.

If the opponent hesitates for even half a second, you can turn the tables and kill them.

Having been in the Witch's Guild for so long, Zhang Ling is no naive person. With her identity exposed, the situation was extremely dire, and she was determined to take this risk.

In fact, his decision at that moment wasn't wrong, because the other party didn't kill him.

His abilities far exceeded his expectations; the gunshot pierced his palm, causing him to lose his grip on the dagger, and then his leg was kicked so badly he couldn't stand up...

The other party was also trained.

More importantly, the other party mentioned family members.

"You don't want your whole family to die, do you? Stop betting I won't do it. My parents were all killed by the Witch Society, so killing your whole family isn't too much to ask, right?"

"I don't know what you're talking about..."

He fired another shot without hesitation, smashing Zhang Ling's right ear. She covered her ear, forcibly suppressing her screams and turning them into muffled groans.

"Playing dumb? Playing dumb takes time, Zhang Qiling. I won't kill you right away because I need to know the locations of the other complete witches. If you want to continue wasting our time and treating me like a fool..."

Zhang Ling's pupils contracted as he saw the girl throw over a severed finger with a wedding ring on it—a gift he had just bought for his wife this year—because they had no money when they got married, so they had a bare-bones wedding.

Later, despite working hard to earn money, he still couldn't make much. It wasn't until he joined the Witch's Guild that things finally improved. At the beginning of the year, he bought his lover a wedding ring as a gift for her birthday.

We had originally planned to have a wedding and honeymoon during the year-end holiday...

"What do you want to do!"

"Don't be angry. Anger will only make you look weak." The girl's tone remained calm. "Your wife isn't dead yet, of course, but it's about time, if you still insist you know nothing. Besides your wife, you have two children, and your mother... How wonderful, why do you still have a mother?"

Zhang Ling finally became afraid.

Working for the Witches' Guild is always a very risky job, and there are always plenty of backstabbing within the guild.

Although he is considered an intelligence agent and generally does not have combat missions, he still has to fight to the death if some members of the Witches' Guild suddenly turn against him or if information is leaked.

His previous experience in the military allowed him to adapt quickly, and he also came into contact with many different kinds of people in the Witch's Guild. In fact, he was never afraid.

But now, I finally feel afraid.

It's not simply a matter of danger.

That unpredictable, elusive sense of unease, as if it might turn on you at any moment, yet also as if there's always the possibility of negotiation.

This child, whose moods are unpredictable, ironically possesses real power.

is the most terrifying.

"I...I was wrong, I'll tell you everything."

“Good, that saves us a lot of time.” The girl’s gun was still pressed against his forehead, pushing him down. “Take us to where you came from.”

"I'm from the company..."

"I told you not to fool me, I meant a complete witch."

Zhang Ling finally gave up all resistance.

……

Hyacinth looked at Ruoyun, who was coming downstairs with a gun pointed at the middle-aged man's head, and for a moment, she didn't know what to say.

She was quite looking forward to working with Ruoyun after learning about it.

After all, Ruoyun seemed to be a very cute girl, and being a junior, she thought she could take care of this magical girl.

The task Jiang Si gave us this time was to enter the remnants of the Mind Image, and the job was to find a way to get in.

Hyacinth happened to know a little about this: the witches who come to the vicinity of Anyang are basically all those who have a spot to enter the Heart Remnant.

Therefore, we need to find a way to start with the complete witch.

Of course, finding the complete witch was a very troublesome matter, and Hyacinth originally wanted to contact the Disaster Management Bureau.

Although she has been retired, she still has some connections within the Disaster Management Bureau.

She contacted the disaster relief agency for two or three days, but still got no results.

Ruoyun went out to look for it herself for two or three days.

They locked onto Zhang Qiling.

Hyacinth thought that this time it was finally her turn to make a move. Forcing the Witch's Guild to reveal information would be too cruel, so it would be better for her, as a senior, to do it.

After all, this should be a protracted battle.

You need to constantly put psychological pressure on the other person, and keep pushing them until they can't hold back anymore and give in...

Unexpectedly, Ruoyun stormed into Zhang Qiling's house, tied up all his family members with a pistol, and then waited for Zhang Qiling to return on his own.

"Wouldn't the methods be a bit too extreme?"

Hyacinth thought that doing this was no different from the witch's way.

"I really wish you could say that to my parents when the Witch's Guild chops off their heads."

Upon hearing this, Hyacinth was speechless for a moment.

How should I put it? Ruoyun has a strong Jiang Si vibe about her.

It's that kind of very straightforward, pragmatic approach...

When she said that her parents had their heads chopped off by the witches, she didn't mean to play the victim.

It's simply an explanation of its own legitimacy.

For a moment, Hyacinth felt as if she were on a mission with Jiang Si...

I don't know if she grew up like this on her own or if she was influenced by others.

Will I become like that in the future?

Unconsciously influenced, I imitated that figure, becoming decisive and sharp, subconsciously resorting to this behavior to deal with trouble...

Until the hyacinth of the obedient girl in the eyes of her parents and younger generations disappeared, becoming nothing more than that person's shadow...

Perhaps it was to deny this point, or perhaps it was to salvage his role as a senior in front of Ruoyun.

Hyacinth finally convinced Ruoyun to let her take the initiative to find out information when Zhang Qiling returned home.

Imitating a scene from the detective novel "Sherlock Lupin III vs. Jigsaw," he would turn on the TV and play a magically simulated scene the moment the criminal returned home and witnessed his wife and daughter disappear, gradually luring the criminal into his own rhythm.

The prisoner's psychological defenses finally crumbled, and he knelt down in tears to tell everything.

Then he appeared again with Ruoyun, ending with the words "GAME OVER".

This should have been a declaration of victory after the attack.

But they weren't buying it at all. If Ruoyun hadn't given them a good beating, they would have run away.

It can only be said that Jiang Si's method is indeed highly efficient.

Hyacinth was holding Zhang Ling's youngest daughter in her arms. The little girl was already asleep, which relieved Hyacinth's psychological pressure a lot.

Once Zhang Ling got into the car, she saw her daughter being held hostage by the other party's accomplices, and finally became completely obedient.

They immediately started the car and began driving out of the city.