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"Eh? Ah! So that's how it is?" Lin Xiaolu exclaid in delayed realization.
"That ans the star of today's concert, the singer nad Asou Haruka, is actually our senior."
Having received affirmation from Erald Sparrow, Xia Liang finally spoke up to explain to Lin Xiaolu, "She was once a Magical Girl of Fangting City too, a teammate of our junior here."
"So she was a teammate of Erald Sparrow...hold on, how do you know that?" Lin Xiaolu looked at her with so confusion.
"You could guess it easily. Besides, your dad has shown us old photos of the Fangting City team before."
Facing the core of the question, Xia Liang was not flustered at all and casually explained, "Haven't you noticed that the singer looks a lot like one of the people in those photos?"
"You rember stuff like that?"
"Hmph, one must have a pair of observant eyes for the things around them."
As the two chatted about such trivial matters, they followed Erald Sparrow all the way to the inner area of the venue, the backstage where the concert was being held, where the staff were resting at that ti.
The slender corridor stretched towards the back of the stage, with several doors labeled with naplates closed tight, and a few security staff in uniform standing seriously in the corridor, on duty at the location.
"Hello, I'm here to see soone."
Stepping forward, Erald Sparrow made a surprising remark.
Seeing a few young girls running to the backstage and stating "to see soone" just like overzealous fans, one of the security guards first showed a puzzled look, then was about to disperse them. But before he could speak out, another guard next to him seed to realize sothing, pulled him aside, and whispered in his ear.
After the talk, although the guard's puzzled look did not diminish, he said nothing more and, after hesitating for a mont, just nodded at Erald Sparrow, allowing her to go through.
With Erald Sparrow's acute hearing, she had naturally heard the content of the whisper, which was: "Miss Mari's instructions, if there are little girls dressed in bizarre outfits looking for her, just let them in directly."
Without further contention with the security personnel, Erald Sparrow continued to lead the three girls straight in and soon found the resting room with the na "Asou Haruka" on it.
And more noticeable than the na was three other girls standing against the wall in the corridor outside the door.
The three girls appeared to be about the sa age as Lin Xiaolu and her companions, and more importantly, Erald Sparrow recognized all their faces—they were the Magical Girls from Bai An City.
She had briefly cooperated with these Magical Girls during a previous trip to Bai An City to investigate the disappearance of a reconnaissance team.
When Erald Sparrow saw them, they naturally also saw Erald Sparrow, and the blonde girl, in particular, subconsciously covered her forehead as if she rembered so rather unpleasant mory.
Of course, it was not just Erald Sparrow who recognized these people; Lin Xiaolu also had a reaction as she imdiately realized that these were the three-person group she had encountered earlier in the corridor, who looked sowhat familiar.
"What are you doing here?" she blurted out.
"Us? We're staff here, huh? But what are you all doing here?"
The blonde girl in the middle imdiately shot back a response, but her deanor softened sowhat upon seeing Erald Sparrow on the side, and her tone of questioning beca less confident: "No wait, why would you be following..."
Her speech trailed off there, uncertain whether she had forgotten Erald Sparrow's na or simply dared not say more.
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Seeing that her words had trailed off into silence, another girl with glasses could only sigh in resignation, stepped forward, patted her shoulder, and turned to Erald Sparrow:
"Hello, Inspector, long ti no see. I'm Bai Ji from Bai'an City. Are you here to find a ntor today?"
"Who is your ntor?" asked Erald Sparrow.
"The ntor's codena is 'Margaret.'" Bai Ji paused, "She said you should be quite familiar with this codena, so she had already instructed us that if we see you, we are to ask you to kindly wait outside."
"Is she also a Magical Girl from Bai'an City?" Erald Sparrow inquired further.
"A ntor, well... not entirely," Bai Ji said with neither servility nor overbearance, "But this is not sothing we students should discuss casually. Please ask her directly."
"What's there to hide... it's just a na registered in Bai An," the blonde girl finally managed to interject, only to receive a sharp glance from Bai Ji, and she imdiately fell silent, looking indignant.
This disjointed, even abrupt conversation left Lin Xiaolu, who was listening on the side, completely befuddled because she couldn't understand how Erald Sparrow had suddenly beco so familiar with several "strangers" from her mory, who also seed to know a lot about Magical Girls.
She glanced at the trio in front of her, then turned to Xia Liang, seeking help, and upon realizing that Xia Liang was also confused, she could only tug at Erald Sparrow's sleeve.
Erald Sparrow looked at her with a sowhat helpless expression.
"Let's put other topics aside for the mont, let's introduce ourselves first."
Understanding what Lin Xiaolu wanted to convey, Erald Sparrow stepped aside and spread her hands toward Lin Xiaolu and her group: "These are the current mbers of the Magical Girl team from Fangting City."
Then, turning towards Lin Xiaolu and her companions, she extended her hand towards the Magical Girls from Bai'an City: "These three are from the Magical Girl team of Bai An City, which is near Fangting; I t them when I was on a business trip to Bai An."
With this introduction, the girls who were still in the dark about the situation finally understood what was going on. Not only Lin Xiaolu, but Bai Jingxuan and the reticent girl from Bai'an City also had an epiphany.
— "Ah, I see, nice to et you all."
"Hello there!"
Now that they understood the situation, naturally there was so polite small talk, with Xia Liang and Bai Ji leading the way, the Magical Girls greeted each other formally and sowhat awkwardly.
Bai Ji was ticulous, the blonde girl casual, the reticent girl soft-spoken, Xia Liang friendly, and Bai Jingxuan earnest.
Each had their own way of greeting, but among them, there was one who was the most special.
That was Lin Xiaolu.
Upon learning that the sowhat mysterious girls in front of her were actually Magical Girls from the neighboring city, and combining that with the inexplicable sense of familiarity she had felt earlier, she finally realized why she thought the blonde girl looked familiar.
Having understood the other party's identity and recognized who they were, she couldn't help but raise her hand, pointed at the blonde girl, and without even a greeting, she blurted out:
— "Ah, you're the one who washed with Remnant Beast sli!"
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