Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 9 After the fierce battle

After the great battle, the violent roars of the beasts and the explosions between the magic battles finally disappeared.

The Wetland Park in the middle of the night has returned to its proper calm.

The remaining magic fluctuations and gunpowder smoke dissipated, and only the remains of monsters remained in the woods.

The dark blue mysterious girl put away the magical threads all around, and the small scissors in her hand turned into a magic wand again.She nimbly came to its skeleton in a few jumps, and took out a brooch-like object from the neck, and a little bit of starlight emerged from the remnant beast, gathering towards it.

Lin Xiaolu, who was not far away, made a little identification and figured out what the girl was doing.

This is collecting the "echoes" of the remnant beasts.

The so-called "echo" is the collective name for the remaining magic power and soul fragments after the remnant beast is defeated.

The magical girl defeats the remnant beast, obtains the echo from the remnant beast, and gives it to the sower.Then the sower sends the echo back to the magical kingdom, and the kingdom judges the contribution of the magical girl based on the strength of the echo, and distributes corresponding rewards.

This is the reward mechanism between the magical girl and the magical kingdom.

And right now, although Lin Xiaolu was the one who first discovered the remnant beast and started fighting, it was undoubtedly the mysterious magical girl who appeared suddenly who finally defeated the remnant beast, so it was only natural that she would collect the echo.

Lin Xiaolu tried her best to get close to the mysterious girl.

She doesn't care about things like echoes, she has other things to say in her mind.

However, before she could speak, the mysterious girl asked first: "Are you a newcomer?"

"Huh? Uh, um."

Lin Xiaolu, who was caught off guard by the other party's question, responded subconsciously, and then remembered that she also had something to say: "Well, thank you very much for lending a helping hand..."

"Where's your sower? Didn't it tell you not to leapfrog alone to challenge a beast that exceeds your ability?"

However, the mysterious girl's words hit her like cannonballs, and she didn't give Lin Xiaolu a chance to continue: "And your companions? Didn't you inform them before you set off?"

Listening to the other party's question, Lin Xiaolu felt dizzy: "Who is the sower? Companion? I only have myself..."

"what?"

Hearing this, the mysterious girl drooped her lower eyelids and looked over, with an expression of disbelief on her face: "You're the only one? No, aren't you a magical girl from Fangting City?"

Lin Xiaolu murmured: "Well... that's right, is there any problem?"

The mysterious girl didn't answer her.

Rather, her eyes were no longer on Lin Xiaolu, but on Mo Ke, the goblin who had been by the side trying to weaken her sense of existence just now.

"Hey, goblin over there, are you the child's sower?"

Mo Ke, who was called out, had been hiding behind Lin Xiaolu before, constantly avoiding the gaze of the mysterious girl, until now he was called out, and then reluctantly got out: "Well, how are you?"

"It's not an understatement like 'Hello', is it?"

The mysterious girl crossed her waist and said aggressively: "I have a lot of questions waiting for you to answer. Why is this city, Fangting City, like this now?"

She pointed to Lin Xiaolu who was at a loss: "In such a big city, there is only one novice magical girl who can't even use a magic costume?"

"This child has probably participated in less than five battles. In other cities, this kind of rookie must be led by a magical girl above the leaf level to participate in the battle. You just throw her here and fight alone , Do you want to kill her?"

Mo Ke quickly shook his head: "No, I never thought of harming Xiaolu!"

Lin Xiaolu on the side also explained: "It has nothing to do with Mo Ke! I insist on continuing to act tonight!"

"why?"

The mysterious girl raised her hands, as if to break the casserole and ask the end: "Where are the other magical girls in Fangting City?"

"do not know……"

"Ok?"

Mo Ke's voice was as thin as a mosquito's moan, and he looked guilty: "Just, that is to say, I don't know..."

"What are you talking about? I don't understand."

The mysterious girl was expressionless: "The Sower doesn't know where the magical girl in the city he is in charge of is?"

"Ah."

"Obviously they are magical girls signed by you yourself?"

"Well……"

"Evidently everyone has to file for the Magic Kingdom?"

"Uh... no, there's no reason to tell you, right?"

Mo Ke showed obvious wavering on his face, but he still insisted: "Although I am a sower, I am not obliged to casually tell the foreign magical girls about the distribution of local personnel, okay?"

The mysterious girl nodded approvingly when she heard the words: "Indeed, what you said is very reasonable. Keeping information secret is a good quality of an excellent sower."

When Mo Ke heard the words, he only felt that the other party's tone was loose, so he let out a long sigh of relief.But before he could finish his breath, the girl's next words made his expression stiff again.

— "Well, what if I say I'm an inspector?"

"Nonsense, nonsense, don't, don't try to trick me!"

The pink cat goblin yelled and screamed, baring its teeth and claws: "You, you, you, you, don't lie to me, me, me, I, I, I, I, I don't believe that you just happen to be..."

Lin Xiaolu squatted beside her in amazement: "Moke, you're shaking like you've been electrocuted."

The mysterious girl looked at Mo Ke suspiciously, but still took out the crest-shaped breastplate from the collar in a serious manner, tapped her finger lightly, and the shiny magic power circuit was activated immediately, revealing the pattern on its surface : dark blue background, with patterns of flowers engraved on it; a name is faintly engraved in a favor rune on the left, but is blocked by an outstretched finger; at the same time, there is a shining icon with a crown crown, marked with " 41076" number.

She flashed the badge, and put it away before Mo Ke and Lin Xiaolu could read the words on it.

"Although you should have heard it just now, let me introduce myself."

She coldly glanced at the magical girl and goblin in front of her, held her head high, and said with some reserve: "I am the inspector of the magical kingdom, the magical girl with the flower card certification number 41076, Delphinium, and now I will report the abnormality in the other party's pavilion. The situation is under investigation, and I hope you can cooperate."

The cat-shaped goblin stared wide-eyed: "Ah?"

"Ah, ah, ah, ah..."

The huge impact caused Mo Ke to squeeze out a hoarse neighing sound, and finally shook his head in a trance: "Meow meow? Meow meow. Meow meow!"

Lin Xiaolu also stared wide-eyed: "Moke started talking nonsense!"

"Ah—really!"

After a brief struggle, the cat-shaped goblin couldn't help but grabbed his ear, and shouted in despair: "Okay! I admit it! I'm not the original sower of Fangting City, okay, I just ran away by myself from!"

"I myself came to this city only last month. I obviously came here to join the seniors I know, but after I came here, I found that there is nothing in this city at all!"

"Senior Nini is not here at all! There is no magical girl in this city. Instead, I was attacked by a beast when I first came here! Then I found out that I have been appointed as the sower here for no reason!"

Lin Xiaolu on the side showed a startled expression when she heard the words: "Huh? Could it be? At that time?"

Mo Ke smiled bitterly: "Yes, that beast came for me. I was in a hurry and went to the doctor. I saw that you seemed to have the talent to become a magical girl, so I chose you!"

"Then you're still telling me that I'm a once-in-a-century genius destined to become the greatest magical girl?"

"It's all my nonsense!"

"You also said that the crippled beast randomly appeared there to attack the citizens?"

"I'm talking nonsense too!"

"Huh? Eh? You, you liar!"

"I'm a liar! I'm rotten!"

Seeing that the relationship between one person and one demon was on the verge of breaking down, the magical girl who called herself Delphinium had no choice but to stop their unnecessary quarrel: "Okay, you two, stop for a moment."

She pressed her palms with a serious face: "I need to confirm again, that goblin...is called Mo Ke, right? You mean, you came to this city last month, and Didn't you discover the sower and magical girl in this city?"

Mo Ke, who had completely given up on himself, nodded with a gloomy face: "Yes, that's right."

"But you can choose this one over here..."

Lin Xiaolu raised her hand: "My name is Lin Xiaolu."

Delphinium looked back at Mo Ke: "However, you can choose to make a contract with Lin Xiaolu and make her a magical girl?"

Mo Ke drooped his head: "Yes."

Delphinium asked: "That is to say, you were not a sower originally, but after you came to Fangting City, you found yourself appointed as a sower here?"

Mo Ke continued to nod: "Yeah."

"Unheard of."

Delphinium pinched her chin and thought: "The order of the magic kingdom should not be so casual. Haven't you tried to contact the kingdom to find out the specific situation?"

As soon as these words came out, Mo Ke buried his head even lower with his already gloomy face.

This caused some bad guesses in Delphinium's mind.

"You bastard, don't tell me..."

She couldn't help but point to the cat-shaped elf in front of her.

Mo Ke tilted his head, closed his eyes and said:
"Yes, I cut off all the contact information on my body when I sneaked out."

"Damn it, I'm starting to get a headache."

After saying this, Delphinium couldn't help but hold his forehead with one hand: "In other words, all valid information sources are now invalid. What happened in Fangting City is completely unknown, and the current magic defensive power is still close to 0?"

"That's it, that's it, Lord Inspector, you have to help us!"

On the other hand, Mo Ke quickly climbed up the friendship, despite his cute appearance as a goblin, with teary eyes, he leaned forward pitifully, and hugged Delphinium's shoulder:

"Tonight is already very dangerous. If you didn't come here suddenly, Xiaolu and I would have been wiped out here. If this continues, we will definitely not be able to withstand the increasingly powerful attack of the remnant beast!"

"Don't flatter! Let go first!"

Delphinium frowned and patted it aside: "Need my help? How can I help?"

Mo Ke, who was pushed away, was not annoyed at all, and a slightly fawning smile appeared on a cat's face: "Well, you just need to contact the country, and then ask for some support forces to come over. It's the other flower card adults..."

"Flower card? It's really a beautiful idea."

Delphinium squinted at it: "And I regret to tell you that I can't contact the kingdom now, because I don't have a magic mirror to use."

The cat-shaped goblin covered her mouth: "Can't get in touch? Could it be that you also escaped..."

"No, I was approved by the royal court to act alone."

The delphinium slightly raised its eyelids, interrupting its unreasonable speculation: "The communication aspect is entirely my own personal problem, and I don't want to explain it for now."

Things seemed to be at an impasse.Mo Ke, who learned that he could not apply for reinforcements, returned to his expression of lovelessness, while Delphinium was thinking about something.

To be honest, she is a little angry now, and even thinking, should she at least punish the goblin in front of her as the "culprit" in the name of "inspector"?But based on her past understanding of how unreliable the goblin group is, bullying them is the most meaningless thing.

Before she could make a decision, Lin Xiaolu, who was left on the sidelines and forced to listen to the scriptures for a long time, finally found her chance to speak, and raised her hand hesitantly:
"Well, this delphinium over here... Senior?"

Delphinium turned to look at her, with a somewhat inexplicable expression: "You can just call me Delphinium."

"Then... delphinium?" Lin Xiaolu called out tentatively.

"Why are you so hesitant?"

Delphinium frowned slightly, obviously dissatisfied with Lin Xiaolu's reaction, but she didn't pursue it further, and brought the topic back to the right track: "If you have any questions, just ask, there is no need for so much etiquette."

"Ah, then..."

Lin Xiaolu took a deep breath with some hesitation, her eyes wandered for a while, she closed her eyes, and clasped her hands in front of her chest:
"I, I feel great!"

"Huh?" Delphinium was stunned.

"That is, you said show me your fight, and I feel great and emotional now! No, I'm emotional!"

After Lin Xiaolu yelled out what was in her heart, she seemed to have completely given up her scruples, and her speech became faster and faster: "Until now, the throbbing in my heart still can't stop, the heartbeat has always been very fast!"

"I have always liked magical girl animations since I was very young. I think the magical girls in animation are cute and powerful. They can do many things that I want to do but can't achieve. They are very shining!"

"I want to change myself, I want to forget the things I hate, I want to fly out of the breathless life, so when I know that I can become a magical girl, I am very happy, and I feel that the dream I have always been can come true!"

Speaking of this, she finally paused for a moment, and her speech slowed down: "It's just that after I became a magical girl, I realized that nothing has changed except that I often have to fight disgusting monsters. I still hate everything around me. Even hate myself."

"However, just now, when I was about to be killed by that beast, after I felt that I was about to bid farewell to this annoying world, you appeared, Delphinium!"

"Your battle is very handsome! Very graceful! It's like a magical girl in animation appeared in front of my eyes, just like a fantasy character has become real, so it's really, really touching!"

Lin Xiaolu's series of outspoken shouts moved delphinium a little.

Because she never knew that her daughter thought so.

That's right, my own daughter.

The delphinium is Lin Yun.

After driving tens of kilometers from home to the park, Lin Yun transformed into a magical girl again after 19 years in order to save her daughter from the beast.

Instead of explaining her identity to her daughter immediately, she pretended to be an "inspector" and deliberately spoke in an aggressive manner. It's all about extracting information from the mouth.

It's just that she didn't expect that she was shocked, but there was no information at all.

Apart from knowing that Mo Ke is a parallel importer and the current situation in Fangting City is not optimistic, there is no new information.

Instead, it was her daughter, Lin Xiaolu. What she said made Lin Yun unexpected.

"And in addition to fighting, the weapons are also very tasteful!"

During Delphinium's silence, she was still eloquent, her eyes were shining, as if stars were twinkling in them: "It's very imposing, making people feel stable and reliable!"

"The face is very cute, and the small size is very cute!"

“The clothes are also very nice!”

"Cool way of talking!"

Delphinium became more and more bewildered by this series of flattery, and even though she still kept a cold expression on her face, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but twitched.

Lin Xiaolu uttered a series of words of praise like cannonballs, until finally, she bowed deeply:
"So, I want to be a magical girl like you, to be my ideal self, can you teach me!"

These words had a huge impact on Delphinium.

She couldn't help but start thinking about why it happened like this.

Since Lin Xiaolu was born, the father-daughter relationship between the two has been maintained for 14 years, but she has never heard so many compliments from her daughter in these 14 years.Especially the sentence "I want to be like you", Lin Xiaolu never said such words to her even in the period when the relationship between father and daughter was the most harmonious.

But it was this sentence that moved her very much, but now it put her on the fire again.

The "Delphinium" played by myself has made my daughter so recognized and yearned for, can I still tell her the truth at this moment?

If my daughter knew that the "delphinium" that fell from the sky and made her admire is actually that annoying father, she might be very disappointed, right?
Maybe even hate myself even more, and it will be harder for me to communicate with her in the future.

At the same time as these thoughts popped up in her mind, she felt a blur in front of her eyes, and Mo Ke approached with tears in her eyes again, and said with a sad expression: "Master Inspector—"

"Senior Delphinium!"

Lin Xiaolu also looked over with staring eyes.

One person and one goblin looked at her with pleading expressions, and the two lovely and pitiful faces were all in front of her eyes, delphinium only felt that her thoughts gradually became confused.

Coupled with Lin Xiaolu's previous praise, she, who had suffered from a cold relationship with her daughter for a long time, felt touched for a long time, and the not-so-calm thoughts in her mind began to gain the upper hand.

"OK, OK?"

Under such circumstances, Delphinium made a promise that her previous self would never promise.

(End of this chapter)