Regarding the fact that my best friend is a magical girl

My leg injury still hasn't fully healed.

“It wasn’t noticed before, or rather, it has only worsened to a visible degree in the last few days. This is very bad for me… It might be a bit complicated to explain, so let me show you directly.”

Deactivate the transformation.

Then, in front of Yin Wei, she took off her top.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Finding a Place to Stay

(Albinocotyledon)

Although it might sound narcissistic to say it myself, I do have very handsome facial features.

In my self-analysis, this handsomeness came from the sharp and distinct lines of my face, but now this sharpness has become somewhat effeminate, like a sissy male artist.

Yin Wei stared at my face for a moment, then reached out and pressed and pinched my chest... She acted like a pervert.

I blushed slightly and protested, "Don't touch me. Apart from my face, beard, body hair, and skin, there's nothing unusual about the rest of my body... and everything down there is normal."

If this trend continues, there is a high probability that a complete metamorphosis (biological term) will occur.

"Do you think this femininity is caused by a magic potion?"

"Yes, these symptoms only appeared after using the potion."

Yin Wei nodded knowingly.

As the association's liaison, she was constantly bombarded with all sorts of unreasonable requests, so even at home she dressed very formally in a shirt and trousers.

"Let me ask Barbara for you."

She quickly typed a message on her phone, speculating, "Perhaps the potion contained estrogen or some other nourishing and blood-tonifying ingredients? Magical girls who were originally male are very rare, and such cases are obviously not within Barbara's consideration. For example, if chocolate was added during the preparation, it wouldn't be suitable for a magical girl turned from a dog."

Are magical girls who transform from men rare?

There are two in Changkong City alone... and if you count Seruno's father, that makes three.

"Why would estrogen be added to a potion that speeds up metabolism? Is potion making really that casual?"

"This is just my guess. We'll have to wait for Barbara to examine you to find out the specifics. But she's probably already asleep at this hour, so we might have to wait until tomorrow to give you an answer."

It's already midnight.

"Are you going to take me to see her?"

"We'll have to wait for a reply on that... There's a small bed in the study, I'll lend it to you tonight, and you can use the bathroom as you please."

"Yes, thank you."

"But before that, you have to become a magical girl first. I don't cater to men who don't come home at night."

"..."

I pursed my lips and activated the Star Crystal within my body to transform back into Miluno.

Yin Wei said, "Honestly, if you had come clean with Seruno earlier, you wouldn't have needed to worry about this stupid thing called identity all the time, right?"

"...Then I'll just keep agonizing over it."

Admittedly, Ayao is a completely different person after becoming Seruno.

Therefore, I had the thought that "it's okay to reveal the secret" for a while, until she gave me that "Miluno fan support outfit", and I realized that this secret should be buried forever...

"Oh, right."

After a busy day, I was getting ready to take a shower and go to bed when Yin Wei, who was still working in the living room, called me back.

Although she didn't even lift her head.

"The branch is going to launch an unmanned counterattack operation tomorrow. Would you like to come and watch?"

"What do you mean by...unmanned counterattack operations?"

It was all so vague and confusing; I'd never heard of anything like this on Sirius.

"Today's attack has angered the higher-ups somewhat. Doing nothing would be unacceptable to the victims' families, so the Army has provided the association with a state-of-the-art military drone, intending to send it over to teach the other side a lesson."

I cautioned, "Ordinary weapons can't hurt monsters."

"No, as long as you have the magical power of a magical girl, you can create weapons that can kill monsters, but I don't know to what extent..."

Will Seruno participate?

"Of course, she is the key to the plan. Without her, military drones would become scrap metal as soon as they enter the wormhole. You could say that she and her magic have advanced the timeline for humanity's counterattack by at least thirty years. Without her, we would need a long time to develop a wormhole that everyone can pass through."

This is probably why Seruno is seen as a thorn in the side's side.

"I understand. I'll go take a look tomorrow."

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An unfamiliar room, an unfamiliar pillow, an unfamiliar bed, and an unfamiliar smell.

For all these reasons, I have insomnia.

"Has it gotten to the point where you can't sleep without Seruno by your side?"

These symptoms are so strange.

It was still barely dawn, around five or six in the morning.

Good morning, Miluno.

After taking out a disposable toothbrush and towel from the crystal and quickly washing up, I left the study.

Yin Wei had already prepared breakfast and was sitting at the living room table waiting for me. She was dressed the same as last night, and even her seat was the same as last night, as if she hadn't moved at all all night.

It was the same in Hawaii; I never saw her sleep.

"...You get up really early."

I'm usually the first one to wake up at home.

“I’ve been trained for high-quality sleep, and I only need four hours of sleep a day. That’s only half an hour earlier than you. Hurry up and eat breakfast; we have to take a detour before we get to the branch.”

Although I had just woken up, my mind was already clear.

"Could it be that Miss Barbara is going to examine me?"

"Ah."

"...You've already told her my identity?"

Are you going to hide your illness from your doctor?

Of course I'm dissatisfied.

"Hey, what happened to keeping it a secret?"

Yin Wei did promise me that.

"Don't worry, she only talked about gender, and she would never and could never reveal your secret, not to mention that she herself is a wild magical girl."

"Out of the public eye?"

"It's a magical girl that hasn't been registered before. Oh, and when you go downstairs later, please help me carry the box down with you... If there are any side effects, I'll return all of these."

No wonder they sell drugs to treatment facilities; it turns out they're just in a cooperative relationship.

"Well, since that's the case, shouldn't you also tell me about that doctor?"

"It's hard to say. I can only tell you that Barbara is not human."

"Huh? An animal-type magical girl?"

"...You'll find out when you come with me."

In the end, they still kept us in suspense.

She hastily finished her breakfast, then the laborer carried four large boxes of potions into the elevator, down to the underground parking garage, and finally tossed them into the back seat of her mini convertible.

As they drove out of the underground parking garage and onto the main road, Yin Wei suddenly said:

"The atmosphere of the city has changed."

The streets are usually quiet at six o'clock.

But today was more lifeless than ever before.

"There's nothing we can do, right? After all, so many people have died."

Yesterday's attack has caused widespread panic. Without warning through wormholes, those peculiar beings are like bombs that could explode at any moment, making everyone who has lived through the war feel extremely uneasy.

Looking at the road ahead, Yin Wei shook her head.

"Not only that, but there have also been sightings of humans turning into monsters. Although the association implemented information control measures immediately, it was impossible to stop the spread of this information in reality... and the distrust between people is intensifying."

"...It seems that things are indeed about to change."

The other side has gained the upper hand in this confrontation and hopes that today's battle will go smoothly.

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Barbara

(Albinocotyledon)

We drove south for nearly an hour.

This primeval forest in the southern suburbs is also the only remaining undeveloped area in Changkong City.

More accurately, development is prohibited. In order to protect the ecological environment here, the government has also moved the factories in the southern suburbs to the emerging industrial zones in B2 and C3. With the loss of the industrial zones, the towns that formed around the factories have gradually become hollowed out and abandoned. In the end, only people like Qiao Lina, who have little capital but still need an address to register a company, return here.

They cautiously lay low here, some waiting for a chance to make a comeback, while others remained forever silent.

However, this trip was not to see Halley.

"Is that magical girl who sells fake medicine in Shenmu Park?"

Although the E7 area is a primeval forest, it is still a natural landscape, and it is expected that it will be developed into a tourist area without damaging the environment.

"Don't say that about them. Although there are side effects, the medicine is really effective, isn't it?"

Following a dirt road that wasn't even paved with asphalt, Yin Wei led me to a pit. Inside the pit was a cave dwelling half-buried in the ground, covered with lush green grass. Around it was a deep drainage ditch to prevent water from flooding the house on rainy days.

The design is somewhat like a hobbit dwelling, but it's not as aesthetically pleasing as the ones in the movies.