But regardless, the play was finally over.
The two great demons were instantly defeated by the "Magical Girl."
Lux put away her staff, her robes rustling in the night wind as if she carried her own soft-light filter.
She turned and walked toward Ghost Rider, who was still pinned to the ground.
"Bear with it, this might hurt a little."
Lux crouched down, reaching out a hand as fair as jade to help Ghost Rider pull out the steel crossbow bolts from his body.
At this moment, Johnny Blaze was still in a state of complete shock.
The ups and downs of this night were truly too intense.
One second, he was being hunted by two female demons like a dead dog, thinking he was surely doomed.
The next second, a beautiful little Angel... descended from the sky.
She not only spoke the words hidden in his heart that he never dared hope anyone would understand, but she also effortlessly drove away those monsters and saved his life.
This skull, which could usually stop a child's crying at night, now acted like an elementary school student caught by a teacher after making a mistake.
He sat stiffly on the ground, his two burning skeletal hands with nowhere to go; he wanted to scratch his head but feared burning the delicate-looking girl before him, and he wanted to pull his hands back but worried that too much movement would reignite the Hellfire on his body.
In this moment, sitting before Lux, it was as if he wasn't Ghost Rider, but a helpless skeletal puppy.
"That little girl... th-thank you..."
Johnny's voice was still raspy, like a broken bellows, but his tone carried an unprecedented sense of awkwardness.
It was hard to imagine a weather-beaten middle-aged man being so nervous in front of a young girl.
Lux smiled and shook her head. "It was just a small effort."
"Who... exactly are you?"
Johnny couldn't help but ask. In those hollow eye sockets, the flames were no longer violent but flickered gently along with his mood.
"My name is Luxanna Crownguard."
Lux stood up and performed an elegant noble salute. "I am a practitioner from Kamar-Taj. You can also call me Lux."
"My name is Johnny Blaze... but what was that... Kamar... what-Taj?"
Johnny tilted his skeletal head, the two ghost fires in his eye sockets seemingly forming a question mark.
Clearly, this middle-aged man who had been wandering the rural roads of the United States on his motorcycle was completely disconnected from the World.
While he knew of demons, his understanding of other supernatural powers in the Marvel Universe was perhaps inferior to that of an ordinary New York City resident.
Johnny likely hadn't even watched TV; he didn't know about Hulk and Abomination demolishing New York a while back, nor had he heard of the playboy who loudly announced "I am Iron Man," let alone the hidden magical sanctuary of Kamar-Taj.
"A... secluded magic organization," Lux could only explain vaguely.
"magic..." Johnny murmured to himself, then looked up again, his tone filled with deep self-doubt. "Then why did you save me?"
He looked down at his hideous ribs and burning arms.
"Can't you see? I'm no different from those two women just now... I'm a monster too."
"Why save you?" Lux was stunned for a moment.
Actually, the reason was very simple: because Sister Sumire told her to!
If she didn't save him, was she supposed to let him be pinned to the road like a signpost?
But obviously, she couldn't say that.
She could only bite the bullet and have Lux make up the most cliché reason on the fly: "I can't really say... I just saw this while passing by and couldn't bear it. My intuition told me you shouldn't die here."
After saying this, even Lux felt a bit embarrassed.
"Saw it while passing by and couldn't bear it"?
That was just too fake.
Because of her guilty conscience, Lux's cheeks flushed slightly, and her gaze drifted.
However.
In Johnny Blaze's eyes, this appearance took on a completely different meaning.
"My god... she's blushing!"
"She clearly saved a terrifying monster, yet she's too embarrassed to admit it because of her kind heart. What a pure, noble soul!"
Johnny's weathered, long-dead heart trembled violently.
It must be said that Lux truly lived up to being a girl with a passive skill like 'Illumination Affinity'.
With the boost from this affinity, she didn't even need superb acting skills; a casual word could produce an effect nearing "Charm."
Teasing an honest man like Johnny, who lacked guile, was as easy as playing with a dog.
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