After get off work, I become a magical girl

Chapter 160 Experience

2023-05-28

The private research institute arranged by the Yi Ce Bureau for Emerald is located in the commercial real estate area under the jurisdiction of the Yi Ce Bureau, in a not very popular office building.

The advantage is that it is quiet in a bustling city and not easy to be discovered; the disadvantage is that the place is not big and it is hard to say it is grand.

During the site selection process, Emerald felt that this treatment was not worthy of her status as the Gemstone Scepter, and complained about it. However, Lin Yun was unwilling to agree to her request for "a whole floor", so they finally compromised and settled for two rooms.

Taking the elevator to the corridor of the office building, Lin Yun and the fairy doll walked side by side and came to the door of Emerald's Research Institute.

"Transform first." Emerald said suddenly.

Lin Yun raised her eyebrows slightly, but she didn't doubt him after all. She took out the Heart Gem and transformed into the appearance of Delphinium. After the transformation, she immediately found that the door in front of her had changed.

What originally looked like an ordinary security door in an office building turned into a metal door engraved with intricate runes and sparkling with magical light.

"—"

Standing in front of the door, the doll opened its mouth and a string of sounds that were completely unlike human language came out of its mouth. Every time it read a syllable, a rune on the door that was originally dim would light up, until it finished reading a whole sentence, and the shining runes finally formed a circle.

click.

The door opened in response.

Delphinium followed the doll into the room that had been transformed beyond all recognition. She looked up and around, but found that there was no trace of the original office building anywhere.

The room's interior is mainly made of copper and iron, and the floor is made of some kind of wood. The exhibits inside look magical yet technological.

The tall bookshelf was filled with documents and notes written in unknown languages, revealing an ancient and quiet atmosphere. The sunlight shone through the window, reflecting the dust on the bookshelf into golden spots. On the laboratory table by the window, there were reagent bottles of various shapes. The liquid in the bottle was shining with colorful light, which was very eye-catching.

On the wall nearby, several huge mirrors were inlaid in the copper and iron patterns. Above the mirrors were densely packed data and runes, acting as a display screen.

In the corner of the institute, there is a facility that looks particularly conspicuous.

If Delphinium was not mistaken, it should be a treatment bed. Although it was very different from the treatment beds in the physical world, its size and outline reminded Delphinium of the medical equipment often seen in hospitals.

"So? Why were you so insistent on me coming over here?"

After taking a look at the furnishings of the research institute, Delphinium turned her head to look at the fairy doll beside her: "Are you just showing off your new house to me?"

"Don't be so anxious, young man."

Emerald's voice sounded leisurely: "I think you are also very clear that I called you over, of course, for the transaction."

"If the conditions are still the same as before, I'm afraid I still won't agree." Kuznetsova frowned and responded, "I said, the better the conditions you offer, the more suspicious I will be of your motives."

"Really? I already told you that, didn't I? Don't worry."

The fairy doll turned its head, probably trying to show a "shaking head" gesture: "Since I asked you to come here, I must give you some new conditions."

As it said this, it stretched out its claws and pointed at the treatment bed not far away:

"Like, let's take a look at that first."

"…What is that for?"

"As you can see, it's a treatment bed. Its basic functions are the same as those in the physical world's hospitals, but it's an optimized version for magic and souls."

The doll walked to the light curtain at the side and reached out to turn the knob on the operating table: "If you agreed to the deal we mentioned before, the treatment bed should be used for your preliminary conditioning."

"Preliminary conditioning?" This word made Delphinium raise an eyebrow.

"Yes, repairing the cracks in your true form is actually a huge project. After all, your size is at the Flower level, and your injuries are very serious. It is not something that can be done overnight."

The doll said without turning its head: "Although we can only go to the kingdom for the final restoration work next year, the work before then can still be done."

"Specifically?"

"To be specific, we need to use various means to stabilize your injuries and ensure that your magic power does not continue to be lost and overflow. If you continue like this, you will be relegated to the bud level before next year, young man."

The doll looked up at the screen: "It's too troublesome to explain. Just lie down and I'll let you try it."

"now."

"Now, there is no need for any price or exchange of benefits."

The doll turned around, and a simple smile appeared on its furry face like a fairy: "Just think of it as the customer experience part of product promotion, and feel its effect."

Delphinium didn't say anything, but the look of doubt on her face was completely undisguised.

She approached the treatment bed that Emerald pointed to, reached out and touched the bed surface, then raised her hand to take a look: "It seems that there is no abnormal fluctuation of magic power, and it does not seem to be a mechanism or trap."

“There won’t be such a thing.”

Emerald sighed: "Although I have said it many times, I still want to emphasize again that I am a person with noble and beautiful qualities and will not do such despicable things."

Delphinium did not reply. She placed her hands on the edge of the treatment bed in silence. Then she pushed herself up with both strength, jumped lightly, turned around and sat on it.

After sitting on the bed, she paused for two seconds and spoke again: "It's quite comfortable."

"It's just a simple optimization of the human body. You know, it's considered the most advanced medical achievement in our institute."

The doll left the screen wall and walked to the treatment bed. "Even if I want to secretly bring it to the material world, it will take a lot of effort."

"……secretly?"

"Yes, secretly. I asked my confidant to transport this from a smuggling route thousands of miles away."

The doll raised its paw and stroked the outline of the instrument. "You should be proud, young man. This is the first time I have built my own research institute in the material world, and the location is currently known to only the two of us."

"Is it."

She responded in a flat voice, and scanned the room with her eyes. "Well, excuse me, is there anything in this room that was delivered through official channels, rather than secretly?"

The doll didn't say anything, but pointed behind it confidently.

Delphinium looked in the direction indicated and saw a huge experimental table there.

"...That test bench?" she asked uncertainly.

"No, it's the notepad I put on it." Emerald said with certainty.

"Besides this?"

"Gone."

Emerald's lazy voice came out from the doll: "After all, I didn't report it to His Majesty."

Delphinium pondered for a moment, then raised her head again: "Your Excellency, Chief."

"what happened?"

"We in the material world generally call your actions 'smuggling' and 'privately building illegal buildings'."

"That's quite a coincidence."

The doll bent down and clicked on the operating screen beside the treatment bed: "It seems that this is also the definition in the country."

"I don't think this is a coincidence, but simply because your behavior violated the rules." Delphinium said expressionlessly.

"Alas, after all, His Majesty cannot know about this."

Emerald was somewhat helpless: "Think carefully about what we are going to do next. Whether it is helping you to fabricate a fake identity or sneaking back to the magic kingdom, none of them are legal. So what I am doing here must not be known to others."

"So that's why you use a clone?"

"That's why I use clones."

The doll stretched out its claws and pushed Delphinium's arm: "Okay, the equipment has been debugged, lie down first."

Delphinium said no more and lay down on the treatment bed.

She stared at the doll tapping the operating screen. As it moved, faint waves of magic rippled out from inside the machine and moved regularly around Delphinium.

A faint magical light enveloped the delphinium, and a tingling sensation slowly crept up its limbs.

The subtle roar of the machine became the only main melody in the institute, and the sound of the doll tapping on the screen was its accompaniment. After an unknown amount of time, the doll finally raised its paw, looked at Delphinium and said:

"Okay, take off your clothes next."

"How many?"

"All."

The doll said casually, but after he finished speaking, he found that there was something wrong with the way Delphinium looked at him: "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Mr. Chief, I remember you just said that you are a person with the qualities of 'nobleness and beauty'."

Delphinium looked at it expressionlessly: "Is what you just said included in this quality?"

"Who do you think I am? I've already told you that this is treatment, treatment. It's not for some shameful and dirty purpose! Would you question everything like this in the physical world? I'm your attending physician now, young man!"

The doll put his hands on his waist and said dissatisfiedly: "Let's not talk about the fact that I don't have such ridiculous interests as you think. Even if I do, I won't be interested in the figure of a little girl like you. What are you worried about?"

Delphinium looked at the doll seriously for a moment, but unfortunately she couldn't see anything from this puppet body.

After thinking it over, she felt that there was really no need for her to be so on guard against the other party, so she reached out and pressed on her heart gem. The navy blue dress on her body suddenly turned into magic threads covered with light, and the threads gradually spread from dense to sparse, and gradually spread to the surroundings.

The clothes of magical girls are mainly made of magic power, so putting them on and taking them off is not as troublesome as normal clothes. In addition, Delphinium's ability already includes silk thread, so manipulating clothes is naturally a piece of cake.

However, just as she was about to take off her clothes, she found that the doll in front of her was staring at her motionlessly, with a pair of emerald-like pupils that were deep and focused. She didn't know if it was an illusion, but Delphinium could see inexplicably jumping numbers and runes in its eyes.

"...Mr. Chief, just for the sake of basic social distance and etiquette, could you please turn your back for a moment?"

"I just put the clone here. The real body has turned its back, so you can take off your clothes without worry." Emerald's voice sounded subtly discordant.

"Then could you please close the eyes of this clone?" Delphinium asked with drooping eyelids.

"Sorry, this clone doesn't have the function of closing its eyes." The doll said with a blink.

Delphinium gradually loosened her hand that was pressing on the gem, and once again stared at the doll in silence. The two of them fell into a long stalemate beside the treatment bed.

Not long after, she suddenly sat up from the treatment bed and jumped to the ground:

"Sorry, that's all for today. I'm sorry."

She always felt that Emerald had brought her here for some other purpose, and throwing out so many baits before was even more unreasonable. With the other party always talking about "deals" and "benefits", there must be no reason for him to let her take so many benefits for nothing.

It was strange enough that the other party suddenly appeared in Fangting City and offered all kinds of help to me. Now he even wanted to provide a "customer experience link"? In addition, the other party insisted on staring at me during the process, which made the sense of disobedience even stronger.

Although she did not feel shy about exposing her skin, and believed that the other party did not have any "absurd interests", she always felt that there must be some other reasons.

So, after confirming this, she decisively stopped the so-called treatment and planned to leave here.