After get off work, I become a magical girl

"Because I'm worried about losing you."

Lin Yun looked out the front window, recalling his emotions that day, and said with a hint of sadness: "I actually wanted to tell you that night that being a magical girl is a very dangerous identity, but at that time... I couldn't say it out loud."

"You think I won't listen?"

"Probably." Lin Yun did not deny it.

"… Never mind. It's all over now."

"Um, sorry, maybe I should have trusted you a little more."

When saying this, Lin Yun couldn't help but smile bitterly.

After all, the price of not being able to tell the truth at that time was far beyond his imagination. In order to protect his daughter and communicate with her, he disguised his identity and went through a huge detour, telling countless lies, so that now he has no idea how to tell the truth.

"It doesn't matter, right?"

Not knowing what Lin Yun was thinking when he said this, Lin Xiaolu blinked, relaxed her brows, and said inexplicably: "Are you thinking too pessimistically? I remember that the number of magical girls who actually sacrificed was not that high, and most of them retired normally."

At this point, she became a little proud again: "And I'm not saying this, I'm actually very safe now, after all, there are some powerful seniors protecting me."

Her behavior made Lin Yun laugh and cry for a moment, and he didn't know whether he should continue the conversation.

But some things had to be said after all, so he adjusted his mood and asked lightly: "...Is it Delphinium?"

This question made Lin Xiaolu in the back seat look stunned.

"Sure enough, you actually know?"

She murmured, and after being stunned for a few seconds, she straightened up. Without hiding anything, she grabbed the backrest of the front seat and put her face close to Lin Yun's ear. Her tone suddenly became eager and even a little excited: "Do you know her? What is your relationship? Is she coming to Fangting City because of you?"

Lin Yun did not give direct answers to these questions.

He didn't really want to talk more about "Delphinium" with his daughter in his father's capacity, because if he wanted to conceal his identity, every word he said would constitute a lie.

But now, it is imperative to explain to my daughter the origin of the delphinium, at least part of its origin.

So, he knew that it was time to fulfill the promise he had made to his daughter.

"Lulu."

Looking straight ahead, Lin Yun mentioned the agreement made a month ago: "Do you remember what I told you before, that I would tell you some truth?"

"Ah, I guess we talked about it in the car that morning."

After hearing him mention this, Lin Xiaolu calmed down a little and loosened her hand holding the front seat: "Does it have anything to do with what you are going to say now?"

"It does matter. In other words, this is the answer you want to know."

Releasing one hand from the steering wheel, Lin Yun picked up the phone with one hand, and after swiping a few times, he found the message interface between him and Lin Xiaolu.

His thumb paused above the screen for a while, and then he finally clicked send on the message he had already edited.

Immediately afterwards, a picture was sent to Lin Xiaolu's mobile phone via message.

He put his phone down again and said with a sigh of relief: "Take a look. If you look at this photo carefully, many of your questions should be answered."

This is the best explanation he can give.

Lin Xiaolu picked up her phone with full of doubts, and Xia Liang also poked her head out with interest. But when they clicked on the photos and actually saw the content on the photos, their eyes widened.

Because the content of the photos was far beyond their understanding.

They were four gorgeously dressed girls of different heights and beautiful looks, but it was obvious that they were all in their teens.

The background in the photo also looks exaggerated. You can tell at a glance that it is a huge object that looks like the corpse of an animal under the setting sun.

From this point alone, Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang could guess that they were actually magical girls.

The four girls have very different demeanors and postures. The one standing on the far left is an elegant purple-haired girl wearing a white silk dress, a dark purple robe, and a round hat. She is looking directly at the camera with a peaceful and intellectual smile. The orange-haired girl on the far right is wearing a gorgeous golden dance dress. She holds her chin high with a proud and complacent smile on her face.

Lin Xiaolu didn't know these two magical girls, so when she saw them, her gaze only paused slightly before she passed by them directly.

But when her attention shifted to the center of the photo, the combination of pink and navy blue, one tall and one short, standing in the middle, made her eyes widen.

She was very familiar with the dark blue figure, because the person in the photo was no different from the person now; but the pink figure, although so unfamiliar, the vaguely recognizable appearance still made her realize the identity of the person in the photo:

"This is, Delphinium and...Mom?"

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Chapter 61 Old Photos

2023-04-30

Lin Xiaolu pinched the frame of the phone, and her fingers unconsciously exerted force.

She could see that the magical girl in the cherry pink puffy skirt in the photo was laughing with the others, hugging the somewhat shy blue-haired magical girl beside her with some unclear feelings.

Two people who should have no connection at all stood so intimately in this photo, causing Lin Xiaolu to open and close her lips subconsciously, but she couldn't say a word.

Is that so? She wanted to ask again.

But if she had any doubts in her heart before, they disappeared the moment she saw this scene.

Yes, that's how it should be.

The many unusual things about his mother when she was alive; why his father was so secretive about her death; why the mysterious magical girl Delphinium took special care of him...the reasons for all of this were due to the answer that "his mother was a magical girl".

It was like a lock that couldn't be unlocked had found its original key. With just a slight turn, it opened.

She never thought her mother had anything to do with the identity of a "magical girl". In her memory, her mother was just a strange housewife who always insisted that she was a freelancer.

She has an optimistic and even crazy personality. She is lazy and careless in her daily work, and sometimes even more childish than me. But she is a good mother who truly loves and dotes on me.

She could still recall the scene of snuggling in her mother's arms and watching the magical girl animation on TV; she had not yet forgotten the smile on her face when she told her that she wanted to be a magical girl when she grew up.

Lin Xiaolu suddenly remembered many things, including her mother who wanted to sleep with her when she was a child but left halfway; her mother who had dinner with her when she grew up but suddenly said she wanted to go out shopping; her mother who clearly said she would come to the parent-teacher meeting but broke the appointment and later claimed that she had remembered the wrong time.

"I see."

My vision was blurred by tears at some point. The tears overflowed from my eyes, flowed down my cheeks, and landed drop by drop on the screen of my phone.

Her throat tightened and her voice choked. She felt that she was now a magical girl who saved others, and she should not be so weak now. But she could not stop sobbing no matter what.

“That’s actually the case.”

It turns out that the real magical girl has always been by her side, and she has been the child favored by the magical girl from the very beginning.

However, I didn’t know all this until two years after I lost her.

Lin Xiaolu just shed tears at first, but soon she covered her face and burst into tears.

She thought that she had cried enough and shed enough tears in the two years since her mother passed away. She had figured it out and became numb, and would no longer cry so much for her mother.

But for no reason, when she discovered that there was an additional connection between herself and her mother, that of a "magical girl", she suddenly found that she had a lot more things to say to her mother.

Becoming a magical girl is not as easy as you think.

The crippled beasts are so disgusting, hateful, and scary.

The practice of magic is hard and boring.

The Magic Kingdom seems to be a very complicated place.

Delphinium-senpai is a very good person.

Now we have a partner to fight together.

Maybe I have begun to understand my father.

And... I didn't expect that after two years, I still miss her so much.

A myriad of thoughts mixed with grief were locked in the small compartment. Even though the car was speeding along, the thoughts were holding me back and I couldn't let them go.

Lin Xiaolu was crying sadly, and Xia Liang beside her didn't know how to persuade her. Lin Yun in the front seat was silent and didn't say anything.

At least in his opinion, it is a good thing to cry at this time.

If you keep sadness and tears in your heart forever, and bury your longing and regret deep in your heart forever, then after a long time, even you won't be able to confirm whether the feelings still exist.

The crying in the car continued for a long time, until Lin Xiaolu gradually stopped and began to sob softly. Xia Liang patted her on the back and continued to ask Lin Yun:

"Uncle, however, if what you said is true, there seems to be another problem with this photo."

She looked at the photo of Delphinium and Anya and asked in confusion, "If Xiaolu's mother was a magical girl of the same period as Delphinium, then she should have retired long ago, right?"

As far as she and Lin Xiaolu knew, Delphinium was a resident of the magical kingdom.

After all, Delphinium has never said which city she was born in, and she has always emphasized that she is much older than them. She is also confirmed by others to be a "big shot", so she does not seem like a magical girl from the material world.

The two girls had actually always been skeptical about Delphinium's emphasis on being an adult, but now after seeing this photo, the remaining doubts no longer existed.

“She didn’t retire.”

Seeing that Lin Xiaolu's emotions had stabilized a lot, Lin Yun sighed inwardly, and then said expressionlessly: "Because Lulu's mother is special, she is a lifelong magical girl, and she is different from other people."

This new concept made Lin Xiaolu, who was crying, and Xia Liang, who was comforting her, feel confused.

——"Lifelong? Xiaolu's mother is lifelong?"

Unlike the two confused girls, the one who reacted the most in the car was Mo Ke.

This is not surprising, because among the people present, except Lin Yun, it is the only one who knows the meaning of this word.

Seeing that Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang had no idea what this meant, it immediately explained: "Lifelong Magical Girl means that because of special merits or deeds, they are allowed to stay in the material world forever. This is a very powerful proof!"

"Mom, she's... really good as a magical girl?"

Lin Xiaolu choked and whispered, repeating what Mo Ke said, and then seemed to realize something, and raised her head in a daze: "Then, in that case, how did Mom die?"

As she asked questions and recalled the past, she suddenly remembered another key point. She stared at the driver's seat in front of her, as if she could see her father through the back of the seat:

"When you told me to 'forget her', was it because of this reason?"

This question goes straight to the core of the problem. After she was released from her sadness and longing, she finally realized that her mother's death was not simple.

Lin Yun didn't say anything.

His silence did not mean rejection, but rather thought.

He glanced at the rearview mirror and met Lin Xiaolu's eyes, whose corners of her eyes were red. When their eyes met, he could see that although there was sadness in his daughter's eyes, she was still clear.