On the rooftop of the unfinished building, fierce winds howled.
Surprisingly, it wasn’t raining today.
The two of them landed on a rusted steel beam.
As soon as Lu Yushan steadied herself, the tip of her foot stepped on something foreign.
She looked down.
It was a cigarette pack softened and soaked by rainwater, with “White Lantern” printed on it.
Lu Yushan frowned slightly.
Wasn’t this the cheap pack of cigarettes she had forced herself to smoke yesterday afternoon?
“This is the nest of a Gamma-class monster.”
Qinghai Starlight had no idea what her teammate was thinking about.
She pointed at the gloomy cluster of buildings in the distance, her tone serious.
“The leader has already been slain by an unknown powerhouse, but if we don’t clean up the remaining small monsters, they will threaten the nearby residential areas.”
The aforementioned unknown powerhouse, Lu Yushan, nodded expressionlessly.
“Mm.”
She’s really cold…
Qinghai Starlight felt a little helpless, but she still dutifully began giving instructions.
“Peachfluff, I’m starting.”
Qinghai Starlight summoned her magic staff. Like Lu Yushan’s, it was also a long-pole design.
After gripping her staff tightly, Qinghai Starlight closed her eyes and tilted her head slightly upward.
“The General Bureau prohibits solo operations, otherwise my Qinghai would have handled this long ago!”
The pink rabbit Peachfluff immediately popped out. Even in a place like this, it held its head high and proudly boasted about its idol.
It looked down at Lu Yushan from above, deliberately putting on the airs of a senior.
“Even though you’re just here to fill the numbers, don’t just stand around.”
“Help sense the residual magic power too. Don’t tell me you don’t know how?”
“…”
Lu Yushan remained silent.
She really hadn’t tried it before.
In the past when she fought monsters, she would simply go where she felt them and attack when she saw them.
She had never thought about using such advanced methods.
The only thing Snowball had taught her—no, told her—was: if you feel like you can fly, then fly; if you feel like you can fight, then fight. And that was it.
It was all about feeling.
“Looks like you really don’t know how.”
Peachfluff sighed, giving Snowball, who was hiding behind Lu Yushan, a disappointed look.
“Snowball, this lazy bum, definitely never taught you. Listen carefully. Sensing means sinking your consciousness into the magic plane…”
“Close your eyes, clear your mind…”
Peachfluff continued lecturing on the theory while Lu Yushan listened quietly.
If she was going to do this seriously, she would still need to learn the basics.
Sense.
Lu Yushan closed her eyes and attempted the so-called sensing technique.
Something in her chest suddenly pulsed.
An invisible wave spread out like radar, bouncing back after hitting objects.
The world transformed into black and white lines.
Clear your mind.
In the black-and-white world, pedestrians on the streets, moving vehicles, stall owners cooking by the roadside, and all sorts of things she considered unimportant gradually faded and disappeared.
Then, anomalies began to appear in the world—strange, out-of-place presences. Those must be the targets.
Simple.
“…and then use your magic power as your new set of eyes. This is difficult for beginners, but with enough practice…”
Peachfluff was still sharing its experience.
In its mind, it was actually scheming.
Although this newbie looked a bit slow, her face was seriously beautiful!
Cold and aloof, expressionless, red hair in twin tails!
If it could poach her to form a duo with Qinghai…
Red-Blue Twin Stars!
Qinghai would be the cheerful, sweet one, while this girl would be the cool and handsome one.
Once they made posters and sold merchandise, the traffic would pour in!
The more Peachfluff thought about it, the more excited it became.
Its mouth was almost stretching to its ears.
It was about to give a few more pointers to build some goodwill when—
“I found it.”
Two voices spoke at the same time.
One belonged to Qinghai Starlight.
The other was Lu Yushan’s.
“Huh?”
Peachfluff, who had been lost in its idol-manufacturing fantasy, froze.
The words got stuck in its throat, nearly biting its own tongue.
It widened its eyes and looked at Lu Yushan in disbelief.
Qinghai Starlight was also slightly surprised.
She had trained for a full three months before mastering this wide-area detection technique.
She didn’t know how long the girl in front of her had been a magical girl, but it definitely couldn’t have been very long.
Is this talent?
Qinghai quickly thought that perhaps Lu Yushan had only sensed the residual magic power, which was still quite difficult in itself.
“Southeast. Underground.”
But Lu Yushan raised her hand and pointed in the direction, her tone as casual as if she were saying “the vegetables are over there.”
There was no casting wind-up, nor any obscure fluctuations of magic power.
It was as natural as… breathing.
Peachfluff looked at Lu Yushan’s calm, unruffled face and its scheming grew even more intense.
A genius.
“Let’s go.”
Lu Yushan ignored the complicated looks from Qinghai and Peachfluff.
Right now, she only wanted to finish clearing the monsters.
Every second of delay meant one more second of interest piling up on her loans.