Is it only magical girls?

Is it only magical girls?

Author: Four Seasons Fragrance

Introduction:

"I became a magical girl for you."

"More burning than hope, more profound than despair, that is love."

"You probably don't understand, do you? You don't understand anything."

"This is what magical girls should be like! This is exactly what I want to see! Hahaha, that's it, this is what I love!"

"I understand the unpredictable stage of fate."

"I've never felt happy being a magical girl."

"The moon is beautiful, but remember to look at me too."

"If you have not heard of love, you do not understand love, and you must let love die out."

"Magical girls are born of magic, magical girls are born for magic, and you are my magic."

Even if I break your arms and legs, I will not hand you over to anyone else!

Chapter 1: I've never felt happy being a magical girl.

On her way to the clubroom, Yuanxing hummed a cheerful tune, her mood incredibly excited, almost wanting to sing out her joyful feelings aloud.

Her magical girl club had just completed its training and won its first battle, successfully defeating the monster. It was already a mature magical girl club with a bright and promising future, and it was sure to stand out in the future.

A bright future is just around the corner; how can this not be exciting?

Yuanxing even skipped and hopped towards the classroom, excitedly opening the door: "Let's get this party started!"

The students in the classroom glanced at the distant star, but no one spoke. The room was deathly silent; it was an absolute zero world that completely isolated the sun's temperature. The only thing one could do in such a space was to shiver.

The black-haired girl spoke coldly, "Say that again?"

The blue-haired girl remained calm and indifferent, replying coldly, "I said I want to quit the club."

Yuanxing was only confused: "Why would Senior Qianchan do something like this? Didn't we just successfully defeat the monster? This magical girl club was just about to get back on track—"

The green-haired girl quickly intervened, "That's right! Forming a magical girl club and becoming magical girls is a really fun thing, isn't it? Lingling, you should say something too. Being a magical girl is fun, right?"

The girl, known as Lingling, answered as coldly as her name: "I've never felt happy being a magical girl."

"So the club is disbanding?"

The last silver-haired girl, who hadn't spoken yet, tilted her head: "So, you don't need me here anymore?"

Her actions were the most decisive; after leaving those words, she immediately set off for the door.

Yuanxing stepped aside, letting her leave.

"Xiaoxing?!" the green-haired girl cried out in near despair, "How could you let Mimi just leave like that? She—"

"Isn't it fine? Then just treat magical girls as an unattainable dream. Now it's time to wake up from that dream."

After saying this, Qianchan also turned and left.

No, that won't do.

Yuanxing's attitude changed abruptly, and she reached out to grab Qianchan's hand, but before she could grab Qianchan, she was instead grabbed by the wrist and dragged away from the club room.

"Senior--"

In Yuanxing's view, this was clearly an attempt to explain the reasons to her, to tell her why she was leaving the magical girl club.

But reality was different from what she had expected. Qianchan was simply putting herself in a more advantageous position. Because she was holding onto Yuanxing, she could choose to let go at any time. When she used her invisibility spell to disappear, she released Yuanxing's hand and vanished without a trace.

"why is it like this!"

Yuanxing was on the verge of tears. She had a magical girl club after school, but in the blink of an eye, it was all gone.

Yuanxing had no interest in returning to the club. Head down, she walked aimlessly until she realized she had arrived at the club's most frequented place: a magical girl club called MoMoMo. This club dealt in everything related to magical girls and naturally provided training grounds for them, making it the place their club frequented most every night.

Today is no different. They had already made plans to hold a celebration banquet here at MoMoMo to celebrate their first victory in the monster extermination, but now even the club is gone.

But since they were already there, Yuanxing decided to go in and take a look.

The MoMoMo club, from the outside, resembles an ancient royal palace, resplendent in gold and jade, while its interior is a completely different world. MoMoMo's interior has been expanded using spatial magic. This has made the already vast MoMoMo, which resembles a department store on the outside, even larger; even Yuanxing doesn't know the true size of MoMoMo's interior.

Although the size of the interior space is immeasurable, the entrance is rather ordinary, looking like any other coffee shop.

Above the bar, there was a wall projection showing their club's monster-hunting antics from yesterday, but now all of that is meaningless.

Yuanxing walked listlessly to the bar, plopped down on the bar stool, and slammed his cheek against the bar with a thud.

This immediately caught the attention of the bartender, who poked Yuanxing's head and asked, "What's wrong? You don't look like yourself at all."

Yuanxing looked up at the shop assistant who had questioned her. The shop assistant had shoulder-length, brown curly hair and looked much older than her age, like an eleven or twelve-year-old girl. Now, her question had clearly become the last straw that broke Yuanxing's back.

"Sister Hongshi! Listen to me!"

Yuanxing grabbed the hand in front of her and cried, "Senior, she quit the club! She didn't say anything about why, she just suddenly said she quit! I grabbed her to ask her why, but she grabbed me back, and just when I thought she was going to tell me, she let go and disappeared! Why did Senior run away, Sister Hongshi, can you tell me?"

The shop assistant, who was being pestered, tried to pull her hand away, but found that Yuanxing was holding it tightly. It was almost impossible to pull her hand away silently. She could only let Yuanxing hold her hand and casually guessed, "Did you have a fight with someone in the club? Is your relationship not good because of the fight?"

"No, we've never argued before, so it's probably not about interpersonal relationships. Senior Qianchan said we should treat magical girls as a beautiful dream and not delve too deeply into it, which seems to indicate that she has more opinions about magical girls themselves."

Kurogane said, "Realizing that the magical girls' dream-filled struggles were merely a source of energy for some kind of alien creature, she was so devastated that she gave up on becoming a magical girl."

Yuanxing scoffed at such speculation: "How could that be? How could Sister Hongshi believe in such a conspiracy theory?"

"That is, she discovered that this world is a giant arena, and magical girls are just gladiators in this arena. She decided to fight for the freedom of magical girls."

Yuanxing temporarily forgot the gloom of the club's disbandment and laughed happily: "Hahaha, this is so much fun, let's do it again."

"Magical girls gain their abilities through sacrifice; with each use of magic, they must sacrifice organs from their own bodies—"

Yuanxing couldn't hold back any longer and slammed her hand on the table, bursting into laughter: "What nonsense are you spouting? Hongshi-neechan, you yourself are a magical girl, don't you know whether or not you need to sacrifice organs? Oh, are you saying that what you sacrificed was your growth? So you've always maintained—"

Hongshi smacked Yuanxing on the head hard: "Keep what? It's okay, keep talking, I like listening."

——The body shape of a young girl.

"Stay beautiful!"

Hongshi was very dissatisfied with this answer: "If you want the club to be reorganized, you just need to become the most popular magical girl of the year. The most popular magical girl of the year can make a wish to the fairy, and then you can wish for the club to be restored."

"When did I say I wanted to reorganize the club? Clubs don't matter at all. In fact, it would be better if the club were gone. It would be great if it was just me and my senior working together. We don't need anyone else."

Yuanxing continued, "I'm talking about the time my senior took my hand, used an invisibility spell, and then let go. Why did she let go? I believe she had something she couldn't say, a reason she couldn't explain to ordinary people, and that reason must be very reasonable. But why did she let go? She must have been asking for my help when she took my hand, right? If she was asking for help, she should have explained it clearly, right? How would anyone understand if she didn't say anything? If you're going to tell me, then explain it clearly! I don't understand, I don't understand at all. Why did she take my hand and then let go? Is it because I'm not trustworthy? Or does she think I'm not on her side? That I can't help her share the burden? Why don't she trust me? Why don't she tell me the truth? Why won't she let me share the burden? Why did she abandon me!"

Yuanxing became more and more excited as he spoke, almost pouring out all the words in his heart.

But human joys and sorrows cannot be shared. Hong Shi only felt the noise: "What a nuisance! Luckily, it's not my childhood sweetheart, otherwise I'd be in for a hundred years of bad luck."

"Phew, talking to Sister Hongshi has made me feel much better. I'm going to her house now to ask what happened!"

Yuanxing jumped up from the bar stool and ran away.

Chapter 2 Two of us, please go to the top

On her way to her senior's house, Yuanxing had already figured out one thing: even if she knocked on the door, if her senior didn't want to see her, she wouldn't open the door. Instead, it would alert her and cause her to use invisibility magic to escape.

So she decided to take an unconventional approach and not knock on the door as usual. Instead, she would go straight through the window and rush in to catch the other party off guard!

How exactly should we proceed?

First step: transform into a magical girl; second step: fly directly into the air; third step: find the glass in the senior's house; fourth step: break through the window and make a dashing entrance.

Yuanxing thought this way, and he did it this way, making a swift and decisive leap from the air into Qianchan's living room without any hesitation.

"I'm here!"

Now transformed into a magical girl, Yuanxing looked around. This room was very different from what she remembered. In her memory, this room was full of magical girl posters, and there were many magical girl DVDs under the television. Now, all those things were gone, obviously cleaned out by the owner.

As for Qian Chan, she was nowhere to be found. She hadn't gone home, had no intention of going home, and most likely wouldn't.

"Why is this happening? Where did all those posters go?"

Yuanxing's mind raced, and she ran straight to the bedroom. She needed to find the computer; it likely contained some information. The bedroom door was locked, but that didn't matter. Magical girls aren't hindered by locks. She simply used magic to smash the lock to pieces, leaving only an empty hole. Upon entering the bedroom, she discovered that all the posters, figurines, and books had vanished, and the computer, which should have been there, was also nowhere to be found.

So well prepared? Could it be that he killed someone and is now on the run, wandering around?!

dong dong dong.

A knock on the door interrupted Yuanxing's thoughts. She quickly walked to the door and looked through the peephole at the visitor. It was a member of their club, one of the members who had previously tried to persuade Qianchan. The club members knew Qianchan's address; after all, they had held several meetings at her house and watched other magical girl battle videos together several times, so it was natural for them to come looking for her.

Yuanxing opened the door.

As the door opened, a joyful cheer erupted from outside: "Great, Qianchan—" But upon realizing it was Yuanxing, the tone changed: "Xiaoxing? You're here too, then—"

"The senior student isn't here."

"Eh?"

"I broke in through the window."

"what?"

Magical girls are supposed to be noble, elegant, cute, beautiful, and sparkling. How could they break in through a window? This is absolutely not how a magical girl should behave!

Yuanxing continued, "Qingyin, you've come at the right time. I'm investigating the clues left by my senior, and your help is perfect."

"Breaking in through a window..."

“My senior and I have known each other since childhood, we are childhood sweethearts. Her house is my house, so there is no problem for me to enter my own house through a broken window.”

No matter how you look at it, there's a big problem, but the other things in the room are more catching Qingyin's attention. She asked, "All those magical girl posters are gone. Did Qianchan make those?"

"It should be, since it had already been cleaned up when I arrived. In addition, all the figurines, books, and computers in the bedroom had been removed, which means that my senior deliberately erased information. But I think she was in a normal state yesterday, so she didn't have much time to deal with it, and there must have been some clues that she didn't handle in time."

"For example?"

"The nooks and crannies? I'll go check the condition of the trash can."

"garbage can?!"

Magical girls checking trash cans?! Even if you absolutely have to check trash cans, at least turn back into a high school girl, okay? While it's also unacceptable for high school girls to rummage through other people's trash cans, it's still far less egregious than magical girls rummaging through other people's trash cans!

But Yuanxing was as fast as light, giving Qingyin no chance before rushing straight to the kitchen.

Having missed her best opportunity, Qingyin could only sigh and begin searching around as Xingguang had instructed. Soon, she heard Yuanxing's voice: "Get the straw that Senior used!"

"Shut up!!!"

Aone roared, "Magical girls absolutely cannot do that kind of thing!"

Suddenly, the shattered glass in front of them emitted a golden light. After the light burst forth, the glass returned to its original state, as if it had never been broken at all. That was the effect of magic. When magical girls de-transform, damaged buildings also return to their original appearance. The restoration of the glass meant that Farstar had de-transformed.

"Get the straw that the senior used!"

"Even high school girls shouldn't do that kind of thing!"

"Huh? Why are there so many restrictions? Does this mean I have to bring the whole trash can?" Yuanxing quickly ran out with the trash can and showed the contents to Qingyin: "If Senior didn't notice this straw, then there must be other things she didn't notice. If we try hard, we'll definitely find clues."

"what!"

Qingyin suddenly realized: "So you were telling me that the straw was evidence. I thought you were going to—" Qingyin stopped abruptly and waved her hand vigorously: "It's nothing, nothing at all. You don't need to pay attention to what I said."

"Qingyin is really strange."

Qingyin shook her head vigorously. For a fleeting moment, she thought Yuanxing was going to keep Qianchan's straw as a collectible, putting it in a plastic bag for safekeeping. That utterly perverted behavior couldn't be expected of a magical girl. She had just shaken those thoughts out of her mind when she opened her eyes to see Yuanxing taking out a small plastic bag and trying to put the straw inside. In a panic, she rushed towards Yuanxing and grabbed her arm: "Don't do this! Even if you want to preserve evidence, consider Qianchan's feelings. What will she think if she knows her used straw has been preserved?"

Qingyin felt that if the straw she had used was kept, it must mean she had committed suicide on the spot due to social death, and putting herself in Qianchan's shoes, she felt it was probably similar. Their current task was to investigate why Qianchan left the club and then try to persuade her to return, not to find evidence that could have caused her social death and force her to come back.

"Ok."

Yuanxing gave up on keeping the straw and ran to the changing room, where he began frantically rummaging through every single piece of clothing.

Qingyin watched Yuanxing make his move from the sidelines. Every time Yuanxing made a move, her eyelids twitched. She increasingly felt that it wasn't her fault for thinking her junior would collect straws; it was just that this junior seemed like a stalker from every angle. She strongly suspected that Yuanxing was the stalker. As for Qianchan, she left the club because she felt she was being targeted by a stalker and chose to leave to protect the other club members.

"Is it really possible to find anything in the closet? I don't think it's very likely."

"found it!"

"Really? In your pocket?"

"No, it's inside the closet."

Yuanxing found a piece of debris with red and white markings. She handed the debris to Qingyin: "Qingyin, do you know what this is?"

"This is···"