Transform into a magical girl after getting off work

In the corner booth, you could hear a pin drop.

Emerald Sparrow looked intently at Xia Liang, blinked twice after a long while, suddenly not knowing what to say. Or rather, Xia Liang's question took her completely by surprise, leaving her with no prepared response in her mind.

She had never anticipated that Xia Liang would think on such a level.

But her silence did not make Xia Liang realize anything; rather, when she asked that question, she was also very nervous herself, afraid of angering Emerald Sparrow, so she only dared to lower her head and stealthily glance at the other party, bravely continuing to list the other possibilities she could think of:

"So what exactly is the state, does it really involve a complete transformation into a male, inside and out?"

"Is there really such a spell technique that can completely change someone's gender, turning a magical girl into a male, even to the extent of reproducing with other females?"

"Or are you saying that your usual 'Uncle Lin' appearance is just a kind of illusion and not a real transformation into 'Uncle Lin'? But if that's the case, how did little Lu come into being..."

Even though the tone of her questioning was very meek, as soon as the topic was broached, Xia Liang became increasingly talkative, even tending to exhaust all possible answers in her imagination. It seemed that this doubt had indeed been pent up in her heart for a long time.

However, as Emerald Sparrow listened to her, the hand resting on the table gradually clenched.

The truth that "Lin Yun and Emerald Sparrow are the same person" had already become a fact for Xia Liang, so she could openly reveal everything to Xia Liang without any burden, since she didn't need to hide anything.

But now, the issue that Xia Liang was discussing was no longer within that scope.

"Why would you think that?"

She interrupted Xia Liang's speech and asked gently, "Why not consider other possibilities? Like, I'm originally male?"

"Junior, you are taking me for a fool with impossibilities."

Xia Liang slightly lifted her head: "It's simply not possible for a male to become a magical girl; even I know that much."

"Maybe I am an exception," Emerald Sparrow countered dispassionately.

"If you, Junior, really are an exception..."

Upon hearing this, Xia Liang began to imagine a little, thinking of her quite intimate interactions with Emerald Sparrow these past few days. If Emerald Sparrow were actually a man in reality...

"Junior, would you be taken away by the police for questioning?" she said with some uncertainty.

Seeing Emerald Sparrow's eyelids droop, as if she were on the verge of rolling her eyes, Xia Liang hastily chuckled and said, "Just kidding, just kidding. After all, we both know that's impossible."

"Because the true form of a magical girl should be the appearance of her soul, right?"

"From the moment of transformation into a magical girl, our image is formed based on our own original appearance, and as we advance to the Sprout level, the body of a magical girl solidifies and remains unchanged forever by time."

"So, no matter what your outward appearance might become, Junior, your initial appearance, the one when you became a magical girl, it's still now, the girl before my eyes, right?"

Her reasoning was evidence-based and logically sound. If a passerby who didn't know better were to judge, they would think her words made a lot of sense. And if the person concerned wasn't herself, then Emerald Sparrow would also admit her reasoning was sound.

Only, that's an "if."

"A good child's curiosity should know its limits."

She slightly raised her eyes, looking expressionlessly at Xia Liang: "You are a smart and sensitive child, so you also know that it's time to stop."

What she meant by "stop" was not just the issue at hand.

Xia Liang also understood the implication in her words at that moment.

The eyes that were filled with curiosity gradually dimmed, as she knew what Emerald Sparrow was truly conveying to her, so her lips parted slightly, but in the end, she did not insist on anything more.

"...It seems, I indeed got a bit too excited today," she said.

Her eyes cast down, a bittersweet smile with a hint of apology appeared on her face: "Sorry."

Emerald Sparrow watched her like this, and after a while, she leaned on the table and slowly stood up.

"Let's go back."

She said so.

When she said those words, the time was already nearing evening. After a bustling afternoon's schedule, the sunlight had begun to turn dim, casting an orange hue across the sky.

The atmosphere between the two shifted from its previous liveliness and frivolity to an awkward silence. Emerald Sparrow's footsteps rang clearly as she took the lead, with Xia Liang quietly following behind. They bid farewell to the café owner and retraced their path back to the parking lot, then got into the car.

Emerald Sparrow tentatively searched with her foot beneath her in the unfamiliar driver's seat, found the raised pedal, and then adeptly pulled out the safety belt next to her and buckled it in front of her.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Then, as the car started, she said, "I'm actually not blaming you."

"I once told you, compared to you, I am an adult, a grown-up. I have also promised you that to show my care for you, I can allow some of your whims and will not get angry at you."

"You don't need to apologize to me, because I'm not upset with you for your behavior today. In fact, I'm quite relieved that you had fun."

"Before we came out today, I was also a bit uncertain. After all, we are not from the same generation. On matters of magic and study, I can serve as your senior and teach you with a serious attitude; but if you need a friend, someone like family, to have fun with when we go out, I didn't have that confidence."