Why are the magical girls in your area male?

【Folding Mirror - Vermilion】

"..."

Wait, what the hell are all these names of yours?!

Volume 1: Chapter 2 Brother, something's not right with you!

"What's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost?"

Yuki Tsukishiro patted Genji's shoulder with a smile.

Yuan Qing wanted to say that he had indeed seen a ghost, but not a ghost in the traditional sense.

There were two other "NPCs" in the student council office who looked like ordinary passersby. Yuan Qing turned his attention to them.

The guy with glasses on the left is labeled "an otaku who likes to collect women's second-hand stockings," while the girl with freckles on the right is labeled "a fujoshi who can ship a 'fujoshi' (female fan of male-male romance) even when she sees a cleaning man and a security guard chatting."

These two are perfectly normal.

Then why are your and the student council president's tags just nicknames?!

Yuan Qing began to suspect that this might be a problem with the system, but it was unlikely to be a system problem.

Hey, it took three years to load before it was officially activated, you can't possibly load a piece of junk for me, can you?

"Yuanqing, what's wrong with you? Why are you spacing out?"

Yuki Tsukishiro saw that Genji Ao hadn't responded, so she waved her hand in front of his eyes again, and finally just pinched his cheek.

"Hey, snap out of it!"

"Tsk! Why are you pinching me?"

Yuan Qing winced and slapped the other person's hand away, giving him a disdainful look.

"Who told you to stay silent?"

Yuki Tsukishiro pursed his lips, then forced a mischievous smile, hooked one arm around Gen's arm, and asked in a low voice with a rather submissive expression:

"Tell me honestly, you weren't thinking about some girl again, were you?"

"It is indeed related to girls, but it doesn't specifically involve any one person."

"What is this nonsense?"

"Well, in short, this matter is very complicated. Those who understand will understand, and those who don't..."

"Stop, stop, stop, you're kidding me."

Yuki Tsukishiro pouted.

Yuan Qing naturally had no intention of continuing the conversation.

After all, that fujoshi who ships any couple has been focusing her attention on the two of them since the beginning.

I bet she's already fantasizing about being with her best buddy Diao Chan, humming and snorting in her head.

To be fair, sometimes a good friend's behavior can be a little too "intimate" with you.

Normally, there shouldn't be a "pinching face" option in interactions between men.

Fortunately, this guy is too delicate-looking, like a girl. If it were a big, burly man pinching his face, Yuan Qing would definitely clench his butt and die on the spot.

Damn it, with such a handsome face, can't this guy just have a gender swap and become a girl?

If all else fails, cross-dressing is fine too!

No bragging, if Yuki Tsukishiro were to wear women's clothing like those cross-dressers on the internet, she would absolutely outshine everyone else.

Then she would start a live stream, saying that she had developed "Yu Yu Syndrome" from being cyberbullied and decided to play horror games to release her emotions, pretending to be scared and crying.

Once the fans are up, they'll move to the political forums to engage in high-sounding discussions, then go live on Variant, fawning over those pretentious, repressed otaku every day, saying things like "Arigato, I'm so cute, please give me money," and showering them with gold coins...

"President, I'm here."

Just as Yuan Qing was pondering how to convince his best buddy to embark on the path of cross-dressing... no, live streaming, a familiar voice came from the doorway, interrupting his thoughts.

The voice was light and melodious, with a clean and skillful quality.

Their gazes then focused on the doorway, where a beautiful black-haired girl with a high ponytail had entered.

Brown eyes, a high nose, cherry lips, and a neat princess cut on her forehead—she exudes a sharp and imposing aura, like a standard Japanese oriental beauty from a gangster anime.

Upon seeing the girl, Yuan Qing's thoughts quickly tightened, and he turned his concerned gaze to her.

The visitor was Yuan Xun, his half-sister in this life.

His birth mother died in childbirth. His father remained a widower for a year before marrying his second wife, who was also the birth mother of Yuan Xun.

Perhaps because both of them were widowed and raising children alone, they had a lot in common, and their blended family life was actually quite happy.

Unfortunately, this brief period of happiness came to an abrupt end when Yuanqing was 6 years old.

An unexpected subway derailment resulted in the deaths of both of their parents.

Since their grandparents had passed away, guardianship of the two children naturally fell into the hands of their relatives.

As the saying goes, the world is cold and indifferent, and once people leave, the tea grows cold. Reconstituted families are not well-regarded, let alone these relatives with whom one has little contact to begin with.

On the surface, they were warm and polite to the siblings, but in reality, they all harbored the idea of ​​embezzling the compensation money and sucking the already meager blood from the siblings.

Once the compensation money was mostly gone, the relatives avoided them like the plague, and the brother and sister were treated like a football, being passed around from one to another until they entered junior high school.

Until three years ago, when Yuanqing went to the seaside to watch the sea, suddenly the sound of the tide rose up, like thunderous war drums sweeping in from all directions!

Those memories, which had been hazy and shrouded in mist for over a decade, suddenly became clear. A "ding" of the Great Dao from the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect echoed in his mind, completely waking him—

Make up the difference!!

I'm a time traveler!!

This isn't home; it's some other world that's incredibly similar to Earth!

Immediately afterwards, his cheat code appeared and began a three-year loading process.

Reincarnated into another world, Tokyo, he has an extra younger sister, no car, no house, and both parents are dead—a typical setup for a Japanese light novel male protagonist.

After achieving enlightenment in Longchang, Yuanqing resolutely left his relatives' home with his sister and, by collecting evidence of the abuse he and his sister had suffered, filed lawsuits against all those exploitative relatives.

Although the spent compensation money could not be recovered, the compensation obtained from winning the lawsuit somewhat made up for it.

What follows is a classic story.

The brother and sister left their small town and squeezed into the private Gekkokan no Mori Academy in Tokyo through special admissions. They work part-time while studying and are still there now.

The two are only one year apart in age and have been inseparable for so many years, so Yuan Xun's dependence on her older brother is naturally quite deep.

However, I don't know if it's because she's going through puberty, but since the beginning of the year, my younger sister has started to distance herself from me.

Oh, it's not necessarily true that we've grown distant.

It's just the kind of familiar stranger relationship that traditional sibling families have. Daily greetings are all about what to eat, what to do, and when it's time to sleep. Almost all communication can be completed with just a glance.

Thankfully, Xiaohongshu doesn't exist in this world, otherwise Yuanqing would start to suspect that his younger sister has been spending too much time on Xiaohongshu and would start thinking, "Family members, who understands? My brother's gaze towards me is getting weirder and weirder."

Just think about it.

"Hey, what are you doing here?"

Yuan Xun crossed his arms, raised his eyebrows slightly, and seemed somewhat puzzled by Yuan Qing's presence.

Yuan Qing sighed helplessly, "Here we go again... I'm a student council member, after all. You're a first-year high school student, yet you're always worrying about student council affairs. Be careful you don't end up like the president, with prematurely gray hair."

"Huh? The president's hair color is natural, and besides..."

She gave a playful chuckle, teasingly adding, "You've always found student council affairs troublesome, haven't you?"

"..."

At least give your brother some face in front of outsiders!

The president is still here; you've just said what's on my mind.

As if reminding Shiori Shiomi, Yuan Xun waved her hand at Yuan Qing and said in a nonchalant tone, "The matter is settled, you can leave now."

Then she gestured to the bespectacled man and the fujoshi in the same way: "Sakamoto, Sayuri, you can go back now."

"Yes, President."

Student council meetings rarely end immediately after school without any other business, so the two were happy to go home first.

However, Yuan Qing remained motionless.

At this moment, he had no interest in ignoring Shiori Shiomi's order to leave.

His gaze fell on Yuan Xun's head, where a string of tags, visible only to him, floated in the empty space—

"Cut Clouds and Snow Owl"

Volume 1: Chapter 3 Are you kidding me at the party?!

They say things don't happen more than three times. Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, but the third time is fate.

There's a saying that goes, "There are no coincidences in the world, only inevitabilities."

Yuan Qing thought this statement made a lot of sense, so he could conclude that the labels the system showed him definitely had some other deeper meaning.

Shiori Shiomi, who was standing nearby, tidied up the documents on the table. When she looked up and saw that Genji was still there, she raised an eyebrow.

"Why are you still here?"

Yuan Qing retorted sarcastically, "You usually wish you could keep me here working 24/7, so now you're unhappy that I'm staying a little longer?"

"You little bastard, you're really going to mess with me, aren't you? Fine, since you want to stay, then help me organize the recent student data."

Shiori Shiomi raised her voice, pulled a large basket of folders from under the table, slammed it onto the table with a "thud," and added:

"These are student documents that the school asked us to check. We need to verify one by one whether the phone numbers and emergency contact numbers on them are still in use."

Upon seeing this mountain of documents, Yuan Qing immediately lost his composure: "So many! When will we ever finish organizing this?"

"You're so annoying! You won't leave when I tell you to, and you complain when you're working. What are you trying to do?"

"Can I just sit back and supervise you while you tidy up?"

"what?!"

Seeing that the two seemed determined to argue endlessly, Yuan Xun, feeling a bit of a headache from the noise, quickly interrupted:

"Alright, alright, President, let's get down to business."

She stepped forward, quickly pulled all the banknotes out of her small purse, and roughly stuffed them into Yuan Qing's hand, leaving herself only a few pitiful small coins:

"Here, take this, for your groceries."

Yuanqing took the money and counted it briefly; it was a full 5 yen!

"So many!" he exclaimed, then asked suspiciously, "Did you rob Aunt Lin? Is it really possible to earn that much working in a flower shop?"

Yuan Xun looked away, gave a light hum, and casually replied, "There have been a lot of customers lately, so it's just a commission."

"real or fake?"

"believe it or not!"

"Is it okay if I give it all to you? Don't you keep any pocket money for yourself?"

"This is so annoying! I'll figure out a way myself! It's all family money anyway, I won't lose it if I put it in your pocket."

"really."

Yuki Tsukishiro, who had been standing to the side, stepped forward and hooked her arm around Genji's shoulder, clicking her tongue in envy.

"Sigh, it's so great to have a sister. She even gives her brother money to help with household expenses. If I had such a wonderful sister, I'd be willing to drive a sports car and live in a mansion!"

Upon hearing this, Yuan Xun immediately frowned and rolled her eyes at Yue Shiro Yuki.

"You little brat, you're trying to take advantage of me, aren't you?"

Gensei chuckled and slapped Yuki Tsukishiro's bottom, but to his surprise, the girl immediately jumped back in alarm, her face filled with fear.

"A sneak attack, huh! Where are you going to fire?"

"You just pinched my cheek! Why are you reacting so strongly?"