The amusement park was packed with people.
The broad stone-paved road, wide enough for eight lanes, and the merchandise shops along the street were crowded with tourists everywhere.
Even restaurants with online ratings of only two-point-something had three or four long queues.
It was said that the giant roller coaster encircling the entire amusement park roared past on the floating track overhead, dragging a rainbow trail, mixed with the passengers’ laughter and screams;
In the distance, the giant pendulum swung high into the sky, with dazzling lighting effects, projecting in the air the avatar of the super popular hero “Shandian”;
And above people’s heads, plush bears, magic books, and owls glided through the air like birds.
These magical puppets unique to Rain City Radiance Amusement Park were said to possess self-awareness and interact with visitors.
Hui Jin walked quickly ahead, her small face icy cold, but her height was what it was.
No matter how fast she stepped, Xia Che only needed to take two slight strides to catch up with her.
“Are you angry?”
As for this girl’s shifting moods, Xia Che knew some of the reasons.
He just followed behind her, asking a question from time to time.
To his pestering, the girl usually responded with silence or an icy glance, but this time, she spoke coldly:
“No.”
She…… was not angry at all!
Xia Che had brought her out to have fun out of concern, and not only that, he had also given her the amusement park ticket originally prepared for Xiao Chi.
From a rational standpoint, Hui Jin believed she had absolutely no reason to be angry.
But she just felt inexplicably irritated…….
Ah, how annoying.
This is why girls are such trouble……
Even the girl herself did not know exactly why she was so irritated at this moment.
She only vaguely felt that the root of her irritation might be because of Xia Che……
Hui Jin slowed her steps and glanced at the person beside her from the corner of her eye, but she did not catch sight of the black-haired young man.
“…Xia Che?”
Hui Jin turned around in confusion, only to see the crowd pressing toward her like a mountain behind her.
The person who had been following her all along had disappeared.
“Did I lose him because there are too many people? Honestly, that guy…”
In the girl’s tone was an anxiety she herself had not noticed.
She took out her phone and wanted to give Xia Che a call.
But Hui Jin stood in the stream of people like a small pebble in a surging river.
The water split and flowed past both sides of her, but the small girl also tottered unsteadily.
Just as she pressed the call button, a tall man, completely not noticing Hui Jin, bumped into her shoulder.
“Ugh……!”
The heavy force made the girl let out a muffled groan.
She staggered back two steps, and her phone almost fell to the ground.
Without using magic to enhance her body, she was no different from an ordinary girl.
“Sorry.”
The man said it quickly, then was shoved forward by the people behind him.
Hui Jin stood still in place, her hands unconsciously clutching her phone tightly.
She raised her head.
The face of every person who flashed through her vision seemed to be covered with mosaic, and their laughter and voices turned into incomprehensible strange whispers.
Anxiety, irritation, panic, helplessness……
These emotions, unfamiliar to the girl, erupted together in the depths of her heart.
So annoying, so annoying, so annoying, so annoying…… Why are you leaving me alone again!
So noisy, unbearably noisy! Can’t you be quiet!
Hui Jin looked around.
Her deep crimson eyes were stained by pitch-black haze.
Magical girls are beings easily affected by emotions.
Positive emotions bring them unparalleled creativity, allowing them to create magic and miracles;
But negative emotions distort the endlessly renewing magic within them, reversing these powers that originally represent love and justice into another extreme:
An irrepressible desire for destruction and ruination.
If only they would all disappear, then the amusement park would have only her and Xia Che……
The girl slowly opened her hand, but her arm was trembling.
She pressed her pale lips together and kept shaking her head.
No, thinking that way is wrong, this is…
“Oops!”
A running boy squeezed out from the crowd, bumped into the girl, took two steps back, lost his balance, and fell hard on his bottom.
“Waaa–!!!!!”
The child, only four or five years old, felt the pain and immediately burst into loud wailing.
The boy’s crying immediately attracted people’s attention.
Hui Jin felt gazes from all around turn toward them, wanting to see what had happened.
Ye Qianqiu, or rather Hui Jin, was a person who liked quiet.
This did not mean she could not socialize; rather, compared to playing with many people, she preferred being alone, because too many people made her feel uncomfortable.
At this moment, under the gaze of so many eyes, the emotions she had barely suppressed seeped out from a wall full of wounds, and the girl felt the nerves beneath her temples throbbing violently.
“Hoo……”
Hui Jin took a deep breath and placed a hand on her flat chest, as if that could restrain her irritable heartbeat.
She forced out a smile and bent down, reaching out to help the boy:
“Little boy, are you okay, big sister……”
“Ouch, my child!”
A shrill voice cut over.
Hui Jin looked up and saw a fat woman squeeze out from the crowd.
She pushed Hui Jin away with one hand and pulled the boy up from the ground:
“Are you okay? Did you hurt anywhere?”
“My butt, my butt hurts!”
The boy wiped his tears.
“Ouch! Who did it? Was it you?”
The fat woman wiped off sweat, raised a sweaty finger, and pointed at Hui Jin as she shouted, her voice as harsh as nails scraping across a blackboard.
“It’s her, it’s her!”
The boy also pointed at her and cried out.
The fat woman’s eyes immediately widened, and she put her hands on her hips and started cursing:
“You look like a pretty little girl, so why are your manners so bad! Apologize to my son right now!”
If it were usual, Hui Jin might not have thought much of it.
There were many rotten people in this world, and there was no need to let their words affect her mood.
But now, Hui Jin had lost the patience to speak nicely with them.
She only said coldly:
“…….He bumped into me himself.”
“Still making excuses! My son already said you bumped into him, so how can that be wrong? Why is your little girl’s mouth full of lies!”
The fat woman deliberately raised her voice and looked at the people around her:
“You let other people judge! They must have seen it! Did this little girl bump into my son? She definitely did it on purpose!”
No one responded to her.
People did not want to get involved; they only wanted to watch the excitement and then voice an opinion about it.
“If that’s really the case, then that’s too much……”
“……But I think I saw that boy bump into her first?”
“By the way, don’t you think this girl is really pretty? It’s just her figure is a bit…… She’s not underage, is she?”
“Let me see…… Hiss…… Don’t you think she looks a little familiar?”
“Huh? Now that you mention it, she does seem……”
Hearing the people’s whispers, Hui Jin only then noticed that at some point the onlooking crowd had surrounded the three of them completely, forming a ring of encirclement.
“Why is no one speaking? Are you mute? Fine, I’ll do it myself!”
The fat woman rolled up her sleeves and came toward Hui Jin aggressively.
She raised her hand, about to slap down:
“I’ll slap you to death, you damned liar!”
At this moment, time seemed to pass very slowly.
Hui Jin looked at the woman.
Her face was ferocious and twisted, like a ghost mask worn on a human face.
She felt pairs of gloating, scrutinizing, curious, cold eyes.
Those gazes wandered over her body and face, and those words made her feel fear and disgust……
The Deviation Value, which had originally dropped to a safe range, surged again:
–Deviation Value increased to 30%
–Deviation Value increased to 45%
–Deviation Value increased to 49%
Hui Jin felt that in her consciousness, the fragile string called reason was on the verge of snapping.
“……It would be fine if I just killed them all, right?” the girl said softly.
She clearly should not say such things…… Never mind, it does not matter anymore…….
Make them completely quiet.
At her fingertips gathered mottled magic mixed with pitch-black and deep crimson.
She only needed a light touch, and the woman before her would burst into a cloud of blood mist.
How efficient.
Why had she never realized it before?
“Hey!”
A familiar male voice broke into the girl’s chaotic consciousness, bringing her back to her senses.
Xia Che pushed through the crowd and quickly came to Hui Jin’s side.
Then he reached out and tightly grasped the girl’s cold hand.
He said to the fat woman:
“I was right nearby just now. I saw it. It was your son who bumped into her first.”