“Uh… haha, I guess you’re right.”
Shui Hua immediately started thinking about how to muddle through this.
“But my main body is already dead, so I can’t cancel my Transformation.”
“Huh? Liu Jin, your main body is actually…”
Shui Hua feigned surprise at just the right moment, quickly steering the topic in this direction to buy himself some time to think.
“Yes, I was ambushed by a Disseminator before, which resulted in the death of my main body. Now I can only survive in the world as a Magical Girl…”
Liu Jin paused, then added, “You should know my main body. His name is Lin Ling. He once asked you for a plush at the presentation, saw your Transformation on the rooftop, and even asked for your autograph at the Signature Session. You probably remember it pretty well, since I had you sign your name on my portrait’s leg back then…”
“Alright, alright, I know who you are now. Can you stop talking about these embarrassing things?”
Shui Hua hurriedly waved his hand, signaling her to stop.
“So in summary, I have no way to cancel my Transformation.”
“So you need me to cancel my Transformation… Uh, well, for some special reason, I can’t cancel my Transformation either…”
Shui Hua hastily waved both hands to explain.
She had already come up with an excuse, but was still checking its logic—her magic bar was too short, she’d used up all her magic in the battle yesterday, and today it hadn’t recovered enough to reach the threshold for canceling her Transformation.
“Oh, I see. Then let’s just find a passerby and see.”
However, when Liu Jin saw Shui Hua in such a flustered state, she only raised the corners of her mouth slightly and didn’t press further.
Shui Hua had a feeling Liu Jin was doing this on purpose, but could only go along with it.
“Yeah, that’s true. Let’s try it with a passerby.”
The two of them went down to the first floor, waiting for a passerby who needed to go upstairs.
Soon, a young woman walked in.
She was originally planning to take the stairs, but after seeing the two Magical Girls, she curiously came over and asked,
“Are you heroes?”
“Yes, yes, yes, we’re here to fix this Elevator.”
Seeing a little white mouse delivered to the door, Shui Hua patted her shoulder and explained, “This Elevator is said to randomly teleport people, but because we have magic, it seems to be afraid of us and didn’t teleport us. So we need an ordinary person to help us test it.”
“But… is it really safe?”
The woman was clearly hesitant.
Seeing that she needed to use the special traits of a Magical Girl, Shui Hua immediately dispatched Liu Jin to let her get some practice.
“Go on, Liu Jin, use your cuteness attack on her.”
Shui Hua looked at her, but Liu Jin actually avoided Shui Hua’s gaze this time, lowered her head, and nervously interlaced her fingers, whispering, “Doing that kind of thing to anyone other than Shui Hua… I really can’t do it.”
“Can’t do it? If you can’t do it… then I’ll have to do it myself.”
Shui Hua looked at Liu Jin’s innocent maiden-like appearance, complaining inwardly about how she was acting so much like a girl, but for a moment, he really couldn’t bring himself to push her.
In this situation, Shui Hua could only step forward personally.
However, just as she forced a businesslike smile onto her face, the other woman waved her hand.
“Alright, alright, you two seem to be working really hard, so I’ll help you out, even if it’s a bit of a bother.”
Under the gazes of both, the woman entered the Elevator.
Shui Hua then went up to the woman’s destination floor to observe.
When the Elevator doors opened, the woman stepped out without any sign of teleportation.
“This Elevator is fine, right?”
The woman didn’t seem to react in any strange way after riding it.
“Really?”
Shui Hua stroked her chin, thinking hard.
“This bug can’t even be reproduced stably—how am I supposed to fix it?”
“But the mission said there’s a Supernatural Reaction inside. Liu Jin, can you try to find the source of the magic?”
“Let me take a look.”
Liu Jin, though much weaker, could still use some useful search spells, unlike someone like Shui Hua who was just a spinning top.
But it seemed there was no need for anything so complicated.
Liu Jin simply walked inside, and soon discovered an undecorated red Magic Hairpin in the corner crevice.
It was stuck right in the gap; if you weren’t paying attention, it was hard to notice.
“This seems to be the source of the magic.”
Liu Jin carefully examined the hairpin.
The magic was indeed faintly emanating from it.
“Could this be… But who would make such a boring Magical Device, deliberately teleporting ordinary people for fun?”
The more Shui Hua investigated, the more confused she became.
Liu Jin infused some magic into the suspected Magical Device hairpin, then went down to the first floor and back up again, but nothing happened.
“Is this really a Magical Device? Why does it feel like just an ordinary hairpin a Magical Girl dropped?”
Liu Jin examined the familiar-looking hairpin over and over, suggesting a possible theory.
“But Magical Girls all fly out the window—why would a Magical Girl use the Elevator?”
Shui Hua brought up a reasonable question and immediately shot down the idea.
Now, the investigation was completely stuck…
“Why don’t we check the security footage?”
When the power of a Magical Girl couldn’t solve the issue, only technology was left.
With the intervention of technology, the truth quickly surfaced.
After combing through the entire day’s footage from three days ago, the two finally got their answer:
There was nothing wrong with the Elevator, and no teleportation had occurred.
It was just that Huang had gone to the wrong floor herself—twice in a row.
If she went to report this, she would only be seen as making a false report.
After all, with no Supernatural Reaction detected, the Ability Bureau would ignore it.
But the two also happened to find a familiar figure—Fei Xing.
Every day before, she always Transformed in the Elevator, and that day she had struck a few dramatic poses and dropped her hairpin, which ended up imbuing the Elevator with magic.
“Wait, doesn’t Fei Xing know there’s security in the Elevator?”
Since they didn’t have anything to copy the footage with, Shui Hua simply took a picture with her phone, planning to interrogate Fei Xing properly later.
“So this was just a misunderstanding?”
Liu Jin gave a helpless smile.
“Honestly, I’m not surprised anymore… There are quite a few cases like this.”
Shui Hua sighed, recorded the evidence, and reported the results to the informant.
“How is that possible? Are you just blaming me because you couldn’t find a problem?”
With no choice, Shui Hua showed her the recorded evidence, but she immediately changed her tune and said,
“Are you blaming me? Regardless of the facts, I’m the victim here! Don’t you know that after the Meme Infection Wave, there’s already a lot of prejudice against women in society? As a weak woman encountering this kind of thing, shouldn’t I be taken seriously?”
“She really does seem like the type to make a false report…”
Shui Hua remarked helplessly.
This mission had truly given Liu Jin a taste of the genuine, grassroots Magical Girl experience.