A Senior's Collarbone...

So this senior was a boy too?

Liu Rui was secretly surprised, but also a little pleased.

He really wasn't the only odd one out.

Boys becoming magical girls had not occurred often throughout history, but it was not particularly shocking either. Decades ago, people had reported on it extensively, but now the Special Incident Response Department had banned the public reporting of such news.

The Special Incident Response Department believed that such reports were unfair to magical girls as a whole, especially those who were boys. The magical girls these boys became were often better fighters than ordinary magical girls and more willing to deal with Fierce Beasts and witches, which naturally meant they were more likely to face danger.

Magical girls fought hard to bring about peace. Whether they were boys or girls, they should not be subjected to criticism.

Moreover, based on past cases, boys who became magical girls gradually lost their male characteristics and often suffered even greater discrimination.

To protect the reputation and well-being of male magical girls, the Special Incident Response Department prohibited all reports targeting them. Later textbooks also explicitly stated that boys could become magical girls, in order to reduce everyone's prejudice.

That was also why Liu Rui had dared to directly tell Meng Yu that he was a magical girl.

How could children have so many prejudices? When she learned that Liu Rui was a magical girl, she was mostly just surprised and curious. Something written in the textbooks had actually appeared right beside her. It felt incredibly novel.

Liu Rui knew very well that male magical girls were exceedingly rare. For two of them to appear in tiny Jiangyang City was practically a miracle.

He had many questions he wanted to ask Fu You, but after pushing him away, Fu You had simply left.

He had just met Sun Feiliu, who had mysteriously told him that he would definitely be surprised when he saw Fu You.

After entering the classroom, he had immediately picked out the boy wearing red earrings.

Though he sat in the corner, those red earrings and that unique aura were far too distinctive. If he was not a magical girl, then he had to be someone about to turn into a Fierce Beast.

And someone about to turn into a Fierce Beast could not possibly sit so quietly in a corner. Besides, those red earrings were too unusual; it was hard not to associate them with the gemstones magical girls wore after transforming.

Since he was a boy himself, and he had come specifically to find Fu You, he had naturally identified the right person at a glance.

He had noticed Fu You's impatient expression. He could sense that Fu You did not particularly welcome him and even seemed to dislike him a little.

But he was not discouraged.

He was not the type to casually let go after being rejected.

He felt that Fu You probably did not hate him, but simply did not know him well yet. Every heart was made of flesh; even the hardest heart could be worn soft.

—Not to mention, this mysterious and handsome senior could fight Abyss Witch on equal footing. No, he was someone who had even driven Abyss Witch away!

Normally, dealing with a witch required an entire team of magical girls. A magical girl squad usually consisted of four people. Yet Fu You had done it alone!

Although the situation had seemed somewhat strange in retrospect, no matter what, Fu You had driven Abyss Witch away.

He did not rush after him. He knew some things had to be taken slowly.

They were already in the same class. Where could Fu You possibly run?

He was already in the bag.

He could already tell that Fu You did not like excessive intimacy, unlike those girls. What he needed to do now was first observe Fu You's preferences.

For the rest of the time, he secretly kept an eye on Fu You.

Fu You barely listened in class. He simply sat quietly and did not disturb anyone else. The teachers also seemed to have an unspoken understanding never to bother him, as though he did not exist in the classroom at all.

During breaks, Fu You rarely took the initiative to interact with other classmates. He would usually sit in the classroom for a while, then leave, though nobody knew where he went, only returning shortly before class began.

But Fu You was not without friends. The boys seated in the back row would occasionally come over to talk to him.

"Big Youzi, what are you planning to eat for lunch?"

"Noodles."

"Noodles again? Hey, did you bring the stuff I asked you to get?"

"Great, give it to me already!"

Then they saw Fu You take a manga magazine out of his bag.

It seemed that Fu You got along fairly well with those boys.

Fu You was not difficult to approach either. He was simply rather cold by nature. That had already been proven before; after all, Fu You as a magical girl was not particularly good with words either.

The morning classes ended quickly.

Liu Rui took a deep breath, then walked over to Fu You.

"Senior, where are you going for lunch?" Liu Rui asked.

Fu You looked at him. "If you want to come, then come."

After saying that, Fu You headed outside.

Liu Rui was overjoyed.

He had thought Fu You would refuse, but unexpectedly, he had agreed to let him tag along so easily.

There was a cafeteria at school, but the food on the streets outside was more popular with the students.

After they sat down in Tasty Noodle House, Liu Rui sat across from Fu You. As soon as Fu You took his seat, the proprietress smiled and asked, "The usual?"

Fu You nodded.

"I'll have the same!" Liu Rui said.

The proprietress looked somewhat stunned. "You'll have the same?"

"Yes," Liu Rui said.

Eating the same food as him should earn him some points in his senior's eyes, right?

Fu You took out his phone, put on his earphones, and began playing on his phone without speaking to him.

As Liu Rui looked at Fu You's face, the more he looked, the more he felt that Fu You's face was not entirely without traces of what she had looked like as a magical girl.

Although Fu You's build differed greatly from Fu You's magical girl form—first of all, there was a twenty-centimeter difference in height, and the overall impression was worlds apart—if he overlaid the two images, he could subtly feel that it would not be strange if Fu You as a magical girl grew up a little more and became what he looked like now.

After many girls became magical girls, their bodies and builds also changed. As their time as magical girls increased, their figures and faces would gradually become more and more similar to their magical girl forms.

Usually, after being a magical girl for ten years, there would be no difference in appearance between transformed and untransformed states.

So judging from this, this senior probably had not been a magical girl for very long? Liu Rui secretly thought.

He also knew that after boys had been magical girls for a long time, they would basically become girls.

Then this senior's body...

Liu Rui's gaze involuntarily tried to sneak into the collar of Fu You's T-shirt.

Fu You's collarbones were beautiful. Even with just a casual glance, one could notice the smooth, delicate collarbones faintly visible at his neckline.

Yet the moment Liu Rui looked, Fu You suddenly covered his collar and watched him with a guarded expression.

He hurriedly waved his hands. "I was just curious..."

Oh no, had he offended his senior?

Uh... but was looking at a man's collarbones really such an offensive thing?