The Infinite World of Weapon Girls

But upon hearing her gratitude, his previously somber expression finally broke into a smile, as if he had seen a glimmer of hope, prompting him to say:

"Look, even Huo says thank you, right? In that respect, he's no different from a human being... If Huo is willing to become a kind person, I can definitely persuade the training officer to cancel the mission!"

"Really?"

"real!"

Huo's heart fluttered slightly, but it was quickly suppressed by Wan Gu's negative emotions. "They all call you Xiaomi... Is your name... Xiaomi?"

"No, my name is Mistin, but if you're asking me, I'd be happier if you called me Xiaomi."

"..."

"...Hey, why aren't you saying anything?"

"We...aren't we very familiar with each other? Let's not call each other by our names."

Mistin pondered for a moment and said, "...Could the calamity come out of my body so we can speak face to face?"

Huo hesitated for a moment, and a point of black light, still indescribably evil, flew out from between Xiao Mi's eyebrows. The black light spread and turned into a hazy and light mist. Then, the mist slowly took shape and became the appearance of the soul girl from before, with a soul tail at the bottom and long black hair that looked like real hair trailing on the ground.

She has pretty features, a youthful face, and an expressionless expression. If she could slightly arch her eyebrows, even in her soul form, she would surely be captivating.

Seeing that the calamity had finally reappeared, Xiao Mi smiled broadly, stretched out her little hand to her, and asked softly, "Can I... become the calamity's friend? If we're friends, we can call each other whatever we want."

The soul girl shook her head calmly. "The existence of calamity is a mistake in itself. Even if it has friends, it will surely be killed by calamity... Therefore, calamity does not need friends."

"I'm not afraid!!"

"As long as Kyo agrees, I, Mistin, will always be Kyo's friend!!"

On his fair face, pity and sorrow first appeared, then a resolute look emerged. His gaze conveyed warmth and trust as he looked at the spirit of the calamity and said, "...My happiest moment was joining the Black Sheep Squad and getting to know the older brothers and sisters of the Red Wolf Squad, becoming friends with everyone. We faced difficulties together, shared joys, and comforted each other in times of pain..."

"Doesn't Huo also want to have friends?"

"Perhaps the curse of a long life has its own pride, but please believe me, this is absolutely not my pity... but rather, my wish!"

"Becoming Huo's first friend is not out of pity, but simply my wish after meeting the lovely Huo. And the only one who can fulfill this wish for me is Huo!"

"..."

Gazing into the boy's incredibly pure, gem-like eyes, filled with sincerity and expectation, Huo felt momentarily at a loss.

Could she, who has been causing all sorts of trouble, also help fulfill other people's wishes?

Why do I feel an even stronger desire to become friends with Xiaomi than he does?

Can I, who am named "Calamity," really be capable of this?

After a long silence, Huo gazed into his eyes and finally made a decision.

"it is good"

Huo calmly agreed, then silently buried the feeling of being overwhelmed by the extravagance and beauty deep within her heart.

Xiaomi was immediately overjoyed, her face beaming with excitement.

In the black and white world of the evil eye, his smile was like golden sunlight, dispelling endless gloom, and like raindrops nourishing the parched land, allowing the bud of the flower that had been buried in her heart to stretch and bloom.

Whether it's a million years or a thousand years, this is the first time that Huo has felt an emotion different from coldness and pain; it's warmth, and its name is—"happiness."

but……

There are many things in this world that are not as wonderful as Mistin imagines.

Having thoroughly experienced all the negative aspects of humanity, including its weaknesses, flaws, and ugliness, the calamity is completely clear to the calamity. This is a worldview that is diametrically opposed to that of Mistin, who views everything from a positive perspective.

"Hey Xiaomi, what are you doing?"

Watching Xiao Mi sit upright at the table, her back straight, she took out a piece of paper and a set of paintbrushes from the drawer, her face beaming with joy. Her gaze occasionally drifted towards Huo, and she carefully traced patterns on the paper with her paintbrushes.

"I want to draw what the disaster looks like and remember it in my heart!"

“Draw…down?” Huo was stunned, his gaze fixed on the snow-white paper.

At first, it was snow-white, but it was quickly painted with vibrant colors: long, jet-black hair that coiled several times on the ground, deep purple pupils, a slightly rosy cheek, cherry-colored lips, a jade-carved chin, and delicate collarbones peeking out from a nightgown embroidered with flowers and butterflies...

What should have been a lifelike and vivid work of art turned into something incredibly cute due to Xiaomi's cartoonish style.

It's a kind of cuteness that's completely different from normal beauty. For example, the proportions of the head and body are very disproportionate, and the small head is drawn to look cute with baby fat.

If misfortune could laugh...

They must be laughing hysterically right now.

"...This is terrible."

"Huh?"

"The drawing doesn't resemble the calamity at all; it's terrible, awful."

Xiao Mi was about to add a candy-colored house behind the figure in the painting when she heard Huo's words. She stopped writing, lowered her head, and looked ashamed and a little aggrieved.

Even if her drawing skills weren't great, everyone, including her teachers, would have always been lenient with younger kids like Xiaomi. No matter what, they wouldn't have made such an extreme comment.

Xiaomi had always had a high opinion of itself, but when it was suddenly criticized, it was completely at a loss.

"I will not allow such a defamatory painting to remain; I will destroy it..."

As he spoke indifferently, the spirit of the calamity floated forward, its misty hand picking up the painting, and then... secretly placing it into its own world as if it were a precious treasure.

In reality, it's like disappearing into thin air.

How could anyone not like misfortune?

She never imagined that even if she transformed into a human form, she would only be a pale black figure, and one day she would be as colorful and beautiful as the self in Xiaomi's painting.

I like it so much that I have to hide it.

Huo said, "Your drawing is so ugly, you shouldn't draw anymore."

Xiaomi clearly hadn't expected her new friend Huo to be so dismissive, but she was indignant and retorted, "If you're not good at drawing, just practice! No one is born a genius. As long as you persevere, you will definitely gain recognition."

The culprit was to subtly amplify Xiaomi's inferiority complex, but it had no effect whatsoever, leaving him astonished.

However, it is not believed that Xiaomi is truly without any weaknesses. Although its power can only be released when the other party has negative intentions, theoretically, it can be effective as long as a breakthrough is found.

"Does Xiaomi have any regrets?"

"Hmm... probably not."

"Xiaomi already knows about my past, and... also wants to know about Xiaomi's past."

Xiaomi scratched her head. "...My past...do you really want to hear about it?"

“Yes,” the soul girl said calmly. “I’d like to start from when Xiaomi was born. I want to know more about Xiaomi.”

This was quite a challenge from birth, but Xiaomi still tried her best to recall and began to slowly recount her life, telling her story without any concealment, starting from the Sealer plane.

A world overrun by dimensional beasts.

A German prodigy.

Those who meet the criteria can undergo a special surgery to transfer superpowers.

Ordered by Union headquarters, I flew to South Korea to become a member of the special underage Black Sheep Squad.

Later, after experiencing many plot developments, he was shocked to discover that the enormous superpower injected into his body was actually extracted from Black Sheep J's superpower!

J was once a man whose strength could rival that of the Red Wolf Squad's training officer!

Although Uncle J said it didn't matter and advised Xiaomi not to take it to heart, it was indeed the thing that Xiaomi felt most guilty about.

The recollection was interrupted by disaster at this point.

"So, the power that Xiaomi possesses now is not entirely due to talent and hard work. Xiaomi... stole what originally belonged to others. Xiaomi... is a thief."

Xiao Mi was completely unaware that he had been affected by the power of misfortune, sliding step by step into the abyss of guilt. He lowered his head and said, "...I...I didn't know at the time."

"Xiaomi... is a bad kid."

Xiaomi stared at the calamity with a dark and incredulous look, as if the devil were whispering.

"Xiaomi took away J's superpowers, but did Xiaomi ever think about J? Having lost his powers, he may seem nice to Xiaomi on the surface, but he must hate her deep down, right? And Xiaomi, to cover up his guilt, is probably comforting himself with excuses like 'What's done is done, there's no going back,' right?"

"No...I didn't...Don't say it! I...I didn't..."

"What's done is done, and you can't go back. So, it's only natural that I can inherit J's superpowers," that's what Xiaomi thought, right? ...After that, Xiaomi became a heartthrob, while J, who once stood at the pinnacle, could only hide in a corner selling medicine. Why did things turn out this way?

"...Huo...please stop talking, Huo...I know I was wrong, sob sob, I know I was wrong..."

Xiao Mi's pale face was almost contorted, and she clutched her head tightly with both hands, shaking it desperately.

It is indeed exceptionally talented in its ability to lure people into the abyss.

"Trouble... If you could be easily swayed by Xiaomi's gentleness, then it wouldn't be a trouble. Trouble is all a lie... Whether it's becoming friends or wanting to understand you better, it's all a lie, all for the sake of now."

Huo looked at Mistin, who was clutching her head and pleading in anguish, and at Mistin, who was once a lovely and kind flower of hope blooming in his cold and dark world, now in this state because of his words. Huo's expression remained calm and indifferent.

It was as if it had nothing to do with me at all.

Finally, she stretched out a small hand formed from faint black energy and carefully touched Xiao Mi's forehead.

"Xiaomi, hate me... hate me like everyone else..."

Looking at the boy whose cheeks were buried deep in his hands, the demon murmured, "Forced disconnection (interference)."

A massive force acting on the Accelerated World forced Xiaomi to log out of it, and then her figure disappeared from the Accelerated World.

As Huo turned around, a tear, as gleaming as obsidian, inadvertently slid down his cheek.

The calamity was the girl's body that he had imagined, which only he had seen... and only for him to see. If Xiao Mi was not there, then there was no point in maintaining this appearance.

The calamity, which had transformed back into a black mist, gradually dissipated from its original location and entered the infinite neutral space once more.

Because it possesses consciousness, it can traverse infinite neutral space and enter the world of overclocking acceleration.

Because of its power as a global public enemy, it is easy for it to even interfere with people logging out of Brain Burst.

Such a powerful calamity, yet it plans to seek its own death because it truly wants to protect someone…

The endless, eternal suffering had long led Huo to contemplate suicide as a way to escape his torment.

Xiaomi, though, was merely a catalyst.

But because of Xiaomi, if Huo Zhen were to die coldly and indifferently like a puppet, then... a happy smile would surely appear on his face.