Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 229 Home
There are many inequalities in the world.

There is inequality among humans, there is inequality among beasts, and of course, there is inequality among goblins.

The fairies born in the magic kingdom have been enjoying the tranquility and beauty in the world of flowers since the beginning of their lives. They are loved by magical girls and employed by the royal court. As key characters in the magic kingdom, they are active in various fields.

Many fairies born in the underworld are trapped in this barren and boring world for their entire lives. The sky here is dirty, the earth here is cracked, the life here is withered, and the moon here is blue. There has never been "spring" in their lives.

For fairies who love nature and are close to flowers and plants, such a world is tantamount to death. Therefore, their lives in the underworld have always been confused and pessimistic.

Semi is also one of these interdimensional fairies.

To it, the "meaning of life" has always been a false proposition, because fairies like it have no meaning of life at all. The vegetation and forests that fairies love are nowhere to be seen here.

However, even so, the heavens have never shown any mercy to this world. With frequent and horrific natural disasters and crippled beasts everywhere, every fairy in the other world has to try their best to survive, and then look at the blue moon in the night and continue to face the hopeless tomorrow.

Is it really necessary for me to live such a boring life?
Sammy once expressed this question to Big Jack.

Big Jack is the boss of the fairies in the world, or their common patriarch. He is a pure-blooded fairy with a huge body, more than ten meters tall and more than ten meters wide. In the eyes of ordinary fairies, he can be said to be a huge existence. He always said that his name is "Jack", but because he is so big, the name has been passed around and became "Big Jack".

"Do you think life is boring, kid?" Big Jack asked Semi in response to his question.

"It's boring. I want to play happily among the flowers and enjoy the peace in the shade of the trees, but there is nothing here. I feel depressed every day," said Semi.

"It sounds like you don't hate 'being alive', you just hate this boring world."

"What's the difference?"

"Haha, of course there is."

Big Jack patted his belly, making a dull "dong dong" sound: "Maybe one day, when you are able to leave this land, you will find that there are still many wonderful things you have not experienced. At that time, you may feel that your life is meaningful."

"But we can't leave here at all. We can never go to another world."

"Who says it can't be done?"

Big Jack said in a deep voice, "As long as I want, kid. If I want, I can take all the goblins away from this world at any time."

"Then why do we have to live here?" Sammy was puzzled.

"Because this is our home, the foundation of us fairies."

Big Jack said cheerfully: "No matter how dilapidated this world is, we can't abandon our home. If we leave here, we will just be a group of wandering vagrants, and we will never find another place to live."

"I hate this kind of 'home'." That's what Sammy said.

"It's no use for you to hate me." Big Jack didn't care.

"I want to get out of here."

"Whatever you want, if you really can go."

"help me."

"I won't help."

Sammy ultimately failed to persuade Big Jack.

It can only continue to stay in this boring world, day after day, year after year, repeating the boring life.

Until one day, something unexpected happened.

It seemed that because of some conflict with the magic kingdom, the fairies in the other world started a large-scale and protracted war with the magic kingdom.

The intensity of this war was unprecedented. Countless goblins from the other world rushed to the battlefield one after another, as if to vent all their frustration and anger in the other world, and burned their lives on the battlefield.

However, compared to the world of the underworld, which has nothing, the magic kingdom is too rich in resources and too powerful. Moreover, fairies are not good at fighting, and compared to magical girls, fairies' war qualities are not excellent.

In the late stages of the war, even Big Jack was seriously injured and fell into a coma, but the remaining goblins were already deeply trapped in the war and were in a dilemma.

At this time, a group of strange humans who called themselves "Apostles" appeared.

The goblins were not unfamiliar with these humans, because they had actually been lurking in the underworld for a long time, but they had always been focused on dealing with the remnant beasts, and it could be said that they had nothing to do with the goblins, and the two sides had no intersection.

These people appeared when the fairies were about to be defeated, providing the remaining fairies in the middle world with another option.

"Borrow the power of the remaining beasts."

At least that's what they say.

Since the fairies themselves are not good at fighting, they can use the magic power of the remaining beasts to fight against the magic kingdom, so as to make up for the lack of individual soldier strength.

Sammy joined in.

In its mind, if it was defeated and hid back in the underworld, it would be just continuing its meaningless life like a rat in a gutter, so it might as well burn everything and perish together with the enemy.

Thus, it and its companions, with the help of those humans, mastered the power of the remnant beasts, and were even able to transform themselves into remnant beasts, unleashing combat power far beyond their past.

This group of fairies, with the determination to fight to the death, together with the remnant beasts brought by humans, launched a surprise attack on the power center of the magic kingdom - the royal court.

At that time, Semi might never have imagined that such a surprise attack would become the end of the war between the kingdom and the world.

Twenty years have passed, and this war has been recorded in the history of the magic kingdom, known as the "Garden Defense War."

The result of this war was a tragic victory for the magic kingdom and a tragic defeat for the "rebels", namely Semi and his group of fairies from the other world.

Semi could no longer remember when he lost consciousness on the battlefield.

It only remembered that it kept charging forward, stepping on the corpses of countless companions, just to pass through the "garden" and reach the Rose Palace, and wanted to swing its claws at the figure on the throne no matter what. However, its consciousness fell into silence in the seemingly endless battle.

Later, it woke up in the arms of a magical girl. It was a magical girl who had participated in the war with it. It knew because it vaguely remembered that it had scratched her true form before it fell into a coma. This caused the other party to suffer an injury that even the magical girl's ability could not heal, and she lost an arm forever.

But it was this one-armed magical girl who secretly hid Semi, who was unconscious on the battlefield, and took her away from the garden.

The one-armed magic girl hid it in her home, avoiding the search from the royal court, and raised it like a real pet. She knew Semi's name, but insisted on giving Semi a nickname, called "Cat".

Sammy didn't understand.

It didn't understand that it was her enemy and even injured her arm, so they should have been enemies. But the one-armed magical girl didn't kill it and even chose to protect it.

It had also asked this question to the other party, but the answer given by the magical girl was "I don't know".

The magical girls and fairies, who were supposed to be enemies of each other, lived together peacefully in the magic kingdom.

This period of time was probably the happiest time in Semi's entire life.

The one-armed magical girl looks a little cold, but is actually very gentle and delicate. She takes care of Semi very carefully, not only satisfying her needs for food and drink, but also taking Semi to various places in the kingdom, witnessing many sceneries that cannot be seen in the other world.

They climbed every mountain they could see and crossed every river they passed. Then, when they arrived at their destination, the girl would always hold Semi in her only remaining arm and sit with it in various fairy-like scenic spots, quietly staring at the sky in a daze.

At times like this, Semi would think of what Big Jack had said to him many years ago, and Big Jack was indeed right. Here, he discovered that there were many wonderful things that he was experiencing for the first time, and his life was full of meaning for the first time.

But happy times are always short-lived, and soon, something unexpected happened again. This time, it happened to the one-armed magical girl.

——Because she suffered an incurable serious injury and became disabled, her combat capability as a magical girl was greatly affected. After research by the Magic Academy, it was decided to retire her.

Retirement actually means taking away the Heart Gem and completely ending her career as a magical girl.

Because the girl was injured in the defense of the garden and had made great contributions in protecting the royal court, the Magic Institute gave her very generous retirement benefits: not only did she have inexhaustible wealth, but she also had a stable job in the rear. Even if she had children in the future, she would have priority in obtaining the qualifications to become a magical girl.

For normal people, this might not be a problem: after all, being seriously injured and disabled means that one cannot fight properly, so it is better to retire and enjoy life. However, the one-armed magical girl does not think so.

She doesn't want to give up her identity as a magical girl.

No one knows what her real thoughts are. All we know is that she rejected the proposal of the Magic Academy and refused the retirement process.

However, the country also rejected her refusal, insisting that she should retire, and after several unsuccessful attempts at communication, chose the most drastic measure - forced retirement.

When Semi watched the one-armed magical girl being taken away by the kingdom personnel at home, it could do nothing because the other party had already ordered it to hide well and not show up.

It just watched the girl being escorted away, and only after the footsteps faded away did it dare to crawl to the window and look at the remaining magic tracks in the sky.

Semi sat by the window, without eating or drinking, like a sculpture for three days.

These three days seemed very long, but in fact they were not that long for it, because during this period its mind was empty and it didn't think about anything, and its whole body was like an empty shell.

Three days later, the door of the house was opened.

Semi rushed to the door as fast as he could to greet the other party, thinking about how to comfort the magical girl who had lost her magic power, and how to live the rest of her life.

Then, it saw the very familiar figure standing at the door, but the empty sleeves had been filled again.

The one-armed magical girl - or rather, she who used to have one arm - was standing at the door of her own home. Her originally simple and somewhat childish magical girl outfit was now covered with evil patterns, and a pair of vertical pupils were quietly floating in her dark sclera.

She had a smell that was extremely strange, yet very familiar to Semi.

That's the smell of beastly remains.

On that day, the girl abandoned her original code name of magical girl and got a new code name called "Black Cat".

For Semi, that day also marked the end of his not-so-long peaceful days. He returned to the other world and started a new life of wandering.

But this time, I have a companion on my wandering journey.

The girl joined an organization called "Claw Mark". The leader of this organization was the former Gem Scepter of the Magic Kingdom, whose origin was amazing. The girl became the deputy leader with her strong talent and combat power.

The girl would still often hold Semi in her arms, just her and it, staring blankly together, but she was no longer looking at the beautiful blue sky of the magic kingdom. All that was left in her vision was the yellow sand of the middle world and the blue moon that floated quietly there every night.

Only at this time would the girl gently tell Semi about her dream - she wanted to build a truly beautiful and equal home, where there would be no war, no oppression, and no difference in status, and everyone except the cruel beasts could live and work in peace.

And then, Semi would listen to her quietly.

Although she has suffered a lot of injuries, the girl still has many beautiful fantasies about this world and she hopes to build an ideal country.

As for Semi, it hated the world, it hated this desolate so-called "hometown" from which it could never escape; it hated the country, it hated the royal court that had hurt Big Jack and the girl but was still high and mighty.

However, there is another voice in its heart. It is still attached to the world of the underworld, a land that carries the emotions of countless fairies; it is still yearning for the beautiful and moving natural scenery in the kingdom; it is still curious about the peculiar civilizations created by humans in the material world.

It also wants to make everything better. It wants to make this withered and dead land a home that carries dreams.

Therefore, the girl's dream and its dream have become one without knowing when.

Thinking of this, Semi opened his one eye.

Yellow sand gathered at its feet, and the dark night mixed with the wind and sand, like a canvas covered with ink and trampled on, leaving only dirt.

And the blue moon, the blue moon that has become synonymous with the homeland, is now immersed in this dirty canvas.

This is its "nest" after it transformed into a remnant beast. However, even though it is a nest, it seems to have been branded, deeply imprinted with traces of the inter-world.

Big Jack is right.

The world beyond is their home. They came from there and will eventually return there.

(End of this chapter)