[Comprehensive English and American] Magical Girls in Gotham

Magical Girls and Witches is based in New York based in the Americas.

It is different from the publicity of the Avengers Building, and it is not like the most holy place where the supreme mage is located, which seems to be a cultural relic of the last century.

The Americas sub-base is underground in New York.

Pass through the seemingly unremarkable stone statues scattered in various districts, and you will enter a Rococo-style elevator room.

After injecting magic into the constantly rotating love sphere in the elevator room, buttons to go to various areas will appear in the blank place.

The area Anna usually travels to is the council area.

But recently it has become an unnamed area located in the deepest part of the base.

Through the transparent glass window of the elevator, Anna can clearly see the silver river of stars flowing through the deep underground, and the moonlight ebbs and flows like tides. It is a scenery that violates the laws of science and makes people feel like they are in a dream.

If Xiaojiu could see it, she would be excited to lie on the window and watch it non-stop.

But she is still in a coma.

She brought her back here from Gotham three days ago, and the witch who is good at healing is also a little helpless about Kobato's situation.

No magical girl would push herself to this point.

No magical girl will face enemies of that level.

"Why do you force yourself to be like this... If you encounter too strong an enemy and can't beat it, you can also teleport to the base through guardian magic."

The witch who was in charge of the treatment logistics felt distressed, but also felt great confusion.

Why did she have to fight until the magic power was exhausted, and even forcibly squeezed the life force as magic power after the magic power was exhausted.

Anna did not answer the question at the time.

But she could probably guess why.

To protect the boy, Kobato resisted the teleportation magic and fought until the last moment.

If she was teleported away, the city would be saved by Anna who felt later, but the young man who had no resistance in front of the dark dimension life body would probably die.

Although she fought to the end, it is likely that the two of them died together.

Maybe she not only couldn't save him, but also put herself in it.

But she still chose to stay.

Was his life more important to her than her own?

This seems to be a common situation among magical girls and witches—regarding their companions and beliefs more than their own lives.

She should probably be proud of her.

Selfishness is not a virtue that magical girls should have.

But as a senior who guided her and watched her grow up all the way, Anna couldn't help worrying about her.

At that time... What kind of belief did she have to achieve this level?

Others may only feel that she has exhausted her magic power to such an extent, but Anna, who was there at the time, clearly imprinted everything into her mind.

That is a huge purification power like a pillar of the sky.

That is the intensity that penetrates the entire city.

She also saw orange-pink flames burning in her palms and eyes.

In extreme cases, magical girls and witches can convert life force into magic power, but very few people can use both powers at the same time.

At that time, she was not simply fighting with her back to the water, nor was she uncontrollably releasing high-intensity purification magic.

Her consciousness at that time should be between clarity and chaos, and she consciously squeezed out her hidden power to achieve her goal.

This is bold enough.

She might be able to touch that line at this point.

Or maybe... I can never open my eyes again, or I can only spend my whole life in a hospital bed.

Is this also expected by the oracle witch?

Anna shook her head lightly, left the elevator that had stopped and opened, and walked out.

The oracle witch probably predicted the situation in Gotham, and also predicted that Kobato could get the 'possibility' of becoming a great witch there.

But prophecies are always vague, unclear, and one-sided.

Xiaojiu has indeed touched the line of "possibility", but her life and death are also uncertain because of this.

Being strong always means danger, and Anna has no complaints about it. She herself is always walking on the edge of life and death, and gains new insights one after another.

It's just...is it too early for a 15-year-old magical girl?

After walking on the cloud-like corridor for about 3 minutes, Anna finally walked into a room full of bright yellow lights, like dandelions hanging like countless little suns.

The room is a combination of magic and technology. The crucible covered with silver patterns, transparent test tubes, and beakers are placed together without any sense of disobedience.

There was no one on the snow-white hospital bed in the corner, and in the huge air bubble suspended in the center of the room, a still immature girl curled up like a baby, quietly floating in the golden-toned translucent liquid.

Anna walked slowly to the bubble.

Through the transparent bubbles and the light golden liquid, she could see the girl with her eyes closed, her eyebrows stretched naturally, her breathing even, as if she was just asleep.

"Has she ever woken up?" she asked the woman across the room.

"No, but the magic power is recovering slowly...although it is so slow that it can hardly be observed." The witch who was in charge of treating Koto shook her head and nodded again.

This is good news.

Xiaojiu's trauma also looked completely healed.

"In her case, there is a risk of rejection when using healing magic."

"But we considered that her magic power is inclusive, so we tried to use the unowned high-purity magic liquid of the sunny attribute, and this part has obvious effects..."

Anna listened in silence, very seriously.

"The biggest problem now is the problem of her magic core."

"Theoretically, the depletion of the magic power core will not cause a long-term coma... We will conduct further investigations in the afternoon."

"Don't worry too much, we will use all means to heal her," the witch in charge of healing gently patted the famous fighting witch in front of her: "If we can't do it, there is still a great witch."

"In terms of protecting the younger generation...although you are the only witch who guides her, we also care about her, don't worry."

Unprepared, Anna, who was comforted by her colleagues, froze for a moment, then nodded slightly.

"Thank you." Her voice was cold, but firm and sincere.

"...I have one more thing to do today. I have the same root as her. Is it possible to use my magic power to awaken her?"

Shortly after Anna left, Batman arrived on the scene.

He had been forced to fight the 'Batman' composed of bats before, and was almost misunderstood by the citizens as a fake Batman. Later, he assisted Gordon in recapturing the clown who ran out of the chaos and brought him back to Arkham...

It wasn't until the purified light suddenly penetrated the entire Gotham, and all the illusory monsters disappeared, that Batman was able to find it through the locator installed on Dick.

Ana's healing spells healed some of Dick's worst traumas and prevented him from lingering aftereffects, but to the average person, he was still terribly wounded.

His ribs were broken, excessive blood loss, ligaments were slightly torn, and there were a series of large and small contusions and bruises, and the wound on his arm turned outwards with white flesh.

Batman nearly suffocated for a few seconds as he lifted the unconscious Dick from the ground.

He must send him to the doctor.

But... what about Xiaojiu?

Batman saw that the withered dry grass was full of vitality, but the tender green grass was full of dark red blood.

He also saw torn pieces of pink cloth, the ground riddled with holes and cracks that looked like something exploded.

The black door stood there dimly.

But Dick's situation did not allow Batman to think and search, he could only quickly carry him into the Batmobile, and while heading to Dr. Tompkins' clinic, he asked Alfred to go there to find Koto's whereabouts .

Dick is doing better than Batman imagined.

At least this time his life is not in danger, he just needs a blood transfusion, bandages and recuperation.

Even the most severe rib fractures seemed to be mild fractures and did not require surgery.

On the contrary, it was the injury on his head that confused Dr. Tompkins. Judging from the trauma on the forehead, he had been hit hard, but he had no intracranial hematoma, no skull fracture, or even a concussion.

It was as if someone had cured him by magic.

Or his cerebral cortex is unusually hard and indestructible.

"To be honest, although this time is much better than last time... But I really hope you can prevent minors from encountering such things."

Facing Dr. Tompkins' condemnation, Bruce couldn't say a word.

Dick was fine, but that didn't mean he could rest easy.

He is very self-blaming, he is always responsible for all kinds of things, and then feels guilty.

Even if Dick and Xiaojiu had an accident this time, it was actually not his responsibility at all, and he still felt guilty for it.

He sat by Dick's hospital bed and was silent for a long time.

Dick is seriously injured and unconscious, Xiaojiu's whereabouts are unknown.

As Alfred said, the two children were inseparable, and it was impossible for Koto to escape without Dick alone.

The biggest possibility is that something happened to her.

Although they only got together for one year, he was very wary of Xiaojiu at the beginning, but now, Xiaojiu is close to Dick to him.

The girl was as frank and sincere as Dick, lively and cheerful.

And always with Dick, telling puns he didn't find funny at all, forcing him to do homework and play games with him.

No seriousness, participating in the night watch as if playing a game, dragging Dik into the unimaginable world, and then dragging him into it...

Most of the time, he feels helpless towards her.

She's the same little wrecking king as Dick, and even more destructive, but she's just as annoying.

Wayne House laughed more because of her.

Maybe it's because her personality and appearance are more childish than her peers, or maybe it's because girls are always better at acting like a baby. Compared with Dick, Batman is more conscious of Koto as a child.

A child who hadn't passed his 15th birthday died protecting Gotham.

It sounds like a ridiculously ironic joke.

Batman checked over and over again to detect the decisive battle between Kodik and the life forms of the dark dimension.

An unspeakable urgency pursued him.

Before he found Koto's whereabouts, Dick woke up first.

He was not seriously injured, and after treatment, he woke up that night.

When Dick woke up, only Alfred was by his hospital bed.

Looking at the snow-white ceiling, he froze for a few seconds before recovering.

After recovering, what first appeared in his mind was the last image he saw before he fell into a coma - Xiaojiu was swallowed by darkness, but he couldn't move.

"Alfred," he looked at the tired-looking old housekeeper beside him, and asked the most concerned question: "How is Xiaojiu?"

Telling a client the truth is always a cruel thing to do.

Alfred was silent for two seconds, looking into the boy's eager and restless eyes, he euphemistically told Dick the truth he knew so far.

"We haven't been able to find her yet."

Neither him, nor Bruce, nor the police...no one found Xiaojiu's trace.

They found nothing except some blood and clothing at the scene.

It was as if that innocent girl suddenly disappeared out of thin air during that battle where there were only the two of them.

It disappeared together with her cat - Alfred already knew that it was Kobato's magical contracted animal.

The unbelievably dreamy girl also disappeared silently like a dream.

But they all know that she is a real person, not a phantom of nothingness.

Dick suddenly paled.

But the warm current from his ears made him calm down slowly.

"It should be her mentor, Anna, who took her away." He took a deep breath, and touched his ears nervously: "Can you contact Bruce, I remember he has Anna's contact information."

Alfred was surprised by Dick's attitude while raising some hopes.

He seems to have grown up a lot overnight.

As an elder who has taken care of him for many years, Alfred can certainly see that Dick is very worried about Kobato's situation, and is also sad and disturbed by the speculation in his mind.

But he quickly calmed down and calmly proposed other possibilities.

When he said this, there was a demeanor that made people want to believe, and even comforted Alfred to a certain extent.

Alfred was no less worried about Koto than Bruce.

"Okay, I'm going to contact the master now."

Alfred took a deep look at Dick. His body was covered in bandages, and he had just woken up from a coma. His brows were still tired from fighting too much, but his eyes were clear and firm.

But after Alfred left, Dick lay down on the bed a little slumped.

He raised the hand that was not injected with the drug, and touched the earring on the right ear.

The round blue gem was slightly cool. After a pause, he touched it again, which was the third round.

"Xiaojiu?" he called in a low voice.

It was quiet all around, he could only hear the sound of pedestrians walking outside the window, and the faint conversation of people outside the corridor.

He couldn't hear her response.

She must have been badly hurt and is probably still unconscious.

Dick didn't want to think the worst about it.

Although the scene before coma lingered in his mind like a ghost.

Dick's words gave Bruce a new direction.

But just as Dick couldn't get in touch with Koto, he couldn't get through to Anna's phone either.

He called several times, but no one answered.

In the face of Bruce's decision to go to New York to find Anna to inquire about Koto's situation, Dick has to follow anyway.

He was a talkative boy most of the time, but this time he was unwilling to compromise no matter what, even Bruce couldn't refuse him.

In fact, Bruce didn't really resist it.

Let a teenager who witnessed the girl he likes being bombarded in order to protect him lie on the hospital bed obediently, waiting for news from the other party - there can be nothing more extreme than this.

So he got another reproach from Dr. Tompkins, and the next day forced Dick out of the clinic and went with him to New York.

They waited a long time at Anna's apartment and finally got him in the evening.

The apartment manager said he hadn't seen her back in a while, but they waited from noon until evening, and Dick said he had a hunch that they would wait for Anna.

It turns out that being a magical girl is likely to improve the accuracy of intuition.

Under the blood-red sunset, the woman with long dark green hair had a cold expression, with a hint of impatience and exhaustion in her brows.

To their questions, she responded with 'you won't see her'

When Anna answered, she thought very simply. The day when Xiaojiu would wake up was unpredictable. It was impossible for her to take them to the magic base, and it was impossible for her to bring Xiaojiu out to meet them.

So it was pointless for them to come here, and they would not see Xiaojiu when they came here.

Dick shook visibly at that moment.

Since Xiaojiu valued Dick as a friend, Anna patiently added: "You can think about her more, and she will be happy."

Dick remembered that Xiaojiu told him that as long as people are remembered, they will not usher in real death.

So facing Anna's words, he reluctantly twitched the corner of his mouth, and gave her a firm answer: "I will always remember her."

He didn't expect to hear the result he didn't want to hear from Anna.

She used to be close to him, and they always accompanied each other all the time... Now everything collapsed, and disappeared without warning.

The pain was like a convulsion of the heart, and the breathing seemed to stop, and the thinking seemed empty and clear as if it had left the body.

But he was sure that he would never forget her.

Anna didn't quite understand Dick's words, but she nodded before turning and leaving.

Dick didn't speak all the way back.

Bruce didn't speak either, he wanted to comfort Dick, but he'd never been good at it.

Especially in cases like this.

The death of a loved one can be a lifetime of unhealed pain.

Finally, he parked the car on the side of the road, reached out and patted Dick on the shoulder, pulling him into his arms.

Dick was hugged by him for a while without moving, and tears welled up from his eyes silently.

Three years later Wayne's old house

A pair of young hands opened the dusty drawer, took out the scattered pistols and darts that looked like cartoon toys, and carefully put them into the suitcase.

After hesitating for a while, the owner of those hands took out the last box inside.

The box is a very girly pink and seems to have been in for a long time so it is slightly faded.

However, after opening the box, the necklace composed of pink diamonds and tourmalines inside is brand new. When it is carefully picked up by fingers, it reflects beautiful brilliance in the sunlight, and every detail is extraordinarily delicate.

The handsome black-haired young man stared at the necklace quietly for a moment, then sighed softly, put it back into the box, and put it gently in the suitcase.

It was put in together with a set of blue and white skirt and stockings that had obviously been re-sewn.

After putting in a few more pieces of clothing that he often wore, Dick locked the suitcase, put on his backpack, and walked out of the room without looking back.