red magic girl

Looking at Ba Mami's beautiful legs in velvet and matte stockings, there is a bento box containing a sumptuous meal?, Xiao Niaoyou secretly sighed Ba Mami's difficulty.

[It's really hard for a child living alone, can't the parents at home take care of her more?As for both parents going out to work?It seems that the family is not poor...]

[Speaking of which, the food is really good, no wonder you have such a huge heart at such a young age. 】

Xiaoniaoyou was thinking wildly while eating Ba Mamei's bento.

Then, Xiao Niaoyou heard a scream.

The sudden cry made Xiaoniaoyou turn her head away fiercely, but before she even took out her gun, she saw a touch of green hair flash past the door and disappeared.

The only thing Xiaoniaoyou can hear is "Lily Fellowship", "It's a gap I can't insert", "The aggressive year goes down and the gentle year goes up to yyds", "awsl" and other strange words

"Who is that?"

"Then, that's Hitomi-chan, right? Senior Xiaoniaoyou, don't pay attention to her, she's always like this."

Seeing Madoka who was in a panic, as if about to say something, but was terrified to death, Xiao Tiaoyou nodded repeatedly, not wanting to delve into anything further.

[I always feel that there will be strange rumors...]

"Miss Marchma, please stay away from me!" "

Kwang Hee Machima's Orange Man

Chapter 12: Tender Love

"Magical girls, the most important job is patrolling."

"Um……"

"Because the vast majority of magical girls can only find the witch's trace by patrolling the city with the help of the soul gem's induction. It will be bad if they can't find the witch's trace."

"Um……"

"You don't have to be so afraid of me..."

"……Um."

After school on Thursday afternoon, Xiaotiaoyou walked Madoka on the sidewalk while explaining various things about magical girls to Madoka.

This was Madoka's first Witch Hunt patrol, and the first time this year that she didn't go shopping with her friends at the mall before heading home, or go to a fast food restaurant for a while.

As for Homura, because she has no idea of ​​signing a contract, Kotori is also opposed to bringing unsigned girls into the witch's enchantment, so she is walking home alone now.

It was supposed to be Asami who wanted to bring Madoka, but Xiaotiaoyu wanted her to come.

However, Madoka didn't really believe it—at least she was still a little bit afraid of Xiaoniaoyou instinctively in her heart. Now she is like a child who made a mistake, following behind Xiaoniaoyou, not daring to say anything, only huh Uh ah ah.

【Scared her like this? 】Xiao Niaoyou sighed in her heart, she felt that she was indeed a little too strict, 【However, is it really okay for this child to fight the witch? 】

Xiaoniaoyou now feels like a mother who has been separated from her child for a long time and does not know how to get along with her child.

She had no idea what to talk to Madoka about.

As a woman, she only went to junior high school, and the school time did not give her any good memories.

For example, the table was graffitied disgustingly, thumbtacks were put in the shoes, people would cover their noses when they passed by, and so on. There is really nothing to recall with Madoka.

As a mature woman, to be honest, she didn't know what advice she should give Madoka—after all, both Xunzi and Zhijiu were well educated, and her own life was not like that of a normal woman.

Right now, the only thing she can teach Madoka is how magical girls should live.

But this is exactly what she doesn't want to teach others.

There is no adult who is willing to teach his own children or other people's children how to fight the enemy, how to bayonet the enemy, and die with the enemy with the grenade in his arms.

Kotori believes that the only people who can happily teach children this way of life are the militaristic beasts of the Showa era.

However, she had to do this now—the life of a magical girl was a life of war.

Every day, magical girls fight for their own lives and the lives of others.

【Ah, if I had been paying close attention back then, it would be too late to say anything now...】

"Well, Xiaoniaoyou-san..." Just when Xiaoniaoyou fell into self-blame again, Madoka, who had been following her, suddenly stopped her, "I, am I annoying you? After all, like A cowardly person like me has also become a magical girl..."

Xiaotiaoyou stopped, she turned around and looked at Madoka standing in front of her.

Madoka was playing with the corner of her own clothes, as if she was ashamed in front of Xiaoniaoyou.

"I also know that I have a lot of bad problems..."

"no."

Xiao Tiaoyou lowered his head and decisively interrupted Madoka's words.

"Eh?"

Before Madoka could react, Xiaoniaoyou forcibly pulled Madoka's arm, and walked with her into a small alley that was completely different from the avenue.

On the signal tower, Madoka just wanted to say something, but she didn't, because Xiaoniaoyou handed her a pair of binoculars.

"It's hard for me to express my feelings clearly in words." Xiaoniaoyou handed the binoculars to Xiaoyuan, pointed in a direction, and said to Xiaoyuan: "Look directly, it may be easier to understand what I want to express .”

Madoka took the binoculars obediently, and then looked in the direction Xiaoniaoyou was pointing at.

She saw her friends and classmates—they were on their way from school.

"Madoka Kame, a second-year student at Mitakihara Junior High School, an ordinary junior high school student, serves as the health committee member of the class."

"The family is well-off, with a younger brother who is only 3 years old. Since childhood, his mother has held important positions outside the home, and his father has been in charge of the house."

Xiaotiaoyou slowly read out Madoka's family situation one by one. Amid Xiaotiaoyou's voice, Madoka saw Sayaka talking and laughing with Hitomi.

"Don't be surprised by the information I have. To be honest, I have been a magical girl for a long time, even longer than Mami."

"Tell me the truth, Miss Kame." Kotoriyu turned her head away, with her back to Madoka, preventing Madoka from seeing her slightly red eye circles, "...Magic girl is not a good job,"

"It's dangerous, and you have to fight dangerous monsters from time to time."

"I'm very busy, taking care of my studies and daily work, and I don't have much time for entertainment. It can be said that I only have work all day long."

"It's also very lonely. You just use your home affairs to avoid playing with your friends today. You have to think of an excuse that can be used for a long time in the future."

Xiao Niaoyou covered her face with her hands and rubbed it repeatedly, not wanting to let tears fall from her eyes.

"I don't want a child like you to sign the contract, because this kind of life is an unhappy state of life for a child like you..."

"Xiaotiaoyou-san." This time it was Madoka who interrupted Xiaoniaoyou, "Actually, I also thought of these things in class in the afternoon."

"In the past, when I went to and from school with Sayaka and the others, I also paid attention to Senior Ba. Although he was very good-looking, walked gracefully, and had a gentle smile on his face, there was no one to accompany her. around."

"Now that I think about it, it's because Senior Ba is a magical girl, and I'm running around every day to protect everyone, so I'm always alone."

"Senior Xiaoniaoyou is also unable to go to school because of this?"

"……more or less."

Facing Madoka's question, Kotoriyu simply nodded.

Xiaoniaoyou's story is very long, so long that she doesn't want to recall it easily.

"When I was in class in the afternoon, I thought about it for a long time, about myself and the magical girl..."

"Because I am so useless, I can be like Kotori Yusan or Ba Mamei-senpai, guarding the people in this city, I am already very happy."

"Moreover, my wish has successfully saved other people's lives. I will not regret such a thing no matter what."

Madoka stretched out her palm, and in her palm, the pink soul gem shimmered in the dim yellow light of the setting sun, like the first full glass of red pomelo soda she drank in Xiaoniaoyou's memory.

Turning around again, facing Xiaoyuan's bird swim, looking at Xiaoyuan's soul gem, I feel sweet from the bottom of my heart.

She is proud of her friend to have such a child.

"I'm sorry, did I say something very smug..."

"No." Under Xiaoniaoyou's almost doting gaze, she gently stroked Xiaoyuan's twin ponytails, and said to Xiaoyuan, "You're very good."

[Sorry, I can only continue to do what I was doing before and what I am doing now. 】

"Protecting a novice magical girl like you is also the duty of a veteran magical girl like us." Xiaotiao couldn't help showing a smirk when he talked up to this point, "And you are such a silly child, no one is watching Looking at you, you may not even be aware of being attacked by a witch!"

"Mo~ I'm not that kind of fool!" Madoka, who was teased kindly, puffed up her cheeks like a child, and defended herself, "I'm going to be like senior Xiaotiaoyou and Ba Mamei-senpai in the future." Yes, a powerful and confident magical girl!"

Hearing this, Madoka felt as if she had seen it, the smile on the corner of Xiaoniaoyou's mouth froze, and then Xiaoniaoyou barely maintained the smile, as if trying to restrain something, and said to Madoka:

"It's better not to be like me, isn't it better to be like Miss Ba?"

Seeing her reaction, Madoka didn't know what to say.

Because, in fact, what she thinks most about in the afternoon is not the magical girl, not Ba Mamei-senpai, but Xiaotiaoyou.

For some reason, Madoka always found her familiar.

Amid Saotome's complaints about her boyfriend, Madoka recalled a vague memory.

She remembered as if it was a certain day five years ago.

On that day, the mother who was pregnant with the second child was about to give birth, and a new member was about to be added to the family.

Mom and Dad are about to have another child, and she will also have a brother or sister, and she is very happy when she knows the news.

However, she was terrified that day.

Because of the weather that day, there were thunderclouds, and there was always rumbling outside.

Because of the bad weather and the need to send the mother who was waiting at home to the hospital, my father had to leave her alone at home.

At that time, although she told her father that it was okay to be alone, even though she told herself to be strong...

However, she was still very scared.

The roaring wind kept beating against the glass windows, the rumbling thunder kept shaking the house, and the white lightning piercing the dark sky kept illuminating her pale face.

If the outside environment was enough to make her feel uneasy, then the thoughts in her heart were even more unbearable.

How is dad?how is momHow is your unborn brother or sister?

Could they have been blown over by the wind somewhere?Could it be because of the thunder and rain that you couldn't see the road clearly and ended up hitting a power pole?

Maybe they need her right now?

At that time, Madoka knew that she was really stupid to think that way, even though she was only 11 years old at that time, still in the sixth grade of elementary school, she also knew that she was really stupid to think that way.

but……

Maybe it was because of fear, maybe it was because of the sense of responsibility, or maybe it was because of the little fantasy in her head. At that time, Madoka, who was even shorter than she is now, was wearing her own children's raincoat, carrying a small umbrella, and wanted to use the Dad left the spare key at home to open the door and go to find Mom and Dad.

Thinking about it now, Madoka was actually very scared.

On such a night of lightning and thunder, if I was so young at that time, if I really ran out of the house, I might be blown into the sky by the storm.

And at that moment, a figure stopped her.

It was a person with a gentle voice, and Madoka didn't know what the other person looked like, she was just wearing a huge teddy bear puppet costume.

She still remembered the scene where the teddy bear puppet gently hugged her, patted her back on the bed, sang a lullaby, and lulled her to sleep on a night of thunder and lightning.

Thinking back on that sound this afternoon, Madoka always thought it was like a bird swimming.

[Is it an illusion? 】

Xiaoyuan always felt that her memory was real, but reason told her that it was impossible.

After all, Xiaoniaoyou only looked like a teenager, and her height was about the same as hers. At that time, Xiaoniaoyou had no reason to know her.

"Ok?"

Just when Madoka was still thinking about that memory from the past, Xiaoniaoyou suddenly stood up, changed his soft tone before, and said to Madoka in a firm tone:

"A witch has appeared."

The place where the witch appeared was on the right side of the school, on an iron bridge over the river.