‘Comprehensive Census…?’
Ye Xingling’s expression changed. She looked around and found that no one, including her desk mate Jiang Nan, seemed to pay her any attention. The teacher was still passionately lecturing on the history of literature at the podium. She breathed a slight sigh of relief.
So she started to think about a problem.
Comprehensive Census. She knew about it, and she had even done it before, but back then, she was still an ordinary girl.
But now, she was a magical girl—a rising star in Satellite City, a solid future asset for magical girls, the magical girl “Shuanghua.”
The Comprehensive Census not only helped the citizens of Satellite City understand their physical health conditions and any hidden ailments, but also served as one of the Human Alliance’s channels for gathering information on citizens.
There were even stories of people who were detected with superpowers and directly received offers for specialized training, rising through the ranks smoothly to land a secure government job.
But that was definitely not what Ye Xingling wanted.
Ever since she joined the Magical Girl Society, her seniors always reminded her not to casually let people around her discover her identity, or it would cause a lot of trouble.
Especially the Human Alliance guys—many of them even harbored some hostility toward magical girls, probably because a bunch of wet-behind-the-ears little girls had lucked into stealing their achievements or something.
This had even spawned strange arguments like magical girls were no longer human.
But the problem was that many people firmly believed in this kind of rhetoric, which purely incited opposition, had no meaning, and would even undermine the human side’s combat strength. Some even went so far as to support it with outlandish actions.
This was both confusing and headache-inducing.
However, before Ye Xingling could ask how to deal with the Comprehensive Census, her kind senior Jin Ming had already started chatting in the group.
“Jin Ming: Comprehensive Census?”
“Jin Ming: I’m a high schooler too, like Shuanghua. If it’s conducted at school, our magical girl identities will be exposed, right?”
‘Oh? Senior Jin Ming is also a high schooler? Then what she said before—”High school knowledge is pretty simple…” Could it be that Senior Jin Ming is some kind of top student?!’
Ye Xingling suddenly felt like a rat living in a dark, damp sewer. One day, the brilliant afterglow that selected magical girls shone on her, and she followed the light up to the surface.
When she opened her eyes, she saw that her magical girl seniors were not only beautiful and likeable in personality, but also living fulfilling lives in reality—one was a top student, another was the manager of a maid café, and it seemed Senior Qiansheng was even an idol?
“Wuwuwu, why was she the only one who was a dried fish girl…”
But! Even as a dried fish girl, she was an elite among dried fish girls!
Ye Xingling once again felt a surge of motivation from somewhere unknown.
“Qiluo: Huh? Something like that? Let me ask.”
“Qiluo: Even Qiansheng knew about this kind of news in advance. How come I don’t have any information? What is Hongye Qiu doing?”
“Shuanghua: Speaking of which… why doesn’t Senior Jin Ming call herself ‘this young lady’ in the group?”
Seeing Senior Qiluo’s message, Ye Xingling had nothing to say in response, but if she didn’t say anything, would Senior Qiluo feel awkward…?
On second thought, the online Senior Jin Ming seemed really different from the offline Senior Jin Ming.
It mainly came down to whether she said “this young lady” or not. Ye Xingling didn’t want to admit it, but it seemed to be that shallow a reason.
Before Senior Jin Ming could speak, Senior Qiansheng sent a “crying laughing” emoji. Could it be that her doubt was really that childish?!
“Jin Ming: …This young lady’s adorable junior…”
“Jin Ming: To type ‘I’, you only need to press ‘w’ once.”
“Jin Ming: But to type ‘this young lady’…”
What the heck, her seniors were pretty cute after all!
Next came Senior Jin Ming’s tsundere emoji, and Senior Qiansheng copied and sent one as well. Ye Xingling snickered for a while, then couldn’t resist pressing +1. After that, the small Magical Girl Society group chat fell silent.
“Hey, Xiao Ling, what are you looking at?”
Jiang Nan patted her shoulder, scaring Ye Xingling half to death.
“No! Nothing… just chatting with a friend.”
Ye Xingling quickly flipped over her phone and turned around, explaining eagerly.
“Shhh—! Even if the teacher doesn’t care, don’t speak so loudly!”
Jiang Nan was also startled by her reaction; she hadn’t expected the girl to react so strongly. She quickly lowered herself, glanced at the teacher and the surrounding classmates, saw that they noticed for a moment but then went back to their own business when nothing happened, and then let out a long sigh of relief.
“Jiang Nan: You scared me to death. I was trying to ask if you’ve finished reading what I sent you.”
After a moment, Jiang Nan shook her phone, signaling Ye Xingling to communicate online, and then she sent a message.
“Ye Xingling: Oh, I see.”
“Ye Xingling: Of course I read it. The Human Alliance rarely leaves this kind of negative news unblocked.”
“Jiang Nan: True…”
“Jiang Nan: No, no! What I want to ask is, after something like this happened, do you feel like people around you might be elves?”
“Ye Xingling: ?”
Ye Xingling sent a lone question mark, and an expression of confusion involuntarily appeared on her face.
‘What does she mean by people around me might be elves? In school, the person I’m most familiar with is my desk mate Jiang Nan, and I’ve spent more time with her.’
‘If she’s asking that, she can’t be an elf herself, can she?’
‘Then there are my magical girl seniors, and the waitress sisters at the “Scattered Flowers” café. Can magical girls be elves? Can the nice sisters who cooperate with magical girls be elves?’
‘And Miss Ye Xin and her partner. Miss Ye Xin looked so flustered in the video, and she stepped in at the critical moment—there’s no way she’s connected to elves, right?’
‘Thinking of this, Ye Xingling suddenly became curious about Miss Ye Xin’s partner named “Yiwena.” Why hadn’t she been seen when Miss Ye Xin was fighting hard…’
“Jiang Nan: Hmm? What’s wrong?”
“Jiang Nan: If you know someone who leaves early and comes back late, always acting mysterious, then they might be an elf!”
‘Leaves early and comes back late, always acting mysterious…?’
‘Does she know someone like that?’
‘She actually does!’
‘Isn’t her brother Ye Xingyao exactly that? He has a mysterious job, makes a lot of money, often doesn’t come home, and can even bring back small cakes from venues like “Curtain Call.”‘
‘But that’s impossible!’
‘How could her brother be an elf? If her brother is an elf, then what is she? She can even transform into a magical girl!’
‘From how well she knows herself and Ye Xingyao, they should definitely be biological siblings…’
Ye Xingling absentmindedly replied with “Stop spreading alarmist talk,” and then fell into deep thought.
‘Has her sister Shiyue’s movements started overlapping with her brother’s for a long time now?’
Ye Xingling felt that between these two, aside from being together, there was something else strange that they hadn’t told her.
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