After get off work, I become a magical girl

Everyone is insignificant in the world, but everyone has different weights to each other. After Xia Liang left, Li Yaqing's life did not change, but it seemed that everything had changed.

Xia Liang had completely forgotten about her, but she was still secretly paying attention to Xia Liang.

She heard that Xia Liang seemed to have made a new friend, and became friends with Lin Xiaolu, a dwarf in Class 3 who seemed to be the class's favorite; she heard that Xia Liang seemed to have a proper job and became a lot richer; she heard that Xia Liang started to behave like a good kid, no longer wore makeup, and his grades became very good.

There are few traces of their time together on Xia Liang's body.

That's why I was so excited when I saw Xia Liang again in the arcade, right?

She couldn't help but laugh at herself. She actually thought that Xia Liang came here to find her.

The moment she heard Xia Liang's cheering, she completely understood that it was all over.

The noisy crowd and the bustling voices around her seemed like a world away and had nothing to do with her.

Looking at the flashing prompts on the dance machine screen in front of her and the impending difficult storm, she finally breathed a long sigh of relief and then withdrew her feet.

Not for any reason, just because she suddenly felt a little bored.

It has come to this, so at least keep a little dignity and don't tarnish the last few things you love.

"You've already left."

She muttered to herself and turned her head to look at the blue-haired girl beside her: "It seems that there is really no need to come back."

The voices were drowned out by the loud music in the arcade, turning into whispers that no one could hear.

As the singing faded, the footsteps slowed down, and the two people on the dance machine stopped their movements, eventually ending the competition.

Li Yaqing's score was SS, only one mistake away from full marks; Delphinium's score was SSS, all perfect, and well-deserved full marks.

There was cheering and thunderous applause from the audience, and the players watching around shouted "One more game", as if what they had just experienced was not a competition but a pleasant performance.

Xia Liang also stood in the crowd, clapping softly.

She had stood in this position countless times before, applauding and supporting Li Yaqing as a mere cheering audience; and now, Li Yaqing was still standing on the dance board, but the one who received her applause was not this "old friend", but the figure next to her.

In this game, Delphinium won the final victory and broke the highest record in the arcade.

The crowd around was still cheering, but the bad girls were not happy at all. Li Yaqing didn't say a word after she stepped down from the dance machine, so the blonde bad girl proposed the next challenge to Delphinium.

The results are equally obvious.

The result made the bad girls very desperate. No matter what game they chose, they couldn't beat Delphinium in the end. It was not until everyone tried a round that they were shocked to find that they had not won any game.

Cuiqiao remained silent until all the bad girls admitted defeat, then she slowly walked up to Li Yaqing.

"...What?" Her behavior made Li Yaqing feel a little confused. She raised her head, only to see Cuiqiao pointing to the corner of the arcade.

She was so preoccupied that she didn't think about what this meant. She just followed Delphinium to the corner of the arcade with doubts in her mind.

Snapped!

As soon as she stood still, she was slapped in the face.

Snapped!

Before she could react, another slap came from the other side.

The intense pain and dizziness made Li Yaqing feel her head buzzing. She could only cover her face subconsciously and didn't even know what was happening for a while.

"The first strike is for your provocation today, and the second strike is for the harm you did to that child in the past."

Delphinium's voice was calm, and she looked at her seriously: "Xia Liang told me that she may not care about what you did, and she may forgive you, but this is not a reason for you to feel at ease."

"I am not your parent or elder, and I have no right or obligation to teach you a lesson, but I want to help that child, so I have to punish you accordingly."

Covering her face, Li Yaqing looked forward in a daze, only to see Cuiqiao take out a notebook from her arms, open it, and place it in front of her.

After opening the notebook, she saw a conspicuous seal under the portrait on the first page.

That is the seal of the Yi Ce Bureau.

This is the identity certificate that Cuiqiao commissioned the Yi Ce Bureau to give him. Although it does not have any actual position, the seal below is genuine.

No matter how ignorant Li Yaqing was, she could still recognize this logo, because in a sense, this logo represented the government.

"You are..." She finally realized the seriousness of the matter and spoke hesitantly.

"It doesn't matter who I am, but next, I want to see the sincerity of your apology."

Cuiqiao took back the notebook and stared into Li Yaqing's eyes: "I can pretend that I didn't see you today, but I can also pass some information to the police through the channels of the Strategy Bureau. You don't want to be visited by the Youth Guidance tomorrow, right?"

Li Yaqing covered her face and nodded blankly.

"Then apologize to her."

Delphinium left this sentence and walked away without looking back.

When Li Yaqing came back with a slightly red and swollen face, she gradually regained her ability to think amid the care and concern of other girls. She looked at the bad girls who were still complaining, lowered her eyes, and said softly:

"Stop talking and apologize."

At this point, no matter how much you argue, it is meaningless.

After everything was settled, at the entrance of the arcade, next to the claw machines, where the two sides first met, several bad girls lowered their heads dejectedly.

"sorry."

"Sorry!"

"Sorry……"

The bad girls' apologies came one after another.

Although they still had an unwilling look on their faces, they had no way to refuse, and Li Yaqing took the initiative to ask them to apologize together. Under pressure from the leader, they finally calmed down.

The last person to apologize was Li Yaqing herself.

"Sorry, Xiaoliang."

Her apology may have been pressured by Delphinium, but it was also sincere: "I actually betrayed my promise in the end."

"I said I would be your friend, but because of my jealousy, I chose to hurt you and pollute you. I know that no matter what the reason is, this is not right."

"Perhaps I shouldn't have talked to you from the beginning. I wanted to be the savior, but in the end I ended up being the one who hurt you the most."

"I'm so sorry."

After she finished speaking, she turned her head to look at Delphinium, and saw that it was just looking at her expressionlessly, without any expression of affirmation, so she had no choice but to lower her head again:

"I will find a way to return the money you gave me. If you really hate me, you can curse me in any way you want. If you need to, then...then hit me. Anyway, you can vent your anger in any way you want. I was wrong!"

"So, even though it may sound a little disgusting, and I have no right to say so, I wish you the best and hope you can find what you want!"

"Young senior, did you say anything to them?" After hearing Li Yaqing's words, Xia Liang turned his head and looked at Cuiqiao with some confusion.

Delphinium shook her head expressionlessly: "Nothing."

"Then I don't think I have anything to say."

After a little thought, Xia Liang paused lightly: "Now that it's over, let's go."

"Don't you want revenge?" asked Delphinium.

"Revenge? There is no such thing."

Xia Liang said indifferently: "Anyway, since I deleted them from my phone's address book, they have become just a group of strangers to me."

She looked at Li Yaqing and smiled calmly: "So you don't need to apologize to me. Who are you? What are you thinking? That's all your business. I don't care at all."

After saying that, she gently pulled Delphinium's sleeve and turned away.

Cuiqiao already knew what Xia Liang meant and didn't say anything else. She just picked up the basket of game coins in her other hand and put the unused game coins in front of Li Yaqing.

"This is..." Li Yaqing lowered her eyes in some surprise.

“Encouragement is also a reward.”

"what?"

"The apology is barely acceptable. At least you can explain clearly where you went wrong. So, these game coins are your reward for holding back your little tricks at the end of the competition."

Pushing the basket forward, Delphinium retracted her hand, put one hand on her waist and looked at the other person: "At that time, you were almost ready to stop me, but you didn't really do it in the end, right?"

Her words made Li Yaqing pause.

“Is this kind of thing worth rewarding?”

After a while, she smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly: "You... your requirements for me are really low."

"So, this is a reward, a reward for being able to compete with dignity and face failure."

The voice slowed down slightly, and Delphinium said to her seriously: "If possible, no matter how you lived your life before, I hope you can remember your choice this time, and remember the courage to face failure."

“You may have done a lot of mistakes and missed a lot, but for many things, it’s not too late to start now.”

"You are all still children. You still have a long way to go in life, and there are still countless opportunities to 'restart the game.' Remember this courage. Perhaps it can be the starting point of your new life."

"If I see you again in the future, I hope to see a girl who has reformed herself, rather than a bad girl who is still wantonly sinking into depravity. Otherwise, I might have to meddle in your affairs."

After saying that, she turned around and followed Xia Liang towards the direction of the crowd.

Only Li Yaqing was left standing there, holding a basket of game coins, staring in a daze at the direction where the two people disappeared.

Only when Cuiqiao and Xialiang disappeared in the crowd did she slowly sit down on the ground and look at the basket in her hand with a complicated expression.

"Is it really too late to tell me this now?"

The first version of this chapter was 6k words. Due to poor expression, it was revised and supplemented to reach 1k words. Please understand that this may cause errors and omissions in the chapter.

Chapter 105 After the rain, the sky is clear

2023-04-30

It was almost noon when we walked out of the arcade.

The rain had become much lighter, but it still did not stop.

The sky was covered by gloomy clouds, like a gray veil. There were few people on the pedestrian street, and only a few umbrellas could be seen walking through the water curtain. The street was filled with moisture, mixed with the smell of dust, bringing a slight chill.

The trees on the roadside kept pouring down raindrops, and the leaves swayed in the breeze, making a rustling sound like whispers. The shop signs were covered with rain marks, and the lights made the rain curtain hazy and gentle.

Two umbrellas, one tall and one short, were moving side by side on the street. Cuiqiao and Xialiang walked under the umbrellas, and there was some silence for a moment.