Chapter 47: Doubt
After successfully thwarting a scheme by the Snake Fang organization, Luo Shuangyue felt that Xinghai City had suddenly become much more peaceful.
Monster beasts appeared only once every four or five days, and they were easily dealt with by Jiuye, so her daily life had become a routine of occasionally checking in at Polar Night and then training those three magical girls fiercely while disguised as Bai Ye.
Among the three magical girls participating in the training, the one who surprised Luo Shuangyue the most was Linglan. This little girl seemed to be born for such intense training; she kept shouting that she was going to die, yet always managed to complete the tasks assigned to her.
It was important to note that her training intensity was not much lower than Xia Mo’s, and Xia Mo was significantly stronger than her.
“Senior Bai Ye, I… I’m done…” After finishing an entire set of training, Luo Shuangxing mumbled, then collapsed onto the grass, staring vacantly at the sky.
It seemed like… she saw her mother, who was far away in heaven, swaying in front of her…
“Good, very good. Rest here for a while; there will be magic cannon training later.” Luo Shuangyue stood in front of Linglan, nodded, and spoke in a cold tone.
Ah, Luo Shuangxing saw a devilish smile on her mother’s illusion, as if saying, “Come on, little star, Mommy believes in you.”
Mom, please don’t believe in me! If this keeps up, I’m really going to die! Luo Shuangxing silently wept inside; she still had to go have coffee with her brother and Xia Mo tomorrow, she couldn’t die here!
“Senior… I’m going to be exhausted!” Luo Shuangxing looked at Bai Ye with teary eyes; if she had any strength left, she would have clung to Bai Ye’s leg to plead.
“Your situation is special. Under this kind of extreme pressure, you will grow rapidly. You’ve said before that you couldn’t keep going, but didn’t you end up holding on?” Luo Shuangyue smiled at the despairing white-haired girl, her expression full of ‘I believe in you’.
She wasn’t targeting Linglan; it was just that this child’s magical power characteristics were like that—greater pressure led to faster improvement. This short period of extreme training had already doubled Linglan’s combat power.
At this rate, it wouldn’t be long before Linglan could stand shoulder to shoulder with Xia Mo.
“…But it’s really exhausting.”
“Better to sweat now than to bleed later. Get some good rest; I’m going to check on Siam and Rosemary’s training.”
With that, Luo Shuangyue turned and walked toward the direction of the other two magical girls.
She completely failed to notice the look of confusion that appeared on Luo Shuangxing’s face behind her.
The skirt of Bai Ye’s outfit was very short, and Luo Shuangxing was lying on the ground, looking up at Bai Ye as she turned to leave, inevitably catching a glimpse of something she shouldn’t see.
For example, the white lace-trimmed pumpkin shorts hidden under her skirt.
A very safe outfit, right?
But this sort of thing shouldn’t have been seen by Luo Shuangxing!
What is under a magical girl’s skirt? Only the magical girls themselves would know the answer to this question, because after they transformed, a powerful holy light spell would attach to their skirts, making it impossible to see anything beneath; while it wouldn’t blind anyone, it effectively blocked any prying eyes.
In other words, magical girls wouldn’t have wardrobe malfunctions; no matter how grand their movements, what would be revealed was only the true ‘light’.
Yet now, Luo Shuangxing saw something that should have been concealed by that light.
“Senior Bai Ye… is not in transformation status right now?” A bold thought arose in Luo Shuangxing’s mind.
Bai Ye’s identity was definitely real; there was no need to question that.
So, the issue must lie in Bai Ye’s state, and the simplest and most plausible guess was that Bai Ye was not in transformation status right now, but in her true form.
“If I think back carefully, it seems that during every special training, only at the very beginning does Bai Ye exude that overwhelming presence that makes one afraid to look up. Once we finish our warm-up and come back, that presence disappears, and her outfit becomes less dazzling?”
Once doubt arose, Luo Shuangxing immediately began sorting through a pile of uncertainties in her memory.
Why does Bai Ye always walk to find the others? Flying should be instinctual for magical girls, right?
Why does Bai Ye’s outfit look wet after spending a long time in the sun? Magical girls shouldn’t sweat in their transformed state.
All these doubts pointed Luo Shuangxing to a single answer: Bai Ye had actually never transformed!
She had always been disguising herself!
This matter… must be reported to Senior Rosemary! Luo Shuangxing thought to herself.
Right now, she was simply speculating, but Senior Rosemary had more knowledge about Bai Ye and might provide her with more clues.
However, before exploring the secrets hidden by her senior, she still had a torturous training session to complete! Luo Shuangxing internally let out a mournful wail.
This training intensity was completely on a different level from her brother’s earlier plans! Brother, your boss is mismanaging your proposal; you need to come and stop her!
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“Sen… Senior, wait a moment, don’t leave yet!”
As the sun set, Xia Mo, exhausted from a day’s training, was about to leave when she suddenly heard her junior’s half-dead shout from behind.
“What’s up, Linglan? The senior is already very tired.” Siam, too, had no energy left to play around with Luo Shuangxing, her legs felt as weak as noodles, shaking uncontrollably.
Leaning on her magic wand, which was longer than a person, Luo Shuangxing hobbled over to Xia Mo with a look of ‘I have a big discovery’.
“I discovered that Senior Bai Ye seems to not have transformed!”
Xia Mo and Siam exchanged glances, seeing the same confusion in each other’s eyes.
“How do you know that (meow)?”
Bai Ye hasn’t transformed? How could that be… If she didn’t transform, how did she have that beautiful skirt, and how did she always come down from the sky?
And just now when she left, Bai Ye transformed into light, isn’t that a clear magical girl ability?
“What I mean is, Bai Ye only transforms at the very beginning and the very end, and during the other times in between, she’s actually never in transformation state.” Luo Shuangxing laid out her guess.
When she mentioned why she had doubts, her expression became a bit awkward and shy, “As for how I found out… ahem, I accidentally saw Senior Bai Ye’s safety shorts just now.”
