Golden-Hair

"You can't scare me. Didn't Sun Feiliu tell you about me?" Fu You swung her feet.

Why did this Golden-Hair give off such a sissy vibe?

Logically speaking, even after becoming a magical girl, his temperament shouldn't have been affected this quickly...

Whatever, whatever. Any boy who could become a magical girl was abnormal to some extent.

Pink magical girls were generally the type that used "love" as their weapon. Most were healers, while a minority were combat types. Pink combat-type magical girls often possessed especially outrageous abilities.

If the man before her was a combat-type magical girl, he might actually achieve something impressive.

Huali's gaze instinctively fell on her feet, then traveled up along her legs to her thighs.

Fu You hesitated slightly before pressing a hand over her skirt.

She wasn't worried about exposing herself; she had safety shorts underneath. Still, being stared at like that felt strange.

As a man, she knew he probably wasn't doing it on purpose. Her sitting posture had been too uninhibited. Even so, it did make her dislike for humanity as a group rise a little.

"Sun Feiliu? Who's that?" Golden-Hair asked in confusion.

"The head of the Magical Girl Division," Fu You explained.

"No, my homeroom teacher told me you were coming."

Fu You nodded, took the cola, and drained it in one gulp.

For a magical girl, the way she gulped down cola so freely was a little too uninhibited.

In Huali's perception, a magical girl like her should have been holding an ice cream and slowly licking it. That would have seemed more fitting.

After finishing the cola, Fu You stood up. "In that case, stop wasting time. Transform."

Huali nodded, then hurried into the inner room and returned with a small pink wand. He deliberately ran up to Fu You, raised the pink wand high, and held it aloft.

"Magical girl—transform!"

The pink heart on the wand spun twice. Beautiful music began to play from it, accompanied by pleasant sound effects, as pink light rapidly spread from his fingertips and swallowed his entire body.

Fu You held her head and looked away.

Pink light enveloped Huali's entire body. Through the outline in the light and shadow, his clothes could be seen vanishing, his figure shrinking, and his hair growing longer. A cloudlike, fluffy white underskirt blossomed around his waist, covered by layer upon layer of translucent pink gauze decorated with puffed sleeves. Crystal-clear pink bows bloomed one after another at his hairline and waist like flower buds. As threads of pink magic swept across his legs, white stockings appeared on them, while a pair of small pink leather shoes adorned his feet.

When the light faded, the adorable young girl standing there was exactly the same as in the photograph—Pink Huali.

Huali made a V-sign beside her eye and even winked.

After transforming, Huali was about the same height as Fu You.

Fu You stood up.

This kind of embarrassing transformation sequence only lasted so long with newcomers.

"In that case, let's go train outside."

"Okay, Senior!"

Even his voice had become soft and sweet, with the childish tenderness unique to girls. The fluffy pink-and-white skirt he wore trembled slightly as he ran.

His whole body seemed to have turned into an adorable bubble.

Why didn't this person feel embarrassed about transforming?

Whatever, whatever. People couldn't all be judged by the same standard.

Besides, no matter how strange this Huali was, he wasn't as strange as Fu You.

Huali at least had a bit of girlishness. She, someone without even a trace of feminine charm from head to toe, becoming a magical girl—that was far stranger, wasn't it?

Thinking that, she combed through her hair with her fingers.

When her hair had been pressed down for too long, it got a little warm.

Watching those golden strands cascade before his eyes like a waterfall, Huali quietly marveled:

No wonder she was a senior. Even a casual gesture like fixing her hair was so elegant and precise, perfectly timed.

This mysterious senior had to be incredibly strong, right?

Fu You led Huali out of the Magical Girls' Apartment.

Taking a magical girl like this out of the Magical Girls' Apartment put far less mental pressure on her than taking a man out would have.

Although men often came and went from the Magical Girls' Apartment, and it wasn't unusual for magical girls to live there with their parents, brothers, or even lovers.

She didn't want anyone to discover that Fu You had any connection with some sissy man.

She strode out of the apartment with Huali. The magical girls around them still cast puzzled looks her way, but she ignored every judgment and headed straight behind the apartment.

There was a large open area behind the Magical Girls' Apartment, specifically set aside for magical girl training.

Combat skills could be practiced even without transforming. Although magical girls naturally mastered many combat abilities after transforming and became far stronger than before, more regular training meant they could use those abilities more skillfully after transforming.

Transforming into a magical girl consumed magic power, and maintaining magical girl form consumed magic power as well.

Magic power was an extremely precious resource for magical girls. It gradually recovered over time, and could also be restored through specific supply items at the Magical Girl Division.

Supply items were very valuable. They could only be exchanged for with black crystal shards obtained by eliminating vicious beasts and Witches. Therefore, most magical girls tried to conserve magic power and would not transform unless necessary.

But Fu You had rather a lot of magic power.

This open area wasn't Fu You's ideal training ground. She disliked crowds, and she wanted a larger space.

"Aren't we training here?" Huali asked.

"Real battles don't happen in places this safe," Fu You said.

With a tap of her toe, she suddenly leaped into the air.

Huali followed right behind her, swiftly weaving through the city.

Fu You knew where nearby there was enough open space. Before long, she arrived at an empty area beside the moat.

There were few people nearby. The ground was a rough, uneven path of gravel mixed with dirt.

Fu You summoned her wand. After walking forward a few steps, she turned to face Huali and stood still. "Come on. Attack me. Use everything you're good at."

Huali hesitated.

Fu You continued, "Don't worry about me. Attack me with everything you have. Start with close combat."

Holding his small pink wand, Huali blinked in surprise. "But I'm a healing-type magical girl. I'm not good at fighting."

Fu You said coldly, "Magical girls are born to fight. If you don't want to fight, I advise you to give up being a magical girl as soon as possible."

Though with that little face of hers, even when she deliberately acted cold, she only looked a little tsundere.

"But... my skills are all for healing. I don't have any that can attack..."

The magic magical girls learned was stored inside their transformation items. As long as they silently asked themselves what magic they could use, or silently recited a spell's name in their hearts, they could cast the corresponding spell.

Fu You took a deep breath, then slowly let it out.

Normally, healing-type magical girls were gentle, adorable girls with an overflowing amount of love that was enough to make people sick.

Healing-type abilities were usually cultivated by strengthening a magical girl's perception of "love." The stronger her ability to empathize, the more effective the healing she could provide.

That was why most pink magical girls were crybabies.

That was usually the case, but since this junior had acknowledged her as his senior, he didn't get a choice.

Especially since he was still a man—there was even less reason to go easy on him.

Fu You spun her wand in her hand, brought her feet together, and pointed the tip directly at Huali.

Her gaze suddenly became much sharper.

An invisible wind also began circling around her, sending her golden hair fluttering—

"Just because you don't have offensive skills means you can't fight? You're a man. Don't tell me you've never been in a fight?"

Huali nodded. "Y-yes... I've never fought before."

"Then what was the point of dyeing your hair golden?"

"I was born with golden hair."