Fox Fox's Lullaby

Once, a legend circulated among Magical Girl fans.

"Magical Girl idols' songs possess wonderful power and can produce miraculous magical effects."

Many people believed this was nothing more than rabid fans losing their minds. After all, under the influence of idol culture, even poorly ventilated shoes could become lunch boxes, let alone an urban legend that sounded so utterly baseless.

But after a certain Magical Girl account released a string of songs, and the public truly enjoyed comfortable, uninterrupted sleep for an entire night from those songs, the legend was brought up again on the forums:

[Think! Does a Magical Girl's singing really possess magical power??]

When Hua Ling opened the forum she had not logged into for ages, intending to like and reply to Nan Xiaofeng's newly published post, she saw a fresh discussion thread in the trending section.

The power of singing? This wasn't the first time she had heard that rumor, Hua Ling thought.

When she had first become Magical Girl Iris, she had learned plenty of cutting-edge magical knowledge through a series of remote training sessions and magic studies organized by the Hero Association. Recently, she had even sought Inari's guidance on some more advanced theories. She considered herself a fairly experienced magic apprentice.

...If Mai Sui, Bai Lili, and the others heard Hua Ling's thoughts right now, they would probably mutter, "If you count as an apprentice, then what does that make everyone else?"

Among the magical knowledge Hua Ling had learned, only Inari had proposed the rather radical cutting-edge theory of "using music as a medium for magic." But she had only raised it as a possibility; even Inari herself had never put the theory into practice.

"Hua Ling! Did you like my post yet?" Nan Xiaofeng leaned closer, poked the shoulder of the