[Comprehensive English and American] Magical Girls in Gotham

The dividing line between magical girls and witches is on their birthdays.

On that day, the magic cores in the young magical girls' bodies will explode and reshape themselves, condensing into a new, more pure and solid form.

As a result, their magic power will increase by leaps and bounds, and their bodies will also be washed away by the surging magic power, all illnesses will fade away, and they will reach the level of absolute perfection.

But this growth, which can be called evolution, has certain risks.

From a magical girl to a witch, not only the body and magic power have changed, but also the mind.

The body and the spirit inevitably influence each other. The moment the magical girl breaks through, she will not only gain powerful power, but also have a new understanding of the world.

And the more you understand the rules of this world, the closer you will be to the laws of the world.

This understanding and closeness will bring more powerful power to the witch, and it will also easily attract the prying eyes of the law.

For example, the process of growing a magical girl into a witch is easy to cause disaster because it is too intense.

When the core of magic power is reshaped, they have no ability to act.

In order to protect magical girls from successfully growing into witches, on a day so far away that only records can be found in the Black Book of Ji, several great witches and witches created a world called "Witch's Dreamland".

It is a strange fairyland that exists independently outside of time and space.

Different from the main world where the magic power is thin, the air here is full of magic power, and even condenses into a lake because of the high concentration, forming colorful gem-like crystals.

Even the rain falling from the clouds is liquid magic.

Magical girls can grow into witches in absolute safety here.

The magic core can also absorb more magic power and reshape it stronger.

And here, no matter how wasteful the use of magic is, you can quickly absorb the magic power in the air to replenish the magic power core.

Therefore, the Witch Council also used this place as a trial location.

After every magical girl grows into a witch here, she will face her own trials here.

Anna described it as a land rich in magic.

But when Xiaojiu came to the witch's dreamland, her first reaction was—this is a beautiful world that glows.

The clouds in the sky, the emerald-like lake reflecting the sky, and the flower-like clusters of crystals by the lake, everything is shrouded in a faint light, hazy and beautiful like a dream.

So this is called the Witch's Dreamland?

She has been looking forward to witnessing this legendary dream with her own eyes.

But earlier than her companions, she came here at the age of 17-in fact, she felt that she was only 15 years old.

The Battle of Gotham left her in a coma for a whole year. Although she woke up afterwards, she was still asleep most of the time. Even when she was awake, she was still groggy.

After waking up, Xiaojiu spent a whole year in the capsule space filled with pure magic liquid.

During the day, she is relatively awake for a few hours. Her former magical girl friends will come to visit her together, read to her, tell her about the daily weather, and all kinds of things they encountered.

At that time, she was always half asleep and half awake, unable to think too much about things.

Now that the crack in her magic core had recovered, she entered the witch's dream again, and her whole body woke up.

She remembered that her senior witch who was in charge of the treatment told her that her magic core was over-exhausted, and in order to purify part of the dark energy that had eroded in, it also caused a crack in it.

Now that the crack in her magic core has recovered, in order not to cause sequelae in the future, she was sent to enter the witch's dream in advance for trials and growth.

In fact, Senior Witch said more than this, but Xiaojiu dug out a lot of theories that she didn't understand, and only this simple and easy-to-understand conclusion was left - she was sick, and she was probably cured, and she needed to enter the witch's dream in advance. Become a witch and heal yourself completely.

But for some reason, facing the beautiful fairyland in front of her, what appeared in her mind was the figure of Dick.

All the while she was in a daze, she didn't seem to see Dick.

Is it because he is in America and she is in Japan?

Did she successfully protect him at that time?After Xiaojiu woke up, what she wanted to know most was this question.

But Anna wasn't there, and her other friends didn't know Dick either.

Because she was going to accept the trial in advance, Qili also returned to [Wonderland] to accept the simultaneous trial.

So she failed to find out about Dick and entered the witch's dream.

I'm so worried.

Also... would love to see Dick.

The young magical girl touched the place where her heart was, and felt a deep feeling of longing growing.

When you're done with the trial, go find Dick right away.

Run, ride wand, fly to him faster than the wind.

This is Xiaojiu's most simple and direct mood at the moment.

With such thoughts in mind, Xiaojiu poured into the lake of trials on his back without hesitation.

The water of the lake glowing with iridescent light is so clear that one can clearly see the whirlpool at the bottom of the lake, which is so deep that it seems to have no end.

But when the girl fell into the lake, she didn't feel like she fell into a liquid, but as if she fell into a dream.

Soft, as if there is no substance, light and airy, exuding a sweet fragrance of nothingness——

Witch's dream.

What will the magical girls meet in the trial?

Some witches kept silent about this, and laughed without talking.

Some witches said that they met another self in a dream and had a tough duel with them.

Some witches said that they would arrive at a library with endless books, where all the knowledge of the past and future of the entire world was held.

Some witches said that they found all the lost things and lost people in their dreams.

At the moment when she fell into a dream, Xiaojiu heard the sound of the lock being snapped.

When she regained consciousness, she was doing homework at the desk.

The handmade wooden desk with smooth edges contains the math homework for the first grade of junior high school.

The walls of the room are light pink, the curtains and sheets are all Pikachu prints of the same series, and there is a Kirby wall clock hanging on the wall, and beside the wall clock is a wooden photo frame with a family photo of three.

The decoration of the whole room is not very delicate and consistent, but it is full of family warmth.

Koto felt like he had forgotten something.

What was she going to do just now...?Math homework?

The half-opened window was blown open by the wind, and the cool evening breeze hit the room with the warm orange sunset. Standing up a little, you can see the peaceful and peaceful street view outside through the window.

"Xiaojiu, eat~!"

The door of the room was not closed tightly, and the man's gentle voice clearly entered Xiaojiu's ears.

"...Coming!" For some reason, she froze for a moment before running out to respond as usual.

After running through the wooden corridor in a few steps, I saw a man with warm and handsome features wearing an apron and holding a spatula directly below the stairs.

"I knew you forgot to put on your shoes again. Go and put them on quickly. Mom will be scolded if she finds out."

"Good dad!" Xiaojiu laughed, and sniffed the air filled with the smell of food: "Do you want to eat hamburger meat tonight?"

"That's right, Koto's nose is still so sharp," Sawashiro Genichiro nodded with a smile: "There are still 2 minutes to go out of the pot."

"I'll put on my shoes and come down right away!"

The hamburger made by Dad is the most delicious food in the world. Xiaojiu immediately ran back to the room like the wind, put on her kitten slippers and ran downstairs.

Xiaoyu's kitchen and dining room are connected together.

When Kobato arrived at the table, Genichiro Sawajo had just finished making hamburger meat.

So she obediently sat on a chair covered with fabric cushions, put her hands flat on the dining table, and dangled her legs in mid-air to watch her father put the fried hamburger meat on the plate, and put the oven in the oven. He took out the creamy stew in the pot, and finally poured out a glass of lemonade and put it on the table in a calm manner.

And just a few seconds after the glass of lemonade was put down, there was the sound of the door being opened and an angry female voice from outside.

"I'm back—!" A woman in a police uniform rushed into the restaurant like lightning, picked up the lemonade on the table, and drank it all in one gulp.

"Welcome back, you'll choke if you drink so fast." The man smiled helplessly and shook his head: "Xiaojiu can serve food."

Yoshiko Zecheng clasped her hands together as if begging for mercy, stuck out her tongue, washed her hands and took the chopsticks out of the cupboard, at the same time Koto also jumped up and down to serve the meal.

The Zecheng family did not have the rule of not talking when eating or sleeping. When eating, the family sat in this small restaurant, eating the delicious meals carefully cooked by Dad, while talking about various things that happened today.

For example, the cherry tree near the hospital where Genichiro works is in bloom.

When Yoshiko was on duty, she met a little girl who got lost. A teenager who knew the little girl offered to take her back, but after a while, Yoshiko found two people who got lost in the corner...

"Where is Koto~ Is there a boy you like at school?" Yoshiko smiled and turned the topic to Koto.

"Huh?" Xiaojiu felt a name flash through her mind vaguely, but after thinking about it, it was blank, as if it was just her illusion.

So she swallowed the rice in her mouth, shook her head lightly: "No."

"Xiaojiu is only 15 years old. It's normal not to have a boy he likes." Genichiro also shook his head. His father was always not very supportive of puppy love, although if Xiaojiu really had someone he liked, he would definitely support her.

"But my country has liked you since the beginning!" Haozi retorted confidently.

So the husband and wife successfully brought the topic to their youthful years.

Xiaojiu is used to this, and can interject a few words from time to time, asking for details.

For some reason, she is more interested in the topic of love today than usual.

It's as if...she has someone she loves.

Obviously not... But, what kind of mood is love?

She likes her father and mother, and also likes friends like them here, but she still doesn't understand what kind of "unique" like in her mother's mouth.

"When Xiaojiu meets the destined person, she will understand!" The mother with a bold personality answered like this, and patted Xiaojiu on the shoulder several times.

After dinner, it was time to wash the dishes. The Zecheng family obeyed the rules of taking turns to wash the dishes. It was Yoshiko's turn to do the dishes on this day.

Washing the dishes alone would be very lonely, and because of this thought, Xiaojiu and her father stayed at the dining table for a while to wait for Yoshiko to finish washing the dishes. This time was also a time for chatting.

Their family has always been like this, no matter how busy they are at work, they must have time to eat and chat together.

And the content of the chat is also from work to family, from childhood to adulthood, you can talk about anything, and you can chat about anything.

A family needs to communicate frequently and express their thoughts frankly, because the love for each other cannot be conveyed if they are not spoken out, and small conflicts will become big conflicts that can hurt each other because they are not dealt with.

The same goes for friends and other people.

If Zecheng's family has family precepts, it's probably this way of doing things.

Xiaojiu likes this sentence very much. Having been raised in this way, she also likes to speak frankly and express her love for her friends frankly. It is probably because of this that she has made many, many very good friends.

Friends who play together at school, and friends who transform into magical girls at night to protect the world.

After dinner, Kobato finished his homework and solved a formed monster with Yoshinomokata and others, protecting the safety of the citizens once again.

After waving goodbye to friends, I went home to cancel the transformation, took a shower and changed into a suspender nightdress, lay down on the bed with my favorite Pikachu print, closed my eyes, and ended another happy day.

She has always lived such a happy and contented life.

but……

Xiaojiu turned over and hugged the soft quilt dimly while half asleep and half awake.

Why do I always feel like I've forgotten something?