Training Begins

The next day, training officially began.

At eight in the morning, everyone gathered outside the lodging area and headed for the special training ground up the mountain.

It was special training, after all. Naturally, they had to transform.

After all, toughening her body without transforming had been Shen Yin's own choice.

But there was no need for anyone else to train that way.

Then the entire training base erupted.

"Is... is that—"

"Knight?! It's Lady Knight!!"

"Shen Yin's here too! Lady Shen Yin from Headquarters!"

"Wait, that pink one—that's—"

"Love!! It's Lady Love!!!"

Screams spread like wildfire from the dormitories all the way to the Training Ground.

Some observant trainees had already suspected that yesterday's arrivals were Magical Girl seniors from somewhere else, so they had been watching closely.

Now there was no stopping them.

Trainees surged in from every direction. Rows of heads popped out of the cabin windows, and even the aunties on the support staff stopped working.

"Thousand Blades is here too! She's so cool!"

"Oh my god, why are they here?!"

At the edge of the crowd, Celestial Star and Ranger stood side by side, expressionless.

"...No one's mentioned us at all."

Ranger spoke.

"Mm." Celestial Star pushed up her glasses. "That's normal, though. We haven't appeared in public much, given our strength."

The commotion lasted a full half hour.

Surrounded by trainees, Knight solemnly signed autographs. Her handwriting was just like her: every stroke neat and precise, almost like print. That only made her more popular.

When the trainees came up with their training manuals for her to sign, Knight simply couldn't refuse.

Love, meanwhile, went straight into crowd-pleasing mode.

She floated above the crowd, her pink skirt blooming like a flower.

Then she gently opened her hand in midair. Glimmers of light turned