Chapter 32 Don't Force Me to Slap You
What happened next is easy to guess.
The magical girls who were hunting ghosts outside the Flower Street found out that it was Kyubey who staged the murder of their families in order to force them to sign the contract. They agreed without hesitation to help Cheng Xiaoyu eliminate Kyubey and complete her revenge.
They continued to act as if nothing had happened.
In order to avoid Kyubey's discovery, ever since Miri and Cheng Xiaoyu had approached them separately, they had been spreading the news through the Demon Slayer Corps' crows and Demon Slayer Corps intelligence personnel disguised as passersby, falsely trying to deceive Kyubey into thinking that only Miri had doubts at this stage.
Time is running out, and the risks of educating the magical girls in the flower street about anti-fraud are too great, so this is the time for Uzui Tengen, the Sound Pillar, to take over... Although he himself said that stealing jewelry from little girls was not a very glamorous thing, he still called on his well-trained ninja mice and other members of the Demon Slayer Corps who had infiltrated the flower street to perform a hasty human-stone separation operation when the battle started.
In fact, it is to create various accidents to make the Soul Gem leave the bodies of the Flower Street Magical Girls, and then physically pull away the magical girls' bodies, forcibly cut off the power, and the Soul Gem remains in place.
Magical girls cannot transform without gems, and the Flower Street Magical Girls have zero practical experience. Kyubey, who cannot appear during special periods, can only monitor the location of the Soul Gem and cannot detect any abnormalities.
If Daki had shifted her focus away from Tanjiro and the others during the fight, she might have realized something was wrong.
Because the smell of blood coming from under the ruins did not have the fragrance of human blood. If she stopped and listened carefully, she would find that the screams and groans under the ruins were played on a loop.
Earlier, the Demon Slayer Corps, disguised as ordinary people, had planted a magical array of nodes throughout the red-light district. These nodes were all crafted by Cheng Xiaoyu using materials from this world. They inherently lacked any abnormal temporal fluctuations and operated only during the day. Even if Kyubey visited the red-light district at night to find the Oiran Magical Girl, he wouldn't notice.
This was a protective replacement spell. When the circle was activated, any human within it that was harmed would be instantly replaced with a combination of pre-prepared animal blood and recorded audio. If a building was destroyed, all humans within its range would also be automatically replaced.
But in order to hold back the Upper Six, the fighting Sound Pillar, Tanjiro Kamado, Zenitsu Agatsuma, Inosuke Hashibira and Yu Haibara are all out of the range of the magic circle, and after knowing this, they still decide to carry out the mission.
Neither Muzan Kibutsuji nor Kyubey took the Demon Slayer Corps, who were ordinary people, and the magical girls, who were once ordinary people, seriously. But in the end, it was their revenge as ordinary people that dragged them into the abyss.
In other words, at the same time that Tanjiro and the others were fighting Daki, the Sound Pillar was leading people to cut off the power to the remaining Flower Street Magical Girls, and the Demon Slayer Corps who had been prepared long ago maintained the scene to prevent ordinary people outside the battle area from running to dangerous positions. Almost all ordinary people inside the battle area were teleported to the safe area specially designated for them by Cheng Xiaoyu in the Ghost Kingdom.
Outside the Flower Street, Cheng Xiaoyu was pulling the Infinite City to the Ghost Kingdom and preparing to close the door and beat the dog. The magical girl Arisa stabilized one of the Cupid clones, while the other pillars used Cheng Xiaoyu's long-range deployment to search for the last Cupid clone.
Originally, Cheng Xiaoyu was worried that the plan might go wrong, so she specifically instructed the Demon Slayer Corps that if they were not sure of killing Kyubey, they should keep a close eye on its movements, and come over to kill it personally after she finished her job.
Except for the three plans to transfer ordinary people, as long as one of them is successful, both Muzan Kibutsuji and Kyubey will be in trouble, and it will be easier to search for or kill them later.
Fortunately, the plan actually ran very smoothly.
With the help of the magical girls, everyone obtained the approximate coordinates of Cupid's clones, and successfully found one of the hidden Cupid clones on the night of the Flower Street Operation, and several pillars killed it together.
Kyubey, who was looking for Arisa, the most powerful magical girl who "firmly believed" in him, to protect him, was killed by Arisa, who already knew the truth.
Even Cheng Xiaoyu didn't get a single assist.
What? How did they manage to communicate with each other in real time over such a long distance?
The people involved in the killing mission really cannot carry magical communication tools, but the logistics personnel who have been squatting outside the detection range of Qibi can.
The scene returns to the present. After carefully examining the pile of Qippi fragments and confirming that they are indeed completely dead, Cheng Xiaoyu very humanitarianly uses a talisman to render them harmless.
"Thank you and your companions." Yousha bowed deeply to Cheng Xiaoyu. "If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have discovered that we were deceived, and we wouldn't have been able to seek revenge."
Cheng Xiaoyu stepped into the darkness. "You're welcome. I still have some finishing touches to do. As we agreed, I'll see you in the Demon Slayer Corps."
If it were a movie or a comic, there might be several shots of Cheng Xiaoyu in this scene showing off her queen-like demeanor. In fact, this scene would indeed look very handsome in the eyes of other people.
But in the eyes of Cheng Xiaoyu, the person involved, she is just a 007 worker who has to rush to the next job location immediately. At this moment, all she can think about is "the work is already in the final stage and no problems are allowed to delay my overtime."
Not only do the magical girls' bodies still need to be reshaped, but one-third of the people in Yoshiwara Flower Street are still sleeping soundly in the Ghost Kingdom!
Cheng Xiaoyu first went to the other pillars and used the same method to harmlessly neutralize another Cupid's clone. He then returned to Yoshiwara Flower Street and used horse spells to heal the injuries of the four seriously injured teenagers and Yu Sui Tianyuan's three wives. Then he directly took the remaining two-thirds of Yoshiwara Flower Street and the soul gems of the magical girls in Flower Street to the Ghost Kingdom, and demolished all the remaining Flower Street buildings.
In the freshly-built ruins, the Demon Slayer Corps logistics personnel who were originally trying to comfort the crowd:?
"These buildings are still mixed with the medium of the magic circle. We don't have enough time to clean it out now. If we don't clean it out, a magic circle that no one knows how to operate will pose a huge safety hazard. It's better to clean the buildings directly." Cheng Xiaoyu explained seriously, "I also need to carefully screen these people to make sure that Qibi hasn't done anything else to them. This is also for their safety."
Because they had been ordered by their lord before setting off, and because Cheng Xiaoyu had killed Muzan Kibutsuji, the thousand-year-old enemy of the Demon Slayer Corps, the logistics staff of the Demon Slayer Corps easily believed her words and went to other places to continue their work.
After erasing these people's memories for an hour, Cheng Xiaoyu divided them into three groups: "men", "older women" and "other women", and placed them in three safe and remote areas from near to far away from the flower street. The three areas were staggered.
It can be said that unless these people insist on returning to Huajie, they will not be able to meet each other in the short term, and it will be too late to chase each other.
What choices will the prostitutes who are struggling to survive in the red-light district and have nowhere to escape make after discovering themselves and leaving the red-light district? Will they escape or go back voluntarily? How many people are willing to go back? What will happen to those who are unwilling to go back? These are all outside of Cheng Xiaoyu's consideration.
Cheng Xiaoyu was simply disgusted by Huajie, a thing that grew from the flesh and blood of countless people. Destroying it would help soothe her body and mind and refresh the air.
After completing all this, Cheng Xiaoyu returned to the Demon Slayer Corps to find the magical girls. As soon as she entered the door, she was almost dazzled by the various gems.
Dozens of magical girls, each adorned with gemstones, sat or stood in the room, chattering and discussing something. Dozens of soul gems of various colors covered the floor, except for the main seat where Ubuyashiki Kōya and his wife sat. Warm sunlight streamed in from the courtyard, refracting spots of light from over a hundred gemstones, filling the room.
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Wow, pure natural disco."
The horrific scars on Ubuyashiki's face were gone, and his once dull gray eyes had returned to a lavender hue. Upon seeing Cheng Xiaoyu enter, he quickly stood up to greet her. "Ms. Onikage, as the lord of the Demon Slayer Corps and the current head of the Ubuyashiki clan, I'd like to thank you very much for helping us kill Muzan Kibutsuji. If there's anything we can do for you in the future, please let me know."
Cheng Xiaoyu was not polite and took out a few folded papers: "Then please help me prepare these. These are the materials and preparations needed to perform the ritual for the magical girls."
Ubuyashiki Yoya took it and looked at it, and found that they were not rare things, but the quantity was huge.
However, this was not a problem at all for the wealthy Ubuyashiki family. They immediately sent people to buy the items and told them that the list could be modified or added to later, or if they had any other requirements, they could raise them at any time.
What follows is the boring assembly line work.
On a magical level, a magical girl's Soul Gem can be considered to be divided into two parts: one is the solidified soul, and the other is the "remote control" that allows the soul to manipulate the magical girl's body.
If you want to turn the magical girls back into ordinary people, you need to disassemble the "remote control" and then restore the solidified souls to their original form and put them back into the body.
These operations themselves are not difficult for Cheng Xiaoyu, who is in school for four years. The trouble lies in the quantity.
For safety reasons, the preparation of spells cannot be delegated to others, because you can never bet on what someone without basic knowledge in this area will do to the materials and what impact this will have.
Even with a manual, someone without any magical experience can easily get into trouble without guidance. This was particularly true of a certain bald sheriff who, after learning chi magic on his own, ended up turning himself into a horrible, incurable form.
The Flower Street Magical Girls also needed to be awakened immediately; otherwise, during the power outage, their bodies would be nothing more than corpses, requiring the magical power of the Soul Gem to preserve them. If their bodies were completely decayed before the soul restoration surgery, Cheng Xiaoyu would have to expend considerable effort on the even more complex physical reconstruction magic.
Fortunately, Cheng Xiaoyu did not have to worry about the task of comforting and explaining to the Flower Street Magical Girls. The ghost hunting magical girls took the initiative to take on the task of taking care of the younger generation.
After restarting the soul gems of the Flower Street Magical Girls in batches, the ghost hunting magical girls will take turns explaining to the awakened juniors. Occasionally, if someone refuses to believe the truth and suddenly becomes violent, Cheng Xiaoyu next to her will directly cut off her power, and after repeatedly cutting off the power to calm her down, ask her whether she still wants to be treated. If not, she can give her one less spell.
But the ghost-hunting magical girls obviously overlooked one point. As the group that Kyubey focused on, the Flower Street Magical Girls were more brainwashed by Kyubey.
"What if I say I'd rather become a witch than be a normal person again?" A young Flower Street Magical Girl, after having her power cut off multiple times for attempting to attack others, finally heard everything she had to say, including the devastation that transformation into a witch would cause, said unwillingly, "I've finally been able to live the life I've always dreamed of. Why should I give it up..."
"Your tragic experience doesn't give you a reason to vent your pain on innocent people." Cheng Xiaoyu was tired of listening and interrupted her, "You don't understand the situation. There are only two paths before you. Either become an ordinary person or become a dead person. There is no third option."
The Oiran Magical Girls grew up in a place with distorted values like the Red Street. They did not have a normal growth environment. They were trampled upon by others at the bottom of society. However, they were still young and believed that "as long as they became an Oiran, they could be willful and do whatever they wanted." Becoming an Oiran was the highest point in their lives they could imagine. Daki was a typical example.
Kyubey's "contract" gave them a dreamlike life experience. Even if this dream was a fragile soap bubble with a highly poisonous smell, and even if they might have noticed something was wrong a long time ago, they were still happy to accept it.
Under this premise, it is normal for them to have a psychological gap and be unwilling to accept reality, continue to be stubborn, and even resent those who wake them up. This can be called human nature.
"But this has nothing to do with me, the Demon Slayer Corps, or the other magical girls. Your misfortune is not caused by me or anyone else here. If you want to die, I'll kill you. Don't try to drag innocent people into this, and don't add to my workload."
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