After get off work, I become a magical girl

2023-04-30

The center of Fangting City is always brightly lit at night. Looking down from a high place, the neon lights and street lamps complement each other to form a river of light.

Delphinium leaned against the protective net on the rooftop of a high-rise building, looking at the incomplete blue disc in her hand with a dazed expression.

After several days of investigation, she had basically confirmed that this thing was some kind of pipe valve in the sewer. There was no doubt that since this object was found in the body of the cavity-dissolving beast, it meant that it had once lived in the sewer of this city.

But normally this is impossible. With the huge size of the cavity-type remnant beast, there are not many areas in the city sewers where it can pass smoothly. Obviously, it is quite difficult for it to find food in them, let alone hide all the time and not be noticed by anyone.

Unless there is some existence in the sewer that can provide it with food while hiding its tracks.

For example, the remnant beasts of the "Pupa" stage.

What happened in Fangting City in the two years after Tumi and the others left, that even pupa-level beasts could take root and build nests?

Delphinium had to take this issue seriously. Combining this with the urban legend of "The Song of the Sewer" that she had found online before, she had been searching for the possible remains of the Pupa-level beast in the past few nights.

Unfortunately, no results yet.

—“Delphinium?”

The girl's voice came from not far away.

Cuiqiao raised her head and saw Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang looking at her. Then she realized that she seemed to be daydreaming and it was already time for class.

The same rooftop and terrace have almost become her permanent teaching location. She only needs to send a notification on her mobile phone when she gets off work, and when both "students" arrive, she can start today's class.

"Nothing, just thinking about something."

After briefly explaining the reason for her trance, Delphinium stood up and walked towards the middle of the rooftop: "Since we are all here, let's get started. I should teach you some advanced things tonight."

"Advanced?" Lin Xiaolu showed some interest. "Are you going to talk about how to deal with the snake?"

"I think your advancement is a bit too ambitious." Xia Liang smiled helplessly.

"What I think has nothing to do with you, right?" Lin Xiaolu curled her lips.

The two started arguing as soon as they met, repeating their meaningless bickering. After walking a distance with Delphinium, she turned around, glanced around, and cleared her throat twice, signaling them to stop and get down to business:

"Let's get started. What we're going to talk about tonight is a very important ability for every magical girl, the magic power construction, or magic suit for short."

"Oh!" The two magical girls responded enthusiastically and clapped their hands, accompanied by thoughts such as "Finally" and "This is it".

Kuei-ching paused for a moment, waiting for the applause from the two men to end, before continuing, "Regarding the magic suit, I have briefly introduced it to you before, but I will explain it in more detail this time."

"First, let me help you review. Every magical girl will master her own magic suit when her ability reaches the bud level. The magic suit is the manifestation of the magical girl's true self, so everyone's magic suit is different and unique. You should all remember this."

"As for the true form, it is a combination of the magic power and soul of the magical girl. Through training, the magic power is improved, and through spiritual thinking, the inspiration is strengthened. Finally, the seed of the heart is developed to make the two merge into one, forming one's true form."

"When a magical girl has formed her true form, her ability has reached the bud stage. From this stage on, the appearance of the magical girl will always remain constant and will never change. At the same time, her magic power will explode. Therefore, the bud stage is a very important step for a magical girl. When her ability reaches the bud stage, her combat power will be much different than before."

When Cuiqiao said this, Xia Liang couldn't help but look up and think, then he showed strong initiative, raised his hand and indicated that he wanted to ask a question.

"Ask." Kuiqi always felt that she was up to no good, but still raised her hand to signal.

After getting the permission, Xia Liang immediately asked with a smile: "So, little senior, did you reach the bud level at the age of 10?"

really.

Delphinium couldn't help but pull down her eyelids, feeling that she had adapted to Xia Liang's style.

"What weird questions are you asking in class?"

Before she could give an answer, Lin Xiaolu stood up first and said, "Show some respect to Senior Cuique!"

"Is this question strange?" Xia Liang looked innocent.

"You were obviously just making fun of her height..."

Lin Xiaolu wanted to expose Xia Liang's disguise, but realized something was wrong halfway through her words. She turned to look at Delphinium and found that Delphinium was indeed looking at her expressionlessly.

For a moment, she was neither sure what to do nor what to say.

"Hmm? Sorry, I didn't mean it that way. I was just curious."

Xia Liang squinted his eyes and smiled: "After all, if you really enter the bud level at the age of 10, you are actually a very powerful genius, right?"

"Ah, speaking of which..." Lin Xiaolu, who had been frozen in place, finally came to her senses and looked at Delphinium with curiosity.

"No, I just look younger after my transformation."

Facing the two people's doubts, Delphinium remained expressionless and answered in a serious tone: "In terms of the age at which I became a magical girl, I am actually about the same age as you."

The rather cold reply obviously did not satisfy the other two magical girls, but she ignored the disappointed looks on their faces and stopped talking about age and height.

"Let's talk about the magic suit again."

She clapped her hands, signaling to return to the topic: "Once the magical girl has her true form, the magic suit will naturally be born as a manifestation of her true form. It will become the most suitable weapon for you, even if you don't even know how to use it when you get it."

"The innate potential of magic costumes varies. Some magic girls' magic costumes are naturally stronger than others. There will be special evaluation items for this during the national assessment, so I won't go into details here."

"But even if it is innately deficient, the magic suit can be improved through the efforts of the magical girl."

"When the magic power and soul that make up your true self are greatly improved, the magic suit will also evolve and become stronger than its initial state. In the end, the power is determined by magic power, soul and mastery. These three are the basis for using the magic suit."

"Next, I will demonstrate my magic costume to you..."

The lectures continued as usual.

Two weeks have passed since Lin Xiaolu became a magical girl, and more than a week has passed since Xia Liang became a magical girl. The basic knowledge that Cuiqiao has instilled in them is increasing day by day.

From the basic common sense at the beginning, to the subsequent combat skills, and then to the current advanced abilities.

Lin Xiaolu’s talent was neither good nor bad, but fortunately she was serious and took note of everything she learned.

Xia Liang is an absolute genius. Although she seems a little absent-minded all the time, she can actually master everything Cuique teaches her very quickly.

In the past, Delphinium had never promoted any newcomers. The only magical girl junior she had interacted with before her retirement was code-named Chao Gao, also known as Hong Siyu, and she actually worked with her for less than half a year.

Now, watching the two newcomers grow up little by little under her personal teaching, and one of them is her own daughter, she has an indescribable sense of relief in her heart.

Just like that, about two hours later, after sharing all the bits and pieces of knowledge, Delphinium stood on the rooftop and watched the two magical girls say goodbye and leave.

We need to provide them with a safer environment in which to grow.

The broken blue disc flashed through his mind, and Delphinium waved goodbye calmly while making a secret decision in his heart.

Chapter 27 Grand Welcome

2023-04-30

"Yes, yes, I understand. I'm so sorry."

In the dark sewer, a man's voice, slightly tired, came from above.

"Yes, OK. If your maintenance personnel can't solve it, we will come to provide service to you as soon as possible tomorrow morning..."

It was 11 o'clock in the evening. Lin Yun was standing at an open sewer entrance with his cell phone in his hand. He made a promise to the person on the other end of the phone with an expressionless but sincere tone.

Then he put down the phone, opened the text message interface, edited a message and sent it. Only then did he put away his phone and sighed.

He was investigating everywhere in pursuit of the locations where the urban legend was spread. In the middle of the night, a customer complained about the phone call from his subordinate, and he was also blamed for not having a signal in the sewer. It was really exhausting.

Fortunately, there were only a few spots left. If there really were any Pupa-level remnants in Fangting City's sewers, he could pull them out of their hiding place tonight.

Holding the heart flower and transforming into a magical girl again, Delphinium flew towards the next rumored location in the night.

"The Song of the Sewer" is an urban legend that has become popular on the Internet recently. Although there are many versions, when tracing its source, most of the posters who claim to have experienced it personally claim that it originated in Fangting City.

The content of this urban legend is that when you pass by the sewer entrance late at night, you can occasionally hear a vague, very strange but beautiful song. Although it is not a human language, it seems to convey some kind of emotion. Just like the legendary siren, it tempts passers-by and makes people want to find out what's going on.

Once someone is mesmerized by this kind of singing, they will inevitably want to get closer to the source, and even move the manhole cover to try to listen to its beautiful melody at a closer distance. Eventually, they will be grabbed by the hand extending from the manhole cover and dragged directly into the darkness.

If someone ignores the singing and has no interest in it, he will be completely trapped in the same area as if he were trapped in a ghost wall. The singing in the sewer will become stronger and closer until he is completely addicted to it.

Only those who showed enough appreciation, but were not completely mesmerized, could leave the area where the singing was heard safely.

As this strange story spread, some serious remarks even appeared, saying that seeing a sewer manhole cover that was open but not closed meant that someone had been murdered, and that it would definitely lead to news of someone missing nearby.

However, the delphinium could not see it.

Every time she searched the sewer while enduring the stench, she rarely saw any missing people or even rats. In the dark and depressing sewer, there were only the sounds of flowing water and wind.

Recalling the urban legend, Delphinium kept focusing on his hearing, trying to catch any traces of the so-called "singing", but to no avail.

In this way, she floated and flew in the maze-like pipes for half an hour.

The gray-yellow walls and densely packed pipes that kept appearing before her eyes were annoying, but she still forced herself to keep searching. Unfortunately, this trip was still fruitless.

Unable to find what she wanted, Delphinium had to choose to go to the next place. However, when she was about to choose a path to leave, she suddenly realized something was wrong:

——Half an hour, I flew for such a long time but I didn’t see an exit?

Her consciousness, which had been somewhat drowsy, suddenly became clear, and her dormant magic became restless. Delphinium moved her hands, drew a few lines, and then released her magic, which spread out in circles like sound waves. She waited there, and after some exploration, she realized that she might have finally found the right place.

Not only because she sensed extremely subtle residual magical power, but also because of the obviously abnormal spatial structure here: it was not a normal city sewer at all, but a sewer only in appearance, but actually had a structure like an ant nest, a stacked and nested spatial maze.

This is the symbol of the nest of the "Pupa"-level remnant beast, which distorts the original space of reality.

Adjusting her flight state to lower her floating height, several balls of magic light flew out of her sleeves, lighting up the surrounding vision. Her hands kept moving, quickly moving in the void. Along with this movement, several Favor runes jumped out from her fingers and flew around, forming a faint magic barrier. After a moment, the light went out along with the runes.

This series of actions can be said to have used up half of the techniques that Delphinium had mastered. Most of the techniques she learned were auxiliary abilities related to detection and protection. When facing a powerful enemy, any technique was never too much.

After completing this series of preparations, Delphinium raised his spirits to meet the enemies that might arrive at any time.

Pupa-level remnant beasts were relatively rare enemies for her in the past. Now, 19 years have passed, and her current strength has indeed declined a lot compared to before. For enemies that cannot be guaranteed to be defeated, a cautious attitude is the most important thing.

Traveling along the extensive passages, Delphinium would first use the magic light ball to illuminate the environment when passing through each intersection to avoid being attacked by enemies in the dark.

This subconscious vigilance was soon rewarded - she discovered a remnant beast lurking at the top of the passage at a certain turn.

Like a piece of rotten meat smashed against the wall, the scattered minced meat stuck to the wall, and the tentacle-like flesh buds fixed its body. There was no doubt that this was an egg-level remnant beast.

"Pfft"!

In just a few breaths, it was pierced by a magic beam from the Delphinium who was in a hurry. The deterrent roar that had not yet been uttered was forever suppressed in its mouth, and it fell dully on the water, splashing a pool of dirt.

He stretched out his hand, and the starlight gathered in it. He collected the residual echoes of the egg level, and the Delphinium continued to move forward.

Since she encountered this crippled beast, she encountered more and more enemies along the way.

A large number of egg-level remnants, and even a few worm-level remnants, rushed towards her from all directions of the tunnel. It seemed as if something was directing them to accurately find the location of the larkspur.

The delphinium was not afraid at all.