Is it only magical girls?

Yuanxing was taken aback: "Huh?"

Ye Liu was equally surprised: "Why are you saying this? Do you think Yuanxing doesn't recognize me?"

Yuanxing nodded: "I really didn't recognize you, you're much prettier than before."

Ye Liu's mood was like a roller coaster, one second he was plummeting to the bottom and the next he was soaring to the top, beaming with joy but somewhat at a loss.

Does this person really know nothing? Or could it be that they actually know the answer deep down?

Yuanxing asked, "Why is Yeliu dressed like this? And what are those bandages on his hands?"

Ye Liu grabbed Yuan Xing's shoulder and shook him hard: "I've started learning close-range magic. I'll protect Yuan Xing until Qian Chan comes back. I'll make sure the club runs smoothly."

Huh?

"With just the five of us, we can keep the club running. Once the club is stable, we'll start looking for Qianchan. We must find her. Joining the club isn't so easy; you'll also have to endure the torture of three cuts and six holes."

What is the punishment of "three cuts and six holes"?

Yuanxing looked at Qingyin, puzzled, hoping to get an answer from her.

But Qingyin didn't know what the "three cuts and six holes" punishment was either, and shook her head in confusion.

What is the punishment of "three cuts and six holes"?

“I’ve only ever seen this word in novels,” Ye Liu replied. “I think it’s something like breaking someone’s leg.”

Yuanxing understood: "No matter what, inflicting the three cuts and six holes on the senior was too much, but it is indeed necessary to find the senior and have a good talk with her."

As she spoke, Yuanxing subconsciously tightened her grip on her wand. A magical girl's conversation is never just about words. A magical girl's conversation always involves a magical clash, knocking the other down before they even begin to talk.

Yuanxing isn't thinking about optimizing Yeliu anymore, because Yeliu wants to find his senior sister again, who is a good partner!

Qingyin agreed: "We really should have a proper talk. When we disbanded before, Qianchan's aura was too strong, and I was completely overwhelmed by her. I forgot that we were a magical girl club, and I thought we were a music club or something. I completely forgot to talk about it."

"Don't be upset, Aone. I was the same way. I completely forgot that I was a magical girl."

We don't leave the magical girl club so easily. If you want to leave the magical girl club simply, you have to have a serious talk with us unless you are over twenty-two years old and graduating.

Yuanxing's thinking underwent a complete and thorough 180-degree change: "After that, we'll find Lingling too, and then each of us will learn a little more of other types of magic so that we can unleash 120% of our abilities without any problem."

“But…” Qingyin blinked: “Didn’t you say before that you didn’t want to be in the same club as Lingling?”

Qingyin glanced at Ye Liu with a guilty conscience. Considering that Ye Liu was there, she didn't dare to mention that Yuanxing had said he wanted to optimize the three people.

"I was so shocked when my senior left the club that I didn't perform well."

"So you mean to bring Qianchan back, and then have her quit again to give you another chance to perform?"

Hmm? Is that what I meant?

Yuanxing kept blinking. She felt her brain short-circuiting, and her eyes were getting redder and redder. It looked like her brain was overloaded and about to release infrared rays.

Yuanxing closed her eyes, stopping the infrared rays from building up, and banished Qingyin's silly words from her mind. Her thoughts drifted back to a few days ago: "We should have acted directly back then. Why did we stupidly watch her walk away?" Yuanxing rubbed her head vigorously: "If we had acted directly and stopped her then, we wouldn't be in this mess now! Even if we had to break her legs, we should have kept her here! We're not musicians who can only watch helplessly as our members scatter. We may be a club, but we're magical girls! Magical girl clubs have their own ways of solving problems. Anyone who wants to leave the club must first ask my magical cannon for permission!"

Ye Liu clapped enthusiastically: "Yes! That's it! That's what a magical girl should be like! That's what a club should be like! It's not too late to start thinking about this now. No matter what her reason for leaving the club is, we'll see her eventually. Then we'll break her legs and listen to her appeal."

"Breaking the leg is fine, really, we should just leave it at that." Qingyin waved her hands repeatedly, desperately trying to dissuade her. "Just tethering it with a chain is enough. There's no need to break the leg. That's going too far. It would take too much time to heal it."

Yuanxing thought about it and felt that Qingyin's words made a lot of sense. She then put forward a new and more constructive suggestion: "Wouldn't magical girls use barriers? Keeping people inside barriers would fit the feeling of a magical girl."

This suggestion received unanimous praise from Aon and Yoru. Yoru thought it was very club-like, while Aon thought it was very magical girl-like.

After his suggestion was unanimously praised, Yuanxing continued to advance the topic: "Then the next step is to bring Lingling back to the team. We'll use bringing Lingling back as a rehearsal for bringing our senior back."

"I have no opinion."

Qingyin asked, "Where can we look for her? She hasn't come to school these past few days."

"Senior went missing and didn't even go home. Lingling shouldn't be like her, not even knowing where she's supposed to go home, right?"

"Where does she live?"

The three looked at each other, none of them knowing the answer.

But that didn't matter. Yuanxing quickly came up with a new solution: "It doesn't matter if we don't know, the school definitely does. We can just go to the school and take a look."

Will they tell us about this kind of privacy?

Yuanxing said, "We can just steal it in the middle of the night."

Ye Liu hesitated slightly: "A magical girl stealing things is a bit..."

"That's wrong!"

Qingyin retorted loudly: "Although theft is a violation of the law, as long as the purpose is correct and kind, theft has its legitimacy. Defeating a corrupt system with corrupt methods and confronting the whole society with a rebellious spirit, this is what is called a chivalrous thief or a phantom thief. Although chivalrous thieves and phantom thieves violate human principles, as long as their actions are based on good intentions, uphold justice, punish evil, help others, and follow the principle of giving to the needy, then although they violate human principles, they are in accordance with the way of heaven and are thoroughly good deeds."

Yuanxing listened, but didn't understand: "What do you mean?"

Ye Liu said, "She said it's okay for magical girls to steal things."

"Oh!"

Chapter 11 The Eleven Heavenly Paths

If it's for a just cause, magical girls can rightfully steal; it's the way of heaven!

Although he had this idea as the basis for his actions, when it came to the actual operation, Ye Liu still didn't dare to move at all. He looked like a puppet, frozen there like a tree.

Although it was Yuanxing who suggested stealing, her condition was only slightly better than Yeliu's; her movements were as stiff as a little turtle.

Qingyin was different. She proposed the theory and was also its practitioner. She was so enthusiastic that she didn't need anyone to say anything. She directly set about destroying the school gate.

The school's main gate is of course fenced, but this kind of gate is basically only good for keeping honest people out, not scoundrels; it's easy to climb over it.

However, Qingyin refused to climb over the fence. Instead, she stood in front of it and tried to open the fence with playing cards she somehow produced. And instead of inserting the cards into the keyhole or brushing them against something, she threw them at the fence, intending to use magic to open it.

"Open sesame!"

Aon's first attempt at casting the Locking Magic ended in failure.

"Open the pumpkin!"

The same thing happened the second time.

"Open the milk tea shop!"

The third attempt also failed.

Because of Qingyin's comical appearance, Yuanxing somewhat forgot that she was about to sneak into the school to steal. She swaggered towards the gate and pushed it twice: "Is it really necessary to use magic? If I push this gate hard like this—"

Yuanxing didn't push hard; she just gently piled it up, and then the gate collapsed into the school.

Caught off guard, Yuanxing fell down along with the gate. In that instant, Yeliu, who had been like a wooden puppet, sprang into action, grabbing Yuanxing's hand with lightning speed and pulling her into his arms: "I told you I would protect Yuanxing."

You pulled this trick? You weren't like this before.

Qianchan, come back quickly! There's a cow! I'm not strong enough to protect it!

Qingyin was inwardly turbulent, but outwardly remained calm as she silently put away her playing cards: "The fence collapsing must be due to the power of my magic. The fence will attract the security guards, so let's hurry into the school."

"Transform!"

Aon's magical girl form is blue and white, with a white-dominantly blue short-sleeved top and a blue-dominantly white short skirt. Aon's magical girl form is adorned with many sacred accessories, such as crosses, magatama, peace locks, and peaches, which add a sense of holiness to her form.

Qingyin said, "You should all transform too."

"Well..."

Both Farstar and Nightfall strongly resisted, and had no desire to transform into a magical girl.

Aone said, "If I transform into a magical girl, even if someone finds out, they'll think I'm doing something righteous, and nobody will really care."

Yuanxing and Yeliu exchanged a glance and made their final choice: not to transform.

Yuanxing said, "I think it's enough for Qingyin to transform by herself; we don't need to."

"As you wish."

With time pressing and no time to waste, Qingyin quickly started running.

Their school is a super-college that includes elementary, middle, high school, and university levels, separated only by wrought iron fences. While the students are separated, the data remains; all the data is stored in the university's data center. This data center houses not only student information but also the university's research materials.

Although all we wanted was information on high school students, we had to go to the university's data center to obtain it.

Ye Liu felt increasingly uneasy: "I think I've made a mistake. After all, getting into a university's data center is quite difficult. Maybe I should ask a teacher?"

Yuanxing said, "But when I was investigating my senior, the teacher told me that I should solve the problem myself. Solving problems by my own strength is the way a magical girl grows up."

"that's right!"

Qingyin nodded, affirming what Yuanxing had said: "The data center isn't difficult either. I know exactly where the entrance from the high school area to the university area is. We can just enter the university area from there."

Yuanxing and Yeliu had no objections and followed Qingyin toward the iron gate between the residential areas.

Seeing Qingyin struggling with the door lock, Ye Liu asked again, "Wasn't it better if we just went straight in from the university area? Was it really necessary to come in from the high school area and then switch to the university area later if we were in a hurry?"

"Ye Liu is clumsy. If he's found out he came from high school, he can just say he forgot something in the classroom. But that won't work in university."

Ye Liu scratched his head and gave a silly, goofy smile.

Qingyin turned to look at her and echoed Yuanxing's words, "Ye Liu is really stupid."

"what?"

Ye Liu's attitude instantly changed 180 degrees: "During the midterm exams, you were ranked behind me. Me, stupid? If I'm stupid, then what are you? Hmm?"

So fierce! And it even made a "hmm" sound! It was terrifying!

But it's so great! This is the Starry Night Candy! I'll ship Starry Night Candy too, I'll ship any candy I want.

In a mere second, Qingyin forgave Yeliu, betrayed Qianchan, understood Xingye, and accepted everything, wholeheartedly beginning to crack the door lock.

The locks here were completely different from before; for some reason, they had extremely complicated and constantly updated anti-theft magic arrays. The ever-changing anti-theft magic arrays repeatedly thwarted Qingyin's attempts to crack them, but this only fueled her fighting spirit.

"What a versatile little cutie! Which prestigious family does she come from? She's so adorable. Since I'm so eager to see her, could you at least let me peek inside?"

Yuanxing and Yeliu exchanged a glance, then took two steps back together, increasing the distance between themselves and Qingyin.

"I've found your core, you're so beautiful and lovely. Now, how shall I enjoy you?"

Yuanxing and Yeliu exchanged another glance, and almost simultaneously transformed, leaping over the fence from the air. Seeing the fence separating Qingyin on the other side, both of them showed relieved expressions.

"I swear to give you endless love forever, I will never betray you, and I promise you this for the rest of my life that I will never regret it."

Then···

The magical seal on the door has been broken.

Qingyin wiped the sweat from her forehead and stood up with satisfaction: "This barrier is unusual, but I managed to break it after all."

Only then did she realize that her companions had all run to the other side: "Why did you fly over there? Couldn't you have waited for me to unlock it? I don't feel accomplished at all doing this."

Yuanxing said, "I was going to wait for you to unlock it, but you're a bit scary."

Ye Liu nodded: "What you said was very frightening."

Qingyin smiled sheepishly and stuck out her tongue awkwardly: "Do I talk when I unlock a door? I didn't even know that."

Chapter 12. Believe in Qingyin, or at least believe in me who believes in Qingyin.

Did I say that?

Qingyin had no memory of what she had just done, but seeing the very affirmative nod, she had to admit it.

Qingyin felt she needed to make amends, so she immediately turned back to Suo and said, "What I just said was all a joke. I don't even know what I said. I hope you don't mind. Please, please, I've never liked you. How could I possibly like you?"

Yuanxing raised an eyebrow: "Isn't it unnecessary to say that to Suo?"

Ye Liu said, "Even if you said that, it doesn't mean you didn't say that just now."

"You're so annoying."

Qingyin ended the conversation and continued walking towards the data center building where her target was located.

The campus was dimly lit, and there seemed to be few people around, so there was no need to worry about being discovered.

That's strange.

Almost the instant Yuanxing had this thought, a magical girl suddenly appeared in mid-air. She was dressed in a swallowtail dress, holding a short cane in her left hand and a top hat in her right, and looked down at him with a cold laugh: "Where did this little mouse come from!"

The top hat flies around, tumbling up and down, and six circular saw blades fly out from it, moving closer and further away from the top hat. The top hat and the circular saws even appear and switch positions, making it extremely difficult to avoid them.

However, they could choose to fly. The three of them flew into the air to avoid the combined attack from the top hat and the circular saw.

However, this dodging method was completely within the swallowtail's expectations. The top hat flapped open, and countless white doves flew out and attacked Qingyin.

Ye Liu flashed past, throwing a series of punches in front of Yuanxing to guard against any possible attacks from the white doves, but she quickly realized that no white doves were attacking at all. Or rather, all the white doves were attacking Qingyin, showing no interest in the two of them. Thinking about it carefully, the magical girl's initial comment about "a little mouse coming from somewhere" was clearly directed at Qingyin.