Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 170 Delphinium's Plan

Under the bright light, the porcelain white dinner plate shone slightly with oil.On the wooden dining table, scattered tableware is placed neatly or messily.Delphinium leaned on the back of the chair, crossed her hands, and tapped the fingers of her right hand slowly in the crook of her arm.

Across the dining table, Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liangduan were sitting there upright.

On the table between them are several plates of home-cooked dishes that are still warm, and they should taste good from the looks of them.It's just that there are a lot of these home-cooked dishes left, and it's obvious that they haven't been touched much.Everyone at the table looked tense, even Nini was sitting upright, and only Mo Ke at the corner of the table was eating without hesitation.

After the dinner time, Delphinium asked the two girls to tell the whole story in front of everyone. After learning that all the tutoring money he gave had been embezzled, she pursed her lips and said nothing for a long time.

This made Lin Xiaolu, who was already guilty, even more nervous. Although she was sitting upright, her eyes kept staring at her knees, as if there was some treasure on the ground; although Xia Liang was not as frightened as Lin Xiaolu, she obviously knew that she had really done something wrong. , with a flattering smile on his face, and a begging look in his eyes as he looked at the delphinium.

Delphinium glanced back and forth between the two of them. After a while, she closed her eyes and sighed helplessly: "That is to say, both of you have used up the tuition money I gave you, but you haven't paid for it. Buy books."

The two girls remained motionless and silent, apparently acquiescing.

"What else can I say, you are also big kids, and you don't need me to teach you the basic principles of using money reasonably."

She squinted her eyes, and her tone gradually slowed down: "I am your senior, not your parents, and I have no obligation to teach you the right and wrong of this kind of thing. Although I am actually a little dissatisfied and disappointed, it is not enough for me How harshly to criticize and accuse you."

"I'm just a little bit helpless. After all, I can be regarded as half of your teacher in terms of learning, but you have completely forgotten what I have explained."

"Probably because the burden I put on you is too heavy? After all, you didn't need to patrol alone before, but now you have to go to school during the day, go on security patrol after school, and have to be supervised by me to study when you go home. Compared with people of the same age It’s a bit too hard for humans, shouldn’t I give you a little more personal time?”

"If you are dissatisfied with me in these matters, you can speak out at any time, and I will reduce some of your work Huh? What's wrong with you, Bai Mei? "

Delphinium hadn't finished speaking when she noticed that the daughter in front of her had a strange look on her face.

Lin Xiaolu's shoulders trembled slightly at first, then the corners of her eyes and nose turned red, and after sobbing twice, tears flowed down her face.

"I... woo woo, I'm not..."

She seemed to want to explain, but her words were blocked by a choke in her throat, and she couldn't finish speaking for a long time.

This kind of reaction also attracted the attention of several girls on the side. Xia Liang had a helpless smile of "I knew it", while Bai Jingxuan's expression was full of doubts and incomprehension.

"what's the situation?"

This caused Delphinium, who had a serious face two seconds ago, to panic, and quickly jumped off the chair, ran to Lin Xiaolu's side, turned to look at Lin Xiaolu and said, "Why are you crying? Why are you crying? Am I speaking too harshly?"

"No... I, I haven't forgotten what you said Delphinium, and I didn't want to complain to you. How could I not pay attention to or hate what you said, I obviously didn't think about it that way, I didn't at all..."

Lin Xiaolu covered her mouth and nose, her shoulders couldn't stop shaking, and said after a pause: "I really just accidentally made a mistake, I'm sorry..."

"Is it really just carelessness? Well, I misunderstood you."

Delphinium tried to keep her voice as soft as possible: "I see, it's not your fault, anyway, don't cry, okay?"

"I, I didn't want to cry..."

Lin Xiaolu tried her best to suppress her sobs: "I just, just couldn't help it."

"It's okay, if you can't help it, just cry for a while, it's okay."

Delphinium held her hands in bluff and waved them slightly: "Don't hold back, cry first, I don't mind."

"It's ugly to cry..."

"No, magical girls are cute even when they cry."

"I don't want to do bad things, don't hate me." Lin Xiaolu sniffed twice.

"I don't hate you, you don't have to worry about these things." Delphinium tried hard to make her answer sound serious enough.

Under her half-coaxing and half-persuading, Lin Xiaolu managed to stop her tears, but even after crying, she still grabbed the delphinium's sleeve, as if she was afraid that someone would run away.

After going through such a mess, it was not easy for the restaurant to regain its calm.After comforting Lin Xiaolu, delphinium remembered that she hadn't finished speaking, but the atmosphere has reached this stage, even if she wants to put on a straight face, it's very difficult.

She could only look around quite tiredly, and finally her gaze stayed on Xia Liang: "Bai Mei has finished explaining, do you have anything to say?"

"I'm sorry, senior, I won't dare next time." Xia Liang put his hands together and lowered his head immediately: "Please spare my life, please."

"...Oh, so be it."

The delphinium sighed, looked at Bai Jingxuan who was at the side, and pointed at Xia Liang: "Did you see, you must never learn from them in the future."

Bai Jingxuan nodded obediently, as if she had been educated.

Seeing that the youngest child was not affected badly by this matter, Delphinium was slightly relieved.She turned her face again and looked at the girls who made mistakes: "In short, let's not make an example. I will transfer you another copy of the money for buying books tomorrow. I hope you can do what you say this time."

"I will delete the game immediately."

Lin Xiaolu frowned and wiped the corners of her eyes: "I will never charge money in the game again."

"I won't waste my money, I promise."

Xia Liang on the side raised her hand and raised her head again: "But Xiaolu's games are actually not in a hurry to delete them, right? Mobile games generally have a refund channel, and there are also reasons such as minors' impulsive consumption. Do you think you might get your money back if you give it a try?"

Lin Xiaolu nodded: "Then, then refund the money first..."

"Stop, stop first."

Delphinium tapped the table twice, and waved the other hand: "I'm not that unkind, and I don't even want you to touch the game. It's like Xiaojin's hair, I It's impossible to flatten the ends of your hair; it's the same with Baimei, since you spend money in the game, it means you have the game items you want? You've spent all the money, so keep playing. "

"However, playing games is not good in the first place." Lin Xiaolu said softly.

"So play appropriately and manage your time well."

Delphinium raised a finger: "And, I have another request, which is to show me the game you play. I need to know what game makes you want to spend money; and make sure that the content of the game is Appropriate for your age."

In fact, this was her original purpose.Rather than criticizing her daughter for spending money in the game, she wants to know why her daughter spends money in the game.

Although Lin Yun also played games when he was young, most of the time he went to the arcade with the team members, or played cooperative party games together.He himself has hardly played long-term online games.

Lin Yun also knows that in today's material world, games are something that teenagers will inevitably come into contact with when they grow up. Although many parents regard it as a scourge, his attitude is relatively enlightened.In his mind, it’s better to keep children from playing games, instead of strictly guarding against them, which will eventually cause children to be unbalanced in school, or to play secretly; it’s better to seriously understand what children like, and then do it openly. manage.

It's just that Lin Xiaolu had no interest in games in the past, and was addicted to animation programs on TV most of the time.Now it is rare to find that her daughter is playing games, and even put money into it, delphinium is also very curious about what it is for.

"Then I might as well delete the game..." Lin Xiaolu muttered softly.

"Huh?" Delphinium reminded with a snort.

"...Understood, I'll show you." Lin Xiaolu obediently took out her phone.

After taking her daughter's mobile phone, Delphinium saw the icon of "Magic Girl Sentai" on the last line at a glance, and cleared three points of doubts in her heart.

She knew her daughter's yearning and attachment to "magic girls" since she was a child, and she had talked about these things with Lin Xiaolu before walking home at night.If it's a game about magical girls, it's possible to attract your own daughter.

Clicking on the game interface, she took a serious look at the art style of the game, and found that it was a fresh painting style in the style of a picture book. The magical girls in the game seemed to be well-dressed, and there was nothing too offensive. The recognition rate has risen a little bit.

But when she clicked on the character illustration book and flicked across the preview of the magical girl in the game, her movements became slower and slower, and finally, she stopped her sight on several of the characters.

"this game……"

She raised her eyebrows slightly: "Are you using a real magical girl as a prototype?"

"That's our guess."

Lin Xiaolu didn't want to talk, Xia Liang explained from the side: "After all, we even saw a magical girl who looks a bit like Sakura-senpai."

"Which one?" Delphinium asked.

"It's called Shucao." Xia Liang answered bluntly.

Not noticing Lin Xiaolu's expression of wanting to get into the ground next to her, Delphinium flicked twice in the character illustration and found the character codenamed "Dawn Grass".

And when she clicked on the avatar and heard the other party's lines and greetings, she looked a little dazed.

"What you want... is this role?"

She couldn't help asking Lin Xiaolu, "Because you saw her? That's why you put money into the game?"

"...Yes." Lin Xiaolu nodded.

Delphinium's expression suddenly became complicated.

It was an expression mixed with various emotions that no one could distinguish clearly.Even a child like Xia Liang, who is good at observing words and expressions, couldn't fully understand it.

"I understand."

After a while, Delphinium handed the phone back to Lin Xiaolu: "I agree, just treat the money as pocket money from me."

"Give me... pocket money?"

Lin Xiaolu raised her head in surprise: "Is this really okay?"

"Just treat it as a gift from adults." Delphinium reached out and patted the back of the phone, "I'm giving you a gift for patrolling for so many days."

——"So what's the matter? I haven't met Sakura-senpai himself, so only you, junior, know. Do you really look like him?"

The conversation between the two made Xia Liang very curious, and at some point, he leaned over to Delphinium again: "Or did you just borrow a name?"

Bai Jingxuan on the other side of the dining table also pricked up her ears, probably because she heard the code name "Sakura", so she paid extra attention.

"...not like."

Under the expectant gaze of the two girls, Delphinium gradually closed his eyes: "However, there are indeed many places that will make people associate."

"It's not like it, but why does it make people associate it?" Bai Jingxuan asked immediately.

"It's not just the resemblance that makes people think."

Delphinium has a complicated expression: "If you are really familiar enough, just a conversation, an idea, or a preference may remind you of a certain person."

"I still don't understand..." Bai Jingxuan shook her head, but didn't ask any more questions.

Both she and Xia Liang could tell that neither Delphinium nor Lin Xiaolu's emotions were very high when it came to the character named "Shucao" in the game who was actually a reflection of "Sakura".

"Let's not talk about this now! I suddenly thought of one thing, since there are so many prototypes in this game that are based on the characters of magical girls in reality..."

Xia Liang raised her voice and changed the subject as if trying to cheer up the atmosphere: "Then, is there any character whose prototype is the junior?"

Her words immediately caught the attention of everyone present.

Whether it was Bai Jingxuan, who was still curious before, or Lin Xiaolu, who was a little depressed, they all looked up at her in unison, and then looked at the mobile phone loaded with the game.

"Why didn't I think of it!"

Lin Xiaolu suddenly became a little excited: "Maybe there really is a delphinium in here!"

"...It doesn't make sense to say that the prototype is mine?"

Delphinium retorted from the side: "After all, I am already here, why do I have to find another me in the game?"

"That's different!"

While talking, Lin Xiaolu clicked on the illustration book: "I really want to see what the delphinium looks like in the game!"

"I want to too!" Bai Jingxuan hurriedly jumped off the seat, trotting to Lin Xiaolu's side, together with Xia Liang who had already walked past, the three of them immediately huddled together.

Delphinium could only watch the behavior of the three girls, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

The three little ones just scanned the illustrated book line by line, but the initial excitement and interest slowly passed over time. After they scanned the illustrated book thoroughly, they were all inexplicably silent.

"What's wrong?" Now delphinium was curious.

"No..." Lin Xiaolu said unhappily, "I haven't seen any magical girls who look like delphiniums."

"There is a magical girl whose style and color are somewhat similar to the junior." Xia Liang thought about it and said, "But that magical girl is not short, and her code name is 'Silver Flower Grass', which should refer to other magical girls. Right? Could it be the Blue Star senior from Tiandu City?"

"Why is there no mother?" Bai Jingxuan was obviously not very interested, so that she didn't notice how the address she blurted out attracted surprised eyes from around: "Mother is obviously a big shot in the magic kingdom, right?"

"No...that, you..."

Lin Xiaolu was obviously the one who cared the most about this title. She first opened her mouth to ask something, but suddenly remembered the oolong a few days ago, and swallowed the second part of the sentence:
"Forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything."

Several girls continued to search around the phone screen for a while, and found that there was indeed no magical girl whose prototype was suspected to be a delphinium, so they finally put down their thoughts and scattered.

Lin Xiaolu was also like this at first, but realized that Delphinium had agreed to recharge her money, and suddenly remembered that she still had the 12 draws that were far from the guarantee, so she pursed her lips again and returned to the main menu interface of the game, thinking To continue to draw cards.

However, when she returned to the main interface, a notification popped up suddenly in the game.

It was a preview of future in-game events.

[Hello, dear fairies, "Magical Girl Sentai" will start a new round of plot activities on November 11th, the event is called "Attack!"Claws.Read the event story, challenge the event dungeon and boss, so as to get rich rewards! 】

[Synopsis of the plot: After defeating the huge beast that attacked the city, the Magical Girl Squad got a strange spar, but at this time they didn't know that this spar had attracted the attention of a special organization, A battle for spar is about to start.And for this reason, a new enemy also appeared in front of them...]

[Scope of participation in the event: Completed all the plot levels of the main storyline of Chapter 22. 】

【活动维护时间：11月28日，9:00~13:00】

[Event Bonus Role: [Mission Reappearance] Card Pool Role: [Super Rare] Morning Glory]

"……What the hell?"

Looking at this announcement, Lin Xiaolu suddenly felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell what it was.

After thinking for a while, she saw that everyone else had already started to clear the table, so she didn't bother with this matter anymore, but put it behind her mind along with her unfinished card drawing business.

So, she turned off the phone screen.

(End of this chapter)