Esper X Family – Chapter 513 – The Fury Meter is Full

【Family member recognition successful. Reward: 5 attribute points.】

With the 5 attribute points beautifully credited to her account, Ye Yao felt her hypothesis had been confirmed.

She then clicked on the “Family” menu.

Within the “Magical Girl Alliance” section, a new branch seemed to have appeared. When she opened it, it was divided into the original version and the parallel world version.

That completely removed any risk of confusion.

Ye Yao shifted her gaze back to the older Mo Qiuli.

【Keywords: Retired magical girl, obscure nobody in the Esper world, still a problem child.】

【Ability: Mercury’s Gift

Mental Power: 1,030

Strength: 59

Stamina: 65

Agility: 48】

Ye Yao was taken aback.

Such low numbers!?

In the original world, Mo Qiuli had already ascended to the S-rank throne!

How come after three years, the Mo Qiuli from this world only had A-rank mental power?

Could it be that she had refused Mercury’s Gift?

Ye Yao sank into thought.

No.

Technically speaking, for a teenage girl, having A-rank mental power already made her a genius among geniuses.

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After all, when Ye Yao first met Xiao Jing, her mental power was only just over a thousand.

That meant for the average Esper, breaking through to A-rank before thirty was already considered exceptional progress.

Going further would put them into the category of “monstrous prodigy”.

The older Mo Qiuli had become an A-rank Esper in her teens, and in just three years at that. It really wasn’t that slow.

However…

Compared to the original world, it just wasn’t enough.

The stat inflation in this world was far too slow!

Once again, Ye Yao felt the extent of the changes she herself had brought about.

The reason Mo Qiuli had advanced so rapidly in the original world was twofold: first, the support and companionship that bolstered her convictions, and second, “Tong Yao’s” favoritism toward family members, which slightly enhanced her potential.

Add to that Mo Qiuli’s already overpowered ability, and that was how she became an S-rank Esper with an exclusive form skill in less than a year.

But the older Mo Qiuli of this world…

She could probably only struggle forward amidst constant denial.

Seen in this light, the suppressed inflation actually seemed possible?

In any case, those old fogies who didn’t understand magical girls were in for trouble!

While Ye Yao was analyzing all this, the older Mo Qiuli’s head felt like it was turning to mush again. Her whole mind was in a daze.

She had blurted out an agreement without thinking.

What exactly is this Magical Girl Alliance?

Although it sounded thrilling, practically the embodiment of dreams and friendship…

Hadn’t she already retired?

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Back then, the adults at the Countermeasures Bureau had told her to stop playing that childish role-play.

After all, she was gradually entering her prime years.

By all rights, she should be receiving training from an Esper mentor and become a young pillar of the new generation.

Mo Qiuli was indeed a genius, and her rapid progress had made many old-timers optimistic about her.

But unfortunately, she had disappointed everyone again and again.

Ever since retiring as a magical girl, her mental power had entered a strange state of stagnation and refused to improve any further.

This persisted for a long time.

Even the Countermeasures Bureau’s most advanced auxiliary equipment couldn’t budge her mental power in the slightest.

Thus, Mo Qiuli became a “fallen genius”.

Everyone lamented her fate and allowed her to return to normal life.

Mo Qiuli had thought that she would live out her life in mediocrity and end up accomplishing nothing.

But she had never expected that an adorable girl would invite her to form a lifelong Magical Girl Alliance!

What kind of wild development was this?

And… was this girl actually an Esper?

A magical girl without an ability was just role-playing!

The older Mo Qiuli’s mind felt chaotic. For a long while, she couldn’t utter a single word.

Just then, Ye Yao snapped out of her analysis and stared intently at the black-haired girl before her.

【Mo Qiuli is torn over whether to take back her earlier promise, but she subconsciously wanted the Magical Girl Alliance to continue.】

Seeing this familiar display of information, Ye Yao revealed a satisfied smile.

Although this ability was rather shameless, its convenience won out. It was all about efficiency!

The older Mo Qiuli finally took a deep breath and decided to just treat it as playing house with this little girl.

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“Being a magical girl isn’t child’s play, you know. First of all, you need power. Only then can you help others…”

“Skip. Skip all these grand principles. I want to know why you retired.”

Ye Yao formed a small glowing orb on her fingertip. The technique of externalizing mental power left Mo Qiuli dumbfounded.

Surely Mo Qiuli understood the significance of such a feat?

Her own so-called externalized mental power attacks were at best just the plasticity of her ability, far inferior to true advanced mental power techniques.

At the very least, such techniques required being an S-rank Esper to even begin grasping.

Did that mean this girl was an S-rank Esper?

But this also proved one thing: she was qualified to be a magical girl!

So she hadn’t been joking!

The older Mo Qiuli hesitated for a moment, then slowly began to recount the past.

“Well… the thing that first made me consider retiring was a disaster caused by a villain…”

Ye Yao wore an expression of serious listening. After a few seconds, a curious look appeared on her face.

Wasn’t that the Flame Demon incident?

So that little bastard had gone and done it after all.

But it seemed slightly different from the original world.

In this timeline, Mo Qiuli hadn’t been near the site of the Flame Demon incident. She had only rushed over after seeing the sky light up with fire.

She had arrived only a little ahead of the Countermeasures Bureau’s strike force. After engaging the Flame Demon briefly, she wasn’t taken hostage but was rescued by Countermeasures Bureau Espers who arrived shortly after.

And those Espers had suffered severe burns to save her.

Afterward, Mo Qiuli had been harshly reprimanded.

Overwhelmed by guilt and self-doubt, the seed of “retirement” was planted in her heart.

She had worked hard to improve her strength afterward, trying to pull herself together.

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But later, some metaslave old fogies at the Countermeasures Bureau noticed Mo Qiuli’s remarkable talent.

Under the interference of these old fossils, Mo Qiuli had “retired” early and formally began receiving orthodox instruction.

But disappointingly, Mo Qiuli’s talent had vanished entirely after that.

By the time she was optimized out, she had never made a comeback nor continued being a magical girl.

Without anyone’s support or recognition, with her dreams constantly denied, even the most resolute girl would begin to doubt herself under such circumstances.

And it was in this very environment that Mo Qiuli had probably subconsciously used the excuse of being “expired” to fully retire from her identity as a magical girl.

“Mm, that’s about how it went. Aren’t I just pathetic?

With all those amazing adults around, the world doesn’t need Magical Girl Mercury.

The adults at the Countermeasures Bureau are all very capable. They’re better at helping people than I could ever be. Magical girls are just unnecessary…”

The older Mo Qiuli laughed self-deprecatingly. She had none of the brimming confidence of the original world’s Mo Qiuli.

Ye Yao felt her fists clench.

“I don’t get it. All I know is that my fury meter ¹ Another League of Legends reference. Long story short, the Champion Sett stores damage taken as a mana-like resource bar called Grit, but the bar itself is often called Fury. Anyway, his Haymaker skill uses up the meter. is full.”

No amount of talk would help.

The Countermeasures Bureau’s metaslave old fogies who didn’t understand the meaning of power were in for trouble.

Author Note

The May Day holiday is over. Send me 50 on WeChat in advance, and I’ll take you back to the first day of the holiday.

Text: When I make a little heart shape for my cat

My cat:

Translator Note

Author recycled chapter 426’s meme…