Volume 1 Chapter 118: The Girl’s Emotional Knot
“What, you’re not pretending to be a hostage anymore?”
Very rarely, as she looked at Bai Muxue leaning against the streetlight, Shen Jingyi, who had already canceled her transformation, actually showed a faint smile on her pretty face.
Naturally, she assumed that the reason Bai Muxue kept refusing to transform was because she wanted to have fun, so she deliberately acted weak and pretended to be a hostage. It fit Miss Bai’s usual troublemaking personality perfectly.
“Mhm, it stopped being interesting.”
Noticing this, Bai Muxue simply followed Shen Jingyi’s line of thinking and continued the conversation naturally.
“Heh, though I was a little careless just now. I accidentally gave that girl a chance to escape.”
“I see...”
Shen Jingyi nodded, a thoughtful look flashing through her eyes.
She was not someone good at chatting, and Bai Muxue, who still needed to maintain her act, also had no intention of speaking first. After the simple exchange, the atmosphere suddenly became quiet.
Shen Jingyi lightly touched her chin as she calmly looked at the girl before her.
Black boots, a black long dress, and long dark hair that swayed gently in the night breeze, carrying the faint perfume scent unique to her.
At this moment, nobody knew what Miss Bai was thinking about, but the usual smile was gone from her slightly youthful face. Leaning quietly against the streetlight, her slim figure strangely gave off a feeling of maturity that was hard to describe.
Thinking about it, in Shen Jingyi’s impression, Miss Bai was usually willful and full of strange humor, like a spoiled rich young lady. But at certain moments, she also gave off the feeling of someone very mature, like an experienced adult who had already seen much of society.
It was not that Shen Jingyi had never thought about starting a conversation, but what could she even say?
Should she ask what relationship Bai Muxue had with the magical girl called Amber? But whatever relationship they had, what did it have to do with an outsider like her?
If not for that annoying contract, someone like her probably would never have crossed paths with the high-and-mighty Miss Bai in her entire life.
Should she ask what happened inside that building? Even though they were both magical girls, would Miss Bai really care about that kind of thing?
Speaking of which, why did this person suddenly decide to come to a place like this in the first place? Was it really because she was worried that the urban legend might endanger the public, so she came to investigate?
Impossible, right?
Many questions filled Shen Jingyi’s mind, but she did not know how to ask any of them.
“By the way, where’s Amber?”
In the end, Bai Muxue was the one who broke the silence first. She looked around behind Shen Jingyi, but did not see the familiar figure.
“She didn’t come with you?”
“No,” Shen Jingyi softly replied. “But I already told her that you’re safe.”
“By now... she has probably already gone home.”
“Oh, I see.”
Bai Muxue calmly raised her eyebrows and did not say much, but inside she let out a huge sigh of relief.
Good, that girl went home. If she had really followed Shen Jingyi here, there probably would have been another huge disaster...
Thinking about this, Bai Muxue’s tone unconsciously became lighter, as if she had just survived a crisis.
“Sigh, if Amber hadn’t insisted on investigating this place, I wouldn’t have wanted to come to such a creepy place at all...”
Since Amber was not here anyway, Bai Muxue decided to push all the blame onto her! It would also stop Shen Jingyi from connecting the events in the building to Liu Li’s death.
She wanted to create the impression in Shen Jingyi’s mind that ‘she had absolutely no interest in the urban legend inside the building, and only reluctantly came because Amber wanted to investigate.’
Mhm, perfect. Very fitting for her current character setup.
She would just treat it as revenge for Amber teasing her earlier!
But what Bai Muxue did not expect was that after hearing those words, Shen Jingyi showed no reaction at all. She simply nodded and calmly said,
“Miss Amber seems to have come to Wangdu from another city... but I’ve never heard of her before. As a magical girl, it’s better to stay cautious. After all, she’s not like you and me...”
As Shen Jingyi continued speaking, she increasingly felt that her tone sounded strange.
Why does it feel like I’m secretly telling Bai Muxue that woman definitely has problems and that she shouldn’t trust her too much...
Am I... talking badly about her?
The girl suddenly realized this. She had only wanted to casually remind Bai Muxue out of habit, but the words she just said... somehow sounded a little jealous.
She did not want to be like this either... but for some reason, when she heard Miss Bai say earlier that she specifically went to investigate that building because of Amber, a strange feeling suddenly rose in her heart, making her unconsciously say those things.
Why was it that they were both magical girls, yet when Amber said she wanted to investigate something, Bai Muxue would seriously go along with her? But when it came to herself, she would only be brushed aside?
But... she already knew the answer very clearly.
Amber and Bai Muxue were friends, or maybe something even closer. As for herself... in the end, she was only an outsider.
According to the contract, she was technically Miss Bai’s possession. They were not even equals.
And yet... when she rushed over here and saw that Bai Muxue was safe, she still could not stop herself from smiling a little.
Even though she understood all this in her heart, after seeing Bai Muxue’s message earlier, Shen Jingyi had only casually informed Amber before hurrying over here herself.
As for where Amber went afterward, even Shen Jingyi did not know.
After all, those two seemed to have such a good relationship. Bai Muxue would definitely send her a message too, right?
At that time, her mind had been filled with thoughts like these.
But why did I do something like that?
Shouldn’t I be happy to meet someone of the same kind as me?
Heh... I was even angry earlier because of Amber’s aggressive attitude... but now that I think about it, aren’t I the same?
Unable to find an answer, Shen Jingyi became more and more irritated. Her thoughts were in complete chaos. She pressed her lips together and simply stopped talking, slightly turning her gaze away so she would no longer look at Bai Muxue.
Meanwhile, Bai Muxue kept staring at the side of her face without saying a word.
Whenever Shen Jingyi looked away, Bai Muxue would deliberately move closer, insisting on meeting the girl’s wandering eyes.
After repeating this several times, the already guilty-feeling Shen Jingyi finally showed an awkward expression on her pretty face.
“W-What are you looking at?”
“Oh?” Bai Muxue heard this and immediately showed the sly smile Shen Jingyi knew so well. “What’s this? Teacher Shen is pretty proud, huh? I can’t even look at you?”
It was still the same familiar smile and the same familiar tone...
Yet for some reason, Shen Jingyi felt slightly relieved. She unconsciously lowered her eyes.
“No...”
“Hehe, that’s more like it.”
Bai Muxue nodded in satisfaction, then covered her mouth and yawned.
“Forget it, let’s head back first. I’ve been busy the whole day already, I’m seriously exhausted...”
But the moment she finished speaking, a luxury car suddenly drove out from the distant road. Its headlights illuminated the cute figure of the girl standing under the streetlight before the car slowly stopped at the roadside.
“What a coincidence... perfect timing, now we can—”
Before Bai Muxue could finish speaking, the car window slowly rolled down. Sitting in the driver’s seat, a black-haired girl leaned her head out and showed Bai Muxue a playful smile. Her narrow blood-red eyes looked especially striking in the darkness.
It was not Heidi.
It was Sasha.
“Eh...?”
The laziness and exhaustion on Bai Muxue’s face instantly disappeared.
W-What is going on here...?