After get off work, I become a magical girl

——Aso Maruka.

After the name comes the title of the opening track, "Lonely Meet".

The music suddenly took a turn and cut into the prelude of the song very smoothly. Then, during the prelude, a tall figure appeared on the stage at some point.

The gorgeous performance dress and slightly flashy makeup could not hide the singer's beautiful long orange hair and a pair of scarlet eyes.

Those were a pair of eyes that seemed to be able to speak, with a melancholy in their depth, and countless secrets seemed to be buried in the melancholy. Just a glance at each other would make people feel intoxicated as if they were caught in a vortex.

The owner of the eyes walked to the stage with a confident smile, waved to the fans below the stage, and then, as the prelude ended, he raised the microphone freely, and the loud singing and cheers bloomed together in the venue.

As for what she was singing, Delphinium no longer cared.

Because her goal had been achieved. Just by looking at the familiar eyes, she could confirm that the person on the stage was undoubtedly the person she imagined. In fact, the image on the stage could be described by another name - Margaret.

The other party had no scruples at all and appeared there in his true form.

Although the other party's current appearance is different from what Delphinium remembered, and he doesn't look like the junior high school student when he was promoted to the bud level, but more like an adult, or a college student. But this does not mean that Delphinium remembered it wrongly. In fact, this is related to the procedures for magical girls to join the magic kingdom.

All magical girls who join the magic kingdom will face the process of upgrading their true appearance to their true body. During this process, magical girls can adjust the image of their true appearance to a certain extent to make it closer to their current age.

This also leads to the fact that not all magical girls in the magic kingdom look like "girls". There are even women who look like young people or even young women. Obviously, Margaret is the same.

It is precisely because the upgraded appearance is different from her original appearance that she was unable to confirm her identity when searching for photos on the Internet. Perhaps because of this, she was confident and bold to use her true appearance as her true image for her performing activities.

Although the other person's image was not quite consistent with the memory, it awakened Delphinium's dusty memories in another way, because it was actually very close to the image of Margaret when she left.

It’s just that Lin Yun and the other party didn’t meet often at that time, and the image he saw in a hurry was far from enough to cover the impression left by many years before.

When the other party left Fangting City, he seemed to be in his twenties. Lin Yun and Anya had been married for two years, and Lin Xiaolu was just over one year old.

Unlike Hong Siyu who left without saying goodbye, Aso Yuanxiang announced the matter calmly to several of her teammates, and Anya relayed it to Lin Yun, and the matter was finalized.

Throughout the whole process, she displayed a very rational attitude. She discussed her decision to leave Fangting City and her considerations for joining the magic kingdom in the same way as she analyzed her future development.

Because the analysis was too rational and realistic, no one could find any reason to persuade her. Su Shengzi, the only person in the team who had the ability to persuade, had no intention of persuading her at all and readily accepted Aso Yuanxiang's choice to leave.

So, in a cold winter similar to the present one, under the falling snow, Aso Yuanxiang said goodbye to her teammates and set out for the port.

Before leaving, Lin Yun, who had not seen her for a long time, came to the scene and said goodbye to his old teammate.

"sorry."

To this day, Delphinium still remembers what he said when he saw her.

"Why are you apologizing?"

"Regarding the matter of retirement, I am not hiding from you on purpose, it's just..."

"I just feel that meeting up will only make things more unpleasant, or even end in a bad mood, so I just hide away?"

Margaret, dragging her suitcase, blinked her eyes and curled her lips slightly: "Sister, there is no need to explain uselessly, and you don't need to apologize for this matter."

"I feel that the term 'sister' is no longer applicable in this situation."

Lin Yun in the memory sighed: "Anyway, since I have already left the magical girl environment, I can't give you any useful advice. I wish you all the best in the future."

"I call you 'sister' to express my pursuit of a constant relationship, sister. In my opinion, this is how we define our relationship, and it is also the most comfortable way."

Pulling the gloves on her hands to wrap them more tightly, Margaret held her suitcase again: "Do you know what I am most dissatisfied with now?"

"My voluntary retreat has increased your combat pressure?"

Lin Yun pondered and said, "But I think at that time I could only hold you back..."

“That’s not the main reason.”

Margaret still had a refreshing smile on her face, but there was no smile in her red eyes: "Sister, do you know what I am trying to express by repeatedly emphasizing this title?"

“…We are friends and teammates.”

"Yes, there are three of us, me, you, Anya, and of course now we can barely include that bitch Su Shengzi, and even barely count Hong Si and that taciturn guy. In short, we are teammates and were originally the closest people."

She raised her hand and made a "five" gesture: "This was originally a solid group relationship, but you and Anya suddenly got married, which was equivalent to the two of you playing together. You didn't even inform the sisters before making the decision. It gave me a really bad feeling."

"It's like your friends decide to go out together, but you are not included in the decision-making process, and even show an attitude that you are not needed after the decision is made. What I feel is this kind of indifference. Am I being abandoned?"

"I don't know what Su Shengzi is thinking, but you should know why Hong Siyu ran away without saying a word. That girl keeps calling you senior "senior" every day. Her intentions are obvious. You two got married and broke her defense. How could you bear it?"

"...I'm sorry." Lin Yun could only repeat the word in a dry voice.

"Alas, but we are sisters after all, so I am destined to have no complaints against you."

With a slight sigh, the breath from her mouth turned into wisps of white mist in the cold wind. Margaret looked at Lin Yun again: "Like I said before at your wedding, although I am not so willing, I wish you happiness. I hope your marriage is happier than anyone else's, your life is sweeter than anyone else's, and your children are cuter than anyone else's. If you can't do this, then you will let down your sisters' expectations and the hearts that have been hurt."

"We all know what kind of person Anya is, so it's hard for me to say something corny like 'You have to make Ayun happy' to her. But I can tell you straight, sister, don't let Anya down, she really loves you."

Lin Yun also exhaled slightly: "...I know, thank you."

"It's just a few nice words. It's not something that requires much technical skill or cost, so there's no need to thank me."

Holding the handle of the suitcase, Margaret kicked the ground with her toes: "Anyway, that's all I have to say. I've made it very clear before why I'm leaving. It has nothing to do with you. I'm just bored and want to go somewhere else. Or, after being a magical girl for so long, it's time to think about what I want to do with my life from now on."

"doing what?"

"I didn't think about it."

Margaret's answer was very frank: "Since I'm not a stable white-collar worker or a housewife, I should be able to find something that can attract attention and satisfy my love-starved heart."

"Lack of love in the heart... Never mind, let's just leave it as it is."

Lin Yun read Margaret's words with a little helplessness and closed his eyes: "Well, no matter what, I wish you a smooth life and hope you can find the meaning you are looking for as soon as possible, my... friend."

"Oh, I appreciate your good words."

With a chuckle, Margaret dragged the suitcase and said, "Okay, let's go back. Don't freeze outside in this cold weather. Your wife and children are waiting for you at home. What's there to talk about with a lonely person like me?"

Lin Yun knew that she was probably tired of talking.

As friends and teammates for so many years, he already had a certain understanding of her personality. Margaret always spoke with moderation, which made people feel very relaxed. But beneath her gentle words was a straightforward soul who never concealed her likes and dislikes.

She obviously found the conversation a bit boring.

However, Lin Yun herself didn't know what she and her partner would have to talk about after she left the magical girl identity. It was probably too early to start reminiscing about the past at this age. In the end, the common topics between the two of them had already been exhausted.

But as he watched the other person's back gradually moving away, his thoughts traveled through time and returned to the time when he first met the other person, when the orange flash descended from the sky.

Is this the end? he asked himself.

A friendship that carries countless memories, a memory that is as precious as gold when recalled now. In their youth, both of them left so many shining memories around the "magical girl", but in the end, it ended in nothingness in this silent snowy night?

That's not right.

Even though he has given up the power of a magical girl and has lived as an ordinary person for many years, he knows that this is not right.

In fact, he and Aso Yuanxiang both knew very well that the light of friendship was still in each other's hearts, but because of various grudges, they were unable to express it directly.

What should I do?

I should pass on this feeling.

Thinking of this, Lin Yun knew what he should do next. So, he suddenly spoke and called out to the woman whose back was left:

"Thank you! Aso! Thank you for helping me, thank you for being my friend! I am really happy to have fought alongside you these days! No matter what you want to do next, keep going!"

The sound was carried away by the cold wind and could not be transmitted to a place too far away, but it was enough to reach the other party's ears.

He saw Margaret's figure suddenly stop in the night, and then the woman dragging the suitcase turned around again, and for some reason, she made a childish face at him.

"You will regret not choosing me!"

He couldn't describe the expression he saw on Margaret's face at that moment: confidence, satisfaction, and reluctance all mixed together. Then, without giving him a chance to reply, the other party quickened her pace and disappeared into the night as if escaping.

That grimace, as the last expression the other person made in front of him, must have been thirteen years.

Until now, with the appearance of that vivid image on the stage, this frozen expression has gradually thawed with the passage of time and regained its due vitality.

Looking at the extremely shining figure on the stage, Delphinium felt mixed emotions for a moment.

Of course, she didn't have any thoughts about the other party's current situation, but more because the identity of "old teammate" involved too many memories, and the memories between her and Margaret could be said to be full of Anya's figure.

Now that Anya is gone, this nostalgia is brought out again by seeing the old friend, and mixed with all kinds of emotions, it naturally becomes quite complicated.

And just as she was sighing, she suddenly discovered that Margaret on the stage did a special action: she took off the hair flower decoration from her hair.

Then, she threw it into the audience amid the enthusiastic cheers of her fans.

In the dark crowd, it seemed that countless hands were stretched out at this moment, trying to intercept the gift from the idol in mid-air, but the hairpin thrown casually seemed to have eyes, passing through the gaps in people's hands, and no one could successfully intercept it.

It flew straight towards the delphinium and landed lightly in the palm of her hand.

Even as the flower fell into Delphinium's palm, the song had already reached its climax. Amid the rhythmic sound waves, the loud singing voice reached her ears with unparalleled clarity.

——"Lonely encounters, migratory birds do not fly south in winter."

"You will definitely regret not choosing me."

After hearing these two lines of lyrics, the memory that had just flashed through her mind made Delphinium raise her head as if she had been electrocuted, and look towards the stage again.

Then, her eyes met with the singer on the stage.

Consciousness is infinitely stretched at this moment, movements lose their strength, and the many barriers between the stages seem to disappear at this moment, only the song continues.

"Year after year, it is a sweat."

"Look at me, the first-class star on the stage, returning like a shining light!"

Thanks to the book friends who are both earthy and wooden, the leader of Rouge, the book friend who is wandering in the world of fantasy, and all the book friends for their support and patience.

Ten thousand words meow.

Chapter 193 Behind the Stage

2023-07-25

When enthusiastic cheers rang out all around, Lin Xiaolu had to cover her ears with her hands to block out the deafening shouts.

God have mercy on her, she had never attended an event of this level before. The roaring music from the venue's speakers and the deafening voices around her combined were more than her ears could bear.

Unlike her, Jiang Yuan beside her has completely integrated into the group of fans, waving her light sticks in an orderly manner and singing loudly to the music on the stage. What is even more eye-catching is that she can sing along with every song since the concert started, which shows that she is obviously a loyal fan.

Lin Xiaolu's friend's enthusiastic performance discouraged her from talking to him. It was not a wise move to disturb others when they were full of passion. The best way to avoid spoiling others' mood was to shut up.

Looking around in silence at the excited crowd, Lin Xiaolu suddenly felt a little lonely.