"Oh, that."
The fairy doll slightly leaned back: "Actually, it's quite simple, it's still about the artificial body. To achieve the best fit, we will create her body to imitate Chaoyan's true appearance, but as you know, her actual age and appearance differ from her true appearance by nearly twenty years. To make the spare body match the original, so additional adjustnt costs might be needed."
"'Additional costs,' you an you're still going to charge money?" Erald Sparrow imdiately understood her aning.
"We'll charge, but it can be completely covered by the trade with the Origin of Beasts."
The fairy doll shook her head: "Mainly, Chaoyan has put forward another suggestion."
"...What suggestion?" Erald Sparrow turned to look at Hong Siyu once again.
"I an, why not save so cost."
Hong Siyu started to fiddle with her notebook again: "I think, without adjusting, we can just use the true appearance as the spare body..."
"Returning to a normal working life, it's not necessary to skimp on this kind of cost."
After considering for a mont, Erald Sparrow seriously suggested: "Since the Chief promised no additional fees are required, you don't actually need to worry about this issue."
"It's not really about the cost."
Hong Siyu's voice grew softer: "I an, I kind of hope to still look like my true self after I change back."
Erald Sparrow then understood her aning.
Indeed, it wasn't hard to understand because other Magical Girls had expressed similar desires throughout history.
The older one gets, and as the true form begins to enter the phase known as 'aging,' it becos harder to let go of the youthful appearance of the true form.
The true form of a Magical Girl, though not necessarily the age at which a Magical Girl is in her pri, is always full of youthful vigor and vitality. Even won in their thirties and forties have their own charm, but most won ultimately prefer to remain eternally young, and Magical Girls are no exception.
In fact, there is a segnt of Magical Girls who join the Magic Kingdom for this sowhat whimsical reason; they simply can't accept the fact that they will age gradually after retirent and choose to live forever as Magical Girls.
Although Hong Siyu wasn't that obsessed, it was understandable that she wanted her appearance to seem younger...right?
Thinking this far, Erald Sparrow saw Hong Siyu glance at her with a sowhat strange look in her eyes, which made her sowhat uncertain of her own answer again.
"It's not like it's impossible."
So she nodded, expressing her opinion: "Only, if the spare body is going to look like your sixteen-year-old self, do you still plan to return to work at the Abnormal Strategy Bureau?"
Silence followed.
"I want to go back." After a while, Hong Siyu spoke slowly.
"...Are you planning to work looking like you do now?"
"You promised , senior."
Hong Siyu spoke calmly: "I'm back, let be your secretary."
"I did promise, that's true."
Erald Sparrow swallowed inexplicably: "But you being 16 years old and serving as my secretary at the Abnormal Strategy Bureau, isn't that a bit..."
It was then she realized why these two had called her using the magic mirror on the way there.
It turns out all the earlier talk was just a prelude, rely background information. The real issue she had to accept and decide upon was never about whether Hong Siyu should get a spare body but "whether Lin Yun, the director of the Abnormal Strategy Bureau, should employ a secretary who looks to be only 16 years old."
"...That won't work." She almost instinctively denied it.
"I think it's pretty good, a 16-year-old high school girl as the director's secretary."
Molu, who was leisurely speaking on the side, ignored Erald Sparrow's rolling eyes: "It's perfect, don't you often transform into a Magical Girl? Just use how you look now to be the director, a grade-school director and a high school secretary. With you two as a pair, I believe the employees' motivation at the Abnormal Strategy Bureau will surely increase quite a bit."
"The Abnormal Strategy Bureau needs direction in their tasks, not a fanciful idol."
Erald Sparrow looked at her coolly, rejecting the unreliable suggestion without any politeness: "Even setting aside the fact that I wouldn't mind a few more rumors about in the Bureau, what about Hong Siyu's identity? She can't just go back to work under her original na, can she?"
"That's simple."
The fairy doll gently closed her paws: "A resu is easy to make up. Just say she's 'Hong Siyu's niece,' who, due to her aunt's injury, voluntarily transferred from Tiandu City to take over her aunt's job. If her youthful appearance raises questions, just put 25 years old on the résumé, and no matter what anyone asks, she's 25."
Now Erald Sparrow was utterly speechless.
"Alright, if you have no objections, then lie down. We've almost settled Chaoyan's issue, and you still have significant problems of your own. We need to do several more physiotherapy sessions to stabilize your injuries." Molu urged, patting the treatnt bed: "Hurry up, I need to go study the Origin of Beasts next."
Of course, as it turned out, the previous treatnt's "need to undress" was a pure lie; such treatnt didn't need to be conducted naked. As a result, Erald Sparrow hardly needed to prepare much, simply needed to lie down on the treatnt bed, her consciousness faded for a while, and the entire process was completed.
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