Magical girl? She got tricked into this!

"Huh?" Suddenly, as if realizing something, Tia and the staff uttered a puzzled sound in unison.

The latter saw through the instrument that when the magic ether was flowing towards the place where the baby was born, a new magic power was slowly flowing out from there and struggling to resist the invasion of the magic ether.

Regarding this, the staff looked confused and didn't understand the situation, but Tia tilted her head, thinking about something.

……

"Renge, do you know that this is a sacred place that nurtures life? It is also the second magic storage space for magical girls. Moreover, this space can generate magic power on its own." Kamijou Asahina gently stroked the girl's lower abdomen and said softly.

"Is that actually a magic storage space?" The still young Shen Tiao Lianhua looked up at the girl in front of him who seemed to be only seventeen years old and said in disbelief.

"Perhaps this is why we magical girls only have girls and no boys."

"Why?"

"Based on the research and interactions of our predecessors, the Great Will is most likely the Earth Spirit. The Earth is called Mother because it gave birth to all living things. And that place where life is nurtured is only possessed by us women."

"But I don't feel any magic in there."

"That's because you haven't developed this space yet. Back then, Chris and I wanted to develop a second magic storage space, but..." Asahina didn't continue.

As if some memory was triggered, an indelible blush quickly appeared on her face.

"Then, how should this space be developed?"

"You'll understand when you grow up." In response to Renhua's doubts, Asahina just smiled and rubbed her head without explaining anything to her.

……

Coming back to reality from her thoughts, Tia said to the staff, "It doesn't look like the worst is yet to come. Stop the equipment and help me open the door."

"Do you have any solution?" Although she was a little confused, this staff member was already a veteran employee, so she naturally knew the identity of the girl in front of her.

So despite her doubts, she didn't hesitate at all about what Tia said. She immediately stopped the instrument and opened the door of the sterile room for it.

"There should be."

She did not explain her doubts to the staff, but walked straight in, picked up Ando Meiko, and walked out of the infirmary under a puzzled look.

The scene of Tia holding Ruby as she walked through the corridor attracted a lot of people's attention, and the people outside were obviously curious about it, but because of her and Ruby's identities, they did not ask anything.

He arrived at his room without any obstructions, locked the door, gently placed Ando Meiko on the soft bed, and then took off all her clothes, completely exposing her perfect body to the air.

She reached out her hand and stroked her lower abdomen, from where she felt a strange burning heat transferred to her fingertips.

"As expected, I don't know how she did it, but she actually managed to develop a second magical space."

In her perception, there was a ball of light at this location that was not too large. It was transmitting magic power like a heartbeat, resisting the oppression from the magic ether.

If Tia could see, she would be extremely surprised, because at the place where her fingertips touched, there was a pink heart-shaped magic mark that kept flashing with strange light.

"For this position, it should be possible." Magic power spread from Tia's body. As the fleeting white light dimmed, she instantly entered a transformed state.

Keeping her fingertips lightly touching the magic mark, she separated her magic power from the first magic space and slowly injected it into it.

With the infusion of this enormous magical power, the magic mark instantly became fixed into a pink light pattern that no longer flickered, and the perceived light ball also jumped faster and faster due to the addition of new forces.

The magic power that surged out from the ball of light like waves bombarded the magic ether, and actually knocked the magic ether that had just been full of vigor and vitality back step by step.

After forcing the magic ether back, the magic power that had drilled out a hole circulated through Ando Meiko's blood and entered every part of her body, squeezing the territory of the magic ether, and finally squeezing it all into the dantian where the first magic space was located.

Under Tia's suddenly horrified expression, the weak magic light ball that was replenished in the first space actually swallowed the shrunken magic ether in one gulp like eating dumplings.

Volume 3: It's a Different World: Chapter 13: Rescue

"Let me see how much ability you have left in this area that you haven't yet unleashed." As the girl finished her words, the memory image ended here.

The surrounding void beasts faded and disappeared in groups, leaving only Ando Meiko's consciousness still wandering in this dark space.

"Whose memory is this?" she whispered.

Although that face was indeed hers, she did not have the ability to break into the Void Beast territory alone, nor did she have the strength to kill ten ghost-level Void Beasts with one sword.

"Hmm?" However, after realizing that she could speak, Meiko Anten made a sound with a puzzled tone.

She stretched out her hand and shook it gently. When she was sure that this body really belonged to her, she could finally lift her foot and take a step forward.

Being in this boundless space, she seemed to be swallowed by darkness, completely unable to tell the direction, and no matter which direction she went, it was useless.

All she could do was move forward, forward, forward in this place without the concept of time and space. She didn't know how long she had been walking until irritability surged in her heart, causing her to quicken her pace.

But this state did not last long, and the rage completely overwhelmed the irritability.

Wasn't she saved? Couldn't she rest for a bit? Why was she walking around this hellhole all by herself?

One after another, angry thoughts kept spinning in her mind like flies, making it impossible for her to remain calm and clear-headed.

After an unknown amount of time, her emotions suddenly dropped to freezing point as if she had vented everything. Frustration, regret, fear, terror, all kinds of negative emotions kept switching in her heart.

She desperately shouted in this space: "Dad! Mom! Ruby! Rei! Katerina! Rin! Can you hear me?"

"Fuko! Ayaya! Nanako! Yuya! Where are you?"

"Yuuna... Megumi..."

She called out almost every name she could, but her voice did not echo in this space, and no one here could respond to her.

"Am I... dead? Is this the afterlife?" Her heart was on the verge of collapse, and finally the worst thought emerged in her mind.

"So that's it... I'm dead." At this moment, she had lost the motivation to move forward aimlessly. Her legs went soft and she sat down on the ground with a plop.

She hugged her calves with both hands, buried her head in her knees, and sobbed weakly: "Why...even death is so lonely...Did I do something wrong to deserve this punishment?"

She began to miss the magic wand that occasionally told dirty jokes to tease her in her mind, missed her gentle and innocent childhood sweetheart, and missed the wood that always followed her and tried every means to study her.

She misses the secret crush who wanted to possess her because of twisted love, she misses the cheerful girl next door who cared about her, and she misses the iceberg girl who endured for several years for the sake of her friend.

Although she has been resisting physically and mentally, she is very clear that everyone has some strange feelings towards her...and towards Anten Meiko.

Only at this moment did she begin to blame herself and feel a little regretful. She had clearly obtained the happiness she wanted, but she was afraid that she would lose it all when she changed from Ando Meiko back to Ando Koichi.

All she resisted, so she stayed away, so she didn't cherish.

The experiences of this short month flashed through her mind like a revolving lantern. The sobbing became more and more obvious, and in the end, tears flowed from her eyes uncontrollably.

"Why...why...why...even if I have to keep fighting, I really want to go back and be with everyone...I really want to enjoy the happiness I didn't cherish...I really want to...live..."

Her voice seemed to move the heavens. The moment she finished speaking, a crisp "crack" sound like breaking glass came from the dark space.

Countless clearly visible cracks appeared in the dark sky, and a ray of white light struggled to drill out from the cracks, tearing through the area shrouded in darkness and pouring down on the curled-up Anten Meiko like sunlight.

The feelings of decadence and collapse were swept away, replaced by a warm feeling that swept over the whole body and even the soul.

Meiko Anten raised her head, and under the broken space, a white figure slowly descended from mid-air and stretched out her right hand to her.

In her eyes, the familiar figure in front of her was like an angel or even a goddess, because she came here when she was most desperate and reached out to her.

She wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, reached out her hand without any hesitation, and gently held the girl's hand. The space collapsed instantly with their movements.

The dark space filled with despair has now completely transformed into pure white that represents hope.

This moment represents only one meaning: Meiko Anten was saved.

She slowly opened her eyes, and what she saw before her was no longer the endless dark space, but the ceiling of a room covered with metal.

Her eyes turned slightly downward, and the familiar pretty face that saved her was now in front of her.

"Angel……"

"Huh? Ruby? Great, you're finally awake. It seems my guess was right."

"You saved me... Oh my god... Ahem, Tia-senpai."

"Your body has been corroded by the magic ether, and you are unable to absorb the magic power in the air to repair yourself and resist the erosion. So I have come up with a special method to inject my magic power into your body."

"Thank you, Tia-senpai, for saving me."

"No need to call me senior. Just call me Tia or Lianhua, just like we introduced before."

"Tia."

"Yes." Tia nodded gently and continued, "Tell me about your encounter with Celian."

"Okay." An Teng Meizi agreed readily, and without hesitation, she directly recounted their encounter with Celian and the battle with the Void Beast Tide.

Tia remained silent, simply listening quietly until Anten Meizi finished her narration. Then she began to lecture her, "You're truly too reckless. You've exhausted all your magic power under such a high concentration of magic ether, even disabling your transformation. No wonder you're being so severely eroded."

"You only need to run away and buy time until I arrive."

"But if we hadn't taken action and hadn't escaped, the area of ​​the city affected would have been even larger."

Volume 3: It's a Different World: Chapter 14: Like a Bat

Meiko Ando's rebuttal left her speechless. On the way back, she asked Rei Nakajima how large the affected area was.

However, after hearing that only a small number of buildings were affected, she felt a little relieved... But now thinking about it, this kind of thing to be thankful for can almost be said to have been paid for by Meiko Anten's life.

If they just run away, the void beast tide will continue to destroy all obstacles along the way as they move.

Fortunately, she found a way to lead the tide of void beasts to an open area, and tried her best to delay them there, so there was not much damage in the surrounding area.

They are guardians. Since they have joined the Shield of God, they have the determination and belief to protect the world and the people. In this way, what Ando Meiko did seemed to be the most correct at the time.

"I'm sorry." Tia bowed to her. "I was a little short-sighted. Your decision was indeed the right one. I'm here to express my gratitude."

"No, this is what I should do."

Meiko Ando slowly got up and jumped off the bed to the ground. When she found that she was naked, her pretty face blushed slightly. She then took the clothes beside her and put them on casually.

Listening to the rustling sound of cloth rubbing against skin, Tia groped for a chair nearby and sat down, quietly waiting for the girl to be dressed.

After Ando Meiko stopped moving, she said, "Since you're okay, let's go and tell the commander first."

"Yeah." Nodding, Ando Meiko followed Tia out of the room, and then went straight to the command room where Yuichi was.

Seeing that Ando Meiko's complexion had improved a lot, everyone in the command room breathed a sigh of relief and then looked at her with gratitude.

"You've been sleeping at my place all day. After a good night's rest, Sifias told me what happened and then took Nanako back home, saying he would tidy up your room for you when you return."

"So that's why I can't see her."

"Ruby, since you're here, please take a seat. There's a meeting later, so you can join us."

In front of this commander who was already a bit careless, Ando Meiko didn't hesitate to walk to the sofa and sat down.

Tia sat next to Ando Meiko, stretched out her hand and flexibly operated on the coffee table. Finally, she poured two cups of hot tea and pushed one of them in front of Ando Meiko.

She saw that Tia hadn't even glanced at the tea table from the beginning, yet her movements didn't seem to stop. Then she asked curiously, "Tia, can't you see how these tools can make tea so skillfully?"

"Well, my body emits special magical waves that are imperceptible to ordinary people. When it hits an obstacle, it will be fed back to tell me the location."

She pointed at her lifeless eyes and continued, "Although I can't see, this magical feedback allows me to visualize something like a 3D image in my mind, allowing me to roughly grasp the object's information."

Meiko Ando understood as soon as she heard it. She was using her magic power to simulate the way bats use ultrasound to find their way and act as her eyes.

However, the ability to form a three-dimensional image in the mind is similar to Ando Meiko's slacking radar.

However, Ando Meizi, in her surprise, noticed the key point she had casually mentioned: "Tia... you, can't you see?"

"Well, I lost my sight when I was a child due to something. After being chosen as a magical girl and transformed into an etheric body, the injury to my eye was completely repaired, but my vision still hasn't returned."

Tia didn't seem to want to dwell on this question for long. She pushed the teacup towards Anten Meiko and said, "Drink your tea. It will get cold if you don't drink it now."

"Tia! Where's mine? Pour me a cup too!" Youyi, who was sorting out documents, smiled embarrassedly and said to Tia.

Although Tia ignored her, she still washed a teacup and poured a cup of hot tea for Youyi.

After finishing his tea, Youyi grabbed the documents beside him and walked out of the command room, leaving a message: "Okay, let's go to the meeting room."

"Okay." Meiko Ando agreed and stood up at the same time as Tia.

Tia, who was walking in front, bumped her head on the automatic door of the command room, which had just been closed and had not yet been reopened, under the stunned gaze of Ando Meiko.

A "bang" sound was heard, and the people watching couldn't help but cover their foreheads repeatedly, and gasped in pain.

Because this scene happened too suddenly, even Meiko Ando didn't have time to warn her. When Tia was about to fall backwards to the ground, she came to her senses and hurriedly stepped forward to catch her with her body.

"Sure enough, automatic doors and the like just don't go well with me."

After muttering to herself, she stood up again with the help of Ando Meiko and gave her an apologetic smile: "Sorry, Ruby, I'm so helpful. Thank you."

"This, this is what I should do. There's nothing worth thanking you for."

Tia's thanks made Ando Meiko scratch her head. Perhaps it was because she was touched by Tia's bringing her out of that desperate space, so the brief physical contact just now caused a faint ripple in her heart.