Chapter 83 Fans
Delphinium looked at the sparrow on the ground with a bit of indifference. As it moved forward, the Favor Rune flew out from its sleeve. Soon, these runes landed on the unconscious sparrow's neck, coiled on the heart gem, and turned into a blue pattern that looked like a collar.
That was not all. Next, she condensed a small magic barrier, forming a cover that trapped the sparrow inside.
This is one of the techniques that every magical girl under the Investigation Institute must master, and only the Investigation Institute can master: forbidden magic.
The conditions for its use are quite harsh, and it can only be used after the enemy's resistance is eliminated. As the name suggests, this technique can completely block the opponent's ability to use magic and transform, and the duration varies depending on the user's magic strength.
Delphinium had no intention of killing Sparrow. After all, according to the information she had previously learned, this organization called "Claw Mark" was the country's top wanted target. If she left them alive and handed them over to the country, she should be able to get a lot of information.
Although there were indeed some problems between her and the country, the chaos caused by Sparrow and his gang in Fangting City had reached the bottom line of her tolerance.
If there was still a trace of resentment before, now she has made a firm decision: this time, the Investigation Institute must be called over.
After doing all this, she took two unsteady steps back and dissipated the magic power escaping from her body.
No one noticed that her head was covered in sweat.
Rather, her feelings were far worse than what she showed. The severe pain in her head alone made her feel like her head was about to explode. The intensity of the pain was enough to make most people wail.
Delphinium was not surprised because she knew that this was an old injury of hers.
The true form was damaged, the heart gem was shattered, and everything Sparrow said before was true. But what she didn't know was that the damage suffered by Delphinium was more serious than she could imagine. So her other guess was also correct: as a magical girl who once reached the Bud level, Delphinium could not open her own wonderland now.
Not only Wonderland, but even the most basic quality of a magical girl: the total amount of magic power, has actually shrunk a lot under the influence of injuries, which forced Delphinium to adopt a magic-saving strategy in her daily life.
The powerful magic power just now naturally did not come from nowhere, but was the result of Delphinium ignoring its injuries, fully stimulating the source of magic power, and then completely exploding to regain its original total amount of magic power.
Doing so could allow her magic power to temporarily return to its peak level, but the price was that the injuries to her true form and soul were further triggered, accompanied by extremely severe headaches. As the peak magic power was maintained for longer and longer, the pain would become more and more intense until she was completely unconscious.
Injury was a very important reason why Lin Yun chose to retire.
In the battle with Sparrow, she originally did not intend to use this method, but planned to show weakness in order to engage in a war of attrition, consume the opponent's magic power through defensive counterattacks, and then look for an opportunity to make a fatal move.
Such a plan does not require such an explosion of magic power, nor does it require any drastic loss of magic power. It can also obtain the opponent's information during the battle, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
However, when the other party told her that Lin Xiaolu might be in crisis, Cuique realized that no matter whether it was true or false, she could not delay any longer.
Even if it's just to be on the safe side, you have to fight quickly and decisively.
That's why she mobilized all her magic power and defeated Sparrow as quickly as possible.
The next step would be to notify the Strategy Bureau to come here and pick up the person first, and then rush to the place where she last sensed Mo Ke as quickly as possible to see what was going on.
Only when she reached this point did she suddenly remember one thing: her cell phone was knocked away in the previous fight.
But now the place where I am now is actually not where the phone fell. If I fly back to get the phone, it will take too much time.
In this situation, she saw a passerby looking over here not far away.
So she walked over and stretched out her hand to the stunned passerby: "Excuse me, can you lend me your phone?"
It was only when she said this casually that she realized that the appearance of this passerby seemed somewhat familiar, or rather, too familiar.
Wang Tengfei handed over his cell phone in a daze.
At this moment, there was only one thought in his mind: it really was cornflower.
Even though he had seen the girl standing in front of him for more than 20 years, he could still recognize her face. Although he had changed a lot, the girl was still the same as she was that year, as if time had stopped for her, and she hadn't changed at all.
"Is it... cornflower?"
Looking at the girl in front of him who was tapping on her phone with both hands, he couldn't help but ask.
Then he saw the girl paused.
The pause lasted only a moment, and she quickly continued her actions, entered a phone number, and held the phone to her ear, as if the previous pause was just an illusion of Wang Tengfei.
While waiting for the phone to connect, she looked at the man in front of her with a slightly complicated mood, but her face was calm and she said, "Do you know me?"
After recognizing the man in front of her as her general manager and hearing her former code name from him, she found it difficult to describe how she felt.
"Ah? I, this..."
Opening his mouth, Wang Tengfei vaguely remembered that he had a lot of questions to ask. After all, when he was young, he was indeed a fan of the girl in front of him. At that time, he had many puzzles and regrets about the disappearance of Cornflower.
Only now did he suddenly realize that he could not remember any of those questions.
No matter how much he liked her, how much he regretted and was unwilling to give up, now there were only a few words left, and he could no longer recall those emotions.
Like old faded photos in frames: their outlines are still clear, but they have become white. The questions that once filled my mind are as distorted as the colors of the photos, and the emotions hidden in them have become as bland as water, no longer stirring up ripples in my heart.
"I... used to be your fan."
He thought about it and this was the only thing he could say.
When Delphinium heard this, she looked at the man in front of her again, hesitated for a moment, and then replied in the same calm tone: "Thank you."
She didn't know what to say.
Then, as the call was connected, she heard Hong Siyu's voice and ignored Wang Tengfei. After informing Hong Siyu of the situation and specific location at the scene, and reminding her of many precautions for guarding the sparrow, she hung up the phone and returned the phone to Wang Tengfei.
"that……"
Wang Tengfei took the phone from Cuique blankly and asked hesitantly, "Are you Lao Lin?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the temperature around them seemed to drop by two degrees.
Delphinium's originally calm and cold expression froze on her face, and after a while, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
As expected, it was guessed, she thought helplessly.
Earlier in the general manager's office, because Sparrow tried to directly attack the office building to force her to show up, she had no choice but to choose to transform on the spot.
Although she tried her best to keep Wang Tengfei out of her sight and transformed into Delphinium before rushing out of the office building, the process was not rigorous and the other party still found out in the end.
At this time, the more she tried to explain, the more obvious it would be, so she just withdrew her hand indifferently and said calmly: "To work in the real world, you need a little disguise after all."
She only said this one sentence and left Wang Tengfei to figure out the rest.
(End of this chapter)
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