After get off work, I become a magical girl

"Well, it's been like this for a while."

She glanced at the huge beast behind her. With her action, the already dying beast even stopped its only life activities. "After all, we are short of people at home now. You all go out to perform tasks, so I can only do some chores."

"Are you short of people...?" Yuan lowered his eyes slightly and did not look at the girl in the mirror.

"Yeah, you went to the material world, Black Cat returned to the kingdom, and Kui went with her... Now there are only some logistics staff and me at home. It's very lonely."

The girl chuckled, her face slightly flushed, and she seemed a little shy: "That's why I contacted you at this time. I hope it didn't delay your work?"

"No, the most important thing is that you come to me."

Yuan forced a grin, pulling out a seemingly carefree smile: "It's also our fault that we stayed out for too long, making you feel uncomfortable at home alone."

"It doesn't matter. After all, these are my requests. I hope you can complete the tasks. Being anxious often doesn't bring good results."

The girl shook her head and looked at Yuan softly: "I am just a little worried that your mission may have encountered difficulties that cannot be solved."

Yuan pursed her lips.

She lowered her head and glanced to the side for help, but saw Semi lying quietly on the ground, as if dead, with no movement at all.

Sighing in her heart, she could only organize her words and stammered, "My side... is indeed not going smoothly, because according to my investigation, the Beast Source of Moth... is now controlled by Emerald."

"As for Cornflower, although she is injured as the intelligence said, there are veteran members of the Fangting City team stationed here to protect her safety."

"That child named Bai Jingxuan... She has almost always been in the secret base of the Magical Girls Team in Fangting City. She rarely appears. Even if she does, she always follows others. There is no suitable opportunity for us to attack her."

She racked her brains to find out the part of information in her brain that could be called "facts", and after organizing it, she formed the above language.

These words are all true, but they are not the reason why she failed to succeed, because the only reason is that she was here on "vacation" and had no intention of resolving it sooner.

"Emerald?"

Fortunately, the information that Yuan managed to throw out seemed to really attract the girl's attention, especially the code that symbolized the institute's gem scepter.

Yuan learned this news when he had a duel with Cuiqiao. It was precisely because of this knowledge that Yuan took a desperate attitude and settled down completely in Fangting City.

After all, asking her to rob a damaged semi-gem scepter is understandable, but asking her to rob an incumbent full-powered gem scepter? That's not a joke.

After hearing the code name, the girl was stunned for a moment, then frowned and puffed up her lips, revealing an expression that was obviously upset. She was obviously angry, but she actually looked a little cute: "This nerd is always so sharp about things like this that it's annoying."

"You said that the Beast Source is in Emerald's hands. To what extent? Has it come into her hands, or is it only in the hands of her librarians who cross the border everywhere? Has it been transported to the realm, or is it still in the material world?"

The girl said in a clear voice, as if reciting a poem: "So, since the Source of Beasts is in her hands, Cornflower has actually reached some kind of deal with her?"

"It seems so."

Yuan seemed to be speaking honestly, but in fact, he chose his words carefully as he answered: "I once found Cornflower and asked her to hand over the Source of the Beast. However, not only did other members of the Fangting City team come to stop us, but we also learned that the Source of the Beast had been taken away by Emerald."

"I don't know when Emerald came to make the deal with her, but it should have been completed when we didn't know." Perhaps she felt that this was not enough to cover up her mistake, so she added another sentence.

"That is to say, we don't know the progress... but are you sure it was taken away by Emerald? Could it be that he took advantage of the situation to deceive you?" the girl asked.

"I can't sense any remaining aura of the Beast Origin on Cornflower, and there is no remaining aura when searching Fangting City. Even if it's not Emerald, it should not be in this city."

Yuan reported his only serious work truthfully: "I haven't confirmed the reliability of this information yet. This is my mistake."

"It doesn't matter. Just treat it as true. It doesn't conflict with our original purpose."

The girl shook her head gently. "Then, the only remaining task is to bring back Cornflower and Bai Jingxuan. If these two tasks can be completed, their value will be no less than a Beast Origin. Do you have any idea?"

"As for this matter, it is not that easy because the old members of the Fangting City team are stationed there..."

"It's easy, right?"

Interrupting Yuan's evasive speech, the girl leaned slightly towards the mirror with a curious look on her face and said, "Twenty years ago, the Fangting City team was called a legendary team because of Cornflower and Sakura. But now Cornflower is injured and Sakura is dead. There shouldn't be anyone left who can threaten you, right?"

"I tried to fight them, but the injured Cornflower seemed to be able to recover some of her strength with the help of her teammates. Plus, her teammates were also Flower-level..." Yuan's voice became smaller and smaller.

"But it still doesn't mean anything to you, does it?"

The girl smiled suddenly, brightly and innocently: "You are my most trusted warrior. Even if you are facing Cornflower or Sakura at their peak, you should be able to fight."

"...Yes." This was the only response Yuan could give.

"If you find it difficult to conquer the city head-on, then why not try using the people in the city? The so-called New Year in the material world is coming soon. How about setting off some nice fireworks for them according to the customs there?"

Seeing that Yuan didn't want to talk more, the girl continued to speak in a sweet and innocent voice: "If there are a million people, it may affect the normal operation of the city, and it will be inconvenient for the apostles to take over in the future... Then how about 100,000 people? This number should be enough to make them accept some unequal rules."

"…What do you mean?"

"Kill him." The girl's tone was vague, as if she was talking about what she was going to eat for dinner.

Yuan was silent again.

She had always been silent so many times when facing the leader of the Claw Scar, the former Gem Scepter, the White Wolf.

"Ah, why are you silent?"

In response to Yuan's silence, White Wolf first blinked, then tilted his head in confusion: "Are you unhappy because I interfered too much with your mission? If that's the case, I'm sorry, I just hope you can solve the troubles you encounter as soon as possible and return to our home. It's all my fault for being too nagging, can you stop being angry with me?"

"After all, being alone is a bit lonely."

She looked at Yuan with tender eyes and smiled shyly like a young girl: "It would be great if you could come back earlier to accompany me."

Kite was unable to raise his head.

Even though she knew that if she raised her head at this moment, she would only see the White Wolf's iconic tender gaze, she still couldn't control her head to complete this action.

She could only keep her head down, like a minister meeting the emperor in the royal court, and bow her body deeply, deeply.

——"Yes, sir."

Then, like a puppet, stiff words came out of his mouth.

Chapter 216 Before the New Year

The end of the year was approaching, and on the second to last day before the holiday, Lin Yun got off work from the Yi Ce Bureau and returned home at nearly nine o'clock.

Not only because he had a meeting with government officials that afternoon, but also because he was able to show up at the base in the guise of Delphinium after get off work, which had almost become a regular part of his routine in recent times.

Normally, he might just stay in the house at the base, but today was different—Lin Xiaolu went home.

At most once a week, and at least once every half a month, Lin Xiaolu would often go home to replace the spare clothes and daily necessities, take away some things that she would need next, and take some things that she would not use home, and tidy up her room by the way.

This was a very natural thing for her and she didn't need to consider any complicated internal factors, but for Lin Yun, whether to go home required multiple considerations.

In the first two months after moving into the secret base, his schedule was highly consistent with Lin Xiaolu's. Basically, whenever Lin Xiaolu went home, he would find an excuse to leave the base - Xia Liang already knew the truth, and Bai Jingxuan didn't care about it at all. As long as he made sure that he was there when Lin Xiaolu went home, he could alleviate the identity conflict to a certain extent.

But as time went by, especially after the Full Moon Festival, Lin Xiaolu discovered that her father was not an ordinary person in the full sense of the word. Later, she even learned that Lin Yun was the director of the Strategy Bureau. So one night, she asked her father a thought-provoking question:

——"You don't have to work overtime or socialize at night recently?"

Lin Yun can actually give a definite answer, which is "definitely not necessary", but it is difficult for him to explain the logic behind it in a few words that his daughter can understand and accept.

After all, this was due to both his personal reasons and reasons at the Fangting City level.

Objectively speaking, he does have a lot of things to do, whether it is the various decision-making tasks within the Strategy Bureau, or the communication with certain government officials, or even intervening in the political affairs of Fangting City. If Lin Yun is willing to spend time on these things, he can be so busy that he can't go home every night.

But the fact is that Lin Yun is unwilling to waste time on trivial matters.

His attitude towards the work of the Strategy Bureau was very simple, that is, "eliminating the unstable forces in Fangting City." Apart from this purpose, he was not very interested in a series of things such as deeply participating in the policy formulation of Fangting City and the power game among the top leaders of Fangting City.

This is both a personal interest and a matter of assessing the situation.

Although Lin Yun was born and raised in Fangting City, he has never had any political performance in the past 30 years of his life. He has no qualifications and no experience. Although he is now the director of Fangting City, he is still an "outsider" to the government officials of Fangting City.

If he was just a simple outsider, it would be fine, but he was not. Anyone who tried to understand Lin Yun's identity and background, even if they could not investigate Anya or Lin Xiaolu, could still understand the shocking fact that "he was directly assigned by the Tiandu City Headquarters, and there was suspected to be the will of the magic kingdom behind him."

"How to deal with the relationship with the new director of the Special Policy Bureau" has become a major problem for the current Fangting Municipal Government.

The relationship between the Strategy Bureau and the city government is not one of superiors and subordinates, but two sides of the same coin.

The Bureau of Special Policies is responsible for managing magicians and other people who possess extraordinary powers, and for connecting with overly powerful entities such as magical girls and magical kingdoms. The government is responsible for protecting the lives of ordinary people and maintaining facilities and social operations in the city.

In most cities, the relationship between the Bureau of Special Policies and other government departments is in a state of being close but not close. Most of the time, each department performs its own duties, but there are also many areas that require cooperation.

A typical and sensitive topic is the activity funds of the Strategy Bureau, which needs to get money from the government. As long as money is involved, there will be countless interested parties involved.

Normally, when a city's Strategy Bureau asks the government for money, it means that some dirty deals between adults have begun: how much money to give, in what form, and when to give it. There are quite a lot of things that need to be haggled over between the Strategy Bureau and the government, and people on both sides can use this as an excuse to gain more benefits for the public or for private. A large amount of money flows into the pockets of certain officials in the name of "Strategy Bureau activities."

These things were also one of the unspoken rules in Fangting City in the past, even when Moss was in office. After all, although none of the dirty deeds done by Black Cinder Dawn were done by humans, they still required money and a lot of resources.

But when Lin Yun came on stage, this rule was immediately broken.

It’s not that Lin Yun didn’t realize it or didn’t understand the rules, but that he was simply too lazy to care.

He did not think it was necessary to come up with various names just to get money from the government. He preferred to take as much as he needed. He would not deliberately keep the Strategy Bureau simple, but he would not ask for resources beyond normal expenses.

In this regard, Fangting city government officials felt both happy and worried.

The good news is that the expenses on the books have been greatly reduced. Compared with the previous years when the Yi Ce Bureau always asked for a huge share, the Yi Ce Bureau led by Lin Yun is simply noble. The bad news is that many people have lost the opportunity to make money, and at the same time, they have lost the opportunity to bring Lin Yun into the group.

The new director of the Strategy Bureau was so incorruptible and impartial that they didn't know how to win him over. If they couldn't win him over as one of their own, he would be an outsider after all, and if he was an outsider, there was no way to discuss many things in depth.

What troubled them most was that this new director was difficult to win over and court, and it was even more absurd to exclude and suppress him - after all, he was directly appointed by the country, and God knew how deep the relationship could reach. What if there was a person in power from the country above him, who could make Fangting City no longer protected by the magical girl with just a few words? That would be the end of them.

They also know that this is actually a kind of happy trouble.

Because many small cities' Strategy Bureaus, let alone being directly assigned by the country, most of the Strategy Bureau members may not be able to go to the magic country in their lifetime, let alone ask the country for anything. Many times, they can only quietly clean up the mess when facing the residual beasts, or hope that the magic girl in their city can produce a powerful figure.

Fangting City has actually been such a city for nearly a hundred years. In the past, Fangting was relatively remote in geographical location and the city was not large in scale. It was often invisible in the eyes of the country. The frequent beast disasters made people panic.

Twenty years ago, Fangting City produced a group of talented magical girls. Not only could they easily solve the local beast disaster in Fangting City, their military power even extended across the wasteland and covered several surrounding cities, making Fangting City one of the most stable cities in the southern part of Donghua Prefecture.

After the reputation spread, naturally many people came here to settle down in Fangting City, which directly led to the rapid development and expansion of Fangting City in the past decade. The economic development zone in the new urban area was also completed as a result.

Twenty years ago, Fangting City was just an unknown small town, but twenty years later it has developed considerably. Although there is still a big gap between it and traditional big cities, it is already a leader among small towns.

This trend stagnated at the beginning of this year, because the magical girls in Fangting City seemed to be in a period of transition, and the incidence of beast disasters became increasingly high, which shook the people's hearts.

But then, as the new generation of magical girls gradually became active, the old generation of magical girls also showed up on the Full Moon Festival and killed a giant beast that invaded the city in a high-profile manner. The residents of Fangting City have regained their confidence in "safety".

A considerable part of Fangting City's current stability is based on the protection provided by the magic kingdom. As a result, when facing Lin Yun, the city government officials can neither be too enthusiastic nor too negligent. They are stuck in the middle and feel very uncomfortable.

Lin Yun is actually very clear about this.

But for him now, this state is the best.

Once he was to lead the Strategy Bureau to establish deeper cooperation with the government, he would inevitably have to communicate more closely with all parties, and the resulting large number of meetings, receptions, and entertainments... just thinking about it made his scalp tingle.

He was very sure that he did not have time to maintain personal relationships with these government officials, so naturally there was no need to do those face-saving projects. He just had to do his own job well.

As for the work content at the Strategy Bureau, not to mention that Hong Siyu could already help him share a lot of the burden, there was no need for him to work overtime until late at night for the work he had not finished. He could continue working on it when he returned to the base or home.