Chapter 4: They Don’t Take Men Over There

A few years ago, Su Ziling suddenly fell seriously ill. According to their family’s medical history, it was a genetic issue?

Su Ziling’s biology grades were too poor to understand how to explain that.

Fortunately, Su Xiaomeng never discovered this defect, and that illness was the catalyst for her becoming a magical girl.

Su Ziling watched the giggling Su Xiaomeng beside them and fell silent.

A wish traded for their life. The price was almost negligible—the only requirement being to become a magical girl, to deal with the monsters and anomalies terrorizing the city, and to bear a bit of risk.

But luckily, they could use someone else’s Transformation Device to change into the form of a magical girl. That way, as the older brother, they wouldn’t have to let their little sister shoulder these dangerous tasks.

“Now that I think about it…” Su Xiaomeng tried to lift the heavy mood she’d created by actively changing the subject. “Big bro, what are you planning to do next?”

“Play it by ear.”

In truth, Su Ziling found it hard to imagine ever having any connection with Lin Yizhou, even with Su Lili as a daughter from the future.

So she didn’t really feel any sense of reality about it, and naturally, her mindset was quite relaxed.

“Then you’re not going to want your daughter?” Su Xiaomeng couldn’t help teasing. “She came from the future! What if you don’t end up with Lin Yizhou and trigger a time paradox… Ouch!”

Hearing this, Su Ziling couldn’t help but lightly chop Su Xiaomeng’s head with a hand blade.

“Are you that eager to marry your big bro off? What, are your wings stiff now?”

“Tsk… Big bro, I seriously suspect the chromosomes got mixed up when you were in Mom’s belly. Even though you’re a guy, you always sound like a mom… Okay, okay! I’ll stop!”

Seeing Su Ziling raise their hand blade again, Su Xiaomeng wisely shut up.

Once she had stopped teasing, Su Ziling lowered their hand.

“By the way, what about those photos you took with Lin Yizhou?”

It was mentioned earlier that Su Xiaomeng had seen Lin Yizhou’s Kamen Rider cosplay at a convention and very eagerly dragged her along to take a picture with him.

Admittedly, Su Ziling wasn’t very interested in Kamen Rider, but she couldn’t resist Su Xiaomeng’s pulling, so she was forced to take a group photo with him.

“Oh?” Hearing this, Su Xiaomeng’s lips curled up again. “Interest is the first step to taking initiative!”

“…”

“…Ahem.”

Facing Su Ziling’s death glare, Su Xiaomeng could only cough a few times, then handed over the photo.

“Here you go.”

Taking the photo from Su Xiaomeng’s hand, Su Ziling examined it carefully.

When she’d taken the photo with him before, she hadn’t noticed anything. But now, looking closely at the picture… she realized something.

Wasn’t the texture of that Kamen Rider armor on him a little too realistic?

Normally, this kind of Kamen Rider armor was mostly made of plastic; otherwise it would be too heavy to move properly.

But his armor, Su Ziling felt, was off…

“Tsk tsk, I have to say, Senior really went all out on this outfit,” Su Xiaomeng exclaimed, her eyes constantly darting to Su Ziling’s face. “Probably a low-key rich second generation?”

Su Ziling saw right through her little scheme.

“Do you believe I’ll give him your phone number right now?” Su Ziling sneered. “You’re eyeing his money, and you want me to ‘sell my looks’?”

“Big bro…” Su Xiaomeng made a strange expression and said faintly, “Doesn’t that count as… cucking yourself? That operation won’t fly, won’t fly.”

“Get lost!”

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Meanwhile, on the other side, Su Lili.

Compared to Su Ziling’s noisy, lively home, the house she was in was filled with a kind of almost solid, cold silence.

Every window was covered with curtains, and the room was thick with a heavy, oppressive atmosphere.

This wasn’t her home in the future. She was just curled up in some unknown corner of the city.

The excuse of “going back” was nothing but a gentle lie she had told—just to make that worrywart mother a little less concerned.

From the moment she had stepped into this time period, her journey had already been a one-way trip.

“Phew…”

The little one took a deep breath, then stretched her limbs, seemingly unaffected by the atmosphere in the room.

She clenched her small fists and whispered to herself for encouragement.

“Seeing Mom is just the first step. Can’t stop yet, Lili!”

As the saying goes, a woman chasing a man is just a layer of gauze. But Su Lili knew very well that her mother was an extremely shy and reserved person—to put it bluntly, a bit tsundere.

And being tsundere easily leads to being the loser. Not to mention, even if it did work out, it would take forever. She didn’t want their relationship to drag on that long.

So Su Lili planned to take a bolder move: hedge her bets by meeting her mother Su Ziling and also her father Lin Yizhou.

The relationship between people is like digging a tunnel. Compared to having only one construction team working, it’s definitely faster when both teams work together, right?

After a simple half-day rest, Su Lili got up from the bed.

“Energy is just about recovered…” She pressed her Transformation Device. “Mom, Dad, wait for me. This time, I’m going to change everything.”

After transforming into a magical girl once more, she walked out of that dark hiding place and headed toward a villa in the suburbs.

Though the villa’s security was airtight, Su Lili skillfully bypassed all patrol routes, breaking through every defense as easily as if she were coming home.

Even the password door that only Lin Yizhou knew, she could open without effort.

She couldn’t help it—in the future, this really was her home.

Who needs to solve puzzles in their own house?

Compared to the outside, the interior security was much more lax.

Su Lili hid in the darkness, waiting and looking for a chance to be alone with Lin Yizhou.

“Boss, my apologies… While tracking the witch, I ran into that Shapeshifting Witch… I am truly ashamed!”

“It’s fine, you go back first. As long as you’re not hurt.”

Even though his subordinate had failed the mission, Lin Yizhou wasn’t angry—he knew that defeating a magical girl was actually very difficult.

And from the very beginning, his goal had never been to defeat magical girls.

After sending the monster off, Lin Yizhou pressed a button on his waist. In an instant, a black-and-red armor covered his entire body.

In fact, he had never considered himself a villain or a hero. But if possible, he would have liked to be one of the good guys.

However, the magical girl side didn’t accept men.