Chapter 6: Past, Wrong Path
On the viaduct late at night, speeding cars whizzed past.
In the driver's seat, Lin Yun frowned. Even if he drove at full speed, it took him nearly 20 minutes to get from home to the wetland park. And for him now, every extra second was torture.
However, during this anxious journey, he did pick up some long-forgotten knowledge from the chaotic thoughts in his mind and sorted out some things.
Why did I become a magical girl? This was a question that I had always kept in mind. After 19 years, I finally brought it up again. He looked out of the car, and under the dim street lights, some memories that were just as old began to emerge. And that was 22 years ago.
In fact, he was a little surprised that he could still vaguely remember it. It was an evening after school.
"Can I fight?"
On the street bathed in the sunset, the young Lin Yun asked this question to the rabbit-like fairy.
The goblin who called himself "the sower" told him:
"How is that possible? You're a boy! Only girls can have the talent to become a magical girl, and this is a one in a million physique!"
“Why can’t boys do that?”
"I've already told you that a magic girl is a girl! So only girls can be magical girls!"
"Then I don't want to be a magic girl, a magic boy, a magic brother, a magic superman or anything like that. I also want the power of magic!"
As the young man shouted these words with full of vigor, a fierce battle was taking place between the buildings not far away.
His childhood sweetheart, Anya, is also a magical girl who fights against vicious beasts.
However, unlike the several battles he had seen in the past, the beasts this time were not only huge in size, but there were also two of them at the same time. When facing multiple high-intensity enemies, Anya clearly showed signs of being unable to handle the situation alone.
There is no doubt that she is at a disadvantage.
Seeing Anya struggling to hold on under the beast's hands, and being hit by the beast's attacks several times, the situation was precarious. Lin Yun couldn't help but increase the volume again and shouted at the rabbit-like fairy: "Can't you see! Anya is in danger! Isn't she the magical girl you chose!"
"Well... really, I'm in a difficult situation too."
The rabbit-like fairy had a worried look on her face: "I am also worried about Anya, but magic is a power that only girls can have. There is no other choice except to become a magical girl. Those things you said do not exist at all."
"Magic boy, magic brother, magic superman, etc. If I could, I would also like to help you, but I can't do it. I can only give people the power of a magic girl..."
“Let me try!”
"ha?"
"Let me try and see if I can become a magical girl!"
"Are you crazy? I told you it has to be a girl!"
“Try it!”
"How on earth do you try something like this?"
"Tell me how to become a magical girl, I'll do it!"
"...I'm really scared of you."
Faced with the boy's tough and persistent attitude, and Anya in the distance who was indeed in deep crisis, the fairy had no choice but to say: "Then let you give up. This is what you said, give it a try."
It stretched out its claws to the fur on its waist, and after groping for a while, it pulled out a round, crystal clear gem from between the fur.
The size of this gem was as big as one quarter of its body, and the scene of it suddenly taking it out looked very strange, but neither the human nor the fairy who were facing each other cared about such trivial matters.
"This thing is called the Seed of Heart, which is the seed of the magical girl's power."
The fairy said solemnly: "Hold it, put it against your chest, feel its existence, and use your heart to establish a connection. If it reacts, it means you have the talent to become a magical girl. Otherwise, you have no hope."
"The Seed of Heart..."
Looking at the gem in the goblin's claws, the boy whispered the name of the object.
He knew that what he said was unreasonable. Since the other party said that only girls can become magical girls, there must be some connection between them.
However, he had no choice now, because the situation was so urgent that if he, as an ordinary person, wanted to save Anya, he should give it a try no matter how impossible it was.
After taking the gem-like object, Lin Yun immediately held it tightly in his hand and pressed it against his heart.
Make connections with your heart.
This was the key point he remembered, so he didn't waste a moment and immersed himself in it.
He closed his eyes, gradually putting everything out of his mind. The rabbit fairy not far away kept looking at the heart seed in his hand with a sad face.
After a few breaths, the seed of heart did not undergo any changes.
As the minute approached, there was still no response from the Heart Seed.
Just as the rabbit fairy's heartbeat gradually slowed down and he thought he had confirmed his failure, a change occurred.
At first, it was only a very faint light that leaked out from Lin Yun's fingers, like a few fireflies. After that, it became a trailing light, and then turned into a series of clear rays of light.
Rising from the boy's gradually spreading hands was a pure white light emitting a holy glow. It rotated together with the gem-like heart seed, hovering in the air, and finally merged.
In an instant, light burst out.
White light radiated from the surface of the Heart Seed, forming a halo that enveloped Lin Yun.
It was still not a very strong light, but it was like the bright moon in the sky, not dazzling, but enough to illuminate the night.
"Is this really...you...you, a kid, actually succeeded? Are you really a boy?"
The unprecedented fact shocked the rabbit fairy beside him, and he even said something he didn't know what to say: "Are you just kidding me because you look more like a boy?"
But the young man in the light ignored its trash talk, but raised his head and looked at the elf in front of him with a firm gaze, with fire shining in his eyes.
"What should I do next?"
——What should I do? This sentence seemed to have traveled through time and space.
Because this is also a problem that Lin Yun needs to consider now.
Under the cover of night, in the quiet and deserted parking lot of the wetland park, he found a place to park his car and ran along a path into the depths of the woods.
In fact, the answer to what to do was already there. His mood at this moment was very similar to that evening 22 years ago.
Maybe many things have changed, but many things have always been there. At least, the feeling of "must save important people" is exactly the same.
Can the flower of his heart still connect with such emotions? He raised his hand with a hint of doubt.
——The broken gem flower in his hand had already been radiating a deep blue glow.
"...Alas, there is really nothing I can do about you, but now I can only try my best to save the situation."
In a trance, he seemed to be back under the sunset of that day.
After briefly expressing her shock, the rabbit fairy quickly adjusted her mindset and began to instruct him methodically: "First, after establishing a connection with the Heart Seed, you should be able to feel the magic power, which is the energy that serves as a bond between you and the Heart Seed."
"Now, all you need to do is use a simple flow of magic to activate it."
The boy nodded and closed his eyes again. While feeling it, he concluded in his mind: The first step is to grasp the magic power.
"Divide your magic flow, connect your limbs, forehead and heart seed respectively, and then adjust them to balance each other."
The second step is to divert the magic power and then balance it.
"The next step is to construct a standard magic rune. Ah, if you don't know... look over here, I'll show you."
The third step is to construct standard magic runes.
"Finally, let's think of a transformation spell that can be used as the initial activation switch. Although it will be rarely used, don't think of something too weird. It's better to be cute, otherwise the country will censor it and order it to be changed."
Step 4: Determine the transformation spell.
Now that all the steps are completed, it’s time to transform.
The young boy in my memory and the middle-aged man at this moment seemed to overlap in an instant and exist here at the same time.
But, this is just an illusion after all.
With a heart full of passion and hope, and with new strength, the boy shouted an improvised spell of shame and set off towards the battlefield in the sky to save the girl he cared about.
The middle-aged man, whose passion has long cooled, is still here, alone.
He paused for a moment, shook his head, cleared the distracting thoughts from his mind, and quickly walked forward again.
The light was shining, and the azure blue magic power exploded in his hands in an instant, sweeping around like a turbulent current, lifting the corners of his clothes and hair.
Without any unnecessary movements or sounds, he raised his hand and pressed the Heart Flower against his chest. Then, he coldly uttered two words:
"Change, body."
(End of this chapter)
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