Chapter 31 Who Cares? I Care
The moment the body in the Infinite Castle was killed, Kyubey knew that the chess piece Muzan Kibutsuji was finished, and the time and space maintainer who came this time also possessed spatial domain abilities similar to the witch's barrier, so it was only a matter of time before he was found.
Kyubey had just switched to one of his spare bodies, but before he could take any action, his body felt lighter. The last thing he saw before his body died was the fluttering edges of his haori and the flashes of multicolored swords, and the last thing he heard was the sound of something heavy breaking through the air from above.
Fortunately, Kyubey has no emotions. Even in the face of such a Waterloo, it is not depressed or afraid. Instead, it is more determined that its next priority is to quickly trick the magical girls into helping it open the channel of teleportation ability, and at the same time accelerate the transformation of these magical girls into witches, and grab energy as quickly as possible.
What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger. -Kyuubi
"Kuppy, what's wrong with you?" The girl who was sitting on the top of the mountain and looking at the village below, holding Kyubey and rubbing his shiny fur, noticed Kyubey's unusual behavior of suddenly raising his head, and placed her palm with thin calluses on the back of his neck.
"Arisa-chan, do you still remember the man-eating ghost?" Kyubey noticed that the hand holding him had become heavier, and knowing the grief of the girl who was stabbed and her family's death, he did not struggle because it would make it easier for him to exert verbal influence.
"Of course." Arisa lowered her head, her tone and gaze filled with deep hatred. "After that day, only hatred kept me alive. I will never forget the murderer, and I will never forget revenge. I am the same as everyone else here. We all fight for our fallen family members."
"The magical girls of Hanamachi have successfully killed the Demon King. Now, all the man-eating demons in the world have also died."
Kyubey felt with satisfaction that the girl increased her strength again in excitement. This time, it gently poked the girl with the tip of its tail, signaling her to loosen up.
The girl, who was enduring intense emotions, trembled all over. After a long time, she finally relaxed a little and let Kyubey continue.
Kyubey: "But they were attacked by witches after that. I'm sorry I was useless on the battlefield and had to withdraw early. I don't know what happened after that, but given the difference in combat power, it's very likely that the magical girls suffered heavy losses or even annihilation."
What happened next was Kyubey's reasonable speculation, and it couldn't be considered a lie. After all, those magical girls were originally transformed by it, a visitor from another world, using a power that did not belong to this world. They themselves were walking infiltration points, and in the eyes of the maintainer of time and space, they were all existences that had to be eliminated.
In short, Kyubey couldn't think of any possibility or reason for them to survive there.
Kyubey: "After the cannibals, witches will become the new 'cannibals' to hunt humans. As magical girls who represent hope and maintain peace and reduce tragedy, we must not sit idly by."
There seemed to be some kind of celebration going on at the foot of the mountain, with beautiful fireworks blooming in the night sky.
"Yes, that's why we fight."
Yousha trapped the soft, white animal between her arms and chest, and let out a sharp roar that seemed to split her heart and tear open her lungs.
"They have brought so much tragedy upon us, and they continue to destroy the happiness of more people... It's unforgivable!"
With a crisp sound, Kyubey's white head was twisted 180 degrees by Meili. His pink eyes were full of disbelief. He moved his mouth slightly and wanted to ask why, but the magical girl's weapon had already torn it into several red and white pieces.
After the white source of misfortune completely turned into scattered pieces, the panting Arisa immediately lit a signal flare, staring blankly at the minced meat in front of her and muttering to herself, "Is it over?"
"It's still early. After tonight, the new lives of tens of thousands of people, including you, are just beginning." Cheng Xiaoyu stepped out from the shadows behind the tree, looked at the pile of meat and made a rational assessment. "This looks more suitable for shovel work, but at least it's done."
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To sum up, what Cheng Xiaoyu has been doing during this period is two things: project outsourcing and anti-fraud publicity.
After many failed attempts, Cheng Xiaoyu immediately realized that Kyubey could detect the time and space fluctuations on Cheng Xiaoyu's body as a visitor from another world and avoid him. Those magical girls had been fooled by Kyubey and would definitely report his whereabouts once they found him, so Cheng Xiaoyu entrusted the task of finding the whereabouts of these magical girls to the Demon Slayer Corps, and took over the job of killing demons from the Demon Slayer Corps, pretending to be "angry and embarrassed after finding the wrong place" and killing a large number of man-eating demons wandering outside.
As residents of this world, the Demon Slayer Corps didn't experience any unusual space-time fluctuations, making them undetectable to Kyubey. Meanwhile, Cheng Xiaoyu attracted a great deal of attention. As humans, the Demon Slayer Corps could simply remove their uniforms without attracting too much attention from the magical girls and ogre demons, greatly reducing the difficulty of gathering intelligence.
At the same time, in order to avoid becoming a lone commander, Muzan Kibutsuji, who was suffering from PTSD, urgently gathered his useful combat forces to the Infinite Castle to be used as emergency combat forces and cannon fodder. This weakened Muzan Kibutsuji's ability to observe the outside world, making the actions of the Demon Slayer Corps more convenient.
After determining the coordinates and basic information of these magical girls, Cheng Xiaoyu deduced the basic form and principle of the implementation of this soul contract, and then the anti-fraud propaganda began.
The Soul Gem is actually the girls' souls extracted and solidified into the form of gems. It can be said that the "girl" in the real "magical girl" refers to the Soul Gem, and the "magic" refers to the flesh and blood body with the appearance of a girl, driven by the magic of the Soul Gem.
Therefore, the Soul Gem must be carried with him at all times, and the Soul Gem is also what Kyubey uses to locate magical girls.
In order to prevent the fighting from starting within five seconds of meeting, Cheng Xiaoyu teleported the magical girls' bodies to the Ghost Kingdom and isolated them from the Soul Gem before they noticed her, leaving only the Soul Gem in the outside world, commonly known as removing the battery.
Afterwards, she used the sheep spell to leave her body and enter the soul gem, awakening the girl's soul that was sleeping due to the power outage and talking to her, revealing the truth of the contract, the strange coincidence of Kyubey's appearance, and other doubts.
Of course, before letting them wake up, Cheng Xiaoyu also "signed" a contract with them, not allowing them to tell Qiubi or any cannibal about their conversation, and told them:
"It's not that you can't turn back into humans, but in Kyubey's eyes you don't have such value, but I don't think so. If you agree with me, we will meet again in the future, and then I will let you truly complete your revenge."
Kyubey was eager to eat fast food and only paid attention to quantity but not quality. In addition, he had few bodies to mobilize, so he did not have much contact and brainwashing with the magical girls. Many of them didn't even know that their Soul Gems were actually their true bodies. Some people had been watching the Soul Gems gradually turning black and everyone's experiences were too similar, and they felt that something was wrong but could not verify it.
At this time, Cheng Xiaoyu arrived with her full set of evidence. After waking up, the first thing the magical girls did was to find any companions they could find to verify the authenticity of the soul gem's nature, recalling the details of when they saw Kyubey signing the contract, and the strangest thing... Since Kyubey said that magical girls have existed since ancient times, why did they make the contract at such a close time, but so many of them had never seen or heard of a magical girl before Meili?
It was as if all the people in front of them had disappeared without a trace, as if this group of magical girls had just appeared out of nowhere recently.
The seeds of doubt began to sprout.
When the magical girls outside the flower street finally couldn't bear their growing suspicions, one of them remembered the legend of the demon killer and went to find the Demon Slayer Corps.
That person was Miri, the first girl Kyubey contracted in this world.
Kyubey said that these magical girls are the legendary ghost hunters.
But now the real Demon Slayer Corps appeared in front of the magical girl. The ancient books within the Demon Slayer Corps that could prove their existence for thousands of years, the behavior style that was completely consistent with the legend, the description of the habits of demons, and other hard evidence were enough to prove that Kyubey was lying.
Ghosts attack people in order to eat them. The ghosts that Miri and other magical girls encountered did not eat flesh and blood after breaking into the house and killing so many people, but chased after a fleeing skinny prey. This behavior was completely inconsistent with the habits of ghosts.
One could be considered a coincidence, but how do you explain so many coincidences? And how can they all happen so close together, with such similar plots?
Miri also heard that there is a group of magical girls in Hanamachi, but they do not travel around like she did as Kyubey asked them to "fight for ghost hunting." This is obviously inconsistent with Kyubey's statement that "magical girls fight for hope and to kill evil spirits and witches who eat and kill people."
In order to verify the facts and to be responsible to other magical girls who are waiting for the truth, Meili went to the flower street alone to visit those magical girls. From the mouths of these girls who grew up in the cage of the flower street and thought that this was the only place they could go, she learned that their wish was to become the most powerful courtesan in the flower street without exception.
Hearing this, Meili instantly understood that this was a replica of their contract experience, except that in the women's hell of Hanamachi, Kyubey didn't need to go to great lengths to create difficulties, as they were already in trouble.
Miri's conversation with the oiran magical girl didn't last long before Kyubey showed up. Fortunately, Miri had already made up a confession with the help of the Demon Slayer Corps before she came. Kyubey just thought that she had become a powerful magical girl and wanted to come to Hana-gai to help those girls.
After all, Kyubey himself said that magical girls exist to save people, and it is difficult to refute this reason.
Miri took the opportunity to ask a question: "Why don't the magical girls here hunt demons? This is different from what we said."
Kyubey didn't even bother to write a draft: "Yes, because your functions are different. You are the magical girls who save humanity from the threat of cannibals, while they are the magical girls responsible for the area of Flower Street, bringing hope to the others in Flower Street. As I said, magical girls are the embodiment of hope, so saving people is saving people anyway."
"In the form of becoming an oiran?" If Meili hadn't been mentally prepared, she would have taken action right away.
Kyubey: "This is their wish. I am just responsible for making it come true."
It could see that Meili had begun to doubt the contract, but Kyubey had no intention of dispelling this doubt.
Because from the moment these girls became magical girls, they could no longer turn back. The doubts they had about the contracts and wishes would only deepen the magical girls' despair and allow Kyubey to collect more energy.
The relationship between the magical girl and Kyubey is like the relationship between a goose that produces liver and the manager of a foie gras factory.
The factory manager doesn't care about the pain of the geese having food forced into their stomachs. He only cares about the size of the goose liver he harvests after throwing away the goose's stomach.
But the goose that can be deceived will care.
Cheng Xiaoyu would also care.
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