At thirty-three, Hong Siyu had once forgotten the word "miracle."
Just as she had hoped during her student days, she became an utterly ordinary office worker, working in a strange city.
Of course, calling her an office worker was not entirely accurate. Her workplace was somewhat special—not an ordinary private company or institution, but the Anomaly Countermeasures Bureau.
When she was twenty-two, she fled Fangting City.
After graduating from university and receiving her diploma, she left that city. She did not even say goodbye to her teammates. She merely sent out a mass message, then vanished from the harbor without a sound.
She did not attend Anya and Lin Yun's wedding, nor did she attend their child's full-month celebration.
That had not been her original intention. She had actually tried hard to maintain a calm relationship with Anya, but in the end, she realized she could not do it. So she could only run away, fleeing to a city where nobody knew her, and she knew nobody.
She went to Heavenly City, Central City—the place in Eastern Hua Prefecture farthest from Fangting City—registered there, and spent the rest of her magical girl career there.
Later, Anya called her several times, hoping to persuade her to return to Fangting City, but Hong Siyu only declined tactfully.
Anya had done nothing wrong. She had merely pursued her own love and received an answer in return. In this matter, she had not needed to concern herself with Hong Siyu at all, because Hong Siyu was not the one in the right.
That was what Hong Siyu thought.
She knew Anya was someone who seemed scatterbrained but was actually sensitive. Her tolerance and gentleness toward friends were also why Anya could become captain of the Fangting City Squad. Even though Hong Siyu's attitude toward