011 You and I are the same.

“So…” Mo Bai’s eyes widened, “You found that magic wand just lying around?”

“Are you a wild magical girl?”

“What do you mean ‘wild’? Don’t say it like that—it sounds so harsh!”

Shen Qiqi looked away guiltily. “Actually, I know that magical girl. She was my senior who took good care of me. I happened to see her transform once.”

“I really admire her.”

Gazing at the pink magic wand in her hand, Shen Qiqi’s eyes dimmed. “She’s incredible.”

“She saved many people and truly deserved the title of magical girl. But after those men in black captured her, she stopped being a magical girl.”

“In fact, she forgot everything about being a magical girl and completely reverted to an ordinary person.”

Shen Qiqi clenched the wand tightly. “It’s so unfair, utterly outrageous!”

“They took away the pride that belongs to magical girls.”

“I will never forgive them.”

“I will definitely carry on my senior’s mission as a magical girl!”

Watching Shen Qiqi’s dramatic expression, Mo Bai’s disappointed face caught the crucial information.

“Wait, so…”

“Your senior isn’t dead. She just lost her memory and became a normal person?”

“And you call those who stole the magical girls’ memories the X Organization?”

“Yeah.” Shen Qiqi blinked. “Is there a problem?”

Mo Bai remained expressionless and shook his head, “No problem.”

Unlike Shen Qiqi, still in her youthful, idealistic phase, Mo Bai was already an adult, past that age.

While Shen Qiqi only saw them as enemies, Mo Bai immediately wondered if those people were actually protecting the magical girls.

After all, being a magical girl is a highly dangerous profession these days. One careless mistake, and something like a garden spirit flame demon could emerge—wouldn’t that blow up the whole world?

Still, Mo Bai didn’t intend to tell Shen Qiqi any of this.

It was simple: having been through that age himself, Mo Bai knew she wouldn’t believe him, and besides, it was just a guess.

It would only lead to unnecessary arguments.

And in the end, delay progress.

Of course, what pleased Mo Bai the most was that the former magical girl hadn’t died. This meant that what his sister erased might have been only the concept of being a magical girl, not the life itself.

No one wants their sister to be a murderer.

Still, he needed more information.

“So, you haven’t said how you became a magical girl.”

“How did I become one?” Shen Qiqi looked a little annoyed. “Well, after my senior stopped being a magical girl, she threw away the magic wand.”

“When I found it in the trash, it was already cracked. I fixed it with glue and tape, and then I gained the ability to transform.”

Mo Bai: “?”

Glue? Tape?

Had he just heard something unbelievable?

Upon closer inspection, there were indeed tape marks on Shen Qiqi’s wand. Mo Bai had thought it was some kind of decoration, but it really was tape?!

“You rummage through trash?” Mo Bai frowned and tugged at Shen Qiqi’s clothing. “That’s the uniform of XX Middle School, right? Are you a student there?”

“At this hour, classes should still be going on, right?”

Mo Bai raised an eyebrow. “You skipped class?”

Shen Qiqi blushed. “Don’t accuse me without reason. It’s not skipping class—it’s fighting evil as a magical girl!”

Mo Bai laughed and grabbed the cat from Shen Qiqi’s arms, holding it up. “Your ‘fighting evil’ means sneaking into an abandoned building just to pet a cat?”

“And with that weird laugh of yours. Fighting evil? I think you’re the real evil.”

Mo Bai knocked loudly and said sternly, “Sit properly!”

“Eek!”

Shen Qiqi was startled, and when she came to, she found herself obediently sitting in front of Mo Bai like a quail.

“So young, but already so skilled at skipping class—you must be a habitual offender.”

Mo Bai put his hands on his hips. “Even if monsters appear, fine, but you skip class just to pet a cat? Are you addicted to cats that much?”

Shen Qiqi weakly said, “I just really like them…”

“You dare talk back?”

“Ugh…” Shen Qiqi expertly grabbed her head, “Teacher, please continue. I won’t talk back anymore.”

Wait, why was she listening to Mo Bai?

Mo Bai shook his head and sighed, imitating his former homeroom teacher. “You’re a blossoming flower under the morning sun of our motherland.”

“If you keep sneaking off like this, what would your parents think?”

Shen Qiqi looked serious. “They’re no longer by my side.”

“They don’t even think about me anymore.”

“Whoa!” Mo Bai was shocked. “Your answer sounds just like mine back in the day.”

“Did your mom become a pirate at sea too?”

“No.” Shen Qiqi smiled bitterly. “My parents divorced. They both abandoned me, so I live alone.”

Mo Bai suddenly felt a pang of guilt. A girl her age living alone must be tough. Mo Mo and he had someone to care for them, but what did Shen Qiqi have?

Maybe she had to juggle school, customer service, and a band like some blue-haired girl he knew, where all the bandmates were geniuses, totally not normal people…

And in the end, she discovered she was a genius too. But that’s a story for another time.

In any case, Mo Bai’s gaze softened as he looked at Shen Qiqi. But her next words were—

“They don’t care at all about how I’m doing. They just send me 300,000 yuan a month for living expenses.”

Mo Bai: “…”

Wow! So she’s rich! What was he feeling sorry for? He had no mother either, and his bank balance never exceeded six figures.

He was just unworthy.

Mo Bai silently raised his middle finger.

Besides money and the magical girl identity, she really had nothing else!

“I admit, skipping class is bad. But what about you?”

Shen Qiqi retorted, “You’re an adult. Isn’t this supposed to be working hours? Are you one of those shut-ins who laugh stupidly at anime characters every day?”

Mo Bai looked proud. “Shut-in? Don’t talk nonsense. If I’m going to laugh foolishly, it’s at my little sister.”

“Besides, I told you before—I work at a maid café. I just sneaked out like you did.”

Naïve Shen Qiqi was stunned. “There really is such a thing as a maid café?”

“Do they provide proper service?”

“Also…” Shen Qiqi couldn’t help but laugh, showing a small fang. “After scolding me for so long, you turn out to be sneaking out too.”

“You irresponsible adult!”

Mo Bai laughed too. “Then you’re the disobedient kid.”

He shoved the cat back into Shen Qiqi’s arms. “The magical girl mission is important, but you have to keep your life normal too.”

“Don’t skip class so casually. Once the habit forms, it’s hard to break.”

“Your teacher would cry.”

Shen Qiqi obediently nodded, “Okay, I know I was wrong. I won’t do it again.”

“I’ll go back to class right away.”

“That’s better. Tuition isn’t paid for nothing, although I’m hardly in a position to say since I had a pretty carefree high school life.”

Mo Bai chuckled and held out his hand to Shen Qiqi. “Also, give me your phone.”

Shen Qiqi: “Huh?”

She covered her skirt. “You’re going to take my phone away too?!”

“I’m not a teacher…” Mo Bai grumbled as he took her pink phone with the bunny case and fiddled with it. “Alright, I’ve added my contact info.”

“Don’t ask why you can see and ignore my magic. If you need anything, you can find me. I’m usually free.”

“Of course, you can reach out even if there’s nothing specific.”

He handed the phone back and turned to leave. Shen Qiqi couldn’t help asking, “Where are you going?”

Mo Bai stopped, turned back, and smiled. “Back to work.”

“Just like you going back to class.”

Mo Bai’s figure gradually disappeared from Shen Qiqi’s sight.

She hugged her phone tightly, looking at the screen where the new contact’s avatar was a cat-eared loli, and gave a faint, subtle smile.

“So this is the partner a magical girl must meet?”

“Though a bit twisted…”

“It’s really nice.”

Gently setting down the cat and leaving two sausages, Shen Qiqi stepped out of the abandoned building.

“Back to class!”