“It’s understandable for ordinary people to not know, but how can you, a Magical Girl, not recognize it?”
Quinn Feathers was truly impressed by her junior’s courage. How did you dare?
“Didn’t the Country already downgrade the hazard coefficient rating?”
Miri Dreamwell understood what the other person meant. As an ordinary Magical Girl, her senior didn’t want her to take this risk and face a crisis she couldn’t handle.
Upon hearing Miri’s words, Quinn pointed directly at her chest and questioned, “Did the Country say downgrade, so it’s downgraded? If I say you’re foolish, would you then become foolish?”
“What kind of talk is this!”
After speaking, Quinn walked to the edge of the rooftop, overlooking Eve Nightburn sleeping under the shade of a tree.
“Ever since I noticed this girl lying here, I’ve been keeping an eye on her!”
Miri didn’t know what to say for a while, so she simply accompanied her senior to the rooftop edge, both watching Eve from a distance.
“I have to say, senior really cares about everyone’s safety…”
“My duty!” Quinn patted her chest, pleased with Miri’s praise.
Exactly! Just like that! The more praise, the better!
What a pity, Miri didn’t quite understand her senior’s thoughts.
“So, is this the reason you’re skipping class?”
Miri hit Quinn right on the head with her words. Although she always knew Quinn was like this, only when the senior left could she take Eve away.
“Huh? What do you mean?” Quinn looked at her, speechless. “You’re not in class either, are you?”
Miri: “I came out to find my sister and have her go back to class, Senior Feathers.”
“Ah?” Quinn felt like she might have misheard. Since when did Miri have a sister? Why hadn’t she heard about it before?
“You have a sister? Cousin or sibling? Don’t tell me she’s your blood sister!”
“Sworn sister.”
As Quinn waited to hear whether it was A or B, Miri directly said “or” between A or B.
“Ah?!” Quinn doubted her ears momentarily.
Sworn sister? That’s the most ambiguous sibling relationship ever!
Miri, have you just recognized some girl in school as your sworn sister?
In a moment, Quinn had already come up with an imagined group called “The Campus Sisterhood Gang,” with Miri as the gang leader.
Quinn finally accepted this strange setting: “Alright then, who is this sworn sister of yours? I’ll help you find her.”
“Um…” Miri glanced at Eve, still asleep, and hesitated on how to explain.
“Well,” Miri pointed in Eve’s direction, deciding to let her senior guess for herself.
Quinn followed Miri’s finger and then froze.
“Ah? Eve Nightburn? Are you telling me this Calamity is your sister?”
“Yes,” Miri didn’t bother to argue.
That’s just the way it is. As for what you think, that’s up to you.
“Could it be… you’re the one mentioned on the Magical Girls’ official site… the one overseeing the Calamity?”
At this moment, Quinn’s eyes held a hint of astonishment. She truly hadn’t expected her seemingly incapable junior to be the mysterious Magical Girl who resolved a disaster in Cloudhaven City?!
“Really hard to believe, as the saying goes, what was it? Oh! Appearances can be deceiving! Dreamwell, you’ve become so incredible?”
Miri corrected Quinn’s mistaken quote: “Senior, it should be: After three days apart, view someone with new eyes, right?”
“Oh! Yes, yes, yes! That’s the one, that’s the one! If you hadn’t said it, I would’ve forgotten!”
Honestly, senior, you never remembered in the first place, did you?
Miri felt too embarrassed to destroy her pride, so she simply chuckled.
“Senior’s studied much more than I have. With so much a human mind can hold, forgetting some trivial information is completely normal.”
“So,” Quinn grabbed Miri’s arm, “tell me, how did you solve the problem back then? Spill it to me!”
“Well… it’s a bit of a long story.”
Miri recalled that event and didn’t know where to begin.
Why not start with “Once upon a time?”
“Well… let me think, I’ll start from here then.”
Miri then spoke for a long time.
“That’s pretty much what happened.”
“I see.” Quinn nodded, having grasped the situation. So this ultimate Calamity was just a lonely child?
“Are you sure she’s safe?” Quinn still couldn’t be sure of Eve’s safety.
After all, she had no reason to trust someone who had once threatened the world.
Seeing her senior’s distrust, Miri became urgent: “She wouldn’t hurt anyone! I can guarantee it!”
Quinn thought for a while and finally said, “After school at noon, come with me to the science museum. If you can bring her along, all the better.”
“Since you’re her guardian, I hope you can keep an eye on her, Dreamwell. Honestly, I overstepped on this.”
“By the way, I left a magic array in the northwest corner of the rooftop. You can use it anytime if you want to leave.”
After Quinn spoke, she vanished instantly from Miri’s sight, leaving her alone on the rooftop, accompanied only by the wind.
“Senior still hasn’t let go of that matter…”
Miri spoke with a somber expression. Tears rolled down her cheeks, refracting and scattering the sunlight, becoming the only brightness here.
Miri could understand her senior’s obstructions. Even she herself had never been freed from that incident.
“Sister Rou…”
Miri whispered the name of someone she hadn’t seen in a long time.
In that battle, Sister Rou He won, but in another sense, she also lost.
How nice it would be if we were all just Magical Girls in a cartoon, without worrying about so many things.
How nice it would be to just sit in a café and drink tea, but who knows what will happen the next moment?
Miri gazed into the distance at Eve, sleeping peacefully on the park bench. Perhaps, in this world, there has never been anyone who truly desired to destroy anything.
Be it humans or Calamities.
Who is it that keeps igniting one war after another?
Who is it that keeps unleashing one disaster after another?
Miri pondered, her eyes lifting to the distant sky.
Where the sun shines, people cannot see the stars behind the curtain.
At night, the lights of the sleepless city obscure their eyes.
In principle, light allows life to see the world for what it is.
But now, light seems to prevent people from knowing the truth.
The universe is vast, and humans have never truly understood what this world is like.
“That’s why we must move forward, that’s why we must explore. The baseness of this era is merely a foundation and sacrifice for the beauty of the next era. Is that right?”
After saying this, Miri stepped onto the magic array Quinn had drawn and disappeared from the rooftop of the school building.
