Chapter 605: Chapter 286: Major Family Event III: Night of the Witch (Part 1)_3

Xizi Yue lifted her eyes from the surface of the tea, remaining silent momentarily.

Beside her, Lilai raised her ice-blue eyes and said calmly, “Please have him come up. It’s a good thing that Mr. Judge is also here; I’d like to hear what he intends to do.”

The Black Judge cocked his head slightly, his tone carrying a hint of impatience, “If it were any other time, I’d be quite interested in interrogating these unruly superheroes, but I’m currently occupied.”

Lilai stared at his V-shaped mask and said coldly, “You just heard, this is an emergency. If we don’t deal with it immediately, are we supposed to let that superhero wreak havoc here?”

The Black Judge remained silent, taking a seat on a swivel chair beside the conference table, elbows resting on the armrests, the coldness in his eyes deepening behind the mask.

After a short while, the metallic door of the conference room swung open again.

The Black Judge glanced sideways at the inopportune superhero who had arrived, using his peripheral vision. If necessary, he would use his authority to make this superhero step aside or employ a more direct method to silence him.

However, upon seeing the unexpected guest, the Black Judge was slightly taken aback–standing before him was someone clad in a red and blue metallic battle suit with a beak-shaped mask, the gaze behind the lenses carrying undeniable hostility.

Lan Ou and the Black Judge exchanged a glance.

The Black Judge kept silent.

Lan Ou too remained quiet.

The two gazed at each other before the Black Judge ultimately looked away first, and for some reason, heaved a light sigh.

“…And who is this?”

While walking forward, Lan Ou pointed at the Black Judge and asked the three magical girls.

Just as Xizi Yue and Lilai were about to reply, another magical girl beat them to it.

“He’s the ‘Black Judge’ from the Management Bureau; he’s also my boyfriend,” Yuffie spoke up, her cheeks turning slightly red, “To be precise, we will confirm our relationship in a year’s time.”

Upon hearing this, the Black Judge slightly lifted his hand to adjust his mask and took a deep breath, seemingly reluctant to respond.

Xizi Yue put down her teacup, watching Lan Ou with tranquility.

She asked, “I know you, Mr. Lan Ou, may I ask what matter is so important that it required your disturbance here?”

Lan Ou stared through the lenses at her, “I am looking for someone… Magical Girl Ash.”

Lilai lightly furrowed her brows, surveying Lan Ou and then turning her gaze to the Black Judge.

Lan Ou’s words were eerily similar to Black Judge’s, even their cold tones matched, as if they were brothers who grew up together.

Xizi Yue paused for a moment before speaking, “Although I do not know what relationship you have with Ash, there is something I can inform you of.”

Then, she paused briefly, “I left two cards inside the magical book of Magical Girl Ash. The first card can reveal her location to me; the second card is meant to preserve her life with absolute certainty if she encounters a life-threatening danger.”

“Where is she now?” “Where is she?”

Lan Ou and the Black Judge asked simultaneously. After speaking, they gave each other a surprised look.

Xizi Yue responded, “Regrettably, I have tried to sense the first card I mentioned, but that card did not reveal Ash’s location to me… This is the first time I have encountered such a situation.”

Lan Ou fell silent for a moment, his voice slightly ominous, “So you’re saying… even you don’t know where she is?”

“That’s right, but given the current situation, at least I can be sure that the second card I left with her has not been triggered,” Xizi Yue spoke squarely, “which means, for the time being, Ash is not in any immediate danger.”

“But it sounds to me like your cards can only protect her temporarily, isn’t that so?” Lan Ou remarked, “Since we can’t know her location, once the effect of the card expires, she will still be exposed to danger.”

Xizi Yue countered, “No… once the ability of the second card is triggered, it can also serve the function of the first card–no matter where on Earth the effect is triggered, I will be able to locate Ash’s position immediately and support her at the fastest speed possible.”

Taking a pause, she picked up her teacup and looked up at Lan Ou, “Please trust me.”

Lan Ou stayed silent.

The Black Judge locked eyes with Xizi Yue, enunciating every word, “How dare you guarantee that?”

Xizi Yue calmly said, “Then I promise you here that if Magical Girl Ash cannot come back safely, I will immediately resign from my position as the president of the Chinese Alliance and no longer engage in any work related to magical girls.”

Lilai was slightly startled, and her hand propping her cheek also drooped, but after turning her head to look at Xizi Yue’s expression, she simply averted her gaze and frowned in silence.

A deathly silence briefly enveloped the conference room until someone spoke up to break it.

“You once said…”

Lan Ou said slowly, lowering her face, her eyes cold, “You said you would definitely protect her.”

Xizi Yue was silent for a while: “It seems you must have a good relationship with Miss Ash, otherwise you wouldn’t have learned this from her… I indeed promised her that I would protect her, and I keep my word. Although I don’t know exactly what your relationship is, but–”

“She…is my younger sister.”

Lan Ou spoke in a low voice, interrupting her.

Upon hearing this, the three magical girls present were slightly taken aback, only the Black Judge bowed his head behind the mask, sighing inaudibly, thinking this kid is still so impulsive.

The one who reacted the most was Lilai, who was propping her cheek with one hand.

She lifted her head, her ice-blue eyes reflecting the figure of Lan Ou, thinking to herself that Xiao Ni actually has a brother who is a superhero?

“Is that so, no wonder…”

Xizi Yue pondered.

She fell into silence for a short time, seemingly unwilling to communicate further with the two.

Lilai sighed and spoke on her behalf: “There is no time to verify the truth of your words, but regardless of your relationship with her, the outcome will not change. On the honor of the top three leaders of the Alliance, I declare once more on behalf of Xizi Yue that Magical Girl Ash will not be in danger of losing her life, please rest assured…”

Seeing that neither the Black Judge nor Lan Ou responded, she continued, “Then we also have our own matters to deal with, so this meeting is concluded. Please return, lingering here would only waste both our times.”

Lilai spoke formally, and in the next moment, a rumbling engine sound tore through everyone’s ears, exploding in the conference room.

Xizi Yue boarded the Time-Space Train, her black hair fluttering in the wind.

Seeing this, Lilai also got up to follow her. Just as she was about to leave, she suddenly stopped on the gangway.

“Do you not want to go?” Lilai looked over at Yuffie who was still sitting in her place and asked indifferently.

Yuffie raised her eyes to the Black Judge, a shy expression on her face, and said softly, “Judge, I’ll see you next time.”

Seeing the Black Judge remain silent, she rose from her chair and boarded the train carriage along with Lilai. With a loud rumble, the train was swept into the vortex of time and space.

The crack in time and space slowly closed, and with it, a deathly silence once again enveloped the remaining two people in the conference room.

The Black Judge remained silent.

Lan Ou was also silent.

Although their expressions could not be seen under the masks, it was obvious they were both somewhat gloomy.

The Black Judge rested his arms on the armrests of the chair, thinking, “Even Mingye and Xizi Yue don’t know where Xiao Ni is, so I can only wait and see… Where did the old man go then? Could he have been caught up in the conflict between the witches and the magical girls? He’s just an ordinary person, how could that be?”

After pondering for a moment, the Black Judge turned his face to Lan Ou, and a magnetic voice came from behind the V-shaped mask.

“She’ll be all right…”

As the words fell, the Black Judge slowly rose, stepping out of the conference room, his coattails dragging a scythe-like shadow on the ground.

Lastly, Lan Ou stood alone in the center of the conference room.

He took a deep breath, thinking, “Since Xizi Yue couldn’t locate Ash using the pre-set location card, there’s only one possibility–it’s the same as when I tried using the anchor sunglasses before, I couldn’t locate the position of that meeting space of the Witch Church either. But how could she be there…”

With that thought, he slowly raised his eyes, “Regardless, I can only rely on Shi Neian now.”

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