I'm a magical girl in the future

Chapter 98 Shui Li "Returns"

[Rewind to one month ago—]

Inside a private room in a coffee shop.

Noah picked up her coffee, took a small sip, and then habitually added two packets of sugar. Li Mengling and Fuping sat opposite her.

Li Mengling wasn't wearing glasses; she was completely in the future, idly playing on her phone. Her composed demeanor contrasted strangely with her youthful appearance.

Meanwhile, the duckweed was yawning, looking rather bored while waiting.

As for why Floating Water maintains her magical girl form, according to her, her real age is 8 years old, but after transforming into a magical girl, she seems to have grown a little, to about 10 years old. Therefore, she chooses to appear slightly older when discussing things with Noah and the others, as it seems more appropriate that way.

Noah checked the time on her phone. "Don't worry, she'll be there soon."

As soon as he finished speaking, the door to the private room was gently pushed open.

A woman walked in, wearing a large beige trench coat that completely concealed her shapely figure.

"Shui Li," Noah said, her voice carrying a hint of comfort.

Shui Li nodded and sat down in the empty seat next to Noah.

"Senior Fennel, and Senior Floating Duckweed," Shui Li smiled, "I never expected to see you again in this era."

Although theoretically, Mizuki is actually a year older than Fuka (Mizuki is 9 years old and Fuka is 8 years old in this era), considering the time she has been a magical girl and her strength, it is not a problem for Mizuki to call her "senpai".

"I didn't expect that either," Li Mengling replied with a smile. "It's amazing that Shui Li has become such a capable magical girl."

"I didn't expect that Shui Li would join the captain's team after I died. She seems to have grown quite a bit." As Fu Ping spoke, she noticed Shui Li's attire. "Speaking of which, Shui Li, why are you dressed like that?"

"Ah, that's because what I wore underneath was too revealing—"

Shui Li unbuttoned the front of her trench coat, opened it to the sides with both hands, revealing the revealing adult clothing worn by the corrupted magical girl beneath the coat.

"This...this...although I've seen a similar outfit at another corrupted magical girl's place, I still have to complain...is this really not lingerie?" Fu Ping said, her face slightly flushed.

"Shui Li, you don't really need to dress like this. You can change back into human form, or just change into some ordinary clothes," Li Mengling suggested.

"No." Shui Li closed her trench coat. "This 'Corrupted Magical Girl Clothing' is made of a special material. It leaves a special mark once the transformation is over. Although this seems to be just a side effect of the material, the troublesome thing is that Yi Luoxin requires us to maintain our magical girl form and not turn back into humans at will."

"What kind of twisted sense of humor is this?" Li Mengling clicked her tongue.

"As for changing clothes... that's too much trouble. I'll just wear a trench coat to cover myself up."

"You've worked hard." Noah sighed. "In this situation, we must unite and find a way to get through this. Let's quickly share the information we have."

Shui Li nodded, her gaze returning to Hui Xiang and Fu Ping: "I'll get straight to the point. Yi Luo Xin's plan has already begun."

She took a deep breath and began to recount everything she knew.

"First, regarding Meteorite. Captain, you should have already fought her, right?"

Noah nodded.

"Yi Luoxin knows very well the relationship between Meteorite and you, Captain. She sent Meteorite not to win at all. She just wanted to use Meteorite's death to strike at you. This was a psychological offensive against you. Judging from the results... she seems to have succeeded."

Noah's eyes dimmed, and she did not refute.

In a sense, it was indeed a success. However, for Noah, who had already lost too much, such a separation had numbed her. Therefore, it's hard to say what role the meteor's death ultimately played.

"As for me..." Shui Li continued, "The orders I received were completely different. Yi Luoxin told me to lie low in this era for the time being and not to rush into action. She is gathering more 'future assassins' and will make our move all at once when the time is right."

After hearing this, Fu Ping seemed to have discovered something. "Does that guy Yi Luoxin only have the option of sending people over one by one? That sounds like a very inefficient method."

"No."

Noah shook her head.

"Teleporting one by one is simply because it minimizes the 'cost'. This indicates that Yi Luoxin is currently unwilling, or rather, unable to easily pay too high a price."

"However, if you push her too far, she is fully capable of teleporting a large number of magical girls at once."

"So for now, she's using this compromise method, transferring the supplies slowly, waiting to accumulate enough strength before taking action."

Shui Li agreed, "That's right, my mission is to be the first to arrive in this world, and then find a place for the assassins she teleported here to settle down, to find them a hiding place."

"Yi Luoxin seems to understand very well that we can't attack them one by one and then divide and conquer them," Li Mengling said with a smile. "Then, why don't we just take advantage of her teleporting over one by one, and then swarm in all at once, preventing the future assassins from forming a large force? Wouldn't that solve the problem?"

"Shui Li is in charge of the future assassins' hideouts. We'll know the exact location of each future assassin, so those guys can experience a righteous gang fight!"

"Theoretically it's possible, but practically it's not." Noah glanced at the coffee on the table. "If we adopt this tactic, we can indeed achieve great results in a short period of time."

"However, if this happens too often, and one person dies every time they're sent out, Yi Luoxin will soon realize something is wrong. At that point, she'll probably suspect Shui Li, or she might even resort to desperate measures and send a large group of people over at once."

"What else can we do?" Li Mengling sighed. "We finally have this opportunity; we can't just watch her teleport the assassins over one by one, can we?"

"Then let's take a compromise," Noah said after a moment's thought. "We'll wait until those future assassins have gathered to a certain size before we make our move."

"Eh? You mean—" Shui Li seemed to understand something.

"Yes. We'll make our move when the future assassins have gathered a few people, reaching a certain size, but their strength is still inferior to ours."

"In that case, things will become more natural. People from the future will be teleported over one by one, inevitably leaving traces. As a result, after finally teleporting over several people, we will wipe them all out in one fell swoop."

"This is a bit more reasonable, and we can do it multiple times. If it's just a simple case of 'one comes and dies,' that's too fake, and even the dumbest person can see the problem."