This kind of thing was definitely beyond what a villain like her could do.
With that thought, she intended to return to her room first and wait for Xia Mo to finish before coming to find her.
But as she turned around, she saw a fiery red figure standing not far away—it was Scarlet Moon, the one who had completed this patrol mission with her.
From the way she looked, it seemed like she was watching her in some direction?
Seeing Scarlet Moon sneaking glances this way, Luo Shuangyue was about to ask what exactly she was looking at, when the talented Magical Girl from the Magic Department suddenly slipped away like a guilty thief.
Heh, this is really strange—the relationship between these red sisters is just too weird, isn’t it?
Luo Shuangyue didn’t quite understand; maybe this was just their unique way of getting along. She wasn’t about to bother herself with it.
As long as they didn’t interfere with her and Xia Mo, it was fine.
But that was clearly unlikely. Xia Mo had spent over half an hour comforting Scarlet Moon before she finally came over to find Luo Shuangyue.
Meanwhile, Luo Shuangyue was already bored enough to start sneaking snacks from Luo Shuangxing.
“Sometimes I really wonder if you two sisters aren’t the real anomalies here,” Xia Mo said with a tired expression as she watched Luo Shuangyue naturally digging into Luo Shuangxing’s chips.
“Huh? What’s wrong? Scarlet Moon isn’t unhappy because you two sisters don’t get along, right?” Luo Shuangyue asked while chewing her chips.
Xia Mo nodded.
“Aren’t they sisters? What happened to make them like this?”
“Well, it’s probably due to inferiority. Having such an outstanding older sister, the younger one can’t help but feel a little inferior. And the sister likes to hang around the younger one’s side, which only deepens her feelings of inadequacy every time they meet,” Xia Mo said, pinching her brow in helplessness.
Although Scarlet Moon hadn’t explicitly said what made her sad, Xia Mo’s sharp mind had already guessed the reason behind it.
Having an older sister who’s too outstanding doesn’t always turn out to be a good thing.
“She wants to chase after her sister’s shadow but realizes she can never catch up. Every time she meets her sister, she’s forced to face that reality. After so many times, she became like this.”
Luo Shuangyue listened attentively while chewing her chips and nodded seriously. After hearing this, she said that this kind of thing was not something an outsider like her could fix.
As for why she had such a good relationship with Luo Shuangxing? Who knows—maybe it’s because she never really coddled her younger sister, and Luo Shuangxing never changed her mischievous, stubborn nature.
Luo Shuangyue and Luo Shuangxing belonged to the type who, on the surface, looked like they fought a lot but actually had a relationship as solid as a rock.
Their daily quarrels were just part of their fun.
When Luo Shuangxing caused trouble, Luo Shuangyue would use it as an excuse to scold her sister.
That was just their way of getting along.
No matter what, Luo Shuangxing now—even at her most mischievous—is much better than the despondent girl she was a few years ago when their parents first disappeared.
“I think Scarlet Moon really does care about her sister. Just now, she was sneaking a peek by the door,” Luo Shuangyue told Xia Mo what she had seen.
From this, it seemed the two sisters still loved each other, but both were a bit clumsy, so they couldn’t express their feelings properly.
Luo Shuangyue thought about it and realized that this kind of complicated, tangled relationship was beyond her ability to handle, so she decisively chose to give up on thinking about it.
Heh, Magical Girl stuff is none of my business as a villain.
I’d better just quietly enjoy my snacks.
Of course, Luo Shuangyue wasn’t a bad older sister who would just eat all of her sister’s treasured snacks.
After sneaking one bag of chips, she stopped.
By the time Luo Shuangxing dragged her tired body back inside, Luo Shuangyue was already reviewing the gains from today’s patrol mission with Xia Mo.
“I’m going to participate in an experiment tomorrow. It involves flying using the Sea of Magic,” Luo Shuangyue said, holding up her right hand, which was already becoming translucent.
At this moment, Luo Shuangyue’s right hand seemed to be covered by a faint black-purple glow, making it look somewhat unreal.
Curious, Xia Mo reached out to grab Luo Shuangyue’s translucent hand but found her hand passed right through it.
“Huh?”
She tried again, this time infusing her own Magic Power into her hand. Only then could she successfully grab Luo Shuangyue’s hand.
“So amazing…”
“You can’t do it?” Luo Shuangyue, having ended the translucent state, asked with some puzzlement.
“No, I can’t. Is your teleportation ability also based on the Sea of Magic?” Xia Mo shook her head. Not all Magical Girls had such a phasing ability. She didn’t.
“Something like that. It looks like teleportation, but actually, I’m phasing into the Sea of Magic, then running to your side and exiting the phasing state,” Luo Shuangyue explained the principle behind her Butterfly Transformation.
The butterflies scattering and disappearing were a sign that she was fully phased, and their reformation into her body was her re-materializing process.
For Luo Shuangyue, this was as natural as eating or drinking.
After becoming a Magical Girl, she instinctively mastered this ability.
She had thought all Magical Girls were like her.
“You ate my snacks?” Luo Shuangxing, having heard a few sentences of incomprehensible talk, immediately changed the subject.
“It was just one bag of chips, don’t be so stingy.”
“You bastard, you’re asking for it!”
Seeing Luo Shuangyue’s “It’s no big deal” expression, Luo Shuangxing pounced on her bad sister to teach her a lesson.
After delivering several punches to Luo Shuangyue’s exposed chest while sitting on top of her, Luo Shuangxing climbed off, humming contentedly.
“I’m going back to the surface with the Mentors tomorrow. Is there anything you want me to bring back?”
“Back to the surface?” Luo Shuangyue and Xia Mo asked in unison.
She just got here a few days ago—why was Luo Shuangxing going back to the surface already?
Could it be she couldn’t adapt to this environment or was overwhelmed by the intense training?
No way. Luo Shuangyue looked at her sister.
The Luo Shuangxing she remembered was not the type to give up easily.
“Yeah, after the Magic Department Mentors learned about my abilities, they treated me like a treasure. They begged and wheedled to borrow me from Elder Sister Bifang for a day,” Luo Shuangxing explained.
She wasn’t going back to slack off but to complete a mission.
Currently, the Lunar Base’s supplies all needed to be provided from the surface, and humans had very few ways to send supplies to the moon.
Basically, only Magical Girls could deliver them.
At this time, Luo Shuangxing’s ability came in handy.
Her Sealing Card could seal very large items into a card that was easy to carry and almost weightless.
This was exactly the kind of ability the Magic Department dreamed of having right now.
Sending Luo Shuangxing back and forth would drastically improve logistics efficiency compared to before!
“So how much stuff can you fit in one card?” Luo Shuangyue asked curiously.
Before, she had only seen Luo Shuangxing seal several large bags of snacks, but she had no idea what her real limit was.
This question made Luo Shuangxing scratch her head. “If it’s not something that contains Magic Power, I guess I can seal a lot.”
The Magic Power consumed by the sealing depends on how much Magic Power the sealed item contains.
For example, her own Magic Weapon consumes a lot of Magic Power to seal, but sealing snacks with no special power uses very little.
She also had more than one way to use the Sealing Cards.
At first, she made the card and then sealed the weapon inside it.
Now she had improved the method: she first made the weapon and then directly created the card along with the weapon.
This method minimized Magic Power waste.
“For something like these bags of food, it consumes about this much Magic Power.” Luo Shuangxing showed with her pinky finger how little Magic Power it took.
“Your ability is really impressive.” Luo Shuangyue couldn’t help but admire her.
Luo Shuangxing’s card ability was visibly powerful. When she matured, she’d definitely be a strong contender.
The scariest part was that Luo Shuangxing’s strength could accumulate.
Other Magical Girls’ strength was fixed, but Luo Shuangxing’s would gradually increase over time.
This didn’t mean that Luo Shuangxing’s own ability was improving, but that she could grow stronger by accumulating sealed cards.
Even if Luo Shuangxing could only produce cards equivalent to a quarter of her own power each day, after a hundred days, her strength would be equal to twenty-five Luo Shuangxings.
In battle, this characteristic was simply invincible!
“Make me a few empty Sealing Cards,” Luo Shuangyue said seriously as she pressed her sister’s shoulder.
“Why?”
“I want to see if I can make cards like yours too.”
Luo Shuangyue could gain some abilities from eating; since eating her grandmother’s Magic Power had given her the Fake Sealing Card ability, maybe eating her sister’s Magic Power would let her get her ability.
Luo Shuangxing pouted in displeasure upon hearing this. She felt her useless sister was taking advantage of her.
She had come up with a good method, and now her sister wanted to take it without effort. How mean!
But despite her dissatisfaction, Luo Shuangxing still made five empty cards and handed them over.
Although they were empty, Luo Shuangxing didn’t cut corners—they were all made to the size of her Magic Weapons.
After making five cards in a row, Luo Shuangxing looked a little pale.
“I’m done, I’m going to rest now.”
These five cards had practically drained her dry.
After handing them to Luo Shuangyue, Luo Shuangxing collapsed into Xia Mo’s arms, rubbing her chest and making soft sounds.
Luo Shuangyue’s expression was complicated as she held the five cards. She felt like these cards were some kind of hush money.
Like, “Here, take these five cards, and Xia Mo is mine for today.”
Xia Mo, tightly held by Luo Shuangxing, gave a helpless look. She definitely couldn’t pry her off.
After all, Luo Shuangxing wasn’t on bad terms with her.
Their relationship could only be rivaled by that of Luo Shuangyue and Xia Mo.
Xia Mo considered Luo Shuangxing like a younger sister. Now that Luo Shuangxing was cuddling and acting spoiled, how could Xia Mo send her away?
“Why don’t you sleep with Shuangxing tonight? She’s exhausted too,” Luo Shuangyue suggested to Xia Mo.
For the sake of these five cards, Luo Shuangyue didn’t mind letting Xia Mo be held by her sister for one night.
As she spoke, Luo Shuangyue brought one card to her lips and gently bit down.
Her teeth, infused with Magic Power, easily crushed the Sealing Card without causing it to explode like before.
Luo Shuangxing’s Magic Power tasted like vanilla cake—sweet and delicious, the best flavor among all the Magic Powers Luo Shuangyue had tried.
After that first bite, the little glutton inside Luo Shuangyue immediately emerged.
Black mist gathered in front of Luo Shuangyue, forming the shape of Phantom Scythe.
The little creature glared, clearly unhappy, pointing at the card in Luo Shuangyue’s hand and accusingly saying, “Stealing snacks!”
As expected, this little Phantom Scythe was all about eating.
Luo Shuangyue had no intention of keeping all the cards to herself.
She stuffed an untouched card into Phantom Scythe’s embrace, letting it know she hadn’t forgotten about it.
Phantom Scythe’s unhappy expression immediately turned into a happy smile after getting the card and began devouring it eagerly.
Not long after, it had eaten the card clean, white Magic Power crumbs sticking to its mouth.
After finishing the card, it rested its chin thoughtfully, and the black mist that formed its body split off a small portion, twisting and changing shape.
Luo Shuangyue realized that the transformation was an attempt to replicate Luo Shuangxing’s Sealing Cards.
But perhaps because the information in a single card was too limited, Phantom Scythe tried many times without success.
So Luo Shuangyue handed it another card.
After eating the second card, Phantom Scythe’s attempts got closer to success but still ultimately failed.
By this time, Luo Shuangyue had also finished biting through two cards, but unfortunately, she had made no progress beyond copying some of Luo Shuangxing’s Magic Power.
She hadn’t managed to create a Sealing Card yet.
Only one card remained from Luo Shuangxing.
After much thought, Luo Shuangyue grit her teeth and handed the last card to Phantom Scythe.
Since Phantom Scythe was making faster progress, she wanted to see what it could produce in the end.
But after taking the card, Phantom Scythe didn’t immediately start eating.
Instead, it lay on the card with a rather uninterested expression.
Luo Shuangyue was quite surprised. It was just two Sealing Cards—could Phantom Scythe really be full?
Its appetite wasn’t that small, right? Didn’t it happily feast on king-level monsters before? Why was it different this time?
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