That day, when Luo Shuangyue returned home, she was surprised to find that the one lying like a corpse on the couch had changed — it wasn’t Xia Mo anymore, but her dear little sister instead.
The person who should’ve been lying there, Xia Mo, was now playing Luo Shuangxing’s usual role, attentively taking care of the girl sprawled on the sofa and groaning in exhaustion.
After tossing her backpack full of clothes into her room, Luo Shuangyue walked over to the couch in confusion and asked her sister, “Is it your period? I thought it wasn’t supposed to be now.”
Luo Shuangxing shot her older brother a weak glare — in the end, wasn’t it all his fault, that damn bastard?
She was now one hundred percent sure that her brother’s boss was none other than that Senior Bai Ye, or at the very least, her brother had some sort of deep connection with her.
Because that training regimen — it was exactly the same!
Clearly designed with the goal of training someone to death!
“It’s not her period. Shuangxing’s just completely worn out,” Xia Mo quickly explained after caring for her for quite some time.
She herself wasn’t nearly as exhausted as the past few days — the physical constitution of a magical girl helped her adapt quickly to the training intensity.
Plus, Bai Ye’s attention had been split between her two newer trainees today, so the pressure on Xia Mo wasn’t as overwhelming.
Compared to the previous days, when her legs were so weak she could barely walk, today she was only a bit tired — about the same as an average person after running a kilometer.
Tired, yes, but after catching her breath and resting for a bit, she felt mostly recovered.
She even had enough energy to take care of Luo Shuangxing, who really was worn out.
“Worn out?”
Luo Shuangyue was even more puzzled.
Her little sister wasn’t the athletic type — how did she get exhausted like this?
What had she been doing?
There was no way she’d suddenly gotten the wild idea to run ten laps around the sports field or something, right?
“I just tried out that thing you wrote, and it’s seriously inhuman!”
Luo Shuangxing buried her face in her arms and let out a voice full of grief and resentment.
Couldn’t he consider the feelings of the person doing the training when writing those plans?
Didn’t he know that the intensity far exceeded what a normal person could endure?
Realization dawned on Luo Shuangyue — so that’s what happened.
She remembered not long ago, Luo Shuangxing had asked her for a copy of her training program.
Luo Shuangyue had figured that once her sister saw the grueling plan, she’d give up on the idea.
But surprisingly, her sister actually had the guts to try it for real.
Impressive.
Too bad — the program was designed for magical girls.
A regular girl like her, who couldn’t even swat a chicken, had no chance of withstanding it.
Luo Shuangyue didn’t think too deeply about it.
For example, she didn’t consider the possibility that one of the three magical girls she was training was actually her little sister.
No way could life be that coincidental!
Having one of them be her childhood friend was already stretching it — the idea that another could be her own sister?
How ridiculous would that be?
Her sister?
A magical girl?
Impossible.
Just look at Luo Shuangxing — what part of her screamed magical girl?
She didn’t have the face for it, definitely didn’t have the purity for it, and her personality?
Ugh. With all that, she still wanted to be a magical girl?
“You really went and tried it? I just wrote it for fun…”
You wrote it for fun, but someone took it seriously!
Luo Shuangxing lifted her head and gave her brother a gaze full of deep grievance.
To Luo Shuangyue, that look clearly said:
“So now you tell me it was just for fun? After I’ve finished the whole damn thing? You deserve to die!”
Under her gaze, Luo Shuangyue couldn’t help but feel a little guilty.
“Ahem, I’ll go make dinner.”
Retreat!
The best of the Thirty-Six Stratagems — run away!
Watching Luo Shuangyue flee in a panic, Xia Mo couldn’t help but feel a mix of amusement and helplessness.
“Shuangxing, what were you and your brother just talking about in riddles?”
From the conversation just now, Xia Mo figured out that the real culprit behind Luo Shuangxing’s current state was the “thing” Luo Shuangyue wrote.
And after Luo Shuangxing followed that “thing,” Luo Shuangyue only then told her sister it was just written for fun.
Looking at it that way, Luo Shuangyue running away in panic seems pretty normal — after all, she’s the one who’s in the wrong.
“He wrote a training plan and said that if you followed it, you could become a magical girl. So I tried it,” Luo Shuangxing slightly modified the story, since she couldn’t reveal her true identity.
In her version, Luo Shuangyue’s training plan was supposed to turn ordinary people into magical girls, not train magical girls.
Plus, Luo Shuangxing herself was a huge magical girl fan, so Xia Mo didn’t doubt a word.
For a girl who loves magical girls to see a way to become one, trying it out seems perfectly natural — it’s just that the person who came up with the method had a bit of a problem.
After hearing Luo Shuangxing’s story, Xia Mo stroked her chin and asked a question that made Luo Shuangxing silent.
“Why did you think your brother’s plan would work? He’s not a magical girl, he’s not even a girl. Luo Shuangyue isn’t magic or a girl — isn’t what he wrote about magical girls just like those ‘ten secrets about magical girls’ or ‘revealing the truth behind magical girls’ stuff online?”
No way.
Ah!
If it’s even 10% credible, that’s already generous — and that 10% is pure guesswork.
“Yeah, I got the information from the internet,” Luo Shuangyue popped her head out from the kitchen and chimed in.
Some of her training plans came from their mom’s notes, and the rest were just various wild ideas she found online.
The popularity of magical girls online never dies — every day tons of people ask how to become one.
The gender ratio is roughly 1:1.
Don’t ask why guys ask too, but transforming and fighting monsters is just cool.
“Shut up, you bad guy!”
Luo Shuangxing tearfully scolded her brother.
“You wrote this nonsense, but I suffered for real!”
Starting off by flying a hundred laps around Xinghai City, plus all sorts of physical training — by the end, she almost couldn’t even keep her transformation active.
“Brother, your training plan is seriously messed up!”
“Okay, okay, I’m quiet.”
“Xia Mo, look at him! So mean!”
Luo Shuangxing clung to Xia Mo’s waist, whining and complaining.
“You’re such a jerk, Luo Shuangyue. You tortured me, so I’m going to tell Xia Mo and have her deal with you!”
Luo Shuangxing thought fiercely in her heart.
“All right, I’ll teach him a lesson later. Don’t be sad, little Shuangxing.”
Xia Mo patted Luo Shuangxing’s little head and shot Luo Shuangyue a helpless look from the side — as if to say, “Look what you’ve done.”