Transform into a magical girl after getting off work

"Zhū" is dead, died so abruptly that everyone failed to react in time.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

Prior to this, to thoroughly investigate the disappearance of the Cat Tail Squad, the Investigation Institute had not only dispatched the patrol Magician Emerald Sparrow to the scene but also sent two additional investigation teams.

These two new investigation teams set out from the Magic Kingdom, traveling day and night due to the urgency of the mission. Although these Magical Girls had done their utmost, reaching Bai'an City as quickly as possible, none had anticipated just how speedy the Magician Emerald Sparrow would be.

Having arrived in Bai'an City the day before, by the next morning she had located the enemy's lair, and by that evening she had resolved everything, humans and lair alike, and also rescued the target of this mission—the Cat Tail Squad.

This left these Magical Girls both admiring and disappointed: admiring because Emerald Sparrow's actions were very sleek and cool, quickly uncovering the truth and disposing of the enemy, which is always the aim of the Magical Girls from the Investigation Institute; and disappointed because the case was closed even before they arrived, essentially making their journey a wasted effort.

This sense of disappointment, combined with their hatred towards the enemy, ultimately turned into redirected anger.

The subsequent Magical Girls from the Investigation Institute carried out a devastating carpet-style strike against the Black Ash Dawn power that still remained in Bai'an City.

With the death of Zhū, the Black Ash Dawn in Bai'an City had become leaderless and scattered. Without their only leader and lacking the strength to contend with the Magical Girls, they naturally fell apart and were thoroughly defeated.

At first, there were some heretics who had gained the ability to transform, stubbornly resisting in corners, attempting to use the power of the Remnant Beasts to escape fate, but in the end, they could not avoid death when encircled by Magical Girls, and were summarily executed. The remaining members, upon learning of Zhū and others' deaths, dutifully chose to surrender—without any means to counter the fury of a group of Magical Girls.

The conspiracy that had been planned in Bai'an City for many years was finally exposed, causing a shock to the entire magic side of Bai'an City.

Ordinary Magicians couldn't know what the people of Black Ash Dawn had done, but that didn't stop them from learning about a highly dangerous Remnant Beast that had silently slaughtered so many lives. The incident became widely known because it affected just too many people.

According to the Abnormal Strategy Bureau's subsequent incomplete statistics, due to the schemes of Zhū and others, as many as 400 civilians lost their lives, directly or indirectly, in their lair.

It also became the most severe large-scale Remnant Beast attack in Bai'an City in nearly a decade, with an impact far worse than that of any visible Remnant Beast attack.

The reason no one had noticed anything amiss was that these cases had all been concealed within the frequent Remnant Beast attacks. Many civilians who encountered attacks at various scenes and fled in panic were bewitched by Zhū's ability, unknowingly falling into the traps he had prepared and thus becoming the "casualties" who disappeared.

No one knew that these people could have avoided death and even when the Abnormal Strategy Bureau marked them as "casualties," they were still struggling on the brink of death in the lair of the Remnant Beasts.

With so many people involved and the scope so wide, the incident naturally made everyone in the magical side of Bai'an City feel insecure. For a time, most capable Magicians chose to move away to live in other places, simply because the incident that occurred here was too horrifying.

However, with the collapse of Zhū's lair, a very few survivors were able to live on.

Among these survivors were Magical Girls directly rescued by Emerald Sparrow, as well as Abnormal Strategy Bureau staff who had strayed into the area, and a handful of civilians. Civilians would receive appropriate consolation and compensation, while the surviving staff, after completing the relevant evidence collection, would be granted a long paid vacation and comprehensive psychological treatment.

As for the Magical Girls from the investigation teams, led by Cat Tail, that territory was beyond the scope of the Abnormal Strategy Bureau's jurisdiction.

They would be returned to the Magic Kingdom, which would then undertake attempts to treat and rehabilitate them.

Because they had been trapped in the lair for too long and suffered severe exhaustion of their Magic Power, which damaged their true selves... It remained questionable whether these Magical Girls could return to the front lines to fight again.

However, before the subsequent personnel from the Investigation Institute took her back to the Magic Kingdom, Cat Tail, who had been in a coma the entire time, briefly regained consciousness once.

Upon learning that her rescuers were Lantern and Emerald Sparrow, she expressed her thanks with a feeble body, and she also relayed another message to Emerald Sparrow:

"Patrol Magician, the situation in Bai'an City is just a minor reflection; their planning here may have been foiled, but please be careful. Based on our previous investigations, at least four other cities are experiencing very abnormal incidents."

This became her last message to Emerald Sparrow before returning to the Magic Kingdom.

She relayed her investigative findings to Emerald Sparrow in the briefest of words before her imprisonment in Bai'an City, not mentioning anything about a handover process. The implication was that she was attributing all the merit to Emerald Sparrow as a sign of her gratitude.

Emerald Sparrow wished to say that she didn't need the other to do this, but after Cat Tail finished speaking, she fell back into a coma, and it was unclear whether this was due to a genuine lack of energy or simply a refusal to give Emerald Sparrow a chance to argue.