Positive little sun, magical girl, I am awesome

"Everyone line up! Take your luggage!" A parrot stood on a bird stand, shaking its head and shouting, as if it was treating this sentence as a game and never got tired of it.

Lilith pulled Bella and moved slowly along with the team.

"Miss, is that really possible?" Bella watched the person at the front of the line open a strange door and get sucked in. She found it both terrifying and novel.

"Don't worry Bella, you see those seniors aren't nervous at all, they must be used to it, there won't be any problem."

"Destination?" A fat lady wearing purple glasses sitting by the door asked Lilith who was walking towards her.

"Shelley Town." Lilith replied quickly.

The lady nodded, adjusted the coordinates on the sign next to the door, and took out a slug flower from a box beside her and handed it over.

"It's a one-time teleportation spell. The coordinates are fixed at Gloria. Crush it when you are in danger or want to come back." Seeing Lilith looking confused as she held the flower, the lady gave a brief introduction and then motioned for her to move forward.

Lilith didn't want to delay any longer, so she put the slug flower into the ring and walked to the door taking Bella's hand.

"Don't be afraid, I will hold you tight." She comforted softly. Bella's hands were sweaty at this time, but Lilith still held Bella's hand tightly to give her courage.

Then Lilith took a deep breath and turned the brass handle in front of her. The next second, the world was spinning. She felt as if she was thrown into a washing machine and stirred, then taken out, rubbed hard a few times, and then dusted and thrown out.

"thump--"

Lilith and Bella lost their balance and fell into a snowdrift on the side of the road. They suddenly went from indoors to outdoors and experienced a teleportation sensation as if they were flushed down a toilet. Bella was stunned and sat on the ground in a daze, not getting up.

Lilith resisted the urge to dizziness and stood up, trying to determine the direction. After turning half a circle, she stopped.

"Ah! Bella look!"

She pointed to the familiar forest entrance, a place she had been to countless times since she was a child. The familiar scenery immediately restored her sense of direction. She looked into the distance and saw that the winter town had hung up many colorful banners to celebrate Hanukkah. Smoke from cooking fires was rising, creating a very festive atmosphere.

"Mary will definitely like your Bella. She likes cute girls!" Lilith was extremely excited. She comforted the nervous Bella and walked towards the town with a smile on her face.

"Mary, Mary—!"

As soon as Lilith entered the house, she started howling, as happy as a bird returning to its nest, looking for Mary everywhere.

“Oh! The God of Light—!”

The sound came from outside the door, and Mary entered the house later than Lilith. It seemed that she had been out, but when she heard the news that Lilith had returned home in town, she hurried back. She dropped the basket in her hand, stumbled towards Lilith, and gave her a big suffocating hug.

"Mary--" Lilith stretched out her hands and scratched Mary's back, trying to comfort the eagle-like lady. Her sobbing tears flowed down Lilith's hair and slid into her neck, feeling hot.

"If you cry again, I will cry too. We've only been apart for a few months, but I didn't expect someone would miss me so much. Who was it that said all day long that he was annoyed when he saw me? Tsk tsk tsk!" Lilith hugged Mary and tried to make faces to make her happy.

Mary controlled her emotions and finally let her go while choking with sobs. She looked at Lilith carefully for a long time with tears in her eyes.

"Why are you so dark now?"

Lilith: ...Is this the first word of welcome after entering the house? I am so upset.

"But... you've grown taller and stronger." Mary's red eyes were full of relief and pride.

"This is good, very good, Lilith." Mary covered her mouth and wanted to cry again. At least this would keep her healthy and she would not be like her mother.

"Ah, Mary! I, I'm not only a magician now, I've also learned swordsmanship!" Seeing that Mary was getting emotional again, Lilith was so scared that she quickly stopped her from talking. She took out the sword from the space ring and slammed it on the table with a bang, like a gavel.

"Aren't you curious, Mary? How did a person favored by God give up the path of a priest and embark on the journey of practicing magic? How did a magical girl embark on the path of practicing both the sword and the devil? Let me tell you in detail!" Lilith straightened her back and acted serious. She could tell stories better than those bards.

Mary was so stunned by her behavior that she forgot to cry.

……

The burning wood in the fireplace made crackling sounds, emitting scorching heat, warming the entire restaurant. The firelight and candlelight intertwined, turning the dim and cold room into a warm and comfortable haven.

"So, it was your stepmother... Mrs. Taylor who decided to send you to that magic academy?" Mary cut a piece of ham for Bella who was eating hard, and asked again and again to confirm.

"Yes! Yes! Thanks to her!" Lilith nodded while eating. "Thanks to Melissa, otherwise, even if I could return to Shelley Town earlier, my title would have been someone's fiancée."

"You don't want me to get married early, right, Mary? I know that!" Lilith wrinkled her nose proudly and moved closer to Mary. The smell of her body made Lilith feel at ease.

Mary was stunned for a moment. Did she ever say such a thing to Lilith? But it seemed that she had thought about it. Miss Shelley's sudden death that year had brought her shock and pain that she still couldn't forget.

Miss Shelley, who was so lively and lovely, withered away little by little after only two years of marriage, just like a flower that had left the land. Especially after she became pregnant with Lilith, she became increasingly weak, and finally became so withered that she could not even walk...

As she looked at the little girl in front of her who was looking up at her with admiration, she couldn't help but recall the scene when she left Tanding County. Young Mary held the baby's swaddling clothes for the first time. Before that, she never knew that the baby's body temperature was so high.

She originally had complicated feelings towards the baby because of Miss Shelley's death, but the moment she held Lilith in her arms, the burning heat seemed to burn into her heart and made her soul shudder. It was the throbbing brought by the new life that she still remembers.

Although Mary never slacked off, she had allowed this noble lady to play and have fun in the mountains and fields over the years. She just thought that no matter what the future would be like, at least the child would be happy when she recalled her childhood. She hoped that her father's arranged marriage would come later, later...

That's why she was so excited that she fainted when she learned that Lilith was a person favored by God. She believed that Lilith had a new choice and didn't have to be like her mother.

The little girl who could only cry back then is now almost as tall as her, and is so lively and healthy, better than she had imagined.

"...Being a magician is pretty good." Mary didn't answer her question directly, but she couldn't help but curl her lips. She turned her head to look at Bella, and the more she looked at her, the more she liked this child, so she scooped another spoonful of lasagna for her.

"Tell me more about school, Lilith."