After get off work, I become a magical girl

Moko quickly established a friendship with her, and with her cute appearance as a fairy, she came forward with tears in her eyes and hugged Delphinium's shoulders pitifully:

"It's already very dangerous tonight. If you hadn't suddenly come here, Xiaolu and I would have been wiped out here. If this continues, we will definitely not be able to withstand the increasingly powerful attacks of the remaining beasts!"

"Don't flatter me! Let go first!"

Delphinium frowned and slapped it aside, "Need my help? How?"

Moko, who was pushed away, was not annoyed at all. He put on a slightly flattering smile on his cat face: "Well, you just need to contact the country and ask for some reinforcements. If it's other karuta masters..."

"Hanafu? That's wishful thinking."

Delphinium squinted at it and said, "And I'm sorry to tell you that I can't contact the kingdom right now because I don't have a magic mirror that I can use."

The cat-shaped fairy covered her mouth and said, "Can't get in touch with me? Could it be that you also escaped..."

"No, I was allowed to act alone by the royal court."

Delphinium raised her eyelids slightly, interrupting its groundless speculation: "The communication issue is entirely my own personal problem, and I don't want to explain it for the time being."

Things seemed to be at a stalemate. Moko, knowing that he could not apply for reinforcements, looked hopeless again, while Kuiqi was thinking about something.

To be honest, she was a little angry now, and even wondered if she should at least punish the goblin in front of her as the "culprit" in the name of "Inspector"? But based on her past understanding of the unreliability of goblins, bullying them was the most meaningless thing.

Before she could make a decision, Lin Xiaolu, who had been left aside and forced to listen to the incomprehensible book for a long time, finally found her chance to speak and raised her hand hesitantly:

"Um, this Delphinium over here...senior?"

Delphinium turned her head to look at her, with a somewhat inexplicable expression: "Just call me Delphinium."

"Then... Delphinium?" Lin Xiaolu called out tentatively.

"Why are you so hesitant?"

Cuiqiao raised her eyebrows slightly, obviously not satisfied with Lin Xiaolu's reaction, but she did not pursue it further and brought the topic back on track: "If you have any questions, just ask them quickly. There is no need for so much etiquette."

"Ah, then..."

Lin Xiaolu took a deep breath with some hesitation, her eyes wandered for a while, then she closed her eyes and clasped her hands in front of her chest:

“Me, I think it’s great!”

"Huh?" Delphinium was stunned.

"That is, you said let me see your fight, I feel great now, I'm very excited! No, I'm very touched!"

After Lin Xiaolu shouted out what was in her mind, she seemed to have completely given up her worries, and her speech speed became faster and faster: "Until now, the throbbing in my heart has not stopped, and my heartbeat has always been very fast!"

"I have always liked magical girl anime since I was very young. I think the magical girls in the anime are cute and powerful. They can do many things that I want to do but cannot achieve. They are very shining!"

"I want to change myself, forget the annoying things, and escape from this suffocating life. So when I knew I could become a magical girl, I was very happy and felt that my dream could come true!"

At this point, she finally paused for a moment and slowed down her speech: "It's just that after becoming a magical girl, I realized that nothing has changed except that I have to fight disgusting monsters frequently. I still hate everything around me, even myself."

"But just now, when I was about to be killed by that cruel beast and thought I was about to say goodbye to this disgusting world, you, Delphinium, appeared!"

"Your battle was so cool! So graceful! It was like a magical girl from an animation appeared before my eyes, like a fantasy character became real, so I was really, really moved!"

Lin Xiaolu's series of heartfelt shouts moved Cuiqiao somewhat.

Because she never knew that her daughter thought this way.

That's right, my own daughter.

Delphinium is Lin Yun.

Lin Yun drove dozens of kilometers from home to the park to save her daughter from the crippled beasts. After 19 years, she transformed herself into a magical girl again.

She did not immediately explain her identity to her daughter. Instead, she acted pretentiously, using the identity of an "inspector" and deliberately spoke in an aggressive manner. She just wanted to intimidate the sower named "Moko" and extract information from it.

But she didn't expect that although she was able to calm him down, there was no information at all.

Apart from knowing that Mo Ke is a parallel import and the current situation in Fangting City is not optimistic, there is no new information.

Instead, it was his daughter Lin Xiaolu who said something that caught Lin Yun off guard.

"And besides the combat, the weapons are very classy!"

While Delphinium was silent, she continued to talk non-stop, her eyes shining, as if there were stars twinkling in them: "Very imposing, making people feel stable and reliable!"

"She has a cute face and is so cute in her small stature!"

“The clothes are very nice too!”

“Cool way of talking!”

This series of even somewhat corny flattery made Delphinium more and more at a loss. Although she still maintained a cold expression on her face, the corners of her mouth could not help but twitch.

Lin Xiaolu delivered a series of compliments like a string of cannonballs, until finally, she bowed deeply:

"So, I want to be a magical girl like you, and become my ideal self. Can you please teach me?"

This sentence had a huge impact on Delphinium.

She couldn't help but start thinking about why it turned out like this.

Since Lin Xiaolu was born, the father-daughter relationship between the two has lasted for fourteen years, but in all these fourteen years, she has never heard so many compliments from her daughter. Especially the sentence "I want to be someone like you", even when the father-daughter relationship was the most harmonious, Lin Xiaolu never said such words to her.

But these words, which had touched her so deeply, now put her on the spot.

My daughter is so impressed and admires the role of "Delphinium" that I played. Can I still tell her the truth at this moment?

If my daughter knew that this "Delphinium" who appeared out of nowhere and whom she admired so much was actually her annoying father, she would probably be disappointed, right?

I may even hate myself more, and it will be more difficult to communicate with her in the future.

As these thoughts popped into her mind, she felt her eyes blurred, and she saw Mo Ke approaching her with tears in her eyes, and said with a sad expression: "Inspector--"

"Delphinium Senior!"

Lin Xiaolu also looked over with stars in her eyes.

Both the man and the fairy looked at her with pleading expressions. With two pitiful faces in front of her, Delphinium felt her mind gradually becoming confused.

Coupled with Lin Xiaolu's previous praise, she, who had long suffered from a cold relationship with her daughter, felt a long-lost touch, and the not-so-cool thoughts in her mind began to prevail.

"Okay, okay?"

It was under such circumstances that Delphinium made a promise that she would never have agreed to before.

Chapter 10 Doubts

2023-04-30

"Okay, I've understood the situation. We will contact the branches in other cities to see if we can get feedback to the Magic Kingdom through the sowers in other cities."

Listening to the words coming from the phone, looking out the window with lifeless eyes, Lin Yun took a deep breath and sighed helplessly: "Well, thank you, thank you for bothering you."

The time was the morning of the second day, and the place was Lin Yun’s own office.

He is talking on the phone with Hong Si.

The sudden incident of the previous night finally affected his sleep, so he was bleary-eyed and not in a good condition.

But he still had a lot of things to deal with, so he couldn't rest. Not to mention the huge amount of work that the company had piled up early in the morning, he had a lot of questions to discuss with the Strategy Bureau about what happened in the wetland park the night before.

In order to ensure the safety of his daughter, he privately participated in the battle under the name of the magical girl "Delphinium" and repelled the enemy, but the incident was far from over. After all, no matter from which perspective, there seemed to be a black hand controlling everything in the dark.

In the end, he summarized four doubts.

The first is that at the time when the mutilated beast appeared last night, he could not contact Hong Si and this matter.

He currently has no official contact with the Strategy Bureau, and is currently basically relying on his personal relationship with Hong Siyu to exchange information, but just last night, this connection was cut off.

Judging from the information Hong Si received from the other side, not only did she not receive her call, but she couldn't even find any trace of it in the missed call records. It was as if Lin Yun had never made the call.

But in fact, this is impossible. Lin Yun clearly remembers that after discovering that his daughter was missing, he chose to contact Hong Siyu, but the result was that no one answered the call.

Secondly, there was the mysterious phone call that informed him in advance at noon on the day of the incident. This number could no longer be dialed after daytime, and only a voice prompt of "out of service" was received.

The other party appeared very suddenly and his purpose was unclear. He just provided him with information and then disappeared abruptly. Why?

The third point is the unusual magic barrier at the scene.

This is not a skill that a remnant beast should master. At least, a remnant beast at the level of the worm does not have this ability. However, Lin Xiaolu and he only encountered one remnant beast at the scene, which means that there was at least one enemy hiding in the dark.

But the enemy did not show up in the end, and even when he watched the remaining beasts being destroyed by himself, he did not take any action. What was the other party's purpose?

Finally, as the sower named Moko said, before its arrival, there were no sowers and magical girls in Fangting City, which is also a huge doubt and hidden danger.

But this matter is not only lacking in clues, but there is not even a starting point for investigation. It is completely a black box.

The above four doubts may be related to a conspiracy involving Lin Xiaolu, which forced him to pay attention.

But there was too much incomplete information, and he couldn't piece together the truth with what he had available, which made his already sleep-deprived brain even more painful.

"So, how does it feel to be back?"

Hong Siyu's question came from the other end of the call, which brought Lin Yun back to reality from his thoughts.

He put the hand holding the phone down and raised it again. He briefly considered the question and gave his answer:

"It's terrible."

It was very bad. His magic power was declining, his skills were rusty, and the current situation in Fangting City worried him.

More importantly, the result of this attack was completely different from his expectations.

Although his initial goal was just to save his daughter, after he successfully saved his daughter, he began to consider whether he could put on a show and trick the sower to see if he could get some information out of him. After getting enough information, he revealed his identity to his daughter, and everyone was happy.

But in the end, there was not much useful information, her identity was not revealed, and she agreed to Moko and Lin Xiaolu's request without thinking. Next, she had to conceal her identity while guiding Lin Xiaolu in the training of a magical girl.

Although this can achieve the purpose of "communicating with his daughter", it is not the way he wants at all.

But when he thought of his daughter's confession to Delphinium last night, he felt that if he revealed his true identity at this time, it would probably make both of them fall into an extremely awkward situation. So in the end, he still didn't tell the truth.

He couldn't help rubbing his temples when he thought that he might have to continue playing this awkward identity game.

"Isn't that bad? That's a very personal answer."

Hong Siyu seemed to smile during the call: "Senior, don't push yourself too hard. Men have to admit their mistakes when they reach middle age."

"Can I hang up now?" Lin Yun responded to the sudden dirty joke with a cold attitude.

Hong Siyu laughed especially loudly this time: "Haha! It's just a joke, why are you shy?"