Transform into a magical girl after getting off work-Chapter 419 - 75 Obstruction_2
A moment ago, the woman who claimed to be Claw Mark had left through that window.
With her mind churning, Lin Xiaolu first stared at the window expressionlessly, then her face showed a trace of inner conflict. After a while, as if coming to a resolution, she let out a sigh and stood up.
"Sorry."
It was unclear to whom she was addressing those words as she took steps toward the window.
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It was a dark and windy night, and strange noises continuously emanated from the depths of Silver Screen Mountain, thick with trees.
As a mountain far from the urban area of Fangting City, with relatively little tourist development, Silver Screen Mountain saw few visitors throughout the year. Moreover, on New Year’s Eve, when most of the locals chose to spend the evening with their families, the mountain was even more deserted.
In such an environment, a tower made of rubble and mud had inexplicably risen.
About ten or so meters tall and half a meter thick, the tower was marked with weird, distorted patterns. Its height just exceeded the surrounding trees, poking through the layers of foliage to stand against the night sky. And if someone were to look carefully, they would see a strange, purplish-black glow flickering at the top of the tower.
A black cat was squatting there. Explore more stories at novelbuddy
To be precise, it was a fairy that resembled a black cat.
The patterns on the stone tower continued to extend upwards, becoming increasingly intertwined. These patterns eventually converged at the top, now covered by Semi’s paws.
It was infusing its magic power into the patterns, attempting to complete a certain ritual. The goal of said ritual was quite straightforward— to blow up this mountain beneath it, along with part of Fangting City’s city protection network.
Such a mad endeavor naturally required an enormous amount of magic power. For a fairy not particularly strong in magic power, the difficulty of this task was significantly magnified, hence the need to construct this stone tower to aid the ritual.
Squatting unmoving on the stone tower, with time seemingly frozen around it, Semi suddenly opened its eyes after an indeterminate period had lapsed in the outside world.
It sensed a sound from high above.
A white trail stretched from a distance towards Silver Screen Mountain, with a continuous, tearing sound emanating from the trail’s leading edge, then disappearing over Semi’s head.
About ten seconds later, a figure suddenly fell from the sky, landing gracefully in front of it.
"Ready?"
Cornflower smoothed her hair and walked towards the tower, "Will it be successful?"
"The ritual taught by the leader won’t go wrong."
Squatting on the tower, Semi showed a weary look on its face, lowered its head to look at Cornflower, "And you, making such a show of going to declare war on Fangting City’s Magical Girl, and they just let you come back easily?"
"I didn’t go looking for Cornflower directly, and besides, I don’t even know where Fangting City’s Magical Girls are. It made more sense to have the Abnormal Strategy Bureau relay my message."
When Cornflower spoke of this, it sounded as light as if she had just gone out to buy a bottle of water, "Anyway, the effect is the same, now we just wait for them to come."
"Hmm," Semi nodded, not disputing this.
The two fell silent for a moment.
Cornflower sat cross-legged at the base of the tower, leaning against it and quietly gazing at the nearly pitch-black night sky. The new moon of the new year was nowhere to be seen, and only a few lonely stars twinkled through the thick cloud, appearing exceptionally solitary.
Semi was focused on guiding the magic power for the ritual. Although the process was mechanical and tedious, it did not prevent it from immersing itself fully, with no spare attention to find a topic of conversation.
After an indefinite duration of this stillness, Cornflower suddenly spoke.
—"Hey, Semi."
"What is it?"
"How do you feel about these two months in the city? Do you feel happy at all?" Cornflower tilted her head slightly, as though asking casually.
"...Why do you suddenly ask this?"
"No reason, just bored and looking for a topic," Cornflower explained, "If you don’t want to talk about this, never mind, it doesn’t matter."
"Oh." Semi took her words at face value, swishing its tail lightly as it reminisced about its life during this period before reaching a conclusion, "Not great, pretty bad actually."
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"Pretty bad?"
"Isn’t it obvious? Following around an unreliable fellow like you, sleeping rough, sometimes even fighting with a bunch of rough stray cats over scraps in the trash cans, and even that one time I got a random stray cat propositioning me... If you ask me for the most wretched experiences of my life, they’ve all been these past two months."
Looking down towards Cornflower, Semi said rather plaintively, "Just thinking about finally getting to leave this life behind, I don’t want to stay in this place of painful memories for even a second longer."
"Wow, is it that bad? I thought it was okay," Cornflower laughed it off.
"It’s super bad! You should at least reflect on this!" Semi insisted sternly, "Anyway, all this is because I took on this mission with you, so you better make it up to me when we get back!"
"Alright, alright," Cornflower responded somewhat dismissively, "What kind of compensation do you want?"
"I want five echoes above the molting level," Semi stated its demand without hesitation.
