Regarding the fact that my best friend is a magical girl

"You're the one I'm worried about."

"I?"

"You haven't even mastered how to fight properly yet. As your friend, how can I feel at ease watching you go to the battlefield?"

He cared about me.

Realizing this made me genuinely happy. It's so wonderful to have met him in this life. I don't know what I would have become all these years without him by my side.

"Hehe, you really are my good brother."

At that moment, I must have had a silly grin on my face.

"That's all I can do to help you think of things."

The entrance to the shopping street is marked by an archway, and the hundred-meter-long street is covered by a large canopy, which not only provides shade but also retains the cool air leaking from the shops on both sides, making it much cooler than outside, and thus attracting a large number of tourists.

"Let's go buy ice cream!"

He patted me on the shoulder and went into the dessert shop by the roadside first.

But I also noticed that he originally wanted to pat my head, but after a brief pause, he put his hand on my shoulder instead.

This isn't the first time this dilemma has arisen.

Do you find it disgusting to have sweat on your head?

No, he felt that brothers could put their arms around each other's shoulders, but not touch each other's heads. If he put his hand on my head, the nature of the action would be different.

Ye Zi still wants to treat me as a brother, which is only right. Although I know this in my heart, every time I'm with him, some inappropriate thoughts arise in my mind, which makes me feel very strange.

I was just a temporary girl...

"Idiot, how long are you going to stand at the door?"

"Oh! Here it comes."

Urged on by Yezi, I hurriedly entered the dessert shop. The air conditioning inside swept away the sweltering heat, and the sweat brought even more coolness.

"Phew, that feels so good! It feels so good it's tingling!"

"Go sit down first, I'll buy it for you."

I nodded and replied, "Okay, I'll give you the money in a bit."

"Idiot, I'm not so poor that I can't even afford ice cream."

"Hehe, if you ever run out of money in the future, I'll earn money to support you."

"Hmph, be kept by you as a gigolo? I'm not that unambitious."

He laughed and tapped my forehead in response to my joke, then turned and walked towards the counter.

Looking at his back, I couldn't help but feel that he was on a date with his girlfriend.

"Hehehe~"

He chuckled foolishly and found a seat near the air conditioning, muttering to himself, "But am I lacking ambition? If any magical girl were willing to take me in, I would be more than willing... preferably Miss Milno, heh."

I knew in my heart that, considering Miss Yangyan's disgusted attitude, Miluno probably wouldn't like someone like Sun Yao (me) either.

So, this is just a nerdy guy's fantasy about his idol.

Chapter Nineteen: The Girl's Cultivation

(Albinocotyledon)

Holographic advertisements are displayed everywhere in the air-conditioned shopping mall.

The advertisements feature only magical girls.

These days, products endorsed by magical girls sell better than those idol stars. It's a complete cross-industry game-changer, and all the popular celebrities are doomed because the income from these endorsements is indeed substantial. As a result, there are many magical girls who rely on commercial endorsements to earn extra money.

Advertising revenue typically depends on brand recognition.

The popularity of magical girls is also linked to their battle achievements.

In other words, the more powerful the magical girl, the more popular she is, and the more money she can make through this channel. Among them, the one who is most enthusiastic about idol activities is the number one... the number one cute idol in the galaxy.

Sirius, however, donated almost all of her earnings from this source to the association, which became bounties for other magical girls.

Seruno leaned close to my ear and whispered, "Ye Zi, we've been inside for over half an hour, and no one has recognized us!"

Even though it was just a normal shopping trip, she was as excited as a child.

"It's understandable that people wouldn't recognize you, right? After all, everyone's impression of you is based on your pink hair and fluffy hairstyle, and you're wearing a mask. Only true fans could recognize you like that."

"Hey Yezi, you say you don't care, but you're secretly pretty happy to be able to go shopping with a beautiful girl like me, aren't you?"

She was very lively.

But whether this is acting or a genuine feeling, I'm not quite sure.

"You said you were secretly pleased? You didn't even give me any pleasure, did you?"

I made a joke, then countered, "Besides, do you want me to treat you like a real girl?"

"Can't you just treat me like a girl?"

She furrowed her brows slightly and gave me a pitiful look.

"That's exactly why I started cultivating."

As she spoke, she twirled in front of me, her black high-waisted short tiered skirt billowing out like a flower, and that casual glance back was enough to make my heart flutter.

Seeing that I remained silent for a while, she blushed and smiled, "Yezi? What's wrong? Are you staring at me in a daze?"

She is indeed very cute.

Even without the pink elements, it's still incredibly cute, and its appearance is exactly what I like.

If this is acting skill, then she did a really good job.

It would be a lie to say I wasn't happy to be able to act with such a beautiful girl.

But thinking about it carefully, if Ayao becomes a "real girl," then given our relationship, it wouldn't be surprising at all for her to naturally enter "that line." The development that Miluno was trying her best to avoid might actually happen in another way.

"Until I get home today, I will treat you as a girl. Just consider this part of your spiritual practice."

"Great! Yezi, you've figured it out!"

Upon hearing this, Seruno smiled happily.

"I'm just compromising, just playing along with your acting. Here, let me carry the bag."

I made a statement and then took the paper bags of clothing from her.

Thanks!

"It's only natural to help girls carry things, even though you're stronger than me now."

"Hey, are you practicing your boyfriend skills too?"

Ayao was already a rich second-generation, and after becoming a magical girl, she became even richer.

Supported by a wealthy economy, she indulged in shopping to her heart's content, rarely blinking at things she liked, and sometimes buying clothes without even trying them on. In just over half an hour, she had already acquired more than a dozen pieces of everyday clothing, living a very bourgeois lifestyle.

She's still a homebody at heart, and all she picked up were Japanese-style outfits like shirts, pleated skirts, and over-the-knee socks, which she happily wore to show me... to the point that when she paid for her own clothes, the shop assistants looked at her with surprise.

I'm being mistaken for your boyfriend.

He's still the pale-faced guy who makes his girlfriend pay the bill.

"We've picked out most of the clothes; now it's time for the boss battle."

She meant buying underwear.

I reminded her, "A young girl wouldn't use this kind of game-style metaphor. You need to change this habit."

"Hey! But there are girls who play games too, right?"

"Of course there is, but don't forget what your goal is, and what kind of girl Kagerou hopes you will become."

"The leaves are so strict."

"It was just something I said offhand."

Lingerie stores are indeed different from other clothing stores; they are off-limits to men. Although there is no rule prohibiting men from entering, even if a girl brings her boyfriend in, she will still be met with strange looks.

Sending Seruno, whose mindset hasn't changed yet, into the fray alone could indeed be called a boss battle.

Conversely, as long as she can win over the lingerie store, she's considered a qualified girl.

Because of the mall's layout, the lingerie stores were clustered together, so I found a bench among them and sat down.

"Ye Zi, you're just sitting here?"

"Idiot, I can't possibly go inside with you, can I? Look, all the people sitting here are men, why do you think that is?"

This row of benches is like the power lines on the road, and boyfriends or husbands waiting for their lovers sit crammed together like sparrows, their faces full of boredom.

Seruno, of course, understood the awkwardness of the boy being there.

Because she is currently overcoming this awkwardness.

"Then I might need some time, so you'll have to wait for me, okay?"

"Go and come back quickly, but be careful with your choices, after all, you'll be the one who feels uncomfortable wearing these clothes."

"Oh! Yezi, you know a lot!"

"I know a bit more than you~"

Serino's demeanor when she entered the store reminded me of myself a year ago.

However, she was even more pathetic than I was a year ago. Her timid and submissive demeanor revealed her obvious guilt, and she was afraid of being mistaken for an underwear thief.

However, you'll be able to adjust quickly.

Then it was just a matter of waiting.

But I hate waiting.

So I decided to find an opportunity to slow myself down in order to quickly skip this boring time.

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