After get off work, I become a magical girl

"Hello, I'm going to look for someone."

Walking forward, Delphinium said something shocking.

Seeing several young girls running to the backstage, and saying things like "go in and find someone" like crazy fans, one of the security guards was puzzled at first, and then tried to drive them away. But before he could say anything to stop them, another security guard beside him seemed to realize something, pulled him back, and whispered something to him.

After he finished speaking, the security guard, although still puzzled, said nothing more. After hesitating for a while, he just nodded at Delphinium and let her in.

With Delphinium's hearing ability, she could naturally hear what was whispered, which was: "Miss Mary's instructions, if there are any little girls who come to see her in strange clothes, just let them in directly."

Without arguing with the security personnel, Cuique continued to lead the three girls straight into the room, and soon found the lounge marked with the name "Aso Yuanxiang".

What is even more eye-catching than this name are the other three girls standing against the wall in the corridor outside the door.

The three girls looked about the same age as Lin Xiaolu and the others. More importantly, Cuiqiao could recognize all of their faces—they were all magical girls from Baian City.

Previously, when she went to Baian City to look for clues to investigate the disappearance of the team, she had briefly cooperated with these magical girls there.

Delphinium saw these people, and these people naturally saw Delphinium as well, especially the blonde girl. After seeing Delphinium, she subconsciously covered her forehead, as if she had recalled some very bad memories.

Of course, it wasn't just Kuei-chi who recognized these people, Lin Xiaolu also had the same reaction, because she immediately realized that these people were the familiar-looking trio she had met in the corridor before.

"What are you doing here?" the question came out of her mouth.

"We? We are the staff here? What are you doing here?"

The blonde girl standing in the middle immediately retorted, but after seeing Delphinium beside her, her arrogance suddenly weakened a bit, and her tone of questioning became less confident: "No, why are you following..."

Her words got stuck here, and it was unclear whether she had forgotten Delphinium's name or she simply didn't dare to say more.

Seeing her silence in the middle of her words, another girl wearing glasses could only sigh helplessly, stood up from the side, patted her on the shoulder, and said to Delphinium:

"Hello, Inspector General, long time no see. I am Bai Ji from Bai'an City. Are you here to look for a mentor today?"

"Who is your mentor?" asked Delphinium.

"The instructor's code name is 'Margaret'." Bai Ji paused and said, "She said you should be familiar with this code name, so she has already told us that if we see you, please tell us to wait outside the door."

"Is she also a magical girl from Baian City?" Delphinium asked again.

"Teacher?... Her words are not entirely true."

Bai Ji said calmly, "But this is not something that we students can talk about casually. Please ask her for details."

"What's there to hide... It's just a name registered in Bai'an." The blonde girl finally had time to utter a word, but as soon as she finished speaking, Bai Ji glared at her and she immediately shut up in annoyance.

This incoherent and even abrupt conversation left Lin Xiaolu confused, because she had no idea how Delphinium had suddenly become so familiar with these "strangers" in her memory, and from her conversation, it seemed that she knew a lot about magical girls.

She first looked at the trio in front of her, then looked at Xia Liang for help. After finding that Xia Liang was also a little dazed, she could only look at Cuique again and reached out to pull Cuique's sleeve.

Delphinium looked at her with a somewhat helpless look.

"Then let's put other topics aside for now and introduce each other first."

Knowing what Lin Xiaolu wanted to express, Cuiqiao had to turn sideways and spread out her hands to signal Lin Xiaolu and the other two: "These are the current members of our Fangting City Magical Girls Team."

Then he turned to Lin Xiaolu and the others, and stretched out his hand to several magical girls in Bai'an City: "These three are the magical girl teams from Bai'an City, a city near Fangting. I got to know them when I was on a business trip to Bai'an before."

After her introduction, several girls who were still somewhat confused finally understood what was going on. Not only Lin Xiaolu, but even Bai Jingxuan and the taciturn girl from Bai'anshi looked as if they had suddenly understood something.

——"Ah, so that's how it is. Hello."

"Hello you guys!"

After understanding the situation, they naturally couldn't avoid exchanging pleasantries. Led by Xia Liang and Bai Ji, several magical girls greeted each other in a strange but polite manner.

Bai Ji is rigorous, the blonde girl is casual, the taciturn girl speaks in a low voice, Xia Liang is kind, and Bai Jingxuan is serious.

Everyone had different ways of greeting each other, but among them, there was one that was the most special.

That’s Lin Xiaolu.

After learning that these somewhat mysterious girls in front of her were actually magical girls from the neighboring city, combined with the inexplicable sense of familiarity she had before, she finally figured out why she felt that the blonde girl looked familiar.

After figuring out the other party's identity and recognizing who she was, she couldn't help but raise her hand and point at the blonde girl. Without even saying hello, she subconsciously shouted:

——"Ah, you're the one who took a bath in the slime of the residual beast!"

Chapter 195 Long time no see

2023-09-17

"Ah, speaking of which, this sister with glasses, you are the one who invited Moko and I to drink milk tea before... Hey, what happened to you two?"

While Lin Xiaolu was saying the shocking words, Bai Jingxuan was still feeling happy about reuniting with the "good man" in her memory. However, the greeting between her and Bai Ji had not even begun, as it ended because of Lin Xiaolu's words.

When the concept of "someone who takes a bath in the slime of dead animals" was thrown out, the atmosphere that had originally relaxed suddenly became quite subtle again.

Everyone's eyes were focused on her in an instant, and then inexplicably focused on the blonde girl next to her.

"Ah, you are the guy who was almost killed by the remnant of the snake-level beast..."

The blonde girl who was greeting everyone loudly a few breaths ago was stunned for a moment, then realized something belatedly, pointed at Lin Xiaolu and shouted: "No, who is taking a bath with the slime of the remaining beast?"

“…Isn’t it you?”

Lin Xiaolu blinked, gestured in the air with her hands, pointed at the other person's iconic golden hair and bald forehead and said, "If you think about it carefully, you look alike, your voice is alike, and you are both magical girls who recently came to Fangting City. It can only be you, right?"

"I didn't say that wasn't me! I said there's no such thing as 'taking a bath in the slime of a remnant beast'!"

The blonde girl shouted in annoyance and waved her fist: "That was an accident! It was an accident caused by the beast's self-detonation before its death. I didn't do it on purpose!"

"Your fighting method is aimed at making the remaining beast explode..."

"Who knew that after that thing exploded, there would be such disgusting things inside!"

It seemed that just recalling the relevant things made her feel sick. The blonde girl's face turned pale and she couldn't help but press her abdomen: "Can you stop mentioning such disgusting memories? To be honest, I'm going to vomit if I recall it again."

"Oh, sorry..." Seeing that the other party looked unhappy, Lin Xiaolu realized that her remarks seemed to be irrelevant, so she turned her eyes away and decisively ended the topic.

Just because the two of them reached a consensus, it didn't mean that the other teammates had nothing to say. The two of them opened up the conversation in this way, and of course the others also had a lot to say. Especially Bai Jingxuan and the girl codenamed Bai Ji, they had met before, so they were naturally more familiar with each other. In addition, Xia Liang was also quite curious about the magical girls in other cities, and the few of them immediately started chatting noisily.

Delphinium stood aside with her arms folded. Seeing that the girls were chatting animatedly, she had no intention of dampening their interest. She just leaned against the wall and looked at the lounge not far away, waiting quietly for the person she was waiting for.

After waiting for a few minutes, just as Delphinium was tapping his arm and feeling a little daydreamy, he heard a "click" and the door of the lounge was gently pulled open.

The sound of the door opening attracted the girls' attention, and the sound of chatting became much weaker. The real person who had not appeared in the lounge before - Aso Yuanxiang finally appeared in front of everyone.

At this time, she was no longer wearing her stage costume, and her gorgeous makeup was completely removed, but she did not lose her color because of removing the makeup. She held the door frame with one hand, poked her head out of the lounge, and glanced at the girls who were also silent without saying a word, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

"tutor."

"elder sister."

"..."

Three girls from Baian City greeted the woman behind the door one after another. Although the attitude of one of them seemed a little wrong, it was enough to draw everyone's attention to the woman.

Aso Yuanxiang's eyes swept across the girls around her, first pausing on Lin Xiaolu, Bai Jingxuan, and Xia Liang respectively. After staying on Lin Xiaolu for a while, she then looked at the girls in Bai'an City one by one, and finally focused on Cuiqiao's face.

Likewise, Delphinium was watching her.

The two people's eyes met.

Long before leaving the stage, Kuija had rehearsed in her mind many times, feeling that she would have to question the other party's behavior after meeting him in private, but when things really came to this, she found that the atmosphere was completely different from what she had imagined.

She originally thought that the other party had pulled her onto the stage to play a prank on her, and was probably gloating over her misfortune with a malicious sense of humor. However, after seeing Aso Yuanka's expression, she realized that she seemed to have guessed wrong.

Because the expression on the other person's face was not one of gloating or mocking, but a smile of fatigue, nostalgia, and relief.

Even twenty years ago, Delphinium rarely saw such a gentle expression on the other person's face.

"Is there anything you want to ask?" After a brief silence and staring at each other, it was Aso Yuanxiang who started the conversation first.

"…What do you want to do by putting on such a show?"

Not knowing what the other party was up to, Cuiqiao didn't want to waste her feelings, so she just said expressionlessly, "You suddenly called someone to the stage to cooperate with your performance. Is this some kind of evil prank?"

"Oh, a prank?"

Aso Yuanxiang looked somewhat innocent and asked, "Is this how you understand it?"

"…It might be better than a real prank."

Delphinium sighed: "I thought you were going to just loudly say 'This is my old friend' on stage, and then perform a series of pranks and so on."

"This is a misunderstanding, sister. Even I am not so far away from being unable to distinguish between ordinary jokes and embarrassing teasing. Inviting your friends to the stage and making them embarrassed is not only a disregard for friendship, but also a blasphemy to the stage."

Madoka Aso raised the corner of her mouth and narrowed her red eyes slightly: "Especially for the fans in the audience, if I reveal our relationship on my own and then let you speak in the name of a friend, then the meaning of this matter to them will be completely different."

"What's the meaning?"

"To put it mildly, it's called 'neglect', and to put it more seriously, it's called 'betrayal', right?"

Aso Yuanxiang walked out of the lounge slowly, gradually closing the distance between her and Delphinium: "Whether it's singing or a concert. Although objectively speaking, it's distributing one's own songs to fans, in the fans' own experience, it's closer to a 'one-to-one' direct spiritual dialogue."

"In an occasion like a concert, if a singer clearly states that his concert has other purposes, or that he has other things on his mind, then it is a kind of snub to the fans who spend money to support him, and it is also a sign of incompetence."

She walked until she was half a meter in front of Delphinium, then she stopped where she was and lowered her head slightly: "Just like a competent magical girl needs to stabilize the people's hearts in addition to destroying the remaining beasts; a competent singer needs to resonate with fans at the concert in addition to producing good works. The emotional experience is very important, so I won't do anything too outrageous on important occasions."

Delphinium looked back at the other person in confusion: "...So?"

"So, I invited you to the stage simply because I wanted old friends to commemorate the moment of reunion together. I couldn't help myself. There was no more calculation, sister."

Aso Yuanxiang said softly: "You don't need to feel unfamiliar with me just because a lot of things have happened. No matter how many things are different from before, at least our previous relationship will not change."

"Is this also considered an 'emotional experience'?"

"Yes, you can think of this as an explanation or apology for my previous behavior because I am considerate of our old friend's feelings, because I didn't intend to make you unhappy."

Aso Yuanxiang said helplessly: "But my estimation may be a little wrong... No, should I say that your temper has become much worse? Sorry, I thought you wouldn't be angry at a joke of this level."

"I'm more confused than angry."

Delphinium frowned slightly: "You know, Aso, it's been thirteen years. You haven't been back to this city for thirteen years. You suddenly came back at such a time. I thought we should talk about more urgent things."

"More pressing matters...confusion..."

The woman with red eyes looked at Delphinium with a slightly confused expression, then nodded as if suddenly realizing: "Ah, so that's how it is. You think my joke is meaningless."

After she said this, she suddenly closed her mouth and hesitated for a moment as if she was thinking about something. Then, she showed a slightly complicated smile: "It's meaningless, it's meaningless. Sigh... You have really changed a lot."

This sentence seemed a little abrupt in this situation, and it could even be said to be incoherent, but Delphinium still subtly followed the idea it wanted to express and responded out loud.

"After all, so many years have passed. If there is no growth or change at all, wouldn't it seem like time has been wasted?"