"Please forgive me, Sunset Shimmer! The current Trixie has no face to see you again!"
After saying that, Trixie pulled a smoke bomb from her pocket and threw it on the ground, causing smoke to disperse instantly.
Completely unprepared for this, Sunset Shimmer was choked by the smoke and couldn't help but cough.
After the white mist cleared, Trixie's figure was no longer in the preparation room, leaving only the open door; she had even turned off the lights when she left.
How thoughtful.
As if.
"Trixie?!"
Sunset Shimmer immediately rushed to the door and looked out, but the corridor outside was quiet; clearly, Trixie had already run out of the range that Sunset Shimmer could perceive.
'What is going on? Now that even the magician herself has run away, is the performance tomorrow still going to happen?'
Sunset Shimmer was both anxious and angry; she didn't like the feeling of giving up halfway on something she had decided to do.
Although the magic props were all damaged, with some effort, part of them could be salvaged, at least enough to let tomorrow's magic performance proceed smoothly.
She didn't know why Trixie was having a breakdown by herself, actually running away after dropping an ambiguous apology.
Sunset Shimmer quickly took out her phone to contact Rainbow Dash; if Trixie wanted to escape from here, she would definitely have to go through the gym's main entrance.
Considering that Trixie was more nimble than her, Sunset Shimmer definitely couldn't catch her on her own, so it was the perfect opportunity to let Rainbow Dash help intercept her.
After all, no matter how fast Trixie was, she surely couldn't outrun the captain of the track team.
"Rainbow Dash: I only saw Snip and Snell leave the gym, I didn't see Trixie come out?"
"Rainbow Dash: By the way, what happened over there?"
"Sunset Shimmer:?"
"Sunset Shimmer: Guard the main entrance, wait for my news."
Sunset Shimmer looked back at the preparation room with suspicious eyes, then dialed Trixie's phone number.
"Open your eyes open your mind We are the winx ~ ♪"
A burst of cheerful music came from a cabinet in the preparation room; it sounded like the opening theme of "Winx Club".
Immediately after, there was a clattering sound of collision from inside the cabinet, along with a girl's pained cry; she must have been fumbling to take the phone out of her pocket, as Sunset Shimmer saw the light from the phone leaking through the gap in the cabinet door.
Then Sunset Shimmer's call was hung up, the screen light in the cabinet went out, and the preparation room returned to silence.
"Trixie!"
"Eek!"
Sunset Shimmer pulled open the cabinet door violently, and indeed found the missing Trixie there.
It turned out she hadn't left the preparation room at all; the open door and turned-off lights were just to mislead Sunset Shimmer.
"Hi... Sunset Shimmer, what a coincidence?"
Trixie, blocked in the cabinet by Sunset Shimmer, waved at her with an embarrassed face; after all, it's very awkward to have to smile when someone is staring at you with wide eyes.
"...Why are you hiding in here?"
"Because Trixie has no face to see anyone?"
"I'm asking you, why didn't you run out, but instead hid in here?"
"I... I was planning to wait until you left, and then see if I could fix them by myself here."
Trixie lowered her head in embarrassment, nervously drawing circles on the wooden board she was sitting on with her finger.
"You've already done enough for me, I... I don't want to let you down in the thing I'm best at, although you might already be completely disappointed in me."
Trixie's lips trembled slightly; she didn't want to say such a cruel reality out loud, but she had no other choice now.
A girl's tears always come easily; Trixie had to bury her face in her arms. She didn't want Sunset Shimmer to see her miserable expression and think she was acting pitiful.
But she had just promised Sunset Shimmer with full confidence that she could handle the most important magic tricks, and then immediately trampled that promise underfoot; even if it was just an accident, it couldn't pretty up the fact that she had failed to keep her word.
"You're right, Sunset Shimmer, I'm just a braggart, an unreliable third-rate magician who can't even do her own 'job' well. All of this is just... too much of a failure... Feel free to scold me, it's all I deserve."
However, what Trixie found most unacceptable was that she had let down Sunset Shimmer's trust in her; that was the worst part.
"I didn't say any of the things after 'braggart'..."
Not expecting this matter to deal such a big blow to Trixie, Sunset Shimmer scratched her head, feeling a bit at a loss as she looked at the emo-ing Trixie.
Originally, she wasn't angry about Trixie failing to fix the magic props; she had been somewhat angry earlier because she thought Trixie was trying to shirk responsibility. Now it seemed that wasn't the case at all, she was just being difficult.
And judging by her attitude, she was actually not a bad person; she could realize that she had caused trouble for others and would also consider others' difficulties, it's just that her way of doing things was a bit awkward, making it easy for others to misunderstand her intentions.
"If scolding you could solve your problem faster, I wouldn't mind wasting a bit more breath."
Sunset Shimmer smiled helplessly and reached out her hand to her.
"Now, you should come out of the cabinet first; these magic props won't fix themselves."
Listening to Sunset Shimmer's tone, Trixie looked up slightly and found that Sunset Shimmer was indeed not angry.
"Aren't you angry with me?"
"If you don't come out, I really will get angry."
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