To this end, Lin Yun had to take the time to visit Fangting City's government offices and make a report, to explain the recent increase in expenditures and soothe any concerns to ensure that the Abnormal Strategy Bureau would not be cut off from funding.
The massive Abnormal Strategy Bureau, with its thousands of employees, required substantial operational funds. If he could not pacify the city officials and even a mere ten to twenty percent of the budget was slashed, many areas would become financially strapped. Then, there would indeed be plenty of headaches for him to deal with.
While pondering these issues and having completed part of the paperwork at hand, time gradually moved into the evening, signaling the end of the workday.
Though much work remained unfinished, Lin Yun could no longer continue because after work, he had another schedule—to visit the Molu Research Institute.
Lately, he always needed to go there.
Firstly, the trade with the Source of Beasts had been completed, and the treatment process for his true form had thus begun, requiring him to receive more examinations at the Molu Institute, as well as undergo minor physiotherapy work to begin managing his injury.
Secondly, he had a fellow patient there to look after, Hong Siyu.
As expected, it was Molu who had enabled Hong Siyu to regain her Magical Girl powers. According to her, she had not been retired for over a decade, so there were some means to retrieve her source of Magic Power.
Of course, when asked about the specifics, Molu became evasive, clearly not wanting to elaborate or admit that it was not entirely aboveboard.
As for the motivation behind the act, it was because Hong Siyu was sent to the nation for treatment at the time Molu first proposed the trade to Emerald Sparrow. To add some bargaining chips to the deal, Molu privately inquired with Hong Siyu. After obtaining her consent, she conducted such an operation.
Hong Siyu's retrieval of her Magical Girl powers was not without risks. Just in terms of identity, because she had not joined the nation like a regular Magical Girl, nor had she obtained the lifelong qualifications of a Magical Girl like Emerald Sparrow, she was considered an "illegal Magical Girl", just like those with the Claw Mark.
And if we talk about the power itself, that presents even more issues, because before regaining her Magical Girl powers, Hong Siyu did not live as an ordinary person. During her two years in Fangting City, the Magic Power source of the Remnant Beasts implanted in her body caused severe contamination. Even after Emerald Sparrow used her scissors to directly sever the concept of the Remnant Beasts, her sleeping true form still showed a certain degree of mutation.
Consequently, Hong Siyu, having regained her Magical Girl powers, had an unstable condition.
Compared to Emerald Sparrow, who sporadically transformed into a Magical Girl, her symptoms were much simpler—she could not change back.
One might say that, in comparison, she was in a far better state than Emerald Sparrow, but that was only because Emerald Sparrow's condition was far worse; fundamentally, her own state was not much better.
According to Molu, with the Source of Beasts now in hand, she could undertake targeted experiments to stabilize Hong Siyu's condition. As a result, in recent days, Hong Siyu had been going to the Molu Institute for ongoing treatment.
It must be said, the weight of this bargaining chip indeed swayed Emerald Sparrow's decision to a certain extent.
For this reason, even if work was especially busy these past few days, he still needed to find a way to visit the Molu Institute after work to learn about the latest progress in the treatment.