After get off work, I become a magical girl

"Then why don't you get married?" Lin Yun glanced at her. "Financially, you have the subsidy for retiring as a magical girl, socially, you have a job at the Strategy Bureau, and you're also a pretty girl. If you really want to find someone, can you find one?"

All I got was silence.

"what happened?"

"Senior, do you think... I am a beauty?"

"Is it strange? I won't go so far as to deny the objective existence of things."

"It's so strange! I feel like you've never considered me as a member of the opposite sex!"

"..."

"Why don't you speak anymore, Senior?"

"I'm thinking about how to express it in a less hurtful way."

“It’s already very hurtful when you have this kind of thinking!”

"Then I'm sorry, as you said, yes."

"Huh? Be careful now, I'm pretending to cry and complain about a scumbag in the hallway!"

"Where did you come from, you fraudster?"

"The scammer wants you to pay, I'm free, want to try?"

"Stop making such tasteless jokes."

With a helpless sigh, after sending Hong Si to the elevator door, Lin Yun suddenly asked, "Are you sure you want to leave? In fact, I suggest you stay."

"Huh? Senior, what do you mean? Do you want me to stay overnight?" Hong Siyu covered his mouth.

"I'm just a little worried. After all, it might not be safe next time."

"Not so safe? Why?"

"Remember the unknown phone number I told you about?"

Lin Yun turned his head slightly and looked around. After making sure that there was no one else, he lowered his voice and said expressionlessly, "I got another call this afternoon."

"Strange phone call... ah, that? Really?"

Hong Siyu widened his eyes in surprise: "Did the other party tell you that something dangerous might happen again?"

"Yes."

Lin Yun said with a serious expression: "It's almost exactly the same as last time."

"You mean, the time at the wetland park?"

"Yes."

Lin Yun nodded: "So I have to trouble you to inform the Strategy Bureau, and it's better to stay..."

Ding--

The sound of the elevator interrupted his instructions. The elevator of the apartment building stopped in front of the two of them, and then slowly opened the door.

The two people standing at the elevator door were silent for a moment, and no one spoke.

"...Then I'll be leaving now."

In the end, it was Hong Siyu who spoke first, walked into the elevator, turned around and waved at him: "I already know what you said."

"you sure?"

Lin Yun frowned: "What if you encounter a dangerous beast on the road..."

"it does not matter."

The elevator door gradually began to close. Hong Siyu shook his head, then looked up at Lin Yun: "Anyway, no matter what kind of beast you encounter, you can destroy it, right?"

"I will do my best." Standing in the corridor, Lin Yun nodded.

"Really? Then I'm relieved."

Hong Siyu breathed a sigh of relief, looked at him with a smile on her face, and her voice gradually became softer:

——"I leave it to you, Senior."

Her voice echoed out of the elevator, and was finally cut off in the corridor with a crisp "bang".

Lin Yun stood in the empty corridor, looking at the elevator door closing in front of him, pondering slightly.

He was not a fool, in fact, he knew very well what Hong Siyu was thinking. It was just that this thought was a little inappropriate for them now.

Not to mention that he doesn't have corresponding feelings, even if he does, there are too many unsolvable practical problems between the two of them.

Hong Siyu obviously knew all this, so even though she teased her in every way, she never said anything.

This is actually a tacit understanding between them.

The relationship between them is that they were former companions, the senior and junior of the magical girl, and it would be best if it was just this way, it can only be this way.

Any further changes could easily destroy this connection, causing it to deteriorate and eventually become something no one wants to see.

He didn't care at first and tried to refuse Hong Siyu openly, but the other party was unwilling to point it out and admit it, so he tactfully stopped mentioning it.

They are no longer children. The interactions between adults are always like this. They need to carefully manage the distance between each other. Everyone has the truth that they have kept in their hearts and will not say it. There is no need to dig into it. It is impossible to insist on having everything unobstructed.

After all, between two adults, as long as they can play out the characters they have established for each other to the end, it doesn't matter what the truth is. If you rashly talk about further topics, it will only destroy the original delicate distance.

Well, that's enough for now.

This was the unspoken consensus reached between Hong Si and Lin Yun.

After watching the elevator display show that it had reached the first floor, Lin Yun silently turned around and walked back home.

Hong Siyu was unwilling to stay, but he had to go back as soon as possible. The warning from the unknown phone call seemed to still be ringing in his ears. He had to remain vigilant enough to ensure that the new people in the family were under his protection.

Fortunately, no accidents or crises occurred afterwards.

The three new magical girls and the fairy all stayed at home well, gathered together to chat and play; the full moon outside the window was high in the sky, pure and bright, and its silvery light illuminated the entire city; gorgeous fireworks occasionally flashed in the night sky, adding a bit of warmth to this family reunion festival, and everything looked peaceful.

It was just like any ordinary Full Moon Festival, nothing unusual.

Time passed little by little until it was almost ten o'clock. The girls were still gathered in the living room watching a movie that they had found from somewhere, and even Mo Ke sat with them with great interest.

He walked out of the kitchen with the washed fruits and prepared to take them to the living room. Hearing the loud noises coming from not far away, just as Lin Yun was wondering what time he should send them to bed, the content of the conversation in the living room suddenly caught his attention.

——"Don't try to cheat! You will still be the one to take out the trash tomorrow!"

"No means no! I've been working for three days in a row. Strike, meow! It's torture to let a fairy do this kind of work!"

Those were the voices of Lin Xiaolu and Mo Ke.

"You accepted this as your punishment last time you cheated on your friends! You said you had to take out the trash for a week straight."

"I now feel that your request is excessive! I want to go back on my word!"

The two continued their usual elementary school-level quarrel, and what they said was completely meaningless, but Lin Yun, who was standing by, suddenly let go of their hands after hearing the content of their conversation.

thump.

He quickly reached out and grabbed the fruit bowl, retaining most of the fruit, but the remaining oranges and pears still fell to the ground.

The fruits that fell on the ground were running around and rolling as if out of control, and were everywhere for a while, but Lin Yun still stood there firmly, with no intention of chasing after them for a long time.

“The fruit is spilled!”

Moko was the first to divert his attention from the quarrel and saw this scene. Several girls gathered around and wanted to help deal with the fallen fruits on the ground.

"It's okay, I can take them to wash again..."

After explaining dryly, Lin Yun simply picked up a few oranges from the ground and looked at the girls in front of him: "What did you just say about throwing away the garbage...?"

“Throwing out the trash?”

Lin Xiaolu was slightly stunned, and then replied: "It's nothing. It's just that we have a schedule for doing housework, and the order is usually determined by rock-paper-scissors."

This was the first time that Lin Yun heard of this. It showed that after he left Fangting City, the three little ones had gone through a lot of trouble in their life in the secret base.

"Rock, paper, scissors, trash?"

Lin Yun looked at Lin Xiaolu in confusion: "So, who were you talking to just now?"

"…If you're talking about this, you're talking about it."

Lin Xiaolu pointed at Moko who was floating on the side: "It's the fairy who made us magical girls. It's usually called a sower."

"There's nothing over there." Lin Yun ignored Xia Liang's teasing smile and continued to maintain his ordinary persona.

"Well, because ordinary people can't see fairies."

Lin Xiaolu did not doubt him and explained honestly: "But they also really exist. You can touch them if you stretch out your hand."

“You can’t see it but you can touch it?”

Lin Yun put on a full show and reached out his hand to touch Mo Ke again. After expressing his surprise, he asked again:

"So, you're saying that you were just asking the goblins to... take out the trash?"

"Yeah." Lin Xiaolu nodded, "It's actually no problem. It's already been thrown out once just now."

"Yes, is that so..."

Lin Yun felt that he could hardly utter a word and could only speak mechanically.

Since his comeback as a magical girl, except for the night when Lin Xiaolu was in danger, he has never felt so cold inside as he does now.

His brain felt as if it had been hit by a heavy hammer, leaving only a buzzing sound and making his thinking somewhat sluggish.

The saying “ordinary people can’t see goblins” is actually a relatively broad description.

This description is not absolute. In fact, the fundamental reason why ordinary people cannot see fairies is that they do not have enough magic power.

Generally speaking, if you want to see fairies, you must at least be a novice magician, only then will you have the magical power to see fairies.

As for magical girls, even unsigned magical girl candidates, most of them already have a level of magic power close to that of a magician when they were still mortals, so it is easy to see fairies.

However, retired magical girls don't have this ability.

In order to ensure that retired magical girls do not abuse their power after leaving the country, the country will take back and seal the magic power of retired magical girls, reducing it to the level of ordinary people.

In other words, the magic power of a retired magical girl is not much stronger than that of an ordinary person. In this case, they naturally cannot see fairies.

As a magical girl who retired according to the normal procedure, Hong Si and Nature were no exception. In fact, according to her own words and her previous performance, she had lost her magic power and could no longer see fairies.