Regarding the fact that my best friend is a magical girl

"Then let's split up and search a larger area..."

"How can we find someone like this without any clues? Ye Zi, the association can access public cameras, so they are more efficient at finding people. Also, Sirius and Miss Spica will find a way. You don't need to blame yourself for not being able to save Yang Yan. After all... after all, the power of ordinary people is always limited."

“Fool, but I…”

He seemed to want to say something, his expression so sorrowful.

"...Shall we go back first?"

I took Yezi's arm.

Although there was some ambiguity, he didn't pull his hand away.

"Alright, let's go back together then."

In the end, he agreed.

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No good news came from Spica until late at night.

Although information control was implemented immediately, reports detrimental to the association continued to circulate online. Everyone wanted to be chosen by the Star Crystal, and now that a technology had emerged that disregarded the crystal's will and forcibly used the crystal to transform, the greedy nature of humanity was easily exposed, leading to condemnation and attacks against the association for trying to block this technology...

A murky undercurrent surged beneath the seemingly calm surface.

If I hadn't become a magical girl, I might be denouncing the association online right now, right?

"Serno, the world is about to change."

Ye Zi kept browsing related news online, while Huang Jinhao sat quietly next to him, staring at the computer monitor, as if he could really understand it.

"Yezi, stop looking and go get some rest. Your aunt's plane won't land until midnight, so get some sleep before then..."

"It's okay, I'm not sleepy yet."

He was very concerned about this matter, and even felt guilty.

But what is the reason for this unusual obsession?

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(Although the promotional effect was disastrous, I'll still add an extra chapter to celebrate...)

Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Pursuit

(Albinocotyledon)

Just as I was drifting off to sleep, I heard the sound of a key being inserted into the lock and turning in the entryway.

My parents are back.

Obviously, a normal person couldn't hear the noise outside from inside the living room. My body has become abnormal, enhanced to an exaggerated degree by the Star Crystal integrated into my body, almost to the level of a magical girl, and I can even use magic with minimal effort...

But physiologically I am still completely male.

What am I now?

"Magical handsome man"?

I can't quite manage a laugh.

"Um, Ah Huang, are you using me as a mattress?"

Because the Golden Dog was sleeping on me, it was so hot even with the air conditioning on, like being covered with a quilt in an air-conditioned room.

It seemed to be asleep, so I couldn't get up from the sofa for a moment; Seruno went to greet it first.

"Uncle, Aunt, welcome home!"

Changing the way you address her makes her sound like a newlywed bride. Is this idiot really not saying this on purpose?

"Serno? You two are still up so late?"

"Ye Zi insists on waiting for you to come back."

I then sat up and replied, "How can I sleep if I can't be sure about Yang Yan's safety..."

"You were almost asleep just now."

"Idiot, just shut up."

I looked at my mom and asked, "Mom, do you know where that research institute is?"

"We still don't know. The association has mobilized all its manpower and resources to turn the entire Changkong City upside down, even raiding some gangs that illegally sell Star Crystals, but they haven't been able to find that organization..."

My mother put down her luggage at the door and shrugged to indicate that she knew nothing about it.

But her confident and composed attitude shows that things are still under her control.

Do you have any ideas?

"Of course! But we don't have time to rest. Lao Bai, let's go to the scene and take a look... Serino is coming too... As for Xiao Yezi, you can stay at home with the puppy and wait for our good news."

No wonder he didn't come in; he only came back to pick up Seruno.

I asked, "Mom, is there something I can't do?"

“If you’re really worried and can’t sleep, you can make breakfast and wait for us to come back… Don’t worry, we can leave the public opinion battle to Spica, but punishing these third-party organizations that do bad things is the job of Mom and Dad.”

"I understand... Good luck to you then."

"Wang!"

Seruno left with her mother and the others.

As an ordinary person, I can only hope that my mom can find a third-party research institution that the association has been searching high and low for...

Weird.

"Sorry, Ah Huang, I also have to go out for a bit. I'll have to trouble you to watch the house today. I promise! After things are settled, I'll take you outside for a walk."

"Woof."

A well-behaved response, good dog.

I transformed into Miluno right in front of it, and I don't know if the dog didn't understand or didn't care, but it didn't show much surprise, as if it already knew... Even if it's smart, it's still just a dog, it shouldn't be that surprised, right?

I patted the Golden Ship's head, pulled open the living room window, and under the cover of night, jumped from the seventeenth floor.

My dad's white car just drove out of the underground parking garage. I jumped onto the roof of a lower shop building and started following them.

While doing parkour on the rooftop, he contacted Falcon using Milno's phone number.

"...Miluno? Did you find Yangyan?"

The call was connected.

Her voice sounded a little hoarse. Had she been shouting in the sky looking for someone since the afternoon? This clumsy way of doing things didn't seem like that of an overly shrewd translator and guide.

"Not yet, but follow my location first, there are clues."

"Keep it running, we'll be there soon."

The Falcon's mobility is probably superior to mine.

Of course, that's an understatement; in terms of speed alone, she's no match for me. However, her flight magic does have an advantage over my time acceleration in certain aspects...

For example, aerial view.

A shadow suddenly swept over my head and lifted me, who was chasing the car at three times the speed, into the air.

Can Falcon keep up with my speed?

"You scared me."

I said that, but the girl in the denim outfit wasn't joking.

She asked, "Are you tracking that car?"

I replied, "Yes, those are reinforcements that Seruno brought. Perhaps they can find the location of Yangyan."

"What's their background?"

"……I have no idea."

How am I supposed to answer that? I can't exactly say it's my parents, can I?

Falcon didn't delve into the details, simply asking, "Where are they going?"

"It should be the air-raid shelter of the city library... Your flight doesn't rely on wings like Sirius's. Can I climb on your back? It's not comfortable being suspended like this."

"You want that? That's so weird."

Even so, she still let go of me, performed a cobra maneuver, flipped directly underneath me, and then caught me with her back.

call--

I breathed a sigh of relief.

Since we have to be so close, I might as well be the one touching her. It's flat-chested anyway, so I don't really care...

“Miluno, the mastermind behind this might be Seruno’s father.”

"Who told you that?"

“Spica and Sirius were arguing, and I overheard the gist of it… He wanted the Star Crystal of the Blazing Sun to awaken his wife… That’s the conclusion Spica came to; they’ve figured out the principle behind that technology.”

"That technology?"

"The technology of forcibly using the Star Crystal allows one to transform regardless of the Star Crystal's will, provided that the mental wavelength matches and there is adaptability... Kagerou and Seruno's mother probably possessed a similar mental wavelength."

A very reasonable speculation.

A person in a vegetative state lacks the willpower to attract the Star Crystal, so even though Seruno's mother found a highly adaptable crystal, she couldn't gain its approval...

A person in a vegetative state cannot be kept alive indefinitely. It has been more than ten years, and if it continues, there will not be much time left. In order to wake up his wife who has been in a coma for more than ten years, it is not impossible that Ayao's father, as the chairman of the association, chose to take a risk and conspired with those third-party organizations.

I replied, "These are just speculations, there's no evidence yet. He himself hasn't left any clues. Unless we take down that secret research institute and conduct a reverse investigation, we might not be able to find any evidence... What is the association doing right now?"

"We tried to clean up the public opinion environment and educate the public on how inhumane that technology was... but the effect was not very obvious. After all, humans have a gene for questioning authority, and they are more likely to believe that the association is the villain in this matter."

"No, someone is manipulating public opinion behind the scenes."

"who is it?"

"I don't know."