Since the Demon disasters, the world’s population had sharply declined.
To stimulate growth, the legal marriage age had been lowered considerably.
Now, couples could register right after high school graduation.
School romances, once considered a menace before the disasters, had become commonplace, because the world desperately needed more people.
While Luo Shuangyue and Luo Shuangxing whispered, a voice suddenly came from behind them.
“Shuangxing? You’re at the amusement park too?”
Hearing this, Luo Shuangxing quickly turned.
When she saw who it was, her face lit up with a brilliant smile.
“Class Monitor, long time no see!”
Behind Luo Shuangxing stood a plain-looking black-haired girl.
She wore a somewhat old-fashioned pair of black-rimmed glasses and exuded a scholarly aura.
From Luo Shuangxing’s greeting, Luo Shuangyue guessed this girl was probably the top student in the class.
“Class Monitor, did you come alone?” Luo Shuangxing asked, curious.
She didn’t think the Monitor liked to go out for fun.
Going to an amusement park alone was even more unlikely.
Just as Luo Shuangxing suspected, the Class Monitor shook her head, pointing at another girl behind her.
“No, I’m here with Xiao Yi.”
Xiao Yi was small and delicate-looking, giving off a pitiful vibe.
Her light flaxen hair framed her face, and her blue eyes held a timid, small animal-like expression.
A beautiful girl?
Luo Shuangyue mused silently.
That kind of appearance would be considered quite good among Magical Girls.
Her thoughts wandered for a moment.
Not all beautiful girls are Magical Girls, but all Magical Girls are beautiful.
Could this cute child be a Magical Girl?
The thought circled briefly in Luo Shuangyue’s mind before she dismissed it.
No way something so coincidental would happen.
You don’t just run into a Magical Girl on the street.
Besides, if a new Magical Girl did appear, wouldn’t the Magic Department have found out and recruited her already?
“What? You ask why no one’s recruited Luo Shuangyue?
Isn’t it because her transformation is abnormal and unnoticed by the Magic Department?
Besides, she ran straight to Eternal Night Base after transforming, so the Magic Department can’t find her.”
“Is this your sister, Shuangxing?” The Class Monitor looked at Luo Shuangyue, thinking for a moment before quietly asking.
She had heard from Luo Shuangxing about her family—how Shuangxing relied solely on her brother.
But this stunning girl standing with Shuangxing looked so much like her.
This had to be Shuangxing’s sister.
It could only be Shuangxing’s sister!
“Yes!” Luo Shuangxing nodded vigorously.
Faced with her sister’s confident lie, Luo Shuangyue had no words.
She couldn’t very well shake her head and say to her sister’s Class Monitor, “Actually, I’m Luo Shuangxing’s brother, and today I’m wearing girls’ clothes to hang out with my sister.”
Please, that would ruin her entire image!
“Oh, no wonder you look so alike,” the Class Monitor said, still feeling slightly off.
But since she wasn’t that close to Luo Shuangxing, pressing further would be rude.
Anyway, a girl who looked so much like Luo Shuangxing standing by her side must be her sister.
While they chatted, Xiao Yi watched Luo Shuangyue and Luo Shuangxing with a mix of curiosity and caution, focusing mostly on Luo Shuangyue’s face.
When Luo Shuangyue returned her confused gaze, Xiao Yi quickly looked away, like an adorable little pet.
The conversation between Luo Shuangxing and the Class Monitor gradually shifted to Xiao Yi.
According to the Class Monitor, Xiao Yi was her longtime friend.
They’d been apart for a while and just reunited this week.
To help Xiao Yi get familiar with Xinghai City, she decided to show her around.
The day before, they had gone downtown, and today, naturally, they came to the amusement park.
“A reunion after so long, that’s definitely worth celebrating,” Luo Shuangxing sighed.
By now, the four had reached the Ferris wheel entrance.
Originally, Luo Shuangxing wanted to ride alone with Luo Shuangyue, but with the Class Monitor and Xiao Yi here, she couldn’t leave them out.
Helplessly, all four got on the Ferris wheel together.
As the Ferris wheel slowly rose, the bustling cityscape of Xinghai City spread out before them.
Xiao Yi placed her hand on the transparent glass, her blue eyes gazing outside.
A mixture of nostalgia and envy quietly flowed from her eyes.
“So beautiful,” she whispered.
Xiao Yi’s voice was lovely, like a masterful piano performance.
Luo Shuangyue instinctively thought this girl would make a great idol.
With some styling and a Magical Girl-themed outfit, she’d definitely become a world-famous Magical Girl idol.
As for Xiao Yi’s lament, there wasn’t much to pay attention to. Looking down at Xinghai City from the Ferris wheel, it was indeed easy to conclude that the city was beautiful.
Even Luo Shuangyue, who had grown up in Xinghai City, would always feel this way whenever she looked down from the sky at the city that had nurtured her.
Although Xinghai City was a bit small, although it didn’t have many Magical Girls stationed there, and although it wasn’t highly ranked in the current world, it was truly beautiful.
“That said, Xiao Yi, where did you grow up?” Luo Shuangxing didn’t share the same sentiment. According to what the Class Monitor just said, Xiao Yi should have come from another city, and she herself hadn’t been to any other city yet.
She wanted to know what kind of place Xiao Yi had grown up in, so that she could visit if she got the chance later.
“There’s nothing left… everything was destroyed by those terrifying monsters. Only I managed to escape,” Xiao Yi said, her hand clenched tightly on the glass, her voice carrying an undeniable hint of fear and sorrow.
Another girl who had been hurt by Demons?
And her family was destroyed by them as well…
Luo Shuangyue felt like this girl in front of her was accumulating more and more buffs—she was beautiful, her family was ruined by Demons, and now she was somehow connected to active Magical Girls.
Hey! Isn’t she basically an Innate Magical Girl Saint Body?
If this were an anime, Luo Shuangyue felt that Xiao Yi would become a Protagonist Group Junior within a few episodes.
If it was a darker, grimmer anime, then this girl would at least be prime Superior Consumable for the protagonist to “level up.”
Of course, Luo Shuangyue couldn’t say such things aloud. She just tightly closed her mouth and sent Xiao Yi a sympathetic look.
The atmosphere inside the Ferris wheel suddenly became much heavier. Even Luo Shuangxing stopped her usual antics and lowered her head, softly apologizing, “Sorry for reminding you of bad things.”
“It’s okay. It’s all in the past. Since I survived, I can’t keep drowning in that pain forever,” Xiao Yi forced a smile.
Seeing such a strained smile made Luo Shuangyue even more convinced that this girl had potential to become a Magical Girl.
If there really were those mascot characters in anime who handed out Magical Gemstones to girls, now would be the perfect time for one to jump out and give Xiao Yi a gemstone.
Unfortunately, no such mascots exist in reality, and the origin of the transformation Magical Gemstones remains an unsolved mystery.
People only knew that the gemstones chose girls with a kind and pure heart and granted them powerful Magic Power, but no one knew why.
Luo Shuangyue opened her mouth, just about to lighten the mood, when Luo Shuangxing’s phone suddenly emitted a sharp ringtone from her pocket.
Reflexively covering one ear, Luo Shuangyue looked helplessly at her sister, who was fumbling to pull the phone out and answer it.
That piercing ringtone could only be heard by Magical Girls; to ordinary people, it was just a normal vibration.
Usually, Luo Shuangxing would only turn on this piercing ringtone when going to bed at night, but this morning she was so excited she forgot to turn it off, causing the current situation.
“Hello? Ah? Okay, okay… I got it. I’m coming right now.”
As Luo Shuangxing answered the call, Luo Shuangyue’s gaze outside the window grew increasingly serious.
A black current was gathering in the sky above the amusement park. Soon, a Demon around the General-Class level would appear here.
Such a Demon wasn’t much of a threat to modern Xinghai City—it didn’t even require Xia Mo’s intervention. Xiao Mimi and Luo Shuangxing could easily take it down by themselves.
But it was still a Demon and deserved respect.
Luo Shuangyue clearly felt the Ferris wheel’s rotation speed increase slightly—it was trying to evacuate the visitors on board as quickly as possible.
On the ground, visitors were swiftly divided into groups and guided by staff to different places to take shelter.
There was no chaos; people were long accustomed to this kind of sudden evacuation due to Demon appearances.
Those who couldn’t adapt had long since been eaten by Demons.
Perhaps this was a kind of natural selection?
“Up there… up there are those monsters!”
A trembling voice came from the side. Luo Shuangyue pulled her gaze back and saw that Xiao Yi, who had seemed composed just moments ago, had become terrified.
She tightly clung to the Class Monitor’s arm, biting her lips so hard they almost bled.
At this moment, the now-accelerated Ferris wheel brought the four of them down to the ground. As the cabin door opened, Luo Shuangyue quickly motioned for everyone to exit first.
Luo Shuangxing got out quickly, but the Class Monitor and Xiao Yi weren’t so agile.
Xiao Yi’s legs were weak from seeing the black vortex in the sky, needing the Class Monitor to support her with effort just to keep moving.
Seeing this, Luo Shuangyue hurried over and took Xiao Yi from the Class Monitor’s hands.
Her physical fitness was much better than that of the ordinary Class Monitor.
“Can you still walk?”
“Sorry…” Xiao Yi’s voice was still trembling, but her legs had regained some strength.
Supporting Xiao Yi for a few steps, Luo Shuangyue felt this was still too slow. At this pace, if the Demon arrived, they might not even be able to escape the amusement park.
So she made up her mind, hoisted Xiao Yi onto her shoulders, and ran off like a villain kidnapping a girl.
The Class Monitor was stunned by this but quickly caught up, yelling, “Wait… wait for me!”
This was indeed the simplest and most direct method to get Xiao Yi, who was scared stiff, out of danger quickly. But the Class Monitor thought Luo Shuangxing’s sister’s physical strength seemed almost superhuman.
Although Xiao Yi was somewhat frail, carrying a girl who wasn’t small and dashing through the crowd like that was beyond her imagination.
After entering the evacuation crowd, the Class Monitor struggled greatly to catch up with Luo Shuangyue.
Upon exiting the amusement park’s gate, she looked back in horror to find Luo Shuangxing was nowhere to be seen.
“Shuangxing? Hasn’t she come out yet?”
Luo Shuangyue set the shaken Xiao Yi down on a nearby bench and calmly said to the Class Monitor, “Shuangxing is clever; don’t worry about her.”
Why did she run so fast, even bringing the Class Monitor along? It was to give Luo Shuangxing a chance to slip away from the group unnoticed.