“Waaah! Save me, Xinglan! She’s murdering her own sister!”
When Ye Xinglan arrived in the living room after hearing the commotion, Xiaoxi was already pinned to the floor by Xiao Keke, who was busy racking up damage on her.
As Xiao Keke attacked, she muttered under her breath.
“Keep acting! I told you to stop pretending you didn’t see my messages! I’ll give you something to act about!”
Curious, Ye Xinglan unlocked Xiaoxi’s phone. After seeing the long string of unread messages, she let out an enlightened “Oh~” and held the screen up in front of Xiaoxi’s face.
It started with a single “yellow smiley face” emoji from Xiao Keke.
Then, after a thirty-minute gap, a relentless stream of messages followed.
Finally, Xiao Keke had resorted to writing a massive essay.
If one didn’t look at the actual content, they would have thought some simp was desperately trying to win back his goddess.
And all of these messages… Xiaoxi hadn’t seen a single one.
‘I’m toast! It really is like this!’
She had kept it hidden so perfectly for so long; who would have thought she’d be exposed because of something like this!
Cold sweat poured down Xiaoxi’s face. This afternoon had been far too busy — so busy that she hadn’t even had a moment to think about her phone.
“Hey, can we just settle this peacefully…?” Xiaoxi’s rebellious momentum vanished instantly.
“I really just happened to be busy all afternoon and didn’t check my messages. Seriously.”
“I’ll believe you if you can tell me exactly what you were doing within the next three seconds!”
“I was… I…” Xiaoxi hesitated, her words catching in her throat. “Ugh! Anyway, I was really busy working on something with Sister Xinglan!”
Xiaoxi felt like she had a fishbone stuck in her throat. However, it was that very hesitation that invited Xiao Keke’s elbow to come flying toward her.
“You hesitated! Just die already!”
“Save me, Xinglan! Help me explain! I really didn’t see the messages!”
Ye Xinglan crossed her arms, clearly intending to watch the show rather than help.
“To be honest, I think it’s good for Keke to teach you a lesson for that slick tongue of yours. You kept this from me back then too, didn’t you? I had to find out on my own.”
“Hmph, let Keke pay you back on my behalf as well.”
Between rescuing her and joining in, Ye Xinglan chose to pull out her phone to record these “precious life moments.”
Seeing this, Xiaoxi could only pin her hopes on persuading her own sister.
“Come on, Keke, didn’t you say you became a Magic Girl because of your sister? Hey, if you keep this up, your dear sister — me — is going to be beaten to death by you…”
“Shut up, shut up, shut up!”
It would have been better if Xiaoxi hadn’t mentioned it.
As soon as those words left her mouth, Wan Keke’s face turned bright red, and she increased the force of her elbow strikes.
‘How could I have said such embarrassing things in front of my sister?!’
Even now, Xiao Keke felt a sense of cognitive dissonance. In her eyes, her sister was a useless, shut-in, and perverted Two-Dimensional enthusiast.
Meanwhile, Sirius was not only a reliable comrade in battle but also a very good friend in private.
She truly could not reconcile these two images into one person.
Thinking back to how Sirius had chatted happily with her during every team-building event and accompanied her on daily patrols… that damn sister of hers really deserved to die!
She had even praised her sister for being cute back then, saying how nice it would be if she had a sister as cute as A Wolf… as it turned out, that “cute A Wolf” was actually her biological sister.
An indescribable sense of shame flooded Xiao Keke’s heart.
It was like finally starting a relationship with a girl she liked online, only for her best friend to run up the next day and reveal the account was a fake he’d created — and then proceed to mock her ruthlessly with the chat logs.
Anyone who could keep their fists from clenching in that situation was a saint.
Just then, the sound of something heavy hitting the floor echoed from the doorway.
The three of them turned their heads simultaneously to see Silver Bell standing there.
Her brain had clearly short-circuited; she looked completely shocked, and a bag of fruit lay scattered on the ground.
“I… sorry… uh…”
She seemed to want to explain something, but after a few scattered syllables, her brain gave up on thinking entirely.
Silver Bell covered her face and ran back to her own home.
Qiuli had spent a long time encouraging her to take the initiative to get on good terms with Xiaoxi and the others.
sing the excuse of “thanking them for their help in the Mirror Space,” bringing a bag of gifts over seemed like a perfect choice.
Silver Bell had meditated for a long time to build up the courage to come over and talk.
However, she found the neighbor’s door slightly ajar.
In the living room, Xiao Keke was pinned on top of Xiaoxi, “outputting” her fury, while Ye Xinglan stood to the side happily recording the whole thing with her phone.
It looked like a wife bringing her best friend along to catch a husband cheating and tear the mistress apart.
Her brain couldn’t comprehend the scene at all. Her prepared speech was useless, so Silver Bell dropped the fruit and fled.
‘She… she just couldn’t deal with these kinds of monsters!’
“Wait, Ling’er! Don’t go! Let me explain!”
Xiaoxi’s voice was desperate. This was definitely going to cause a misunderstanding, wasn’t it? That girl was the best at overthinking things!
Fortunately, this little interlude finally made Xiao Keke stop.
Venting was one thing, but Xiao Keke knew when to stop; she hadn’t actually intended to truly hurt her sister.
A moment later, Xiaoxi — now transformed into her [Sirius] form — sat obediently on the carpet.
Xiao Keke, still skeptical, circled her a few times and even pinched her cheeks before finally letting out a long sigh.
It really was her!
“Because the pay for being a Magic Girl is high, I went to give it a try. I didn’t expect to actually become one…”
Xiaoxi was quietly offering her “confession,” though she still wasn’t telling Xiao Keke the full truth.
Xiao Keke was truly disillusioned with the identity of a Magic Girl now.
After all, even a useless geek who wrote Magic Girl School Romance Novels like her sister could awaken and become one.
The thought that she had always believed she was hiding her identity as a Magic Girl perfectly, when in reality her sister had known all along, made Xiao Keke feel like a total clown.
“Wait, Mom doesn’t know about this, right? You haven’t mentioned it to her?”
Xiaoxi spoke with full confidence, “Does your sister look like someone with such low emotional intelligence? Mom has no idea that both of us are Magic Girls.”
Xiao Keke breathed a sigh of relief, then suddenly remembered something.
“Then how could you have the nerve to badmouth Eternal Star Senior! You were clearly receiving training from her yourself, yet you still said those things. That’s too much!”
Xiaoxi pouted. If she had known, she would have been even harsher back then to make Xiao Keke give up on being a Magic Girl. Then none of this would be happening today!
“Your sister just felt that being a Magic Girl was too dangerous. She was worried that your admiration for Eternal Star would lead you to become one, which is why she kept talking about Eternal Star like that in front of you…”
“Xinglan!”
Realizing the truth was being exposed, Xiaoxi hurriedly tried to stop Xinglan, but the latter had no intention of stopping.
“What does it matter? I think your problem is that you aren’t good at direct communication, Xiaoxi. That’s why things ended up like this. Besides, you joined the Association specifically to protect Keke, didn’t you?”
Xiao Keke froze. She had never considered that possibility.
She had only ever been angry at her sister’s behavior, never stopping to think about the reason behind it…