"【Just a disclaimer, I'm also a fan of the novel next door】"
"【I've borrowed some ideas, please don't scold me!】"
"【I won't take my brain with me; you all can keep it.】"
"【Go urge the author next door to update! I want to read it too!】"
"【It'll be different later~ I hope you can keep reading! Give me a chance!】"
Seven years ago, this was the first time Shi Kong saw a Magical Girl, these girls who represented love and justice.
At twelve years old, he saw these indescribably beautiful girls and felt a sense of longing for the first time.
Everyone said Magical Girls represented hope, but who knew that the appearance of a Magical Girl meant this place had already been poisoned by Disaster Beasts, meaning it had already fallen into death.
The rampage of Disaster Beasts, collapsing buildings, shattered streets, stampeding crowds, and deafening shouts... That year, Shi Kong was twelve, and his parents died in the riot protecting him and his younger sister.
However, even with his parents' life-sacrificing protection, it didn't mean Shi Kong and his sister were safe. The Disaster Beast appearing before Shi Kong meant his life had begun a countdown.
The Disaster Beast killed his parents, and just as it was about to kill him, a capybara floating in the air appeared before Shi Kong's eyes?
"Do you want to become a Magical Girl?" the spirit said.
I'm a guy? A Magical Girl? Is this a dying hallucination...? Shi Kong's first reaction was that it was a dying hallucination, and before he could refuse, a strange power enveloped his entire body.
Now Shi Kong realized this wasn't a so-called dying hallucination, but a genuine miracle happening to him, a male Magical Girl.
"This is a monster-level Disaster Beast." Its danger rating was the lowest, the lowest level of Disaster Beast.
Yet, even this type of Disaster Beast had led to the breaking of countless families.
Although Shi Kong had now become a Magical Girl, how could he, at only twelve years old, have any combat experience?
Currently, Shi Kong could only protect himself but couldn't repel this Disaster Beast.
Fortunately, the Disaster Beast had already eaten its fill and was preparing to leave. The Disaster Beast's figure paused, then vanished before Shi Kong.
And Shi Kong's fate was changed forever.
At twelve years old, with no means of earning money, his parents' death benefits and disaster relief funds were barely enough for Shi Kong and his sister to live on.
A disaster left the most severe scar on a boy at the prime of his youth.
If Shi Kong had been alone, perhaps he wouldn't have chosen to become a Magical Girl, or perhaps he would have resigned himself to fate. But he couldn't; he had an 8-year-old sister.
Relying solely on these subsidies might allow them to barely survive, but it absolutely couldn't provide his sister with the life she deserved at her age.
So Shi Kong chose to become an official Magical Girl, to search, protect, and take revenge.
Three years later, Shi Kong, possessing Time Magic and spatial magic, rose to become an Eternal Sun-level Magical Girl at a speed unmatched by others, becoming the sixth in line in the Tribunal.
And in the first year after Shi Kong's ascension, the Demon Court's Sky Eye System detected the appearance of a World-Destroying Calamity Beast. After a Tribunal meeting, this Disaster Beast was identified as the origin of the calamity.
All six Eternal Sun-level Magical Girls of the Tribunal were dispatched to suppress it.
This battle—no, it should be called a war.
The World-Destroying Calamity Beast led a beast tide to attack humanity.
The war ended, and this calamity claimed the lives of two Eternal Sun-level Magical Girls.
This was the first time Shi Kong saw a Magical Girl dismembered, and it made him realize that even the most beautiful and powerful Magical Girl would experience death.
Shi Kong used his Time Magic to permanently stop the World-Destroying Calamity Beast at the moment it was defeated, then used spatial magic to seal it within his own body.
Yes, World-Destroying Calamity Beasts could not be completely killed, only sealed.
The price was that Shi Kong could no longer use any magic.
After the battle, Shi Kong chose to retire.
He no longer wanted to see his companions, with whom he had spent day and night, leave, and he no longer had the power to protect them. All he wanted to do now was make up for the four years of neglect towards his sister.
Time flew by in a blink, and three years had passed. If it weren't for the passive effect of Time Magic preventing his body from aging, he might no longer even consider himself a Magical Girl.
For three years, the boy tried countless times to make up for the four years of neglect towards his sister, but no matter what he did, his sister always gave him a cold shoulder, appearing aloof.
Due to four years of estrangement, the boy and girl had no common topics. A daily greeting, a simple "Good morning," would only be met with his sister's "Mm." The boy didn't know what his sister was thinking, and his sister didn't know why her brother was so concerned about her. She just felt her brother was annoying and meddlesome.
His sister's name was Shi Yu.
Very cute.
She is sixteen this year, currently in a state of wanting to become a Magical Girl, or perhaps she already is a Magical Girl?
Three years have passed since the last "Great Cataclysm," and now Magical Girls are more often engaged in the idol industry.
They present their most glamorous side to the public, while the dark side is concealed by the Demon Court.
Shi Yu's favorite Magical Girl is Bai Leng, the heroic Magical Girl who ended the chaos three years ago, and also one of Shi Kong's former teammates.
【Warning, Nanhai City is under attack by an unknown Disaster Beast. All citizens please proceed to the air-raid shelter in an orderly manner. Repeat, all citizens please proceed to the air-raid shelter in an orderly manner.】
The sudden air-raid siren shattered the ordinary day of every Nanhai City resident.
Shi Kong watched the front-line news report on TV. A Magical Girl, dressed in a red and white magical outfit with white and red gradient hair, appeared on the big screen.
"Shi Yu? Why is it that girl?"
Shi Kong didn't know what to do. He could tell his sister was just a newly contracted Magical Girl, and he deeply understood the fate of Magical Girls.
Magical Girls at the Candlelight level were all beginners; they couldn't use the magic power within their bodies, had no combat experience, and their teamwork was basically a disorganized mess.
Shi Kong was very worried about his sister, but fortunately, this battle didn't involve only his sister as a Magical Girl, and they were only dealing with a Disaster Beast rated as the lowest level, "monster-level." Such monsters had no rationality and, relatively, no fear.
Ten minutes later, the Disaster Beast on the screen was resolved.
There was no clear definition for the origin of Disaster Beasts. Even Shi Kong, who was once an Eternal Sun-level Magical Girl, didn't know their origins. The Demon Court had many definitions for them: born from human negative emotions, extraterrestrial beings, ancient creatures. They had many forms, but they were all ultimately defined as Disaster Beasts, meaning ferocious beasts that bring disaster.
Shi Kong picked up his phone, which he had used for an unknown number of years, its screen covered in cracks.
He opened his contacts and found a number labeled Director Bai.
Shi Kong walked into his room and locked the door. With a ripple of space, Shi Kong transformed into a 1.63-meter-tall girl. Shi Kong did not materialize his magical outfit, still wearing his white shirt and black trousers.
Yes, Shi Kong had been in his transformed state for four years in the Demon Court. He never exposed the fact that he was male but could transform into a Magical Girl.
He dialed the number.
"What? You have time to call me now?" a rather dismissive greeting came from the phone.
"Why did my sister become a Magical Girl?"
Shi Kong's tone carried a hint of anger.
"This wasn't my doing; your sister did it voluntarily."
"Impossible, it's impossible to become a Magical Girl without a contracted spirit."
"Forget it, come to the Bureau tomorrow, and I'll show you, then you'll understand."
After hanging up, Shi Kong wondered how to convince his sister to give up her Magical Girl identity, and what identity he should use to persuade her.
As an ordinary person? That's unlikely. Not to mention the cold war and estrangement between him and his sister, he was just an ordinary person, so what reason did he have to persuade her?
As a senior? That's also not very realistic. Basically, everyone knew Bai Leng as the one who ended the battle back then, not him. Moreover, he had left the Demon Court without permission, and he carried the World-Destroying seal. If he were caught and brought back, he wouldn't even know if he'd see his sister again, let alone the sunlight.
"So troublesome. Why, why did that girl still go down this path?"
(PS: New author here. If there are similarities, it's because I don't know how to write plots and imitated others' books. This is my first time writing a book. I don't understand many things, so I hope you can give me more suggestions. Thank you!)
