Is it only magical girls?

"What instructions are you giving?"

Hongshi didn't know what to say. After all, Suzuhoshi hadn't lied. Wasn't the apple sauce made for the guests? Wasn't Nami a guest? So, it was perfectly correct to say that apple sauce was made for Nami, it's just that Nami wasn't her only guest. The shrimp was the same; it was all done for the guests, only the guests weren't the only ones.

Lingxing blinked: "Hey, they punished the traitor who dined outside the Demon Demon Demon Hall, shouldn't they be rewarded?"

"Alright, alright, here's a reward for you."

Hongshi casually took a cookie from the bar and stuffed it into Lingxing's mouth: "Consider this cookie your reward. Are you satisfied now?"

After finishing the cookie, Lingxing continued, "I don't want this kind of reward that's just for kids. I want a more practical reward."

That's well said, but you're just a kid, aren't you?

Lingxing raised her hands, her left hand high and her right hand toying with her hair, trying her best to show her charm: "What I want is Master."

Hongshi was very concerned about Lingxing and asked kindly, "What's wrong? Did your hand cramp? Are you alright?"

Chapter 116 Disciple in a Hundred and Six Cardigan

Finally back to Magic Magic Magic...

The magical girls from Starlight Co., Ltd. had different emotions. Farstar was excited and silly, only feeling the joy of finishing her work. Miyu had regrets and expectations. Qianchan was a little embarrassed. Lingling was expressionless. The remaining three were all tired and relieved.

It wasn't because the work was so hard, nor because of the fear of facing the God of Darkness, but simply because there were two people in the team who were always in a low mood. When Farstar wasn't around, the two of them would explode without warning and then quickly disappear.

As the saying goes, it's not the thief you should fear, but the one who has his eye on you. Similarly, it's not the sudden birth of a witch you should fear, but the latent presence of one. Who knows when these two with their low spirits will turn into witches? Just thinking about it is terrifying. They are under immense pressure both mentally and psychologically. Now that they've returned to the Demon Demon Demon realm, they can finally rest easy. At least if the sky falls, there will be tall people, oh, there will be elders to hold it up.

Farstar somehow acquired a hat, used it to cover her face, and immediately mingled with the other magical girls upon entering the Magical World, cautiously approaching Crimson World. She intended to catch Crimson World off guard, giving her no time to react—a genuine sneak attack!

The new mascot of the Demon Demon Demon series, Lingxing, clearly saw her mother's reckless actions. After a moment's thought, she decided that Hongshi would be able to react in time and wouldn't trigger her defensive instincts, so no one should die. Therefore, she didn't warn her and instead stopped working to watch the show.

Farstar slowly approached, and just as Crimson World was carefully observing the measuring cup, she suddenly pounced on her. The wind pressure generated by Farstar was noticed by Crimson World, who abruptly turned her head, her beautiful red eyes flashing with a crimson light. That light filled Farstar with deep fear, as if she were nothing more than a small pebble in a volcanic eruption, her fate entirely at the mercy of the volcano.

But soon Hongshi realized that it was Yuanxing who was attacking. The crimson light faded, and she even reached out and hugged Yuanxing around the waist, providing her with strong support so that she wouldn't fall to the ground because her legs were weak.

“Sorry,” Hongshi said, “I was looking at the measuring cup and didn’t notice you.”

"Next time, I'll choose a time when my master isn't paying attention to me before I pounce on him."

"As long as you know."

Seeing that Yuanxing was still in a leisurely mood, Hongshi breathed a sigh of relief, but she quickly realized something was wrong: "No, I just said don't pounce on me. I'm your master, you know? How can you pounce on your master just because you see him? You have no respect for your elders."

"Then I will betray my sect."

"You're so disobedient—"

As soon as Hong Shi finished speaking, he realized that Yuan Xing's response was not quite what he had expected. This little Yuan Xing was too obedient, wasn't she? She said that if she wasn't allowed to pounce, she would betray the sect. But then again, there were only two of them. If she betrayed the sect, the sect would be gone.

Hong Shi pursed her lips and took a step back: "Although I told you not to pounce on me, you can disobey me. There's no need to make such a serious mistake as punishing someone from the sect."

“No, I’m a good child who listens to Sister Hongshi. I will never do anything that Sister Hongshi forbids me from doing.”

"Huh? Uh..."

Hong Shi felt that since he had already taken a step back, it wouldn't matter if he took another one: "Fine, fine, go ahead and pounce if you want."

They're not even being stubborn anymore!

Aon's eyes shone brightly; she felt this healed her tormented soul. Although she'd seen candy lately, it was like dark chocolate—candy, but far too bitter. While Aon liked bitter dark chocolate, she believed candy should have a balance of sweet and bitter; candy that was too bitter and could turn her into a witch was truly terrifying.

Hongshi noticed Qingyin's gaze, so she immediately pushed Yuanxing away expressionlessly: "Don't you dare pounce on me, or I'll kill you."

Yuanxing could only retreat awkwardly, glaring at Qingyin, the culprit.

Qingyin nonchalantly stuck out her tongue at Yuanxing and made a face to express her schadenfreude.

Although Qingyin messed things up, Yuanxing still had a way. She knew very well that this was the time to bring out the most praiseworthy thing: "Master, we were really amazing this time! At the Alchemy Castle, we encountered Aunt Yuehuai trying to summon the God of Darkness to put the magical girl into eternal sleep. We fought hard and finally failed to summon her."

Qianchan almost burst out laughing. Her junior schoolmate always used such euphemisms: every event happened, but in reality, none of them had anything to do with her.

But someone else actually laughed out loud, and that was Lingxing. Her laughter was so loud that Yuanxing turned her head to look at her. She immediately felt a sense of kinship with this little girl she had never met before.

"This child is so cute, it seems like they're helping the demons, whose child is it?"

Is it your child?

That couldn't be said outright, so Hong Shi went around in circles: "She's the daughter of my founding disciple. She's shameless. When she was 16, she had a child with her girlfriend and dumped her newborn baby on me. I've raised her all this time. Don't you think my founding disciple is a shameless scoundrel?"

"A cardigan-wearing disciple?"

Yuanxing pouted: "Master actually has a cardigan disciple, I want to be a cardigan disciple too."

These words were not what Hong Shi had expected. She wanted Yuan Xing to scold herself a few times, so she comforted her, "What are you being stubborn about? You are the last disciple."

"She opened her coat and I closed the door?! What kind of person do I become then?!"

Yuanxing refused vehemently, grabbing Hongshi's hand: "Master! I want to be the first disciple! I don't want to be the last disciple!"

I don't understand what you're talking about.

Yuanxing ran to Lingxing, stood behind her, put her arm around Lingxing's shoulder, and said to Hongshidao, "I'll be this child's mother! That's why Master made me a cardigan disciple!"

Lingxing had been confused until Yuanxing insisted on becoming a cardigan disciple. Suddenly, she realized what this so-called cardigan disciple was. She screamed and broke free from Yuanxing, running towards Hongshi: "No! I want to be a cardigan disciple! I want to be the first cardigan disciple!"

"What fool are you talking about? The first disciple was always the first one; there was never a first disciple."

Hong Shi didn't want to continue this silly-sounding topic. These two were calling themselves "disciple" on one side and "disciple" on the other, and she had no idea what they were talking about. Besides, what were you doing here? You're already that child's mother. And what does that child want? Isn't she already your mother? She completely couldn't understand the two of you.

"Yuan Xiaoxing, why don't you talk about the God of Darkness? Nami told me before that many magical girls have the idea of ​​eternal sleep, and I think it has a lot to do with the God of Darkness you mentioned."

Chapter 117 I Dream of Saving the World

"As I just mentioned, we encountered Aunt Yuehuai, who wanted to summon the God of Darkness in the castle. After a battle, the summoning of the God of Darkness was stopped."

Hongshi nodded: "So you did nothing, and the summoning of the God of Darkness stopped?"

"Uh···"

Hongshi turned to Qianchan: "Is that so?"

Qianchan wasn't a distant star, so she simply nodded and said, "The summoning suddenly stopped, so it failed. We also brought back the crimson crystal that constitutes the body of the God of Darkness."

As she spoke, Qian Erling placed the crystals, which were contained in a small glass box, on the bar counter.

"The Philosopher's Stone, the ultimate secret of alchemy, is certainly worthy of being used to construct the body of the God of Darkness." Crimson World pushed the small box back: "As a reward for defeating the evil dragon that wanted to summon the God of Darkness, it is quite substantial."

A dragon, huh...

Qianchan felt a mix of emotions. She had so much to say to Yuehuai, but she didn't know how to begin.

Hong Shi knew exactly what she was thinking and comforted her, "Don't worry so much. Yuehuai is only occasionally a little abnormal, but most of the time she's pretty normal. Well, to be honest, her abnormality isn't much worse than Anlian's."

Lingling asked in surprise, "Can Anlian's behavior be considered normal?"

I think so.

Hong Shi paused for a moment before continuing, "In short, don't worry too much about it. After all, they won't do anything bad, like wiping out the old council in one go. They're just not that bad people."

"Thank you, Sister Hongshi, but you don't need to comfort me like that."

Qianchan even started comforting Hongshi, since Hongshi's words just now were practically saying that "anyone who doesn't kill off the old council is a good person." What she sensed from her words wasn't Hongshi's low standards of good and evil, but rather a kind of mad, reckless abandon.

Hong Shi gave up on comforting Qian Chan, because the more she tried to comfort her, the more she felt that she was mentally unstable.

"However, it's quite strange that the summoning of the God of Darkness suddenly failed..."

Yuanxing said, "I originally thought it was Sister Hongshi who took some action in secret, but judging from Sister Hongshi's appearance, could it be someone like Anlian or Yuying?"

"Impossible. If they could fight over something like this, that would be the second luckiest thing in the world. No one but me would care about something like this. It's probably just that the summoning magic failed by chance."

"I know about this. It was Master who handled it, because I saw it."

Hong Shi tilted her head, wondering how Ling Xing knew about this, even though she herself didn't know.

Seeing Hongshi's confused look, Lingxing tapped her forehead, and a beam of light projected from her forehead onto the wall next to her, displaying a video.

The video showed Crimson World taking a nap. She was lying in bed in her pajamas, fast asleep, showing no signs of having anything to do with preventing the summoning of the God of Darkness. Just as everyone was wondering about this, they suddenly saw Crimson World sit up, raise her hand and draw a circle in the air. The circle flashed and disappeared instantly, and then Crimson World lay back down to continue sleeping.

Others didn't know what the circle was, but Yuanxing had used it many times and quickly recognized it: "That circle is the Invincible Shield. Sister Hongshi, why did you summon the Invincible Shield? Where did you send it?"

Looking at the video, Hong Shi pondered in silence, then said uncertainly, "I seem to remember it. A shield was deployed on the Earth's surface, blocking something from getting in. I thought I was dreaming, but it turns out it was real."

Miss Hongshi breathed a sigh of relief, picked up her coffee cup, and exclaimed in celebration: "Excellent! All the mysteries of this incident have been solved. Let's celebrate the successful completion of Starlight Magic Co., Ltd.'s first cleaning mission!"

There's a problem!

Why can someone suddenly wake up while sleeping and resolve a world-class crisis? After resolving the crisis, they have no reaction whatsoever and continue sleeping? Most importantly, they have absolutely no recollection of resolving the crisis and need someone to remind them; if the little girl hadn't pointed it out, they wouldn't have remembered it at all.

Before Yuanxing could ask a question, the interior of the Demon Realm suddenly darkened, and the sky changed color, becoming a starry sky dotted with countless stars.

Under the glow of the stars, the interior of the Demon Realm, though dim, still possessed a luminous quality, creating a tranquil and timeless atmosphere that made one want to lie down and admire the starlight in the sky.

Yuanxing suddenly realized that the cafe inside the cafe had been transformed into a planetarium, and all the sofas had been replaced with beanbag chairs, the kind of sofas that would instantly make you feel lazy and unwilling to move once you lay down on them.

"Today's theme is starlight, which was specially prepared for you."

Hongshi said, "I wanted to hold a celebration party when you first defeated a large monster, but I didn't expect it to be delayed until today. Now that Qianchan has officially rejoined the team, it's time to hold this celebration party. From now on, you will go further as an official magical girl company."

"We need to release an album so everyone knows about us. But before that, we need to hold a concert. Sister Hong Shi, would you like to come to the concert?"

Should I go to the concert?

Hongshi was slightly tempted. Singing on stage was something that magical girls of her generation had never experienced. Now that she had the opportunity, she thought it wouldn't hurt to participate: "Perfect timing, Lingxing also said she wanted to sing before."

"Lingxing?"

In an instant, Yuanxing recalled the image of the pink-haired little girl who had made her feel so familiar: "Is it that little girl from before? The more people there are at the concert, the happier we'll be! I'm sure we'll be especially happy then! I can already picture the excited expressions on the audience's faces."

After greeting Yuanxing, he happily gathered with his friends to admire the starry sky above, which, though artificial, was still beautiful enough.

But while admiring the starry sky, a thought that had previously subsided resurfaced in Yuanxing's mind: the matter of her savior. Perhaps the person who helped her back then wasn't from Chaoxia's side? She couldn't be sure before, but now it seemed different. That little girl named Lingxing possessed the magic to extract her memories and create images. What if she asked Lingxing to create images of her memories as well?

Or perhaps she learned this magic herself, extracted the memories from that time, and created images, thus knowing what happened back then.

However, there's no rush to ask Lingxing for help. For now, it's enough to simply accept Hongshi's kindness and enjoy the beautiful starry sky.

Chapter 118 Even though he saved the world, he still wants to go back to school.

Although Yuanxing wanted to learn the magic of extracting memories and creating images from Lingxing immediately, he couldn't find Lingxing when the celebration party ended, so he had to give up that idea for the time being.

No matter which side the team members are on, they have been away from home for quite some time. They must go home tonight, otherwise they will be mistaken for Starlight Magic Co., Ltd., a black-hearted company that only exploits its employees and must give its employees enough vacation time.

Therefore, Yuanxing, as the person in charge of the company, announced: "The company will not be open for work for the next week!"

Ye Liu said, "But we still have to go to school and make up for what we missed during this period."

Yuanxing frowned. She felt that Ye Liu's words were not right, not right at all. Everything he said seemed wrong, and she wanted to refute them but couldn't.

“Me,” Yuanxing pointed to himself, “I just finished a long business trip and incidentally participated in saving the world. No, I’ve saved the world several times before, so defeating the witch counts as saving the world, right?”

Ye Liu nodded: "That's absolutely right. Defeating the witch is indeed a way to save the world."

"I saved the world, so why should I go back to school? Is that reasonable?!"

Qingyin asked, "So your highest level of education is high school, which you dropped out of?"

Yuanxing hesitated; she absolutely did not want her final degree to be a high school dropout.

Mi You chimed in, "You can read - Yi Jiu! Qi Lu 9 Yin Shan Yu Li go into the entertainment industry. It's normal to drop out of high school in the entertainment industry. It's not bad to be the first person to enter the entertainment industry after dropping out of high school."

Qianchan joined in the teasing: "Or you could transfer to Paradise. Paradise originally started operating the entertainment industry because they were worried that the magical girls would be too busy with their magical girl work and their grades would be too bad to find good jobs."

The amusement park is indeed a good company, and Anlian is indeed a good superior. On the contrary, Momomo doesn't care about anything and just slacks off in all sorts of ways.

Forget it, there's no point in continuing to think about this.

Yuanxing punched Qianchan: "Seriously, even a senior like you jokes with me like this. And you have no right to say that to me, you've fallen behind in far more courses than me, how can you catch up?"

"Of course, no problem, and I will continue to get first place in the school year."

"I can't pretend I didn't hear what you just said."

Ye Liu was quite dissatisfied: "I will definitely be the top student this year."

Qianchan nodded, encouraging Ye Liu, "Go for it, you can do it!"

She didn't care at all. Ye Liu usually rotates between the third, fourth, and fifth grades, and rarely even gets second place. Saying that he wants to be number one is just a coincidence, something that's appropriate to say in that particular setting.

Yuanxing just felt that magical girls these days were really miserable. They had to fight monsters, do jobs, save the world, and compete in exams. Weren't the tasks of magical girls a bit too heavy? But Yuanxing didn't really have any intention of dropping out of school. There wasn't any particular reason. It was just that if she went out now and told older girls that she was a current high school girl, she could tell them that she was a current college girl in the future. She felt that she would be more popular.

"See you tomorrow."

They said goodbye to each other and went their separate ways.

In the very end, Qianchan glanced at Lingling. Lingling didn't object to the arrangement, even though she knew perfectly well that Yuanxing lived in the same building as her, she didn't react at all. That kind of composure was the kind that only the winner, the one who had completely and utterly symbolized victory, possessed, stemming from a deep confidence in herself that she would never lose, just like what she had just said to Yeliu.

Because there is absolutely no worry, there is that sense of ease.