[Comprehensive English and American] Magical Girls in Gotham

What kind of experience is it like to wake up in the morning and find a dreamy and cute cat squatting on your bedside table?

The sunlight coated the edge of the contracted beast's long hair with a layer of golden light. It squatted reservedly on the solid wood board, and after noticing his gaze, lowered its noble head slightly, letting the small card tied by the rope dangle from the long hair. out.

Dick almost thought he was dreaming, but when he untied the card from the raccoon, and naturally brushed a few handfuls of soft fur that was warmed by the sun, he had a real sense of reality.

The magical creature belonging to the phantom jumped to the window after being almost rolled over, let out a grunt and disappeared, Dick vaguely saw his smoky blue shadow stepping over the garden railing, and soon disappeared again not see.

It seems that it came just to send this card.Dick thought wildly, he thought it was just here to play with him.

Then he looked down at the little card—not so much a letter or a greeting card as a page of an exercise book, but folded into a nice, neat rectangle, with two small figures and a firework drawn in colored pens picture of.

'You must come to my house in the afternoon! A surprise is prepared! ——Xiaojiu opened the stacked papers, and there was only such a simple sentence written inside, but the appearance of Xiaojiu when he said this sentence suddenly appeared in Dick's mind.

Smiling, his eyes were bent into a pair of crescents, revealing not very neat but particularly white teeth, his neck tilted slightly unconsciously.Dick, who was still a child himself, always felt that Xiaotoo was very childish when he laughed.

He suddenly felt much better.

"Ah Fu!" Dick changed his clothes and ran to the restaurant downstairs. He took advantage of his agility and dared to do somersaults while walking on the escalator while wearing pajama pants.

After A Fu ran into the restaurant under the disapproving gaze, Dick told the other party his arrangement for the day while putting bacon on the bread: "I'm going to a friend's house in the afternoon, and I won't be back for dinner."

"Master Dick, maybe you can bring your friend over for dinner, you have a good relationship, don't you?" Dick didn't mention Xiaojiu's name, but Alfred could tell with his little finger that this friend was Xiaojiu girl.

After all, although Dick got along well with his schoolmates, he went to his friend's house to play and eat every few days, and almost stayed overnight, but it started when he made this new friend.

Maybe it should be a girlfriend.Alfred made a consciously confident guess.

Master Bruce is here, and it's not too early for Young Master Dick to start dating.

"Yes, we are good friends... Well, then I will bring her over tonight!" Dick thought for a while and accepted Alfred's suggestion. He hadn't thought of this before, and he should indeed bring Xiaojiu to the house For meals, Ah Fu's craftsmanship is much better than takeaway.

"By the way, she eats a lot, Ah Fu, you need to prepare more." Dick remarked skillfully, he couldn't let Xiaojiu come to eat at home, and let her go back unsatisfied.

"Master Dick, it's not proper to say that a lady has a big appetite." Alfred reminded.

"But Xiaojiu really has a big appetite, and I'm afraid she won't be able to eat enough." Dick explained seriously.

"Okay, I'll prepare some more staple food." Alfred decided to remain silent. Maybe what Dick said was true... But maybe, Dick might need to observe and learn more from the old man's conversation in the social arena.

Dick was completely unaware of Alfred's little worries about him, but before he went to Xiaojiu's house in the afternoon, he followed the old housekeeper's instructions and picked a bunch of fresh rose flowers from the garden as a gift for Xiaojiu.

Among the contracted beasts, Qili is a rare and lonely and arrogant type. It is willing to condescend to deliver the letter because it has a good impression of Dick on the one hand, and on the other hand because it wants to avoid the battlefield.

Yes, the battlefield.

When a girl puts on her apron and walks into the kitchen, the kitchen becomes her battlefield.This sentence can also be applied to Xiaojiu, but the battlefield in the sentence will change from metaphor to physics.

Sakuragaoka National Elementary School in Kyoto City, where Xiaobato once attended, has home economics classes once a week since the first grade, and the focus of home economics classes has shifted from manual to cooking since the third grade.In theory, her cooking skills should be pretty good.

In fact, Xiaojiu’s cooking skills are really good. In the past, the relatives of her host family often went on business trips. After coming to the United States, she even lived alone. Limited to daily household cooking.

Xiaojiu is not very good at pastry, and because she always has friends to help in home economics class, she has no self-knowledge in this area.

Butter and eggs flew together, and the flour that was finally bought was scattered all over the kitchen. The egg white and sugar couldn't mix well, and it became worse after using the magic of rotation.

Before Qili went to deliver the letter, he shook his hair on the balcony for a long time before shaking off the powdered sugar and flour on his body.

However, the feeling of liking the master is still greater than the feeling of loving cleanliness. Qili intended to bask in the sun at Dick's house for a while before returning home, but after delivering the letter, he left Dick, who was very comfortable with it, and ran away. gone back.

It's too dangerous to leave Koto alone in the kitchen to make pastries.The naturally proud contracted beast thought worriedly, completely unaware that he had already become one of the "idiots led away by Xiaojiu" that he complained about countless times.

Back home, Qili stared at Xiaojiu and told her not to try to use magic again. After all, if you follow the recipe and do it manually, no matter how bad it is, it will not be so bad. If you use magic, anything can happen ...

It's motivating to say that magic has infinite possibilities, but that's not good when it comes to cooking.

Under the supervision of Qili, Xiaojiu had to honestly give up the idea of ​​using magic, and knead the dough by hand in strict accordance with the recipe description——

Although the recipe uses a kitchen machine, it is no problem to use a magic girl's arm that is comparable to a perpetual motion machine without a kitchen machine.

The kneaded dough is shiny and light yellow. Put it into a large basin and cover it with gauze, and let it ferment in a warm and humid place for an hour or two before proceeding to the next step.

"Desserts are really complicated." Xiaojiu put the basin on the window sill where it can be exposed to the sun, holding his chin and imagining the dough growing like a mushroom: "And it will take a long time."

"Is there any magic that can make the dough grow up all of a sudden... Wow, I know, I don't know how to use it." Xiaojiu covered the forehead that was slapped by Qili, and obediently admit defeat: "I will wait yes."

Xiaojiu is not good at waiting. Although she can think calmly, she is still not used to waiting and lurking, and likes children who run forward.

Qili stared at Xiaojiu's dazed side face in the sun and thought, even without the telepathy between the contracted beast and its master, it could know what Xiaojiu was thinking.

In fact, there is magic that makes time fast forward. Although it is a witch-level complicated magic, Kobato can definitely master it quickly if he wants to learn it.

But Qili doesn't think Xiaojiu should learn this magic now. At the age of 14, rather than mastering these advanced magics, she needs to learn to wait like an ordinary person and learn to live a normal life.

It is precisely because they have extraordinary power that they should learn to live without abusing this power.

Magical girls and witches should not be separated from ordinary people, they are essentially the same race.This is a consensus that most magical girls and witches admit but are easy to ignore.

One of the reasons why Qili encourages Koto and Dick's friendship is because Dick is Koto's first non-magic girl friend who has such a good relationship.

Otherwise it wouldn't let Dick jerk it like that! ... Well, of course, it can also reluctantly admit that Dick himself is quite pleasing to him.

Under the sun, the dough gradually expands to twice its original size, like a growing mushroom flower.Xiaojiu divided the dough into many small doughs of equal weight, pinched them into flat hollow circles, arranged them neatly on a white square plate, and covered them with gauze again.

By the time they swell up again, Dick will be there too, right?Donuts are best when they are fresh out of the pan.Xiaojiu sat on the high chair in the kitchen, her calves dangling, thinking, thinking about such a happy thing, the wait seemed not so long.

Xiaojiu's timing prediction is very accurate.When Dick held the flower in his left hand and took out the key from under the carpet with his right hand, and unlocked the door after knocking twice, Xiaojiu had just put the first donut into the pot.

The dough is gently put into the high-temperature oil pan, making a sizzling sound, and the chemical reaction of starch gelatinization makes the donut dough officially become a donut—round, plump, and the light golden color of beautiful fried food, At the same time exudes an extremely sweet breath.

Starch, sugar, and fat are the best partners, evoking the most primitive impulse of human beings to eat, and the ingredients with special magic power show their extraordinary charm at this moment, and the sweet breath also contains the happiness that makes people feel happy. strength.

"Just a little bit, wait a little longer!" The girl with the big colander turned around, stood in the fragrant kitchen and smiled at him: "It will make people feel happy! The magic donut that relieves fatigue and stress will soon Done!"

The eyes are bent into a crescent moon, showing fine white teeth, the head is slightly tilted to the right, and a few strands of hair are scattered on the temples.

Dick looked at Xiaojiu, blinked his eyes, and said in a relaxed and cheerful tone, "Okay, then I'll go and put the flowers in the vase first."

The fried donuts, sprinkled with white sugar, can be eaten and enjoyed after a little cooling.

The sugar is half-melted and solidified on the golden skin. The entrance is the sweet duet of the crispy coating and sugar granules. The aroma of butter in the soft interior melts away. The scientific recipe brings the enjoyment of the taste buds. The power of magic makes People recalled the distant happy time, and all the fatigue of the body dissipated.

In the past that seems to have become distant, the memory of tasting the honey toast made by my mother comes to my mind.He is a member of Flying Grayson, the beloved little Robin bird of his parents. He flies happily, and he knows that they will always catch him.

He was flying now too, and Dick looked up, his beautiful wet blue eyes gazing up at the ceiling.

He believed he would not fall.