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Lin Qingqiu lay slumped over his desk, staring blankly at the English teacher on the podium.
She was barely over thirty, young and pretty, with long legs in black stockings, but after ten minutes of class he couldn’t stop yawning.
Other subjects were fine. English was the only one he truly couldn’t stand.
For the past two years in vocational school, he had pretty much coasted. No homework, playing on his phone in class, playing on his phone after class, computer games at home. Even so, Lin Qingqiu was considered one of the well-behaved students.
But this year was different. The same kindly homeroom teacher now liked to appear by the window at any moment, cracking down on studies and discipline.
After all, the spring entrance exam was only a few months away.
Lin Qingqiu glanced sideways at Cheng Jianhao beside him. The big black bear was listening carefully, occasionally bowing his head to take notes.
The guy was a delinquent who got into fights all the time, yet in English, Lin Qingqiu was actually worse than Cheng Jianhao.
“You’re just wasting time!”
“You’re supposed to save the world! And you come here to sleep?”
“Why not become a magical girl and practice magic more? Let your body get used to the mana. If you lose, tentacles that big are waiting for you!”
Black Cat kept chattering away on the windowsill. Lin Qingqiu rubbed his earlobe, his brain automatically filtering out the junk.
But he still couldn’t stop worrying. With a troubled look, he slumped back onto the desk, glaring with those dead fish eyes.
As an ordinary person, the mission Black Cat gave him was too heavy. He wasn’t a middle schooler from a hot-blooded anime. He didn’t have that kind of ability, okay?
Besides, the “script” Black Cat gave him looked more like an eroge.
“Qingqiu!”
The lazily sprawled Black Cat suddenly sat up, tail standing straight like a radar, eyes fixed on the distance.
“I sense a miasma descending! It’s nearby!”
Miasma?
Who the hell knows what that is!
Lin Qingqiu couldn’t be bothered to ask, afraid that the more he knew, the worse things would get. Right now he just wanted to be a turtle hiding in its shell…
“Don’t worry. At this stage, demons can’t descend to Earth. It’s just a corruption core a demon sent. Easy to deal with.”
“It’s a fixed source of corruption. It emits miasma and contaminates everything around it. Your Heart Stone turned red because it was contaminated.”
He froze, then looked up at Black Cat.
Sounded like a dangerous thing?
“As the corruption deepens, personality gets twisted, reason is lost, strange organs grow. If left alone long enough, a bunch of monsters and psychos will appear nearby… If they have talent, maybe they’ll awaken as magical girls too.”
Lin Qingqiu lay on the desk in silence.
The so-called corruption core didn’t sound dangerous to him, but for the ordinary people around… He clearly remembered the future he had “seen” last night, that world of despair.
If he did nothing…
“Those monsters have tentacles too. They only have hunger and the urge to breed. Tentacles average four centimeters thick…”
“…”
His indecision was cut off by Black Cat. Lin Qingqiu glared at it angrily, then looked up at the English teacher, who had her back to the students, writing on the blackboard.
Perfect. He didn’t even need to say goodbye.
He stood up directly, preparing to leave through the back door.
“Where are you going?” Cheng Jianhao moved his chair to give him space.
“Stomachache.”
Lin Qingqiu answered casually and jogged out of the classroom.
He hurried through the hallway, taking the stairs two at a time, leaving the school building as fast as possible.
Suddenly, the scene of Spider-Man changing clothes popped into his mind…
Escape the public eye, quickly change in some phone booth or bathroom, then become a hero!
His blood was boiling!
Lin Qingqiu was only seventeen, and his chuunibyou hadn’t fully “healed” yet. His heartbeat kept speeding up. He turned a corner and ducked into the bathroom, pulled the bright red gem from his pocket, and looked at Black Cat.
“Hold the Heart Stone, chant ‘transform’ in your mind, or say it out loud.”
“Trans…”
Saying it out loud would be too chuunibyou, right?
Lin Qingqiu chanted it silently in his mind. The Heart Stone in his hand immediately burst with a thick red light, covering his vision in an instant.
The next moment, in a stall of the men’s bathroom, a petite girl in a pure white one-piece swimsuit appeared.
Her previously boiling heart instantly cooled. Her fair cheeks heated up rapidly, and she covered her chest with her arms.
“So I… just go out in a swimsuit?”
What kind of hero is this? Clearly a pervert! The kind that’s an eyesore on the street!
“This is a mana armament! Let me change it for you!”
Black Cat stood up on its hind legs, placed its paws on Lin Qingqiu’s calf. A moment later, with a flash of mana, the swimsuit transformed into a gorgeous dress, and her waist-length silver hair was tied into twin tails.
She instinctively covered her skirt, a little awkwardly pressing her thighs together.
The upper part of the dress was a tight design, clinging to her skin, outlining a waist that could barely be grasped. Her small bumps were also shaped by a push-up bra.
The knee-length skirt couldn’t possibly expose anything, but the white stockings wrapped around her legs, cold and tight, made her feel especially insecure.
Compared to the swimsuit from before, this dress was a bit more acceptable, but shame still blazed across her face, red and delicate.
“Can I change to pants…”
Besides, pants are more suitable for moving around!
“Try to recall. The Heart Stone records all of the Valkyrie’s magic and combat techniques. You can inherit them seamlessly, just like the future Valkyrie!”
“Remembered? You can construct the appearance of your mana armament yourself.”
“…”
Lin Qingqiu stared blankly at Black Cat.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing at all…”
When she transformed into a magical girl last night, she could still see glimpses of the future. But this time she could only feel the mana flooding into her body from the Heart Stone, and the intense shame of wearing a dress.
“How is that possible!” Black Cat’s fur instantly stood on end. “What’s the difference between you and using a gun as a club!”
This was clearly Black Cat’s work mistake, right?
Lin Qingqiu didn’t say anything, just continued looking down at Black Cat in front of her, already prepared to go back to class.
She didn’t want her first sortie to end in defeat, becoming a seedbed…
“Don’t panic!” Black Cat paced back and forth in the stall, muttering, “Don’t panic… It should be caused by miasma contamination. We just need to purify the miasma on the Heart Stone.”
“This time we’re most likely facing just a corruption core. Even an ordinary person could handle it, and you’re a magical girl! Don’t panic! Just go!”
Lin Qingqiu took half a step back distrustfully. “Most likely?”
“Would I lie to you! At least go take a look!”
After becoming a magical girl, she could also clearly sense the miasma Black Cat mentioned.
It was an unpleasant aura, like cigarette smoke and gasoline, making her uncomfortable.
It was very close, in a residential area outside the school.
But Lin Qingqiu looked down at the gorgeous, cute dress she was wearing, and even the courage to leave the bathroom disappeared… She felt the intense shame of a grown man wearing women’s clothes in public.
Even though she had transformed into a magical girl, she still felt guilty, afraid someone would see through her as a cross-dressing pervert.
Wait! In magical girl form, is she a normal female?
Lin Qingqiu suddenly realized this, looked down at her skirt, but blushed and subtly averted her gaze.
“Let’s go! Let’s go! I’ll scout ahead first! If it’s a demon, we’ll strategically retreat!”
Black Cat urged excitedly, then leaped out from above the stall.
“You hurry up and follow!”
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