Chapter 1766: Chapter 1188: Science and Magic (The Robin Has Reached Her Full Potential)
Duanmu Huai didn’t set up a 24-hour surveillance like Homura Akemi did; he had a simpler thod. He directly summoned a summoning and let it keep an eye on Miki Sayaka. If she made any special moves, it would imdiately notify him. Isn’t this much more convenient than Homura Akemi’s perverted voyeurism?
As for Duanmu Huai himself… most of his ti was spent dealing with Ann’s boring question of “why did it beco like this”.
Hmm, it’s really boring.
But Ann, on the other hand, seed to enjoy it thoroughly… in hindsight, he shouldn’t have let her co.
However, aside from that, Ann was quite serious about her main work.
“Mm, this should be almost fine.”
Standing at the top of a building, Ann looked at the magic circle she had drawn and nodded in satisfaction.
“Are you sure there’s no problem?”
“Of course, as long as that QB dares to make a move, I can analyze the strength it uses through these arrays. Theoretically, it should be possible to figure out what thod it’s using to achieve this process.”
“Theoretically, huh. Honestly, every ti I hear that kind of statent, I feel sothing will definitely go wrong.”
Duanmu Huai silently sighed and couldn’t help but remark. Then he looked towards the skyline in front of him — it was already dusk, and the crimson sunset stained the sky like a sar of blood.
“…Hmm?”
“What’s wrong, Mr. Knight?”
“The target has appeared.”
Duanmu Huai squinted his eyes, then reached for his phone.
“Prepare for action.”
anwhile, in front of a flower bed on the top floor of the hospital building, a girl was nervously standing there, staring at the QB in front of her. She was none other than Miki Sayaka.
“Really, any wish can co true, right?”
Clenching her fists tightly, Miki Sayaka looked uneasily at QB. She had been with Madoka and this strange creature for quite so ti. In fact, Miki Sayaka had been pondering whether to sign a contract with QB to beco a magic girl. She had been hesitant, but today, Miki Sayaka encountered sothing.
In the hospital ward, she witnessed her childhood sweetheart, Kamijo Kyosuke, whom she secretly loved, in a state of misery. It wasn’t just because of pain; it was more about the agony of being unable to play the violin again due to his injury.
Seeing her beloved in such pain, Miki Sayaka finally made up her mind and decided.
No matter if she had to fight witches, no matter if she faced danger, as long as Kamijo Kyosuke could recover and play the violin like before, everything she sacrificed would be worth it!
Having made her decision, Miki Sayaka ca to the hospital rooftop. And when she opened the rooftop door, QB seed to have known she would appear, waiting there.
“There’s no problem, your wish can definitely be fulfilled.”
“……….”
“So, no problem, right?”
“Yes, let’s do it!”
Upon hearing QB’s inquiry, Miki Sayaka took a deep breath and clasped her hands in front of her chest.
“Then, Miki Sayaka, what is your wish?”
“My wish is… I hope Kamijo Kyosuke’s injury can completely heal, and I want him to be able to play the violin like before!”
“I received your wish.”
With Miki Sayaka’s answer, QB’s ears, hanging by its sides, suddenly extended and then reached into Miki Sayaka’s chest. The next mont, Miki Sayaka showed a painful expression, and at the sa ti, a blue glowing, gem-like presence slowly erged from her chest.
“Accept it… this is your destiny…!”
However, before QB could finish speaking, a sudden change occurred.
“—————————!”
With a dazzling flash, a huge magic circle appeared above the two, spinning ceaselessly to envelop them.
“Eh? That’s…”
Seeing the suddenly appearing magic circle, QB was stunned for a mont, and Miki Sayaka also instinctively shifted her gaze.
At the next mont, two grenades suddenly appeared out of thin air, landing at the feet of QB and Miki Sayaka, and then exploded instantly.
Without any sound, in the blink of an eye, whether it was QB or Miki Sayaka, they seed to turn into statues, frozen in place. At the sa ti, Duanmu Huai, Ann, and Homura Akemi also appeared, descending from the sky and landing in front of the two.
“I really didn’t expect it to be even simpler than imagined.”
Looking at the two “statues” in front of him, Duanmu Huai sneered. Capturing QB wasn’t actually a difficult task; in fact, it was rather simple. And the reason he managed to capture both of them in one go was thanks to the special weapon he possessed as a Judge—Stasis Grenade.
To put it bluntly, it’s actually a weapon that can slow down or even stop the flow of ti within a certain range. Of course, even in the ga, this thing isn’t cheap, but for a player who is a Judge, it’s essentially a necessity. The reason is simple: Many of the Judge’s missions require capturing targets, but not every player has the ability to weaken the opponent to a critical state before capturing them.
By comparison, simply throwing a Stasis Grenade or Stasis Grenade to stop the opponent’s ti, and then loading them into a Stasis Field is the most convenient thod.
So even though this thing is expensive, players will find a way to get it. After all, if the mission succeeds, they can break even, but if it unfortunately fails, they will lose both their money and resources, leaving them with nothing.
As for why Duanmu Huai didn’t stop Miki Sayaka from signing the contract, the reason was simple. Only when the contract is signed and the magic is activated, can Ann analyze and reverse engineer its entire principle and process. So the best approach is to let the other party sign the contract while secretly observing, similar to observing a lion hunting in the wild—regardless of whether the lion catches a rabbit or a zebra, it doesn’t matter to the observer. They only need to watch how the lion hunts and distributes food and then analyze the characteristics of the pride’s activities from there.
And Miki Sayaka was the prey to be observed in this case.
Homura Akemi had no objections to this, too. After all, if it were Madoka Kana, she would surely oppose, but Miki Sayaka—Homura Akemi truly didn’t care, wasn’t concerned, and let her et her fate.
It shows just how poor the relationship between these two really is.
So basically, Duanmu Huai, together with Ann and Homura Akemi, witnessed the entire process of QB signing the contract. Then, after the contract was completed and Miki Sayaka beca a Magic Girl, Homura Akemi used a ti stop and fired the Stasis Grenade, given by Duanmu Huai, at the two targets, successfully capturing them.
“Ann, how’s it going? Is the data ready?”
“Yes, it’s done, but there’s sothing strange about it… I’ll need to analyze it when we get back.”
“That’s good.”
Hearing Ann’s reply, Duanmu Huai nodded in satisfaction, then he took the Stasis Field out of his inventory and put both Miki Sayaka and QB inside, closing it shut.
“Alright, mission complete, let’s get out of here.”
After that, Duanmu Huai and the others returned to Homura Akemi’s apartnt, and Ann, being the magic genius he was, confird the entire process of the Magic Girl system through the recorded data.
“…Causality?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Seeing Duanmu Huai’s puzzled expression, Ann nodded, then began to explain.
“Honestly, even though it’s hard for to believe, that’s the truth.”
“Frankly, it’s really hard to believe.”
At this point, Duanmu Huai couldn’t help but shake his head. While he indeed trusted Ann, the conclusion Ann provided this ti was still too unbelievable for him.
According to Ann, QB’s wish-fulfillnt system works like this: The person nad Miki Sayaka will have a major transformation in her future destiny, thereby impacting the world. QB’s wish fulfillnt system more or less brings the future into the present, skipping processes to give the result in another way.
How should I put it? It sounds a bit like a loan, like if you plan to buy a car worth 100,000 but with your current salary, you’d need to save for ten years. So you take a loan to buy a car and slowly pay it off afterwards…
Except that at least a loan has an eventual payoff, whereas being bound to QB is tantamount to dedicating your entire life.
“Using future causality to affect current world lines? Generally, even demons can’t do that.”
Now, Duanmu Huai had beco much more serious. Not only couldn’t demons do such a thing, but even Indigenous Gods couldn’t do it. At the very least, it would have to be a galactic level entity, and one specializing in this field—Duanmu Huai himself didn’t have this ability. With his Divine Position, destroying a fixed future would be no problem, but asking Duanmu Huai to do sothing like this was beyond him.
It had to be soone like Ann, who was a complete master of almost the entire domain of magic. If it were Lani or Alice, they’d probably be just as puzzled—in this respect, it’s fortunate Ann was the one who ca.
“Uh…”
However, facing Duanmu Huai’s question, Ann showed a complicated expression.
“Demon…? Honestly, I feel this QB isn’t the sa type of existence as us.”
“What do you an?”
“I just investigated QB, and it turns out it isn’t so lifeform but rather a projection from a higher dinsion—scientifically speaking, it’s called…? A high-dinsional space information projection? I think that’s the term they use? In any case… I reckon this falls within Miss Lumiere’s range.”
“…So you’re saying this thing isn’t even a demon, nor is it magic?”
“That’s correct…”
“Unbelievable.”
Hearing Ann’s answer, Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes silently; it got itself mixed up with Magic Girls, and now you’re telling it’s from the science departnt?
Is there such a science?
No choice, it seems we’ll have to let Miss Lumiere take a look…
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