noveldepot Chapter 42 My older sister is also a magical girl?
Chapter 42 My older sister is also a magical girl?
In the bedroom, Shen Zixin, transformed into Ling Bo, was lying on the bed.
Noah sat on a chair by the bed, one hand gently pressing on Lingbo's lower abdomen, performing some kind of treatment.
According to Noah, although Shen Zixin could be healed in her human form, the root of the injury lay in her soul, so it would be easier to heal her if she transformed into a magical girl.
"I didn't expect... Noah, you actually know healing magic."
Lingbo had assumed that a combat-oriented magical girl like Noah, even if she possessed some support abilities, would only have them for combat. It was quite surprising that she also had healing abilities.
"I've only dabbled in it. I wouldn't call myself an expert, and I can't compare to those magical girls who specialize in healing. However, treating an injury like yours... is still within my capabilities."
Lingbo gave a soft "hmm," feeling the warm current coming from her lower abdomen and the gradually subsiding stinging pain.
Recalling the perilous battle she had just fought, a bitter smile crept onto her face.
"Although I feel that my physical abilities have indeed become incredibly strong after transforming into a magical girl... being hit by a disaster beast a couple of times still makes me lose my ability to move so easily..."
"A magical girl's body is already ridiculously resilient," Noah remarked. "If it were a normal human, being hit like that by a monster would have made them instantly dead."
"Besides, your injury is only temporary, which is already considered good. You can even walk home. If you had been blasted to smithereens by a light cannon or cut in half, you would have been in real trouble."
Upon hearing Noah's description, Lingbo subconsciously swallowed; it did indeed sound a bit horrifying.
However, at this moment, another question arose in Lingbo's mind.
What kind of relationship did Ji Xia have with Noah's timeline? Let's ask her during a break in Noah's treatment.
"Noah, can you tell me about what happened between you and Senior Ji Xia?"
The moment the words left her lips, Lingbo noticed that Noah's hand, which was pressed against her lower abdomen, trembled slightly.
"...Why ask that?" Noah's voice remained calm, but Lingbo could sense that something was being deliberately suppressed beneath that calmness.
"Nothing special, just pure curiosity. After all, she saved 'me' in both worlds. So I'm a little curious about how you interacted with her before."
Noah was silent for a moment before slowly speaking. However, her usually smiling face was now calm, even somewhat cold: "...It's not some secret that can't be told. Ji Xia's true identity is Lu Yue."
"ah……?"
Feeling like she'd been hit over the head, Lingbo was completely stunned—
My older sister... is she that powerful and reliable magical girl, Ji Xia?
How is this possible?!
"You...you wait a minute—! What did you just say?!" Lingbo's voice couldn't help but get louder, which was a bit of a blow to her emotionless loli persona.
Noah's face remained expressionless and indifferent: "What's wrong? I'm a second-time player, after all. I know some information. Is that so strange?"
"No, no, no! That's not the point at all!"
Lingbo struggled to sit up in bed, but Noah gently pressed her back down.
"Don't move around. Lie down and talk." Noah stroked Lingbo's lower abdomen and continued the treatment.
"What I mean is... when did my older sister become a magical girl? Why don't I have any idea?!"
"It was a long time ago." Noah recalled briefly. "She awakened as a magical girl a very long time ago. However, at least when you were in high school, she was already working at the Civil Defense Bureau in Moonflower City."
"Working at the Civil Defense Bureau? Just like we are now?"
"No, that's not it. Lu Yue is 'working,' not just 'registering.'"
Noah emphasized, "The vast majority of magical girls who register have a labor dispatch relationship with the Civil Defense Bureau. They are under the command and dispatch of the Civil Defense Bureau and enjoy a certain degree of resource and intelligence support, but in the end, they are not considered official employees of the Civil Defense Bureau."
"But Lu Yue is different. She signed a formal labor contract with the Civil Defense Bureau as a 'magical girl,' and is an 'official staff member' with a formal position. The responsibilities and obligations she bears are incomparable to those magical girls outside the system."
"That's not right..." Lingbo frowned, recalling what her older sister had said before, "My sister clearly told me that her job is in clothing sales..."
"Hmph," Noah gave a slight, mocking smile, "In all these years, have you ever actually been to the company she talks about, or seen her working with your own eyes? Isn't your understanding of her work entirely based on her one-sided account?"
Lingbo was speechless for a moment.
Yes, she never doubted it, nor did she ever think of investigating it further.
That older sister who always treats her family with kindness, works hard outside, and sometimes seems a bit unreliable... is she actually a magical girl?
However, Lingbo suddenly felt that something was wrong.
Because her older sister is usually unreliable and spends money without restraint, Shen Zixin is in charge of the family's bank cards and plans the family's expenses.
However, having a bank card meant she could theoretically see the name of the company that deposited her salary. But he never even considered looking at the name of his sister's company.
I can't believe I wasn't curious about what my older sister's company was before? Why didn't I realize that before?
Moreover... ever since the conversation just started, the vague sense of unease that Lingbo had felt was becoming increasingly clear.
That was Noah's attitude.
When Qin Xiaoling is mentioned, Noah's tone always reveals an unconcealable sadness and longing, a deep sorrow for Xiaoling's fate.
However, when talking about Lu Yue—the older sister she spent every day with, and even the savior of both timelines—Noah's tone was unusually cold, even... distant.
Noah, seeing Lingbo deep in thought, seemed to understand her inner thoughts. However, Noah remained expressionless—
"It's normal that you didn't realize she was a magical girl, because she hypnotized you, preventing you from delving into her identity. Lu Yue... that is, Ji Xia's mental image, is the result of hypnotic suggestion."
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Information that can be made public now:
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obedience to the voice of heaven
Category: Mindset
Level: E-
Holder: Ji Xia
description:
The ability to hypnotize and suggest to people through sound. Its effect is not a forced deprivation of will, but rather a suggestive manipulation.
In non-magical combat environments, ordinary human individuals are almost unable to mount an effective resistance. They will unconsciously accept the verbal manipulation of the initiator and internalize it into their own behavior.
Even magical girls are affected to varying degrees when they revert to their human form after their transformation, although the duration of the effect varies depending on factors such as individual magic resistance and mental resilience.
However, when transformed into a magical girl, she possesses extremely high resistance to "obedience to divine voice," essentially rendering this mind ineffective against her magical girl form. Even ordinary people can resist this hypnosis by carrying mental resistance-enhancing Mystic Codes or exorcism amulets.
It is not limited by language barriers; the Heavenly Voice possesses the ability to automatically translate into a language that can be understood once it is heard. However, physical soundproofing methods, such as covering the ears, remain the simplest and most direct form of resistance.
The activation process of "Obedience of the Heavenly Voice" has a relatively obvious casting animation - the caster needs to concentrate and adjust their voice. For opponents familiar with its abilities, this is enough to make effective evasion or counterattack.
Even if the target has fallen into the initial suggestive state, as long as there is someone nearby who can break through mental interference or provide verbal reminders, this state can be easily broken.
More importantly, the effects of such hypnotic suggestions are limited in depth. They can only guide the target to perform some harmless actions that do not violate their basic moral principles and core interests, and to "blur" or "rationalize" them at the cognitive level.
It is completely impossible to use this to perform deep memory alteration, personality reshaping, or to force the target to execute instructions against their fundamental will (such as self-harm or harming close relatives).