Chapter 2

Part．0［Prologue］

"Forehead...., what time is it now? No! The alarm didn't ring! Oh no, I'm going to be late!"

In the room, a girl lying on the bed, curled up under the blankets, after muttering a few words, suddenly shouted and sat up straight.

"Clothes, clothes…. Hmm?"

After squinting and feeling around on the bed for a while, the girl opened her eyes with a confused expression.

She stared at her hand for a moment, her face gradually showing an incredulous expression; then, stiffly, she looked at herself, then turned her head to look around. After freezing like stone for a while, the girl slammed herself hard onto the bed.

"I dreamed again, slept, slept, woke up, woke up…." She kept muttering.

Under such muttering, the girl's breathing gradually steadied.

Her breathing gradually became long and slow………………

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"Ah~. This,,,, really can't fool myself. Speaking of which, I just lay down to sleep, did nothing, my parents are healthy. Why does this happen that I transmigrate upon waking?!!!" A few minutes later, Xun (jun) wailed, covering her head as she sat up.

At this moment, he—or rather, she now—felt the fragmented memories in her mind while wondering why she had transmigrated.

After a while, Xun reluctantly accepted her current situation.

"Really………… it's hard to accept. Just a dozen hours ago I was still a senior high student desperately reviewing for the college entrance exam. Suddenly I transmigrated, and I'm even a girl………………." For some reason, Xun's mind conjured images of her parents, relatives, classmates, and teachers.

……eyes vacant, staring at the ceiling.

More than half an hour had passed, and Xun felt not only unadjusted but increasingly uncomfortable. Even though her transmigrated body still had family and friends.

Another stretch of memories……

"Hah~, no good. Since you're here, make the best of it. How to say—I'm already an adult, well, by traditional age I count as adult. Moreover, I'm now half as young." Xun cheered herself up.

"However……, speaking of which, in novels people who transmigrate and fuse memories suffer for a while. How come it's so smooth for me?" Xun thought with a hint of complaint.

"Buzz—buzz—" Suddenly, Xun felt something vibrating inside the blankets.

She reached out and felt something egg-shaped but huge.

"??" Xun was a bit puzzled, slowly pulling the object out.

"This is…… a Magical Girl Terminal?" Looking at the glowing egg-shaped electronic device before her, Xun recalled the memories that surfaced.

But this made Xun involuntarily knock her own head.

Well. Before transmigrating, this body was that of an elementary school girl in Neon Country. Naturally, she liked and even wanted to become a magical girl, just like other kids her age. That's not the problem; the real issue is that this world actually has magical girls! The reason is a game circulating online called 【Magical Girl Cultivation Plan】; legend says that sincere people can be chosen by spirits to become magical girls.

Moreover, becoming a magical girl was even more bizarre for her compared to others, because her young body lacked a phone, so she couldn't play that game. Yet sometimes things are unavoidable; besides, that little girl had dreamed of becoming a magical girl even before Xun transmigrated. Thus, when she once bought a soda from a networked vending machine, a sprite resembling a black-and-white bear popped out of the screen and told her she had been chosen as a magical girl. The little girl naturally accepted it happily.

But! This body didn't know, while Xun, having watched TV dramas, understood all too well!

That magic sprite named Fab is a real pain! All magical girls are now apprentices; true magical girls are selected from among the apprentices. Magical girls themselves were created by the Magic Kingdom to make up for a shortage of mages. Originally, the selection merely erased the memories of magical girls related to magic from those who lost in competition. But this artificial staff Fab is outright lethal, and later even publicly encouraged mutual killing. Moreover, the magical girl Kuranbeli, who possesses the data terminal carrying Fab's data, is a troubled individual with terrifying combat ability.

Thinking this through, Xun couldn't help but start wanting to escape again.

Recalling those TV plots, Xun thought she probably wouldn't survive past three episodes. Thinking of having to face the corrupted girl Yongyong and the disaster-bringing magical old lady Mary later on, Xun considered trying suicide to return to her original world.

"What to do what to do what to do what to do……." Xun began muttering…

The terminal in Xun's hand lit up.

"What is this? Has the Magical Girl Chat Room opened? Well, let's just take a look, huh—." Seeing the terminal's prompt, Xun suppressed her emotions, took a deep breath, and opened the software.

"Squeak——" Like a Conan interlude, the animation began playing. Taking advantage of this loading time, Xun continued recalling her previous memories to avoid slipping up.

"Really urgent, huh." Xun looked at the screen on the terminal and thought.

"Hi! Hey, everyone! I, I am the newly promoted magical girl Bai Xue!" Upon entering the chat room, Xun saw a pink-haired magical girl figurine wearing something like a school uniform standing in the middle of the chat room park, sending messages. Around her were several other magical girl avatars; some, upon noticing Xun's entry, either gave a glance or lightly waved to greet.

The other magical girls also gave their greetings. Kuranbeli sat farther away, playing violin as background music.

Wearing a long scarf, her whole body wrapped in a coat laden with many belts, short hair, sharp eyes, Sister Nana, Protector Viss·Winter Prison, stood beside Xun's original body's mentor, Sister Nana. Meanwhile, Sister Nana herself had blue eyes with golden cross-shaped pupils, wore a normal nun's outfit plus abnormal white suspender socks, and always wore a gentle expression.

Behind the princess-attired Wang Quan stood the twin angels, Yongyong, and Xiao Yu.

Mary, dressed as a cowboy, stood alone to the side, her messages marked as "blocked". Not far away stood Magicaroid44, a petite magical girl obviously a knockoff of Doraemon in both magic and setting.

Top Speed and Ripple stood together on the other side.

Mianmian stood farther away, eyes half-closed.

"Top Speed, Sister Nana, Kuranbeli, Yongyong, Wang Quan……"

Xun looked at the avatars in the chat room and recalled her own memories.

"Counting Alice who will appear later, that makes 17 total. So am I the extra one?"

Xun felt some doubt in her heart, greeting as per memory while thinking.

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"Since everyone's here, next I'll announce important matters—bang! This time the Magical Girl Assembly, since its founding, is undertaking a grand feat—bang! Everyone, come on—bang!" Fab appeared suddenly in the chat room after Bai Xue finished her self-introduction and said.

Top Speed: "Wasn't it said a new magical girl would come?"

Fab: "She'll only arrive next week—bang, although the matter to be discussed this time also concerns her—bang.

Currently, there are sixteen magical girls active in N City. Since a new magical girl will join, starting next week the number will increase to eighteen. Eighteen magical girls—this number is still too many for the vast N City, given that magical power, the source of magic, depends on land and is a limited resource. Eighteen magical girls will accelerate the drain of magical power; if this continues, they will likely suck dry the magical power present in the land.

"Eighteen! That doesn't match the original! Besides me, who else is new? What happened? No, the plan must be restarted, introducing more variables." Xun's eyes widened, and in a short time she thought of many things.

But then she turned her attention back to Fab.

After explaining the current situation, Fab finally began to announce the "important matter" he had been hinting at for a long time.

Fab: "So we decided to cut the number of magical girls—bang—by removing eight of them—bang.

After a silence of one second, probably he understood what Fabu said. Then came a booing like a storm, spewing out dissatisfaction, as well as irrepressible doubts and questions. From the ripples on the water surface, one can infer the size of the stone thrown in. From extra-large characters to colored text, there are not a few 'blocked' bubbles drifting out. The chibi magical girls' words filled the whole screen, making the already cramped chat room impossible to read normally.

Fabu kept his head down, repeatedly saying "Sorry, sorry."

A few minutes later, the magical girls' dissatisfaction turned into questions.

"So, how should we alleviate it?" Sister Nana and the Holy Maiden asked almost simultaneously.

Fabu: This magical girl chat room opens a match once a week; each week a loser is announced in this chat room, and another the following week. We will have eight magical girls withdraw over eight weeks. The magical girl who holds the least magic candy that week will be eliminated one by one.

"Here it comes, the main plot starts. If it weren't for the fact that quitting would get me killed by you, I'd really want to quit. What's the point of playing salt? I still value my life." Looking at Fabu's announcement, Yun felt somewhat displeased.

However, the people present had no objections.

Yun well understood that, whether in the history he had seen or the novels he had read, it was said——"It's easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but hard to go from extravagance to frugality." Yun murmured softly.

Fabu: "Repeat once more,

Each week, the person holding the fewest magic candies will become the loser peng. So I hope you all work hard and collect more candies peng.

Causing you inconvenience this time is really very sorry peng.

Ah, there's one more thing.

The system version of the magic terminal has been updated; please check it, peng.

That's all for this time's contact items, peng.

Then see you here next week."

Yun then watched the discussion of other magical girls after Fabu's announcement for a while, casually went along with the other magical girls, and Yun made an excuse to leave.

After leaving the chat room, Yun checked their magic candy warehouse.

"! Tsk tsk, liver failure losing." Looking at the stock in the warehouse, Yun felt.

After closing the terminal, Yun sat on their small bed, turned their head, and stared blankly at the unfamiliar self in the mirror.

"I inexplicably time-traveled and even turned into a girl. Although I had imagined this kind of thing when reading comics before, it's really hard to accept when it actually happens to me. My body has become smaller, feeling really unaccustomed. Before time-traveling, I had over a hundred days left before the college entrance exam, but now I'm just spacing out here. What am I doing?!" Looking at themselves in the mirror, Yun shook their head, patted their face a few times. Looking at the strange bed, they dazed for a few moments, then lay down again on the bed and slept.

The shrunken body feels so uncomfortable. Before crossing over, I had over a hundred days left before the college entrance exam, but now I'm just spacing out here. "What am I doing?!!" Looking at myself in the mirror, Xin shook his head and slapped his face a few times. Staring at the unfamiliar bed, he dazed for a moment, then lay down again and slept.

"Being a kid is great, you can sleep at 8 o'clock." Before bed, Xin thought.

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