“My name is Skaya, and I’m also Magical Girl Black Crystal. I’m a third-year student in Class 2 at Canghai City High School. My home is—”
“Stop, stop, stop!”
Li Chi thrust out a hand to cut off her self-introduction.
“This isn’t a blind date. You don’t need to give me your entire life story.”
Skaya’s cheeks flushed a faint pink at Li Chi’s words.
She huffed, “Ugh, we’re going to be partners from now on. Isn’t it normal to know each other’s basic information?!”
“I haven’t agreed yet…”
“It’s fine. Not agreeing now doesn’t mean you won’t agree later.”
“That’s way too overbearing…”
“Is it?”
Skaya folded her arms and thought for a moment.
After careful consideration, she realized it did sound a bit pushy, so she changed her approach.
“Never mind, never mind. Thinking about all that is too much trouble. Anyway, just consider my proposal for now.”
Seeing Skaya switch both her tone and wording, Li Chi shot her a hard glare.
She clearly understood everything—why pretend to be clueless?
As for whether he should actually accept Skaya’s offer, Li Chi had some thoughts of his own.
After all, his original goal had been to make contact with other magical girls.
If he agreed, wouldn’t that complete the mission perfectly?
The process might have been a little awkward, but as long as the result was good, it was fine.
After thinking it over for a moment, Li Chi said, “I’ll consider it first.”
Choosing a magic partner wasn’t a small matter.
Although it wasn’t a lifelong binding like a magical girl’s contract with her spirit, the agreement between both sides would still last quite a long time.
If he really agreed, Li Chi would have to juggle the Dark Organization, his family, the magical girls, and the Magic Association—all four sides at once.
The Dark Organization and Magic Association sides were easy enough since he already belonged to both, but balancing things between his family and the magical girls would be troublesome.
Judging from his little sister’s recent behavior, she clearly had no intention of revealing her magical girl identity.
As her older brother, he naturally had to respect her wishes and keep covering for her with Mom and Dad while continuing to play dumb.
As for the magic-partner side…
The more Li Chi thought about it, the more troublesome it seemed.
His original idea had only been to make simple contact with other magical girls—no need for a deep relationship, just knowing each other would suffice.
But the current situation… Skaya seemed to have latched onto him and refused to let go.
More importantly, Skaya attended the same school as him!
Although she was one grade above him, they were actually only a few months apart in age.
People the same age often understood each other’s thoughts best.
The risk of Li Chi accidentally exposing his Dark Organization executive identity in front of Skaya was extremely high.
He still needed to weigh his options carefully.
[Just agree already? It won’t do your plan any harm anyway.]
‘Mm… that’s true… Wait, who are you?!’
Li Chi hurriedly looked around.
Besides himself and the long, straight black-haired girl in front of him, there was no one else nearby.
“What’s wrong? Have you made up your mind?”
Skaya stared at Li Chi’s strange behavior, assuming he had agreed to her request.
“Did you hear any voice just now?”
Seeing Skaya’s completely blank face, Li Chi began to suspect he had misheard. He recounted exactly what had happened.
Afterward, Skaya looked at him with wide-eyed astonishment—her gaze fixed squarely on his crotch.
“You… are you a guy or a girl?”
Li Chi stared at her as if she were crazy.
He pointed one finger at his own face, as if to say, What do you think?
Skaya turned her head away, her profile flushing slightly. She didn’t dare meet his eyes as she asked, “…The next question might be a bit offensive, but… is that thing in your pants still there?”
“It’s pretty offensive, but yes, it’s still there.”
“……”
Seeing that she had nothing left to say, Li Chi didn’t think the voice earlier had been her doing.
The voice had been rough, aged, murky, and exhausted.
It didn’t sound like anything a teenage girl could produce—it was far more like an old man who had endured countless hardships of life.
Skaya actually had a rough idea of what kind of voice Li Chi had heard.
In fact, every magical girl heard something similar before she became a magical girl.
It wasn’t the same aged tone every time, but rather a strange voice that suddenly popped into the mind.
A spirit.
After a girl met certain conditions, there was a chance she would awaken a spirit sleeping within her mental space.
She would then form a contract with it and become a magical girl.
But the boy in front of her…
Setting aside his magic power, his basic prerequisites had already ruled him out!
How could he possibly be hearing a spirit’s voice?!
Of course, Skaya—still relatively young and lacking sufficient contact with the wider magic world—had only a shallow understanding of spirits.
She didn’t know that while spirit awakening was a prerequisite for becoming a magical girl, it didn’t mean that awakening a spirit automatically forced someone to become one.
When she shared her theory with Li Chi, he once again looked at her like she was an idiot.
“Don’t make that face! I’m telling the truth!”
Li Chi still found it hard to believe.
“So what you’re saying is… I have a spirit too?”
“Everyone has one!”
Oh, right. That part was actually true.
Li Chi suddenly remembered Black Dragon had mentioned it once, though he had mostly forgotten the details.
If anyone was to blame, it was Black Dragon! Who asked him to cram so many things into one explanation?! Three whole hours—who could remember all that?!
In the end, at Skaya’s suggestion, Li Chi decided to head to the Magic Association first.
After all, he was genuinely afraid that one day he would wake up and find his little brother had run away from home, only for some weird spirit to pop out, hand him a magic wand, and turn him into a magical girl so he could save the world alongside his little sister.
Absolutely not! That could never be allowed! He had to protect his dignity as a man!
Even though he could already control every cell in his body perfectly, and even if that part somehow disappeared he could still retrieve it, he was still terrified that some rule-level power in this world might lock him down and prevent him from using his abilities, making it impossible to ever get it back.
The monster brother’s revival could wait.
He would definitely survive; a little delay wouldn’t matter.
The boss’s little brother came first. Monster brother, just endure it for a bit.
“Hey, wait! Let’s exchange contact info first!”
Reminded by Skaya, Li Chi reluctantly added her on Magical Link.
Mm… the thing the mages had created really was pretty convenient—fast, easy to use, and able to receive messages no matter where you were.
Black Dragon had personally confirmed that it could even pick up signals on other planets.
The only place it probably wouldn’t work was at the edge of the universe.
Don’t ask how that guy had gotten there—Li Chi had no idea either.
Li Chi had only taken a few steps when Skaya caught up again.
“I’ll go with you. I’ve contacted people from the Magic Association before, but I’ve never been to their headquarters.”
Of course, Skaya’s real purpose was to see President Xing Yao.
She had heard that the androgynous boy in front of her was that titan’s little sidekick.
Going to the Magic Association with him would definitely let her meet Xing Yao in person.
She was extremely interested in this top figure of the magic world.