Su Sheng made it back home safely.
Fortunately, today everyone was either out celebrating the festival or staying in with their families, so she didn’t encounter anyone along the way.
Her younger sister, Su Xiaowei, had already gone back to school a couple of days ago.
As for their parents, they had passed away in a car accident ten years earlier, leaving just the two siblings to rely on each other.
Back in her room, Su Sheng placed the white kitten on the desk and sat cross-legged on the bed like it was the most natural thing in the world, quietly waiting for the white kitten to explain.
“It’s a long story, meow. I’ll keep it short, meow. This kitten is a contractor from the Contracted Clan, meow. You have now signed a contract with me and become a magical girl, meow. Even I don’t know why you could become one, meow. Maybe you have the heart of a young maiden deep inside, meow.”
“The heart of a young maiden? Me?”
Su Sheng’s face was covered in black lines.
In all these years, this was the first time anyone had said something like that to her.
“Never mind, it’s fine. At least I have a job now.” Silently comforting herself, Su Sheng quickly accepted the reality.
“So how do I change back now?”
“Just silently say ‘release transformation’ in your heart, meow~”
“Magic really is convenient.”
Su Sheng sighed in admiration as she released her transformation state.
A flash of light passed over her.
The clothes on Su Sheng’s body returned to the original men’s shirt and jacket.
The jacket slid right off her shoulders, while the shirt hung loosely on the girl’s fair, delicate shoulders.
The oversized shirt covered the lower half of her body, preventing any exposure.
The white kitten tilted its head, looking at the girl before it.
It seemed to think of something, but before it could speak, an unnatural flush appeared on Su Sheng’s face.
She let out a startled cry.
“What’s going on? Why am I still a girl? And this strange feeling…”
“Silently recite the contract in your mind, meow. You can check the specific terms of the contract, meow.”
The kitten’s tone sounded a little guilty, but it wasn’t its fault.
The contract terms were generated naturally, choosing what was most suitable for a magical girl. It didn’t have the ability to change them.
With no time to think further, Su Sheng endured the discomfort in her body and carefully examined the contract details:
I voluntarily become a magical girl.
I will wholeheartedly protect my adorable contractor.
I voluntarily provide magic power to nourish my contractor.
I voluntarily take it upon myself to eliminate witches, even if it means sacrificing myself…
No, looking through the entire thing, there were no rights, only obligations.
These terms looked like some kind of unequal treaty.
The more Su Sheng read, the more her head hurt. She had a feeling like she had sold herself and was still helping the other party count the money.
Finally, at the very end of the contract, Su Sheng found what she was looking for: I voluntarily pay the price of using magic power through lewd acts?
Something strange seemed to have slipped into the contract?
Without realizing it, Su Sheng’s hand had already moved to a very awkward position.
Although this body still felt unfamiliar, paying the price came naturally.
Thanks to the contract, she instinctively knew exactly how to pay it and thereby recover her magic power.
“Mmm…” Su Sheng unconsciously tightened her legs together…
***
Fifteen minutes later, a suspicious damp patch had appeared on the bedsheet where Su Sheng had been sitting. She buried her head in the blanket, her slender legs kicking up and down irregularly.
“The contract’s choice is correct, meow. It defaults to selecting the method that causes the greatest emotional fluctuation for the magical girl to pay the price, meow.”
The white kitten’s meows sounded soft and satisfied. It looked quite pleased.
Hearing this, Su Sheng grabbed a pillow and hurled it at the white kitten.
The kitten nimbly dodged it with a cat step.
Su Sheng got off the bed.
Her legs went soft for a moment, but she quickly recovered.
She walked to the mirror on the desk and said with a face full of shame and anger, “Never mind the other stuff for now. Why am I still a girl even after releasing the transformation?”
“What’s so strange about that, meow? After signing the contract, you voluntarily became a magical girl as the contract states, meow. Of course magical girls are girls, meow?”
***
After several minutes of silence, Su Sheng outwardly accepted this setting with surprising calm.
That’s right. Magical girls are naturally girls. Wasn’t that perfectly normal?
Thinking about the stable job with the Magical Girl Alliance, this was just a small issue. It was only a tiny price to pay…
Her gaze swept over the damp bedsheet again, and the corner of Su Sheng’s mouth twitched.
But it was already done; there was no use saying more.
She turned to the kitten. “Um, little kitten. Wait, do you have a name?”
Looking at the pure white ball of fur in front of her, whose soft, smooth coat made one want to pet it, she said, “Then I’ll call you Xiaotuan. I’m…”
Thinking about her current appearance, and since she couldn’t change back, using her original name didn’t seem quite right anymore. “Then… Su… Su Xiaocheng?”
Su Xiaocheng had no talent for naming. After casually giving new names to Xiaotuan and herself, she began cleaning up the battlefield.
She changed the bedsheet to a new one, took a shower, happily admired her new body for a while, and tossed her original clothes into the washing machine.
As for what to wear, her old clothes definitely wouldn’t fit anymore, so she went to Su Xiaowei’s room and dug out a set of pajamas her sister had left behind.
Surprisingly, they fit quite well.
It looked like she could borrow her sister’s clothes when going out tomorrow as well.
Having relied on each other with her sister for so long, Su Xiaocheng’s cooking skills were pretty decent.
She simply boiled some noodles.
Thinking about everything she had been through today and feeling somewhat exhausted, she cut up a tomato, cracked an egg, and quickly stir-fried a home-style tomato and egg dish.
She poured it over the noodles, and a fragrant bowl of tomato and egg noodles was ready.
However, Xiaotuan didn’t seem very interested in it.
“What do you want to eat? I don’t have any cat food right now.”
“The Witch’s Heart that the witch dropped earlier, or the magic power you provide, meow. The Witch’s Heart is the best food, meow. Eating one can keep me from needing to eat for a long time, meow. But you can also save it to recover magic power later, meow. Just don’t use too many at once, meow. It’s bad for the body, meow.”
Even though Xiaotuan said that, drool was already uncontrollably dripping from the corner of its mouth.
Thinking that there really wasn’t any other food available, Su Xiaocheng tossed the transparent Witch’s Heart to Xiaotuan.
No matter what, they were family now.
Besides, Xiaotuan was just a two-hour-old child. She couldn’t let the child go hungry, right?
(The kitten cheered happily)
Perhaps because it was her first time using magic power, Su Xiaocheng felt a bit tired after studying the magical girl contract for a while.
Looking at all the “voluntarily” terms in the contract, she still felt something was off, but after Xiaotuan’s explanation, everything seemed reasonable again.
That’s right.
A magical girl gains power and willingly nourishes her contractor while paying the price.
Wasn’t that perfectly reasonable?
What was wrong with becoming a sweet, soft, and adorable magical girl?
Having convinced herself, Su Xiaocheng petted Xiaotuan for a while before a wave of drowsiness hit her.
She climbed into the freshly made bed and soon fell
asleep.
Outside the window, a black cat climbed onto the windowsill.
It watched the sleeping girl and kitten for a moment, pondered briefly, then jumped down and disappeared into the night.