Chapter 3: I am a magical girl!

The bathroom door blocked the splinters and debris that had scattered outside, and the pristine, smooth tiles were especially reassuring, allowing Su Mu to catch his breath.

In the mirror, his fluffy, soft pink hair, usually neat, was now tousled and disheveled from his panic, covering nearly half of his delicate face and making it appear no larger than the palm of a hand.

After grabbing a towel to wipe away the glistening beads of sweat from his neck, Su Mu’s skin, which had been drained of color from his anxiety, gradually regained its rosiness.

From the entrance hall came the crunch of footsteps crushing wood shavings, and the sounds of Lando and another person stopping in the living room.

“Miti, where do you think that little brat is hiding? Could he be… here?”

The noise of something heavy being overturned made Su Mu flinch; it seemed the sofa had been ravaged.

“Lando, don’t be so rough. We’re on official business. Although that guy has done something outrageous, he’s still within the bounds of a citizen. The damages will be charged to the headquarters,” said the other person.

“Pfft, then I’ll just do it in my own name,” Lando retorted.

As the fragmented sounds of their footsteps grew more distant, heading towards the bedroom, Su Mu finally let out a sigh of relief and turned his attention to the star-shaped emblem on the washbasin.

Now he had the time to examine the emblem, which was just small enough to fit in one hand.

The bright yellow gemstone within it was suffused with faint blue light that flickered on and off.

This was the transformation device that those magical girls relied on daily when they fought against monsters.

He wondered who had crafted it, as such information was always kept a secret.

Su Mu had often seen the magical girls transform on screen; they would simply place the emblem on their chest, and white threads of light would emerge from behind it, wrapping around their bodies to form their combat uniforms.

Regrettably, this process never revealed any skin beyond the face, leaving people to merely imagine the graceful curves outlined by the white light.

At this point, Su Mu had no time to reminisce about such things.

He was more concerned about the consequences of using it himself.

As a monster, he could easily be scorched by the magical girls’ holy light.

Lower-level monsters would melt like snow upon contact with the magical girls’ weapons, and as an E-class monster, Su Mu was no exception.

Yet that rabbit didn’t seem to worry about this at all, or perhaps she simply didn’t care about her own life and just wanted to use him as an experiment.

It was a headache.

Su Mu fidgeted with the transformation device, tapping his feet lightly on the ground, completely at a loss.

His initial concern for his male pride had been shattered by the threat to his life.

After all, even ancient people would go to great lengths for a position, so transforming was nothing in comparison.

If he fell into Lando’s hands, who knew what kind of torture he would endure.

In the records, her methods of dealing with monsters were notoriously brutal.

With a single punch, she had reduced a giant octopus monster, the size of a small mountain, to mere fragments.

The pieces were so scattered that it took the museum staff three days to collect them all, and they still couldn’t find every piece.

The asphalt road had been smashed into a three-meter-deep crater, with countless cracks spreading to the corners of the surrounding buildings.

The estimated losses were in the hundreds of millions, almost matching the destruction caused by the octopus monster itself.

After that incident, Lando was forbidden from using her fists and feet to deal with monsters, and Su Mu had taken the opportunity to post sarcastic comments, which had earned him a barrage of criticism from fans, almost pushing him to the next level of infamy.

The most vehement critic was someone named JiaLanduo, who had meticulously described what he would do to Su Mu if he ever got his hands on him.

The thought still sent chills down Su Mu’s spine.

It had to be Lando herself.

At this realization, Su Mu couldn’t help but gasp and decided to take a risk.

He slowly pressed the transformation device against his chest.

Tell my mother I’m not a coward!

A gust of cold wind swept by, tugging at Su Mu’s hair and freezing his anxious expression on his face.

Nothing happened.

Su Mu had probably seen the pure white light that shone when magical girls transformed, but that was the heavenly light he saw after he had tightly shut his eyes.

“No, why isn’t there any reaction! That damned rabbit tricked me with a counterfeit… Where’s my phone, where’s my phone, where’s my phone?”

Su Mu hastily searched through every pocket on his body but couldn’t find his phone.

He must have dropped it outside when he rushed in.

And that meant——

The bedroom door was flung open and footsteps reappeared in the living room.

“You really like hide-and-seek, don’t you, kid? I know you’re here. The screen is still on. Come out now and I promise I won’t kill you.”

God!

Su Mu could only pray that the transformation device in his hand was the real thing as he pressed it against his chest with difficulty, muttering words like “transform” over and over again.

Lando’s footsteps were gradually approaching this side of the hallway.

The other magical girl, Miti, seemed to be staying in the bedroom, but wasn’t that just giving Lando and himself some alone time!

The frosted glass of the bathroom suddenly reflected a patch of aquamarine hair and a slender figure.

Seeing this, Su Mu’s heart leaped into his throat.

“Huh, what’s this?”

The figure suddenly bent down and began searching for something on the ground.

The phone!

After a moment, Lando straightened up with a soft chuckle, easily shattering a piece of glass on the door with her knuckles.

Like the murderer in The Shining who chopped at the bathroom door, she poked her head out and said in a delighted tone, “Found you, little mouse.”

Su Mu’s pupils had become turbid with fear.

He huddled in the corner of the bathroom, desperately trying to avoid Lando’s gaze while attempting to squeeze out the meager amount of negative emotional energy within him and direct it towards the transformation device.

Ugh, I don’t want to die, at least not at Lando’s hands!

Soon, Lando noticed the slightly quivering pink bundle in the corner.

The playful look in her eyes deepened and a devilish smile gradually spread across her face, which was usually as adorable as a kitten.

“I’ll count to four. If you don’t open the door obediently, I’ll come in myself——”

Counting to four again!

Su Mu didn’t have time to complain.

His energy was gradually being accepted by the transformation device.

To his astonishment, the moment he felt the energy blending, an inexplicable sense of affinity surged up.

Soft white light was activated and began to flow into his limbs.

“One, two, three…”

Lando’s clear voice gradually faded from Su Mu’s perception.

At this moment, she was immersed in the warm sensation enveloping her.

Unconsciously, her pink, silk-like long hair had fallen to the ground.

The cold wall was continuously absorbing the heat emanating from her body while soothing her always taut nerves.

“Four!”

A fair hand reached out from the hole and unlocked the bathroom door from the inside.

Lando’s figure finally appeared in full view.

And as she noticed the trembling pink mouse, her breath caught.

This guy… Why does he look like this?

He seemed like some kind of frightened little animal that she couldn’t bear to harm.

Driven by curiosity, Lando reached out and brushed aside the long hair covering Su Mu’s eyes.

And then she met that pair of damp, bright blue eyes, like a newborn fawn trembling in the cold and timidity.

“Damn it, I can’t do it!”