Magical Girl's Knight Brother

"Then why can a red-level magical girl absorb Emerald Crystal?"

"Red-level magical girls have just started their careers, and their magic power and combat abilities are generally not high. If they want to protect the city, they must improve their magic power as quickly as possible."

After adjusting his expression, Qin Nan spoke quietly.

"Otherwise, you'll end up like you are now, having roughly mastered the use of magic power, but unable to cast a single spell."

When magic was mentioned, Tang Cao suddenly became a little excited.

Having just watched Qin Nan's 'finishing move' up close, Tang Cao's heart was immediately captured by his elegance and handsomeness. She couldn't wait to learn magic and become as strong as him.

There is no girl who doesn't want to be beautiful, just like there is no boy who doesn't want to be a knight.

If magical girls are destined to hide in the darkness and silently protect the real world, then I must be the brightest and most gorgeous one in the darkness!

As if he had seen through Tang Cao's thoughts, Qin Nan smiled slightly and spoke before the other party could speak.

"Anyway, I'll be around Snow City for a while now. Since we've met, I don't mind helping you out."

"Really!?" Tang Cao's face lit up with joy.

"But don't be too happy too soon," Qin Nan said solemnly. "I'm only teaching you the basics of magic. How much you learn is entirely up to you."

As he spoke, Qin Nan didn't know what he was thinking about, and a gloomy look appeared between his brows.

"Also, being a magical girl isn't as easy as you think. This is war, a life-and-death struggle. We don't give our enemies cute code names, nor do we feel superior just because we possess magical powers."

"If you don't want to die miserably in a gutter, rot into a pulp, and end up in the news, you'd better wake up as soon as possible!"

Qin Nan's words were so powerful that even Xiaobai was shocked by the aura she displayed, and his eyes glanced slightly at Tang Cao.

On the other hand, Tang Cao slowly restrained her smile and excitement and gradually calmed down.

Biting his lower lip lightly, Tang Cao lowered his eyes, as if wondering whether he was really ready.

The atmosphere on the rooftop became quiet. Neither Qin Nan nor Xiaobai disturbed her. They just waited quietly for Tang Cao's answer.

After an unknown amount of time, Tang Cao raised her head again, and this time, her eyes were extremely serious.

".You know, I have a brother."

The evening breeze blows.

Qin Nan and Xiaobai both shuddered.

Then Tang Cao continued to speak.

"My brother is very good to me. I still remember when I was little, he would secretly take me to the playground, buy me lots of delicious food, and protect me when my parents scolded me."

"After my brother entered high school, he seemed like a different person. He became anxious and irritable, and sometimes he would lock himself in the bathroom and yell at the mirror."

"I don't know what high school means to my brother. I just know that he seems to be getting further and further away from me. So I came to Syracuse to attend high school, and I also wanted to see what happened to him."

"But you know what, I'm very happy. I'm really happy."

"Because I found that the brother in my memory has returned, or you could say that my brother has never changed. He is still the brother who dotes on me and treats me well. No matter how big a mess I get into, he will never lose his temper with me."

There was a pause, and Tang Cao also smiled.

"Sister Qin Nan, I've actually been prepared for this."

"I will protect the city well, I will protect the real world with all my heart, and I will do my best to eliminate all enemies, because—"

Breathe out gently.

"Because I have a family behind me that I need to protect."

As the words fell, the surrounding environment fell into silence again.

Qin Nan stared blankly at Tang Cao in front of him, his head buzzing, not knowing how to start.

Xiaobai also lowered her body, her expression showing both praise for Tang Cao and a hint of embarrassment, which made her face look a little strange.

After pondering for a long time, Qin Nan tried his best to keep his expression serious, then nodded slightly.

"Yes, I hope you can really do what you say."

Well said, don't say it again next time.

With your brother's level, he doesn't need your protection at all.

Not to mention ordinary heretic demons, even a senior official passing by would probably be slapped twice by your brother.

However, looking at Tang Cao's resolute expression, Qin Nan still felt a trace of envy in the deepest part of his heart.

Is this what family feels like?

In order to protect his sister, the brother fought against the greedy people in the entire mirror plane at the cost of his life, and in order to protect his brother, the sister also made up her mind to fight against the heretic demon for the rest of her life.

Look at yourself.

It seems that apart from Xiao Hui, I am left alone.

Slowly suppressing the messy thoughts in his mind, Qin Nan looked at Tang Cao again.

"Now that you're prepared, I'll take some time this weekend to teach you about magical girl combat."

"Yes!"

Tang Cao responded, an excited smile on his face again.

After the two exchanged contact information, Qin Nan disappeared into the night sky in a flash, leaving only Tang Cao and Xiaobai standing on the rooftop.

Looking at the direction Qin Nan left, Tang Cao finally couldn't suppress the joy in his heart and jumped up excitedly.

"Yeah, I can finally learn magic!"

“Let It Go~Let It Go~”

While waving the crystal snowflakes with her hands, the arabesque danced gracefully.

Seeing this, Xiaobai couldn't help but lower his head and hold his forehead.

"Don't go, find a way to get down from here first."

"Oh"

Chapter 59 Sudden attack!

"That's what it is."

In Chang'an, in the one-bedroom apartment Qin Nan temporarily rented, she was seriously reporting tonight's intelligence to Tang Zijun.

Well, actually it wasn't that serious. Qin Nan kept swallowing his saliva while reporting, and his eyes kept glancing at the food on the table.

"I told you we can eat and talk at the same time, no need to be so restrained."

After Tang Zijun went out for a walk, he found that Chang'an was unusually quiet tonight, so he dragged Xiao Hui to buy some ingredients and made a simple meal of roasted pork ribs and some flatbread.

When I went to pick Qin Nan up, the pork ribs had just come out of the oven and the aroma was fragrant.

"That won't do." Hearing this, Qin Nan suddenly became serious. "Work is work, eating is eating, how can the two be mixed up?"

Tang Zijun laughed in silence, thinking that if your eyes had not been almost blurry, I would have really believed your lies. After a pause, he waved his hand.

"I just like your attitude. Eat it quickly or it will get cold."

Tang Zijun's words were like a starting gun.

Upon hearing this, Qin Nan sat down on the chair immediately, not caring about getting his hands covered in oil. He grabbed a pork rib and started eating.

Looking at Qin Nan's ungentlemanly eating habits, Tang Zijun was quite happy. After all, the other party's behavior was the best proof of his cooking skills.

However, thinking back to Qin Nan's report just now, Tang Zijun frowned slightly.

There are two most critical questions facing Tang Zijun now, and these two mysteries were "contributed" by Xiaobai.

One is the monster as huge as the mountains in her dream, and the other is her enlightenment encounter that is completely different from other spirit beasts.

First of all, there was a monster as big as a mountain or river. Tang Zijun had been fighting with the Greedy One for so long, but he had never seen any creature of huge size. From the time he came to this world until now, the biggest monster he had seen was the strange mantis.

And a being as tall as a mountain is not something that an ordinary magical girl can fight against no matter how you look at it.

So the question is, where did this monster come from, and when did Xiaobai's dream, or memory, originate?

As for the memory transfer during the enlightenment, the mystery hidden in it is even greater.

The enlightenment of spiritual beasts relies on the power of nature. Logically, there should be no problems with this kind of memory transmission, but what Xiaobai encountered was beyond Qin Nan's imagination.

Adjusting his glasses, Tang Zijun turned to look at Xiao Hui.

"Xiao Hui, I don't know much about Qizhi. Can you tell me in detail about the process of this thing?"

Hearing Tang Zijun's voice, Xiao Hui, who had been trying to play dead, suddenly shuddered, then cautiously opened his eyes and smiled awkwardly.

"Of course, as you wish, the enlightenment of spirit beasts simply means injecting some basic knowledge gained from past battles and research of magical girls into the spirit world of animals through dreams, in order to achieve the purpose of awakening their spiritual wisdom."

"Dream?" Tang Zijun keenly grasped the key.

"Yes, that's it."

Xiao Hui said tremblingly.

"Animals also dream, but due to their limited brain capacity, their dreams are always bizarre. The power of nature also takes advantage of this time to develop the animals' brains, allowing them to gain intelligence and self-awareness."

"Is it possible that this kind of memory transmission could be affected by other forces?" Tang Zijun asked again.

"Theoretically, it should be impossible. After all, this is a blessing brought by the power of nature, the origin of the real world. If there really is some power that can influence this blessing, it proves that the other party is above the real world."

Xiao Hui smiled, flapped his wings, and continued.

"I feel like the situation might not be that serious. Your kitten is probably just sleep deprived."

"Do you think that the excuse of 'being sleep deprived' can explain why she even forgot such common sense as the hierarchy of magical girls?" Tang Zijun rubbed his temples, feeling a little helpless.

Although Xiaobai gave him the impression of being unreliable from the very beginning, apart from referring to himself as "this palace" from time to time, he also acted a little strangely when facing the heretic demon.

Especially when he revealed his identity in front of her for the first time, Xiaobai had never even heard of the reversed world and the greedy person.

You know, even if the Greedy Ones had been destroyed by me seven years ago, their past should have been passed down to some extent.

What's more, the spiritual beast's enlightenment is transmitted by memory. Since it can transmit the battle of the magical girl in the past, the power of nature should not be unable to tell how many enemies there are.

Thinking of this, Tang Zijun continued.

"I remember Qin Nan mentioned to me before, Xiao Hui, you've been enlightened for a long time, right? Have you even stayed temporarily in other magical girls' homes before?"

Xiao Hui: “.”

Xiao Hui glared at Qin Nan who was eating voraciously without leaving any trace. He felt a little anxious. Does this guy have a zipper on his mouth? Why does he say everything?

But on the surface, Xiao Hui still nodded his little head docilely at Tang Zijun.

"Yes, I did have such an experience that I cannot bear to look back on."

"Don't be nervous. I don't mean to ask too many questions. I just want to know more about magical girls and spirit beasts. After all, regarding Xiaobai's question..."

As he spoke, Tang Zijun suddenly stopped.

His ears moved slightly, and Tang Zijun's expression was no longer as relaxed as it was at the beginning.

Seeing Tang Zijun's words suddenly stop, Xiao Hui was also stunned.

"Sir, what's wrong?"

“Something seems wrong”

Tang Zijun seemed to be answering, but also seemed to be talking to himself.

Noticing that Tang Zijun's expression was a little subtle, Qin Nan stopped eating and his eyes kept moving back and forth between Xiao Hui and Tang Zijun, not knowing what had happened.

At this moment, Tang Zijun suddenly attacked without any warning.

Before Xiao Hui could react, he saw Tang Zijun suddenly grab his body, and the next moment, a deafening explosion sounded!

There was a loud bang, and Qin Nan's one-bedroom apartment collapsed instantly.

Bricks, stones and wood blocks flew everywhere like cannonballs, raising clouds of dust. The old walls were ruthlessly torn apart by this force, and everything in the house fell apart in just a few breaths.

The wall connecting the streets was like being torn apart by a huge hand. The entire wall bricks and steel bars broke and fell heavily to the ground.

The entire house turned into ruins in an instant, leaving only billowing smoke and the messy ruins.

Amidst the smoke and dust, two figures suddenly leaped out and landed steadily on the street, one in front and one behind.

It was not until this time that Tang Zijun let go of Xiao Hui's body, but he was already frightened and lay quietly in Tang Zijun's hands without any movement.