Chapter 133 Part 2
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Chapter 133 Part 2: “Blossoming” – Parent-Child Bath (2)
Lantern full, light on.
Chu Yuanqing understood that she was very close to lighting the lantern.
From the very beginning of her awakening, she had already formed a unique outfit for magical girls.
The ritual of unleashing the lantern’s true form and creating the corresponding Magic Armor was still in a halfway stage. The external effects showed that the strength of the Magic Armor was gradually increasing to overcome its previous ineffectiveness.
While other magical girls would start transforming with a scene of unleashing the lantern’s true form, for Chu Yuanqing, who had a special circumstance, the process was accelerated.
Because… her lantern had been broken from the beginning.
The pendant of Chu Yuanqing’s lantern had always been pieced together from fragments, and the cracks on its glass-like surface were real wounds.
So, her lantern was not as powerful as even the weakest magical girl at first and couldn’t give the Magic Armor any strength.
With that thought, as a spiritual manifestation, the lantern—with a hint of animal intelligence—started feeling a bit guilty and sluggish. Even the tremors caused by the Magic Crystal influx seemed stiff and lifeless.
Chu Yuanqing felt a bit embarrassed. She gently rubbed her fingers, feeling a bit down, as if blaming her useless lantern.
Reassuringly, she said:
“It will get better.”
“Okay, stop being emo. Many fans are constantly feeding you. These ugly cracks will eventually disappear, and then you will be the most beautiful lantern.”
Chu Yuanqing quietly cut off the mental connection. Her little face earnestly coaxed the easily deceived lantern.
She thought for a moment and asked:
“By the way, the Magic Armor should work normally now, right? What exactly does it do?”
The lantern responded enthusiastically.
Well, even though it’s hard to explain how a lantern can answer enthusiastically, it was indeed happily drawing something back and forth, looking quite cute.
Chu Yuanqing looked thoughtful.
“Magic, physical abilities, strength, speed, recovery, reflexes, and other multi-dimensional enhancements, plus the anti-gravity magic fixed on Magic Armor, right?”
“Roughly speaking, it’s already at a military level.”
Even a powerless girl, as long as she is blessed with Magic Armor, has a chance to slaughter a well-trained tactical unit.
The reason is simple: magical girls’ life forms are different from humans. Their essence is a lantern.
Even if their heart and brain are destroyed, they can be revived through magical infusion, possessing semi-immortal characteristics and high fault tolerance.
Of course, provided that the unit is not equipped with mass destruction weapons and is unaware of the lantern’s vulnerability.
Otherwise, dealing with a magical girl who has just completed her [lighting], one only needs to arrange a sniper to attack and shatter the lantern to complete the kill.
Chu Yuanqing didn’t dwell much on this.
Her original blessing of [undead] is much more powerful than a magical girl, able to resist even the concept of death.
The girl cupped her hands to hold the water splashes, murmuring to herself:
“After the [lighting], comes the [blooming].”
“Only by planting heart flowers in the lanterns can magic originating from the soul and heart be born, thus expanding magic capacity beyond the pond level.”
“But for me, can the steps of planting heart flowers and giving birth to magic really proceed normally? Or have they actually been skipped?”
Chu Yuanqing couldn’t understand.
She clearly noticed that magical girls in the new era seemed much stronger in terms of self-power, system completeness, and various aspects than those in the old era.
Because they were so much stronger, it seemed like they formed a complete system that was difficult to predict using past experiences.
However, the lighting ceremony was just around the corner.
Chu Yuanqing now had a Magic Armor operating at 70% capacity. By tomorrow, it would reach the normal 100% capacity, bringing her another step closer to her goal.
The remaining confusion would naturally be resolved when the time came.
“Perhaps, in a while, I’ll have the chance to confront ‘Dazzling Stage.'”
Chu Yuanqing murmured to herself.
Lately, she had been observing the underground base where the calamity seeds she had eradicated were replaced with new ones, piling up in the development room’s underground area.
Suppose there was a connection between Heart Flow and magical girls.
The room under “Heart Flow” was piled with “Calamity Seeds.”
Did this mean it was seen as a valuable resource by the official authorities?
Regardless, until she fully understood the specific logic and risks involved, she remained highly cautious about anything related to using the “disaster beast.”
“Splash, splash.”
Chu Yuanqing got up and changed her position, feeling a bit warm from soaking.
She loosened the towel wrapped around her fingertips, revealing more smooth and fair skin.
Water droplets trickled down, creating a soft and pinkish view as she submerged herself back into the warm water.
Taking a bath was very comfortable.
At that moment, she even felt a bit regretful for not bringing the rubber duck that Little Liuli had given her.
She imagined the silly and cute little yellow duck slowly floating away with the water flow, which would have been quite an amusing sight.
Chu Yuanqing felt somewhat nostalgic.
Upon careful consideration, Miyuki’s training philosophy was indeed quite different from Qingxuan’s.
The latter’s training philosophy focused on intense dedication and excellence, requiring at least 12 hours of training a day.
It could be said that the intensity of this training was so high that even with the high-tech body repair of “Dazzling Stage,” people who could persist in it for a long time were not quite normal.
Kirimi Miyuki, on the other hand, was completely opposite.
She did not pursue the precision of the dance itself, but the passion and love when presenting on stage.
In the eyes of others, as long as she could achieve this, she was considered excellent.
As for rigorous training, it could numb the mind and even lead to fatigue and aversion, so it was prohibited for this team.
Therefore, their daily training time was consistently between 6 to 8 hours.
This resulted in plenty of time to rest both the mind and body every day.
Compared to Xie Qingxuan, she didn’t even have the leisure to soak in the bath and relax.
As she was lost in thought, a rustling noise in the distance suddenly sounded.
Chu Yuanqing only had time to cover her eye and hair color with a lampshade.
She didn’t even have time to pull up the bath towel just undone at her chest before she heard the sound of splashing water and saw a small wooden barrel swaying in the distant bath.
The girl’s fair toe pointed down on the water’s surface, creating ripples.
Her pure black eyes blinked as she muttered that the water temperature was just right, happily immersing herself in the pool.
Her crow-blue hair got wet, making her look like a damp little creature.
Chu Yuanqing was momentarily confused, her pupils shaking.
Even though there was mist in the room, the person opposite her did not notice her at first.
But with her sharp extrasensory perception, she could see everything clearly over there.
This was… Chu Wang Shu!
Although Little Shu wrapped herself in a towel with grace, as she started to show signs of maturity, her slender figure no longer looked awkward.
As the towel slowly got wet and hugged her body, it became very obvious.
Chu Wang Shu happily raised her head, completely unaware that she was sharing the same pool with her dad.
She hummed along to the melody of “Pandora,” keeping the beat.
Chu Yuanqing’s face was serious as she covered her front, holding onto the towel tightly.
She planned to slowly get up and leave the scene silently, without making any splashes.
Scary, so scary.
Little Shu was at that age. How could she possibly be taking a bath with the other person?
Chu Yuanqing felt that no matter what the situation was, this was really inappropriate.
She took small steps, slowly sitting up, about to successfully get out of this embarrassing situation.
But at the critical moment, Tang Liuli arrived nearby.
Keenly spotting a familiar figure through the dense mist, the green-eyed cat blinked her eyes and quietly approached.
With a mischievous glint and a hint of tears on her lashes, she hugged Chu Yuanqing’s delicate waist from behind.
She whispered near Chu Yuanqing’s ear:
“Little Qing, shall we bathe together?”
