After get off work, I become a magical girl

This word obviously made Lin Xiaolu even more confused, because she had never seen such a high-ranking official in her life.

"Dad, are you the director of the Strategy Bureau?"

Then she let out a deafening scream.

"Keep your voice down, do you want the neighbors to hear?" Lin Yun quickly reached out and covered her mouth, "This is not something you can just tell anyone!"

"But, isn't it... the Director of the Strategy Bureau?"

Lin Xiaolu said dazedly, "I am actually the son of an official?"

"No, you are not. Our family has no rights. I am just me, and you are just you."

Lin Yun knocked on the chopping board: "And I think you have to understand that compared to the position in the Strategy Bureau, the identity of a magical girl is actually more important..."

——"So that's why you know I'm a magical girl?" However, Lin Xiaolu interrupted him first.

"That's right." Lin Yun simply followed this logic and continued, "I'm from the Yi Ce Bureau, so Hong Siyu came to me first and told me about everything related to you."

"So, that's why you never care about what I do?"

"Yes, because even the secret base you are living in now is provided by our Strategy Bureau."

"Did you know exactly what I was doing during those first few days when I thought I was hiding it from you?" Lin Xiaolu had a complicated expression.

"It's not really that clear, but I know you're fighting for this city."

Lin Yun was vague: "I don't have such a strong desire to control you. I won't always pay attention to what you are doing."

"But you are the director now, why is our family still so poor?"

Lin Xiaolu was a little confused: "Shouldn't it be possible to drive a luxury car and live in a villa just by accepting a small bribe?"

"Your father is an honest official and does not accept bribes."

Unable to resist, he patted his daughter on the head again and taught her, "I'm using my power to pay special attention to your news and give your activities the green light. How could I possibly do something like accepting bribes?"

“…So that’s how it is.”

Lin Xiaolu suddenly sighed: "I thought..."

"What did you think it was?" Lin Yun looked at her sideways.

"I thought you and Delphinium were in a relationship, so Delphinium told you all these things."

For some reason, after a brief moment of shock, Lin Xiaolu seemed a little disappointed: "So it's because you are in the Yi Ce Bureau."

"Rather, it is precisely because I am in the Strategy Bureau that I can come into contact with your senior Cuique and Hongsi."

After cutting the ingredients, Lin Yun lit the stove and started adding oil to the pot: "Including what you saw this afternoon, that was indeed me, but it wasn't because I was flirting with anyone, but because I was accompanying Hong Siyu to choose clothes."

"Isn't choosing clothes considered flirting?" Lin Xiaolu's eyes widened.

"Workplace attire, don't let your imagination run wild, just normal conversation with friends."

Lin Yun looked away with a guilty look on his face: "Anyway, there is no other meaning in this."

"So that woman is really Hong Siyu, not her daughter or niece or something?" Lin Xiaolu asked.

"Yes, that is indeed her."

Lin Yun nodded; "You can ask her or Delphinium for the specific reason, but this is indeed what she looked like after regaining her magical girl power."

Lin Xiaolu felt inexplicably relieved.

"That's good. I've thought about the worst case scenario before. What if that's your illegitimate daughter?"

She patted her chest and said, "If a sister appeared out of nowhere, I don't know how I would get along with her."

Lin Yun raised his hand, and Lin Xiaolu subconsciously dodged to the side, but found that she was not hit on the forehead, but instead a palm was spread out in front of her.

"Salt." Lin Yun said concisely.

"Oh." Lin Xiaolu then realized that she was still helping in the kitchen and picked up the bag of salt from the shelf nearby.

"In short, the relationship between me and Kumizuki, and Hongsiyou, is not what you think."

Taking the bag of salt, Lin Yun used a spoon to gently compare it and sprinkled it into the pot. He concluded: "These are all work needs. In fact, whether it is me or Kuroko, many things are considered for your sake, so don't guess blindly."

"But……"

Lin Xiaolu hesitated again: "If you two really have nothing to do with each other, why would Cuique consider me?"

"…Because she is your predecessor."

After thinking for a while, Lin Yun answered, "The relationship between the seniors and juniors of magical girls will last for ten years if there is no change. The comradeship for such a long time is often better than that of relatives and friends."

This answer should not actually be given by him, because the matter concerns the magical girl, and he should not show too much understanding. Even if he confessed the fact that he now works in the Strategy Bureau, "magical girl" is the main dividing line between his identity and that of Delphinium, and he should avoid it.

However, tonight, things have come to this point, and making things clear and clearing up misunderstandings is the most important thing. That's why Lin Yun chose to speak out after thinking about it.

Of course, this is just a superficial reason. Although it sounds reasonable and seems to make some sense, it is actually not very convincing.

It can be seen from Lin Xiaolu's expression alone that she is not very satisfied with this answer.

In fact, Lin Xiaolu was not unaware of Delphinium's previous preference for her. Rather, it was because Bai Jingxuan had taken Delphinium's attention away during these days that she gradually realized that she had been favored before.

However, even though Delphinium had explained again and again the source of this preference, she didn't think it was because of herself.

In her subconscious, she still felt that this preference came from the influence of her parents. Perhaps it was the influence of her mother as a teammate, and also because of the unusual relationship between Kuroko and her father.

But now, his father told him very frankly that it was not because of these things, and there was no romantic relationship between him and Delphinium.

This not only meant that her previous guesses were all wrong, but also that she had spoken out all these wrong guesses, even directly in front of Delphinium herself, and even shamelessly started calling her "Mom"...

If she really was thinking in the wrong direction, Lin Xiaolu couldn't help but curl her toes just thinking about it.

But, she thought, if these are all wrong, what is the real answer?

The preference that I feel is not an illusion, but my father and Delphinium both deny that there is any deeper connection between them. Which side should I believe?

Is it because beyond these opposing facts, there is another answer?

She was destined not to get any other answer from Lin Yun, so after finishing dinner and helping to clean up the dishes, Lin Xiaolu fell into deep thought alone.

She thought about taking a shower, thought about brushing her teeth, thought about changing her clothes, and thought about lying down on the bed.

Then she thought about it and opened her phone, thought about clicking on the game on her phone, and thought about finding the game character named "Shucao" who should be based on her mother.

“When I asked Delphinium, she also said it was because of me.”

Recalling the conversation one night in the summer, Lin Xiaolu murmured, "What's so special about me? I don't have good talent, my personality is not good, I'm not as cute as Xia Liang and the others, and I'm even starting to lose to her in academics..."

"Mom, what is the relationship between you and Delphinium?"

"If it really has nothing to do with my father, then what was the reason for the dream that night? Why did I dream of Delphinium holding my childhood self?"

The virtual character on the screen could not answer her questions.

No matter how many times Lin Xiaolu clicked on the game character's voice, she could only hear some irrelevant greetings and battle-related shouts.

Amid her increasingly confused thoughts, she finally gave up thinking about this problem and started playing other game levels instead.

In recent days, her attention has finally gradually shifted away from "Akebono" and turned to other characters in the game, and began to train other magical girls.

In the process of developing the game character, the character's personal story will occasionally be triggered, symbolizing that the character in the game has developed a deeper friendship with the "fairy" played by the player.

Just like that, Lin Xiaolu casually clicked on the personal story of a game character and flipped through it quickly. Just when she felt that the story was quite boring and wanted to fast forward, she was suddenly attracted by a part of the plot.

The reason is that there was a misunderstanding between the two magical girls in the story. One of them mistakenly thought that the other had a homosexual fetish, so there was a ridiculous conversation.

The slight teasing and jokes about homosexuality are not very important to the plot. They are just mixed into the story as a simple seasoning, but in Lin Xiaolu's eyes, they seem to have become the only key to the door lock.

It was such a completely insignificant plot, but it suddenly opened up all her thoughts, allowing her to connect all her questions together in that instant and get a completely new answer.

Yes, why didn’t I think of it before.

She stared at the screen blankly, thinking about the new answer, and the excitement in her heart could not be calmed for a long time.

——Why can’t the one Delphinium likes be my mother?

1 words to make up for yesterday's meow

Chapter 188 Light Snow

2023-07-09

On December 12, an ordinary working day, it snowed lightly in Fangting City again.

The light snow started the night before and lasted until the afternoon of the next day. The white snowflakes dyed the whole city white, bringing a bit of dreamy atmosphere in the midwinter.

Fine snowflakes gently tapped the window lattice, silently leaving a few water marks and blurring the street view outside the window. In the Strategy Bureau with the heating on, Lin Yun, sitting in the director's office, wiped the teacup in his hand and sighed suddenly.

Then he looked at the uninvited guest across the table and asked with all his strength:

"Is there anything happy today?"

Sitting across the table was his student and junior, Bai Jingxuan, who had been a frequent visitor to the director's office in recent days.

As a kind of conversational technique, he didn't ask "what's the matter" or "why did you come", but instead limited the scope to "happy things". He just didn't know the child's purpose, so he tried to make the tone of the conversation more positive.

It was almost time to get off work, and when Lin Yun had already finished dealing with the day's paperwork and was preparing to summarize the day's work, Bai Jingxuan suddenly came here.

Of course, although it was an abrupt visit, Lin Yun was almost used to it. As mentioned before, Bai Jingxuan had become a frequent visitor. After the incident at Lakeside Spring, perhaps because she had accepted this "daughter" as Delphinium, Bai Jingxuan's visits to the Strategy Bureau increased significantly.

However, since then, she has not made any outrageous requests such as "massacre Black Cinder Dawn". She often simply greets Lin Yun and sits quietly in the director's office reading a book.

Rather, it was because she was indeed quiet enough that Lin Yun was willing to let her stay in the director's office.

"Happy things?"

Bai Jingxuan seemed to be more lively than usual today. Even when she was sitting aside reading a book, her legs, which were slightly raised by the chair, were always swaying slightly in the air. Her pair of sneakers were kicking back and forth, occasionally rubbing against each other, making a slight scraping sound. After hearing Lin Yun's question, she stopped what she was doing and looked up:

"Don't you know, uncle?"

know.

Lin Yun thought to himself. It is better to say that the reason why Bai Jingxuan looks so happy today is actually inseparable from the Delphinium.

Because today, December 12th, is Bai Jingxuan’s birthday.

Using the birthday as an excuse, Cuiqiao had already informed the team members that a birthday party would be held for Bai Jingxuan in the secret base tonight.

"I can guess a little."