After get off work, I become a magical girl

"I prepared so many smoke bombs to delay the ceremony, and so much trouble to delay your steps. As expected, every step you took was within my expectations. You are so ignorant that I feel pity for you!"

"You are like a bird living in a cage, trapping yourself in the cage, completely unaware of the number of crises approaching from the outside world. How pathetic, ridiculous, and lamentable!"

"Put aside your useless stubbornness and kneel down before me at the end."

Her voice gradually turned cold. "Just like I was powerless to protect my own daughter, you are powerless to protect those little girls now. Kneel down and beg for my mercy. Perhaps I can spare their lives and let them become my new experimental subjects."

The moth beast raised its limbs high, and under its flapping wings, countless purple-black magic balls flickered, surging with the breath of destruction: "Of course, you can also refuse. I don't mind swallowing a few more heart gems in the final ceremony."

It just looked down at the delphinium, waiting for its reply.

However, the answer obtained is that there is no answer.

Delphinium did not respond to her words.

Her long azure blue hair was stained with dust, and her navy blue dress was torn and blackened. Although she looked to be at an absolute disadvantage, Delphinium still stood there very straight and firmly, looking at Moss calmly.

“…There is no direction.”

"Huh? What nonsense are you talking about?"

"When magic disappears, there is no direction to flow."

"So what? Answer my question!"

"There's no need to answer. I don't want to waste my breath on nonsense."

Delphinium said calmly: "I have already guessed your rules."

These words were like throwing ice cubes into boiling water, causing the originally arrogant Moss to calm down instantly.

"……oh?"

After a long while, she said with some amusement: "That's really, unexpected."

"What's surprising? Are you surprised that I can actually guess your rules, or are you surprised that I'm not a fool?"

Delphinium narrowed her eyes slightly: "You have been constantly bringing up various topics from the beginning, your own experience, Sakura's death, the country's system, and my past... Aren't you just trying to divert my thinking and distract me?"

"You keep talking like a noisy clown in the middle of a battle. The only reason I can think of, other than because you are a natural chatterbox, is that you are trying to control our thinking."

"You use all kinds of topics that you think will stimulate me and arouse my interest to force me to respond, so that I will ignore and actively give up thinking about the nature of your rules."

"After all, your rules seem so unsolvable, as if they can block everyone's magical attacks, but to be honest, they are just one sentence:"

"——The person with the biggest shadow takes over the magic power of others."

Her words caused Moss to fall silent again.

"Nonsense." Moss sneered after a moment, "If this is the conclusion you have come to, then you will only lose more miserably."

"is it?"

Delphinium did not comment: "If that's the case, then why didn't you remove the blindingly bright beam of light after your 'ritual' ended? And you kept moving around meaninglessly, letting your shadow cover us all the time?"

"Oh, then let's just take it as such."

"Yeah, let's take that as an example." Delphinium also repeated Moss's words, then stretched out her hand and pointed behind it:

"After all, the magic suit I left behind you has not disappeared until now."

Following the direction of Delphinium's finger, Moss looked behind herself and saw a small piece of blue magic thread that had been fixed to the ground at some point, and was now quietly emitting a magical halo.

It just maintained its posture, looking at the small piece of magic thread, and after a moment, it turned back and suddenly stretched and spread its wings. In an instant, a huge black shadow enveloped the area around the delphinium.

Moss looked at the piece of silk thread, and only at this moment did she realize that she might have really underestimated this magical girl who had retired for many years.

"You've actually been thinking about this."

Looking at the Delphinium, it said in amazement: "If we were not enemies, I would have to ask you what made you so calm."

"The first rule is not to listen to the nonsense of a beast like you."

“It’s a real honor.”

"The second reason is that I have fought countless battles between rules."

Delphinium continued, "Guessing and concealing the rules is the first priority. I don't think you will ignore this. After all, when the truth of the rules is understood, your rules will lose their threat."

"Oh? Even if you know the rules, what can you do?"

Moss said expressionlessly: "You still can't use your magic power, and you can't use your magic suit. And now you can't use the wonderland anymore, and you have no way to resist all this..."

——"Who says I can't use Wonderland?"

Delphinium interrupted it and stared at Moss: "Did I say that I can't use Wonderland?"

"Hmph, bluff!"

Moss snorted coldly: "Your heart gem and magic suit have been damaged for a long time. It's a miracle that you are still alive. Do you think this lie makes sense?"

"Whether it's a lie or not, we'll know after a fight."

Delphinium said calmly: "As long as I know your rules, then from now on, your rules will no longer work."

"Okay, come on."

Moss paused, then smiled and said, "Let me see your wonderland and see what means you can still use to struggle now that things have come to this!"

Delphinium did not speak to Moss again.

She silently opened her hands, and the little remaining azure magic power surged in her body again. Amid the interweaving of silk threads, a small pair of tailor's scissors, only as big as her palm, gradually appeared between her fingers.

The silver-blue scissors seemed to be engraved with dense and intricate patterns, but when you look closely, you will find that the patterns are actually all cracks. The scissors have actually been reduced to just an outline, and they are afraid that they will break completely if they are moved casually.

Delphinium stared at the scissors in its hand, as if it was missing something, and as if it was gradually letting go of something.

"…I'm sorry for using you so roughly all this time."

She reached out and wiped the tailor's scissors, her voice a little gentle: "But, let me be willful once more."

Picking up the scissors and pulling out the silk thread from her knuckles, Delphinium waved her hand and faced the crippled beast in the air sternly.

"Magic constructs are extracted; wonderland unfolds. Let us judge everything here—"

She uttered commands, her will became stronger, and the azure magic power gushed out again like high-voltage stimulation, and even the cracks on the scissors emitted light, as if they would break and explode at any time.

Then, Delphinium raised her voice and called out the name of her magic suit for the first time since her comeback:

——"Weaving fate."

Chapter 144: End of Volume : Night, Dawn, Magical Girl

2023-05-10

"Fate Weaving" is a very weak magic outfit.

This was once the consensus of the magical girls team in the old Fangting City.

As the magic equipment that Delphinium obtained when it was at the bud level, Lifeweaver was originally just a bunch of magic threads that looked meaningless. The number was small and the toughness was insufficient, so even if it was used to restrain the enemy, it seemed particularly weak.

At that time, whenever she faced a strong enemy together with her companions, when her companions took out their magic suits, Delphinium could only wave those few silk threads to act as harassment and meat shield.

Because of this, in the early stages of her magical girl career, Delphinium never relied on her magic costume to fight.

This does not mean that she has given up on developing her own magic costume. After all, everyone agrees that the magic costume will evolve as the magical girl grows up.

As the saying goes, hard work pays off, and Zhiming has indeed evolved. When Delphinium was 15 years old, when she became a bud-level and awakened her own wonderland, her magic suit somehow had a pair of small tailoring scissors.

The scissors were so tiny that Delphinium did not realize what they were used for at first. She just thought they would take time to grow like her own silk thread.

But after several months of waiting, she finally found that the shape of the scissors seemed to be fixed in this form. After several attempts, she finally found the real use of the scissors - it must be used together with silk thread.

It seemed that because of this discovery, she soon obtained the third form of Weaving Fate - ruler.

Silk thread, scissors, and rulers sound like a set of sewing tools, but when combined together, they exert a powerful fighting power that no one could imagine. Therefore, at that time, the Delphinium could even challenge the remnant beasts with strength far exceeding that of the general bud level at the bud level, and even defeat them.

But even so, Lei's ability has its limits, but the enemy's strength has no limits.

When she was 16 years old, Delphinium encountered an unprecedentedly powerful enemy in the garden defense battle of the magic kingdom. Her entire guard team was caught in a fierce battle, many members of the team were on the verge of death, and the magic kingdom's intellectual capital, Runore, was also on the verge of being breached.

During that battle, Delphinium used a skill that should not have been used for the first time.

It is said that each magical girl can only use it once in her life, and once used, her true self will be shattered, or even death.

Delphinium used it and she defeated the powerful enemy.

She even survived, but the price was her true form and magic suit - her scissors were almost scrapped and became almost unusable.

It was just a minor injury - Delphinium told herself so. She even completed another power development after that and officially stepped into the Flower level.

She continued to be active and fight as a magical girl.

Although she took the initiative to stay away from the power center of the magic kingdom due to some influences of the garden defense war, this did not prevent her from still having a fighting spirit.

So, when she was 17 years old, in the year known as the Great Disaster, a great beast disaster broke out in the material world that had not been seen for a hundred years. The Fangting City Magical Girls Team encountered a terrifying beast that no one could repel even if they worked together.

When seeing his companions in danger, Delphinium hesitated, but once again used a technique that should not have been used.

She became very strong, gaining extraordinary strength. She won again, and even after doing this, she still survived. But the price she paid this time was still her magic suit - her ruler was broken.

Unlike scissors, the ruler could not even retain its shape. It turned into a pile of debris and completely disappeared from this world.

This was accompanied by extremely strong side effects: the Heart Gem was cracked, her true form was incomplete, her abilities as a magical girl were greatly degraded, and as long as she used a relatively large amount of magic power she would suffer from severe headaches, and the Heart Gem would be further damaged. The wonderland that should have been at her fingertips also became a huge burden.

In this state, she has become a burden to participate in the battle of the Fangting City team.

Even though she had won the honor of being a lifelong magical girl in the kingdom, even though the royal court had invited her to become the final sapphire scepter, on the magical side, she had no power and could not fight, so all the honors were just empty talk.

So, despite the dissuasion of his teammates, Cuiqiao chose to retire.

Her teammates are already stronger than her, and Anya is improving day by day. There is no one she needs to help or protect anymore.

She was also very tired. She had fought hard for three years, defeated unprecedentedly powerful enemies, and saved the city in distress... She thought that she had made enough contributions in her short career as a magical girl, so perhaps ending it like this would be perfect enough.

The heroes in comic stories always have a happy and fulfilling life after saving the world, and the world is so vast that it will not stop functioning because of the absence of anyone. The retirement of a magical girl will not have a far-reaching impact.

She had thought so.

——“But, that’s not the case.”

Delphinium closed her eyes slightly: "Life is not a comic book story, and I am not the hero in the story. I have not been able to truly solve the problem. I am just self-satisfied with my own efforts."

From the day he learned of Anya's death, Lin Yun, who was already just Lin Yun, felt guilty and blamed himself all the time.