Chapter 364 Mint's Regret
"Well, your guess is correct."
One night later, at noon the next day, in a cafe in the Emerald District, Mint supported her cheek with one hand, held a cup of colorful and exotic drink in the other, bit the straw with her teeth, and mumbled something in her mouth.
She and Lin Xiaolu had previously agreed to treat each other, and Lin Xiaolu naturally had to honor her promise. So, on the day off before the second exam, she found a well-received cafe based on online recommendations. The three of them had lunch together in a corner of the cafe.
"While I could find plenty of excuses if I were to play with words, based on the most fundamental relationship, I am indeed a member of the 'Dawn of Black Embers' you all refer to."
Lin Xiaolu had initially assumed the other party wouldn't be willing to tell the truth, but halfway through the meal, Bohe was quite brazen in revealing his true colors to the two of them. "Why do you even need to ask me this question? Aren't you two?"
"Huh? Me? Black Dawn? What the hell are you talking about?"
Lin Xiaolu was completely baffled, her voice rising half an octave. However, considering the cafe was a public place, even though there were no other customers around, she still tried to lower her voice and said with some caution, "When I first became a magical girl, you almost killed me several times. What on earth do you think? You think I'm one of yours? I almost want to call the sheriff now. What are you doing in the magical kingdom, Black Dawn?"
"Stop pretending. I, a beast, have already revealed my cards. Why are you two sacrificial sons still pretending with me?"
Mint sipped the drink from his cup nonchalantly. "Just like you can sense me, any two Jin soldiers can sense the fluctuations of the residual beast magic in you two. Not to mention that in the eyes of the beast, you are simply walking light bulbs. There is no way he can be mistaken."
"You came to me just to ask about the beast and whether the people above have any plans?"
She spread her hands and said, "There were surveillance cameras when we were in the maze, so I didn't want to say more. Now that we're out of the maze, what else is there to hide? If you don't even want to admit this, then there's no way we can continue the conversation."
Lin Xiaolu was speechless for a moment.
It’s not that she can’t defeat Bohe, but because the information revealed in just a few words was too much.
The terms "beast child" and "sacrifice child" were not the first time that Lin Xiaolu and Bai Jingxuan had heard them. As early as last year, when the Fangting City Welfare Home was attacked by the Black Dawn, the Jin army member named "Bingchu San" had used this name to describe Bai Jingxuan.
By now, Lin Xiaolu and the others were no longer completely ignorant of the so-called "Son of God Project," and naturally knew that this series of names were all extensions of this project. However, she had never expected that when she came to the Magic Kingdom to participate in an assessment, she would actually encounter the real mastermind.
"You said...you are that beast?"
Trying to sort out her somewhat confused thoughts, Lin Xiaolu decided to start with the more important questions: "Then can you first explain what these so-called sacrifice children and beast children are?"
"You really don't know?"
Lin Xiaolu's expression of doubt didn't seem fake. Beside her, Bai Jingxuan also looked bewildered. Both of them clearly lacked understanding of these concepts. This behavior finally convinced Bo He a little: "Wait a minute, are you two both unnaturalized?"
"What is unnaturalized?"
Bai Jingxuan's question finally made Bohe lose the battle.
She gave a look that said, "This is trouble!" and her face changed. She even stopped drinking. After a while, she spoke again, "Unnaturalized literally means not returning to the embrace of the Beast Master... or in other words, not joining the Black Dawn and being a wandering sacrifice child."
"But generally speaking, 'unnaturalized' sacrifices are often ordinary people. The Ash Army will quickly find those children who are suitable to be sacrifices and bring them back to the Dark Dawn to learn and adapt to their own power."
"That is to say, people like you two..."
She pointed at Bai Jingxuan and Lin Xiaolu, wanting to say something but stopping herself: "Not only were they not found by the organization, they also became sacrifices to the magical girls. Theoretically, they should not exist."
"Aren't you a magical girl too?" Lin Xiaolu asked curiously.
"No, we are different from you..."
Mint's expression was a little strange. "No, are you two serious? Do you really know nothing? I, uh, ouch... I thought I just happened to encounter two sacrifices left by the moth, and I was quite happy. But now I'm in trouble."
Obviously, she seemed to have mistaken the identities of Lin Xiaolu and Bai Jingxuan for some reason, so she was extremely upset now that she found out something was wrong.
But Lin Xiaolu and Bai Jingxuan obviously couldn't understand her pain, so they could only look at each other, confused by Bo He's reaction.
Mint's struggles continued. Not only did he mutter to himself, he even began to feel sorry for himself, scratching his hair frantically.
"No, so can you two answer me first, what's going on with you? Isn't the moth in your city? Why did you really become magical girls? Is there no one to take care of you?"
"Even if you say so..."
Lin Xiaolu blinked her eyes: "You can't say that no one came to look for you, right?"
"Yes, there is, and more than once." Bai Jingxuan also answered in agreement.
"That's right, someone must have been looking for you. Then what? Why didn't you follow them? In other words, why did they let you go?" Bohe looked puzzled.
"Because it was killed by Delphinium."
"Because I killed him."
Lin Xiaolu and Bai Jingxuan continued to sing in unison.
"Hah...huh? Kill him?"
Mint had an expression as if he was listening to a mysterious book. "Can this be killed? No, there are magical girls in your city who can kill Moth. It's normal that the other Jin soldiers and Jin guards can't defeat them, but what this means is..."
She clapped her hands suddenly. "Aren't you two Moth's sacrifices? Were you chosen as magical girls from the very beginning? I was wondering...how could Moth have hidden two sacrifices right under Cornflower's nose? It seems she really hasn't accomplished anything in your Fangting!"
Now she finally understood that her cleverness had backfired.
The reason why she acted so upset actually started before the maze test began.
When she was first assigned to Team 629 and sensed the fluctuations of residual beast magic on her two teammates, she thought she had found the hidden truth: that is, Moth did not die in vain. Although she was killed by Cornflower, she successfully hid two sacrifices.
After realizing this "truth," Bohe's mind became active. Although she wanted to confess her identity to the two priests, she was in the examination room at the time, and there were bound to be eavesdroppers. So she managed to make up a story, saying, "I'm from Central City and have heard about Fang Ting."
However, as a beast child, her control over the remaining beast magic power far surpassed that of a sacrifice child. If she wanted to, she could use a very subtle method to display her magic power fluctuations to her two teammates in a small area. Mint thought that since these two were both sacrifice children, as long as they could sense her remaining beast magic power, they would naturally know her identity.
In the end, things did not go so smoothly at all.
Of the two teammates, the one codenamed Bo Xue did notice her magic fluctuations, but it was completely different from what Bo He had imagined. When Bo Xue discovered her magic fluctuations, she didn't show any friendly attitude, but instead became even more hostile to her.
As for the one called Bai Mei, she was even more of a fool, as if she hadn't noticed the fluctuations in her magic power at all. Furthermore, no matter how much she hinted at him, she didn't react at all.
Mint hinted at things throughout the entire assessment, but she felt like she was flirting with a blind man, so much so that in the middle and late stages of the assessment, she began to get anxious and deliberately magnified the range of influence of her magic fluctuations.
This turned out to be a good thing. His two teammates didn't react at all, which attracted a potato root.
(End of this chapter)
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