Regarding the fact that my best friend is a magical girl

They were able to detect it from this far away; it had already multiplied to an out-of-control level.

A corner of a city park without gates or walls.

At night, after dinner, many parents bring their children to play in the children's playground, completely unaware of the approaching danger.

It was a humanoid figure wearing an oversized trench coat out of season and with a noticeably distorted body.

Negative emotions nourish dark energy, turning the host into a complete monster, at which point it becomes difficult to recognize what this staggering person was originally like.

The wand flashed, and even before we landed, the solidified bubble wrap immediately restricted the monster's movements, preventing him from getting any closer to the crowd.

"Ow!"

however……

The strange creature's ever-expanding body easily ruptured my bubble wrap.

Chapter Forty-Two: The Golden Concubine

(Sun Yao)

The strange man's roar startled the park's residents. Most of them grabbed their children and scattered in all directions. The rest of the park didn't refuse to run, but... they couldn't escape.

Perhaps the amusement park staff called the police, because the detection airship in area D3 quickly dropped a holographic beacon marking the location of the monster.

But in amusement parks, there are always some rides where you can't escape immediately, like... Ferris wheels.

"Ow!"

The monster's trench coat had been completely torn to shreds by his bloated body. He looked like an overweight pig, with layers of swollen fat piled up irregularly. Even without getting close, one could smell a stench in his mind... This guy, you can't even tell what kind of mimicry factor he is. As a monster, he has failed to evolve, right?

"Falcon, put me down!"

At a height of nearly ten meters above the ground, Falcon released his grip.

Even though it was only ten meters, I didn't intend to freefall. I put on a protective film, used the bubble platform in the air to quickly leap closer, and then used the solidified bubble film again to restrict the monster's steps.

"Falcon! Move!"

Bang bang bang bang—bang—

The revolver emptied its magazine in a five-round burst. Although the shot was fired from behind me, all the bullets bypassed my body and went straight for the deformed creature that seemed to be oozing pus, splattering a ring of blood... um, oil on its surface?

"No! I can't break through his skin!"

I can see that.

Falcon's bullet failed to penetrate the thick layer of fat.

But fat is oil, which seems easy to burn, right?

"Go find Yang Yan, I'll hold him off here for now."

Having understood what I meant, Falcon flew away from the park, trailing a long, shimmering braid.

"Okay, be careful!"

The risk is minimal; the monsters transformed from humans are weaker than those emerging from wormholes...

hum-

"Huh, really?"

The long-lost blue wormhole appeared above this small city park, and the wormhole alarm sounded in the d3 area, which also made my scalp tingle.

Is it an empty wormhole that leaks out dark energy?

Or should we deploy some support forces to deal with me?

The situation is a bit tricky, but this is D3 area, Miss Miluno will come, right?

Although this deformed, greasy figure was ugly, its actions were quite purposeful... It targeted the children who were still on the Ferris wheel and rushed towards it like a wild boar, ignoring me.

"How could I possibly let you succeed!"

I summoned bubbles at the bottom of the park's pond, filled them with water, grabbed them, and rushed towards the strange man, pinning them to his head like a helmet.

The drowning killer, who used the same trick again, may look the same, but he is ultimately just a strange creature with a bizarre biological structure.

Glug-glug-glug

Bubbles appeared in the water, but he didn't show any signs of drowning. He just kept running with the water balloon helmet on, so I had to use the solidified bubble wrap again to stop him...

My latest defensive technique is a solidified bubble, which is like tempered glass. It can withstand most monsters' continuous attacks, and even block the water gun of the Mermaid Witch. But it can't stop this monster's actions. Every step it takes forward can tear apart the bubble wrap I put on, and it doesn't even have time to expand.

Perhaps because of his deformity, this strange man had no other special abilities, except that he was thick-skinned and strong as an ox.

Other strange people and witches, when they see me, act like monsters seeing Tang Sanzang, wishing they could pounce on me and devour my flesh.

This freakish man completely ignored me, focusing solely on running towards the Ferris wheel...

"Ow!"

There was no one in front of the strange man, and the Ferris wheel staff who had originally wanted to save him had abandoned their duties and fled for their lives.

If a direct confrontation doesn't work, then we'll try a softer approach.

A bubble-shaped passage was built through the only road leading to the Ferris wheel. The bubble itself cannot be touched by the strange man, and he can enter and exit freely as if it were nothing. However, there is no gravity inside the bubble, just like a space station in space. If you lightly step on it, you will float up and never be able to step on it again. Even if you do step on it, you will float up again.

But it can still twist its short, thick limbs and use inertia to crawl towards the Ferris wheel, only much slower...

"call--"

Anyway, I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This weirdo is not only deformed, but his IQ is also as high as a cockroach's, which saves me some trouble. Even if he's about to break through, I can just send him back to the starting point of the zero-gravity bubble tunnel through a teleportation portal...

Although doing this consumes some magic power.

Next, all that's left is for Falcon to take over Kagerou, and then burn this large flammable mass to ashes.

No, it's a monster that humans have turned into. Spica seems to be saying that they want to capture it alive.

But how can I control him?

It would be difficult to knock him unconscious. This deformed guy was so obese that you couldn't even see where his neck was, and he was incredibly strong. Even in zero gravity, he could slowly crawl forward by twisting his body.

In short, the first priority is to rescue the children from the Ferris wheel...

hum-

Wow, it's here already?!

No dark energy emerged from the wormhole, but specks of light fell from the sky. Were they strange people? Or witches?

gold.

A blindingly bright gold.

Slowly descending from the wormhole was something radiating golden light...

wrong.

That intense dark energy was undoubtedly from a witch!

"Ok?"

She was dressed in a deep robe that seemed to be woven with gold threads, and wore a huge hair ornament that looked like blooming flowers. She was a few centimeters shorter than me and had an arrogant look on her face.

His identity is self-evident.

Golden Witch, Golden Consort, Aldebaran.

There are many titles that can be used to describe her. Last week's decisive arrow caused heavy losses to the association (although in the end, the financial losses were not significant), and these cannot be made public. She had no choice but to swallow her pride.

"..."

She had no intention of communicating; she simply raised her golden bow and fired an arrow.

"...Huh?!"

I don't know the nature of that arrow.

Is that concentrated energy?

Or is it real gold?

I momentarily doubted whether my bubble wrap could withstand the attack, which directly led to the golden arrow easily piercing my arm.

"Hiss..."

The excruciating pain spread from the wound, and I couldn't help but let out a wail.

"Vega~ My magic is to turn inorganic matter into gold."

I collapsed from the intense pain.

The petite witch pulled the arrow out for me—roughly.

"Waaaaaaah!!!"

The unbearable pain made me scream desperately.

In addition to flesh and blood, the arrowhead tip also had gold spreading out like blood vessels.

“Vega, did you know? Water is also an inorganic substance. In other words… I can easily kill even people, animals, and plants.”

She placed her hand on my arm and pulled out the remaining gold.

Then, it was casually tossed at my feet.

"……what you up to?"

"It's quite amusing to see you cry like that. You should feel lucky. Although the other witches all advocate taking your life or taking your crystal, my opinion is not entirely the same as theirs."

She lifted my chin.

"Compared to that gloomy guy from the first generation, I'm more interested in your magic. Magic that can stabilize wormholes—no one else understands its value."

Four writhing golden thorns crawled out from behind her... and wrapped around my limbs.

"So, become a witch, Vega."

Chapter Forty-Three: True Gold Fears No Fire