My Brother Can’t Possibly Be a Fallen Magical Girl Chapter 2 Part 2

 Chapter 2: Nursing Home (Page 2)

In the courtyard, Bai Yuze and Peng Liang were chatting idly.

"Xiao Peng, I heard your team is having a celebration banquet, all gathered together, eating and drinking to your heart's content. Why did you run out here?" Bai Yuze asked casually. After all this time, he had more or less pieced together Peng Liang's identity, and the latter had never made any effort to hide it from him.

"Want me to invite you along?"

"If Captain Peng is sincerely inviting me, I wouldn’t say no."

"Sure, join the Abyss Handling Security Bureau, and I’ll take you there."

"Save it. You know me—I’m just a lazy freeloader, not the type to sacrifice myself for others. If you recruit me, who knows? I might end up joining the Abyss someday... Then you’d get to play the hero by taking me down, and I’d be the one losing out."

Bai Yuze waved his hand, dismissing the idea without a second thought.

This wasn’t the first time Peng Liang had extended an olive branch to Bai Yuze, but the latter had always refused. Peng Liang understood, though. After all, Bai Yuze had a younger sister in high school who relied on him entirely. As for the latter part of Bai Yuze’s remark, Peng Liang took it as a joke. Given how Bai Yuze had cared for the elderly in the nursing home over the years, he couldn’t possibly be that kind of person.

"Fine, if you don’t want to come, that’s your choice. The door to the Special Operations Department is always open for you. The third wave of the Black Tide is finally over, and the spatial rifts have been sealed. We can finally stop living in constant fear. Who knows when the fourth wave will come, though? Damn Abyss Gates, damn Disaster Beasts..."

"Stop complaining. Those leftover Disaster Beasts might be hiding in some dark corner, waiting to strike when you least expect it. And... never mind."

Bai Yuze leaned against the wall, pulling out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket. But when he glanced up and saw a few familiar elderly faces, he quietly put the pack away.

There were things he wanted to say but couldn’t. Every time he tried, a sharp, stabbing pain would shoot through his head, as if someone were driving needles into his brain, robbing him of the ability to speak. It often took him a while to recover.

"Don’t worry. If a regular civilian like you can think of it, we’ve already considered it. Every district has several A-level Judicator squads on standby. If those pests dare show their faces, we won’t hesitate to wipe them out."

Peng Liang noticed Bai Yuze’s aborted attempt to smoke and pulled out two cigarettes from his own pocket. He handed one to Bai Yuze and stuck the other between his lips.

*Click.*

The flame flickered out as Peng Liang took a deep drag. He pointed to the smoking area sign on the wall and smiled.

"Brother Ze, if you want to smoke, just smoke. This is the smoking area; it’s fine. But honestly, you should quit. As a teacher, what kind of example are you setting for the future of our nation?"

"Pfft, you’re one to talk. Every time we go out for late-night snacks, you’re puffing away like a chimney. Two or three packs a night—I’d say you’re more likely to die of lung cancer than get taken out by a Disaster Beast."

"You don’t get it. It’s the stress. Ugh, you have no idea how cunning those Disaster Beasts are... Never mind, what’s the point of explaining this to a civilian?"

Peng Liang immediately retorted but stopped mid-sentence, shaking his head with a look that said, *I bear too much responsibility to bother explaining to ordinary folks like you.*

"Hmph!" Bai Yuze snorted coldly, mercilessly bringing up Peng Liang’s past. "Oh, right, right. I wonder who it was that was bawling their eyes out by the Mi River back then."

"You promised not to bring that up after I gave you that pack of Huazi last time," Peng Liang snapped, his face darkening.

Bai Yuze didn’t respond. He simply lit the cigarette dangling from his lips, a faint smile playing on his face.

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**The First Black Tide Crisis**

The day after East City, with the support of America, insisted on discharging nuclear wastewater, a spatial rift suddenly appeared in the Kyoto District of East City. From it emerged monstrous creatures known as Disaster Beasts. These creatures were thick-skinned, enormous, and fed on humans, displaying a cruel and savage nature. The more they ate, the faster they evolved.

To humanity’s despair, conventional firearms and weapons were largely ineffective against them. In the end, it was Xia Country’s superweapon—the Orbital Particle Beam—that saved the day.

In a tense countdown, a blinding azure light streaked across the sky like a divine and terrifying thunderbolt. With a deafening explosion, the red dots on the radar vanished. Amid the cheers of countless people, the Disaster Beasts were eradicated.