Luo Shuangyue looked at her younger sister and Long Wen, who were both completely absorbed in the game and hadn’t even noticed the extra people in the room, with a complicated expression before turning to Xia Mo and asking.
“Generally speaking… it’s not supposed to be like this.” Xia Mo’s mouth twitched a little too. After all, usually, no one played games with Luo Shuangxing.
She preferred reading or listening to music, while Xiao Mimi would be snuggling her treasured cat photo book, getting her daily dose of ‘cat therapy.’
Whenever Luo Shuangxing wanted to play games, there was simply no one to keep her company.
But now that Long Wen was here, Luo Shuangxing had finally found a kindred spirit.
“And isn’t your senior here pretending to be younger? I remember she’s like fifty or—” Before Luo Shuangyue could finish her sentence, Long Wen, who was in the middle of a game, suddenly turned around and shot her an icy glare that seemed capable of freezing a person in place.
“I’m eighteen this year, thank you.” Long Wen stared at Luo Shuangyue, enunciating each word.
Luo Shuangyue swallowed hard.
Her instincts told her that now was definitely not the time to press further, or else Long Wen might just twist her head right off.
A girl’s age was always a forbidden topic, and for magical girls whose appearances showed no trace of time’s passing, it was even more taboo.
After all, no one knew just how much life experience these girls—who looked like they were in their teens or twenties—actually had.
Time seemed to have lost its effect on them.
To date, not a single magical girl had ever died of old age.
Just how long could magical girls live? According to the Magic Department, as long as a magical girl wanted to keep living, she could live on forever.
For Long Wen, her life was just beginning.
If someone suddenly told her she was actually fifty, and shouldn’t be called a magical girl but a magical auntie, she really might just kill someone.
“You guys are here? Come, have a seat over here. Let’s discuss how to lure out that slippery fellow!” Tossing her game controller aside, Long Wen patted the two empty cushions next to her, signaling Luo Shuangyue and Xia Mo to sit down.
As for why she so decisively gave up on the game…
Shuangyue figured Long Wen probably didn’t want to keep playing a match where the outcome was already clear.
For a senior to be beaten by a junior, that was pretty embarrassing.
Long Wen was a competitive girl to begin with, so now that she had a good excuse handed to her, of course she’d take full advantage.
After all, they were here on official business!
Luo Shuangxing let out a helpless sigh, put the controller down by her feet, and scooted over to join the others in a circle.
“Dark Moth, let me see what your sealing card looks like first.” Once everyone was seated, Long Wen, as the senior, spoke to Luo Shuangyue.
If the sealing card Luo Shuangyue made didn’t look convincing enough, Long Wen would have to settle for using a real sealing card as bait.
“Alright.”
Luo Shuangyue nodded, took a butterfly hairpin out of her pocket, and clipped it into her hair.
As she did, butterflies began to emerge from the void and land on her, and she entered her transformation state.
Except for Luo Shuangxing, it was the first time the others had witnessed Luo Shuangyue’s transformation.
The process was very similar to that of a magical girl, but somehow felt a bit different.
Luo Shuangyue didn’t use a magic gem for her transformation, but rather a butterfly-shaped hairpin.
And unlike magical girls who were enveloped in light before transforming, her process was different.
Black and purple butterflies flew out of the void and transformed into the girl’s dress—her transformation was far more theatrical than that of an ordinary magical girl.
“Interesting, this is the first time I’ve seen a transformation like this…” Long Wen muttered, rubbing her chin.
What was going on here? Long Wen looked at Luo Shuangyue with a hint of curiosity in her eyes.
“It’s so pretty! I want to transform like that too.” Siam was much more straightforward; she thought Luo Shuangyue’s transformation was way prettier than hers.
She wished she could wear a cat-ear hairpin and have a bunch of cats pounce on her to complete her transformation.
Seeing that everyone’s attention was drifting, Luo Shuangyue quickly coughed and raised her hand, releasing her imitation White Night magic.
Pure white light seeped from her palm, causing Long Wen’s golden, slit pupils to narrow slightly—this magic felt just like White Night’s aura!
Yet the one releasing it wasn’t White Night.
How interesting.
Since there was nothing to seal, Luo Shuangyue quickly turned the magic into a sealing card that glowed faintly with white light.
Long Wen looked at the card floating in Luo Shuangyue’s palm; she didn’t even need to examine it closely—it could totally pass for the real thing!
This Dark Moth really had some skills.
“A sealing card like this, with nothing sealed inside, can last about a week. But if you want to put something in it…”
“Can you seal my dragon breath inside?” Before Luo Shuangyue could finish, Long Wen asked impatiently.
“Sorry, that’s impossible. I don’t have power as strong as White Night’s. Even with budding-level magic, it would only last for a day at most.” Luo Shuangyue immediately admitted she couldn’t do it.
Long Wen was at the blooming level—only a blooming-level user could seal Long Wen’s attacks.
And even budding-level attacks would need to be weakened before Luo Shuangyue could seal them, since this thing wasn’t exactly sturdy.
Her mom had used cards to seal the lingering miasma of dead magical beasts—lingering!
That miasma definitely wasn’t as much as when the beast was alive, right?
“It can only hold a small part of something. If you expect to blow up an Emperor-class magical beast with this, that’s impossible.”
“Can’t blow it up? What a shame.”
“It’d be a miracle if it could! If I had that kind of power, I’d just seal all my attacks, then toss sealing cards everywhere in a fight and win instantly!” Luo Shuangyue looked exasperated, as if to say this wasn’t how sealing cards were supposed to be used.
Hearing this, Luo Shuangxing’s eyes lit up.
That fighting style sounded pretty cool.
Too bad she had no idea how to make sealing cards, so the idea would have to stay in her head for now.
“I think a simpler way would be to put a tracker in here. That way, we could follow the trail and find those guys’ location.” Luo Shuangyue proposed a much simpler and more effective plan.
Even if they couldn’t seal dragon breath, they could at least put a coordinate inside so the dragon breath could be targeted there.
As long as those bad guys stole the card, they’d be finished—Long Wen would track them right to their doorstep and teach them a lesson.
“Alright, let’s talk about how to stage the act then…” Long Wen nodded, thinking the tracker idea was workable.
Next, they needed to discuss how to make it look like both sides were badly injured.
First, they couldn’t make the fight look too fake, nor could they go overboard.
It was best if everyone held back a little.
Then, at a certain point, one side would get knocked out and ‘disassemble,’ while the other would pretend to be exhausted and unable to fight anymore—making it all seem more realistic.
“So, who’s going to be the one to ‘disassemble’?” Long Wen looked at Luo Shuangyue, then at Xia Mo, and quickly gave her opinion, “Dark Moth, you’ll have to take one for the team.”
Of course, she had to side with her own junior at a time like this.
Luo Shuangyue pulled a bitter face; she knew this was going to be the outcome.
“I can’t be the only one to ‘disassemble.’ If we want this to look real, I’ll take down one of them first, then she can go all out and take me down. That’ll be better.” Knowing the result wouldn’t change, Luo Shuangyue decisively chose to drag someone else in with her.
And naturally, the one she picked was her dear little sister.