Give children a little self-destruction shock to their worldview.

Suddenly, there was a rapid knocking at the door. The loud, boisterous voice startled everyone just by coming from outside.

"Lania! Don't stay indoors all day researching potions, let's go see some fun!" the young girl said.

Lania herself only paused for a moment, and Kagura Yu could sense the indifferent boredom in her heart, knowing that this person named Lania had no interest in joining in the fun.

[Lania] continued processing the materials in her hands. She used a small knife to peel the material, and the dark outer skin that was peeled off looked like charcoal, but the inside was soft, as red as a tomato, and even had a steaming, flowing center.

Actually, saying it looks like a tomato is more accurate than saying it looks like "blood," but Kagura Yu herself clearly didn't think of it that way.

Lania didn't move, but just continued to process the Bloodheart Wood in her hands.

However, the girl's next words surprised her so much that she accidentally cut her thumb.

"That's a Guardian, aren't you going to go see him, Lania?"

—Guardians?

Lania was momentarily stunned, not even having time to consider that the precious materials were now unusable after being contaminated by blood. She hurriedly wiped her hands, forgetting to put down the small knife in her hand, and got up to walk out.

As she walked, she pursed her lips, her expression inscrutable.

"There's no such thing as an immortal world agent in this world. Those idiots who went to join in the fun must be out of their minds!" Lania said irritably as she pushed open the door.

This village is home to one of the few remaining descendants of wizards in the world.

As the only beings besides the Guardians who can glean some understanding of the world's consciousness, wizards actually share similar responsibilities with the Guardians. Since wizards lack combat abilities, their primary role is to assist the Guardians in maintaining the world's order, employing divination, prophecy, or using witchcraft to bless the Guardians.

However, there are very few people in this world who have the aptitude to be wizards, and aptitude is not inherited through bloodlines. To this day, [Lania] is one of the few people left in the village who can still practice witchcraft.

Moreover, her success rate was not high. The contents of the witchcraft manuals passed down from her ancestors were obscure and difficult to understand. Her parents, who should have taught her, had passed away from serious illness when she was young, so [Lania] had to figure it out on her own.

However, she herself had no intention of becoming a wizard.

What kind of guardian is this?!

Why waste your whole life waiting for a dubious person who may not even exist anymore when you haven't seen one in the village for hundreds of years?

What fueled her deep resentment were her parents' dying words.

The parents, blinded by family responsibilities, didn't leave any words for their daughter. Instead, they instructed her to study witchcraft diligently and to pass it down for the sake of the Guardian.

Since Lania is the only junior in this generation with wizarding qualifications, she has been presumed to be the next village chief and will be confined to this small village for the rest of her life, just so that she can be summoned whenever the guardian arrives.

Lania has no respect for the Guardians.

For her, it was just a distant concept, and her parents ruined her life because of this foolish idea.

After her parents passed away, she blamed the so-called guardians for her inability to leave the village.

And now, a guardian has actually come to visit the Wizarding Village?

【Lania】carrying a knife menacingly, her hands covered in blood, she jogged toward the village entrance, looking like she was going to seek revenge, which startled the girl behind her.

The girl followed her frantically: "Lanya, what are you doing? Put the knife down..."

Lania wasn't so extreme as to stab the Guardian on their very first meeting.

She simply wanted to see what the "destined person" she had been waiting for for nearly twenty years looked like.

If it's one of those frivolous young people... her face darkened.

Two guardians have come to the Wizard Village this time, seeking a divination from a wizard. One of them is enormous, almost as tall as a one-story building, with brown skin and very muscular build; he is likely a hybrid of giant and human. It is said that he visited the village several hundred years ago.

And the other guardian...

Lania squinted as she looked over.

She was a young girl who looked quite young, even more so than the tall guardian. She was slender, with her black hair tied in a small braid. Surrounded by villagers from the wizarding village, she looked a little awkward, only smiling shyly at everyone, like an introverted tourist from somewhere.

But it has to be said that this one is more popular than the seasoned veterans around us, and the young guardians are getting increasingly red-faced.

The wind blew off the other person's hood, exposing the young guardian's face. [Lania] could see the huge wound on the other person's left eye that had not yet fully healed, as well as those beautiful golden eyes.

The other person seemed to notice Lania watching her from afar. After their eyes met, they paused for a moment, then smiled.

The dream abruptly ended there.

Chapter Twenty-Four: I Still Prefer This One

What a strange dream...

When Kagura Yu woke up in the morning, she could still clearly remember what happened in her dream, and she felt that something was very wrong.

I've never seen a similar fantasy movie before, but I can vividly recall every corner of the wizarding village in my dream, as well as the totems and landscapes filled with otherworldly fantasy. Even now, when I think back on it, those details still come to mind.

It felt as if I had actually lived there.

And the face of that guardian lady, because that smile was so unforgettable, is also remembered very clearly.

The fictional characters in my dreams are so vivid... I've never seen anyone with a face like that before.

what on earth is this kind of happenings?

Kagura Yu was completely baffled.

Just then, a knock sounded at the door. After three knocks, the person outside said gently, "Xiaoyou, may I come in?"

Kagura Yu recognized the voice; it was her cousin, Takajo Yuri. Yuri had been visiting her at the hospital whenever she had free time these past few days… Although Yuri’s free time always seemed a bit strange—sometimes she would yawn and say she was going back to sleep at seven in the morning, and other times she would come to the hospital to visit her at five in the morning.

I don't know what their daily routine is.

"Please come in," Kagura Yu said.

Yuri Takajo pushed open the door and came in. She was wearing a school uniform, so she should be going to school after her visit.

Actually, she came over after her night patrol.

Last night, because Hitomi Tono came to the magic clinic to assist in treating the victims of the previous incident, and Rika Sugiyama was also there, only Yuri Takajo was there to maintain magical order all night.

Fortunately, nothing major happened last night. The strange people have been quite well-behaved lately. The only thing to watch out for is the monsters.

After resolving the issues encountered during the night patrol, Yuri Takajo also single-handedly completed most of the preparations for the mirror barrier, making her a true workaholic.

After getting off work, she took out her phone and noticed a message from her cousin saying that there were strange noises coming from the hospital again.

Combining this with the news that Hitomi Tohno went to help out at the magic clinic again, Yuri Takajo: "..."

She knew that the ward her cousin was assigned to did have some soundproofing issues, since it was a place where spatial magic and real space overlapped, and anyone with a high level of inspiration would easily be disturbed by noise.

However, because the senior doctor could help speed up the recovery process, Yuri Takajo advised Kagura to prioritize not changing rooms...

A feeling of guilt welled up inside me.

Feeling guilty, Yuri Takajo went to visit her cousin immediately after finishing her work at the magical girl studio.

To Yuri's surprise, Yu Kagura looked refreshed and had a rosy complexion today, showing no signs of being unable to sleep due to the noise.

"Xiaoyou looks great." Gaojiao Yuri breathed a sigh of relief and was very happy. "I thought you looked terrible because you couldn't sleep."

"Because I fell asleep very quickly last night," Kagura Yu said. "I also had a very strange dream."

A strange dream?

Yuri Takajo was taken aback. She wanted to ask something, but the other person's question interrupted her thoughts.

Yu Kagura, remembering that she would be transferring to her cousin's school after being discharged from the hospital in a couple of days, sat up in bed and leaned forward curiously: "Yuri-nee, can you tell me about school? Does your school really have magical girls?"

Yuri Takajo's smile froze slightly, and she mumbled, "There are magical girls at school... why would you think that?"

"That's what I saw in the online analysis posts, and the weirdo forum I hacked into also said that the magical girl is a student from your middle school." Kagura Yu casually revealed this incredible information.

Oh no, I forgot that this cousin is incredibly well-informed in every sense of the word... No, she's way too well-informed!

Yuri Takajo asked in surprise: "A forum for weirdos?"

Is this forum for the eccentric himself? Or is it just a forum set up by his fans?

"I found this forum one day and spent a lot of effort to kick out the original administrators and hack in. They all seemed to think I was one of them, so they spoke freely in there... Look, even the newly appeared magical girl in this city—although she doesn't look like a magical girl—has a recent photo. Isn't that amazing?"

In a way, it was quite frightening for Kagura Yu to enthusiastically take out her laptop, log onto the forum, and show it to Takajo Yuri.

Before Yuri Takajo could even see the photo clearly, she first noticed Yu Kagura's forum ID: Computer Freak.

Among all the oddballs who use their real names to go online, Kagura Yu's ID is indeed not out of place.

How did this kid manage to sneak in... I, who know absolutely nothing about computers, simply can't figure it out.

Yuri Takajo was so conflicted that she didn't know what to say.

The next second, she noticed the photo on the screen.

That was a sight even the magical girls couldn't capture—the guardian's heroic figure.

Her nimble figure running on the rooftops, the sharp gaze she casts to the side while using a paraglider, and even the helpless expression on the Guardian's face when she is harassed by the magical girl Crimson.

It's quite clear, but the distance is also somewhat subtle.

It's too subtle to be close.

It's as if I happened to be standing next to the Guardian, so I was able to take a picture with a miniature camera.

This is……

Yuri Takajo was shocked.

Kagura Yu also found it a bit strange. She muttered, "This weirdo seems to be a huge fan of the newly appeared magical girl. He spends all day asking on the forum if anyone has found any trace of this magical girl... Some of the angles of the photos are also suspicious."

She sensed something was wrong and frowned: "Is this some kind of stalker? It's a bit scary."

“Indeed…” Yuri Takajo echoed absently.

She stared intently at the Guardian Lady in the picture.

After meeting someone, it's hard not to care about them.

Especially when the other person gives you such a big "surprise" on the first meeting.

Yuri Takajo didn't know how she felt, but she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the other person was unharmed and alive and kicking.

"Yuri-nee, do you like this magical girl too?" Kagura Yu noticed Takajo Yuri's lapse in composure and asked her, resting her chin on her hand.

Takajo Yuri exclaimed in surprise, "Huh? You like it too?"

“She’s really cool, isn’t she?” Kagura Yu said. “Although she doesn’t appear many times, her personal style is completely different from Crimson and Iris, which makes her very memorable.”

Yuri Takajo was both amused and exasperated: "...Which one does Yuu like more?"

“The deep red one is cute, and the iris one is pretty too.” Kagura Yu curled her purple sideburns, her gaze drifting, a little hesitant. “But I still prefer this one.”

Upon closer inspection, this magical girl's eyes look remarkably similar to those of the guardian lady in my dream.

Chapter Twenty-Five: Transfer Students, But Two of Them

During the few days that Mayumi Haga was on high alert, no more insects appeared.

The city remained peaceful as usual, despite the four or five attacks by strange people every day. Overall, it was no different from usual.

Because the monsters attacked just like everyone else, clocking in and out as usual, and in large numbers, the fact that the negative emotion series of monsters hadn't appeared in the public eye for a long time didn't attract much attention.

After all, there are many different kinds of weirdos, and many unexpected weirdos can be born into the world. After experiencing some outrageous attacks such as "the snot-sticking weirdo" or "the coin-falling weirdo", it is normal for some less shocking weirdos to be eliminated from the top tier.

It's just that being a magical girl is tough.

For Mayumi Haga, such a leisurely pace was indeed difficult to adapt to.

This world is always like this: the magical girls who act as guardians always have time to relax and enjoy themselves, and the monsters seem to have conspired to give the magical girls a chance to recuperate and rebuild, never going so far as to completely wipe them out.

Compared to the frequency of enemy attacks in his own world, which were impossible to defend against, this world was indeed far too lax.

But she still didn't understand why the selling point of children's magical girl series included the daily lives of magical girls, which is why most magical girls are still in school.

After all, it's a magical girl story, and it's geared towards children, so it needs to be closer to children's lives and allow them to enjoy a lighthearted and fun story.

While waiting, Mayumi Haga had no choice but to suppress her unease and continue to be vigilant about the impending calamity outside of her daily routine.

Today, two new students transferred to our class.

"A transfer student?" Tono Hitomi, the most lively and cheerful member of the trio, eagerly inquired about everything related to the transfer student, and even pulled Haga Mayumi, who wasn't particularly interested in the transfer student, aside to gossip, "Mayumi, Mayumi, what kind of person do you think the transfer student will be?"

After confirming today's lesson content, Mayumi Haga closed her textbook and said calmly, "I don't know, I've never seen it before."

"I'm not asking if you know or not, guess!" Tono Hitomi persisted, and seeing that Haga Mayumi didn't intend to answer further, she shifted her gaze to Takajo Yuri. "Hey, hey, Yuri, what do you think?"

Yuri Takajo laughed from the side, "They're both girls."

"You're so sure... Is it someone you know?" Hitomi Tono realized that Yuri Takajo probably knew something and pressed for an answer.

Takajo Yuri smiled without saying a word.