A bit of cunning.
Although she had just arrived at the Lunar Base, those senior veterans didn’t treat Luo Shuangyue like a person at all.
After just one afternoon, Luo Shuangyue fully understood that the rest she took the previous day had to be made up for.
When she returned to the dorm and saw her sister, who was just as exhausted as she was, Luo Shuangyue realized that her dear sister hadn’t escaped the harsh training from the seniors either.
Sigh, nothing more to say—just obediently rest.
Knock knock knock, the door was gently tapped twice, and then Xia Mo’s voice came from outside, “Dark Moth, Shuang Xing, I brought dinner for you.”
Luo Shuangyue lay on the bed and used her eyes to signal Luo Shuangxing to open the door.
Luo Shuangxing rolled her eyes but still walked to the door and pressed the button to let Xia Mo in.
“There’s nothing particularly delicious here for now, only these nutrient solutions,” Xia Mo said helplessly, holding several transparent glass tubes in her arms, her face showing resignation.
Behind her followed a red-haired girl with the same glass tube in her mouth—none other than Scarlet Moon, whom they had met earlier at the front desk.
Whether by coincidence or fate, Xia Mo and Scarlet Moon shared the same room, much to the redhead’s delight.
Who wouldn’t want their roommate to be a gentle and cheerful big sister type? At least, that was what she hoped for.
“I’m coming in~” she bounced into the room with a happy smile. Seeing the Luo sisters so exhausted they didn’t even want to move, she showed an expression of admiration.
Wow, these two sisters work so hard training the moment they get to the Lunar Base—truly role models for us Magical Girls!
I have to learn from them!
Thinking about how many subjects she had trained today, Scarlet Moon suddenly felt ashamed.
She had been proud, thinking she was the most hardworking Magical Girl at the base, but this idea shattered within minutes of seeing the two sisters.
Lying collapsed on the bed like that is the true symbol of hard work! If I can still walk and talk, I’m basically slacking off!
“Can I train with you all tomorrow? I want to work as hard as you!” Scarlet Moon asked boldly.
Naturally, this request couldn’t be granted. The Summoner-type Magical Girls, including Luo Shuangyue and Luo Shuangxing, had no plans to involve the Magic Department further.
So Luo Shuangyue could only shake her head, indicating that she and Luo Shuangxing were undergoing secret special training by the seniors and couldn’t bring outsiders along.
“Eh? Such a thing exists?”
“Yes, because I’m actually not a Magical Girl under the Magic Department,” Luo Shuangyue explained, accepting a nutrient solution from Xia Mo, pulling out the stopper, and drinking it.
The potion wasn’t as unpleasant as Luo Shuangyue had imagined. Instead, it had a faint fruity aroma.
Its texture wasn’t watery either; it was thicker, more like jelly.
As for how much energy it replenished—Luo Shuangyue could only say it did replenish some, but it was definitely not as potent as the mana potion Monice had concocted before.
That potion, though a bit bitter, could directly restore magical power, while this nutrient solution was more like a meal replacement.
“I see. If that’s the case, it’s indeed hard to interrupt,” Scarlet Moon said with understanding.
Having grown up in the Magic Department Headquarters, she’d heard from other seniors about the conflicts between the Department and Magical Girls outside it.
Those who refused to join the Magic Department weren’t bad people—they simply didn’t agree with or couldn’t adapt to the Department’s way of doing things and chose their own way to protect the world.
Although some Department members complained about these Magical Girls, Scarlet Moon wasn’t one of them. She believed that as long as everyone fought against Demons, they were comrades.
“Tastes a bit bad…” Luo Shuangxing didn’t hold back her critique after finishing the nutrient solution.
“This is what the conditions are like here; no way to satisfy your indulgence,” Luo Shuangyue laughed coldly.
The Lunar Base had only been under construction for a few days, and the Magical Girls’ capacity was limited.
There were still many tasks to complete, so the basics of food, clothing, and shelter could only be met at the lowest level.
At least they weren’t making the Magical Girls survive on empty wind as three meals a day—that was pretty good.
Then Luo Shuangyue saw Luo Shuangxing take out a white card and snap it lightly.
Several large bags of snacks appeared inside the room.
Huh?
“Then we’ll have to fend for ourselves,” Luo Shuangxing said with a sigh, pulling out a bag of chips.
“Senior, Scarlet Moon, do you want some?” Luo Shuangxing asked the other two girls while opening the chips, completely ignoring Luo Shuangyue’s presence.
“Eh? What’s going on? Why did all these suddenly appear? Is it magic?” Scarlet Moon was amazed by Luo Shuangxing’s move.
She reached into the bag Luo Shuangxing handed her, grabbed a few chips, and asked while eating.
There was no secret to hide. Luo Shuangxing explained that this was her unique ability—she could seal all sorts of items inside cards to carry them around.
Maintaining these cards didn’t consume much magic power, and storing ordinary things like snacks was even easier.
“Before coming up here, I prepared everything thoroughly—change of clothes, usual snacks, and various needed items,” Luo Shuangxing said, pulling out a stack of cards from her pocket and placing them on the room’s table as if dealing a deck of playing cards.
Luo Shuangyue approached and realized Luo Shuangxing wasn’t too excessive—most of the cards were for combat, with only a few for daily items.
“You can maintain so many cards at once?” Luo Shuangyue counted carefully and found there were more than twenty cards.
This meant Luo Shuangxing had at least twenty full-power attacks in hand. Among First Bloom-class Magical Girls, that was undoubtedly the strongest by far.
Which First Bloom-class Magical Girl could unleash twenty consecutive ultimate moves without even catching their breath?
“Of course, even more. These cards only consume a lot of magic when created,” Luo Shuangxing nodded casually, as if it was the most ordinary thing in the world.
“If I hadn’t used so many cards during training, I’d probably have forty or fifty cards saved up.”
“Hey!” Luo Shuangyue naturally reached into the chip bag and stuffed a handful into her mouth before Luo Shuangxing could react.
She was Dark Moth now, and Dark Moth doing this kind of thing was normal, right?
“You sneaky thing, you’re stealing my snacks when I’m not looking!”
“Share a bit~”
Luo Shuangyue’s cheeks puffed out, but her expression made Luo Shuangxing want to give her a good whack.
If you want to do it, go ahead.
Luo Shuangxing immediately shoved the chips into Xia Mo’s arms and, raising both claws, pounced on Luo Shuangyue.
“Prepare to face justice, you scoundrel!”
Luo Shuangyue hadn’t expected Luo Shuangxing to be so decisive. She didn’t react in time and was pinned to the bed.
Although her strength far surpassed Luo Shuangxing’s, and even after taking the first hit, she could easily turn the tables, she thought it best to obediently take the beating for now.
She couldn’t very well do a one-handed spin throw on her sister in front of outsiders.
Watching the two girls tumble on the bed, Scarlet Moon sighed with a touch of emotion.
“They have a good relationship.”
She could tell Luo Shuangyue was deliberately going easy on Luo Shuangxing. After all, one was First Bloom and the other was Initial Bloom.
When serious, Luo Shuangyue could lift Luo Shuangxing with one hand.
The way they were rolling on the bed was all Luo Shuangyue holding back.
Luo Shuangyue’s sneaky chip stealing also looked like habitual behavior, something only close people would do.
“Indeed, their closeness is a bit enviable,” Xia Mo nodded knowingly.
At this moment, Luo Shuangxing noticed the Butterfly Hairpin on Luo Shuangyue’s hair.
She recalled that her sister’s method of canceling Transformation was to remove the Butterfly Hairpin from her hair.
Perhaps some nerve in her brain was crossed, but Luo Shuangxing stretched out her mischievous little hand, trying to pluck the Butterfly Hairpin off Luo Shuangyue’s head.
Luo Shuangyue caught sight of this and couldn’t help but chuckle lightly.
Only the Magical Girl herself could remove her Hairpin; if Luo Shuangxing tried, the pin would be stuck in her hair as if glued with superglue—impossible to pull off.
Then, confidently, Luo Shuangyue was stunned as Luo Shuangxing effortlessly removed the Hairpin and snapped her out of her Transformation State back to her original form.
“Eh?” Luo Shuangyue blinked, staring silently at the Hairpin held in Luo Shuangxing’s hand.
What just happened?
How did my Hairpin get taken off by Luo Shuangxing?
The two onlookers were dumbfounded.
If they weren’t mistaken, this meant Luo Shuangyue, an Initial Bloom-class Magical Girl, had just been forced out of her Transformation State by Luo Shuangxing?
Impossible, right?
Was it an act?
Scarlet Moon’s gaze flicked back and forth between Luo Shuangyue and Luo Shuangxing.
She hadn’t noticed when they were both transformed, but now that Luo Shuangyue was back to her original state, she realized the two looked remarkably alike.
Their features were similar—except for slight differences in eye color—it was as if they had been carved from the same mold.
Are they sisters? she wondered.
If so, it might explain why Xia Mo, a Magic Department Magical Girl like Luo Shuangxing, was her roommate, and why two Magical Girls from different factions lived in the same room.
Such a relationship was truly enviable.
“How did you do that?” Luo Shuangyue looked at the Hairpin in her sister’s hand, disbelief written all over her face.
Luo Shuangxing also stared at the Hairpin, full of confusion.
Yeah, how did I do it?
She just grabbed and pulled, and the Hairpin came off without any resistance.
“Cough, Lily of the Valley, you better get off Dark Moth,” Xia Mo interrupted, a little uncomfortable.
Luo Shuangxing was currently straddling Luo Shuangyue in a somewhat compromising position.
The atmosphere between them was a little ambiguous, almost like Luo Shuangyue was about to be pushed down and forced.
“Mm-hmm!” Luo Shuangxing quickly got up but still held tightly to the Hairpin she’d just taken.
Luo Shuangyue tried to enter her Transformation State again but found she needed to retrieve the Hairpin from Luo Shuangxing—or simply have her let go to free it.
“Let go,” Luo Shuangyue ordered.
Luo Shuangxing complied immediately.
The moment she released her grip, the Butterfly Hairpin seemed to come alive, fluttering back to Luo Shuangyue’s chest and embedding itself into her hair.
Only then did Luo Shuangyue feel her Transformation Ability return.
The two stared at each other for a few seconds, realizing this matter couldn’t be discussed openly with outsiders around.
They had to wait until Scarlet Moon left before they could talk in depth.
Sensing the strange atmosphere, Scarlet Moon quickly said she had things to do and left.
With the outsider gone, the three who truly knew each other could finally discuss what was really going on.
Xia Mo was the first to speak, looking at Luo Shuangyue, who had reverted to her original form.
“Did you deliberately cancel your Transformation?”
Luo Shuangyue shook her head vigorously.
“I thought she couldn’t pull off the Hairpin. I still had magic power and was far from disintegration. There’s no way I’d cancel my Transformation that easily.”
She was different from other Magical Girls.
Others relied on Magical Gemstones for Transformation, which became mere ornaments once transformed.
The Magical Girl’s outfit was indestructible—unless magic was completely depleted, it would remain intact.
Once magic was exhausted, the Magical Girl would disintegrate; the outfit couldn’t be damaged.
So after Transformation, a Magical Girl’s appearance was fixed—no so-called battle damage.
Accessories like hairbands or bracelets were equally indestructible.
However, there was now an exception—Luo Shuangyue’s Hairpin was actually removed by Luo Shuangxing, and she was passively forced out of her Transformation State.
“Rosemary, you try it,” Luo Shuangyue said, thinking it must be related to her relationship with Luo Shuangxing.
Perhaps because they were blood-related sisters, Luo Shuangxing could remove her Transformation tool.
She transformed again, letting Xia Mo try to pull off the Hairpin.
This time, the result was normal.
Xia Mo used all her strength, almost pulling Luo Shuangyue’s scalp with the Hairpin still unmoving.
Well, it seemed the problem really lay with the sisters.