Magic Calendar 2026, the artificial snowflake-shaped island city of Dust Fate City.
The giant monster turned into smoke and dust, scattering with the wind.
One of the rules of the “Magic Association”—after destroying a monster, it is mandatory to perform harmless disposal.
Otherwise, payment will be deducted from wages according to the degree of damage.
Behind the cordon, people raised their phones and video cameras, all aimed at the one retrieving the “Calamity Heart,” the blue-and-white magical girl—Bai Qiu.
Among them were shouts like “Xiao Bai baby is so cool,” “Xiao Bai, look at the camera,” and “Bai Qiu Mama.”
It seems something that doesn’t quite fit had mixed in?
Bai Qiu turned around and made a V-sign with both hands, revealing a sunny smile.
Her blue-and-white dress was damaged in many places, her pale thighs were exposed, and there were still wounds from the earlier battle.
Her dust-covered white ponytail with asymmetrical side hair, big silver eyes, and somewhat dirty face made her look like she had just gone through a difficult battle.
Perhaps because of her strong will to never retreat even in desperate straits, her popularity had grown from initial obscurity to now going viral online.
Then, Bai Qiu used magic to conjure a signboard, using magic to write five large colorful words on it—Ad Space for Rent.
“Give me an ad, please!
I haven’t had a commercial order in months!”
“It’s cheap!
Really cheap!
First order gets fifty percent off!”
“Just give me one chance!
Just one is all I need!”
“I still have a cute little sister to support at home～～～”
“Give Bai Qiuqiu some money～～～”
Unfortunately, because she always won with great difficulty and always ended up battered and filthy after fighting, and her reputation wasn’t particularly good, the popular advertised products on the market—like clothes, shoes, cosmetics, and such—wouldn’t consider her at all.
The ones who hired her the most were body armor and helmets, to showcase their product quality.
Just as Bai Qiu hung the sign around her neck, about to take out her payment QR code to sell photos and autographs at a high price—
“Se-Senior, don’t do this…!”
The junior He Xi, having finished fighting on another battlefield, saw her about to touch the taboo and hurried over to stop her.
“The Association strictly forbids this…”
“N-No!”
Bai Qiu secretly pinched herself until tears came out.
“My little sister at home is still waiting for me to earn money and come back.
I can’t back down because of authority!”
“Senior, if you’re found out, your wages will be docked!”
He Xi’s originally somewhat soft tone turned firm.
He Xi’s words made Bai Qiu calm down a little.
She knelt down powerlessly as if she’d lost all strength.
“Damn it…!
It must be because I touched someone’s interests…!”
“H-Hurry, let’s go.
Everyone’s watching.
We can’t do this…”
He Xi forced a smile as she helped Bai Qiu up and carried her away flying in front of everyone’s eyes.
With Bai Qiu’s strength, she simply couldn’t resist this junior known as the “Strongest.”
After flying somewhere no one could see, He Xi set Bai Qiu down.
“Senior…”
She looked at Bai Qiu with some difficulty.
“I’m sorry, but I really am short on money…”
Bai Qiu sat at the edge of the rooftop, hugging her knees and burying her head in her arms.
“Al-Almost though I don’t understand Senior’s situation, but…”
He Xi stuffed two 1,000-yuan bills into Bai Qiu’s hand.
“If you’re short on money, please come find me.”
“…What?”
Bai Qiu thought her ears were playing tricks on her, but the touch of the large bills was so real.
She looked up at He Xi, but He Xi turned her head to the side.
At some point, she had put the fox mask that had been on her head onto her face, with two fox ears poking out from the top of her head.
From this angle, only her slightly reddened neck was visible.
“Th-That!
I’m leaving first!
Goodbye, Senior!”
He Xi flew away in a fluster, leaving Bai Qiu alone clutching two bills and gazing speechlessly into the wind.
After a long while, she got up and flew toward home.
Bai Qiu lived in a detached villa in the city district.
She landed on the balcony, walked in through the open floor-to-ceiling window, casually kicked her shoes onto the balcony, and peeled off her torn stockings, tossing them onto the drying rack on the balcony.
Bai Qiu was just about to lie down on the bed, but when she thought about how dirty she was and that her sister would definitely scold her if she saw, she simply sat down on the floor.
“Sigh, it’s not a total loss.
Even though I got beaten by the monster for so long, at least I earned two thousand yuan.”
She murmured to herself while looking at the two bills.
“He Xi said all that…
Next time I’m short on money, I’ll go borrow some from her.
No matter what, I can’t let down a cute junior’s kindness.”
After staring at the two bills a while longer, she put them under her pillow.
‘You two are my emergency money from now on.
When I’m broke, I’ll be counting on you.’
She pressed her palms together, praying in her heart, praying that when she woke up the next day, the two thousand under her pillow would double, in a couple days triple, in three days quadruple…
After finishing her prayer, Bai Qiu took off her clothes, placed her hands on the torn parts, and white light radiated from her hands.
The places touched by the light became as good as new.
This was the most basic “Repair Magic,” Magic Girl Introduction Compulsory Course One.
Because the clothing was all made from fabric infused with “Calamity Heart,” repairs could only be done with magic.
As for the stockings, those were just ordinary stockings.
If they were damaged, she could just swap in a new pair—they weren’t expensive anyway.
She hung the repaired clothes on the hanger, tossed her underwear into the laundry basket by the door, and casually pulled a men’s pajama set off the hanger.
She adhered to the principle of wearing and only wearing pajamas at home.
Regardless of spring, summer, autumn, or winter, always only pajamas, and not necessarily worn properly.
She glanced at herself in the mirror again—the “Heart Stone” embedded in the white bow hairclip, used as a hair accessory for her ponytail.
As long as she removed the hairclip, she could cancel the transformation and restore her manly self.
‘…Too much trouble.
I fought that monster for three or four hours and I’m about to die of exhaustion.
I’ll just wait for it to cancel automatically.’
Magical girl Bai Qiu was actually a man, originally named Bai Qiuchen.
This was undoubtedly shocking news.
If it got out, “Magical Girl Bai Qiu’s” career would probably end right there.
Why would he become a magical girl?
This required bringing up Bai Qiuchen’s life experiences.
Since middle school, Bai Qiuchen had shown he was different from others.
While his peers were into toys, phones, and games, he was into Magical Girl Observation Guide, Magical Girl Tier Rankings, Magical Girl User Manual, and FX and gacha games.
Very…
And most of this was thanks to his sister, who was seven years younger than him—Bai Qiumu.
His sister had become a magical girl at a very young age, which gave him the opportunity to observe magical girls more and more closely than others.
Of course, FX and gacha games were purely his own interest and had nothing to do with Bai Qiumu.
It was just that when he was in high school, his sister withdrew from the “Magic Association” and became a freelance magical girl, until now she had completely retired.
But she still received a high monthly pension, which made him envious.
Later, Bai Qiuchen graduated from high school.
His grades were decent, but his parents, having believed some major-selection streamers online, signed him up for the world’s most promising Computer Science major, with the second most promising Civil Engineering as backup.
And then…
Whether or not they had foreseen that their son wouldn’t find a job after graduation and couldn’t bear it, they simply threw caution to the wind, went off traveling, and stayed out of sight.
Almost at the same time, Bai Qiuchen suddenly realized too.
‘Isn’t it a bit too late to enter the computer industry now?’
When he ran home wanting to confront his parents, all he found was a cold note:
[This villa is now yours and your sister’s.]
[————Your loving parents.]
And then, in a fit of spite, he never went back to university again.
Eventually, after a year as a shut-in, with the help of his sister, a former magical girl, and relying on all sorts of strange knowledge learned from years of observing his sister, he joined the Magic Association as a junior instructor.
Until two years ago, when he accidentally obtained the “Heart Stone” and gained the ability to transform into a magical girl.
He didn’t know why a grown man like him could turn into a magical girl, but before he could figure out the situation—just as he was about to carefully explore his transformed little girl body—his sister barged in and caught him.
And then… she took photos and half-threatened, half-forced him into working for the Association.
Because he was introduced by his sister, a former magical girl, he barely went through any assessment, and even a bunch of made-up documents got approved.
Just like that, she became a glorious, year-round-no-vacation, monthly salary of only 4,000 yuan, combat-power-equivalent-to-an-adult-banana magical girl.
“Knock knock knock.”
“Bro, are you back?”
“Wait wait wait—”
Before he could finish, the door was pushed open directly.
A 16-year-old girl standing 152 cm tall, weighing 45 kg, wearing loungewear printed with cute Magical Girl Bai Qiu designs, with beautiful long white hair and red eyes—Bai Qiumu stood at the doorway, looking at Bai Qiu.
The current scene was identical to that time.
Same composition, same characters, same half-naked Bai Qiu.
And the same behavior as back then—Bai Qiumu wore a delighted expression and snapped a photo with a “click.”
“Don’t come in while I’m changing!”
Bai Qiu hurriedly put on his pajamas.
Bai Qiumu put away her phone and snorted disdainfully.
“It’s not like I haven’t seen it before.
I’m not interested in little girls like you.”
“Heh.
When you’re hugging me to sleep, it’s really~ hard~ to~ tell~ though~”
Bai Qiu glanced at the clothes his sister was wearing.
“Also, take off your clothes before you talk.”
Bai Qiumu didn’t respond.
She swaggered in, pulled over the gaming chair by the desk, sat down, crossed her legs, and tossed a document in front of Bai Qiu.
“What’s this?”
Bai Qiu reached out to pick it up in confusion…
“Explain.
Why did your account show an expenditure of 60,000 yesterday.”
“Ugh!”
She instantly turned to stone.