After get off work, I become a magical girl

Whether he is late or breaks an appointment, it is his business and has no impact on me.

Wait for the parent-teacher conference to start. If he hasn't arrived yet, just turn around and leave. As for the class number, just edit a text message and send it.

Lin Xiaolu thought expressionlessly.

But no matter how she thought, that figure never appeared at the school gate.

Even if she focused her attention on the mobile phone screen and wanted to pass the time by refreshing social media, Lin Xiaolu still felt uneasy and her eyes would glance towards the school gate from time to time.

The last student who stayed there waited for his mother to come. The edges of the two umbrellas touched each other, and the mother and son talked and laughed under the umbrella.

Lin Xiaolu stamped her feet, and her heels kept hitting the ground, splashing water and making a "squeaking" sound.

"Is it true that you won't come?"

As soon as she said this, as if to confirm something, a piece of music suddenly sounded. The melody was beautiful, but under the sound quality of the campus radio it sounded like a thunderclap, pulling Lin Xiaolu back to reality from her thoughts.

This melody is very familiar to the students of Xizhao Middle School, as it is the school bell.

Today, with the schedule change, this marks the start of the parent-teacher conference.

……

……

Lin Yun was running in the rain.

The outcome of the battle was no surprise. For him who was able to kill the pupa alone, defeating the snake was not a difficult task.

It was just that the battle took place on a high-speed train, and the continuous changes in space made it difficult for him to quickly end the battle with silk threads. If he rashly used more powerful moves such as Masterpiece, it might affect other passengers in the car. In the end, he had to pick up the basic magic skills that he had long been a little rusty with.

In this situation, even though he had dealt with the caterpillar as quickly as possible, he was still a few steps slower than usual.

After the light rail tram stopped, perhaps because it was the first time to fight outside the blockade of the Strategy Bureau, there were many more people watching the defeat of the remnant beast. It took him some time to drive these people away from the remnant beast.

Finally, he contacted Hong Si and Xiang Yi Ce Bureau to explain the situation, avoided the crowds who were constantly taking pictures around him, and flew directly to the vicinity of Xizhao Middle School via the aerial route.

As usual, he found a small alley, regained his balance, walked out of it, and ran towards his destination.

Because he left in a hurry, he left his umbrella on the tram, so he could only walk with his eyes narrowed in the pouring rain.

The wound on his face was still oozing blood. It was caused by glass fragments when he broke out of the car window. It was exposed to the pouring rain and felt an indescribable pain.

The pain was nothing to him; what really mattered to him was the time: there was no doubt that he was late.

The start time of the parent-teacher meeting had already passed before we landed, and now it was just a matter of trying to make up for the loss and wishing to go faster.

However, he knew deep down in his heart that Lin Xiaolu might not be waiting for him there.

It was he who took the initiative to ask to come to the parent-teacher meeting, and Lin Xiaolu might not be very enthusiastic about it; plus, the weather was so bad, even if he went to school, he might just be satisfying himself.

Just think of it as self-satisfaction.

As he consoled himself in this way, he saw the gate of Xizhao Middle School in the heavy rain. Then he quickened his pace again and passed through the pedestrian passage on the side.

Standing at the school gate, he gasped for air and looked around the flower bed, searching in vain for the figure he imagined. However, he found nothing in the end.

There is no one here, and Lin Xiaolu is naturally not here either.

Looking at the empty flower bed, Lin Yun's heart sank gradually: Even though he was prepared, he still felt sad when he really faced this scene.

His breath drifted in the rain, but it couldn't take away the gloom in his heart. He didn't want to make excuses, because he couldn't make it on time.

Just thinking of his daughter's face and what expression she would have if he broke his promise made him feel guilty.

Screwed up again.

He thought about this and stood there in a state of extreme embarrassment, feeling a little helpless for a moment. He knew that he could still catch up with the parents' meeting if he entered the teaching building now, but the greatest significance of this trip had become empty talk.

Soon, Lin Yun reached out his hand silently, and his wet fingertips touched the mobile phone in his pocket: at least he had to ask where the class was.

——"Why did it become like this?"

A familiar voice suddenly came from behind Lin Yun, and his hand stopped in mid-air.

Turning around, he saw Lin Xiaolu holding an umbrella, leaning against the pillar next to the gate, looking at him with confusion.

"Lulu..." He started to speak, but found his voice was a little hoarse.

"It's too late. Ten minutes late."

Lin Xiaolu drooped her eyelids and raised her hand to reveal the glowing screen of her mobile phone. The electronic clock in the center showed the time: "It's already four forty."

Lin Yun was unable to answer. He tried to force a smile on his face to express his apology, but his poor facial expression control was not enough for him to make such a delicate expression. In the end, he could only raise the corners of his mouth strangely.

Lin Xiaolu ignored Lin Yun's series of strange actions. Instead, she looked at his embarrassed look, pointed at his face that was still bleeding, and repeated her question: "Why did it become like this?"

"The light rail tram encountered some problems on the way and suddenly stopped running halfway..." Lin Yun explained.

"A cruel beast?" Lin Xiaolu's words left him speechless.

"Ahem, no."

He didn't want Lin Xiaolu to realize that he and "Delphinium" were in the same place at the time, so he coughed twice a little stiffly: "The remnant beast is such a dangerous existence, why do you think in this direction?"

"Because the Luoming Line was attacked by beasts, it was... reported in the news." Lin Xiaolu paused, then pointed at her phone, "Did you take this light rail train?"

"No, I fell off my bike on the road."

Lin Yun tried his best to appear nonchalant: "The tram was out of service, so I could only pick up a bicycle from the roadside."

"It's better to stop telling lame lies." Lin Xiaolu said in a muffled voice.

The stiff smile on the man in front of her gradually overlapped with her memory of her mother's playful smile when she was occasionally late.

When she ran away from home, he went to her classmate's house, and his haggard and exhausted state was the most embarrassing appearance she could remember. And today he looked even more embarrassed: not only was his always neat formal clothes completely soaked, his usually neatly combed hair was stuck to his forehead like a pot lid, and the small wounds on his face were even more unbearable.

Seeing the man who usually looked like a workplace elite become like this, Lin Xiaolu felt that she should want to laugh, but for some reason, she just felt a little sad. Because she suddenly realized that adults are often not as calm as they seem.

Looking at this man who was so familiar and yet so distant to her, she felt for the first time that his rigid and silent shell had cracked a little, and she glimpsed something more real from it.

It was something she had longed for in the past, but it was something she had never thought about now. It seemed that she truly understood him a little bit because of this.

So she felt relieved, relaxed her frown, and raised her arms:

"Catch it."

She handed over the umbrella in her hand.

"Ok?"

Lin Yun was slightly stunned. He stared at the umbrella that Lin Xiaolu handed over and took it hesitantly: "Does this mean..."

"I stood at the school gate holding it for half an hour."

Lin Xiaolu turned her face away and avoided Lin Yun's sight: "Help me do it, I'm tired of lifting."

She handed over the umbrella, stood beside Lin Yun, and hid under the umbrella. She stretched her sore arms and shook her sleeves that were soaked by the rain.

After a while, seeing that Lin Yun still didn't take any action, she raised her head with some dissatisfaction: "Why are you still standing here? Aren't there going to be a parent-teacher meeting?"

"Parent-Teacher Conference. Yes, Parent-Teacher Conference."

At this moment, Lin Yun felt as if a warm current had flowed into his heart, making him happy and relieved. He held the umbrella tightly and followed Lin Xiaolu towards the teaching building.

The father and daughter, holding an umbrella together, walked towards the classroom in the rain.

The black umbrella swayed slightly in the downpour, maintaining the small space it covered, and slowly disappeared in the rain.

Thunder rumbled in the sky and rain fell in gusts on the wind.

The flooded road was rippling with water. A snail was submerged in a puddle. The slow speed made it unable to escape. It could only shrink into its shell helplessly, waiting for death soon.

Just then, a hand reached out from under the eaves, gently picked the snail out of the water, and placed it on the ground beside it.

After the owner of the hand finished this task, he took a few steps back and returned to a place where he would not be exposed to the rain.

Xia Liang was squatting there alone.

She had a somewhat relieved smile on her face and watched Lin Xiaolu and Lin Yun disappear in the distance quietly. But when they disappeared from view, a bit of loneliness appeared on her face.

She stared blankly at the snail extending its tentacles from its shell again and crawling slowly. She suddenly thought of the night when she pretended to run away from home and stayed at Lin Xiaolu's house.

Or it could be said that he was the one who initiated the conversation, but after listening to Lin Xiaolu's confession, he was inspired to say these words.

That was a sentence that was spoken out loud, but I didn't dare to say it aloud, for fear of exposing my true feelings:

"Really... I envy you so much."

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Chapter 38: Magical Girl's Magical Training

2023-04-30

——"As I said before, although the existence of the magic source makes it almost instinctive for magical girls to use magic. But that doesn't mean we can't control it in detail. The problem of you consuming magic too quickly is not only due to your own lack of magic, but also essentially the result of using magic without restraint."

It was two days after the parent-teacher meeting, that night, at Lin Xiaolu's home.

Delphinium was sitting on the sofa in her house giving a lecture to two newcomers.

Because she had some special arrangements for today, she specifically informed her daughter two days in advance as Lin Yun, saying that she was going on a business trip to the next city for a day and would not be home at night.

Afterwards, he used the identity of Delphinium to inform the two newcomers that the next class might have to be moved indoors, and that he would go to the Bureau of Strategy to ask for a venue, and asked the two if they had any objections.

She didn't consider what kind of chemical reaction these two pieces of information would produce together, but the result was that Lin Xiaolu volunteered to hold the first indoor class at her own home.

After thinking about it, she felt that there was nothing wrong with it, so she agreed.

The content of today's course is the refined control of basic abilities and how to plan the use of one's own magic power.

The four basic abilities of a magical girl of the first level are flight, strengthening, magic release and magic perception. After all, it is only the initial stage of ability development, so the means she has are very limited.

As they enter the bud level and gain magical constructs, and enter the leaf level and learn to use spells, the magical girls' fighting methods will gradually become more diverse, and the differences in style will become more obvious.

But no matter at what stage, the basic abilities that one possesses from the species level are the most frequently used, so many further skills are derived on this basis.

For example, the ability to fly has spawned many techniques such as "levitation", "magic reception", "cannonball launch", "perpetual motion flight", "super-speed flash", etc. Using these techniques can change the effect of the ability to fly, and can also control the consumption of magic more finely.

Lin Xiaolu's skill in controlling magic power was terrible. For example, she was always wasting magic power when flying. Not only did she consume magic power too quickly, but her flying speed was also not fast. She also wasted too much magic power, which produced a fireworks effect, which was loud but lacked practicality.

The purpose of today's lesson by Delphinium is to try to correct her shortcoming, or at least to clarify the goal of future efforts.

After sitting there and talking for two hours straight, even a magical girl felt thirsty, so she took a sip from the teacup in front of her to lubricate her throat before speaking again: