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"Wouldn't this be too extravagant?"

Qingyin couldn't help but voice that question.

Magical Girls could choose their own homes in the Otherworld.

But Qingyin had never expected that the Chief Magical Girl could choose an entire house.

The villas arranged before her came in all kinds of styles and sizes, leaving her dazzled.

Their exteriors and interiors were luxurious to the point of extravagance.

Chief Magical Girls deserved special treatment, but this level of preferential treatment was more than Qingyin could handle.

Her experiences across two lives had been utterly ordinary. She had just been a regular working person, never developing the mindset of the wealthy.

Forget villas—even a slightly larger home felt extravagant to her.

She simply didn't dare choose one. The moment she hesitated, it felt as though decadent music began playing beside her ear, whispering, "You're rich. Be extravagant. Enjoy yourself!"

She didn't think those spacious, lonely villas with their chilly emptiness were all that great, nor did she have any desire to live in a huge house.

Instead, she preferred a smaller, more private personal space.

In the end, after Youyue repeatedly confirmed her choice, Qingyin picked a house that was as unremarkable and ordinary as she was.

It resembled an apartment in a residential complex from the real world. Its layout wasn't much different from Ye Qing's rented place, though it was twice as spacious.

"You won't get a chance to change it after choosing," Youyue reminded her.

"A livelier place is nice," Qingyin replied calmly.

"It doesn't matter. If you think it's too small later, I'll give you a villa. As long as you're happy."

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"Don't be surprised. This little benefit is perfectly normal for a Chief Magical Girl. If word got out, people might even think we were stingy.

If you run into any trouble, call me or go to the association. The Chief's benefits go far beyond this."

"I understand." Qingyin nodded, only half understanding.

"Alright, what style of decor do you want? Aside from everyday necessities and electronics, tell me everything else you want. You could move in with just a suitcase in a couple of days."

"Something plain and ordinary is fine."

"A girly style? Got it."

Youyue replied in Qingyin's manner of speaking and scribbled something on a sheet of paper.

Qingyin had no idea what Youyue was doing, but her instincts told her that the other girl meant no good.

Was this a Magical Girl's Sixth Sense?

"When can I meet my teammates?" Qingyin stopped dwelling on it.

Even if she found out, she probably wouldn't be able to change anything. There was no point in pursuing it.

"Hmm... let me see." Youyue took out her smartphone and checked the time.

"It's four thirty in the afternoon. School's already out, so you'll be able to meet them soon."

Education in this world couldn't exactly be called strict, but neither was it particularly relaxed.

The pressure naturally couldn't compare with Qingyin's previous life.

It was a standard schedule of five school days and two days off.

There were no cram classes, no evening study sessions, and no morning reading. Once students finished their classes for the day, they could leave.

It was more like university in her previous life.

"Are all three of them students?" Qingyin thought for a moment.

If so, she would have to make time at night and on weekends to meet with these New-Generation Magical Girls.

"Magical Girls are definitely students. Adults who've been beaten down by society rarely still possess enough truth, kindness, and beauty to transform into Magical Girls." Youyue smiled, then teasingly added,

"An office-worker big sister in her twenties or thirties like Qingyin, who can still become a Magical Girl, is super, super rare."

Was she subtly calling me old?

Fortunately, Qingyin didn't care about that.

"Aren't you going to refute it?" Youyue pressed.

"What's there to refute about the truth?" Qingyin answered indifferently.

"Girls are supposed to care a lot about their age," Youyue said.

"That's survivor bias. I don't care much."

"Looks like Qingyin is younger than I imagined," Youyue said with feigned surprise.

Whoosh.

Qingyin suddenly sprang up and threw a punch at Youyue beside her.

But Youyue reacted quickly and tilted her head aside, dodging it.

It would have been fine even if she hadn't dodged. At most, it would have hurt a little and embarrassed her.

"I told you, I'll hit you if you keep testing me." Qingyin sounded slightly displeased.

"If you have something to ask, ask directly."

She disliked being tested again and again. It felt like someone was repeatedly testing her obedience, and she hated it.

"I really was wrong. I was just afraid you wouldn't like it if I asked directly~" Youyue promptly admitted fault, grabbed Qingyin's fist, and rubbed her face against it.

"Calm down, calm down. So, can you satisfy my curiosity?"

"I'm twenty-four," Qingyin answered honestly.

"So young. Though that's a little old for a Magical Girl.

But you were already a company executive at twenty-four. Qingyin, your abilities really are impressive." Youyue praised her with feeling.

"I got lucky."

"Did your parents help you?"

"I met someone important, passed a test, and became an executive."

She happened to meet Karina, an Abyss Return executive, who introduced her to the BOSS. Then she bullied a child and committed the "evil" the BOSS approved of.

It was purely luck.

"What about your family circumstances?" Youyue continued curiously.

"An ordinary family. The kind that couldn't buy Suppressant Medicine a few days ago," Qingyin answered briefly.

"Gasp, then your parents must be wonderful. They gave birth to someone as pretty as you and raised you so well."

A Magical Girl's truth, kindness, and beauty.

A genuine nature, a kind heart, and a beautiful appearance.

If the combined standard of those three traits wasn't met, one couldn't become a Magical Girl.

By Youyue's objective assessment, Qingyin's unfiltered mouth meant her genuine nature didn't pass.

That meant her kind heart and beautiful appearance had to score extremely high.

They had raised her overall score enough for her to qualify as a Magical Girl.

"No, my biological parents abandoned me. My adoptive parents were good people who took me in." Qingyin calmly revealed her miserable background.

"Stop, stop, stop." Once Youyue realized what she had heard, she immediately called a halt and stared at Qingyin as though she were a monster.

An abandoned girl without a normal family, an office worker in her twenties, and she could still become a Magical Girl?

She had experienced misery and witnessed darkness, yet she still met the requirements to become a Magical Girl.

Truth, kindness, and beauty. A pure original intention, the determination to help, and the wish to protect.

Only by meeting all those major requirements at once could someone transform.

The conditions were harsh, which was why Magical Girls were usually adolescent high school girls or middle school girls.

Yet she had lived so long and could still fulfill those conditions...

Youyue asked what she believed to be the most important question.

"Are you a saint?"

"No."

Youyue's mind raced.

She could no longer imagine just how beautiful Qingyin must look in reality if she wasn't a saint.

As expected, becoming a Magical Girl at such an advanced age was a miracle in itself.

At the same time, her soul was absurdly resilient. She had been able to achieve Liberation Form the moment she was born.

Youyue had seen plenty of Liberation Form Magical Girls who had transformed from their youth, maintained their original intentions, and lived to an older age.

She had also seen older women become Magical Girls in Normal State and slowly work their way up.

But this was the first time she had seen a Magical Girl who transformed at an older age and immediately achieved Liberation Form.

The difficulty was beyond description.

Simply put, Qingyin possessed the original wishes of childhood, the beautiful aspirations of adolescence, and the unwavering will of adulthood all at once.

How many people, after growing up, could still remember their childhood wishes? Preserve their youthful aspirations? Maintain their adult resolve?

At any rate, Youyue couldn't do it. No one she had known before could do it either.

Youyue's brain crashed, and she stopped thinking entirely.

"I'll explore your story another time. My brain has already exploded." Youyue gave a bitter smile.

"Is it really that exaggerated?" Qingyin asked, puzzled.

"Extremely, unbelievably, ridiculously, impossibly exaggerated," Youyue answered.

Every Magical Girl had her own story.

She had already imagined just how grand, moving, and shocking Qingyin's story must be.

Little did she know that Qingyin was merely an office worker who wanted to help and save Magical Girls while protecting her own job.

Fulfilling those conditions was simple. All one had to do was reincarnate.

Qingyin, who had lived two lives after reincarnating, had carried thoughts from adulthood as her original intentions from childhood onward.

"Reinforcements have finally arrived. Let's put this topic aside for now." Youyue let out a huge sigh of relief, unwilling to think any further.

Though she was filled with curiosity and desperately wanted to get to the bottom of it all at once.

Good things were worth savoring slowly. Her interest in Qingyin had not diminished—it had only grown stronger.

No rush, no rush.

Business first.

Not far away, Feiyan was running toward them with light, cheerful steps.

Before she even reached them, her sweet, delighted voice drifted over.

"Big Sister Youyue~ I'm out of school~ You said someone was forming a Magical Girl team with me, and there'd even be an amazing teacher leading us. I was so excited all day that I could barely pay attention in class!"