The blood flowed like tears, and the icy blue light quickly soaked the entire eyeball, blooming with dazzling colors. When the light dimmed, it was discovered that the eyeball had been encased in layers of ice crystals, completely frozen.
A magical girl lightly stepped onto the eyeball.
Amid the cheers from the bus, she struck the ice crystal beneath her with the magic wand in her hand. What was a terrifying disaster beast to ordinary people was easily turned into ice crystal fragments as it scattered in the air.
Sleek ribbons cut through the air as the blue magical girl flew backward through the ice crystals, like an elegant and beautiful elf. Before disappearing, she smiled and waved at the bus like she was greeting it, her lips moving slightly, but it was unclear what she was saying.
Jiang Si looked away and released the magic seed in his hand.
No need to worry about how to leave the bus to transform anymore.
Once the magical girl disappeared, more discussions erupted inside the bus.
"It's her again, the blue magical girl!"
"Codenamed Dong Jun, the free magical girl with pupils shaped like six-petaled ice flowers. Her abilities are low temperatures and ice manipulation..."
"You remember quite in detail."
"After all, she's an unofficial magical girl. I heard the Disaster Strategy Bureau has been looking for her all this time."
"I wonder if there will be a fight..."
She's quite a minor celebrity now.
The bus shook a little and continued moving forward.
When it was time for school, Jiang Si was squeezed off the bus along with the crowd.
Although it was crowded when boarding, after getting off, as students dispersed at the intersection, fewer people remained.
Although the appearance of the magical girl sparked a bit of discussion, it soon faded away.
In recent years, disaster beasts have frequently appeared in Beihai. Since the Disaster Strategy Bureau stationed there, there have been fixed magical girls in charge.
The appearance of magical girls is not uncommon; wherever there are disaster beasts, magical girls will appear.
The reason for such a big discussion is that, as a free magical girl, Dong Jun is independent of the Disaster Strategy Bureau, making the relationship between this magical girl and the Bureau somewhat unclear.
Although she also eliminates disaster beasts and protects citizens, her friction with the Disaster Strategy Bureau has led people to constantly discuss whether there will be a conflict. This even created two factions among the public.
However, no one knows where the blue magical girl comes from, not even the Disaster Strategy Bureau can find her identity. After all, it's rare for people to support someone with an unknown identity.
And not long after the blue magical girl disappeared.
In a secluded corner by the school gate, where no one noticed, a girl wearing a white knit sweater and navy pleated skirt emerged from a hidden path, seemingly invisible to those around her.
It wasn't until she hugged a schoolbag with a toy bear keychain and walked to the roadside that some students noticed her and greeted her enthusiastically. The girl just smiled politely.
Then she looked eagerly in the direction of the bus stop, seeming to search for someone.
But she waited for quite a while and didn't see the person she wanted to see.
Until the next bus came along and the number of students increased. She stomped her foot, "Skipping class again!"
Jiang Si never said he was going to school.
Without extraordinary power in those years, he could only compromise and honestly go to school to prepare for the future.
Now, having extraordinary abilities but still having to compromise by going to school would mean his transformation into a magical girl was in vain.
Academics had become an obstacle in his quest for the Dao and immortal cultivation. It should be discarded.
Going to school is for the purpose of finding one's direction and goals in life and gaining the ability to achieve them.
But Jiang Si is already on his path now, and his life has outgrown the necessity of school as a tool.
He definitely doesn't need homework either.
"Jiang Si!"
Looking back, holding a schoolbag, the girl trotted over with the toy bear on her bag bouncing, "Wait for me!"
Jiang Si didn't respond. The girl, however, was not slow, and soon reached his side, keeping pace with him. After catching her breath a little, she seemed to whisper like a complaint, "Why are you ignoring me?"
"I thought you were busy."
"I wasn't at all." Saying so, she tidied her slightly messy hair, then tilted her head slightly. The ice-blue, droplet-like earrings sparkled, "I did well just now, didn't I?"
"Hmm."
Bingtang, sixteen years old, a high school girl, Jiang Si's desk mate.
The girl Jiang Si saved on a whim when he learned to transform three years ago.
Magical girls possess the power to erase ordinary people's memories, covering their minds with magic power to make them forget everything related to magical girls and disaster beasts.
Initially, Jiang Si intended to erase her memory to hide his identity.
But when he turned his head, he saw the blue magical girl staring at her in awe.
In the face of the despair brought by the disaster beast, Bingtang naturally transformed.
The two stared at each other in the rain for a long time.
Though it was not quite a matter of killing to silence her—Jiang Si didn't fully understand his powers at the time, who knew if he could even win if it came to a fight—they still needed to keep an eye on her to prevent his identity from being exposed.
Gradually, this magical girl known as Dong Jun became his friend, the only one who knew his identity. Together, they formed a magical girl organization independent of the Disaster Strategy Bureau.
After all, protagonists in online novels need to have their own organizations and subordinates.
"Yesterday, the Disaster Strategy Bureau issued another warning, either urging me to join them or to leave Beihai City."