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“Bastard! I can still… Fight!” Musi scoffed in irritation, the strain causing her to cough ferociously.
“Musi, you need to retreat! Go back to the base, I’ll handle this.”
“B-but!”
“If they wanted to finish us off, they would have already! GO… BACK!” Yuki commanded.
“F-fine…”
Backing up, Musi glared at Lucy before she began to vanish.
“Hey! You think I’m just gonna let you get away?!” The human Invader stepped forward, only for Lucy to block her with one of their spider legs.
“Just because your injuries aren’t visible, don’t think I can’t see them. It’s not worth fighting them to the death here.”
The Invader was taken aback by Lucy’s words. Sure she had internal injuries from fighting Yuki just now but how could she possibly tell how severe they were?
That aside, with Musi gone, Yuki let out a sigh of relief.
“Are you fine with this, Inheritor of Gaia?” She asked
“Chronos!” Nell shouted, running towards Lucy.
“Seems, my job here is done, I’ll be returning to the mortal realm soon enough, we’ll talk about your antics then.”
With a final snap of their fingers, a thin layer of webs covered Lucy’s hair before her extra eyes and limbs retracted into her body before once again going limp.
A few seconds later, the actual Lucy regained control of her body, and the first thing she did was grab Nell.
“I’ll explain in a bit. For now, transform me.”
Nell looked at Lucy and Lucy looked at Nell. Their eyes meeting through Lucy’s mask.
Letting out a sigh, Nell agreed and Lucy once again became Operator Chronos.
“Hmm… So you know what happened to Gaia? Meaning you were in the city when it happened?” Chronos inferred, brandishing her staff, her eyes narrowing.
“That’s not the case. I won’t go into details but us and you, we’re not so different.” Yuki answered.
‘The hell is that even supposed to me?’
Chuckling to hide her ignorance, Chronos shelved that for now. She did not have the Mana to press for further information.
“Well, whatever. To answer your question, yes, for now. Although, if you continue to step on my toes, next time we meet it might not end with just proving a point.”
That answer caught Yuki off guard.
“You’re… Fine with us staying in the city?”
“Why would I not be? Look, I don’t care if there’s some quota you Girls are trying to hit or something, it has nothing to do with me. The more Magical Girls in this city, the less people get hurt…”
If there was a minimum amount of Invaders you needed to defeat or something like that, Chronos was confident Sora wouldn’t leave that out and even if there was, Chronos was confident in her own skills to survive.
“Oh! With one caveat though!” Chronos added.
Putting her arm around the Invader girl, Chronos’ smile grew and was filled with confidence.
“Eh?” The girl looked at Chronos in surprise.
“She’s mine now. I claim her. Touch her and I WILL kill you both.”
“EH?!”
“That’s… Very well. I shall respect your decision as this is still your territory. We are the Spectral Sentinels and I am Spectral Yuki. Until we meet again, Operator Chronos.”
Yuki very clearly hesitated about letting that thing go but what could she do? Chronos made both and her Musi look like a complete joke without using any form of proper Mana Reinforcement.
With her piece said, the Sentinel who wore a winter coat gave a deep bow and began to vanish much like her friend, not before letting out a deep and slightly nervous sigh.
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“Good, now that that’s settled.” Chronos said while deactivating her transformation.
The moment she reverted, Lucy fell to the ground and started vomiting blood.
““Chronos!”” Nell continued shout, along with Utopia who finally caught up to them.
“Ugh… Stop screaming… I’m fine. Or I will be after a while.”
Getting up from the ground and continuing to cough up some blood, Lucy let out a sigh of relief now that that was finally over.
Although she didn’t seem fine in the slightest, Nell decided to lay off.
“Are you sure you’re okay? I can take you to the hospi-”
“I will stab you, priest. Nell can worry about me, not you.” Lucy retorted, hiding the tiny smile that she got from Utopia even offering.
“Huh, yeah. She seems fine…” Utopia immediately backed off. “So, what’s your deal? You some human-faced Invader, half Invader, what’s your story?”
Visibly jumping from surprise, The Invader ran to hide behind the large puppet which looked at her before making a sighing motion.
“Uhm… The second one…” She answered meekly.
Now it was their turn to be surprised as everyone’s heads shot towards the Invader girl.
“I was joking?! WHAT?!” Utopia was by far the most visibly surprised.
BAM!
“OW WHY ME?!” Lucy cried out
Nell, after processing the information decided to hit Lucy on before jumping onto the ground.
“You both have some serious explaining to do. But first… Let’s go elsewhere. Maintaining this Shadow World is more difficult than it’s worth when no fighting is going on.”
Once again on the ground because of her own hubris, Lucy’s eyes teared because of the pain.
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Both Lucy and Nell looked at all the notifications without changing their expressions but that became quite difficult as they continued to read.
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Immediately, the pain Lucy was already in which felt like she was sitting in a pool of fire got worse as her chest constricted and it became hard to breathe.
Luckily, she still wore the mask created from silk so her pain wasn’t visible. If she showed Nell that she was in pain after, it’d only make the talking nekomata nag her more.
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‘Ahaha…’ Lucy chuckled nervously.
She was curious what using a spell her mother created would do to her body and since she was planning to let her contracted Devil take over anyways, she thought now was the perfect to do so but she didn’t think it’d cause lasting damage to her with how durable her body was.
‘Normal invaders should be simple enough if I take the fight seriously but if a stronger one pops up I might need some help or I’ll need to run.’ She admitted inwardly, regretting her actions slightly.
Only slightly though. Whether she truly felt bad about this depended on what rewards she’d get from this.
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Giving the mental command to look at her status while getting up, Lucy nodded in agreement to getting out of there.
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Name: Lucy Elliot
HP: 5480/5480
MP: 19,111/19,111
Candies: 15,870
Fame: 35
Race: Witch
Specialization: N/A
STR: 100
VIT: 60
DEX: 100
RES: 100
MAG: 100
DEF: 100
Sentinel Skills: Sentinel's Source lv 2 | Third Eye lv 2 | Regeneration lv 2 | Rampart Breaker(Lucy Ver) lv 1
Personal Skills: Martial Arts lv 1 | Silver Veins lv 2 | Tenacity lv 2 | Demonize | Soul Gathering lv 2 | Magic Warrior lv 1 | Magical Reinforcement lv 1 | Silk Thread lv 1 | Agility lv 1 | Acrobatics lv 1
Magic: Manamancy | Chronomancy | Electromancy | Demonic | Toximancy
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