Is it only magical girls?

"Huh? Qingyin, what did you say?"

Qingyin responded to Yuanxing with a bright, beautiful smile she had never shown before: "I didn't say anything. I suddenly remembered that I have something important to do and I have to go home right away."

Qingyin planned to leave immediately. Since there was no sweet romance to enjoy, she didn't intend to stay here for even a minute longer.

This magical girl club that only has fake candy is really pointless. Who eats fake candy these days?!

Yuanxing still had a lot to say, but Qingyin was busy and couldn't help it, so she could only nod: "Then let's meet tomorrow? Let's discuss the club reorganization tomorrow."

Qingyin nodded. Just as she stood up, she saw Hongshi walking over from the other counter. Qingyin stopped. She felt that she should at least say hello to Sister Hongshi before leaving MomoMo, since she didn't really have anything urgent to do.

Hong Shi asked, "Qing Yin is leaving already?"

Yes, because I discovered it's a stupid thing made with industrial saccharin, so now I'm going home to eat some real sugar to relax.

Qingyin had a lot to say, but she just nodded.

"Then there will be no chance to see the new magic of the distant stars in the first place."

As Hong Shi spoke, he placed a chip on the table: "This is for Yuanxing. Your club originally had Qianchan as a melee fighter, so Yuanxing was quite safe. Now you can only rely on yourself. This chip contains protective magic. In addition to the original artillery magic, you also need to practice this to make up for the predicament of Qianchan not being in the team."

"Wow!"

Yuanxing excitedly grabbed the chip, then rushed towards Hongshi with a beaming smile, shouting, "Sister Hongshi! Please let me call you teacher! Teacher, I love you, please marry me!"

Hong Shi waved his hand: "Go away, you little brat, I don't want a student like you."

This is great! This is awesome! A rebellious disciple! A hot favorite!

Even though this is completely fake candy, I'll still enjoy it! I love both real and fake candy!

Qingyin's eyes were like a camera, trying her best to record everything in front of her.

Fake candy is still fake candy. Yuanxing's interest in protective magic was at its limit. After a few seconds, she waved to Qingyin and Hongshi and said, "Then I'm going to the dojo to practice magic. Qingyin, see you tomorrow. Teacher, if I have any questions, I'll ask you again."

Qingyin waved to her.

Qun Jiuqi, Yi Shanba, Hong Shi laughed and scolded: "Get lost!"

Hong Shi quickly turned his gaze to Qing Yin: "What are you thinking, Qing Yin? Completely reorganize the club? Or wait for Qian Chan to return? Or perhaps you'll do the work of two people like Yuan Xing, and then use that opportunity to optimize the membership? Or maybe..."

Hongshi placed a postcard on the bar without saying a word, but the meaning was quite clear.

"I thought Sister Hongshi wanted the club to be rebuilt."

“I’m just passing it on,” Hongshi shrugged. “I don’t provide answers, I only provide choices. The decision is yours, and only yours. Paradise seems to think highly of you. We all know that there are four types of magical girls: individual, club, company, and the last one, Paradise. The magical girls belonging to the Paradise Group make up about 30% of all magical girls.”

What does Sister Hongshi think?

"I'm not offering an answer."

“I think Yuanxing will probably receive an invitation too, right? After all, she is the most dazzling and powerful one among us. She may have to raise five children in the future, so she might really want to join the amusement park.”

puff!

Hong Shi had found it strange before, as stories about baby-giving cranes were usually only recorded in biographies and similar books. Although Yuan Xing was a smart child, she was clearly not the type to sit still and read biographies; how did she know about baby-giving cranes?

But now she understands that the source of all this is Qingyin!

She looked at Qingyin carefully. She seemed to be a very clever child, but she never expected that she would make such a silly mistake. These children are so silly and cute.

Aon stared at the postcard, lost in thought for a moment: A corporation like Paradise must have many rules, and it's almost inevitable that magical girls wouldn't be allowed to have pure or impure same-sex relationships. After all, whether it's a corporation or a company, profit is the primary goal, so they definitely need to please the fans. What the fans like will exist, meaning any sweet moments will be fake. Since they're all fake, it's no different from now. No, Hoshizuki isn't entirely fake; she just hasn't realized it yet. Besides, Yue's feelings are probably genuine, meaning if Touhoshi realizes it, then it's real sweetness.

Ten thousand fake candies can't compare to one real candy!

With that thought in mind, Qingyin made a judgment. She tore the postcard in half: "Sorry, please reply that I'm not interested."

Chapter 6, I understand, I understand.

Farstar's destination was the dojo within Magic Magical Girls Club. That dojo was their club's private dojo; every magical girl club within Magic Magical Girls Club had its own exclusive dojo. Solo magical girl clubs, on the other hand, used a shared dojo, since finding other members was also an important matter for them.

Yuanxing is going to the public dojo today. Who knows, she might find a satisfactory candidate there, and then she can directly eliminate the members in the club that she doesn't like.

As soon as she entered the public dojo, her attention was drawn to a figure—Miyu, a former member of her club.

"No, the club disbanded, so it should be former club members?"

Because Yuanxing is the type who welcomes like-minded people, and she has a fair opinion of Miyou, it's not that she absolutely has to optimize her. Or rather, in order to successfully optimize the other two people, not optimizing Miyou is the best choice.

Yuanxing temporarily abandoned practicing protective magic and moved closer to Miyou: "I plan to reorganize the club. Qingyin has already said she will stay in the club. What about Miyou?"

Miyou glanced at Yuanxing, thought for a moment, and shook her head: "Without Qianchan, there's nothing to see. I don't want to join; it would be a waste of my work time."

That means I've been optimized.

Yuanxing nodded. She felt it was no big deal, but it would give her an explanation when facing Qingyin later. This was not something she wanted to improve.

"Didn't you join before? Didn't you work before?"

“Before, if there were good ones, I would be willing to pay more than just reduce my working hours to enjoy them. Now that there aren’t any, it’s not worth sacrificing my working hours anymore.”

Yuanxing made a guess without permission: "You mean the senior?"

Miyu gave her a very disdainful look, seemingly wanting to say something, but before she could speak, she suddenly changed direction and clapped enthusiastically. She spoke in a completely different, cute tone: "Amazing! That was fantastic! At this rate, you'll soon become a super powerful magical girl! I admire you!"

In that direction, a little girl was diligently practicing magic. Hearing Miyu's words, the little girl turned around and gave her a thumbs up, clearly pleased with Miyu's praise.

"Your sister?"

"My employer hired me to be a cheerleader."

Seeing the little girl start practicing again, Mi You turned around and looked Yuan Xing up and down: "Were you serious about what you just said?"

"What did I say? Oh, you mean senior? Don't worry about it, I'm very welcoming to fellow enthusiasts."

Mi You nodded: "That's how it is. If you follow me, I'll withdraw; if you stay away, I'll get closer. I like you but you don't like me. Playing hard to get is an essential killing move on the battlefield. I understand, I understand."

What do you know?

"If you want sunshine, I'll give you rain; if you want east, I'll go west. I understand the art of feigning indifference, the ultimate move on the chessboard, and the ruthless schemes."

"Ugh, so annoying! What do you even know?!"

"Love is a battlefield, love is the most dazzling and unpredictable stage of destiny for young girls in their prime. In order to win on this most important battlefield, the girls will unleash all their brilliance. I understand, I understand."

You know the shit!

Yuanxing suddenly thought of a way to completely solve the problem. She took out her phone and transferred a sum of money to Miyou: "Don't say a word!"

Mi You nodded vigorously.

"What's the answer?"

Miyou took out her phone and sent a text message to Yuanxing: Aren't you not allowed to speak?

Yuanxing tapped her head, feeling like she was so angry she was confused.

But soon Miyou sent a second message: Although I guessed what you were thinking and exposed your plan, I won't tell anyone else. I understand, I understand.

"You're not allowed to say those three words again that I understand!"

“I understand completely.”

Yuanxing was so angry that she was trembling, and even her mind went blank. She didn't know what to say to Miyou at this moment.

Miyu said, "Speaking of which, you could hire me as a member, right? If I were a member, I would definitely obey my employer's orders completely. If I'm not allowed to say something I know, I won't say it. If I'm not allowed to say something I completely understand, I can immediately stop talking about it. I would be very valuable."

Yuanxing thought it made sense, so he kept a small amount for himself and transferred all his living expenses.

"Yes, Princess. No problem, Princess. Whatever your command, Princess."

Yuanxing felt she had won, but upon reflection, she felt she had lost, and lost utterly. She was out of money for the month, and without working at the Magic Magic Shop, she'd be struggling to even afford food. If the Baby-Giving Crane had brought the baby over this month…

The mere thought of such a thing is terrifying.

"I'm not talking to you anymore, I need to go practice."

Yuanxing stepped into the dojo and converted it into a protective magical girl-only dojo. A floating magic wand appeared before her, instantly releasing homing missiles one after another. Magical girls can cast spells with the aid of a wand, allowing them to do so smoothly the moment they receive the chip. However, simply casting spells isn't enough; they also need a clear understanding of the time, place, and circumstances for casting them.

For magical girls, simply using magic via a chip is far from enough; they also need to learn how to use magic without the chip. When they can freely cast spells without the chip, that's when they successfully graduate from their magical journey.

A wand can only load a limited number of spells at a time, meaning the number of spells a girl can learn simultaneously is also limited. However, this doesn't have a significant impact, since magical girls generally master no more than ten spells. There's no particular reason; they just have too many things to do. They have to sing, dance, perform, and go to school. Learning a lot of magic is less important than mastering it when needed.

Farstar is a magical girl who focuses solely on her studies. Her wand currently has only one chip, which is the magic called "Shield" that she just obtained from Crimson World. The magic called "Shield" can be large or small, thin or thick, square or round. Its shape changes as magic power is injected, and it stops immediately once the injection of magic power stops. It is one of the types of magic that places high demands on the user.

Farstar quickly mastered this magic and used it quite skillfully. When facing homing missiles, he used small, multiple, thin protective shields to conserve magic power. When facing magic cannon attacks, he tried to avoid them as much as possible. If he couldn't avoid them, he used the protective shields to deflect the magic cannon attacks. Taking the hit head-on would consume too much magic power and was not the right choice.

"Your Highness is amazing! Your Highness is the best in the world!"

"Young Miss is amazing! Your progress is incredible! At this rate, you'll soon become the world's number one magical girl!"

Yuanxing noticed that although both voices were Miyou's, the two voices were completely different, clearly indicating that she didn't want anyone to find out that she was working part-time.

Chapter 7 What did you protect?

Monsters are natural enemies born from the negative emotions within people's hearts, feeding on those negative emotions. Monsters only destroy, evolve, and reproduce. The more rampant and destructive monsters are, the more negative emotions arise in people's hearts, and the more negative emotions there are, the more monsters evolve and reproduce, forming an infinitely expanding closed loop.

In the not-so-distant past, monsters drove humanity to the brink of extinction, and it was during that time that the magical maidens of the Shrine Maidens were born.

At this very moment, a monster was right in front of Yuanxing. Yuanxing wasn't a target-detecting magical girl, so she couldn't sense the birth of a monster in the distance, but this monster had been born nearby. She had come from the Demon Demon Demon and was taking a bus home when she sensed the monster's birth on the way, so she hurriedly got off the bus to look for it.

Unfortunately, she was unable to stop the monster before it was born; by the time she found it, it had already passed the gestation stage.

The monster in front of us is medium-sized. Medium-sized monsters are not considered part of the magical girl club's achievements, but it still takes about three magical girls working together to defeat it.

With only one Farstar remaining, it will undoubtedly be a tough battle.

The medium-sized monster looks like a crab standing upright with its belly exposed, except that the crab's belly is a hideous, terrifying, and resentful human face that looks like it's about to devour someone.

Facing this medium-sized monster, Yuanxing immediately went all out with suppressive fire, unleashing dozens of magic missiles with a flick of her wand. These magic missiles spread out in all directions, each with a different trajectory, but all aimed at the face of the human-faced crab. Unfortunately, these magic missiles failed to touch the human-faced crab, being blocked by the transparent wall before they could even make contact.

"As expected, it's not easy to break through the barrier of evil thoughts."

Humans filled with malice reject everything. Monsters born from malice mystify this negative emotion, transforming it into an indestructible barrier that rejects all things. To break this barrier, one must rely on the cleansing light of magical girls. Only barrier-type magical girls can quickly purify the barrier of malice with their cleansing light; for other magical girls, simply purifying the barrier of malice is already a daunting task.

Farstar was fully aware that her magic missiles couldn't break through the Man-Faced Crab's barrier of malevolence, but she didn't hesitate at all. Instead, she bombarded the Man-Faced Crab with even more magic missiles. While a ranged magical girl might struggle to purify the barrier of malevolence, her relentless magical attacks eventually allowed her to break through the monster's barrier of malevolence with brute force.

Dozens of magic missiles bombarded the human-faced crab again. Just then, the human-faced crab opened its mouth and swallowed all the magic missiles in one gulp, transforming the magic into a huge fireball that shot towards the distant star.

Facing the incoming fireball, Yuanxing raised his hand and deployed a protective shield. The impact of the fireball forced him back several steps, but also deflected it in another direction. The deflected fireball struck a nearby store, reducing it to rubble, and surrounding shops were also affected by the blast.

Meanwhile, the human-faced crabs had gathered their magic and were spewing a second fireball at the distant star!

"Again?!"

The shield opened again, but this time, before the fireball could hit it, a white motorcycle sped up in front of the distant star.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here!"

Upon closer inspection, Yuanxing discovered that the one who had blocked the fireball was a girl in a white special attack uniform sitting on a white motorcycle. The most striking feature of the uniform was the word "Transformation" in a circular pattern on the back, followed by long lines of text radiating from the "Transformation" pattern towards her arms and waist. These lines were all transformation spells used by magical girls, such as "Moonlight Power," "I obey the contract," "Combining our dark powers," "Namo San," and "Synchronization Rate 400%."

Faced with the incoming fireball, the special attack uniform swung its bat, sending the fireball flying like a baseball, hitting a department store several kilometers away and blasting the planet on top of the building into stars in the sky.

"Hahaha," the special forces uniform laughed loudly, "I'll protect you, so go ahead and do whatever you want!"

What have you been protecting?

Although she wanted to say that, Yuanxing focused her mind. With the vanguard entangling the monster, she could concentrate on unleashing more powerful spells. Even with a barrier of malevolence, a mere medium-sized monster would find it difficult to withstand the full-force bombardment of a magic cannon.

"Okay! I'm counting on you, Avant-garde!"

Yuanxing quickly mobilized his magic power, gathering all the magic power in his body into one place, compressing it again and again.

The special attack suit launched its attack in close combat, smashing the baseball bat directly at the human-faced crab.

The Man-Faced Crab was well aware that the Barrier of Evil protected it, and it made no attempt to defend itself against the Special Attack Suit's brutal attacks. It simply pounded wildly with its two claws, trying to force the Special Attack Suit back from attacking the source of the magic that it felt threatened. However, the Special Attack Suit ignored the claws, stubbornly watching them fall without retreating an inch, leaving the Man-Faced Crab no room to advance.

"Starlight Burst!"

The magic cannon roared, completely enveloping the human-faced crab. Under the onslaught of this surging magic, the barrier of malevolence cracked inch by inch. The human-faced crab raised its abdomen, attempting to absorb the magic again with its human face, but this magic was far beyond its capacity. At a visible speed, the crab was transformed into a human-faced balloon. Soon, the balloon burst completely, scattering countless streams of magic, restoring the destroyed buildings to their original state, as if the monster had never existed.

The special attack suit originally envisioned a magical girl descending from the heavens to save her companions from dire straits, then gracefully turning away amidst the dissipating magic, becoming a magical girl who would never look back at the exploding monsters. But when she turned to look at the distant stars, seeing the starlight swirling around her as her transformation ended, seeing her adorable pink hair swaying, seeing her sweet smile, and seeing her sparkling, beautiful eyes...

A magical girl passing by?

Let whoever wants to be one be one; I don't like it anyway.

The special attack uniform came running over excitedly, grabbed Yuanxing in a hug, and cheered, "Wow! We're pretty good! Why are you alone too? Want to play with me?"

Yuanxing glanced at the special attack suit, which showed no intention of deactivating, and asked, "Aren't you going to deactivate your transformation?"

"I'll take care of it before I go home. Let's not talk about those unimportant things. We're both so capable, let's treat each other to a good drink somewhere!"

He declined the invitation, saying, "I'm still a minor."

"It's fine, we can ignore the rule that minors shouldn't drink alcohol! We'll definitely have to drink our fill at the celebration party!"

Even if we take a step back and assume the worst, Yuanxing still couldn't agree: "You still have a motorcycle! How about we drink something else today?"