Chapter 67: The Goblin and the Friend
Located in Lixing District, Fangting No. 1 Social Welfare Institute is one of only two large welfare homes in the city.
Many children who have lost their parents in an accident and have no one to support them, or the elderly who have no one to take care of them when they are old, will be brought here by the city government with their consent to receive relatively comprehensive care.
The orphanage covers a large area, with nearly 3,000 beds and up to 400 staff, and has relatively favorable medical conditions, which are enough to provide rehabilitation and physiotherapy for every elderly and child with disabilities.
Bai Jingxuan has been living here for three years.
In three years, she went from ignorance to being able to distinguish things. Most of the other children in the orphanage came and went, and after a short life in the home, they were adopted and allowed to enter a new family, but she was left here, like a defective product picked from a vegetable market.
In fact, in terms of pure personality, Bai Jingxuan is not a difficult child to get along with, she is very quiet and sensible. Compared with other children who are 11 years old or even older, her words and deeds will be precocious.
In terms of appearance, her appearance is also very cute, with a white face and clean skin, pretty facial features, and a bob head with a full chin, because her clothes and words and deeds look a little boyish, which is actually cute.
But the medical eye patch she wears in her left eye reveals a fact to outsiders: there is a problem with her eye.
In fact, she does have one eye missing.
Not only that, but she also suffers from an undiagnosed and incurable congenital disease, which is manifested by intermittent dizziness and fatigue, and even loss of control of some limbs in severe cases.
Such a series of problems caused those couples who tried to adopt her to hesitate after learning the truth, and even gave up outright. came and went, and in the end, no one was willing to take Bai Jingxuan away.
So three years later, Bai Jingxuan still lives here.
Occasionally, people ask her if she is sad, but she doesn't really think there is anything wrong with such a day: the caregivers in the welfare home are very friendly and take good care of her; The grandparents in the courtyard also liked her very much, and often beckoned her to chat together; Including the director of the welfare home, Aunt Liu often takes care of her.
Probably, the only downside is still a little lonely.
In recent afternoons, she always likes to go alone to the shade of the courtyard, where she reads quietly.
This is a habit she didn't have before, and in the past, she didn't go to such a secluded place alone, she preferred to go to a more lively place. No matter who she is with, in short, a few words of conversation will make her feel more fulfilled.
The reason why she is doing it now is because she has a little secret.
Or to be more specific, she has a new friend.
- "Xiaoxuan! I'm coming! ”
With the sound of calls coming from overhead, in this agreed afternoon, Bai Jingxuan ushered in the object she was waiting for.
So she also put the book in her hand, looked left and right to make sure that no one saw it, and secretly waved her hand to the "friend" above, and whispered, "Good afternoon, Miss Fairy." ”
She has a goblin friend.
This friend looks like a pink cat, but she's only the size of her two palms. It has a pair of transparent wings on its back, flapping, floating in the air, and small balls of light floating around it, really like a fairy in a fairy tale.
"I've said it many times, just call me 'Moko', the goblins are too raw!"
As it gradually fell from the sky, the goblin who called himself "Moko" said to himself, "Just like I won't call you 'human', it's rude to call you that way." ”
"yes, I see, Moko." So Bai Jingxuan nodded obediently.
She and Moco met in the afternoon a few days ago.
At that time, she only happened to pass by this place, and it happened that because of the hot weather in midsummer, she wanted to stay in the shadows for a while, and it was this kind of action that made her meet the fairy flying from the sky.
At that time, she didn't know what a goblin was, but when she saw a cat flying in the air, she thought it was very novel, so she couldn't help but talk to the other party.
What surprised her even more was that the cat could still talk.
Then she knew that the existence of the other party was the legendary "goblin".
The goblin who calls herself "Moco" is very funny, willing to talk to her for a long time, telling her many fairy tales, and later, the words "magical girl" begin to appear in its description.
Bai Jingxuan knows about magical girls.
It's better to say that her life was saved by a magical girl.
When she was 8 years old, her parents took her out with her, and when they went to the hospital for a daily check-up for her incurable congenital disease, they happened to encounter a crippled animal.
At that time, Bai Jingxuan didn't even understand what was going on, she only remembered that she was sitting in the hall of the hospital with her parents, and when she was talking and laughing with them, there was a sudden strong shock around her.
An out-of-control remnant crashes into the hospital and begins to wreak havoc and kill in a frenzy.
The hospital was destroyed by the beasts, and a large number of medical staff and patients lost their lives in the attack. Later, Bai Jingxuan heard others say that it was the most tragic casualty incident in Fangting City in the past ten years.
In this incident, Bai Jingxuan lost her parents and her left eye, but only one survived.
A magical girl arrives just in time to save the rest of the populace and defeat the remnant beast.
Although Bai Jingxuan was still young at that time, her perception of life and death was not so strong, but as she grew up, she also understood what kind of kindness it was to save her life.
So for magical girls, she has a good impression.
It's just that in Moko's words, the magical girl seems to have broken away from the aura in the eyes of others, becoming more real and more life-like.
It tells a lot of interesting stories about magical girls, and claims to know the city's magical girls. According to the examples it cited, some of the magical girls in Fangting City failed the school exam; Some are so stupid that they can't even learn how to use magic; There are also strong and weak, and they like to bully goblins.
Although I don't know how many of these words are true or false, and even a lot of negative comments are mixed in, it doesn't prevent Bai Jingxuan from thinking that what it says is very interesting, and because of this, her admiration for magical girls is a little more.
Because she thinks that it is precisely because magical girls are actually just ordinary people that their willingness to fight and save others is commendable.
It was when she began to think like this, two days ago, when she and Moco were enjoying the afternoon together and chatting happily with each other, Moco suddenly proposed this to her:
"Xiaoxuan, you know what? You can actually become a magical girl too! ”