Jin Changfeng was indeed troubled by why the fairy remnant shell's energy was becoming increasingly abnormal.
Actually, during this period his primary focus had been on managing other fields. The waters in infection treatnt were too deep, involving nurous interests, and each held military power—those violent groups didn't care about benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, or trust. Better to withdraw early. His company should wisely protect itself and find other paths. This field could be left to Five-Color Narcissus Company, which had both strong technology and hard fists.
So he sought out Hibiscus and Jin Ruochu both to reveal his trump card and hope that Magical Girl professionals would handle professional matters—everyone taking what they needed.
Honestly, Jin Changfeng still opposed his daughter participating in so many dangerous missions with Salvation Church, but he'd made peace with it.
Where in the world was still safe?
By comparison, the strongest Hyacinth was sowhat reliable. Might as well proactively confess and offer sothing good, counting as one benefit exchange. Thinking this, he saw Hibiscus's scanning gaze, and the two smiled knowingly.
"...Can't make judgnts based on current information alone. Would it be convenient to provide research materials? There should be clues."
Jin Changfeng pointed to the laboratory safe: "Jin Ruochu, you go get it. Those are your mother's manuscript records from back then. Must be carefully preserved..."
"There's such a thing? From now on it'll be my bedside treasure."
Bang!
The girl transford fully and hamred the safe hard, her violent action making him hold his forehead and sigh.
Fortune and Misfortune magic quickly operated—a series of perfectly tid screw loosening, gear misalignnt, and password errors actually made the super safe open its door by itself. Inside were countless research materials, each worth its weight in gold as business intelligence. But Jin Ruochu imdiately took a fancy to one yellowed research notebook that indeed matched her mother's handwriting.
"I ant for you to listen to input the password to open it."
"Actually, you never tell about accounts related to money. Password? Never even heard of it." Amid complaints, the girl opened the notebook murmuring: "Very detailed records, much more serious than ."
She gripped the research materials and sighed deeply, reminiscing about the past with Jin Changfeng. Without a lubricant role, the two inevitably argued when talking.
Hibiscus watched this family drama with her chin in her hand, unsure whether to interrupt or observe.
Jin Changfeng continued: "Also, the fusion modification surgery perford on you earlier was thanks to using remnant shell energy based on notebook descriptions to reduce aftereffects. I'm telling you now—in so sense, it also mixed in a wisp of fairy magical power."
"You added this inexplicable stuff without telling ? Really a mad scientist!"
"Wasn't it because your magical power control was too poor?"
No matter what topic they started with, it would lead to mutual criticism, eventually escalating to argunts over ti. As an outsider seeing clearly, Hibiscus suffered greatly.
Really complicated. Too bad my family scattered long ago—can't relate at all.
She turned to observe the fairy remnant shell. Indeed, that strange contaminating magical power still existed and was gradually intensifying.
Worthy of being the undisputed protagonist of the original storyline—look at this configuration: complex background, orphaned since childhood, fused with multiple powers... Opportunities weren't rare for Magical Girl Manjusaka. Of course, it could also be explained as Fortune and Misfortune's karmic retribution result—paying costs upfront for everything later. Perhaps she'd already noticed this point, so she dealt with magic with a slightly manic attitude. Uninford bystanders just thought her simple and strange.
Pitiful yet adorable.
Dark-toned worldview protagonists didn't have it easy, with another layer of "causality system buff" destined for lifelong troubles and twists.
According to netizens, truly grown-up causality magic users in the main story were few and far between. Even when finally standing alone, they were sowhat afflicted with serious problems, eventually having to pay the bill.
But now Jin Ruochu had Hibiscus around—she would never allow tragedy.
"Deal with your matters later. I must warn you: the remnant shell has problems. Are there other Disaster Beast samples preserved in the lab? Be careful."
Before finishing, the fairy phantom in the jar released ripple after ripple of magical power, spreading in all directions.
A Growth Stage Magical Girl's full transformation made surrounding magical power increasingly active, also causing the fairy remnant shell to emit dark, profound aura—vastly different from those pure, bright figures in World Tree Realm. Even Hibiscus felt her scalp tingle.
Her understanding of fairy town was too limited. Perhaps there had been so changes all along. Now it finally revealed its face and bared its fangs.
"...People who contacted remnant shell energy for long periods develop certain resistance to infections. Similarly, it can make Disaster Beast remains samples more active to support experints, saving much procurent funding. I saved a large sum this way." Cold sweat on Jin Ruochu's back. "But the price might be coming."
"Be careful."
Jin Ruochu dove to push her father away. Almost simultaneously, the wall behind her shattered—a Disaster Beast remains actually crawled over and extended claws, cold light flashing.
The next mont, silk threads swept past, cutting this zombie body into pieces.
The two couldn't help looking at the silver-haired girl who'd just acted, as that magnificent magical power proclaid incomparable presence.
The hourglass hair ornant bound her waist-length hair neatly, half-red jacket cape fluttering, golden sash gleaming. Black military-style uniform appeared cool and dashing, short skirt pleats exquisite as artwork. White over-knee socks tightly hugged tender skin, accentuating curves. Thick leather boots stepped amid rolling oppressive aura that made further approaching Disaster Beast remains prostrate motionless.
Hyacinth full transformation.
The sweeping magical power was stern yet didn't oppress, instead making the Jin father and daughter feel refreshed.
As her life level increased, Hibiscus controlled her oppressive aura more freely, no longer always stirring celestial phenona lest others not know where she was. Her control had long reached perfection.
Jin Changfeng was left conflicted. Regardless, everyone's paths were diverging. In his lifeti, the world faced such changes with loved ones swept in—blessing or curse? Or perhaps everyone was already involved.
"You two stay back."
re Disaster Beast dregs naturally didn't warrant full-status response, but sohow the fairy remnant shell before her gave a strong threatening feeling.
Prepare for rainy days—if you have power and ill intentions, I'll have to make you die again.
Developnt proceeded as expected. The next mont, the fairy remnant shell phantom actually shattered the glass tube thunderously, magical power mixed with shrieks becoming blood-red so thick it couldn't dissolve—just like a forr Catastrophe Disaster Beasts.
"Is there a possibility: we were wrong? She's not so hero but inviting wolves into the house."
Hibiscus seed to mutter but was actually concluding. After all, World Tree Realm was strictly speaking in civil war state, divided into two factions—dark elves loved war and slaughter.
Then the fairy remnant shell slowly raised her hand, runes flowing to construct totems. This move wasn't unfamiliar to Magical Girls—bombardnt technique. But the complexity, magical power quantity, and instant-cast efficiency were incredible. In an instant, torrents tore through underground laboratory bunkers, vowing to destroy the entire building complex.
"Leap forth."
Almost simultaneously, a silk thread cut through ti's concept, all attack consequences treated as within ti leap range, deleting lethal influences.
Hibiscus's reaction was superior, so she launched skills first to avoid the worst outco.
After a snap, all was silent—nothing happened.
Ti Slash's large-range action on conceptual attacks, leaping to delete certain processes, inevitably caused massive consumption. During this period, magic couldn't activate—basically equivalent to cooldown.
Understanding this, Jin Ruochu and Hibiscus tactfully switched positions.
Protected Jin Changfeng was dumbfounded throughout. Experiencing top Magical Girl combat at zero distance for the first ti, he simply couldn't process the information. Just now his vision seed filled with silver sand that drowned the torrent, then attacks were dissolved light as a feather—gentle breeze, not a hair hard.
Strongest magic, Sands of Ti.
The world-renowned power of Hyacinth displayed before him, unfathomably deep fairy remnant shell covered by another exaggerated force.
Now it seed various companies' fusion warriors were too outdated, increasingly insufficient—unless the newly appointed Chief of Staff Bull promoted new technology...
The magical power sword carrying calamity shot from the pink-haired girl's hand, penetrating the fairy remnant shell's magical shield unstoppably. Powerful curses flowed through air, water, sound, and all dia, converging on the target.
Crack!
The dark fairy phantom showed fissures, even emitting shrieks as countless vessels shattered into fragnts.
It seed very sensitive to Magical Girl aura. Twisted, rampaging magical power represented its anger, wishing to tear everything apart. Destructive desire undisguised, rushing straight at Hibiscus and Jin Ruochu. If facing ordinary Magical Girls, they'd probably be intimidated into inaction, but Growth Stage powerhouses who'd seen mountains of corpses and seas of blood didn't fall for this—just fighting a sowhat special enemy.
After roaring, the fairy phantom's aura rapidly dropped, revealing flaws. After all, it was broken energy that couldn't even be called a corpse—must escape quickly.
"Pure magical beings can conveniently penetrate realm boundaries. Must stop it imdiately."
Noticing this, Hibiscus warned.
Sands of Ti magic's cooldown ended. Almost imdiately, surging magical power around her condensed new attacks, ready to strike.
Ti magic was often powerful but costly with cooldowns—stronger skills harder to fire continuously. But for her, weaknesses beca increasingly negligible. As long as you're versatile enough, environntal limitations don't exist.
Hibiscus kicked off, raising a circle of origin-condensed force that scattered the fairy remnant shell's energy, then casually swung out a mirror fragnt without aiming.
Originally prepared to take a hit, it was slightly stunned—what accuracy? Ridiculous.
Whoosh!
Suddenly wind blew in the sealed space, making the remnant shell lean sideways just right to expose the other end of its magical shield. Temporal Cross-Section swept past, splitting the target in half from the waist without suspense.
The remnant shell, barely a ter tall, imdiately beca two pieces falling to the ground. Even now it hadn't realized what strange event occurred.
Victory decided. Temporal Cross-Section completely blocked magical flow—even real fairies probably couldn't withstand it. Seeing this, Hibiscus felt overly cautious. Actually, directly cutting would work the sa. Of course, two magics cooperating was more economical. That instant, Jin Ruochu provided bad luck making enemies guaranteed hits plus calamity curses, easily defeating targets. With frequent daily training, they could produce combination techniques anyti, anywhere—one plus one doubled effects.
Witnessing the silver-haired and pink-haired girls' elbow bump celebration, Jin Changfeng sighed and sat limply on the ground, even more powerless. Heart-tired.
Hibiscus was about to help him up but was refused.
"I can stand up myself." Finishing, the man dusted himself off and made ergency calls. After hanging up: "I told everyone to stay calm and block news. Today's lab accident will beco another secret or urban legend."
"Also, another matter—many new infection symptoms appeared in Ningfeng Harbor. It finally spread here. If developnt isn't quick, consequences will be unthinkable."
The three felt tense, understanding such transmission speed was quite exaggerated. Further delays would be disastrous.
They looked toward where the remnant shell fell but found only a handful of erald ash—pure magical beings ultimately returning dust to dust.
Storm subsided.
But more questions remained without leads.
Hibiscus bent down, using her right index finger to dab so ash, murmuring: "Healing curses flow more smoothly. Using it as a dicine catalyst was indeed correct, but you've always lacked corresponding activation thods. With Church technology, it should support next-generation new dicine developnt, and quickly."
Fortunate in misfortune. Though her mind was full of complex thoughts, good news was good. Especially Jin Changfeng wiping forehead sweat—finally helped, not wasted effort.
"Speaking of which, according to Lady Hyacinth, those magical fairies also have evil sides, even suspected of summoning catastrophes?"
"Just speculation. I don't recomnd further investigation."
"Fair enough. You're professionals—I trust the Salvation Church. Anyone witnessing Magical Girl power firsthand develops miraculous thoughts, right?" Jin Changfeng took a deep breath. "Will you also beco pure magical beings in the future, maintaining that form even in death..."
"No problem."
The pink-haired girl who answered first smiled comfortingly: "I'm very open-minded. Doesn't matter how I die. Even if soone uses my ashes as cent, it's fine."
"Jin Ruochu, every ti I try to give you more respect as a father, you open your mouth to speak."
Actually, everyone knew Jin Changfeng worried Magical Girls were transforming into another life form. They themselves knew this was true, and explaining was complex. Might as well joke around—nothing worth deep investigation. Regardless, they'd already walked this path. Only moving forward boldly remained. Retreat or wavering weren't allowed, just like dark fairies whose obsessions couldn't be stripped even by death.
Its excessive reaction to Magical Girl aura was intriguing but uninvestigable. Priority was developing new infection dicine.
Roar!
Suddenly a low roar interrupted the three's thoughts. Influenced by fairy remnant shell awakening, so Disaster Beast remains still crawled out with incomplete bodies, emanating super-high concentration contamination.
"Wait, don't you think it's very similar to Fallen Zone aura?" Jin Ruochu hit the nail on the head—dark fairies connected to new infections.
Admittedly, Disaster Beasts killing and devouring each other played key roles, but other seasonings weren't ruled out.
"Mr. Jin, I suggest imdiately sealing the park and evacuating personnel. The reason can be infection prevention and related research. We'll also cooperate with cognitive processing. We must act quickly—research new dicine while clearing out these guys." Hibiscus said seriously.
All three agreed.
The urgent situation couldn't tolerate hesitation—decisive action required.
The difficulty wasn't eliminating these small fry but not knowing how many unstable factors remained hidden. Mobilizing Salvation Church was relatively safer—counting as training.
"Also, I'll publicly announce Changfeng Group and your company jointly cooperating to develop new specific dicine, using this to silence dia. We'll withdraw from specific dicine business this way, avoiding further trouble."
Jin Changfeng lit a cigarette. Actually, he was very disciplined and rarely used indulgences, but today felt stuffy inside.
Smoke surrounded the middle-aged man's face, adding lancholy. His gaze fixed on the flickering laboratory after devastation, slightly lost in thought.
"What do you think of this decision?"
"Retiring at the peak is business wisdom. You have good vision and probably guess future military-specific dicine landscape will change dramatically."
Rather than answering, Hibiscus was previewing her own plans. Since becoming a true military-industrial complex mber, other sheep-in-wolf's-clothing specific dicines should disappear. If those guys wouldn't gracefully exit competition, she'd give them grace.
Great minds think alike. In the sa position, Jin Changfeng would also kick opponents out, so he asked to confirm the future monopolist's attitude.
Both exchanged glances and nodded—leave it to you, I'm at ease.
"Hey, why do you two always seem so in sync without listening to my opinion?" The pink-haired girl held her notebook. "Mother was also doctor-born hoping to save more lives. These ideals established the group. Now forget business crises or funding chain breaks—clearly smooth sailing, why run away? Are you old and tired?"
"Goading won't work on . Besides, we're only withdrawing from specific dicine fields while maintaining other aspects."
"Can we manage without the largest inco source?"
"Saying that—haven't I discussed with you how much the fairy remnant shell should be valued at?"
Jin Changfeng laughed heartily, still the confident big businessman. Now it was ti to formally discuss prices—after all, such treasures were more expensive than ordinary relics.
He chose the buyer who best understood collectible values while being most sentintal with him—thoroughly deliberate, highest-level bamboo shaking.
Hearing this, Jin Ruochu was stunned then understood the connections, imdiately looking toward her boss. Strictly speaking, she was a senior executive and shareholder, but real decision authority belonged to the Chairwoman.
This wasn't about emotions—organizations needed clear authority and responsibility. When procedures were needed, follow procedures. Otherwise, neither surface company nor inner Church could develop.
"Should we acquire it?"
Hibiscus said frankly: "Honestly, I can't evaluate fairy remnant shell value. Let's use original shares for exchange."
"Deal. So I'm aboard too. Anyway, please take care of each other from now on, Chairman Mu and Manager Jin. I'm certain the Five-Color Narcissus business will reach new heights, and you're among the few enterprises with truly safe assets in modern tis... Of course, I an you have power to protect industrial assets, not those terrible financial assets full of holes."
Jin Changfeng appeared triumphant but everything was planned. Communicating with smart people saved effort—both sides were satisfied after exchanges, everyone getting what they needed, cooperating happily.
"Dad, your awkward style is really roundabout."
"Right, never learn this from , or you'll probably stumble later."
If he directly asked for shares to join Five-Color Narcissus interest consortium, both daughter and Boss Mu would welco him with open arms, but dignity wouldn't allow it. Conveniently having two things to hand over, might as well go with the flow.
Really troubleso.
After all this, Jin Changfeng wanted to slap himself, also losing lab and nurous materials, but felt good.
He took a deep drag, finishing the cigarette, then crushed the butt between index finger and thumb, shrugging: "What? Want to personally see you out? You two go back where you ca from. Just send share transfer docunts later."
Sensing Jin Changfeng needed solitude, the two left the experintal park.
Unknowingly, they'd spent the entire night. When entering, it was clear skies with galaxy spanning overhead. Now eastern dawn appeared—Ningfeng Harbor would welco the sunrise.
Jin Ruochu held the notebook, letting sea breeze flip pages until stopping at a cross-page painting—similarly an ocean sunrise scene.
"After the Crimson Tsunami subsided, mother was stationed long-term in South Africa for research. This is the Cape of Good Hope scenery."
"I never told you—doctors said my special constitution might relate to my mother's infection there. Though she returned ho for long pregnancy care, effects aren't ruled out. So I don't fundantally reject magic—it's a gift. I carry my mother's inheritance and encountered you, Hyacinth. I beca strong through this—I'm the world's first causality magic user."
She faced the sea wind, long hair dancing, back to spring light with a bright smile.
Very beautiful.
Truly beautiful Magical Girls making Hibiscus feel pretty were definitely those most accepting their own power, radiating firm temperant from within. This charm belonged uniquely to Magical Girl Manjusaka.
"Usually I've heard your experiences from various places. This is the first ti ntioning Cape of Good Hope. Logically, you should have gone long ago."
"It's my never-t sorrowful place."
"...Sorry, but I guess you gradually don't think so anymore." She gently hugged Jin Ruochu's shoulder for comfort. The latter simply nuzzled into the embrace.
The pink-haired girl gently stroked book pages, murmuring: "Including this painting and enthusiasm overflowing between lines won't fake. I once obsessively thought my mother had to go due to duties, missions, obligations, etc. Actually, she was very pure and greater."
She let go of so grievances, surging tides seemingly inexhaustible magical power.
Parental gifts nourished Jin Ruochu across ti. No mont was better than now.
"Since so, let's visit Cape of Good Hope soday—sailing Hidden Island for sightseeing. That area is still stable."
"Right, the Indian Ocean war zone is the most peaceful."
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