Is it only magical girls?

"Fairy, I wish that this song would be streamed live worldwide."

The elven maids responded in unison, "This kind of wish made for someone else doesn't really count as a wish, but we'll help anyway."

Make a wish...

I can't use it all up...

Chapter 20 Why Play Spring Shadows?

I see your fear, I see your confusion. Tell me your pain, and I will drive them away.

I am your North Star; I will guide you, I will lead you, and I will protect you.

Qianchan happened to pass by a home appliance store and saw her childhood sweetheart singing a mournful song on the television. Even without thinking about the background of her singing, Qianchan knew that it was a song sung for her.

The television screen showed the remaining five members of the club. This didn't meet Qianchan's expectations, but it wasn't beyond her expectations either. Yuanxing always managed to handle everything perfectly. Yuanxing never doubted what she said, whether it was a forced statement or something said out of spite. Yuanxing always believed her without hesitation, providing her with confidence and courage.

Qianchan subconsciously placed her hand on the glass, watching the image on the television move closer and closer, then pressed her forehead against the glass as well. (II) Three-Step Chess Shirt 2

In her heart, a voice was screaming: Turn back! Turn back! Turn back!

The sound was like a raging storm, like the roar of the waves. Before that sound, she was nothing more than a small boat, yet she still had the confidence to face the challenge head-on.

"I can't turn back."

Qianchan took a deep breath, turned around and left. She walked faster and faster until she was running away with all her might.

I am your North Star; when you are lost in the darkness, I am your direction, ensuring you don't lose your way.

Don't be confused, don't shy away, don't run away, I'm ready for everything.

No matter how she tried to escape, the sound kept ringing in her ears. She was completely enveloped by the singing, lost in a state of ecstasy. She bit her lip, trying to hold back her emotions, and looked up, slightly bewildered, to find that everything around her had transformed into a scene of distant stars singing. The televisions on the street, the restaurant billboards, the projected screens in the mall, the videos on passersby's phones, even…

The moon in the night sky has become a media player, playing a video of distant stars singing.

Even in the darkest night, I will stay by your side. I will protect you, just as you protect me.

Don't rush, don't worry, don't be afraid, I will come to your side.

Qianchan covered her ears tightly. Every lyric was a question piercing her heart, spoken softly and sincerely, yet utterly devastating. It made her want to go home right now, knock on Yuanxing's door, apologize to her, and recount her foolish actions over the past few days.

But she couldn't. She absolutely couldn't tell Yuanxing about this. Precisely because Yuanxing would always help her, she couldn't tell Yuanxing. She had to protect Yuanxing.

Just cover your ears and stop listening; just harden your heart.

But at this moment, the relaxation seemed to have encountered some kind of mishap. On the screen, Yuanxing, having finished her song, burst into tears: "Why wouldn't you tell me? Do you think I can't help you? Is it because I'm incapable of helping you? Or is it because I'm not worthy of your trust? Why did you disappear like this?!"

Club member Qi Er0 quickly put down his instrument to comfort Yuanxing, but as Yuanxing continued to cry, the crying did not decrease; instead, it grew louder and louder, and more and more individuals began to cry. All five magical girls started to wail loudly.

Qianchan felt the roar in her heart had turned into a wail, the pain so intense that she could hardly breathe, but she knew deep down that she could never turn back.

At that time, there was only one thing I could do: run.

Run, run, run! As long as you run, you can leave the pain behind and leave all the confusion and bewilderment behind. Only by running can you leave everything behind.

Qianchan's escape came to an abrupt halt. Just as she was about to collide with a certain girl, the girl dodged her and then threw her in the waist.

The moment Qianchan, lying on the ground, saw the girl's face clearly, her heart stopped in fear. All her screams, cries, and pain vanished, replaced by courage and fighting spirit, because this girl was the sole reason she disbanded the club.

That happened not long ago. Her guild had just defeated a large monster, and everything seemed to be going smoothly. But she noticed that a significant portion of the evil energy from the defeated monster hadn't been converted into pure magic; instead, it had flown off in a certain direction. To confirm this, she sent out her familiar to investigate, and the girl who had taken away the evil energy, as seen through the familiar, was now right before her eyes.

The girl was dressed in a beautiful white Lolita-style dress, with waist-length twin ponytails in the Lolita style, adorned with hair accessories such as butterflies and flowers. Her red eyes looked Qian Chan up and down, and she smiled: "What a reckless little rabbit. Your eyes are so red and swollen from crying. How pitiful."

As she spoke, the girl reached out to Qianchan, pulled her up from the ground, and took out a tissue to carefully wipe her face.

Qianchan tried to push the girl's hand away, but the girl grabbed it and said, "Be good, don't make a fuss, I'll clean it for you right away."

The girl asked with concern, "Running around in the street so late all alone, did you have a fight with your family? What happened? Do you want me to talk to you? Or should I take you home?"

Qianchan remained silent, biting her lip tightly.

"Let go! Your lip is bleeding from biting it, why are you still biting it? Seriously, can't you take better care of your appearance?"

The girl didn't hold back at all, grabbing Qianchan's mouth so she couldn't bite her own lip anymore, and asked in an even more forceful manner, "Tell me, why did you run away?"

Qianchan looked aggrieved, her eyes brimming with tears: "I wanted to be a magical girl, but my mom didn't agree, so..."

This claim is a complete lie. Chichan's family is a prestigious magical girl family; their ancestor a hundred years ago was even one of the original six magical girls, Tsukuyomi. In her generation, she is the fifth incarnation of Tsukuyomi. This is why Chichan is so determined to investigate the girl before her. As a magical girl symbolizing love, peace, and justice, as the most magical of magical girls, she has a duty to find out the truth.

And she had an even more terrifying thought in her mind—

This Lolita girl wasn't collecting the evil thoughts of monsters there, but rather recycling them. The reason monsters keep appearing might be because certain magical girls are secretly releasing them. After all, magical girls only have a reason to exist if monsters keep appearing. It's not hard to understand why some magical girls would do such bad things; but what if Paradise is also involved?

For these reasons, she didn't even dare to ask Hongshi for help, after all, it wasn't impossible for Momomo to do such a thing.

All of this could not possibly be told to Yuanxing. She was different from Yuanxing; she was the most magical of magical girls. If the magical girl system had truly become a system for creating monsters on its own, then she had the obligation to end it all.

Lolita's expression softened further: "You want to be a magical girl? Then come to the amusement park! We welcome all magical girls."

Chapter 21: I Feel Like a Crying Star

Yuanxing stared at his video, speechless for a long moment before realizing, "Why was even the last part where I cried broadcast?!"

"That's where the essence lies."

The elven maids cheered and, like ballet dancers taking turns, performed a passionate swan dance.

Qingyin also questioned, "Then you should only send messages to distant stars, why send messages to us too?! Whether we cry or not, does Qianchan not care?"

"That's hard to say."

The elven maids kept repeating this phrase, each one more excited than before.

Qingyin sighed and began to convince herself, "Look on the bright side, at least this time I've become famous."

Mi You asked, "What does Ling Ling think?"

"From now on, wherever I go, people will point at me and say: Look, these are the five who burst into tears on live stream around the world."

That's so well said!

Miyu clutched her stomach and laughed heartily, laughing so hard she pounded the wall and banged her head. She quickly recovered and said, "There's another good thing: it's us magical girls who are crying, so they won't recognize us as ordinary people at a glance."

Hong Shi added fuel to the fire, saying, "You should look on the bright side. Qian Chan must have seen the live broadcast of her singing and crying. You all think that Qian Chan had no choice but to leave you, so she must have broken down now and is crying like you. It can be considered your revenge."

Yuanxing pouted: "Sister Hongshi, really. We want her to come back, not to take revenge on her, nor do we want to see her break down. Making her cry is not our intention either, right?"

Lingling wanted to say: "That was wrong, that was my intention."

But Qingyin was quick and covered it up.

Miss Qingyin has three annoying things: first, Yuanxing foolishly asks others for their opinions; second, Miyou cheekily asks Lingling for her opinion; and third, Lingling's loud and rambling remarks.

Yuanxing said, "Disband today? We'll start a simulation battle against large monsters tomorrow. If the simulation battle goes well, we can start searching for and fighting large monsters."

Everyone naturally had no problem with Yuanxing's proposal.

After leaving the Demon Demon Demon, everyone went their separate ways, except for Lingling who followed Yuanxing directly.

Yuanxing asked, "Lingling, is there something you want to say?"

Lingling shook her head.

"So you want to come home with me?"

Lingling nodded.

Yuanxing rubbed her eyes, which were red and swollen from crying: "You're worried about me? Sure, since you're so worried about me, I can't refuse."

Lingling's heart was bursting with joy, and she was almost able to show it on her face.

Then Yuanxing called out into the distance, "Yeliu! Lingling is staying at my house tonight, are you coming?"

Do I need to think about this?

"I'll go! I'll go! Of course I'll go!"

Ye Liu spun around in place, going from a brisk walk to a jog and then to a sprint, as if afraid that Yuan Xing would walk too fast and leave her behind.

Yuanxing then asked, "Where are Qingyin and Miyou?"

Qingyin and Miyou did the same, except that when they walked towards the distant star, their pace was normal and they did not speed up, and they had completed the convergence beforehand.

Qingyin whispered to each other, "Do you think she genuinely doesn't understand or is she pretending? I initially thought she was genuinely clueless, but now I think..."

"A little rascal, or maybe a little idiot, but if he's a little rascal, I can accept him."

What can you say? How did you suddenly become one? I witnessed the faction shift with my own eyes? So now our club has four Star Party members? Only I'm not? Why is this happening? Is it because of some kind of black magic? It makes sense that magical girls would use black magic, so if that's the case, I'll be a Star Party member right away too? Is it too late to quit now?

Yuanxing had a sudden inspiration: "How about we go to the senior's house? If we go there, it will be as if the senior is still here, which means all six of us will be together."

Qingyin's mind was filled with question marks: Are you sick? This is the first time I've ever heard of a club member breaking into someone else's house to spend the night. But it's so outrageous that I don't need to refute it; others will have their own opinions.

Ye Liu, as the chief echo of Yuanxing, immediately expressed his approval: "Okay, I think it's acceptable."

Mi You said nonchalantly, "I don't care. It's not the first time I've stayed at Qian Chan's house. It's more natural than staying at Yuan Xing's house."

Huh? Everyone's sure? Only I'm saying no? So I'm the one who's crazy?

Qingyin looked at Lingling, wanting to know what Lingling Siling and Qilin were talking about.

Lingling was busy pondering a timeless problem: She knew Yuanxing and Qianchan met in third grade, and that Yuanxing and Lingling met in their first year of high school. The difference in the number of years they knew each other was six. Subtracting the evenings they couldn't be together, that's four years, or 1460 days, or 35040 hours. Since they were in different classes, they couldn't be together. Roughly estimating, after subtracting school time, that leaves 27000 hours, roughly three years. This means that if she spent three years with Yuanxing, although difficult, it wasn't entirely impossible to catch up? In other words, the first thing she needed to do was transfer to Yuanxing's class!

No one spoke, and Qingyin didn't intend to speak either, so she followed Yuanxing.

However, Qingyin was quite happy when she entered the room because she was in charge of unlocking the door. Although this kind of lock, which only keeps out gentlemen, was a bit easy to open, she was still very happy.

It was getting late, and the girls who entered Qianchan's house immediately began setting up makeshift beds on the floor. Qianchan's house had specially prepared makeshift beds for club members to stay overnight, and all kinds of equipment were readily available. Yuanxing felt that choosing to stay overnight at Qianchan's house was a very wise decision, since her own house lacked these things, and if she stayed overnight, she would have to move everything from Qianchan's house to her own home. It was much more convenient to use these things at Qianchan's house to set up makeshift beds.

After lying down on the floor, Yuanxing looked at the ceiling and murmured, "Generally speaking, the nights of a training camp should involve some fun activities such as pillow fights, horror stories, and love stories."

Qingyin immediately objected: "I'm very tired today, please don't do it."

"Don't interrupt me, that's exactly what I was going to say. Everyone's tired today, so let's not waste any more energy with activities. But in return, I'm going to give everyone a goodnight kiss before bed! Starting with Aon!"

are you crazy?

Just as Qingyin was about to escape, she discovered that Yuanxing had already attacked, pinning Yuanxing to the spot. Facing the attack, Qingyin struggled desperately with both hands and feet, shouting, "Shut up! Do you want to create more life again?"

"Sister Hong said there's no need to worry if you don't have those kinds of thoughts."

"You guy!"

Yuanxing and Qingyin are roughly equal in strength, and the two are locked in a stalemate. Without a third party, the outcome would be uncertain for the time being.

But a third party was present; Lingling held down Qingyin's hand, preventing her from struggling any longer.

"Ling Ling?"

"Hurry up, I'm still in line."

Qingyin accepted her predetermined fate; after all, she had been kissed on the forehead. She turned her head, intending to see who else would accept her miserable fate. Then she discovered that Ye Liu and Mi You had fallen asleep the moment their heads hit the pillows, which only fueled her anger. She staggered to her feet, grabbed a lipstick, and drew the word "useless" on Ye Liu's forehead and a little turtle on Mi You's face before finally feeling satisfied.

Chapter 22 I'm Going to Bomb the School, the Teacher Doesn't Know

Going to school is really an unhappy thing. Doing the same thing every day is so boring. But if the school is attacked by monsters, that's a different story.

An attack on a school is a completely different story; it's something that brings joy.

Especially considering the attack on the school was by a monster. This monster had a head that resembled both a dragon and a snake, a hairy body like spider legs, and writhed in place like boneless vines, but did nothing else besides writhing. It was truly impossible to define what this thing was. Considering that the monster emerged from underground, it was impossible to determine its exact size, but it was certain that it far exceeded the limit of a large monster; it was a colossal monster.

Even when Qianchan was around, the highest challenge was against large monsters, while super-large monsters...

It's never something a team of magical girls can challenge alone!

The city where Yuanxing lives has a population of around five million. Every year, more than three thousand large monsters are hunted down, averaging eight large monsters born and hunted down every day in various parts of the city. As for super-large monsters like these, the number hunted down each year has never exceeded ten, ultimately because ordinary people simply do not have the malice to create super-large monsters.

The moment the colossal monster appeared, chaos erupted inside the classroom, but under the teacher's guidance, things quickly returned to normal, and people began to evacuate the school one after another.

Yuanxing peered out the window at the colossal monster. She had no intention of retreating, but neither did she plan to directly attack it. Even charging headlong into a large monster could be considered reckless, but against a colossal monster, that would be suicidal. She wanted to continue being a magical girl, not die right now. The place she needed to be was the magical girl club room; only there could she reunite with her companions.

Yuanxing rushed towards the club activity room. She was the first to arrive, but the others were not far behind and soon they met up.

Without the slightest hesitation, Miyu decisively suggested, "Let's retreat! Let the giant monster demolish the school. We can take a vacation until we successfully defeat it. According to management, we can get at least a week off!"

“I’m telling you,” Ye Liu turned to her, “we’re magical girls, okay? Are you saying we, as magical girls, are going to run away now?”

"Bottom Magical Girl".

"She has defeated at least one large monster, so she should be considered a mid-level magical girl."

"The same goes for mid-level magical girls. There's no reason for them to fight super-large monsters, is there? Fighting super-large monsters is the job of the elite magical girl squads in the park. I have no intention of recklessly going in there. The level of danger is too high."

Ye Liu sighed: "Weren't you very enthusiastic when we were fighting large monsters before?"

“Back then it was because—” Miyu’s voice trailed off, and she changed her words: “That’s because I thought we could win. I didn’t think anything unexpected would happen back then.”

Qingyin tried to dissuade her: "Fighting against a super-large monster is indeed too dangerous—"