When the accident was about to happen, the surrounding crowd had not yet reacted.

However, the white light rushed in all directions, and the escaping magic turned into streams of light, ignoring the burning flames that bound the wood that had escaped from the campfire, causing it to stand still in the air.

It was only then that the reaction of ordinary people was able to keep up with the development of events.

"The campfire seems to have exploded?" "A white light has appeared, and aliens have descended!"

“cosplay？ The magic of quick cross-dressing? ”

The sky-blue shawl was raised slightly, and a few ribbons like phoenix tail feathers hung from the back of the snow-white coat, and Aoi Hoshikawa, who released the awe-inspiring power in the moonlight, manipulated the ribbons formed by magic and smoothly placed the accidentally exploded wooden strips back.

She nodded in satisfaction, and suddenly her body stiffened.

"Mom, it's a magical girl!"

Probably following her mother to visit the high Chinese festival, the girl who looked like an elementary school student pointed to the active magical girl who became the focus of attention of the audience, and shouted innocently.

A commotion ensued.

"Ahaha, hello everyone, the problem has been solved, don't remember me!"

Hoshikawa Aoi smiled awkwardly and waved his hand around, turned around and grabbed Li Wu's arm, bowed his head and ran.

"Don't go!" "Can you sign us?" "Magical Girl and Hope are both real!" "Why are you so sure, in case it's Sailor Moon?"

Of course, live magical girls are much rarer than idol groups, and in addition to the fact that she was originally in the center of the scene, the scene of the bonfire party instantly rioted.

"Li Wu, think of a way! If you take off now, the shock wave will blow everyone away! ”

"It's not because of your public transformation...... Forget it, so be it. ”

Facing the crowd, Li Wu kicked the ground lightly.

The staggered stone pillars bulged out and broke through the soil to form a ring-shaped array, just avoiding the makeshift magical girl fan group members, dividing the crowd and blocking it.

Taking advantage of the confusion caused by the sudden fall into the labyrinth, Li Wuyan grabbed Xingchuan's wrist, which was covered with light white clothing, and pulled her out of the gap left on purpose.

It wasn't until they came to the atrium area of the school that they stopped.

"It looks like they've been shaken off, and they'll probably forget about that scene after a while."

Hoshikawa Aoi put his palm on his forehead and looked out, the huge bonfire had been blocked by the gymnasium, and only the faint light of the fire could be seen.

"It hurts!"

She hugged her head and looked at the abuser next to her with tears in the corners of her eyes: "Classmate Li Wu, why do you suddenly attack with a knife?" Watch out for me to cut you! ”

"This is the IQ rising knife that this head should suffer when he makes the decision to suddenly transform gorgeously without knowing that he is also on the scene, but he still doesn't know what to think."

Li Wu deliberately paused for a moment to feel the refreshing touch, and then withdrew his palm from the top of the magical girl's head.

"What the hell are you thinking about?"

He was already preparing to secretly manipulate the flames to roll back the detached firewood, but he didn't expect this guy's reaction speed to be even faster.

"The body moved subconsciously, you can't blame my smart head, it just didn't fulfill its responsibility to command, it's not that it doesn't have the ability to command."

"Then please reduce your brain's vacation quota quickly!"

He sighed and looked at the girl in front of him who was smiling at the place where she had been beaten.

"However, Hoshikawa is this kind of person."

"Even if it's me, I'll be angry if I'm sarcastically ridiculed by classmate Li Wu, and then I'll fall into the dark side and wipe the entire city off the map!"

She lifted the interface of the valley map, took a screenshot of Chiyo City's location, and then selected Delete.

"This sentence just now is a compliment, and seeing your figure standing up to solve dangerous incidents reminds me of the first time I saw this posture, which is very handsome."

Whether it's fighting monsters outside the world alone in the unfolding different space, or doing your best in the face of a crisis that you are not sure if you can overcome, or the determination to resolutely embark on the path of a magical girl when you were a child-

Not only handsome, but also very attractive.

There was a clang.

The smartphone used to act out what it means to erase from the map comes out of its hand, and the screen shatters a crack in the ground.

Hoshikawa Aoi stopped and stood there like a frightened groundhog.

"Why, why do you say such things all of a sudden!"

"Did I say that before? And should you pick up your phone first? ”

"That's not the point!"

She stomped her feet alternately in a magical girlish posture, "Don't just say things that might be misleading!" ”

"Ah, your phone is going to be stepped on."

After leaning over to pick up the hapless phone, Aoi Hoshikawa listlessly pointed to a nearby bench.

"I don't know when the chaos will subside, let's go sit down for a while."

There are several cherry blossom trees planted in the atrium, and the bench is located just below one of them, but by the end of June, the bloom has long since dispersed, and only one tree is left with green leaves.

The two people sitting on the bench left a small space in the middle, as if separated by a non-existent tulle.

"It is said that if you confess under this cherry tree, you will be blessed - I heard this from Teraya-senpai when I was at the café today."

As if to break the suddenly dull atmosphere, Hoshikawa Aoi said without words.

"But now that the cherry blossoms have all withered, I guess the campus legend definitely doesn't mention whether there is a blessing buff on the leaves."

After saying this, Li Wu felt a slight impact on his waist, turned his head and saw the girl sitting next to him angrily exposing her five fingers from the cuffs of the magical girl's spiritual suit, and poked it with a knife.

"Li Wu, who picks on the thorns, will be kicked by the horse!"

She withdrew her hand and sighed, and said uncertainly, "I guess the flowering conditions need to be met." ”

"If you want to confess, you have to wait until the spring of next year."

Aoi Hoshikawa, who said this, leaned back in the chair and tilted her head slightly, leaving a beautiful silhouette from the side.

It is necessary to wait until the end of summer, spend the summer vacation, and go to winter to welcome the new year, so that you can be blessed when you confess, which is really a troublesome and unkind tree.

"Speaking of which, since classmate Li Wu mentioned the first time he saw me as a magical girl, I have a question that I have wanted to ask you a long time ago."

She asked, "Why did you stray into the enchantment that time?" Everyone had already left school at the time, and I wasn't surprised to find out who I really was. ”

"It's because I went to get the textbook, so why wasn't I surprised...... I knew you were a magical girl before then. ”

It doesn't matter if I confess now, "It's just a principle that I can distinguish the types of monsters, can you imagine the mood of discovering that the girl at the next table is actually a magical girl?" ”

After receiving his answer, Aoi Hoshikawa's eyes widened in surprise and she fell into a memory.

“…… No wonder I always felt that Li Wu wanted to talk to me at every turn when I first started school, but it turned out that it was not an illusion. ”

She moved another inch towards the other end of the bench.

"Isn't it normal to be verbose, to realize that there are strange people around to investigate?"

"I think people are strange people......

Hoshikawa Aoi was only lowered for a moment, "But to solve a question, it's really thanks to Li Wu's carelessness in forgetting to bring the textbook that day." ”

"I almost got eaten by a youkai because of that."

"But if it weren't for that, I wouldn't really know you, and Li Wu could only hold on to the secret of my true identity and remain uneasy."

Hoshikawa Aoi sat upright, folded her legs, and placed her hands into fists on the lilac skirt of the lower body of the spirit suit, staring at him.

She was not wrong.

If he hadn't met Hoshikawa Aoi, Li Wu wouldn't have stopped doubting the phenomenon of being able to see words, and if he encountered a more dangerous existence than Zitori Demon in the process, he would probably die for no reason.

The presence of the magical girl is like a ray of light that breaks the boundaries between the everyday and the extraordinary, leading him in a direction that should not be wrong at least - a bit like the imprint effect that exists in the animal kingdom.

Critters think of the first creatures they see after birth as their mothers, and if the first human transcendent person he encounters after stepping into an extraordinary world with one foot is someone like Yuichi Uehara or President Landongong, then he may have taken a completely different path, and now he will definitely feel disgusted.

"In other words, Hoshikawa is a woman who can be my mother!"

"Why is the topic biased towards this weird conclusion?!"

"I mean, I also think it's a lucky thing to be able to bump into Hoshikawa, who has become a magical girl."

Following the emotions that have been surging from his heart since nightfall, Li Wu said frankly.

Hoshikawa Aoi, who was just about to have a seizure, turned his head again and complained in a low voice: "And it always strikes suddenly." ”

A little starlight peeked out from the hanging treetops, falling on her exposed snow-white neck. Small fireworks were set off in the direction of the gymnasium and exploded one after another over the campus.

If we just stay until the festival is over, tomorrow will be another ordinary day.

“…… I don't want to just go back. ”

The murmur in my ears ignited the thoughts that had been piling up in my heart since the end of the school trip, and that had been turned over again during this cultural festival.

"Hoshikawa, do you remember the last time the five of us went to the hot spring inn together, we played a game? On the last question. ”

He spoke nonchalantly.

"Ahhh

"Come back to it, four people gave an affirmative answer at that time, and that was you, was that included?"

Hoshikawa Aoi suddenly became vigilant: "Isn't it good to talk about this topic behind their backs?" ”

"The coin I gave is a heads."

"Wooh!"

With a short, strange scream, she grabbed the edge of the bench and lowered her voice nervously and excitedly like a child secretly doing bad things, "I...... The answer given is also yes. ”

The last question at the time was "Is there a person of the opposite sex who has a crush on her?" ”

"Why do you ask that?"

She wandered her gaze, trying to find an object that could stay, "Even if Li Wu wants to ask who it is like a women's night talk next, I won't say." ”

"Are you going to swap them?"

Combat and conversation are in principle the same, the key is to attack continuously and precisely.

Sure enough, she showed a slightly excited look, but she still struggled to answer: "...... No way! How can I tell if you make up a lie? ”

What if you don't make up a lie that I want to hear.

Li Wu got up from the bench and walked around to Hoshikawa Aoi.

She's tall for a girl, but she's still a little shorter than him.

Therefore, from the current perspective from above, you can see the magical girl who has not changed back hugging her knees, lifting her legs and shrinking on the bench, revealing the smooth skin of her thighs.

After being silent for a few seconds, Li Wu still decided to remind: "This posture is easy to walk away, huh?" ”

"You, are you just going to say this?!"

"No, I was about to prepare for my train of thought when you interrupted me!"

If you think about it, getting along with Aoi Hoshikawa has been such a tone from the beginning.

comrades-in-arms, friends who tease each other, and classmates who sit next to each other......

Li Wu stepped further and grabbed the other party's slightly thin shoulder.

“……”

The magical girl who was supposed to pull out the giant axe and shoot it now looked up at his face like a delicate ordinary girl, her long eyelashes trembling as if she were about to shake off the occasional starlight crumbs.

She looked away as she could no longer bear the pressure of looking at each other, and a crystal fluid oozed from the corners of her eyes.

"I'm a little scared...... Keep listening. ”

Li Wu didn't stop understandingly: "I think it's too long to wait until next spring." ”

"Huh?"

Hoshikawa made a confused sound.

"Maybe it would work even without cherry blossoms, so I said so."

"Wait a minute, you're going to-"

"I probably have a crush on Hoshikawa-san, so can you please have a relationship with me?"

Aoi Hoshikawa froze like a computer that needed to find the ultimate answer to the universe, the gears of her brain scattered all over the place, and the CPU emitted a scorching heat, coming out of her head in the form of water vapor.

"No way!"

"Can't you do it?!"

Li Wu was devastated, he originally thought that the dull attribute was just a disguise, but he didn't expect that he really didn't understand the girl's heart.

"No, no!"

Hoshikawa Aoi finally regained her ability to speak, and shook her hand in a panic, "You, do you mean to like me?" ”

"Otherwise, how can you understand it?"

"But is there anything I like about it? Compared to ......"

She stopped halfway through her sentence.

"Excellent looks, kind-hearted, saved me when we first met, reliable and strong, optimistic and tenacious, comfortable to get along with, hair feels good."

"What's the last reason?"

Hoshikawa Aoi blushed and complained, "What kind of one, what kind of like?" ”

She nervously waited for the final answer.

"It's hard for me to describe ......"

Li Wu thought for a moment and looked at the cherry blossom trees behind the bench: "I probably like it like cherry blossoms in spring." ”

"Cherry blossoms in spring?"

"In May of the following year, the flowers of this tree will bloom again, and you will sit on this bench at noon, drinking hot milk with sugar and spices, and a pink petal will slowly fall into the cup—that's probably how you like it."

Hoshikawa Aoi listened to his words in a daze, lowered her head and whispered.

“…… I like it too. ”

"What?"

"I said I like you too!"

She changed back to her original appearance as a female high school student: "Because the time spent with Li Wu-san is always fun even if it is a quarrel." ”

The white light flashed, and the gorgeous spiritual costume belonging to the magical girl unfolded again: "Because I've been fighting alone before, Sister Yuki can't help much, so it's great to be able to defeat Uehara with me." ”

"So whether it's Aoi Hoshikawa as a high school student or Aoi Hoshikawa as a magical girl, please have a relationship with me."

She said with a pleasant smile as she closed her eyes.

If you hesitate at this time, you will probably be hit by the angry Hoshikawa and fly to the sky.

The evening breeze blows through the leaves, mixed with the chirping of cicadas as become the only sound in the deserted atrium, and the two shadows merge together under the light of the fireworks that announce the end of the cultural festival.

"Hmm......"

Aoi Hoshikawa, who made a muffled sound, still had the strength to light up a white light in his palm and rise into the canopy.

So in June, when the cherry blossoms have long since withered, pure white and illusory petals bloom among the branches and leaves.

……

"Woo, if Xiaoguang hadn't suddenly said that he wanted to play with me, he wouldn't have been unable to find them......"

The bonfire was about to disperse, and Arisa was shivering in the crowd.

"Where the hell have you gone?"

"Erisa, there will be a party after the girl, let's continue the unfinished love topic on the train last time."

The wild Miyashiro Ryu popped up and grabbed her arm and dragged her towards the girl group who were listening to Ryoko sing.

"No, don't!!"

……

At some point, Rinko Hori turned back to the roof of the club building, and withdrew her gaze from the trees below that suddenly burst into white light, and the figures in the shade.

She leaned against the railing and closed her phone screen.

There is a cat thumbs up cheering emoji that is placed in the chat box and sent out without clicking.

Hikari opened the roof door and was about to pass through the staircase when he was stopped.

"Classmates here, do you want to come and divinate your fate? Tarot gossip, crystal looks, turtle shell divination, there's nothing I'm not good at? ”

Startled, Hikari followed the prestige and found that it was the soothsaying tent set up at the top of the staircase.

Now there was a man in a black robe sitting inside, and his voice sounded like a more mature female voice than the student's age.

"My fate cannot be seen by anyone."

In the face of suspicious people, Light subconsciously broke out the second middle school speech.

"For example, the fact that you are jealous now has been seen through by me."

"No, it's just that I'm still wary of witches from imaginary space."

"Whatever."

The woman in the black robe waved her hand indifferently, "I can't understand your thoughts, since I don't want to divination, I'll send you a quiz by the way, please listen to the question!" ”

“！”

The second of the 100 trivia of Rinko Hori, she is obsessed with quizzes and brain teasers.

"What's the best way to hide a drop of water?"

……

"Finally, it's almost done!"

After two days of sleepless work, Lilia was one step away from success.

"The number of superpowered people has skyrocketed, and it is impossible to find out one by one!"

She pounded the table and knocked over the water next to her.

There was a puff of black smoke coming out of the case, and the display turned blue again.

"I didn't save it, bastard!"

Mao Shiratori and the students of Class D, who had not yet left, were washing the dishes.

"I always feel like I've been forgotten by everyone......"

She sighed, trying to grab the next plate but felt empty.

"Strange, what about things? You can't fly to another world, do you? ”

……

"The correct answer is, hide it in the ocean."

(End of chapter)