Transform into a magical girl after getting off work-Chapter 436 - 82 Semi_2
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Compared to facing the leader’s punishment for screwing things up, it would have been better to have clashed with those magical girls from the start; at least in a fight, there was a chance of victory, but facing the leader, there was only the path to death.
After it stopped in its tracks, it was only a short while before the four magical girls who were following close behind appeared before it.
And when Semi and the magical girls had a clear view of each other, they all had their different questions.
"...Fairy?"
"Only four people?"
The magical girl side, perhaps had never really considered that the enemy they would be facing was a fairy, and for a moment they found it hard to believe.
As for Semi, upon realizing that only four people had come, it knew trouble was brewing because it could easily guess where the remaining two were—definitely below the stone tower.
Although it had, as a precaution, already added protective magic techniques to the stone tower, it couldn’t be sure that the enemy wouldn’t use some strange methods to destroy the core of the ritual.
At that thought, Semi felt as if it was about to suffocate.
But it knew that as things got worse, it had to hide its fear even more; once it showed any sign of being in a rush, the enemies would certainly know the stone tower was the core of the ritual—that would be the real disaster.
So it tried its best to remain calm, made its actions seem as composed and elegant as possible, and spoke with a rather pretentious tone, "Good, this place is open enough, only a place like this is truly suitable for battle."
"Are you with that magical girl with the claw marks?"
Lin Xiaolu, standing at the very front, looked suspiciously at the Black Cat Fairy before her: "Are you the one responsible for sabotaging Fangting City’s protective net?"
"Hmph, I am under no obligation to answer your questions,"
Semi swayed its tail, replying rather coldly: "Unless you defeat me here, you are doomed to remain without any answers."
"What an arrogant creature!" Lin Xiaolu couldn’t help but smack her lips.
"Exactly, exactly, it’s just a fairy, and we have four people here!"
Mu Baihe also shouted: "And what’s this about defeating you, don’t say we’re bullying you afterwards!"
"No... something’s off."
Only Mimosa, at this moment, had a grave look and tugged on Mu Baihe’s sleeve: "It is a fairy."
"Hm? What’s wrong? It obviously is a fairy." Mu Baihe looked at Mimosa, her face confused.
"My sister said fairies wouldn’t betray the court."
Mimosa looked in Semi’s direction, her words measured: "But claw marks, they are the traitors."
"Ah, you mean that such fairies are rare?"
Mu Baihe nodded, understanding: "Because barely any fairies would betray the court, so it’s like, a rare kind of fairy?"
"That’s not what I meant!"
Mimosa seemed a bit irritated, pouting and tugging hard on Mu Baihe’s sleeve, almost knocking her to the ground: "Sister said, it’s not about wanting to, but about being unable to!"
"Not wanting to? Unable to?" Hearing Mimosa’s words left Mu Baihe completely befuddled.
"Do you mean it holds some sort of secret?"
Lin Xiaolu naturally heard the two’s conversation, so she turned to look at Mu Baihe: "Normal fairies cannot betray the kingdom, so it knows some sort of secret?"
"...I don’t know." However, when it comes to the real answer, Mimosa could only shake her head: "Fairies, I’ve only met Polly."
The Polly she mentioned was the Seeder in Bai’an City, and knowing only the Seeder fairy of one’s own city was actually quite common among magical girls.
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"Secret?"
And hearing their conversation, Semi, who had only been pretending to be proud, could no longer maintain its facade: "Ha? You mean to say the young ones today don’t even know about this kind of thing anymore?"
"What are you trying to say?" At this critical moment, Lin Xiaolu, rather uncommonly calm, did not interrupt but continued to inquire.
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Even she felt a premonition that the hidden message in the other party’s words was likely very important information for them.
"...Sigh, forget it, if you don’t even know my origins, there really isn’t much point in fighting."
Semi licked her paws and straightened up slightly, looking intently at the group of magical girls, "Let me introduce myself then, my name is Semi, and as you can see, I am a fairy."
"However, unlike those pets raised in the kingdom that you talk about, I was not born in the Magic Kingdom, but from Interspace."
"In this world, fairies exist in places other than just the Magic Kingdom."
Her words undoubtedly sparked surprise among the magical girls.
"Interspace?"
"There are fairies in Interspace?"
However, the points of surprise varied among them.
And regardless of the reason for the surprise, at least Bai Jingxuan, who stood at the very back, was already gripping her magic wand with a serious expression.
"...There’s the scent of Remnant Beasts." She spoke up, softly alerting everyone.
"Correct, quite a keen perception." Semi swished her tail and took up her words, "Sensing this, at least you won’t be caught off guard."
"What?" Her words, naturally, made Lin Xiaolu and the others feel something was amiss.
And just a moment later, they all understood where this unsettling feeling was coming from.
For Semi’s originally petite body, almost the size of a pet cat, had begun to swell without anyone realizing when.
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Like stuffing cotton into a doll nonstop, her once neat figure expanded in a shockingly twisted manner, and when this stuffed doll did not burst from too much filling but kept growing larger, that was what Semi looked like now.
Of course, it was not just about getting bigger.
Fangs, sharp teeth, fur—all these features became more pronounced as Semi grew in size, her black fur growing longer with the expansion, jutting outwards. Her original pair of eyes merged without notice, eventually forming one large eye.
A twitching cat’s tail also split into two and grew thicker, stretching straight into the sky like the dry branches of a tree.
Strange patterns snaked through her fur, becoming indistinguishable from it, as if they had grown on the monster’s body from birth.
Without a doubt, what appeared before everyone was no longer a fairy, but a Remnant Beast.
Its appearance still had a touch of a feline creature, but the huge cyclops eye and twin tails did not resemble any creature of the Material Realm. Whether in appearance or in the essence of magic power, it was nothing but a Remnant Beast.
"Fairies... can also become Remnant Beasts?" For Lin Xiaolu, this was the most astonishing thing she had ever seen.
She had seen humans become Remnant Beasts, and even magical girls who tapped into the power of Remnant Beasts—the look that Yuan took on—but she had never expected to see a fairy transform into a Remnant Beast.
In fact, this revelation impacted her more than the previous two mysteries had.
Though she had tried to rid herself of the influences of magical girl cartoons on her understanding, and had started to see clearly that real-life magical girls differed from the ones in animation, in her mind, fairies were still "pure, kind, and cute little animals." Even Moke, as scatterbrained as she was, followed this rule.
One could even say that in Lin Xiaolu’s understanding, fairies and "combat ability" were always two parallel lines, seemingly never meant to intersect.
Now, that perception was shattered, and in the most brutal way possible.
A fairy had become an enemy of magical girls right in front of her eyes, a Remnant Beast.
"I didn’t want to use this form in such a place, it’s too ostentatious."
The one-eyed Remnant Beast opened its huge mouth, and ink-like magic power surged out: "But since you’ve come to me, you might as well leave your lives behind."
It lifted its head, it stepped forward, its tails twined like twin serpents, weaving a pair of spirals in mid-air. The tips of the spirals pointed to the dark sky.
On this moonless night where no moon should have been, a pale blue full moon had now risen.
"—Or rather, fall into my lair."
