Magical Girl Heavy Dependence

Chapter 17, One Magical Girl Leaves a Deep Impression

"Please wait a moment!"

In the company corridor, Huiya... no, Yanxi shouted after Cheng Chen.

She had already deactivated her magical girl form. The girl wore an inconspicuous gray tracksuit, her hair tied in a simple ponytail that reached just to the nape of her neck. Her eyes were no longer the striking purple they had been when she was a magical girl, but they remained deep, cold, unique, and captivating.

The man paused slightly as he reached the corner of the corridor and glanced at her sideways.

"Producer, I..."

She opened her mouth, but couldn't express her doubts.

Finally, the words that came to mind were: "Thank you!"

"madness."

A wake-up call.

Yan Xi suddenly snapped out of her daze, the gratitude she had felt during the meeting instantly shattered by the cold rebuke.

"Irritable, arrogant, sensitive, and insecure." Cheng Chen scrutinized her. "Lacking a sense of the big picture, reckless, thoughtless, and impulsive..."

"Entering the park alone, isolating yourself and putting yourself in danger—that's the first mistake. It's a group operation, yet you want the bounty but don't even try to recruit teammates. Are you afraid someone will steal your credit?"

"When a rose appears before you, you are not on guard. It can easily provoke you and make you lose your temper. A cat with its fur standing on end and its wagging tail will only be laughed at, not respected."

"When the blue crocodile appeared, you should have fought back with all your might, but instead you closed your eyes and waited to die. In the future, when facing opponents stronger than you, will you simply offer your neck for slaughter and surrender without resistance?"

"At the meeting just now, you didn't even have the courage to defend yourself. Were you still wallowing in self-pity and feeling it was unfair?"

Cheng Chen showed no mercy, "Don't feel wronged. You've driven yourself to this dead end step by step."

Yan Xi felt a surge of anger, and her instinctive rebelliousness made her raise her eyes.

But in the end, he remained silent.

"But it's not entirely without merit."

Cheng Chen's voice softened slightly, "You're still young, don't waste your talents."

After saying that, he left.

This time, Yan Xi did not try to stop him.

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"Shouldn't this be a great opportunity to get closer? You just won over a lot of goodwill."

Jiang Fei appeared behind the corner at some point, and pressed the elevator button when Cheng Chen approached.

Cheng Chen stepped forward and stood beside her, expressionless: "I don't need a little princess who can only be slightly obedient after being spoiled, and the company doesn't need one either."

"So you chose to provoke rebellion by scolding? Heh heh, a little trick for conquering magical girls, Master Evil."

Jiang Fei covered her lips in a particularly effeminate manner, looking at him with a teasing expression.

Cheng Chen delivered a karate chop to her forehead.

"Ouch."

Jiang Fei covered her head with both hands and screamed exaggeratedly.

As the elevator descended, the two figures were reflected on the silver-gray elevator car wall.

"They came for you."

Jiang Fei suddenly said.

"Hmm." Cheng Chen looked down at his phone. "You're deliberately testing me to confirm my identity. Someone in the company is tipping off your competitors."

When a monster encounters danger, it can quickly extract magic power from its body to increase its rank.

However, the transformation from the first-tier "Shadow" to the fourth-tier "Evil God" is not something that a calamity beast can do on its own instincts.

Someone is supporting the blue crocodile behind the scenes.

"Even if Gu Wu leaves, there are still many of her former subordinates who have a good relationship with her among the people who remain in the company." Jiang Fei nodded slightly. "The company employees don't know your identity, but the fact that Yin Fu Entertainment has a new vice president can't be kept secret... I just didn't expect her to act so quickly."

"She's been your partner for so many years, she knows your personality very well."

Cheng Chen put away her phone, looked up, and said, "Any unstable factors must be eliminated immediately; this is Gu Wu's habit."

"That's why habits are hard to change."

Jiang Fei smiled helplessly, "Your return couldn't be kept a secret for long anyway. In the past six years, the magical girls of Yincheng have all changed. Those who had a grudge against you back then have all 'graduated'. Her hurried attempts to confirm your identity can't really do anything."

"After all, I'm just a novice when it comes to company operations."

Cheng Chen readily admitted it.

Unless competitors are eliminated directly through physical means, the return of the "Evil Master" cannot change the current business landscape of Yinfu Entertainment.

Being eager to eliminate the unknown is just a personal habit of Gu Wu; she has always been this kind of person.

However, Cheng Chen wasn't very familiar with her. It was only during the time he spent all his time with Jiang Fei that she had once thrown a tantrum at him, treating him like a blond guy who had stolen his best friend.

"What's this 'Magical Girl Rose' thing?"

"Since the three great magical kingdoms appeared, they have been recruiting suitable members from among ordinary magical girls. Rose was selected about half a year ago to be an apprentice arbitrator of the Kaleidoscope Prison. Her teacher is the one you just met, Arbitrator Teikou."

"Is it a traditional master-apprentice relationship?"

Cheng Chen smiled and continued listening to Jiang Fei.

"The Black Judge rarely shows his face. The adjudicators are responsible for handling the daily affairs of the Kaleidoscope Prison... Although the three great nations are arrogant, they are ultimately magical girls. As long as we do a good job of verbal and etiquette, they are happy to show their 'strength' and help the association."

"We shouldn't waste such a windfall. The association requested assistance from the Kaleidoscope Prison before organizing this cleanup operation. However, it's hard to say whether they were specifically there to test you or if they were just going along with it for other purposes."

Jiang Fei's statement was vague.

"Going with the flow?" Cheng Chen raised an eyebrow.

"Guwu certainly had a compelling reason to test your strengths and weaknesses. She must have been involved in this incident." Jiang Fei nodded slightly. "But your decision to have Huiya and the others participate in the extermination was purely impromptu. If we go back in time, even if she was trying to test you, it would be impossible for her to have prepared a 'Disaster Beast - Blue Crocodile' two weeks in advance."

"The association is now a mixed bag, with all sorts of people, and there are always undercurrents and unpredictable events running through it."

She paused briefly, then added, "The association is the association, and we are ourselves. We have no right to get involved in those messy things... We are a commercial company, and it's not appropriate for us to have a conflict with the three major nations or the association right now."

"I know what I'm doing."

Cheng Chen's words were concise and to the point.

He quickly changed the subject: "What's the situation on Guwu's side right now?"

These past few days he has focused his energy on adapting to his work, and apart from Fairy Demoness's "Fairy Dream Group", he doesn't know much about Yinfu Entertainment's competitors.

"She used the team she brought from here to start a new company, and it's well-funded." Jiang Fei seemed quite knowledgeable. "It's still in the preparatory stage, busy recruiting and building a team, and doesn't have any specific external business yet."

"I see."

The elevator doors opened, and Cheng Chen said goodbye to Jiang Fei. "Could you talk to the association for me? I don't want the title 'Evil Lord' to be all over Yincheng in just a few days."

Jiang Fei nodded: "I'll figure something out... Good luck with your work, producer."

Cheng Chen's lips twitched involuntarily. He waved to her and walked towards the company gate.

A brand new magical girl has made a deep impression on you.

[New playable character added: Magical Girl - Ejak]

She harbors extremely complex feelings towards you: hostility, awe, gratitude, confusion... Curiosity is the first step in her descent. Evil Demon King, persevere and make her irresistibly addicted to you.

【Magical Girl・Painted Crow】

Current dependency level: 0%

After a long while, the system issued another notification, this time from the mentor's lively female voice.

After analyzing the system with their mentor, they modified the underlying architecture of the [Demon Raising System] and added a [Magical Girl Dependency Plugin]. As long as a new magical girl is bound to the system, Cheng Chen can connect with her [Wish] through dependency and borrow her magical potential.

This is exactly the method he uses to break through to higher levels!

By inputting magical girls into the existing system, the girls' dependence is transformed into "sublimated magic power," thereby breaking through the rank bottleneck.

To verify its feasibility, he used up 100% of the dependency provided by Jiang Fei in the early stages of the experiment.

Thanks to these experimental materials, Cheng Chen and his mentor were able to verify the feasibility of "dependency shift" and produce the finished plug-in.

Unfortunately, it's not easy to gain the genuine approval and reliance of magical girls.

He closed his eyes, pondering how to further understand and connect with the trainees.

"You're too impatient."

Cheng Chen shook his head to himself.

It's only been a few days, and the binding with Eira has been completed, proving the system plugin is indeed effective. We can't expect a magical girl we've only met for less than a week to develop a dependence on him based on just a few words.

He quickly shook off his anxious thoughts and left the company.

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