After get off work, I become a magical girl

In early December, the weather had turned cold, and the bleak cold wind brought a light snow, and the streets of Fangting City became much paler in winter.

The pale white sky was high and vast, and although the sun was shining, it did not bring a single bit of warmth. When the cold wind blew, it was mixed with a faint whistling sound, as if it was the roar of nature.

It was the weekend, but there were not many people on the road. The streets were filled with cold air, and the few people who went out were wrapped in thick winter clothes, enduring the cold on their cheeks as they walked on the gray and white roads. The hustle and bustle of the city was blown away by the cold wind, leaving only silence and loneliness.

In such a cold season, most people would rather spend their rare weekend indoors with the heater on.

The streets outside are cold, so the heating inside the house is precious. A layer of glass divides the cold and warm worlds, and the mist on the window lattice seems to be telling the unwillingness of the cold outside.

With a "huh" sound, she blew the mist from her mouth onto the glass. As the range of the mist slowly shrank, Lin Xiaolu drew a simple smiley face on it out of boredom. She looked at the lonely scenery outside the house through the gap between the smiley faces, but still didn't see the person she was looking for. She turned back and looked at Xia Liang, who was lying on the sofa playing with his phone. She couldn't help but sigh:

"Why hasn't Delphinium come back yet?"

"I always feel like you're asking about Delphinium, but there's something else hidden in your words."

Xia Liang stared at the phone screen without turning his head, and said in a lazy voice: "Does being alone with me make you feel so bored?"

"Who is alone with you? You just happen to be in a living room."

Lin Xiaolu looked at the smiley face she had just drawn. She saw that after just two sentences, her "masterpiece of art" had become mottled. She squinted her eyes subconsciously and said, "Don't be so self-indulgent. I'm really just asking about the delphinium."

"Even if there is no other meaning, you have asked this question at least three times."

Xia Liang typed on the keyboard on his phone screen while muttering, "If he doesn't come back, then he doesn't come back. It's useless to worry about it. Don't you have anything else to do?"

"No."

Lin Xiaolu wiped off the smiley face she had just drawn and muttered, "My magic training has reached a bottleneck, and I've finished my homework. There are no interesting programs on TV. I have nothing to do at all."

"Where's Yugi? Where's your magical girl team?"

"I've finished the game. I've cleared all the levels."

Turning from the window and walking back to the center of the living room, Lin Xiaolu sat back on the sofa with a sullen look on her face: "Mom... I've also changed to Shucao's character, and I've already raised the level to the highest level. I don't have any interest in continuing to play."

"Isn't there a new event? And there's a new character called Morning Glory... or something?"

"I'm not interested. Yin-jiao is not my type. Magical girls are more attractive when they are sparkling."

When Lin Xiaolu heard the name "Morning Glory", she pursed her lips subconsciously, and her comments were merciless: "As for the new event, it feels boring. Isn't it just the most clichéd villain's debut model play? It's been played out to death in animations."

"Then go find other players to fight against. I remember that game has player competition content, right?"

"Huh? You want the magical girl that I have worked so hard to train to compete with others. There is no benefit in winning, and losing will only lead to humiliation. Are you a devil?" Lin Xiaolu widened her eyes.

"The devil is the game operator, right? I'm just stating the facts."

Xia Liang put down his phone helplessly: "Neither this nor that works. Why don't you go downstairs and train with Xiaoxuan?"

"She has already awakened her magic suit, what's the point of me going there?"

Lin Xiaolu pursed her lips: "And I always feel that the girl has suddenly become much stronger recently. I can't gain any advantage by sparring with her now."

"If you really want to say so, it is true."

Xia Liang nodded in agreement: "Forget about the fact that you can't win in a sparring match with her. I'm almost at the Leaf level, and I still don't feel I have much of an advantage against her. The young senior has been training her more often, and I feel like something has happened to that child that we don't know about."

"Will there be one?"

Lin Xiaolu rested her elbows on her knees and blinked in confusion, "I don't feel anything."

"You've noticed, right? That kid has completely given up on calling her 'teacher' and has started chasing after the little senior and calling her 'mom'."

Xia Liang's head, which was resting on the armrest, tilted up slightly, and his eyes met Lin Xiaolu's: "Don't you have any idea about this?"

"What's wrong? After all, I was the one who told her."

Looking at Xia Liang with a confused look on her face, Lin Xiaolu tilted her head and said, "Elementary school students are outspoken. Is it okay to express intimacy in this way?"

"Then why haven't you shouted these days?"

"I'm not an elementary school student! And Delphinium seems to be troubled by this title!"

Lin Xiaolu fiercely pointed out the mistakes in Xia Liang's words, then she leaned back with her arms folded, pretending to be thinking: "Although if things continue like this, maybe there will be such a day... but after all, their relationship hasn't really reached that stage yet. Isn't it a bit selfish for me to rush to shout like this?"

"... As long as you like."

Xia Liang put down her phone with a weird smile that Lin Xiaolu couldn't understand. She used her back to bounce herself off the back of the sofa and changed the subject: "Forget it, let's do the housework together?"

"Eh? No."

Lin Xiaolu immediately said with some disdain: "I just did it yesterday, it's your turn today, right? Don't try to change the concept and drag me into it."

"You have nothing to do anyway, right?"

Xia Liang smiled slyly: "Just think of it as deepening the friendship between us teammates."

"Who cares?"

Lin Xiaolu rolled her eyes at her, and then she laid down on the backrest, with her heels raised, showing her refusal to land. "Instead of doing meaningless housework over and over again, I might as well let a crippled beast show up and let me fight it now."

"Beat the crippled beast?"

Xia Liang seemed to have heard something very interesting, and smiled a cheerful and innocent smile: "If you can't use white magic, you won't be able to defeat a slightly stronger snake, right? After all, it's only of species level."

"Me, you!" Lin Xiaolu's heel, which had just been raised, hit the ground instantly.

Just when their daily bickering was about to turn into a meaningless quarrel, a sound coming from the entrance interrupted their conversation.

boom!

The crisp sound of the door closing seemed like a signal, causing both of them to turn their gazes towards the entrance.

If human ears could react to sounds, Lin Xiaolu's ears would probably have stood up by now. After all, she knew exactly what the sound of the door closing at this time meant.

"Delphinium, you go back..."

Lin Xiaolu suddenly jumped up in the face of Xia Liang's helpless eyes, and trotted to the door, intending to welcome the other party properly. However, after her eyes met the scene at the door, she closed her mouth subtly.

Because it wasn't just Delphinium standing there, there was another figure as well.

She was a magical girl in purple clothes, and looked familiar, but she couldn't tell where she looked familiar. If she had to say where she had seen a magical girl like this before, it seemed to be only in the mobile game she played recently.

But when faced with someone they met for the first time calling out the name of a mobile game character, it sounded a bit like a child who couldn't distinguish between fantasy and reality, so Lin Xiaolu wisely chose to keep her mouth shut.

This expression of doubt and alienation, alienation and vigilance was caught by Delphinium. So she first glanced at the magical girl, opened her lips slightly, but hesitated to speak, and finally closed her eyes slightly, as if she had made a decision and said:

"Call Bo Xue, Xiao Jin, and Mo Ke over here. I want to introduce the new members to you."

"……new member?"

Lin Xiaolu looked at the girl in the red dress and swallowed back the words "She looks older than all of us". In the end, she just snorted slightly and left with a heart full of surprise and confusion.

Soon, all members of the secret base gathered together.

"Let me introduce you all. This is a magical girl who has recently arrived in Fontaine City. She will be joining our team as a non-resident member and will act with us in some battles."

Cuiqiao spread one hand to the girl beside him, with a straight face, and said seriously: "Compared to you, she is also a senior, so if you have any questions, you can ask her."

After that, seeing that no one said anything, she looked around at the girls' reactions, paused, and spoke again: "Does anyone have any questions?"

After asking this, she saw Xia Liang raised his hand first, so she nodded for him to ask the question.

"I don't understand! What does 'non-resident member' mean?"

After receiving Cuiqiao's signal, Xia Liang withdrew his hand and asked seriously, like a good student, "Does this mean that this senior will not stay in Fangting City permanently?"

"No, she will be in Fangting City, but she will not stay in the secret base for a long time, nor will she participate in routine patrols."

Delphinium also explained seriously: "In general, after she joins our team, she will only help with important battles and training. She will have other tasks at other times."

“Is this senior from the kingdom?”

Bai Jingxuan also asked, "She doesn't look like a magical girl who originally lived in Fangting City."

Cuique carefully chose her words and responded with a little thought: "This question... counts, and doesn't count. She is actually quite similar to me. She was originally a local of Fangting City, but something happened later..."

"Mom's friend?"

Bai Jingxuan seemed to take a moment to understand this concept, and then nodded obediently: "Then I have nothing to ask."

——"I have an opinion! As a sower, I have an opinion!"

However, Mo Ke spoke up at this time: "Although this is the intention of the inspector, it is my duty to replace the magical girls in a city! I never knew there was such a magical girl in Fangting City, and I never sensed it before! Suddenly such a person appeared and claimed to join our team. I just learned this kind of thing. This is not in accordance with the rules!"

"I know this is sudden, but we'll discuss the relevant procedures later."

Delphinium folded her hands somewhat helplessly: "Anyway, today I am just introducing you to each other, and we will discuss the specific activities later."

"Then you have to let us know her origins, right?"

Lin Xiaolu was the last to speak, but her attitude was the most sharp and direct: "Even if Cuiqiao introduced him, even if he is a senior, a stranger suddenly joined the team..."

Her voice became quieter and quieter as time went on, but everyone understood what she wanted to say.

In fact, the problem between Xia Liang and Bai Jingxuan also implicitly revealed this meaning.

After realizing this, even Delphinium could no longer keep a straight face. She revealed a helpless expression of "I knew it would be like this" and glanced at the girl beside her.

The two of them exchanged glances, seemingly completing some communication that the girls did not understand. After a moment, the strange girl spoke with a little embarrassment:

"Well, because I was originally a magical girl from Fangting City... I just came back recently, no, should I say I returned to work?"

"You were originally in Fangting City?" Xia Liang understood a little, "Are you the senior who left Fangting City two years ago?"

"No, not really..."

"When was that senior? Earlier? Doesn't that mean he has retired now?"

Xia Liang tilted his head: "In other words, you are from Fangting City like the young senior, but joined the Magic Kingdom, and only recently returned because of a mission?"

"I haven't joined the magic kingdom either."

Although she was being questioned by a girl who looked younger than her, the girl did not show any airs of an elder: "I actually retired a long time ago..."

"Retire!"

This time, it was everyone and the goblins except Delphinium who exclaimed.

Because everyone, even fairies, knew that retired magical girls would lose their powers and could no longer transform. The girl's remarks were undoubtedly challenging their common sense and cognition.

"You mean, you retired before, but now you can come back to be a magical girl?"

Even Xia Liang, who was the most rational, was dumbfounded for a moment: "How is this done? Are there any rules and regulations that we haven't learned? Or does the magic kingdom also have privileges? No, why do I feel like it sounds a little familiar..."

——"Stop guessing."

Finally, it was Delphinium that interrupted the girls' quarrel and said helplessly: "Actually, you all know her. She is my junior, and her magical girl code name is Asagao."