Chapter 60 A Promise Fulfilled
The remnant beast that attacked the shopping mall was large, but not very strong.
According to Delphinium's observation, this crippled beast is a relatively common cracked-skin type, and she has taught many techniques to deal with this type of crippled beast; and in terms of individual ability, it is only stronger among the egg level.
Although such a crippled beast was more than capable of destroying a shopping mall, it was still somewhat wishful thinking for it to cope with the joint attack of two magical girls.
What's more, Xia Liang and Lin Xiaolu are no longer the rookies they were two months ago.
Not to mention Xia Liang, who has been approaching the bud level in recent days, Lin Xiaolu has also made rapid progress in her hard study and practice. In addition, the cooperation between the two has been initially formed, at least they will not hinder each other anymore, so there is no suspense in this battle from the beginning.
As Xia Liang shot out a beam of magic from the tip of his wand, the pierced beast fell heavily to the ground.
Delphinium hid in the dark alone, watching the entire battle quietly, with a look of relief on her face.
I am happy for the growth of the two newcomers, and I am relieved that the relationship between them is gradually being smoothed over.
After confirming that the remaining beast had been knocked down and the echo had been collected, she secretly left again and returned to where she parked.
The reason she couldn't show up this time was because she had asked Hong Si to tell the two newcomers that she couldn't come because of something else. If she suddenly showed up at this time and met Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang, the misunderstanding that had not been completely resolved before would be even more difficult to clarify, which was something she didn't want to see.
So, she took the shortest route back to the parking lot, then immediately got into the car and turned back into Lin Yun's appearance.
After driving out of the garage, he parked the car on the side of the road, first contacted Hong Siyu and asked the Yi Ce Bureau to send someone to the scene to deal with the aftermath; then he opened the map with Lin Yun's mobile phone and shared his location with Lin Xiaolu. After doing all this, he stood by the car and waited.
About ten minutes later, he saw two girls walking out of the shopping mall unharmed.
He raised the corners of his mouth and waved to them. Lin Xiaolu nodded somewhat uncomfortably, and Xia Liang responded with a sweet smile.
"Well done, I'm proud of you."
After some simple encouragement and praise, he continued, "The Strategy Bureau will be here soon. Get in the car. I'll take you back."
This had already been agreed upon beforehand, so the two girls got in the car. The three of them did not stay for long as the car slowly drove away from the shopping mall.
The car drove for some distance, but no one spoke during this time.
Lin Yun and Lin Xiaolu remained silent, and Xia Liang just sat there with a smile watching the strange atmosphere between them, without speaking to mediate.
——"So, when did you know about me becoming a magical girl?"
Finally, Lin Xiaolu, who was sitting in the back row, couldn't hold back her curiosity and asked first: "The day when the woman named Hong Siyu came? Or earlier?"
"The day you appeared on TV." Lin Yun looked straight ahead and told the truth.
"Huh? I was on TV...wasn't it discovered within a few days?"
Lin Xiaolu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized: "Wait a minute, so that's why you suddenly said something inexplicable that night?"
"Do you think I'm drunk?" Lin Yun raised his eyebrows.
"Isn't it?"
"…That night at dinner, Hong Siyu came directly to me and told me that you had become a magical girl."
Without further nagging about this topic, Lin Yun glanced at the rearview mirror and explained calmly: "However, this is only part of the reason. What I said the other day, 'I wanted to see you', was also true."
"See if your daughter becomes an alien after becoming a magical girl?" Lin Xiaolu said unhappily.
"I want to see if my daughter is still as cute after becoming a magical girl."
Lin Yun made a joke indifferently: "Besides, even if you become an alien, you are still my daughter, and this will not change."
Leaning back, Lin Xiaolu leaned straight on the back of the chair and snorted softly: "Just take it as the truth."
She chose to let it go, and the issue was resolved.
The cars moved forward a distance in silence.
"But, Lulu, I was actually very angry that night."
Not long after, Lin Yun suddenly spoke again: "When I saw you become a magical girl, I was really worried, and even a little sad."
"Why?" Staring at the driver's seat in front of her, Lin Xiaolu frowned as if she could see the man with his back to her.
"Because I'm worried about losing you."
Lin Yun looked out the front window, recalling his emotions that day, and said with a hint of sadness: "I actually wanted to tell you that night that being a magical girl is a very dangerous identity, but at that time... I couldn't say it out loud."
"You think I won't listen?"
"Probably." Lin Yun did not deny it.
"… Never mind. It's all over now."
"Um, sorry, maybe I should have trusted you a little more."
When saying this, Lin Yun couldn't help but smile bitterly.
After all, the price of not being able to tell the truth at that time was far beyond his imagination. In order to protect his daughter and communicate with her, he disguised his identity and went through a huge detour, telling countless lies, so that now he has no idea how to tell the truth.
"It doesn't matter, right?"
Not knowing what Lin Yun was thinking when he said this, Lin Xiaolu blinked, relaxed her brows, and said inexplicably: "Are you thinking too pessimistically? I remember that the number of magical girls who actually sacrificed was not that high, and most of them retired normally."
At this point, she became a little proud again: "And I'm not saying this, I'm actually very safe now, after all, there are some powerful seniors protecting me."
Her behavior made Lin Yun laugh and cry for a moment, and he didn't know whether he should continue the conversation.
But some things still needed to be said, so he adjusted his mood and asked lightly: "...Is it Delphinium?"
This question made Lin Xiaolu in the back seat look stunned.
"Sure enough, you actually know?"
She murmured, and after being stunned for a few seconds, she straightened up. Without hiding anything, she grabbed the backrest of the front seat and put her face close to Lin Yun's ear. Her tone suddenly became eager and even a little excited: "Do you know her? What is your relationship? Is she coming to Fangting City because of you?"
Lin Yun did not give direct answers to these questions.
He didn't really want to talk more about "Delphinium" with his daughter in his father's capacity, because if he wanted to conceal his identity, every word he said would constitute a lie.
But now, it is imperative to explain to my daughter the origin of the delphinium, at least part of its origin.
So, he knew that it was time to fulfill the promise he had made to his daughter.
“Lulu.”
Looking straight ahead, Lin Yun mentioned the agreement made a month ago: "Do you remember what I told you before, that I would tell you some truth?"
"Ah, I guess we talked about it in the car that morning."
After hearing him mention this, Lin Xiaolu calmed down a little and loosened her hand holding the front seat: "Does it have anything to do with what you are going to say now?"
"It does matter. In other words, this is the answer you want to know."
Releasing one hand from the steering wheel, Lin Yun picked up the phone with one hand, and after swiping a few times, he found the message interface between him and Lin Xiaolu.
His thumb paused above the screen for a while, and then he finally clicked send on the message he had already edited.
Immediately afterwards, a picture was sent to Lin Xiaolu's mobile phone via message.
He put his phone down again and said with a sigh of relief: "Take a look. If you look at this photo carefully, many of your questions should be answered."
This is the best explanation he can give.
Lin Xiaolu picked up her phone with full of doubts, and Xia Liang also poked her head out with interest. But when they clicked on the photos and actually saw the content in the photos, their eyes widened.
Because the content of the photos was far beyond their understanding.
They were four gorgeously dressed girls of different heights and beautiful looks, but it was obvious that they were all in their teens.
The background in the photo also looks exaggerated. You can tell at a glance that it is a huge object that looks like the corpse of an animal under the setting sun.
From this point alone, Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang could guess that they were actually magical girls.
The four girls have very different demeanors and gestures. The one standing on the far left is an elegant purple-haired girl wearing a white silk dress, a dark purple robe, and a round hat. She is looking directly at the camera with a peaceful and intellectual smile. The orange-haired girl on the far right is wearing a gorgeous golden dance dress. She holds her chin high with a proud and complacent smile on her face.
Lin Xiaolu didn't know these two magical girls, so when she saw them, her gaze only paused slightly before she passed by them directly.
But when her attention shifted to the center of the photo, the combination of pink and navy blue, one tall and one short, standing in the middle, made her eyes widen.
She was very familiar with the dark blue figure, because the person in the photo was no different from the person now; but the pink figure, although so unfamiliar, the vaguely recognizable appearance still made her realize the identity of the person in the photo:
"This is, Delphinium and...Mom?"
Chapters 14 and 15 were added and deleted, and some text was added to make the plot logic more reasonable without changing the plot.
In this way, I have already revised all chapters from 9 to 16. The things I wrote during the post-coronary brain fog period are indeed unreliable.
(End of this chapter)
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