Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 196 Communication
Kissing the back of the hand is an ancient etiquette in both the physical and magical realms.

This etiquette, known as the "hand kiss" in the material world, is often used in very formal occasions, and is either used to express respect for a highly respected lady, or for subordinates to express loyalty to a high-ranking person.However, with the changes of the times, society as a whole in the material world has become technologically advanced, and such etiquette has faded into people's lives over time.

Today's hand kissing ceremony mostly appears in various movies, television and literary works, and has become a quite romantic behavior.Therefore, in the perception of young people, it is a relatively intimate and romantic approach.Using this kind of etiquette to greet, regardless of what Aso Maruka thought, at least the young magical girls from Fangting City and Bai'an City all exploded, and they all let out high and low exclamations in unison.

And if Bai'an City was still caused by pure gossip mentality, Fangting City, especially Lin Xiaolu, looked at Aso Maruka as if she wanted to eat someone.He rushed out in almost two steps and asked seriously, "What are you doing?"

"This is just an intimate greeting, Xiaolu." This was Aso Maruka's answer at the time.

"Expressing intimacy is obviously just a handshake or a hug. How can it be like this... like you..."

Lin Xiaolu hesitated for a long time and couldn't figure out how to sum up the other party's behavior. As she gradually digested the other party's words, she quickly discovered another question: "Wait a minute, why do you know my name?"

"I was once a magical girl in this city, so naturally I was also your mother's friend."

Aso Maruka's expression remained unchanged, and she glanced at Delphinium beside her. After seeing that there was no reaction, she said calmly: "Although you may not remember it, I even hugged you with my own hands not long after you were born. "

"Huh? With your own hands? What..." This kind of statement, which was almost a direct declaration of "I am your elder", immediately suppressed Lin Xiaolu's momentum. Although she was still quite dissatisfied, the confidence in her words suddenly weakened. "Are you lying? How come I don't know at all..."

"You can confirm with Delphinium, or go back and ask your father."

Smiling quite gently, Aso Maruka looked at Lin Xiaolu with interest: "Although neither they nor your mother mentioned me to you, our relationship was very good back then. Even 'Xiaolu' This name was also decided under my witness.”

Lin Xiaolu opened her mouth wordlessly. The other party's words sounded true, but she still couldn't believe it and could only look at Delphinium beside her.

Delphinium, who had been silent for a moment because of the sudden kiss on the hand, also came back to her senses at this time. First she glanced at Aso Maruka with a complicated expression, then sighed, looked at her daughter, and nodded: "Yes, except Hong Siyu, when you were born, your mother’s teammates were all the magical girls in Fangting City. From this perspective, you are a child who has been watched since you were born.”

"Look." Aso Maruka smiled and spread her hands.

"Well... since Delphinium admits it, then... let's take it as true."

Reluctantly accepting the fact that she suddenly had a few more "aunts", Lin Xiaolu pursed her lips and nodded, but then quickly stared and continued: "But what do you mean by kissing Delphinium's hand?" ! Do it with your own hands in such a public place!"

"Between adults, a kiss on the hand is nothing."

Aso Maruka continued to say gently: "It's just a kiss on the hand, not a kiss on the mouth, but you kids should not imitate it casually."

As soon as the word "kiss" came out, the eyes of Xia Liang, Bai Jingxuan, and the blond girl on the side lit up with interest in gossip news, while Lin Xiaolu's ears were hot and she couldn't help but point her hand at each other: "How can you be here? Anyone who says such words is simply acting like a hooligan!"

When Aso Maranka heard this, she froze in silence at first. After looking at Lin Xiaolu intently for a while, she suddenly couldn't help but laugh, "Puff", and laughed happily.

"Hahaha, it's so interesting!"

She sighed a little loudly, then bent down slightly from the side, leaned into Delphinium's ear and said, "Your daughter is so cute, did you really not teach her anything before?"

"Is it weird? She's only 14."

Delphinium glared at her: "Don't teach her anything, be serious."

"Okay, I'm measured."

Waving his hands to show that he knew, and ignoring Lin Xiaolu's dissatisfied angrily, Aso Maruka straightened up, walked directly in front of Lin Xiaolu, then stretched out her hand to her gracefully and said: "Sorry, if my words make you feel If you feel uncomfortable, then I take it back and hope you can accept my apology, Xiaolu."

"I just saw that my teammates' children have grown up so much, so I couldn't help but want to tease you. I hope you don't mind."

Seeing that Lin Xiaolu not only had no intention of shaking hands with her, but instead shrank back a little warily, the smile on Aso Maruka's face became even bigger, and then she retracted her hand without feeling any embarrassment: "Anyway, I hope we will have a good relationship next time." Let’s take the time to get along well.”

"Next?" Xia Liang, who had been watching the show, keenly captured the key words in her words and repeated it immediately.

"Yes, we may stay in Fangting City for a while."

Maruka Aso nodded: "Let me introduce myself to you again. I am the captain of the Magical Girl Team in Bai'an City, the alternate inspector of the Investigation Institute, Magical Girl Margaret. Because Fangting City has recently been suspected of being a target of claw marks and... The security situation in Black Ember Dawn's high-frequency activity area is not good. After consultation with the director of the Investigation Institute, they will be temporarily stationed in Fangting City to provide force support."

"At the same time, considering that the new year's qualification certification exam will be held in less than half a year, the new magical girls in our Bai'an City team also came to Fangting City to apply for the cross-city qualification exam. study Exchange."

"study Exchange?"

Sensing something from the other party's words, Lin Xiaolu raised her head slightly, first looked at Aso Maroka, and then looked at the magic girls from Bai'an City with some confusion.

There is no doubt that the Bai'an City team is also looking at her, or in other words, at the girls in Fangting City.

——"As the instructor said, the purpose of our coming to Fangting City is to learn and communicate."

The girl codenamed Bai Ji took a step forward, took over Aso Maruka's words, and continued: "In other words, we are here not only to help, but also to compete. According to the instructor's expectations, she wants to see Fang Ting We also hope that we can use this to verify the results of our learning to see what kind of strength the current magical girls in the city have. To confirm whether we can outperform the new magical girls in the place where she came from."

"Kick the pavilion..."

Lin Xiaolu blinked, and gradually came back to her senses, realizing what the other party was actually saying: "What else are you talking about about studying? Aren't you here to fight with us?"

"Humph, are you scared?" The blond girl standing slightly behind said with a smile, "I saw it before, you guys can't even defeat the beasts of the earthworm level?" "What do you mean you can't defeat the earthworm? It was obviously you who took my head by force!" Lin Xiaolu suddenly became unhappy.

"Why are you just grabbing people's heads? I didn't even take the echo, did I?"

"Isn't that because you were covered in the slime of a mutilated beast and ran away before you could take it?"

"I told you not to mention it again!"

As soon as Lin Xiaolu mentioned the beast slime, the blond girl immediately half-covered her mouth with a livid face: "Are you trying to provoke me on purpose?"

"Oh, it's not certain who provokes the first one!" Lin Xiaolu replied with her hands on her hips.

Seeing that these two people were about to start a quarrel before even saying a few words, Xia Liang quickly acted as peacemaker and pulled Lin Xiaolu back. At the same time, he turned his head and looked at Bai Ji: "Anyway, you are here to communicate with us... …Or maybe it’s a discussion, right?”

"This is what the instructor means."

Bai Ji nodded: "Of course, it's just a comparison of strength. We have no hostility in essence. Mu Baihe just said something a little unpleasant and has no intention of embarrassing you."

"Who is Mu Lily?" Xia Liang looked at the blond girl and the taciturn girl behind her.

"It's me, it's me."

After staring at each other with Lin Xiaolu, the blond girl crossed her arms and said somewhat proudly: "My code name is Mu Lily. Although I don't know your strength for the time being, the guy over there can't beat Li Jie. It somewhat disappoints me, but since it was taught by the Inspector, don’t make me feel helpless...ahem!"

She spoke in a rather arrogant tone, but unfortunately before she could finish speaking, Aso Maruka who was standing next to her slapped her hard on the back.

Almost suffocated by this slap, the girl codenamed Mu Lily coughed several times in succession, looked at the other party with a somewhat aggrieved look, spoke again reluctantly, and continued: "I hope you can treat me well." Let’s see the strength of Fangting City… Anyway, please give me some advice.”

After she finished speaking, she turned her attention to the taciturn girl beside her.

This girl, who had never spoken five words since everyone met, was glanced at. Her shoulders suddenly shrugged, her head lowered, her bangs covering her eyes, and she said in an extremely small voice: "...I am Mimosa.”

Then, he couldn't help but take a few steps back, half of his body hiding behind Bai Ji.

"...He lives up to his name." Upon seeing this, Xia Liang commented.

"Indeed, he lives up to his name." Mu Lily on the side also nodded seriously.

After the magical girls in Bai'an City introduced their code names, the girls in Fangting City also introduced their code names to each other, assuming that they knew each other.Then, Bai Ji turned back to look at Aso Maranka and signaled that she had finished speaking.

"——Very good, White Thistle. That's pretty much what I wanted to express before."

Aso Maruka nodded, her eyes swept over the newlyweds present, and finally looked at Delphinium again: "What do you think of my suggestion?"

"Discussion..."

Squinting her eyes slightly, Delphinium did not give an answer immediately, but this was not because she had any scruples, but because she was still weighing and judging.

After hearing the word "learning and communication", she already knew what kind of medicine the other party was selling, so she first estimated the strength of the magical girls in Bai'an City in her impression, and then looked at Lin Xiaolu Several people secretly compared the strength gap between each other.

After some comparisons, based on her previous impressions, she had to come to a slightly pessimistic conclusion - she might not be able to win.

She knew very well the strength of the girls in her team: when Lin Xiaolu didn't use the strange white magic power, she was probably at the level where she could defeat the beasts of the worm class by herself; Xia Liang was progressing faster and had already been promoted. She has reached the leaf level, but she hasn't even started to learn the spells yet, and is basically only slightly stronger than the bud level. Bai Jingxuan's strength has improved rapidly, and she even defeated the chrysalis level by herself when she revealed the magic power of the residual beast. Ability...but to be honest, this power is completely impossible to use in sparring.

In other words, whether it is Lin Xiaolu, Xia Liang, or Bai Jingxuan, under normal circumstances they are only at the bud level, or slightly stronger than the bud level.

And what about these three magical girls in Bai'an City?
First up is White Thistle, an unmistakable leaf class.This was confirmed by Delphinium during her stay in Bai'an City, because Baiji had used the technique more than once and was obviously very proficient in it.

Next is Mu Lily. Regardless of whether this child has reached the level of Ye Level, at least he has a very powerful talent in terms of magic perception. In terms of range of perception alone, he can even compare with himself in Bai'an City at that time.

Finally, there is Mimosa. Although he has never shown any strength from beginning to end, and has even been vaguely protected by Baiji, whether it is the accidental display of magic power or Aso Maruka's attitude, it shows that things are not that simple.

Although it sounds very pessimistic, if a competition really starts on the same spot now, the Fangting City team's chance of winning will not be higher than [-]% - this [-]% is still a situation where Lin Xiaolu and Bai Jingxuan can perform exceptionally, otherwise Xia Liang It is difficult for a person to survive alone.

Is it necessary to agree to a competition that is bound to lose at this stage?Will this arouse children's competitive spirit, or will it dampen their enthusiasm?

This is what Delphinium needs to weigh.

However, before she could think of a specific conclusion, Aso Maruka not far away spoke again.

"Ah, by the way, Delphinium, actually it's meaningless just to discuss things. I have another proposal."

She clapped her hands as if she suddenly remembered something, and then looked at Delphinium. The smile on her face faded slightly, and she didn't know when she became more serious:
——"If you lose this competition, I hope that the Fangting City team will not participate in this year's qualification examination."

　After procrastinating for a few more days, I continue to apologize to everyone. I will never promise anything in advance if I can't do it next time. I feel like I'm cheating, and I feel very guilty.Next time I will honestly admit that I can't write it, sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)