After get off work, I become a magical girl

The other party drew out his voice, which was a little lazy and at this moment, seemed full of sarcasm.

He immediately understood who was talking behind him, so Lin Yun could only put the document down again and turned his head helplessly to look behind him:

"I have no intention of criticizing others' personal preferences, but could you please stop your bad taste and stop using such disgusting names, Mr. Chief?"

There are still 2k points until tomorrow morning

Chapter 159: The Drifter

2023-05-27

The person who appeared here at this time and was called "Chief" by Lin Yun under this circumstance could naturally be no one else but the emerald scepter of the research institute - Emerald.

"Huh? You said disgusting?"

The furry and chubby fairy doll walked out from behind Lin Yun, and said with a hint of surprise: "I see you guys calling each other like this in this kind of situation, and you think it's some kind of fun."

"Please don't imagine other people's relationships to be so dirty."

"Ah, sorry, I thought our...it seems like you've been living a pretty colorful life lately."

"If you're just here to amuse me, you could be doing something more serious."

Lin Yun's tone was even, "So, what brings you here today? Mr. Chief?"

"Nothing, just came to remind you that my private research institute has been completed."

The fairy doll twisted its body and jumped onto the desk in front of Lin Yun: "I have prepared some interesting gadgets over there, do you want to come and see them?"

"Already done?"

Lin Yun was slightly stunned: "I remember it was only three days since we decided on the address..."

"In fact, the work was completed the day after we chose the location. Please do not doubt the technical prowess of our institute's magical girls, young man."

The doll folded its paws and uttered with a hint of pride in its lazy electronic voice: "Ten years ago, we had already completed the iteration of material shaping and transfer technology. It's just a piece of cake for interior decoration."

"Really? Congratulations then."

After getting the other party's answer, Lin Yun lost interest. He responded perfunctorily and continued to pick up the documents on the table: "But I'm very sorry, I still have work to do now, let's go after get off work."

"Well... this is an invitation from an elder or a superior. Your attitude is really bad."

Emerald paused, obviously choked by Lin Yun's attitude: "Besides, I don't like working overtime. If you're off work, it would be my break time."

"Then we'll talk about it later."

Lin Yun remained calm in the face of the other party's accusation: "I have accumulated enough work today. I don't have time to hang out somewhere else."

"I see. Then I respect your opinion."

The doll beside the table nodded: "It's a pity. I wanted to talk to you about the child on the way."

"It's okay, I'm not really..."

Lin Yun was halfway through his words when he suddenly felt something was wrong. He raised his head and looked at the doll in front of him: "Which child are you talking about?"

"Of course it's the child who just left, the magical girl."

The doll stretched out its claws and pointed at the door of the director's office, and also pointed at the direction Bai Jingxuan had left. The doll's voice echoed in the room where only two people were:

——"After all, that child has a kind of 'beast' smell. Don't you notice it?"

There was silence in the office for a moment.

"…Are you talking about Bo Xue?"

After a while, Lin Yun couldn't help but frowned: "The smell of an animal? On her body? Could you be mistaken?"

"That's an unreasonable question, young man. As the jeweled scepter of the magic kingdom and the chief researcher of the research institute, if I can't even distinguish the smell of a crippled beast, then it's time for me to retire and spend my old age in peace."

The chubby fairy doll tilted its neckless head and said, "The smell of beasts is the smell of beasts. It cannot be hidden in any form."

“…but I’ve never felt this way.”

Lin Yun looked away and looked in the direction where Bai Jingxuan had left: "I have been with that child for a while, and I have never felt the magic power of the remnant beast you mentioned."

"The taste of the beast does not necessarily have to be expressed through the beast's magic power."

Emerald's lazy voice was flat but meaningful: "Besides, even if it's not the beast's magic power, the child's magic power is also special, isn't it?"

"You mean, her healing ability?" Lin Yun suddenly remembered his previous conversation with Tian Sheng.

Tian Sheng once said on the tram that the reason why he turned a disaster into a blessing in disguise during the Full Moon Festival incident was probably because he had come into contact with Bai Jingxuan's magic.

In fact, Bai Jingxuan's magic does exist beyond Lin Yun's cognitive system.

He had thought before that he would have to find a chance to ask Emerald, and now, the opportunity was in front of him. The other party had even put the truth on the table as a bargaining chip, just waiting for him to make a decision.

"What do you need this time?" he asked.

"Oh, are you finally moved?"

The doll's eyes lit up slightly, and it looked lifelike at this moment: "It seems that all my preparations in advance are worth it. There are not many people in this world who I can spend so much time and effort on. You should be grateful, young man."

"Whether they are grateful or not depends on the price you offer."

Lin Yun stared into the doll's eyes: "Nothing can be so coincidental. I'm not a fool."

"What if I tell you that these are really coincidences, and I just took advantage of them at the right time? No matter how indifferent I am to fame and fortune, I will feel sad when my noble and beautiful character is misunderstood by you like this."

Emerald sighed as if she was sad, but when she saw Lin Yun in front of her didn't react at all, she had to let the doll's body spread out his hands: "Nothing, I just need you to come to my research institute."

"That's it?" Lin Yun raised his eyebrows.

"That's it." Emerald said simply.

"Are you planning to trick me into being your experimental subject?"

Lin Yun was puzzled: "Or is there something there that you can use to threaten me?"

"There is no such thing. Who do you think I am?"

"The jeweled scepter."

"Young man, if you use this word to attack me again next time, I may consider writing the clause 'prohibiting the misinterpretation and misuse of the term jewel scepter' into the country's code."

Emerald said dissatisfiedly: "I came to you with good intentions, come quickly. Otherwise, I really won't tell you."

Lin Yun stared at the doll silently for a few seconds, then finally sighed helplessly and took out his cell phone.

He used his cell phone to contact the personnel and general affairs departments of the Strategy Bureau and conveyed the information that he would be temporarily leaving the Strategy Bureau. Then he put on his coat and stood up from behind the desk.

"Let's go."

He said so.

A man and a fairy walked out of the director's office in such a swagger. Because the fairy doll could not be recognized by other people, in the eyes of the employees passing by, Lin Yun just left alone in an ordinary way.

After confirming that they were far enough away from the Strategy Bureau, Emerald's voice was heard again from the fairy doll:

"Well, since you have agreed, I will pay part of the reward in advance, young man."

"If you want to know what's special about that child, you need to know some prerequisite concepts. For example, do you know what a 'Deviator' is?"

"...I only know that it is related to the properties of magic." Lin Yun told the truth.

"Yes, it is related to the properties of magic, but do you know what 'properties' are?" Emerald asked.

"Attributes... just mean the literal meaning, right? Fire attribute, water attribute like this?" Lin Yun said uncertainly.

"What are you talking about? This is the real world, not a game. How can there be such a simple division of attributes?"

Emerald sighed, "The so-called 'attribute' actually stands for 'the underlying attribute of magic', which is a general term for the source and form of your power."

"To put it bluntly?"

"To put it bluntly, your 'attribute' or 'background' actually depends on your identity. It can even be called your 'camp' in terms of magic power."

Emerald said leisurely: "The magic power of a magic girl is the background color of the magic girl; the magic power of a crippled beast is the background color of the crippled beast; even the magic power of a fairy has its own background color; only ordinary life in the material world, such as humans, has no background color in their magic power."

"Depends on identity, magical 'alignment'?"

Lin Yun murmured: "So, the 'drift' of the Drifter is actually..."

"Yes, the so-called 'Shifters', their magic base attributes have shifted. Compared to their original attributes, they have the characteristics of other attributes."

Emerald raised her voice: "In other words, in terms of the properties of magic, their identities are not simple and pure. Every Shifter has more than one camp."

"The background color attribute... is shifted?"

It was the first time that Lin Yun heard of such a thing.

In his understanding, all life in this world, whether human, beast or magical girl, is clearly divided and there are extremely obvious differences.

However, it is so reasonable to use this concept to explain the various differences shown by the "Deviators".

"The magic power of the deflector we usually define is deflected in a relatively gentle direction."

Emerald continued to explain: "For example, the base color of a magical girl shifts to the base color of a human without a base color; or the base color of a magical girl shifts to the base color of a fairy; or even when they are humans, they shift towards the base color of a magical girl, so that they have extraordinary magical girl talents and can be called natural magical girls..."

After explaining this, Lin Yun finally understood what Emerald wanted to say, and finally understood the unusualness of Bai Jingxuan: "You mean, the magic power of that child..."

"Yes, and the child we are talking about, the one codenamed Bo Xue, must have been deviated and directed towards the direction of the remnant beasts. Her magic power is naturally inclined towards the 'beast' camp."

Emerald's voice was very calm, but when she said this, her calmness was so abnormal:

——"If she hadn't become a magical girl, she would have been a natural 'beast' in the future."

La cross, take a day off

2023-05-27

La cross, take a day off

I had originally planned to update tonight as usual, and even boasted in the group that I would update earlier today. But in reality, after a day of work, I really couldn't write satisfactory text when I sat in front of the computer. Even though I had thought of the plot later, the text I wrote was still a bit boring.

After I finished the first volume, I took four days off and the manuscripts I had left over were basically used up. These days, I just posted as much as I wrote, and it’s a bit difficult to keep up today, so I’m going to take a day off to adjust.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused to readers who are waiting for updates.