Lin Xiaolu stretched out her hands, placed them on Bai Jingxuan's shoulders, her dark eyes spinning as if with whirlpools, "Co on, tell , what exactly did Erald Sparrow secretly do with you?"
"Um... I..." Bai Jingxuan clutched at the hem of her dress, obviously a bit conflicted, unable to utter a word for a long ti, only managing to look towards Xia Liang with a plea for help.
Seeing her plea for help, although Xia Liang was equally curious, she still began to intercede, "Take it easy, Xiaolu, don't press the kid so hard. You're scaring her, and if you do, she won't be able to speak, right?"
"Yes, yes!" Bai Jingxuan nodded repeatedly.
"Am I, scary?"
Lin Xiaolu blinked her eyes, then let go of Bai Jingxuan's shoulders and turned to look at Xia Liang, "Then let's not press the elentary student for now, Xia Liang, I just rembered, don't you have so issues too?"
"During the early days of this term, you and Erald Sparrow were always mysteriously alone, right? Even at the parent-teacher eting, sothing seed to happen, and you always knew things I don't even know whether Erald Sparrow said. Can you first explain your situation?"
Gulp.
Xia Liang instinctively swallowed her saliva.
"How, how could that be? Whether we're at school or at our secret base, aren't we together every day?"
Her gaze drifted and her voice was slightly out of tune, "I just have a better mory for things like what Erald Sparrow said, that's all. Maybe you're the one who didn't rember, right?"
"...Suspicious."
Squinting her eyes, Lin Xiaolu looked at Xia Liang and then at Bai Jingxuan behind her, repeating for what must have been the umpteenth ti today, "It's too suspicious. Am I seeing shadows where there are none? Could it be that all of you are hiding sothing from , and I'm the only one who knows nothing?"
"Hey, you're really overthinking this!"
"Yeah, yeah!"
Xia Liang quickly agreed with Bai Jingxuan, interrupting Lin Xiaolu, "Let's not talk about this topic anymore. Weren't you just talking about Big Sister Hong? How did the conversation get so off topic? Talk about the real issue, what's your plan to get the truth out of her?"
"Huh? Oh... you're talking about that."
Her train of thought being brought back by Xia Liang, Lin Xiaolu imdiately switched to a different line of thinking, musing, "My initial idea is to confront her when I find the ti, but I always feel like I might not get the result I want."
"Confrontation is definitely not a good idea."
The previously listless Xia Liang, in a drastic change from her previous state, actively made a suggestion, "I think we should start with indirect questioning, lure her into contradicting herself."
"Yeah, yeah!" Bai Jingxuan was also very eager to assert herself.
"Indirect questioning? So that's your specialty, huh?"
Lin Xiaolu raised an eyebrow, "After all, asking sly questions under the pretense of innocence is your forte, right?"
"I won't accept such unfounded slander," Xia Liang said, her enthusiastic smile unchanged, "'Pretending' and 'sly' – such negative, subjective descriptions are unwarranted."
"Anyway, it's just about setting traps on purpose," Lin Xiaolu rolled her eyes, "just to trick so unsuspecting nice guys."
"What do you an 'trick nice guys'?"
Xia Liang suddenly seed dissatisfied, "I'm clearly trying to help you think of ways!"
"It's too slow! Too unstable! By the ti we get results, she might have already completed any plot she had!"
Lin Xiaolu shook her head, "Rejected! Next suggestion!"
— "I think we can find a chance to secretly follow her, see what exactly she's up to right now," a voice suddenly said.
"Following, hmm..."
Lin Xiaolu furrowed her brows, "It's easy to say, but it's quite difficult to put into practice. The last ti we tried to track soone, it was a complete failure."
"Although I don't know what happened during the last tracking attempt, I'm sure it's because you weren't prepared enough, lacked the right tools, and didn't follow proper procedures," the suddenly appearing voice continued.
"If you can solve these problems, tracking can actually be a very efficient thod, after all, that's how private detectives used to handle cases in the old days," the voice added.
"You do have a point," Lin Xiaolu conceded, slightly persuaded, yet still hesitant, "But these aren't easy problems to solve, are they? Tools, actions, and all that..."
"No worries, if you're really inclined, I can help out."
"Really? I didn't expect that soone among us could help... wait, who are you?!"
Realizing halfway through that sothing was amiss, Lin Xiaolu finally noticed the voice didn't belong to either Xia Liang or Bai Jingxuan, nor was it Moke; instead, it originated from a rather eerie direction—the living room's French window.
The girls gathered in the living room turned to look and saw a sowhat oddly shaped spherical creature standing there. Given the pair of fluttering small wings behind it, it could very well be a fairy.
Of course, it was a bit of a stretch to call it a creature since there were obvious artificial joint structures on its body, making it look more like a doll than a living being. And the fairy doll was standing outside the French window, with its large face pressed against the glass, using a muffled voice to speak the words from before.
"...What is this?"
Stunned by this bizarre appearance, Lin Xiaolu took a mont before hesitantly venturing a guess, "Remnant Beasts?"
"What a rude child. I'm nothing like those pitiful creatures. Even just based on appearances and this intelligent discourse, you should be able to tell: I am a fairy," the doll retorted.
The doll stood outside the window, tapping the glass with its short claws, "So, could you please open the window? Let in first, then we can talk. The wind is strong and it's cold out here."
"Soone who shows up outside your window at this ti persuading underage kids to open it, even if it isn't a Remnant Beast, can't be anything good, right?"
Lin Xiaolu, sowhat on guard, took out her Heart's Gem, "Xia Liang, let's transform and take care of it."
"'Take care of it?' What kind of expression is that? Kids these days are too violent!"
The fairy doll outside the window shuddered, "I showed up here without any hostility, coming with a caring attitude towards my juniors. And this is the treatnt I get?"
"Suddenly appearing outside soone's window and whispering suspicious stuff is enough to raise doubts, isn't it? What exactly are you?"
Lin Xiaolu's face was full of suspicion, "And you're egging people on to stalk? Could it be you were sent by the likes of Black Ash Dawn to sow discord?"
"Cough, cough, to compare to those barbarians in Black Ash Dawn, if it were anyone but , with such purity of character, they would already be raging. Wait, even I feel a bit angry," the fairy doll said, its muffled voice clearing its throat, sounding pretentiously aged.
"As for what I am, are you suggesting I introduce myself in this chill wind and cold air?"
"Moke, this thing seems like a fairy. Have you seen it?"
"Nope."
Moke examined the doll outside the window, "Plus, the Magic Power fluctuations around this guy are not like a normal fairy at all, it must be a fake."
Lin Xiaolu nodded, "Alright, Xia Liang, let's take care of it."
"I object to violence! As Magical Girls, how can your conscience not be condemned for harming a powerless fairy?"
The fairy doll outside the window waved its paws frantically, "Moreover, an elder has co all this way to offer help, and instead of being treated with respect, you subject them to abuse. Think about it, is this appropriate?"
"I certainly don't have an elder who looks like a round ball!"
Lin Xiaolu, pointing at the doll, insisted, "So clear it up, who are you exactly?!"
"Ah, the youth of today..."
The fairy doll outside the window sighed theatrically, then puffed out its round belly, "Fine, since you're so eager to know, listen well. I'm just a fairy who happens to be passing by and likes to gossip. You can call ... 'Fairy Immortal'."
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