If she absolutely had to choose one person to collect desire energy, then naturally she hoped to have Hikigaya, whose life energy was ridiculously huge, help her.
Although she had no real interaction with Hikigaya, she still knew a lot about his deeds, and she knew that asking Hikigaya for help with this kind of thing could absolutely not go wrong.
"Sorry, I'm not interested in performing in front of other people."
Facing Suzune Rione's almost pleading request, Hachiman refused without hesitation.
Although this was not the first time he had received such a request, compared to the Handsome Guy Training request from the Three Gyarus, Sakurase Shino's request, the temporary manager request from the girls' competitive swimming club, the public morals activities from the disciplinary committee, and so on, Suzune Rione's request for help collecting desire energy was actually rather ordinary.
And Suzune Rione had a beautiful appearance and an alluring body. As a goddess angel who exterminated demonkind, both her looks and temperament were completely different from ordinary people. To say that he did not want to eat Suzune Rione would absolutely be hypocritical.
Not even mentioning system tasks, just the dual boost from switching between goddess angel form and human form was already double. After eating Suzune Rione, the amplification effect of the teaching halo would definitely rise another level.
But even so, he was not someone who accepted every request that came his way. Even Vice President Yukinoshita Yukino would pick commissions, and would not take unreasonable ones she did not want to accept. Let alone him.
A task was a task, and he was he. Just because completing a task had huge benefits did not mean he had to go against his own principles to do it.
Usually, playing a bit more wildly with Iris, Lala, Shion, Kaede and the others was fine. Invisibility magic, Love Live mode, empathy bracelets, and all kinds of abilities and items combined were no problem. But letting a man watch from the side was absolutely not acceptable. This was a matter of principle.
"No interest in performing in front of other people?"
When Suzune Rione heard Hachiman say sorry, her heart almost went cold. After all, if Hachiman was unwilling to help, there was no way she could force him.
But when she heard the reason for his refusal, she froze for a moment, then her face flushed red as she hurriedly explained.
"I don't have interest in that either."
"I just don't have a way to summon the demon clan leader. I can still collect desire energy by myself!"
There were no males in the goddess realm. After coming to the human world, she had been exterminating demonkind and protecting humans. She had never even experienced that kind of thing.
If it were not for saving people today, she would not even have thought in that direction, so how could she possibly have any interest in exposing herself to others.
"Really? You can collect desire energy yourself while I'm helping?"
Hachiman looked at the valiant, sharp-featured Suzune Rione with deep suspicion.
After all, the original work was just an eroge. Many of the plot backgrounds existed purely for fan service and were not very reasonable. He had no idea whether goddess angels in this world were actually strong or not.
If you really went by the original settings, those goddess angels who were more or less brain-dead and extremely easy to exploit or threaten would have been defeated by the demon clan long ago if they were not strong enough.
Still, just earlier, Suzune Rione had believed the nonsense spouted by that bald, middle-aged Mediterranean man who had defected to the demon clan. And now her IQ suddenly came back online?
"O-of course… but first I have to seal this guy here, so he doesn't run away."
Seeing Hachiman staring straight at her, Suzune Rione, who knew what she and Hachiman would need to do later, took a deep breath, cleared the messy thoughts from her mind, and turned her head to look at the bald, middle-aged bald man who had defected to the demon clan.
She only needed this guy alive to summon the demon clan living in the spirit world. When it came to collecting desire energy, there was no need for him to watch from the side.
"This…"
The bald, middle-aged man wanted to say something, but could say nothing. He could only watch as Suzune Rione swung her spear of light and bound him in place, then watched helplessly as she blushed, hugged Hachiman, and flew away. His vision gradually blurred as he lost consciousness, and his whole body was sealed.
He never expected that even though he was the one who proposed the condition of collecting desire energy, he would not even have the qualification to take a look.
But at a time like this, could he deny it? Once he denied the method of collecting desire energy to summon demonkind, he would probably be killed immediately by the goddess angel who hated evil.
At this point, he could only place his hopes on the Hachiman that the goddess angel mentioned.
He hoped that the life energy this boy possessed really was that strong, that it really could collect desire energy equivalent to several thousand people.
If there was that much desire energy, then he should be able to summon an incomparably powerful demon clan member and defeat that arrogant goddess angel.
"Huh? Is the battle already over? This magical girl this time was pretty strong."
After Suzune Rione eagerly hugged Hachiman to go collect desire energy, the three magical girls, Hanabishi Haruka, Mizukami Sayo, and Tenkawa Kaoruko, arrived late. Looking at the wrecked company building, all three of them were a bit dumbfounded.
From the moment they sensed the outbreak of evil energy and combat here to the moment they transformed and flew over, it had only been a few minutes. How had it ended so quickly?
Actually, they also knew that this world did not have only the three of them as magical girls. There were also other magical girls active in the shadows, protecting this world together with them.
However, since everyone had their own opponents to watch over, and because everyone wanted to live peaceful, quiet lives in their daily routines, there was not much interaction between them.
The three of them were mainly classmates themselves, which was why they teamed up to form a magical girl group to fight evil forces together.
They never expected that other magical girls would eliminate evil forces so quickly. They would have to work harder too!
"Huh? There's another wave of evil energy?"
"This energy feels kind of familiar…"
"It's from the direction of the park! It seems like there's fighting over there too!"
Just as Hanabishi Haruka and the others thought they could go back and continue soaking in the bath, they suddenly sensed another surge of evil energy nearby and hurriedly flew over.
The largest park nearby, the pitch-dark and gloomy center of the park.
A girl with long golden-brown hair, wearing a red-and-white special combat outfit, was surrounded by a group of demonic-energy-filled vines. She kept firing out white, holy purifying energy representing the power of a goddess angel.
However, it had almost no effect against the crazily spreading vines. No sooner had she beaten them back than the demonic vines, radiating thick evil aura, surged forward again.
She wanted to retreat, but having only awakened not long ago, she felt completely outmatched against such an opponent.
Perhaps she should go find Teacher Rione for help. These demon things should be easy for Teacher Rione to deal with.
But if she left now, the golden-brown-haired goddess angel, Majima Yuuri, glanced out of the corner of her eye at the ordinary residents lying unconscious on the ground around her, and fell into hesitation again.
If she stayed here to draw the monsters' fire, it was fine. But if she left, that evil organization would definitely target these ordinary people.
Majima Yuuri once again threw a powerful punch to drive back the vines closing in around her, panting as she looked at the black evil figure calmly watching her sorry state from afar, and the black mysterious creature floating in midair.
If she were a normal person, she would have retreated already. Staying here would only exhaust all her energy and then end in defeat. Not only would she fail to protect ordinary people, she would also lose herself. But in Majima Yuuri's heart, that concept did not exist at all. She only felt that she could not abandon these ordinary people.
As a goddess angel, how could she abandon ordinary people being harmed by evil.
"This one is different from the Angel we met before. This one is called a goddess angel, a combat organism from one of the spirit worlds, the goddess realm. But this goddess angel looks like she has only recently awakened and is relatively weak. She is also not from the same faction as the magical girls we are dealing with."
Beside Hiiragi Utena, who had transformed into a female executive of the evil organization, the mysterious creature that looked like a black cat took notes while explaining to Hiiragi Utena.
There were so many forces in the human world of the material realm that she had to take a lot of notes.
Only by clearly understanding all magical girl intelligence could they defeat all magical girls.
"She's not a magical girl we need to deal with? Then shouldn't we stop attacking her?", Hiiragi Utena shrank back nervously, holding a black short whip, the Whip of Domination. From time to time, she lightly flicked the whip at the vines beside her, turning them into monsters to attack Majima Yuuri.
But seeing the pitiful goddess angel being beaten into a sorry state by the vine monsters, she hesitated and pleaded with the mysterious creature, Venalita, beside her.
She clearly liked magical girls, yet now she had to act as a villain and go against magical girls.
"No! You are an executive of the evil organization, the natural enemy of magical girls. How can you show mercy to magical girls? If you hold back during battle and get caught, the one who gets captured will be you."
Venalita rejected Hiiragi Utena's request without hesitation. As she shook the small hand hidden under her long sleeves, she scolded Hiiragi Utena.
"If you plead for magical girls again, I'll upload all the videos of you transforming and attacking magical girls onto the internet."
She had really broken her heart over Hiiragi Utena. The goddess angel on the other side was relatively strong, and with only two magic stars, Hiiragi Utena could not handle her. So she deliberately took advantage of the battle over there to let Hiiragi Utena deal with this rookie first.
Who would have thought that with hostages restraining things on the side, Hiiragi Utena would take so long even against this rookie goddess angel who had just awakened and could only take hits passively. The battle over there was already over, yet this side was still not settled.
"Uu… I… I understand…"
Seeing Venalita threaten her with videos at the slightest disagreement, Hiiragi Utena could only let out a miserable sound, looking with extreme sympathy at the golden-brown-haired goddess angel being whipped by vine branches while enduring the pain and desperately fighting back.
Although goddess angels looked not much different from magical girls, just with different names, seeing a goddess angel being beaten like this stirred some strange emotion inside her, yet she never realized what that emotion actually was.
On the other side, goddess angel Majima Yuuri could no longer hold on. She felt that she might be done for.
Should she use her final move?
Teacher Rione had taught her that when there was no other way, there was a final method that could burn all energy to release an incomparably powerful strike.
However, because it burned all energy, there was the risk of transforming.
Once she failed to eliminate the enemy, not only would her true identity be exposed, she would also lose any chance to retreat.
But at this moment, red, blue, and yellow lights suddenly appeared in front of Majima Yuuri, knocking back the vine monsters in one blow.
"You are?"
Majima Yuuri, who was just about to use her final move, stared blankly at the three figures in front of her.
"We are the magical girl group Tres… cough! cough! Anyway, just call us Magia Magenta, Magia Azul, and Magia Sulfur. We happened to sense the battle here and rushed over."
Hanabishi Haruka explained their identities to Majima Yuuri while warily watching Hiiragi Utena.
Halfway through speaking, she realized that their idol group name in society was also Tres Magia, so she hurriedly corrected herself.
"Uh, thank you for saving me. I am the goddess angel Angeltear."
Seeing Hanabishi Haruka and the others announce their names, Majima Yuuri shyly gave her own name as well.
When out and about, magical girls all had their own stage names. But proactively saying she was a goddess angel still made her a bit embarrassed.
Although she did not know whether her age qualified her to be a magical girl, using names like goddess and angel was indeed a bit embarrassing. It was just that Teacher Rione seemed to have no such concept, and she was too embarrassed to say out loud that she wanted to change her title.
"It's you again. This time we won't let you escape."
"This time we're definitely going to teach you a good lesson!"
Mizukami Sayo and the others did not care about Majima Yuuri's goddess angel title at all. After a simple greeting, they fixed their gaze firmly on Hiiragi Utena over there.
To them, whether magical girl or goddess angel, they were all good companions fighting evil and protecting humanity.
Being still in their chuunibyou years, they had no sense of embarrassment about this kind of thing. Moreover, they themselves were upright magical girls.
Compared to that, all their attention was on the evil female executive holding a short whip and wearing an extremely revealing queen outfit.
They had already crossed paths with this evil female executive once before.
But last time, they were deceived by her timid, pitiful look and failed to strike in time, letting her escape.
Now that they saw her committing evil again, they absolutely would not be fooled and let this person go.
Seeing this, goddess angel Majima Yuuri also stood united against the enemy, lining up with Hanabishi Haruka, Mizukami Sayo, and Tenkawa Kaoruko, staring at Hiiragi Utena and the black mysterious creature Venalita beside her.
"Four against one. The other side is playing dirty. Let's retreat first."
Seeing the magical girls ganging up again, Venalita immediately opened a dark teleportation gate and reminded Hiiragi Utena to retreat.
"Huh? Oh! Okay! Okay! Okay!"
Hiiragi Utena, who had long wanted to run, hurriedly nodded. Ignoring Mizukami Sayo, Tenkawa Kaoruko, and the other magical girls charging at them from behind, she hastily followed Venalita through the dark teleportation gate and left this place.
However, before Hiiragi Utena, who had fled through the dark teleportation gate, could fully relax, she suddenly discovered that on the other side of the gate, there was also a goddess angel?
Hiiragi Utena did not notice that Venalita, the mysterious creature who had opened the dark teleportation gate for her, had already quietly disappeared. She stared blankly at the purple-haired goddess angel dressed similarly to the golden-brown-haired one from before, and at Hachiman supporting her from behind.
'Ha-Hachiman Nii-chan?'
'What is he doing here?'
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"So they just ran away…"
Although Hanabishi Haruka and Majima Yuuri had an absolute advantage four against one against Hiiragi Utena, they were not prepared in advance. Coupled with interference from the vine monsters, they could only watch helplessly as Hiiragi Utena and the black mysterious creature Venalita left through the dark teleportation gate.
[The Center Of The Park]
"Angeltear, are you okay?"
"If there's nothing else… we're also getting ready to withdraw."
After swinging their magic staffs together to completely eliminate the vine monsters, Hanabishi Haruka, Mizukami Sayo, and Tenkawa Kaoruko exchanged glances and looked at Majima Yuuri, who was panting and in poor condition but still insisted on fighting alongside them to eliminate the vine monsters.
"No problem. Now that the battle is over, I still have some energy left to purify the scene a bit. After purifying the contamination, I'll head back too."
Majima Yuuri took a deep breath and subconsciously raised her hand to wipe her forehead. However, in her goddess angel battle form, she was not sweating. She only made that motion out of habit.
She forced herself to use purifying light on the unconscious ordinary people present, preventing them from being contaminated by evil power. Only after that did she leave the park together with Hanabishi Haruka and the others, coming to an uninhabited corner to say goodbye.
"Magia Magenta, Magia Azul, Magia Sulfur, thank you for coming to save me. If you need help next time, I'll come help you too."
"No need to thank us. Goodbye, Angeltear. Let's fight together again next time."
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