Magical Girls Exposed

Magical Girls Exposed!

Author: Qian Huan

Introduction:

Having traveled through this world for a full twenty-three years, Fang Ming's life had always been very peaceful.

Until a special curtain appeared in the sky.

Every week, the curtain broadcasted a tokusatsu show called Magical Girl Xiao Qiu, which let people around the world know about the existence of magical girls.

Yet just when the curtain appeared in the sky and began broadcasting stories about magical girls, Fang Ming was already planning to pack his bags and run.

If you ask why?

Because he was a magical girl.

Volume: Volume 1 Magic Autumn Season 1

Chapter 1 Is it still not too late to run now?

(Front-row reminder: all main characters in this book are over eighteen years of age)

High above in the sky, a curtain was floating and playing a film.

The curtain looked as though it were hung in the sky, broadcasting clear images that anyone could see.

Was this some kind of high technology? Or some special natural phenomenon?

The answer was neither.

This was a supernatural phenomenon beyond anyone's understanding, with clear artificial traits.

The curtain had appeared a month ago; a month prior, the skies all over the world had appeared with such a white curtain that anyone could see just by looking up.

Usually, it had no impact on reality at all, just like a texture embedded in the sky with a rendering error.

It did not affect the sunlight, did not affect the temperature, and did not hinder people from enjoying the night sky at night.

It had only one sole purpose, and that was to broadcast an episode of a film every few days... or strictly speaking, every seven days.

And the content of the film... was a tokusatsu show.

A tokusatsu show about magical girls.

Moreover, what was most crucial of all was that the content of that tokusatsu show was related to the real world.

That was right, just in the first week the curtain broadcasted the film, the world confirmed that magical girls truly existed.

The world government found these magical girls and offered them quite generous terms, successfully making them government employees.

What they had to do was also very simple: just like on the curtain, eliminate 'Nightmares' that ordinary people could neither understand nor see.

This was the sole job of a magical girl.

Now the curtain high above had already broadcasted three episodes of the tokusatsu show, and in the first three episodes, all three members of the protagonist group had gathered.

Those three magical girls in the real world had also been found.

They all came from the same district and city.

Now, the fourth episode was about to be broadcast on the sky, and the story of Magical Girl Xiao Qiu was about to begin.

Beneath the sky, however, the utterly ordinary freelance worker Fang Ming was considering whether he should run away.

Because barring any accidents, the content of this fourth episode should be related to him.

(Yay, the fourth episode is out!)

(It's here, it's here, front row!)

(The protagonist group is all together now, are they going to start pushing the main plot and fighting bosses next?)

As soon as the curtain began to play the footage, various bullet comments drifted across it.

Yes, bullet comments.

This thing appeared alongside the film; they usually did not appear, but as long as the curtain started playing the film, they would appear right along with it.

And these bullet comments did not come from the outside world; they came from this world.

Everyone's thoughts and ideas, even a sentence blurted out unintentionally, as long as they had the desire to get onto the bullet comments, that sentence would be projected onto the curtain.

Not all bullet comments could make it up there, however.

After a month of observation, people summarized the following rules.

First, bullet comments with overly fierce wording and foul language would not go up.

Second, bullet comments with obvious subjective intent to start fights and attempt to provoke confrontation between both sides would not appear.

Next, bullet comments that deliberately picked faults and affected the viewing experience would not appear.

Bullet comments that cursed the characters, insulted them, or made sarcastic remarks about the figures appearing in the film would likewise not appear.

All in all, no matter how hard you wracked your brain thinking negative thoughts or shouted your throat hoarse in reality, it was impossible for any negative bullet comments to appear on the curtain.

This also made the viewing experience of the film above exceptionally good, maintaining zero negative reviews in the bullet comments to this day.

Although quite a few people were dissatisfied with this point and had specifically created forums online to publish negative remarks, overall, it did not affect the screening of the video above.

After all, whether you hated it or liked it, it was right there, and you could see it the moment you looked up.

Bullet comments drifted past, immediately followed by the appearance of the opening animation.

(Opening straight to the face, the protagonist is in danger!)

(Damn, dropping the opening right off the bat, something big is happening this episode!)

With the appearance of the opening, the number of bullet comments also visibly increased.

Mostly because the first three episodes didn't start with the opening right away; they all had an introduction, serving as a bridge to let everyone review the previous events and connect to the plot.

Now that there was no such intro, it naturally made people feel strange.

Amidst the crowd, watching the bullet comments drift across above, Fang Ming grew even more silent.

Then, looking at the opening again, when he saw that in the last empty image slot of the opening, a girl with a black color scheme holding a scythe appeared, Fang Ming's suspended heart completely died.

The opening of Magical Girl Xiao Qiu was quite distinctive.

At least as far as Fang Ming was concerned.

Back in the first episode, only the image of the protagonist, Yu Muqiu, appeared in the protagonist group's imagery within the opening. In the second scene where the second and third characters should have appeared, the positions were empty, with only background scenery flashing past.

Later, in the imagery when the music entered the chorus, only Yu Muqiu could be seen.

It wasn't until the end of the first episode, with the appearance of the second heroine, that a new figure appeared in the second scene of the opening in the second episode.

Because of this, people speculated that the remaining three empty frames represented a total of three remaining members of the protagonist group.

Right now, the formidable trio was gathered, and people were very curious about what kind of character would appear in the fourth empty frame.

Now she had truly appeared.

On the image where originally there was only a lonely, empty tall building standing in the dark night, a figure was now added.

Beneath the full moon and atop the tall building, the figure of a silver-haired, red-eyed girl stood proudly on the roof.

She stood on the edge of the high-rise rooftop, holding a long scythe with chains wrapped around its end, gazing into the distance with cold eyes, as if devoid of emotion.

The girl was very beautiful. The magical girls appearing above were actually all very beautiful, but the girl possessed a distinct aura completely different from the other three girls.

More mature, more ruthless, and... much less like a righteous hero.

When the girl appeared, the bullet comments exploded once more.

(So... so dashing!)

(So... so cool!)

(Big sis, step on me!!!)

(I can't take it anymore, I announce that starting today I'm a fan of the new character! Xiao Qiu, Xiao Xia, Xiao Chun, none of them are my type!)

(...Heying above, you don't even know what her name is!)

Watching the words spoken by these bullet comments, Fang Ming below grew even more silent.

He was speechless, he was depressed, he was fuming.

If he could, Fang Ming really wanted to find these people sending bullet comments and kill them one by one along the internet cables!

Why was Fang Ming so agitated?

Could the newly appeared female character above be his sister?

No, Fang Ming in this lifetime was all alone, with no father, no mother, and no relatives. He was a standard orphan at the start as a time traveler, and even lacked immediate family like brothers or sisters.

There was only one true reason why Fang Ming would feel depressed and fuming.

That was because the magical girl who had just appeared above was him!!

It was him!!!

He was that fourth magical girl! And in the early stage, he had constantly tried to dissuade those girls from continuing to fight, looking just like a villain—the magical! girl!!

Watching the opening animation finish playing, the show began to enter the main plot.

Fang Ming was hesitating, thinking, wondering if he should run away right now.

If he ran away now... it should still be in time?

Chapter 2 It's over! Ran too late!

First, a brief introduction.

Fang Ming, time traveler, twenty-three years old this year, working as a hikikomori in Rock City, Central Continent District, World Federation.

Gender—Male!

As a time traveler, Fang Ming's first twenty-two years had actually been completely unremarkable.

Although he had a minor cheat—a progress bar that could intuitively show his learning progress, and one that wouldn't regress.

Yet Fang Ming considered himself to still be an ordinary person, having nothing to do with magical girls or the like.

However, an accident three months ago had caused Fang Ming to carelessly get involved in the supernatural world of this realm.

A simple description of that accident was that a Magical Girl fought a Demon transformed from a Nightmare, and then he was sucked into it. During a life-and-death crisis, he came into contact with a fragment of the Nightmare, and then the cheat absorbed the fragment, giving Fang Ming an extra ability.

--Magical Girl Transformation!

So why wasn't it a Kamen Rider transformation?!

This was the exact point Fang Ming wanted to complain about at the time. He was a man, so if he became a Magical Girl, wouldn't the art style be a bit mismatched?

However, having already acquired such an ability, Fang Ming was not the type to let an ability go unused.

Anyway, he would only completely turn into a female after transforming, and his big dragon was still there usually, so he didn't need to worry too much. At worst, he would just transform during battles and maintain his original appearance normally.

Moreover, when not transformed, Fang Ming could still use the abilities of a Magical Girl, except they were weakened to the extreme and couldn't be used for fighting.

Originally, after acquiring the ability to transform into a Magical Girl, Fang Ming's life had not changed all that much.

Usually, he would write and publish manuscripts normally, occasionally go out to relax, and when necessary, go out to help that group of Magical Girls fight, using his own methods to persuade those brats to go back to school and stop doing such dangerous jobs.

Life seemed to have no ripples.

Until a month ago, the appearance of the sky screen above broke Fang Ming's peaceful daily life.

The Sky Screen appeared without any warning, as if it had always existed right there.

The appearance of the canopy in the sky caused panic on a global scale, especially when 'videos' began playing inside it—this panicked emotion reached its peak.

Then... when people discovered that other than playing videos, the canopy in the sky had no other functions, this nervous and terrified emotion gradually dissipated.

People began to focus their attention on the videos.

And they started discussing whether this was a new type of entertainment device created by the Federal Government, or some promotional thing used by the Federal Government to broadcast some 'news' to everyone.

Until the curtain began to play the special effects tokusatsu show Magical Girl Xiao Qiu, the public realized that this probably wasn't something made by the Federal Government.

The Federal Government wasn't that close to the people, specially creating a canopy covering almost the entire planet just to broadcast an ordinary tokusatsu show.

Especially when the Magical Girl in the video could actually find a prototype in the real world.