“Eh? You want me to go to Jidong City together with Dark Moth?” Xia Mo pointed at herself, her voice full of disbelief.
And wasn’t Luo Shuangyue unwilling to meet Long Wen yesterday? How come, after just one day of hesitation about whether to tell Long Wen about this, Luo Shuangyue just followed Long Wen right in?
Could it be that Luo Shuangyue’s boss also has something to do with Long Wen, and brought Luo Shuangyue along to find her?
“That’s right. She’s got a bit of a problem with her body and needs to go to Jidong City to have someone take a look. You don’t want to accompany her?” Long Wen, not knowing that Luo Shuangyue had already told Xia Mo about this last night, briefly explained the situation to Xia Mo.
She even told Xia Mo that this counted as a business trip and there would be a subsidy.
Xia Mo quickly expressed her willingness to go to Jidong City with Luo Shuangyue; after all, she’d be worried if someone else went with her.
“What about your family and friends…”
“No need to worry, I’ll come up with a good excuse!”
Making up excuses was the least of Xia Mo’s worries now.
She only had two family and friends in total—Luo Shuangyue and Luo Shuangxing. She just had to tell them she needed to leave for a few days and that was it.
What else could these two say?
Other Magical Girls might be afraid of their identities being suspected, but she didn’t care at all—her identity had already been exposed, so it couldn’t possibly be exposed a second time.
“All right then, you two discuss your departure time.” Long Wen was in a great mood seeing how smoothly things were progressing.
A junior like Xia Mo, obedient and so considerate, was really just too likable—far better than those little girls who lost all sense of their place the moment they got some power.
Long Wen left humming a little tune, feeling pleased. Xia Mo and Luo Shuangyue sat face-to-face, staring at each other.
Hmm, what should they say next?
Xia Mo waited for Luo Shuangyue to speak up, and Luo Shuangyue waited for Xia Mo to say something.
The two of them silently looked at each other for several minutes before Luo Shuangyue finally couldn’t take the awkward atmosphere any longer and broke the silence.
“I’ll come to find you tomorrow morning.”
With that, she hurriedly escaped, almost tripping over her own feet.
There really wasn’t anything left to say.
Was she supposed to just keep staring wide-eyed at Xia Mo here? That would be way too awkward—awkward enough for Luo Shuangyue to gouge a three-bedroom apartment out of the floor.
Watching Luo Shuangyue’s flustered back as she fled, Xia Mo pressed her lips together, letting out a cheerful laugh.
You have to admit, Shuangyue looks much more pleasant like this compared to her usual forced seriousness.
“Xia Mo-jie, what are you snickering about?” Luo Shuangxing, holding a book in her arms, walked up to Xia Mo with some curiosity.
It couldn’t be that she was secretly gloating at her and Siam suffering to prepare for exams, could it? Luo Shuangxing didn’t think Xia Mo was that kind of person.
The only one who’d take pleasure in others’ misfortune was her own annoying… sibling.
“I’m thinking about what excuse Shuangyue will come up with tonight to explain why she’s disappearing for exactly as many days as I am.” Xia Mo’s lips curled up slightly.
Just thinking about the good show to come tonight made it impossible to hide her smile.
Xia Mo had to leave for a few days, and hey, Luo Shuangyue also happened to have something to do and had to leave for the exact same number of days. Isn’t that a bit too much of a coincidence?
After all, this wasn’t the world before the Demon disasters erupted. Now, each city was like its own little country. Traveling to another city was even more troublesome than going abroad used to be.
There were flights, but only to major cities, and only a handful every few days. As for driving a car there… Never mind whether there’s even a road, what if you run into a sudden Demon on the way? Wouldn’t that be the end?
Since Demons could spawn in any region of the world, and the areas protected by Magical Girls and the Magic Department were always limited, most regions of the world were now uninhabited.
Only the Magic Creature Hunting Squads, made up of Magical Girls, would periodically go to these areas to clean out the Demons.
For normal people, they might live their whole life without ever leaving their own city.
Now, Luo Shuangyue and Xia Mo were disappearing at the same time for the same number of days—if that wasn’t suspicious, nothing was.
That was just self-destruction!
“You’re both going to Jidong City together… That’s nice. I wish I could go too.” Luo Shuangxing let out a voice full of envy.
Unfortunately, she had to study for exams and couldn’t go along.
“You’ll have your chance. As long as you break through to Initial Bloom Class soon, you’ll be able to take part in the Magic Department’s intercity operations, and then you’ll have your chance to go to Jidong City.”
“Xia Mo-jie, you make it sound easy. It took you years to reach Initial Bloom Class, and I’ve only been at it for a few months. How could I break through that fast?”
Xia Mo didn’t really agree with Luo Shuangxing’s words. This girl’s talent was visibly better than hers. At this rate, Xia Mo suspected Luo Shuangxing would reach Initial Bloom in just another month.
Sometimes, talent really could make people despair.
But then she remembered how much intensity Luo Shuangxing endured every time during Training, and Xia Mo thought maybe it wasn’t so strange for her to progress this quickly after all.
Supposedly, when Shuangyue’s White Night senior trained Shuangxing, it really was to the brink of death—Shuangxing was always teetering between breaking down and not breaking down.
She always said she was going to collapse, but she still bore all those special trainings to the end.
This kind of willpower was enough to make her stand out among Magical Girls.
“Xia Mo-jie, should I be a little more careful or a little more careless?” Trying to steer the topic away from the deadly Training, Luo Shuangxing wanted to talk about something more fun.
For instance, how to make her dear older sister squirm when she tried to come up with an excuse.
She just loved seeing that devious person forced into a corner, struggling to come up with excuses—that was the most fun.
“Just don’t go overboard. She’s your older brother, after all.” Xia Mo chuckled helplessly, poking Luo Shuangxing on the forehead. The relationship between these siblings was truly baffling.
“She’s my sister now! And even if I treat her as my sister, does she treat me as her little sister? She just loves to bully me!” Luo Shuangxing puffed out her cheeks in protest.
Other people’s little sisters were always spoiled, but she was different—she got ‘bullied by her “brother” all the time. Was she really any less than any other little sister?
After all, Luo Shuangxing was still a ninety-point beauty!
Whether Luo Shuangyue, Dark Moth, or even White Night, she always got bullied. Was she really that easy to pick on?
Luo Shuangxing couldn’t accept it—she wanted to vent all her grievances!
“Don’t worry, Xia Mo-jie. Tonight, I’ll make sure my dear older brother, older sister, comes up with a perfect story.”
“Oh, so you have important business and need to go on a work trip? You won’t be home for several days?”
Setting her chopsticks gently on the table, Luo Shuangxing folded her hands under her chin, looking thoughtful.
Across from her sat Luo Shuangyue, face full of sincerity, wearing a ‘yeah, yeah, would I ever lie to you’ look.
If she was only going out for a day or two, Luo Shuangyue wouldn’t have to face her sister’s inquisition—she could just send a message saying she wouldn’t be home tonight.
But this time, she was going to be away for several days, and she really had to explain it well.
“Bro, I really want to believe you.” “Mm-hmm.”
“But, just before dinner, Xia Mo-jie also told me she had to leave for a few days. Isn’t it odd you two just happen to be gone at the same time?” Luo Shuangxing slapped the table hard.