Is it only magical girls?

As a magical girl herself and a fan of magical girls, Aon almost instantly identified the source of the debris: "This is a poster of Magical Girl Tensou. It used to hang on the door of the dressing room, but now it looks like this."

Chapter 3: Bearing pressures beyond what someone his age should bear.

“There’s no doubt that it was the senior who tore up the posters,” Yuanxing deduced. “Then I’ll make a bold guess: all the posters were torn up by the senior, and this small piece was left behind by accident when she was tearing them up. Although she was very careful to deal with the debris, she still missed this small piece.”

"If you think about it that way..."

Qingyin suddenly turned around and returned to the living room. She knelt on the ground, took out a napkin, picked up a small piece of glass from the ground, and presented it to Yuanxing as if it were a treasure: "I saw this piece of glass before. Does Yuanxing know where it came from?"

"First of all, we can be sure it wasn't left when I broke the window to come in. I've already deactivated my transformation, and the window should be back to normal. So this small piece of glass must have been left by my senior when she broke something. Was it an accident, or did she break it on purpose?"

"Does Qingyin remember what that was originally?"

Yuanxing wasn't seeking answers. She pointed to the living room wall: "There used to be a clock there, and it was a very rare clock made from the three different wands of the magical girl Butterfly Flower. It had a very high collection value. Now that clock has disappeared. I think that shard of glass is from when the clock fell to the ground. Senior clearly caused a lot of damage to her collection. Even though she tried to clean it up, you can still find traces of damage."

"If we search the house based on the premise that the senior student has extensively damaged the collection, we will find many traces in the house."

Yuanxing ran to the cabinet and pointed to one of the dents: "Look, it's obviously a mark left by something hitting the cabinet. Senior must have smashed the thing in her hand hard to leave such a mark."

It wasn't just one place where there were traces; Yuanxing pointed out several more, each one proving that Qianchan had recently lost her temper, throwing all sorts of things everywhere and completely destroying the magical girl-related collectibles she had kept for many years.

Qingyin thought it was amazing, but at the same time, she went from suspecting that Yuanxing was a perverted stalker to being certain that Yuanxing was a perverted stalker.

Qingyin asked, "Why did Qianchan do this?"

"Perhaps he was deeply affected?"

Yuanxing guessed, "For example, she suddenly discovers that magical girls turn into hideous and terrifying monsters once they graduate?"

"Isn't Sister Hong Shi proof that she won't change?"

"Actually, using magic requires sacrificing life force, and magical girls all die."

“What I just said can also refute this.”

"That means magical girls are all created by a company using drugs for private gain."

"Although I've heard of forbidden drugs that can greatly increase magic power, I can also increase my magic power and master more magic through hard work and training."

"That senior actually carries a deep-seated hatred, and she recently discovered that her enemy is a magical girl."

"Then the other magical girls aren't innocent, so why did they destroy those artifacts?"

Yuanxing was speechless for a moment, unable to think of any other reason.

Qingyin sat on the sofa and patted the seat next to her: "I have an idea. Sit down and I'll tell you slowly."

Seeing Yuanxing sitting on the sofa, Qingyin slowly said, "This is a true story recorded in a magical girl biography I read when I was a child. Although I can't quite remember which magical girl's biography it was, I'm sure I read it in the biography. That biography said that magical girls are different from others, and their offspring are sent by a kind of fairy called a stork. When you successfully defeated the monster before, you kissed Qianchan's cheek, didn't you? Because you kissed Qianchan's cheek, the stork sent the child to Qianchan, and then she ran away with the child."

"Schools have sex education classes, you know? Guess if I believe you?"

"But that was human, not magical girl. Magical girls are different. There are often stories of raising baby girls in magical girl anime, right? Baby girls with some kind of mysterious power always appear in magical girl stories, and they are always brought by storks. I think it's the same for Chichan. The sudden appearance of the baby girl caused her to have a mental breakdown. It's all because she transformed into a magical girl that she encountered this kind of thing, so she took her anger out on magical girls and destroyed everything related to magical girls."

Yuanxing was somewhat convinced, but she still couldn't understand: "Then there's no reason for you to run away, right?"

"Running away with a baby is a very common plot in otome stories. If the plot is so common, it must be very common in reality as well."

"Uh···"

"And the child may not even be yours."

"Eh?"

"Didn't Mimi kiss Qianchan too?"

"what!"

"And you didn't just kiss Qianchan."

"what?"

Yuanxing tried hard to recall, and the situation was exactly the same as what Qingyin had said. After kissing her senior, she kissed everyone else! At that time, Qingyin was resisting desperately, but she used a feint, pretending to give up and then turning back to launch a sneak attack, thus achieving her goal.

But this is way beyond my expectations!

"I think we shouldn't overthink things here. It's late, so let's go home first. Tomorrow we'll ask Sister Hongshi. As a senior, she'll definitely know the details, and we'll feel more at ease then."

Yuanxing patted Qingyin on the shoulder and quickly left, looking like he was running away no matter how you looked at it.

Yuanxing opened the door, rushed into the elevator, quickly changed floors, and then ran back to her own home in one breath. Barefoot, she collapsed onto the sofa and didn't move again.

Her feelings at that moment were: I want to die, I want to die, I want to die, I want to die, because there might be five babies, so she said "I want to die" five times.

After lying on the sofa for a while, Yuanxing finally sat up groggily, her mind naturally turning to the future: "If there really are five babies, then the allowance Mom gives me won't be enough, right? If I want to continue being a magical girl, I can't just do it out of interest; I have to treat it as a way to make money. That means I need to treat the club like a startup company. Wait, the club has already disbanded, so I can't turn it into a company. Should I become a freelance magical girl to earn a living? Or should I just find a company and become a company-affiliated magical girl? That way, it'll be easy to start earning a living."

Yuanxing felt her future was bleak: "The living expenses for five children..."

She suddenly had an impulse, an impulse to destroy all of her magical girl collections.

It's all the magical girl's fault!

But Qingyin might be overthinking things regarding the five children. Perhaps things aren't as bad as she thinks, and there's still a chance for things to take a turn for the better!

The next day after school, Yuanxing rushed straight to MomoMo. As soon as she entered MomoMo, she threw the age-old question that had been bothering her all day at Hongshi: "Hongshi-nee, are the children between magical girls really delivered by storks?"

“Not necessarily,” Hong Shi replied. “The crane that delivers children is indeed one method, but there are many other methods, such as praying to a tree, cutting open a peach, cutting down bamboo, planting flowers, or smashing a spirit pearl. Why are you asking this?”

"Will a kiss on the cheek bring a stork to your baby?!"

"Holding hands, gazing into each other's eyes, praying—these kinds of wishes can be fulfilled simply by wanting them."

I am done.

Yuanxing, sixteen years old, felt that his future was bleak and took on a burden he shouldn't have had.

Chapter 4: Don't Talk Nonsense with Your Eyes Open

Hong Shi learned about the situation from Yuan Xing in detail, and couldn't help but chuckle, but she tried very hard not to laugh. If she laughed, she would lose her composure, and if she lost her composure, she wouldn't be able to fool the children anymore, and then there would be no fun at all.

While there are many ways for magical girls to have children, the most fundamental prerequisite is having that intention. How could a kiss possibly attract a stork if you don't have that intention at all? Although there are a few bad storks among them who might deliver the wrong child, it's unlikely that someone who has absolutely no intention of having a child would still be delivered a child to their doorstep by a stork.

But Hongshi didn't want to tell Yuanxing, and planned to continue the conversation based on the fact that she would soon have five children: "That's really troublesome, isn't it? Taking on the cost of raising five children all at once, you'll pay child support, right?"

"Can I work at MomoMo?"

Hong Shi nodded: "Sure, three thousand a month."

"Isn't it too low?!"

“Where is it low?” Hong Shi rolled his eyes. “It’s been this salary all these years, okay? Don’t talk nonsense with your eyes open. I started working at MomoMo when I was nine years old, and my salary was only three thousand back then. Think about whether it’s your own fault. Have you worked hard all these years? Have you increased your working hours? How can you increase your salary if you don’t increase your working hours?”

"So there's overtime pay?"

"No, there are no meal allowances or transportation allowances, and we don't pay for social insurance or housing fund. We won't give you a single extra penny."

Yuanxing clutched her head in despair, scratching it violently. Her pink, shoulder-length hair was a mess from her rough movements, constantly radiating an emotion called anxiety.

This amused Hong Shi greatly, so he decided to press his advantage: "Join us now and get a 365-day free trial period. If I'm not satisfied, you can leave anytime. But we won't charge you a single penny for training, so don't worry."

"thank you."

Hongshi felt she had pretty much nipped that idea in the bud. She thought it was enough and started to persuade them: "Don't you have a magical girl club? How about finding someone else to fill Qianchan's vacancy and turning the club into a startup team? If you turn it into a startup team, as long as you have some fame, I will give you priority in assigning tasks."

"A commission? What kind of commission?"

"Amusement park performances, school speeches, and shopping mall opening ceremony performances are excellent requests that the magical girl at the bottom of the world desperately wants. If it weren't for the fact that you have to raise five children, we definitely wouldn't have given you priority."

No, I can't laugh. If I laugh, I'll ruin the whole thing. I have to be patient, patient, and patient some more.

Although Hongshi tried her best to endure it, Yuanxing's serious thinking was just too funny, and she really couldn't help but laugh.

Yuanxing thought about it carefully before saying, "Can't I do it alone? In our club, the senior is the stabilizer. I don't think I can stabilize the club. It would be difficult to keep the whole club running smoothly, let alone turn it into a startup team."

"Of course you can't do it alone."

"What I mean is, I want to ask Sister Hong Shi if there's a way for me to defeat the monster by myself?"

"Impossible. Magical girls are usually in teams of six, and each magical girl in the team has a specific role to play. Generally speaking, there are nine types of basic magical girls. Taking the magical girls in your club as an example, Chichan is a melee type, you are a ranged type, Aone is a support type, Rinrei is a barrier type, Miyu is a debuff type, and Yoru is a target acquisition type. In addition to these, there are healing, summoning, and defensive types, which your club doesn't have. For novice magical girls like you, five people are already the limit. It's completely impossible for you to do it alone."

"There's no other way, then I'll try to deal with the monster with Qingyin."

"Two people isn't impossible, as long as one person does the work of three. However, for smooth operation, you first need a target-finding support, otherwise, where will you find monsters? You can learn target-finding magic yourself, but you'll soon have five children to raise. Do you really have time to learn target-finding magic? Wouldn't it be better to bring Ye Liu back?"

"She yelled at my senior so loudly, I don't want to get back at her."

"Your reason..."

Hong Shi felt she was about to collapse. She grabbed her thigh hard, the pain almost bringing tears to her eyes, but it stopped her laughter from spreading and successfully fooled Yuan Xing, preventing her from thinking too much.

“I don’t want to be with Lingling either. She said yesterday that she’s never been happy being a magical girl, which ruined the already tense atmosphere.”

"Good for you."

“I don’t want to be with Miyou either. She left really fast when the club disbanded yesterday. There was no need for her to leave so fast.”

So, out of a total of six people in the club, this kid wants to optimize three of them, and one of them won't be returning for the time being, so the final number of people remaining is two, which is the same as if the club never existed at all.

"Crimson Sister, please join me! I want to be a magical girl with Crimson Sister!"

Hongshi smiled and said, "I actually quite like being a magical girl, but unfortunately, the shelf life of a magical girl only lasts until the age of twenty-two. I've already expired, so I can't be a magical girl anymore." Hongshi then changed the subject, "The best way is to rebuild your original club, but if you don't like it, it's also good to find new partners and form a new magical girl club. I just don't know if Qianchan will like it."

"Woo..."

Yuanxing was sunk in an instant. In her opinion, Qianchan must have had sufficient reasons for disbanding the club, and Qianchan would definitely return to the club. Therefore, the most important thing she should do was to protect the club during the time Qianchan was away and prevent the club from completely disbanding.

There are no problems with Qingyin, but does she have to maintain relationships with the other three?

Or should we make a slight concession and let them stay in the club for the time being, and then we can weed them out when we find more suitable people in the future? At that time, their club will have contributed excellent talents to the entire magical girl group, which is a gratifying and happy thing.

What is Yuanxing thinking?

When Yuanxing, who was engrossed in his own world, heard someone ask him a question, he frankly told them what was on his mind: "I'm thinking about optimization."

"Eh?"

Yuanxing snapped out of her daze and realized that the person who had asked her was Qingyin. She immediately changed the subject: "I've thought it through. The best solution right now is to reorganize the Magical Girl Club. Although my senior disbanded the club, we can reorganize it. I believe she must have her reasons, and I believe she will definitely return. Reorganizing the club will also leave a place for her to return."

Qingyin clasped her hands together and smiled with relief: "That's great! But what kind of optimization are you talking about?"

"It's nothing, I just want to optimize all the members except Qingyin."

"Wait a moment--"

“I didn’t say now,” Yuanxing interrupted, “I said in the future, after the club is stable, we’ll optimize it. Or we’ll optimize it after the senior comes back, anyway, we’ll definitely optimize it.”

Chapter 5 Five True Sugars Endure Forever, One Sugar Will Live On Forever

"Your statement..."

Qingyin realized she was wrong, she was really wrong. She had thought she had an ally in the club, an ally willing to stand with her to protect the club.

But now it seems she has no allies; she's fighting alone. With five bombs in the gang, is she the only one holding things together?!

Otherwise, the club should just disband.

"If that's your thinking, I'll become inclined to disband the club altogether."

"Why?! Didn't we just say we were going to rebuild the club?"

Qingyin touched her cheek and replied weakly, "I originally thought that with Yuanxing and me supporting the club, you are the pillar and I am the pillar, and we can definitely help the club get through the crisis. But now you're thinking about optimization, doesn't that mean that even if the club is successfully reorganized, there will still be a second crisis of disbanding? A crisis after a crisis will make people hesitate and lose motivation. Why don't we just announce it now?"

Yuanxing's expression kept changing, from surprise, deep thought, struggle and then relief: "Alright then, I won't talk about optimization anymore. First, let's find Miyou. Then I want to try to persuade Sister Hongshi to join. With Sister Hongshi's help, four people will be enough to keep the club running normally."

"Huh? Mimi?"

Yuanxing, puzzled, tilted his head and looked at Qingyin.

"I thought you, Xiaoxing, would be the least accepting of Mimi."

"why?"

"Didn't she kiss Qianchan before?"

“Yes!” Yuanxing nodded: “Miyou has great taste, knowing that senior is the best, she really has good eyes.”

"you···"

"I welcome like-minded people."

Welcome fellow enthusiasts? What fellow enthusiasts? Fellow enthusiasts my ass!

Qingyin joined the club, and thought about how to protect it, not because of the club itself, but because of what the club could give her—something called Qianchan x Yuanxing! She liked reading yuri (lesbian) stories, she liked shipping younger female classmates with the male lead, and she always thought it was real romance. Now she's being told it's fake?!

Isn't this blatant fraud?! This is a complete and utter marketing ploy targeting lesbians!

Give me back my time! Give me back my energy! I'm quitting the club! I've never been happy being a magical girl!

Qingyin was burning with anger, but she tried her best to restrain herself and calm her rage, muttering under her breath, "Useless thing."