The girls’ dormitory of Heilong Third Middle School was located on the south side of the school playground, separated from the boys’ dormitory by a few corridors and a cafeteria building.
Just as Tang Xiaolu said, as a boy before, I had indeed never been to the girls’ dormitory, nor did I know the specific paths over here.
“My room is Room 315 on the third floor.”
On the way back to the dormitory, Tang Xiaolu spoke softly beside me.
“Before you became a magical girl, our room always had five people, so I think Kyubey most likely arranged for you to be in our room.”
“Yeah…”
I thought about it for a moment.
“In other words, the traces of my existence in the boys’ dormitory, including everyone’s memories of me for the past month or so, have all disappeared, right?”
“Theoretically, yes, and then a period of your traces living as Huang Yao has been added to the girls’ dormitory side.”
Tang Xiaolu asked in a teasing tone.
“Do you care a lot?”
“It is nothing to care about, I did not get along particularly well with the boys in my room anyway.”
I shook my head.
“I am just thinking, since Kyubey’s power is so strong that it can not only change everyone’s perception but also change history, could our current memories also be a modified version?”
“Are you referring to the fact that you are qualified to become a magical girl?”
Tang Xiaolu caught the underlying meaning in my words.
“Suspecting that your previous memories related to being a boy might be the result of modification, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Indeed, your situation obviously should have some kind of causality related to gender, otherwise Kyubey would not have come to sign a contract with you.”
Tang Xiaolu sighed softly.
“But even knowing this, we actually have no way around it. That guy Kyubey is an extreme utilitarian. Generally, it will not appear unless there are magical girls nearby who can sign a contract. Whatever question you ask it, it will only tell half and hide half, impossible to tell us the complete answer…”
As we were talking, a girl from our class walked past us.
I recognized her as my group leader, Liyue, a very quiet girl.
“You two are whispering in each other’s ears again.”
Probably seeing Tang Xiaolu and me whispering at the dormitory entrance all this time, the girl covered her mouth and smiled.
“Why don’t you two find a time to get married? That way I can go to your wedding to freeload and eat small cakes.”
In my impression, Liyue usually barely spoke to anyone in the classroom and liked to daydream.
Looking at the situation now, her relationship with ‘me’ and Tang Xiaolu must be very good, otherwise she would not be so lively in front of us.
“I was just discussing with Xiaoyao whether to go to the cafeteria for a midnight snack.”
Facing Liyue’s teasing, Tang Xiaolu remained calm and collected.
“Xiaoyao said she is losing weight recently, and I said you are already this skinny and still losing weight, so she was a bit unconvinced.”
Losing weight? Me?
I pointed at myself with a completely unbelievable look on my face.
Are you kidding me?!
Just now when the first period of evening self-study ended, I had already estimated my height and weight based on the reference objects in the classroom, including the mirror.
After turning into a girl, my stature was on the shorter side, probably not even 150 centimeters, a full head shorter than Tang Xiaolu who was 165 centimeters tall.
At the same time, according to my slender legs, flat chest, and a small belly where absolutely no flab could be found, my weight was probably the ‘malnourished’ type, and I would have to burn high incense just to reach 35 kilograms.
Just as Lulu said, the current me was like a ‘kitten’ that had completely not grown yet, the type that even I would want to hold in my arms upon looking at myself.
Like this, and you still say I ‘want to lose weight’?
“You know, Xiaoyao is just like this.”
Before I could speak, Tang Xiaolu had already grabbed my hand.
“Tsundere.”
You are the tsundere!
I gave Tang Xiaolu a dissatisfied glare.
“Yuri is truly beautiful.”
Probably having long been used to the ‘flirting’ between Tang Xiaolu and me, Liyue gave us a ‘you two continue’ look.
“I am going back to the room to take a shower first, bye-bye…”
Watching Liyue walk into the girls’ dormitory building, I lowered my voice and said to Tang Xiaolu.
“She is in our room, right?”
“Yeah, this child speaks less during class usually, but she is still easy to get along with in the dormitory.”
Saying that, Tang Xiaolu added another sentence.
“I suspect she is also a magical girl, just that I can never find evidence.”
“Eh?”
I was somewhat surprised.
“Are there other magical girls in our room?”
“It is just suspicion. After all, even I am hiding my identity as a magical girl, so it is normal for everyone to do so out of consideration for their own safety.”
Tang Xiaolu said helplessly.
“Actually, for similar suspected targets, there are three in our room.”
“Three?!”
I was even more surprised.
“I remember the girls’ dormitory is a six-person room, right?”
“Yeah, before you came, except for me, I looked at the other girls… no matter how I looked, they looked like magical girls.”
Tang Xiaolu released my hand.
“Let us go. Before everyone comes back, let us get to know your bed space first, lest they find something unusual later.”
“Okay.”
Under Tang Xiaolu’s lead, I suppressed my pounding heartbeat and entered the front gate of the girls’ dormitory.
The dorm matron auntie was lowering her head and scrolling on her phone, and did not even bother to look up at my arrival.
Walking up the stairs next to the management office, before long, Tang Xiaolu and I arrived in front of Room 315.
Pushing open the dormitory door, what first caught my eye was a small room that was cleaned very neatly and carried an elegant, light fragrance.
On both sides of the corridor in the center of the dormitory, six small beds with a bunk structure could be seen, three on the left and three on the right, with the bed space on top, and the study desk and wardrobe below.
Just at first glance, my gaze was drawn to the desk under the second bed space on the right-hand side.
Because on that small desk sat something I was very familiar with—a rabbit plushie.
That was a gift my mother bought for me on my 13th birthday.
I remembered that back then, my father even argued with my mother for a long time because of this gift, criticizing her for ‘why buy this kind of thing for a boy,’ saying it would be ‘unfavorable to my mental health development.’
However, I liked this birthday gift very much and always brought the little rabbit with me.
When I was still a boy before, when the people in the room saw that I actually brought out a rabbit to place at the head of the bed, all kinds of criticisms like “Why do you, a guy, buy this?” and “Isn’t this a bit effeminate?” directly flew over.
This was also one of the reasons why I did not get along particularly well with the boys in class.
Because the things the boys liked, I was not particularly interested in, and the things I liked, the boys in the room looked down upon.
Seeing the rabbit plushie appear in the girls’ dormitory at this moment, I finally realized—it turned out that it was not me who was wrong, but the world that was wrong.
Right now, two girls had already entered Room 315.
One of them was Liyue, who had greeted us just now.
She was taking her change of pajamas out of the wardrobe, preparing to go into the bathroom to take a shower.
The other girl was standing in front of the window sill, fiddling with something on the potted plants on the window sill.
Sensing our return, she turned her small head at the first moment.
“Lulu! Xiaoyao! You two are actually so early tonight!”
Cang Xingyao, the class life monitor and biology class representative.
This girl’s height was about the same as Tang Xiaolu’s, and her looks were very soft and cute.
In my impression, Cang Xingyao was a girl with a very gentle personality, and somewhat warm-hearted.
“Mm-hmm.”
Under the gaze of Cang Xingyao’s curious eyes, Tang Xiaolu nodded.
“I want to rest early today.”
Subsequently, Tang Xiaolu took the initiative to change the topic.
“Did you do the dormitory cleaning just now?”
“Hehehe…”
The girl in front of the window sill was somewhat embarrassed.
“I saw the floor of the dormitory was a bit dirty just now, thinking that there was nothing to do anyway… Do you want to eat some midnight snack later? I will go to the cafeteria in a while and can help bring it back.”
“No need, thank you. We plan to take a simple shower and sleep tonight.”
While speaking, Tang Xiaolu used the special ability of a magical girl to speak in my mind.
‘You should know our class’s life monitor, right? Her nickname in our dormitory is Little Mushroom. She is a very good person.’
“Eh?”
I was somewhat curious.
‘Why call her Little Mushroom?’
“Because classmate Xingyao likes mushrooms very much, those pots of mushrooms in the dormitory are all grown by her.”
Coming to the writing desk with the rabbit plushie, Tang Xiaolu blinked her eyes at me.
“Let us not talk about her first. I reckon you should have seen it too, this is your bed space. Yesterday, this position was still empty…”
Before Tang Xiaolu’s words could fall, the phone screen that was charging on the small desk in front of me suddenly lit up with light and rang.
Picking up the phone, I saw the incoming call contact.
-This is Dad calling.