Chapter 9 After the Fierce Battle
After the battle, the violent roars of the beasts and the explosions of the magic battle finally disappeared.
Late at night, the wetland park returned to its proper tranquility.
The remaining magical fluctuations and smoke dissipated, and only the remains of the monster remained in the woods.
The dark blue mysterious girl collected the magic threads scattered around, and the small scissors in her hand turned into a magic wand. She jumped lightly to the skeleton, and took out a brooch-like object from the neck. Starlight appeared on the body of the remaining beast and gathered towards it.
Lin Xiaolu, who was not far away, took a quick look and figured out what the girl was doing.
This is collecting the "echoes" of the remaining beasts.
The so-called "echo" is the general term for the remaining magic power and soul fragments after the beast is defeated.
The magic girl defeats the remnant beast, obtains the echo from the remnant beast, and gives it to the sower. The sower then sends the echo back to the magic kingdom, and the kingdom judges the magic girl's contribution based on the strength of the echo and issues corresponding rewards.
This is the reward mechanism between magical girls and the magical kingdom.
At this moment, although it was Lin Xiaolu who first discovered the remnant beast and started the battle, it was undoubtedly the mysterious magical girl who suddenly appeared and defeated the remnant beast, so it is natural for her to collect the echo.
Lin Xiaolu tried hard to move forward and walked to the side of the mysterious girl.
She didn't care about the echo or anything like that, she had other things she wanted to say.
However, before she could open her mouth, the mysterious girl asked first: "Are you new here?"
"Huh? Uh, yeah."
Lin Xiaolu was caught off guard by the other party's question and responded subconsciously, then she remembered that she also had something to say: "Well, thank you very much for your help..."
"Where is your sower? Didn't it tell you not to challenge a beast that is beyond your ability alone?"
However, the mysterious girl's words came like a barrage of bullets, not giving Lin Xiaolu a chance to continue: "And what about your companions? Didn't you notify them before you set out?"
Lin Xiaolu felt dizzy when she heard the other party's question: "What is a sower? A companion? I am alone..."
"ha?"
Hearing this, the mysterious girl drooped her eyelids and looked over, with an expression of disbelief on her face: "You are alone? No, aren't you the magical girl from Fangting City?"
Lin Xiaolu hesitated and said, "Well... that's right, is there any problem?"
The mysterious girl didn't answer her.
Rather, her sight was no longer on Lin Xiaolu, but on the fairy Mo Ke who had been trying to weaken her presence beside her.
"Hey, goblin over there, are you the sower of this child?"
Mo Ke, who was called, had been hiding behind Lin Xiaolu, constantly avoiding the gaze of the mysterious girl. Until he was called out, he came out reluctantly: "Um, hello?"
"It's not a casual way of greeting like 'hello', is it?"
The mysterious girl put her hands on her hips and said aggressively, "I have a lot of questions waiting for your answers. Why is this city, Fangting City, like this now?"
She pointed at the bewildered Lin Xiaolu and said, "In such a big city, there is only a novice magical girl who can't even use her magic suit?"
"I'm afraid this kid has only participated in five battles. In other cities, such newcomers need to be led by magical girls above the Leaf level to participate in battles. You just throw her here alone to fight against the snake alone. Do you want to kill her?"
Mo Ke quickly shook his head: "No, I never thought of harming Xiao Lu!"
Lin Xiaolu at the side also explained: "It has nothing to do with Mo Ke! I insisted on continuing the action tonight!"
"Why is that?"
The mysterious girl put her hands in her pockets, as if she was going to get to the bottom of it: "Where are the other magical girls in Fangting City?"
"have no idea……"
"Um?"
Mo Ke's voice was as thin as a mosquito's hum, and he looked guilty: "That is to say, I don't know..."
"What are you talking about? I don't understand."
The mysterious girl deadpanned, "Where are the magical girls in the city that the sower doesn't know he's in charge of?"
"Um."
"They are all magical girls you signed with your own hands?"
“Hmm…”
"Everyone has to keep a record with the Magic Kingdom?"
"Uh... no, there's no reason to tell you, right?"
Moko's face showed obvious hesitation, but he still said stubbornly: "Although I am a sower, I am not obliged to tell foreign magical girls about the local population distribution, okay?"
The mysterious girl nodded in agreement after hearing this: "Indeed, what you said makes sense. Keeping information confidential is a good quality of a good sower."
Hearing this, Mo Ke felt that the other party's tone had loosened, so he breathed a sigh of relief. But before he could finish his breath, the girl's next words made his expression stiffen again.
——"So what if I say I'm an inspector?"
"Nonsense, don't try to cheat me!"
The pink cat fairy yelled and bared its teeth and claws: "You you you you don't lie to me I I I I don't believe it believe believe believe you just happen to be yes yes yes..."
Lin Xiaolu squatted beside him and exclaimed in amazement: "Mo Ke, you are shaking like you got an electric shock."
The mysterious girl looked at Moko with suspicion, but she still took out a badge-like badge from her collar with a serious face. She lightly touched it with her fingers, and the shining magic circuit was immediately activated, revealing the pattern on its surface: a dark blue background with flower patterns engraved on the top; a name was vaguely engraved with Favor runes on the left, but it was blocked by the outstretched finger; at the same time, there was a shining crown-shaped icon, and the number "41076" was marked in cursive next to it.
She showed the badge for a moment, and put it away before Mo Ke and Lin Xiaolu could look at the words on it.
"Although you may have heard it just now, let me introduce myself anyway."
She glanced coldly at the magical girl and fairy in front of her, raised her head, and said with some reserve: "I am the inspector of the Magic Kingdom, the magical girl with the flower card certification number 41076, Delphinium. I will now conduct a stationed investigation on the abnormal situation in Fangting City. I hope you can cooperate."
The cat-shaped fairy's eyes widened: "Huh?"
“Ahhh, ahhhh…”
The huge impact made Mokou only able to squeeze out a hoarse hissing sound. Finally, he raised his head in a trance: "Meow meow meow? Meow meow meow. Meow meow meow!"
Lin Xiaolu also widened her eyes: "Mo Ke is talking nonsense!"
"Ah—it really is!"
After a brief struggle, the cat-shaped fairy couldn't help but grab his own ears and shouted in self-destruction: "Alright! I admit it! I'm not the original sower of Fangting City, okay? I ran away on my own!"
"I just came to this city last month. I came here to seek refuge with a senior I knew, but after arriving, I found that there was nothing in this city at all!"
"Senior Nini isn't here at all! There isn't a single magical girl in this city either. Instead, I encountered an attack by a group of crippled beasts right after I arrived! And then I found myself being appointed the sower here for no apparent reason!"
Lin Xiaolu, who was standing by, showed a look of astonishment when she heard this: "Huh? Could it be? At that time?"
Moko laughed bitterly: "Yes, that beast was coming for me. I was desperate and I chose you because I saw that you seemed to have the talent to become a magical girl!"
"And you're still telling me that I'm a once-in-a-century genius destined to become the greatest magical girl?"
"I just made it up!"
"You also said that the remnant beast appeared there randomly and attacked the citizens?"
"That was just my nonsense!"
"Ah? Eh? You, you liar!"
"I'm a liar! I'm rotten!"
Seeing that the relationship between the man and the demon was on the verge of breaking down, the magical girl who called herself Delphinium had to speak up to stop their meaningless quarrel: "Okay, you two, stop for a moment."
She pressed her palm with a solemn expression: "I need to confirm again, that fairy... is her name Moko, right? You mean, you came to this city only last month, and you didn't find the sower and the magical girl in this city at that time?"
Mo Ke, who had completely given up on himself, nodded gloomily: "Yes, that's right."
"But you can choose this one..."
Lin Xiaolu raised her hand: "My name is Lin Xiaolu."
Cuiqiao looked back at Mo Ke: "But you can choose to make a contract with Lin Xiaolu and let her become a magical girl?"
Mo Ke hung his head: "Yeah."
Kuizi asked, "So, you were not originally a sower, but after coming to Fangting City, you found yourself appointed as the sower here?"
Mo Ke continued to nod: "Yeah."
“Unheard of.”
Delphinium pinched her chin and pondered: "The transfer order from the magic kingdom should not be so casual. Didn't you try to contact the kingdom to find out the details?"
After these words were spoken, Mo Ke, who already had a gloomy face, buried his head even lower.
This made Delphinium have some bad guesses.
"You, are you saying..."
She couldn't help but point her finger at the cat-shaped fairy in front of her.
Mo Ke tilted his head and closed his eyes and said, "Yes, I cut off all the communication methods I had when I sneaked out."
"Damn it, I'm starting to get a headache."
After saying this, Cuique couldn't help but hold her forehead with one hand: "That means all effective information sources are now invalid, and we have no idea what happened in Fangting City. And the current magic defense power is close to zero?"
"That's right, that's right, Inspector, you have to help us!"
Moko quickly established a friendship with her, and with her cute appearance as a fairy, she came forward with tears in her eyes and hugged Delphinium's shoulders pitifully:
"It's already very dangerous tonight. If you hadn't suddenly come here, Xiaolu and I would have been wiped out here. If this continues, we will definitely not be able to withstand the increasingly powerful attacks of the remaining beasts!"
"Don't flatter me! Let go first!"
Delphinium frowned and slapped it aside, "Need my help? How?"
Moko, who was pushed away, was not annoyed at all. He put on a slightly flattering smile on his cat face: "Well, you just need to contact the country and ask for some reinforcements. If it's other karuta masters..."
"Hanafu? That's wishful thinking."
Delphinium squinted at it and said, "And I'm sorry to tell you that I can't contact the kingdom right now because I don't have a magic mirror that I can use."
The cat-shaped fairy covered her mouth and said, "Can't get in touch with me? Could it be that you also escaped..."
"No, I was allowed to act alone by the royal court."
Delphinium raised her eyelids slightly, interrupting its groundless speculation: "The communication issue is entirely my own personal problem, and I don't want to explain it for the time being."
Things seemed to be at a stalemate. Knowing that he could not apply for reinforcements, Moko once again looked hopeless, while Kuiqi was thinking about something.
To be honest, she was a little angry now, and even wondered if she should at least punish the goblin in front of her as the "culprit" in the name of "Inspector"? But based on her past understanding of the unreliability of goblins, bullying them was the most meaningless thing.
Before she made a decision, Lin Xiaolu, who had been left aside and forced to listen to the heavenly book for a long time, finally found her chance to speak. She raised her hand hesitantly and said, "Um, this Cuiqiao...senior here?"
Delphinium turned her head to look at her, with a somewhat inexplicable expression: "Just call me Delphinium."
"Then... Delphinium?" Lin Xiaolu called out tentatively.
"Why are you so hesitant?"
Cuiqin raised her eyebrows slightly, obviously not satisfied with Lin Xiaolu's reaction, but she did not pursue the matter further and brought the topic back on track: "If you have any questions, just ask them now. There is no need for so much etiquette."
"Ah, then..."
Lin Xiaolu took a deep breath with a little hesitation. After a moment of wandering eyes, 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 let me see your fight, I feel great now, I'm very excited! No, I'm very touched!"
After Lin Xiaolu shouted out what was in her mind, she seemed to have completely given up her worries, and her speech speed became faster and faster: "Until now, the throbbing in my heart has not stopped, and my heartbeat has always been very fast!"
"I have always liked magical girl anime since I was very young. I think the magical girls in the anime are cute and powerful. They can do many things that I want to do but cannot achieve. They are very shining!"
"I want to change myself, forget the annoying things, and escape from this suffocating life. So when I knew I could become a magical girl, I was very happy and felt that my dream could come true!"
At this point, she finally paused for a moment and slowed down her speech: "It's just that after becoming a magical girl, I realized that nothing has changed except that I have to fight disgusting monsters frequently. I still hate everything around me, even myself."
"But just now, when I was about to be killed by that cruel beast and thought I was about to say goodbye to this disgusting world, you, Delphinium, appeared!"
"Your battle was so cool! So graceful! It was like a magical girl from an anime appeared before my eyes, like a fantasy character became real, so I was really, really moved!"
Lin Xiaolu's series of heartfelt shouts moved Cuiqiao somewhat.
Because she never knew that her daughter thought this way.
That's right, my own daughter.
Delphinium is Lin Yun.
Lin Yun drove dozens of kilometers from home to the park to save her daughter from the crippled beasts. After 19 years, she transformed herself into a magical girl again.
She did not immediately explain her identity to her daughter. Instead, she acted pretentiously, using the identity of an "inspector" and deliberately spoke in an aggressive manner. She just wanted to intimidate the sower named "Moko" and extract information from it.
But she didn't expect that although she was able to calm the man down, there was no information at all.
Apart from knowing that Mo Ke is a parallel import and the current situation in Fangting City is not optimistic, there is no new information.
Instead, it was his daughter Lin Xiaolu who said something that caught Lin Yun off guard.
"And besides the combat, the weapons are very classy!"
While Delphinium was silent, she continued to talk non-stop, her eyes shining, as if stars were twinkling in them: "Very imposing, making people feel stable and reliable!"
"She has a cute face and is so cute in her small stature!"
“The clothes are very nice too!”
“Cool way of talking!”
This series of even somewhat corny flattery made Delphinium more and more at a loss. Although she still maintained a cold expression on her face, the corners of her mouth could not help but twitch.
Lin Xiaolu made a series of compliments like a string of cannonballs, until finally, she bowed deeply: "So, I want to be a magical girl like you, to be my ideal self, can you please teach me!"
These words had a huge impact on Delphinium.
She couldn't help but start thinking about why it turned out like this.
Since Lin Xiaolu was born, the father-daughter relationship between the two has lasted for fourteen years, but in all these fourteen years, she has never heard so many compliments from her daughter. Especially the sentence "I want to be someone like you", even when the father-daughter relationship was the most harmonious, Lin Xiaolu never said such words to her.
But these words, which had touched her so deeply, now put her on the spot.
My daughter is so impressed and admires the role of "Delphinium" that I played. Can I still tell her the truth at this moment?
If my daughter knew that this "Delphinium" who appeared out of nowhere and whom she admired was actually the annoying old father, she would probably be very disappointed, right? She might even hate me even more, and it would be even more difficult for me to communicate with her in the future.
As these thoughts popped into her mind, she felt her eyes blurred, and she saw Mo Ke approaching her with tears in her eyes, and said with a sad expression: "Inspector--"
"Delphinium Senior!"
Lin Xiaolu also looked over with stars in her eyes.
Both the man and the fairy looked at her with pleading expressions. With two pitiful faces in front of her, Delphinium felt her mind gradually becoming confused.
Coupled with Lin Xiaolu's previous praise, she, who had long suffered from a cold relationship with her daughter, felt a long-lost touch, and the not-so-cool thoughts in her mind began to prevail.
"Okay, okay?"
It was under such circumstances that Delphinium made a promise that she would never have agreed to before.
(End of this chapter)
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