After get off work, I become a magical girl

With a strange mood, Lin Yun finished his dinner, went into the study, and began to deal with the unfinished work in the company. In his spare time, he also kept a certain attention on his daughter's room to ensure that Lin Xiaolu would not sneak out without him knowing.

Until midnight, nothing unusual was found. When the clock hit 12 o'clock, Lin Yun, who had been working hard all day, felt that it was really difficult to stay awake, so he lay down on the bed after a long wait and fell asleep.

In the haze, he didn't know how much time had passed.

But at a certain moment, he seemed to hear some strange noise.

Then, in the darkness, Lin Yun woke up from his bed.

His heartbeat inexplicably quickened and his breathing became rapid. He didn't remember whether he was dreaming or not, but after waking up, it seemed that even his mood had become much worse.

I picked up my phone in the dark, the screen lit up, and the time showed 2:10.

Although he had just woken up, after figuring out the situation, Lin Yun felt a very strong premonition in his heart.

This premonition was so strong that it seemed so familiar to him that he instantly remembered when the last similar experience happened.

——The day his wife died.

“…Isn’t that possible?”

The words left his mouth with an uncertainty that even he could hear.

Lin Yun got off the bed, hurriedly opened the bedroom door, and looked towards his daughter's room. No longer caring about any taboos or hesitations, he rushed to her door and knocked.

Nothing happened.

Lin Yun was not discouraged. He just knocked on the door repeatedly, louder and louder. The empty knocking sounds echoed in the dark corridor, but still no response was received.

"Impossible?" he repeated.

After taking a look at the door and the blurry note in the dark, Lin Yun gritted his teeth and started turning the doorknob.

creak.

The door is locked.

He didn't know whether his daughter usually locked the door. After all, he had never tried to open it. But now, this situation forced him to have some negative associations.

Did she sneak out alone?

Picking up the phone, he started to call Hong Siyu, but the answer he got was "no one answered".

He opened the search engine and began to input keywords such as "Fangting City" and "crippled beast", but it was still like looking for a needle in a haystack. Even last week's events had been covered by various new hot spots and there was no news at all.

It seemed that in an instant, all the coincidences collided together, and he suddenly lost all clues about the movements of the remaining beasts in Fangting City.

Naturally, he also lost all control over his daughter's movements.

He tried to calm himself down, telling himself that no one opened the door and it wasn't because his daughter ran out alone in the early morning to deal with the remains of the beast. It was just that his daughter hated him as always and didn't want to deal with the neurotic father who came to knock on the door in the middle of the night for no reason. This explanation was actually very reasonable, much more reasonable than the groundless speculation in his mind now.

However, he inexplicably believed in the premonition in his heart.

So he looked at his call log, the second page, the third from the bottom. It was the call at noon, from a completely unfamiliar number.

His finger hovered over the option for a long time, and with some hope in his heart, he pressed the number.

Can dial.

This made his breathing hitch.

Every second of the standby tone during the call seemed as long as a century. Listening to the long "beep-beep" sound, Lin Yun held the communicator tightly.

Then, the other side picked up.

"Hiss".

There was still a heavy noise.

It was as if the signal was severely interfered with. The call sound was intermittent, hitting Lin Yun's eardrums, and then, until a certain point in time, all the noise disappeared.

"On the outskirts of the city, in the wetland park."

After just a few words, the call was hung up.

The surroundings returned to silence again, as if it was still an ordinary night.

Putting down his phone, Lin Yun turned his head and looked towards the living room. He saw the faint moonlight casting a hazy white glow on the ground, bright and quiet, plain and peaceful. This seemed to be another image deep in his heart, another voice, telling him at this point, "Don't go."

Once he steps out of the house from this moment, all the things he had worked so hard to maintain with so much sacrifice will no longer exist.

But for Lin Yun, this decision is meaningless. When the safety of the child is put on the scale, the chips on the other side of the scale are no longer important.

He took a step forward and rushed out of the house at almost the fastest speed.

He opened the door of his SUV, which he hadn't driven for a long time, and pushed the car key in. Then, with a roar, he rushed onto the highway at a horsepower far exceeding the speed limit in the supermarket.

"I have to go."

He talked to himself as if he was trying to instill some concept into himself.

Now he could even feel his blood flowing, rushing to his brain and making a buzzing sound.

The speed of the car was still increasing. He stepped on the accelerator to the limit of control at a speed comparable to that of a speed racer, ran through countless traffic lights, and rushed all the way. Whether it was a violation of traffic rules or a car accident, these risks were not worth mentioning at this moment, because he knew that no matter what, he had to get to his daughter first.

He took with him the dormant heart flower. Although he had tried before and failed to transform into a magical girl, he still held on to some unrealistic hope.

Or perhaps there was an idea in his mind that told him that he could do it this time.

The random thoughts in his mind had long been in a mess, and he couldn't clearly describe his current state. The chaotic emotions, memories, and high physical tension made his thinking illogical.

The only clear thought was "I don't want anything to happen to my daughter."

Chapter 6: Past, Wrong Path

2023-04-30

On the viaduct late at night, speeding cars whizzed past.

In the driver's seat, Lin Yun frowned. Even if he drove at full speed, it took him nearly 20 minutes to get from home to the wetland park. And for him now, every extra second was torture.

However, during this anxious journey, he did pick up some long-forgotten knowledge from the chaotic thoughts in his mind and sorted out some things.

Why did I become a magical girl?

This was a question that he had once etched in his mind, but it was only brought up again 19 years later. He looked out of the car, and under the dim street lights, some equally distant memories began to emerge. And that was 22 years ago.

In fact, he was a little surprised that he could still vaguely remember it. It was an evening after school.

"Can I fight?"

On the street bathed in the sunset, the young Lin Yun asked this question to the rabbit-like fairy.

The goblin who called himself "the sower" told him:

"How is that possible? You're a boy! Only girls can have the talent to become a magical girl, and this is a one in a million physique!"

“Why can’t boys do that?”

"I've already told you that a magic girl is a girl! So only girls can be magical girls!"

"Then I don't want to be a magic girl, a magic boy, a magic brother, a magic superman or anything like that. I also want the power of magic!"

As the young man shouted these words with full of vigor, a fierce battle was taking place between the buildings not far away.

His childhood sweetheart, Anya, is also a magical girl who fights against vicious beasts.

However, unlike the several battles he had seen in the past, the beasts this time were not only huge in size, but there were also two of them at the same time. When facing multiple high-intensity enemies, Anya clearly showed signs of being unable to handle the situation alone.

There is no doubt that she is at a disadvantage.

Seeing Anya struggling under the beast's hands and being hit several times by the beast's attacks, the situation was precarious. Lin Yun couldn't help but raise his voice again and shouted at the rabbit-like fairy: "Can't you see! Anya is in danger! Isn't she the magical girl you chose!"

"Well... really, I'm in a difficult situation too."

The rabbit-like fairy had a worried look on her face: "I am also worried about Anya, but magic is a power that only girls can have. There is no other choice except to become a magical girl. Those things you said do not exist at all."

"Magic boy, magic brother, magic superman, etc. If I could, I would also like to help you, but I can't do it. I can only give people the power of magic girls..."

"let me try!"

"what?"

"Let me try and see if I can become a magical girl!"

"Are you crazy? I told you it has to be a girl!"

"Try it!"

"How on earth do you try something like this?"

"Tell me how to become a magical girl, I'll do it!"

"...I'm really scared of you."

Faced with the boy's tough and persistent attitude, and Anya who was far away in deep crisis, the fairy had no choice but to say: "Then let you give up. This is what you said, give it a try."

It stretched out its claws to the fur on its waist, and after groping for a while, it pulled out a round, crystal clear gem from between the fur.

The size of this gem was as big as one quarter of its body, and the scene of it suddenly taking it out looked very strange, but neither the human nor the fairy who were facing each other cared about such trivial matters.

"This thing is called the Seed of Heart, which is the seed of the magical girl's power."

The fairy said solemnly: "Hold it, put it against your chest, feel its existence, and use your heart to establish a connection. If it reacts, it means you have the talent to become a magical girl. Otherwise, you have no hope."

"The Seed of Heart..."

Looking at the gem in the goblin's claws, the boy whispered the name of the object.

He knew that what he said was unreasonable. Since the other party said that only girls can become magical girls, there must be some connection between them.

However, he had no choice now, because the situation was so urgent that if he, as an ordinary person, wanted to save Anya, he should give it a try no matter how impossible it was.

After taking the gem-like object, Lin Yun immediately held it tightly in his hand and pressed it against his heart.

Make connections with your heart.

This was the key point he remembered, so he didn't waste a moment and immersed himself in it.

He closed his eyes, gradually putting everything out of his mind. The rabbit fairy not far away kept looking at the heart seed in his hand with a sad face.

After a few breaths, the seed of heart did not undergo any changes.

As the minute approached, there was still no response from the Heart Seed.