[Comprehensive English and American] Magical Girls in Gotham

Summer vacation arrives when the weather gets so hot that no one wants to go outside during the day.

For Xiaobao, summer vacation means shaved ice, seaside sleepovers, firework festivals, Obon Festival... and these are all absent in the United States.

On the first day of summer vacation, Xiaojiu learned about the oracle witch's prophecy from Anna.

Enemies of different dimensions will open up new battlefields, and the most likely location is Gotham City, so she needs to be here to prepare for the battle. The reason for her coming here is not just a magical girl who needs to be stationed and maintained for a long time in Gotham.

Xiaojiu doesn't know much about the enemies, except that they come from another dimension. When they descend on the earth, they need to open up a "battlefield" similar to a parking lot, and use it as a foothold to spread and invade the earth.

Magical girls and witches guard the earth. They have been fighting against the enemy since Kobato didn't know how far in the past, and they haven't stopped until today. No matter where the enemy opens up a new battlefield, there are witches and magical girls to fight. ,seal.

Now that Gotham has the potential to be the new battleground, that's all the more reason for her to be here.

"So that's the case, but it also shows that Gotham needs my protection very much, um, so it doesn't matter if you don't go back to Japan this year."

Xiaojiu is not a girl who is good at hiding her emotions. The little disappointment on her face is obvious, but she still tries to comfort Anna: "I am also very happy in Gotham, so I'm fine."

Anna is not surprised that Xiaojiu is a little sad because of this, no matter how reliable and cheerful she usually is, she is still a 14-year-old girl, or rather, Xiaojiu didn't cry, but instead wanted to comfort her The behavior surprised her even more, and made her feel distressed even more.

She didn't ask 'why me' either.

Just like when she was asked to go to the United States at the beginning, she didn't ask 'Why me, not the magical girl in the United States? ', she was just surprised, then went to say goodbye to her friends, and accepted the arrangement without objection.

This does not mean that she is an overly dull and honest child, on the contrary, she is lively, outgoing, full of curiosity, and will always be the brightest one in the crowd.

The reason why she accepts these arrangements so naturally is because of her 'sense of mission'.

Magical girls have more or less a sense of mission for the things they do, but Anna has very few impressions of those that are as strong as Kobato.

However, whether Koto's sense of mission comes from "helping others" or "magic girl", Anna has never been clear, but the two seem similar but are actually different. After Koto becomes a witch, the truth will probably be revealed... Intuitively, Anna leans towards the latter.

She is her 'guide witch' who guides and witnesses her becoming a magical girl.

When she followed the power of magic and saw Xiaojiu for the first time, she felt that this girl was destined to be a magical girl by nature.

A magical girl with the power of 'hope' from the same source as her power line.

"I can definitely go back next year." Anna stroked Xiaojiu's head.

Her consolation is a bit blunt. She is used to being alone and she can comfort very few people. The only person who will be comforted by her is probably Xiaojiu. It is inevitable that she is not proficient, but she is full of sincerity. love.

"It's been a hard year for you."

"However, you can play in nearby cities. You can go to New York, Boston or Miami." The witch recalled the nearby tourist cities as examples: "Because this is a special situation, I applied for a subsidy, and I didn't want to play any more. questionable."

Crying children have candy to eat, and well-behaved children should not be ignored—her children should not be ignored.

"In that case... I want to go to Texas." Xiaojiu pondered for a while, and gave an answer: "A friend is there, and he couldn't find the time to go because of the expensive air tickets. He said he wanted to meet for a long time. La."

"A boy from Texas? Is it Cooper?" When Anna heard Xiaojiu talking about Texas, she knew it. She had heard Xiaojiu say that she had a pen pal named Sheldon Lee Cooper who lived in the United States. Texas, is a very smart boy.

"Yes! After he knew I came to the United States, he kept saying that we should meet. He wanted to come to Gotham to play with me before, but because his mother didn't have time to drive him, so he has been delayed until now."

Xiaojiu became a pen pal with Sheldon because of a wrong transoceanic mail when she first became a magical girl. The two of them have not met each other for four years, but Xiaojiu mentioned him His tone was familiar.

The reason is simple. They communicate frequently, and Sheldon’s letters are always very long, full of various questions and self-answers. Thanks to this, how many trains did Little Dovelen Sheldon collect? It's all clear.

And Sheldon was also the only ordinary person who knew her identity as a magical girl before Dick appeared.

At that time, Xiaojiu had just become a magical girl, and she was only ten years old. She couldn't keep her identity a secret.

Although he doubted it for a long time at first, he was convinced when Xiaojiu included a little magic in the letter.

After knowing Kobato’s identity as a magical girl and her battle story, Sheldon has longed to become a magical girl for a long time, and for a longer period of time vigorously criticized magical girls for not recruiting men as sexism, and tried to argue If he becomes a magical girl, he will definitely promote the progress of magic...

It wasn't until his dream changed to wanting to be a theoretical physicist that his statement on this in the letter disappeared - this succeeded in reducing the fixed page number of the letter from 10 to 7 pages, although various research papers were added later 4 pages of progress.

As a member of the Witch Council, Anna doesn't have much time. She has the responsibility to deal with various emergencies and conduct secret operations. Two and a half hours is all the free time she can spare today. She spends all of it In order to explain the situation and discuss the itinerary with Xiaojiu.

Before leaving, Anna handed her the new bank card opened in the name of Kobato, which contained the subsidy allocated by the Witch Council and the money she personally remitted.

Those funds should have been directly charged to the card that Xiaojiu's relatives had opened for her, just like the monthly living expenses she received from them.But out of some kind of adult vigilance, Anna entrusted an acquaintance with interests to issue Xiaojiu with this card that belonged only to her.

After the wallet suddenly became rich, the first thing Xiaobao did was to invite Dick to eat at the newly opened dessert shop.

The main product of this newly opened Italian dessert shop is ice cream. The decoration is simple and fresh. The wall facing the street has been completely removed and replaced with a transparent glass floor-to-ceiling door, allowing sunlight to shine directly into the shop with white tiles. The windows are clean and bright.

In such a fully air-conditioned room, basking in the sun and eating delicious ice cream is probably one of the best enjoyments in summer.

The chairs in the store use the round high stools that are usually used in bars, which are very mature and adult. Xiaojiu likes this design very much. Sitting on such a chair, her legs can dangle naturally in the air Go, it's kind of like sitting on a magic wand.

Chatting while eating ice cream, the words are mixed with the soft rustling sound of chewing ice cream, which seems to have a sweet taste.

Xiaojiu held the small silver spoon and ate the last bite of the matcha almond-flavored ice cream, and the chat also progressed to the invitation stage: "That's probably it! So...do you want Dick to go to Texas with me?"

It takes more than four hours to fly from Gotham to Galveston, Texas. Xiaojiu’s planned itinerary is to fly there in the morning, play for a day, stay for one night, and then fly back to Gotham the next afternoon.

If there is an emergency, take the nearest flight back to Gotham, and it will not delay much time.

"I really want to go, but I have to ask Bruce." Dick is a little moved. He has toured the country with his parents since he was a child. Although he also likes to live in a certain city, the travel life is also part of his genes.

"Don't you need to ask Batman?" Koto was a little strange. She felt that Batman was more strict with Dick than Bruce, although the latter was Dick's guardian.

"Um...yes, I have to ask Batman too." Dick almost didn't realize that Xiaojiu didn't know that Bruce was Batman. They always stayed together and talked about various things. He almost thought that they had no secrets from each other. .

It would be nice if Bruce would accept Kobato as one of them... but that didn't seem to matter much, Dick knew Kobato didn't care about that.

Batman and Robin are partners, and Magical Girl and Robin are also partners, but Batman, Robin and Magical Girl are not partners, even though they do act together most of the time.

So there is probably no secret between them, because the secret that Bruce Wayne is Batman belongs to Batman, not Robin.

They're really open and honest with each other about themselves - well, Batman sure doesn't like that, he's always felt like he trusted people too much, taught him never to trust anyone.

Dick's thought made a detour and returned to the correct point. He held his chin and looked at Kobato—she was concentrating on looking at the menu, as if she wanted to order another order.

The light golden sunlight shone on her face through the glass. Today's weather is so good that he can clearly see even the fine hairs on her face.

She lowered her head to look at the menu, her head unconsciously swayed from side to side, and the calf under the table was also dangling in the air, touching his dangling calf occasionally.

Did he have a habit of dangling like this in the first place?They have many similar habits that seem to have been brought out by each other after being together for a long time.

Occasionally Dick had the feeling that he was another Robin when he was with Kobato.

It's not that he has a problem with Batman, it's just that as he grows up, he's no longer that eight-year-old boy, he's starting to have a mind of his own.

Although he may not be fully aware of his own heart, this idea has indeed sprouted. He doesn't want to be just a small deputy, he wants to be recognized and respected by Batman...he wants to prove himself.

When acting with Batman, he is an assistant, and when acting with Koto, they are partners.One-third of the reason why Dick likes to act with Kobato comes down to this.

As for the other two-thirds, it was because she was indeed his best friend.

The magical girl koko and the magical boy Robin are super partners.

Kobato Sawajo and Dick Grayson are best friends.

Dick was absolutely sure of both things.