Chapter 61 Old Photos
Lin Xiaolu pinched the frame of the phone, and her fingers unconsciously exerted force.
She could see that the magical girl in the cherry pink puffy skirt in the photo was laughing with the others, hugging the somewhat shy blue-haired magical girl beside her with some unclear feelings.
Two people who should have no connection at all stood so intimately in this photo, causing Lin Xiaolu to open and close her lips subconsciously, but she couldn't say a word.
Is that so? She wanted to ask again.
But if she had any doubts in her heart before, they disappeared the moment she saw this scene.
Yes, that's how it should be.
The many unusual things about his mother when she was alive; why his father was so secretive about her death; why the mysterious magical girl Delphinium took special care of him...the reasons for all of this were due to the answer that "his mother was a magical girl".
It was like a lock that couldn't be unlocked had found its original key. With just a slight turn, it opened.
She never thought her mother had anything to do with the identity of a "magical girl". In her memory, her mother was just a strange housewife who always insisted that she was a freelancer.
She has an optimistic and even crazy personality. She is lazy and careless in her daily work, and sometimes even more childish than me. But she is a good mother who truly loves and dotes on me.
She could still recall the scene of snuggling in her mother's arms and watching the magical girl animation on TV; she had not yet forgotten the smile on her face when she told her that "she wanted to be a magical girl when she grew up."
Lin Xiaolu suddenly remembered many things, including her mother who wanted to sleep with her when she was a child but left halfway; her mother who had dinner with her when she grew up but suddenly said she wanted to go out shopping; her mother who clearly said she would come to the parent-teacher meeting but broke the appointment and later claimed that she had remembered the wrong time.
"I see."
My vision was blurred by tears at some point. The tears overflowed from my eyes, flowed down my cheeks, and landed drop by drop on the screen of my phone.
Her throat tightened and her voice choked. She felt that she was now a magical girl who saved others, and she should not be so weak now. But she could not stop sobbing no matter what.
“That’s actually the case.”
It turns out that the real magical girl has always been by her side, and she has been the child favored by the magical girl from the very beginning.
However, I didn't know all this until two years after I lost her.
Lin Xiaolu just shed tears at first, but soon she covered her face and burst into tears.
She thought that she had cried enough and shed enough tears in the two years since her mother passed away. She had figured it out and became numb, and would no longer cry so much for her mother.
But for no reason, when she discovered that there was an additional connection between herself and her mother, that of a "magical girl", she suddenly found that she had a lot more things to say to her mother.
Becoming a magical girl is not as easy as you think.
The crippled beasts are so disgusting, abominable, and scary.
The practice of magic is hard and boring.
The Magic Kingdom seems to be a very complicated place.
Delphinium-senpai is a very good person.
Now we have a partner to fight together.
Maybe I have begun to understand my father.
And... I didn't expect that after two years, I still miss her so much.
A myriad of thoughts mixed with grief were locked in the small compartment. Even though the car was speeding along, the thoughts were holding me back and I couldn't let them go.
Lin Xiaolu was crying sadly, and Xia Liang beside her didn't know how to persuade her. Lin Yun in the front seat was silent and didn't say anything.
At least in his opinion, it is a good thing to cry at this time.
If you keep sadness and tears in your heart forever, and bury your longing and regret deep in your heart forever, then after a long time, even you won't be able to confirm whether the feelings still exist.
The crying in the car continued for a long time, until Lin Xiaolu gradually stopped and began to sob softly. Xia Liang patted her on the back and continued to ask Lin Yun: "Uncle, but, if what you said is true, there seems to be another problem with this photo."
She looked at the photo of Delphinium and Anya and asked in confusion, "If Xiaolu's mother was a magical girl of the same period as Delphinium, then she should have retired long ago, right?"
As far as she and Lin Xiaolu knew, Delphinium was a resident of the magical kingdom.
After all, Delphinium has never said which city she was born in, and she has always emphasized that she is much older than them. She is also confirmed by others to be a "big shot", so she does not seem like a magical girl from the material world.
The two girls had actually always been skeptical about Delphinium's emphasis on being an adult, but now after seeing this photo, the remaining doubts no longer existed.
“She didn’t retire.”
Seeing that Lin Xiaolu's emotions had stabilized a lot, Lin Yun sighed inwardly, and then said expressionlessly: "Because Lulu's mother is special, she is a lifelong magical girl, and she is different from other people."
This new concept made Lin Xiaolu, who was crying, and Xia Liang, who was comforting her, feel confused.
——"Lifelong? Xiaolu's mother is lifelong?"
Unlike the two confused girls, the one who reacted the most in the car was Mo Ke.
This is not surprising, because among the people present, except Lin Yun, it is the only one who knows the meaning of this word.
Seeing that Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang had no idea what this meant, it immediately explained: "Lifelong Magical Girl means that because of special merits or deeds, they are allowed to stay in the material world forever. This is a very powerful proof!"
"Mom, she's... really good as a magical girl?"
Lin Xiaolu choked and whispered, repeating what Mo Ke said, and then seemed to realize something, and raised her head in a daze: "Then, in that case, how did Mom die?"
As she asked the question and recalled the past, she suddenly remembered another important point. She stared at the driver's seat in front of her, as if she could see her father through the back of the seat: "When you told me to 'forget her', was it because of this reason?"
This question goes straight to the core of the problem. After she was released from her sadness and longing, she finally realized that her mother's death was not simple.
Lin Yun didn't say anything.
His silence did not mean rejection, but rather thought.
He glanced at the rearview mirror and met Lin Xiaolu's eyes, whose corners of her eyes were red. When their eyes met, he could see that although there was sadness in his daughter's eyes, she was still clear.
So he spoke.
"...After becoming a magical girl, you should have heard about how magical girls determine their strength, right?"
Lin Yun retracted his gaze and stared blankly at the road outside the front window: "White card, word card, flower card. Although I don't know the specific meaning, she had a title when she was alive."
There was a slight pause in his words, but there was not a sound in the back seat.
Whether it was Lin Xiaolu, Xia Liang or Mo Ke, they were all attracted by his words and held their breath, quietly waiting for the second half of his sentence.
Maybe I should light a cigarette to set the mood.
Lin Yun had this thought for no reason, but he didn't have the habit of smoking, so he could only let out a long sigh, as if he was letting out his sorrow:
"It is said that in the second half of her magical girl career, the other magical girls agreed that she was the 'strongest karuta'."
(End of this chapter)
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