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Come to think of it, it seems strange that someone her age still has a Jewel Beast, and she should have already broken her bond with her Jewel Beast like other magical girls of her generation, but...
...But she forgot to terminate the contract.
Hanaya Rika is a person with a bad memory and a lot of procrastination and laziness. After graduating from university, she found a job she liked, had a farewell dinner with everyone, and then forgot to break her contract with her gem beast.
Her gem beast, Lily the bird, is also a forgetful and procrastinating creature.
The two still maintain the magical girl and gem beast contract, but since leaving Miracle City, they have not transformed again.
Hanaya Rika treated Lily like family, and Lily accepted it well, spending her time eating and sleeping in Hanaya's pockets.
In her workplace, she was the only one who brought her pet to work.
Let's leave that aside for now.
In short, first, transform yourself after a long time, and then go find Rihua.
Hanaya Rika tapped the little bird head of Lily in her pocket and found a blind spot in the restaurant's surveillance cameras.
She was originally a magical girl who almost revealed her identity in public and caused trouble for her family, but now she has improved somewhat.
The magic resonated with the gem beast in that instant, and after a crisp bird song, a verdant light enveloped her.
The next second, dressed in a long magical gown with green as the main color, the magical girl Kingfisher yawned and stretched as she strolled out of the light.
After transforming, Hanaya Rika's physical age returned to the time when she first became a magical girl.
She looked to be only a teenager, with long, loose, curly green hair that transitioned from a vibrant light green to a starry blue, adorned with shimmering glitter. Her magical costume resembled pajamas, loose and comfortable.
Clutching a soft, dice-shaped cushion, the magical girl kingfisher floated gracefully above everyone.
He threw the pillow he was holding, and the pattern on it kept changing before finally settling on a snowflake.
It's going to start snowing.
Main text: Chapter 213 She is more important (4k)
It's quite strange for it to snow in this kind of weather.
Above the crowd, which had turned to attack the monster, dark clouds rapidly gathered, and the sky instantly darkened. In just a few breaths, snowflakes, glowing with magical light, began to drift down from the sky.
People touched by the snowflakes slowed their movements.
This was not because they noticed the snowflakes, but because they were affected by the weather magic of the magical girl kingfisher that suddenly appeared, causing them to slow down as a group.
My thinking speed didn't slow down, but my body became unresponsive.
People in their twenties and thirties immediately recognized the magical girl who had suddenly appeared: "Ah! It's a kingfisher!"
This surprised and delighted sound temporarily jolted people out of their frenzy for legitimately skipping work.
kingfisher?!
It's been so many years!
They remembered the magical girl in front of them.
The green-role magical girl in the five-color squad led by Magical Girl Crimson, before the current Magical Girl Crimson and Magical Girl Iris.
It's already a childhood memory for their generation!
I thought the previous generation of the Five Colors Squad had all retired, but I didn't expect to see the long-lost magical girl Kingfisher here.
How nostalgic...
Hearing the exclamations of others, the person who was comfortably sleeping in the cotton familiar couldn't help but open their eyes and look at their childhood memories.
Suddenly, a shadow silently loomed over everyone.
It turned out to be the all-black guardian lady who ruthlessly tore them off from the respectable and adorable cotton familiar, freeing the sad little bear trapped inside.
Office workers and students: ...Waaah, how cruel.
"Please, let me sleep a little longer... Waaah..." She was practically begging the Guardian's leg to let her go back to sleep.
The Guardian's reply was so cold it was hard to believe someone with a body temperature of 37°C could say it: "Get out of the way, you're blocking the way."
Waaaaaah... That guardian lady is so cruel...
This black-clad actress, who occasionally appears in the public eye, has a personality as cold and ruthless as her representative color.
Although everyone initially thought she was a magical girl, they never saw her use magic, and her behavior wasn't very magical, so they realized they were mistaken.
This feeling is like suddenly finding a Batman among a group of Supermen. Although they may seem like similar superheroes at first glance, you can quickly discover the essential similarities and differences between them.
And compared to the more approachable magical girls, this guardian is genuinely scary, sob sob...
Especially after wearing a half-face mask, he looked even more aggressive.
After those bright golden vertical pupils stared at them, the few guys who still wanted to linger in the Cotton Familiar immediately scurried away.
The magical girl kingfisher, hovering above, watched all this with a mixture of curiosity and amusement: "Hey, you don't seem to be a magical girl?"
The dark guardian looked up, slightly lifting half of its mask to reveal the face of Mayumi Haga, whom it had seen just a few minutes earlier.
Mayumi Haga looked at the magical girl Kingfisher in front of her: "You're looking for that red-haired guy, right? Come with me."
Because there were other people around, Mayumi Haga couldn't directly say Sugiyama Rika's name, nor could she openly expose her face, so she only lifted a little bit of her mask.
The magical girl kingfisher was surprised, then nodded.
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"Hahahaha, Rika, you're still the same as ever~" Sugiyama Rika laughed heartily at her long-unseen teammate, "Luckily, my kid found her, otherwise she might be eating grass again."
Mayumi Haga asked, puzzled: "Eat grass?"
"Rika once lost her entire month's allowance and stubbornly refused to tell us. It wasn't until she came to school with a backpack full of greenery leaves that we found out she hadn't eaten for three days... Mmmm!" Sugiyama Rika was almost finished revealing her secrets when the slow-witted Hanaya Rika rushed over and covered her mouth.
Mayumi Haga and the composed Ayasa Terasaki stood to the side watching.
Judging from the doctor's nonchalant expression, she had probably been used to seeing Sugiyama Rika and her companions behave so erratically for a long time.
It was almost as if it rolled onto the ground and fell down.
After the doctor had enjoyed the show enough, she coughed twice to signal that it was about time for the two of them to stop.
As soon as Sugiyama Rika and Hanaya Rika separated, the two childish girls patted their disheveled clothes and chuckled.
"By the way, Rika, is there something important that brings you here this time?" Sugiyama Rika suddenly remembered to ask what had happened that made this person, who never moves an inch, travel all the way back from another city.
Hanaya Rika's signature magic is [Weather Magic], which is a type of magic that can manipulate the weather within a certain range and cause group effects by adding attributes.
In addition, she is also very good at capturing subtle changes in humidity and temperature in the air, and with her intuition that is 100% accurate, she can directly deduce the results of weather changes.
In other words, she herself is a weather forecaster who can provide accurate weather forecasts down to the second.
After graduating from university, she went to work at a meteorological station. With senior members from the magic side helping her, Hanaya Rika basically only needed to provide accurate weather trends every day.
Of course, this is just a superficial explanation.
Hanaya Rika only needs half an hour each day to do her job as a weather observer, as most of the work can be done by magic.
In reality, she was learning astrological magic from the senior who had recruited her.
"...Huh? Why would you suddenly want to learn that kind of magic?" Sugiyama Rika asked in surprise.
Even she and Terasaki Ayasa, who were once teammates, were unaware of this matter.
I originally thought Hanaya Rika was going to work at a weather station, but it turns out she's still working in a magic-related industry.
"Because I have something I care about a lot!" Hanaya Rika's tone became more excited than before as she spoke, and she quickened her pace, "I've always been concerned about... whether one of us is missing?"
On the night of their breakup, Hanaya Rika walked out of the barbecue restaurant where they had their dinner party, to let off some alcohol.
Everyone was of legal drinking age, so having a little alcohol wasn't a problem. But probably no one expected that these five drunken girls were actually magical girls who had been active in Miracle City for years…
She felt it was too stuffy inside, so she came out to get some fresh air.
At the same time, she habitually looked up at the sky, wondering how long the sunny weather would last.
There were no clouds, so she saw the stars in the sky change in an instant.
There wasn't a single star to begin with, and the moonlight was at its brightest. But in that instant when she looked up, the grey-blue, transparent sky shimmered and was then covered by the Milky Way.
Hanaya Rika was unaware of what was happening in the world at that moment.
But when she returned to the barbecue restaurant with this question in mind, she found that the seat between her and Sugiyama Rika was empty.
Someone has completely disappeared from this world, but Hanaya Rika has no recollection of it.
"...Wait, you feel the same way?" Sugiyama Rika finally found her people. These past few days, she had suspected that the people she knew had been mysteriously disappeared from the underworld, but she couldn't find any evidence no matter what she tried.
She even began to wonder if her mental state was affected by her half-elf transformation.
Rika Hanaya brought decisive evidence.
She said, "The senior astrologist told me that a magical girl's 'star' did indeed begin to twinkle ten years ago, and six years ago, she completely disappeared."
Ten years ago... that was the duel with the Abyss Gentleman in the Spirit Vein. And six years ago, it just so happened to be the year everyone decided to disband.
In other words, some magical girls are indeed gradually being captured by the other world and gradually disappearing from their consciousness!
"What's with the magical girl's 'star'?" Ayasa Terasaki noticed another key point.
Rika Hanaya explained, "Each magical girl, after forming a contract, will possess a magical star corresponding to her identity. However, it is usually invisible and must be observed using astronomical magic or other special methods."
It is precisely because these magical stars are engraved on the spiritual veins that their previous existence will not be completely erased by the inner world, which is why that senior was able to show Hanaya Rika the records of the celestial changes.
However, after the magical girl herself falls into the other world, this star will also disappear from the surface world.
The changes in the night sky are a result of the interplay between the two worlds.
Two days ago, Hanaya Rika once again observed the strange phenomenon of the two worlds intersecting. Therefore, she hurriedly came to Miracle City, intending to find Sugiyama Rika and Terasaki Ayasa to rescue the missing magical girl.
"The month following the convergence of the worlds is a crucial period. During this time, the two worlds will not be completely separated; one can still enter through the opening made by the spiritual vein, and also return through that opening."
Hanaya Rika said earnestly, "Among us, the only one who can freely enter and exit the spiritual vein is you, Rihua."
Therefore, she had to seek help from Sugiyama Rika.
Moreover, with her abilities, she is not capable of opening a hole in the spiritual vein large enough to enter the inner world.
To put it simply, her ability is group control, unlike high-burst single-target abilities like those of Sugiyama Rika.
After saying this, Mayumi Haga, who had been listening quietly, asked with a puzzled look: "But I just came back from there, and there was no one else there."
Mayumi Haga spent some time exploring the area outside the labyrinth, but apart from the monsters and Yuri Takajo and Akari Arisu who had accidentally fallen in, she couldn't find any trace of anyone else.
Moreover, there is still a point of doubt.
“You also said that the magical girl’s ‘star’ shimmered for four years before it completely disappeared from the surface world.” Mayumi Haga noticed something amiss. “However, those who are truly passively trapped in the inner world don’t have such a long buffer period.”
They will disappear from everyone's sight in an instant, and then the traces of their existence will fade away like writing on the beach with the ebb and flow of the tide.
Therefore, Mayumi Haga felt that it wasn't that simple.
There's definitely some information that's been overlooked...
The issue she raised also prompted the other three to reflect.
That is indeed a bit strange.
It doesn't seem like the other party simply fell into the inner world, and if they were really trapped, they could actually use the large hole that Haga Mayumi broke open to return during this time.
However, so far, the former magical girl who was mysteriously disappeared has not shown any intention of showing herself; instead, she has remained hidden in the shadows.
It doesn't seem that simple.
Hopefully, it's just their imagination.
"Ah, actually there's something else!" Hanaya Rika slapped her forehead, drawing everyone's attention, and then said with a smile, "It seems the surface world and the underworld are merging!"
Sugiyama Rika, Terasaki Ayasa, and Haga Mayumi all turned to look at her.
Everyone: "..."
You should have said this sooner!
This matter is clearly very important, so why does it sound like "Oh, I just suddenly remembered something trivial" to this person?!
"I forgot... haha." Hanaya Rika scratched her head. "To be honest, I think the earlier parts are more important..."
She should have remembered the person who was forgotten.
The seat on the night the previous Five Colors of Miracle City disbanded was definitely not assigned randomly.
Hanaya Rika meticulously reviewed the events many times, using magic to retrieve and examine the remaining memories in her mind, ultimately confirming one thing: