Chapter 342: Don’t Run! Charge at the Car!

The white-haired girl couldn’t help complaining, “Is this really something I can use?”

It looked incredibly powerful... but if she couldn’t use it or learn it, what was the point?

Lin Guang said calmly, “You can.”

“How do I—”

“?!”

The white-haired girl looked up and was astonished to find a rugged, military-green open-top Jeep suddenly sitting twenty meters in front of her.

The angelic pink-haired girl was in the driver’s seat. At some point, she had put on a pair of black aviator sunglasses, and her whole aura had changed in an instant.

Vivi’s mouth fell open. “Y-y-y-y-y-you, what are you going to do?!”

Vrrr—

The Jeep’s engine suddenly let out a deafening roar, and black smoke billowed from its exhaust pipe.

Then it took off.

In an instant, the Jeep kicked up a skyful of sand in the desert and became a blur. Without accelerating at all, it hurtled straight toward Vivi at the terrifying speed of two hundred kilometers per hour, showing no mercy!

“Holy shit!!”

Vivi’s pupils shrank to pinpricks. She could practically smell death.

Ten meters.

Five meters.

Three meters.

Two meters.

The front of the car was getting closer and closer.

At this life-or-death moment, the things she had just learned flashed through her mind like a current running through her. The newly awakened spell core trembled faintly.

Activating the spirit outfit.

Demolition spell.

She roared in her mind.

Move, damn legs!!

At the very instant only one meter remained,

a violent flash of orange-yellow light flickered across her feet.

Boom!!

It felt as if a bomb had gone off between her legs. Vivi suddenly felt an unimaginable force surge through her body.

Orange-yellow light flashed across her, and the white-haired girl darted sideways far faster than she had expected, dodging the car by a hair’s breadth.

She stumbled a few steps through the sand, still wearing a look of panic.

...So fast!!

What had she just done?!

Was this activating the spirit outfit?

“Not bad.”

Before she could react, Lin Guang’s voice reached her again.

Vivi roared, “What do you mean, ‘not bad’? I almost died!!”

“It’s fine. You won’t die. It’ll only hurt a little.”

She was about to argue when she saw the green Jeep speeding away make an impossibly sharp turn and come charging back.

This time, it was even faster.

The pink-haired girl sat in the driver’s seat, gripping the steering wheel with one hand. With the other, she nudged her sunglasses, and the lenses flashed with an eerie glint.

“Don’t run! Charge at the car!”

“AAAAAAAAAH!!!”

…………

After an unknown amount of time,

the scorching sea of sand vanished, replaced by a pure-white space.

The white-haired girl lay sprawled on the ground, panting heavily. Her chest, more developed than most girls her age, heaved violently, but there was something almost dead in her orange-yellow eyes.

...She felt like she was about to turn into pale white ash.

It took a full ten minutes for Vivi’s pupils to gradually refocus.

Then she saw that the pink-haired figure had somehow appeared beside her. She was looking down at Vivi, still wearing those sunglasses.

“Uh... ah...”

Vivi’s voice was feeble. “You... are you a demon...?”

The other girl shook her head, her pink hair swaying gently. “I’m a magical girl.”

Looking at that still-calm, almost adorably vacant, exquisite face, the white-haired girl didn’t even have the strength to get angry.

If she hadn’t been so unwilling to get up, and if she’d had the energy to speak, she would have given her a piece of her mind.

For now, all she could do was stubbornly give her a tiny piece of her mind in her heart.

Vivi didn’t think she was ungrateful.

Because what she’d just gone through really was training straight out of hell!

Put simply... that Jeep had kept driving back and forth, crashing into Vivi over and over.

Then Vivi had to draw on the magic power in her body and use the technique she’d just learned, activating the spirit outfit, together with her Demolition spell, to find a way to dodge the Jeep as it rammed and ran her over.

It might sound simple, but according to Vivi...

—There was no way a human being could do that, okay?!

First of all, the technique itself was incredibly difficult.

Even after the meditation technique had been altered and her contract with the other girl had twice transformed her ability to control magic power, the technique was still far too difficult. It was like being asked to solve math problems she’d never been able to do before.

If you didn’t know how, you just didn’t know how!!

Even though the entire technique and all its instructions had been implanted in her soul, Vivi’s first attempts were always clumsy and uneven, and sometimes it worked while other times it didn’t...

By comparison, controlling a tenth-grade weapon was child’s play.

And whenever she failed to activate the spirit outfit, the Jeep, which was driving faster than something that could fly, would either send her flying or simply run her over.

Teresa had somehow used some principle and spell to keep Vivi’s body completely intact and her magic power fully replenished inside this virtual space.

But she still had to experience the pain of every bone and every bit of flesh in her body breaking, the Spirit Outfit field going out of control, and her own Demolition spell exploding inside her...

That alone was more than enough torture.

The worst part was that even after the Jeep ran her over, the pink-haired menace called Teresa wouldn’t give her even a moment to recover!

Even when the pain had only just subsided and her mind was still completely blank, she would turn around and see the other girl driving toward her in sunglasses.

After Vivi had been turned into Vivi-chan more than a dozen times in a row, she’d even given up on trying to activate the spirit outfit for a while.

—Whether I simulate the Spirit Outfit field or not, I can’t use it anyway. If I just grit my teeth and channel all the magic power I’ve cultivated so far into my spell, I’ll be able to dodge the Jeep even without activating the spirit outfit in time!!

And then...

Vivi despairingly realized that, somehow, the other girl was controlling the Jeep’s speed with terrifying precision every single time.

As long as Vivi didn’t simulate a Spirit Outfit field and use that impossibly difficult technique, the Jeep would always go just a little faster than her fastest dodge, even when she gave it everything she had.

She wouldn’t even let Vivi slack off. The only thing Vivi could do was drill that technique into her bones.

In the end, she’d been pushed to the verge of madness, just as she was now.

Looking at Vivi’s utterly lifeless eyes, the pink-haired girl spoke in an even tone. “In this space, no matter how badly your body is injured or how exhausted you get, you’ll recover instantly. That makes this the most efficient way to do extreme training.”

After lying on the ground for a long while, the white-haired girl finally gathered enough energy to glare at the other girl’s pretty face. “Then you try it! Do you have any idea how much it hurts?!”

“You said it yourself. You’d gladly go along with anything, even if it meant using your body as a sacrifice.”

Vivi was left speechless for a moment, unable to find anything to say in response.

“And besides...”

The pink-haired girl reached out, took off her sunglasses, and looked at her.

Her angelic face was still perfectly calm, and her orange-yellow eyes showed little emotion. She said placidly, “At this level, I don’t feel anything at all.”