READ NOVEL ONLINE Chapter 249
So, the two magical girls had breakfast and even decided on lunch on the spot during that time.
Meanwhile, on the monsters’ spaceship, the Recovery Room Monsters were busily moving around due to an unexpected—well, actually, foreseen—commotion.
Magical Girl Sun, interrogation.
The two words were intertwined, indicating a situation that had been somewhat anticipated.
The Evaluation Monsters returned to the Recovery Room in a mentally collapsed state within less than an hour.
After all the monsters who had improved left, the Intensive Care Room, which had been empty for a long time, woke up with a loud noise as power was supplied.
Naturally, it was the Medic Tentacle who took control of the situation.
After firmly gripping the drooling and trembling monsters with a bunch of tentacles, it also mixed in with its subordinates to operate the treatment room’s equipment.
Everyone was busy with the Intensive Care Room, which was finally up and running again.
“Uh, press that three times to continuously administer sedatives and muscle relaxants… You, go contact the Control Room officer once.”
“Yes.”
“Should we also contact the spaceship that sent the Evaluation Monsters?”
“Yeah, right… We should contact that spaceship too.”
But perhaps because everyone had expected it?
The Recovery Room Monsters remained remarkably calm even in such a situation.
In fact, they were handling tasks even before the Medic Tentacle’s instructions, clicking away at their work.
They even had enough leisure to chat.
“By the way, their work ethic is really solid. Even if I had that kind of power, I don’t think I could do it like that.”
A Recovery Room Monster’s thoughts as it looked at a monster lying in the Intensive Care Room with unfocused visual organs.
It had seen the gruesome results Sun had created in the Intensive Care Room several times before, but it still couldn’t get used to it, muttering to itself.
Even the Medic Tentacle, as an officer, seemed to deeply empathize with that part, calmly speaking while operating the equipment.
“Right, it’s not like the mind is instant food… It’s not easy to break someone down like this in just five minutes.”
Tap tap, the indifferent tip of a tentacle touched the monster drooling on the bed.
The body swayed limply, as if it had no will to live.
One monster, suddenly curious, asked the Medic Tentacle.
“What was that woman’s actual job on Earth?”
“Oh my, as if she’d tell me that.”
With a short interjection, the Medic Tentacle sighed in disbelief as it spoke.
Although it had had various conversations with Magical Girl Sun, it had never dared to ask such a question.
After all, while magical girls sometimes show their pre-transformation appearances, that’s only after retirement.
Still active, no… to the monsters, she seemed like an eternal being. There was no way he could dare to peek behind her mask.
Not only could he not ask directly, but it was also a topic she would never bring up herself.
But the monsters could make some guesses.
Thinking about the agreed-upon monster appearance times, the Medic Tentacle spoke.
“Looking at the time we negotiated before, she must at least have a part-time job.”
The negotiated time.
A secret negotiation with Sun, where the monsters had set a time to go to Earth.
Recently, that humiliating time negotiation had faded a bit, but as the one who had directly negotiated, the Medic Tentacle couldn’t easily forget that time.
The monster who had asked the question also belatedly recalled the negotiation time and subtly agreed.
“Ah, that could be… So, when our treatment room was busiest, she was probably a middle or high school student?”
“Maybe, but we just didn’t talk about it back then.”
And so, the Recovery Room Monsters, officers and soldiers alike, spent their time speculating about Sun’s pre-transformation job.
Meanwhile, inside the spaceship that had sent the Evaluation Monsters to Earth.
They had thought the Evaluation Monsters would return after completing their mission without issue… but upon hearing that all the combatants were incapacitated and mentally collapsed, the ship was thrown into chaos.
“No, don’t lie to me, seriously.”
“It’s true, they’re all lying in our Intensive Care Room right now.”
“Ah, how am I supposed to report this?”
A relatively casual conversation between soldiers, not officers.
Though their tone was light, the content of the conversation was heavy.
The soldier who received the report from the Earth-bound spaceship was in a difficult situation.
After all, the Evaluation Monster dispatch ship had pride in its soldiers being more capable than those from other remote ships.
To show the difference in power, they had sent elite soldiers—equivalent to special forces.
In other words, they had sent the most renowned elite combatants.
“Ah, we’re screwed.”
The monster from the dispatch ship, knowing the internal situation well, scratched its head with its nails after receiving the call, repeatedly sighing “Ah” before letting out a deep sigh.
Regardless of the ship’s mood, a report had to be made.
After the voice call ended through the thin hologram panel, the monster walked with a dejected and cautious step to another department.
In this ship, where heads were stiff with muscle, only a limited number of monsters could handle office work.
Though inter-department communication could be done through panels, the ship’s policy of “reports must be made face-to-face” led to unnecessary steps.
The door labeled “Dispatch Review Room” opened with a push.
“Control Room soldier Huryeok, here on business for the Dispatch Review Room.”
“Yeah, come on in.”
The officer of the Dispatch Review Room, lounging back in his chair with a carefree attitude.
The lazy demeanor of a man in power was evident.
The officer, with half-closed eyes, indifferently greeted the soldier.
Huryeok, filled with tension, took a deep breath to deliver the bad news.
Finally, his vocal cords twitched as he began to speak.
“Uh, sir… We received a call from the Recovery Room of the ship we dispatched last time.”
“Yeah, what about it?”
As the soldier spoke, the officer continued as if he didn’t expect an answer.
“Obviously, they got disqualified, right?”
“Uh, no… It’s not that.”
The officer, with an arrogant attitude, confidently assumed they had been disqualified.
As if he already knew without hearing.
Huryeok opened his mouth to correct him, but the officer, unconcerned, continued with his own thoughts.
“Of course, there’s no way our soldiers could lose to those primitive lifeforms that can’t even properly venture into space.”
Stories about the Earth-bound ship were circulating everywhere.
The planet Earth was only handled by that ship.
A ship where a perfectly fine monster would enter and come out as a general hospital.
A ship where even the higher-ups could lose their heads if they messed up.
It seemed like the officer’s personal feelings were mixed in, unable to accept that there could be a place superior to his own ship.
Huryeok was certain. This was just simple slander.
But he couldn’t give a false report.
“The soldiers we dispatched were all defeated and are now in their Intensive Care Room…”
As the officer’s tirade against the other ship subsided, Huryeok laid out the truth piece by piece, shattering his confidence.
The officer, as if the gears in his head had stopped, froze.
Clearly panicked, he stood up from his seat and shouted a beat too late.
“…What?!”
After the report, the officer headed to the Earth-bound ship in a personal medium-sized ship.
Huryeok watched the scene from outside the Control Room window.
Looking at the officer’s medium-sized ship, which couldn’t be satisfied with just a report and had to see for himself, Huryeok sipped his drink.
He felt more at ease with the soldiers from other ships he had never met than with his own ship’s officers.
He sent a separate message to the Recovery Room monsters who had kindly reported.
“Our officer is heading your way now. He’s probably going to check on our soldiers, so please inform your officer in advance.”
“Ah… Yes, thank you for letting us know.”
“No problem.”
“Tentacle, the officer from the dispatch ship is coming. What should we do?”
The chatter from the Earth-bound ship came through the panel as the call was about to end.
Huryeok thought, ‘Does he have to see it with his own eyes to be satisfied?’ and let out a sigh mixed with ridicule and mockery.
‘What a nuisance to other ships.’
Leaning back in his chair with a bored expression, he thought.
Even after some time had passed, the Dispatch Review Room officer was nowhere to be seen.
A day, two days, three days in Earth time.
“Have you seen the Dispatch Review Room officer lately?”
Noticing the officer’s absence, Huryeok casually asked a monster he was close to in the cabin.
“Ah, you haven’t heard?”
“Huh?”
His fellow monster, as if he knew something, started to explain.
“He’s hospitalized, on sick leave, so he can’t come here now.”
Finally hearing the vague rumor that the officer was hospitalized and on sick leave, Huryeok.
But he just let out an interested “Hmm” and speculated that it must be related to the recent events.
Starting with the Evaluation Monster ship, rumors began to spread to other ships, centered around the Dispatch Review Room officer and soldiers who had just returned to duty.
The monsters of the Earth-bound ship were dealing with a monster they couldn’t possibly handle.