My Girlfriend Is a Magical Girl!

Could it be because I took Rust out myself this time, so I absorbed more magic power?

Then what I absorbed this time should be even stronger.

I could evolve again. Awesome!

Could I end up evolving several times over the next year?

The three returned to the street. Tang Zhiqing said, "I'll head home first and ask the other Magical Girls if they know anything about what Lion said."

Lu Ming asked, "You're not staying for the victory feast? There's all the chips and cola you could want."

Tang Zhiqing thought for a moment and said, "Just bring me some tomorrow. I still need to discuss the details of the sports meet with the International Middle School Student Council."

"I remember the Joint Sports Meet is being held at our school, right?"

Lu Annuan looked rather happy.

After all, she would be able to see Lu Ming at her own school.

"Don't you know we're rival schools? Why are you smiling so happily?"

Lu Ming shook his head and sighed.

Lu Annuan stuck out her tongue. "Then don't cry when you lose to us."

Tang Zhiqing took a taxi and left.

As Lu Ming and Lu Annuan walked home, she suddenly remembered something. "By the way, when did you start practicing martial arts with your Student Council president?"

He had never told her about it.

Although they were just childhood friends, so they did not have to tell each other everything.

But... I even took pictures of my legs for you.

Yet there was so much you hadn't told me.

Lu Annuan's gaze was a little resentful.

Tang Zhiqing was so pretty, and her chest was so big. They must have had lots of physical contact while practicing, right?

Lu Ming was a boy, after all. It was not strange for him to enjoy practicing with Tang Zhiqing.

But in her heart... she still felt a little sour.

I obviously knew Lu Ming first.

Lu Ming, you must be blind not to realize how pretty your childhood friend is!

I'll add extra salt to everything I cook for you from now on. I'll salt you to death!

Lu Annuan was a little angry.

"...Didn't I tell you before? When I went to the president's house to help deal with those three freeloading scammers."

Lu Ming said without changing expression.

"Huh? Did you tell me?"

Lu Annuan froze for a moment and tried her best to recall it.

"Of course I did!"

Lu Ming became even more assertive and said in a deep voice, "Have you forgotten?"

Lu Annuan felt a little guilty. Could she really have forgotten?

"Then I... I'll think about it some more!"

"Mm, think about it some more."

Lu Ming nodded.

Phew, that hurdle was cleared.

Fortunately, Lu Annuan was still as easy to fool as when they were kids.

That night, Lu Ming tossed and turned in bed, only to see Rust staring straight at him.

Lu Ming: "..."

[Code-named Evil Beast 'Rust' has finished absorbing a large amount of residual magic power...]

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Other Cities' Magical Girls.

[Code-named Evil Beast 'Rust' has finished absorbing a large amount of residual magic power...]

There was no need to pay attention to the preamble. Lu Ming moved the system's progress bar forward a little—well, it would not move—but he soon heard the important information.

[Absorption complete. Constitution +2, magic power +1. Obtained one special ability.]

Lu Ming was puzzled.

Why had his attributes increased less than they had after the Wendigo?

System, you didn't embezzle some of it, did you?

Still, with the additional two points of constitution, Lu Ming felt strength surge through his body again. He stood before the mirror and took a look.

The young man in the mirror was solidly built without being bulky. His streamlined muscles made him look tall and well-shaped in clothes, while without them, people would only assume he worked out regularly. In short—his sex appeal was off the charts.

Seeing that he had not turned into a hulking muscle freak like the Hulk, Lu Ming was relieved.

Lu Ming turned his attention to his magic power. Aside from firing a—magic cannon—with Lu Annuan before, he still did not know how to use magic power, nor did he know how much he actually had.

Was it the amount in a bottle of yogurt drink, or the amount in a bottle of Mizone?

Lu Ming could not tell.

He could not exactly wake Lu Annuan in the middle of the night and fire off a magic cannon with her. It was already past ten; she had gone to sleep long ago.

Her lifestyle was far too healthy.

Finally, Lu Ming looked at the special ability and blinked.

"Oh?"

This ability actually came with a description?

[Magic Barrier: Forms a large protective barrier with magic power. It will not disappear until the magic power is depleted or the barrier is destroyed.]

An active skill.

This was the first active skill, wasn't it?

He really wanted to try it. It should not disturb anyone in the middle of the night, right?

Lu Ming opened his door. The living room was dark and silent, and Lu Annuan was sleeping soundly. He walked onto the balcony. There were quite a few elderly residents in the complex, so by eleven at night, it was already extremely quiet. Not even a dog barked.

It was the perfect time for an experiment.

"But how do I use this barrier?"

He would try using all his strength.

Lu Ming reached toward the moon in the night sky as though he wanted to grasp it in one hand, jokingly saying, "How about I protect the moon too?"

He clenched his fist, as though he had gripped the moon itself.

Lu Ming felt something active inside him gush forth with his words, shooting toward the sky like an arrow before... suddenly spreading out!

Lu Ming saw it.

In the night sky, like black velvet, the bright full moon slowly distorted, as though some immense power were descending over it.

Next to Haiyang City was Nanchuan City, a third-tier city famous for seaside tourism. Its greatest ambition was to find a chance to merge into Haiyang City and become a new first-tier city. It was a vibrant city.

And here, the Magical Girl Xingye was also eliminating Evil Beasts beneath the night sky. After using her short staff to destroy one Evil Beast, she stood atop a building and wiped the glistening sweat from her forehead.

"Eliminating Evil Beasts is really not easy."

Xingye was a middle school student. Although she had been a Magical Girl for half a year, taking out three or four Evil Beasts already exhausted her. She was not a particularly powerful Magical Girl, and her reputation was as obscure as her city's. In this vast country, she was as insignificant as a firefly beneath the moonlight.

But she was not someone with great ambition. Though she was unknown in other cities, the citizens of Nanchuan City liked her very much. She appeared in all kinds of news reports, and during Evil Beast disasters, people evacuated quickly without causing her trouble. That made Xingye happy as well.

Still, like the local citizens, Xingye was curious about and yearned for neighboring Haiyang City.

The Magical Girls in those big cities had to be much stronger than her, right?

They were not Magical Girls from a small place like her who could compare.

After all, it was a new first-tier city.

Suddenly, the hair on her body stood on end. She quickly turned to look in Haiyang City's direction.

She sensed an enormous amount of magic power slowly rising in Haiyang City. It surged toward her like an ocean, nearly drowning Xingye. She was like a small boat on a calm sea.

Xingye witnessed an unbelievable sight.

Among Magical Girls, using magic power to create a protective barrier was not a particularly difficult technique. Xingye knew it too, and she used it to protect ordinary people.

But... she had never seen a barrier capable of enclosing an entire city!

It was as if Haiyang City had been wrapped in foam.

"So... so powerful!"

Xingye muttered, utterly dumbfounded.

Haiyang City's Magical Girls were so strong!

Incredibly strong!

What kind of powerful Evil Beast were they fighting that they had enclosed the entire city?!

So strong!

Could they be even stronger than Empress?!

Suddenly, Xingye came to her senses and hurriedly took out her phone to take a picture. She used a Vi phone, the kind girls liked to use for taking photos, and it came in handy now.

Even if a Magical Girl from a small place like her rushed over, she would not be able to help. She would only get herself into danger and become a burden.

"Click!"

The instant she took the picture, the magic barrier shattered as well. Fragments of magic power lingered in the air like the aftermath of bursting foam, forming the shape of that enormous barrier that had covered the entire city like a field of stars.

What was astonishing was that the magic power was a color she had never seen before... rainbow-colored!

Xingye's mouth fell open in surprise. She hurriedly posted the photo on a website only Magical Girls could log into, uploading it with a caption.

[Haiyang City may have encountered a terrifying Evil Beast, one as powerful as a monster. Haiyang's Magical Girls defeated it with all their strength!]

[(Image) Everyone, look at this magic barrier covering the entire city. Perhaps Haiyang City's Magical Girls are even stronger than Empress. This era may have more than one supernova—perhaps there are twin suns in the sky. What do you all think?]

Incidentally.

Nanchuan City excelled at more than just tourism. It also had... news reporters.

Otherwise, how could it trick tourists from all over the country into visiting a third-tier city like Nanchuan?

And Xingye had clearly been influenced by the city she loved.

Thus, this topic, complete with its headline, instantly became the talk of Magical Girls across the country!

Tang Zhiqing had just finished listening to her cousin tearfully complain that there was too little time for her course project and the teacher's demands were too high. After helplessly comforting her, Tang Zhiqing was about to take out the trash and go back to sleep when she stepped out of the building and suddenly looked up to see an enormous surge of magic power rise up, directly covering Haiyang. Seen through the barrier, the moon distorted as if viewed through the surface of water.

What an enormous amount of magic power!

Tang Zhiqing was astonished. Was there such a powerful Magical Girl in Haiyang City?

But only a few seconds later, the barrier shattered.

What was going on?

Tang Zhiqing was puzzled. She took out her phone, intending to ask an acquaintance at the police station. Just as Lu Annuan knew Officer Zhuang, Tang Zhiqing noticed that the Magical Girls seemed to be discussing something heatedly. The moment she entered the website, she saw two blazing red headlines.

Who wrote such misleading headlines?