Rakuraku stood uneasily in front of the school gate, took out her portable makeup mirror, and checked her makeup.
That morning she had followed Instagram beauty bloggers and put on a calculated concealer look.
Although she had said she would sleep early, sure enough she had still stayed up from being too excited.
She was just like an elementary schooler before a school trip.
Today she had gotten up very early.
Among the pile of clothes she had finally chosen a one-shoulder fitted top that exposed her snow-white neck, paired with a pink four-leaf clover necklace.
Mom had said this necklace really suited her hair color.
For her lower half she had chosen a black cinched-waist short skirt, matched with a playful studded belt.
Her beautifully lined thighs were wrapped in black over-knee socks, showing a trace of a young girl’s innocent cuteness.
She cast her gaze toward the far end of the street, doing her best to search for that small figure.
Soon, Nadeshiko appeared in her field of view.
She noticed Rakuraku, happily waved, and jogged over.
“You don’t have to be in such a hurry.” Rakuraku reached out and tucked the strands of hair that had gotten a little messy from running behind Nadeshiko’s ear.
“Because I wanted to see Rakuraku sooner!” Nadeshiko was breathing a little hard.
Her face was a little red from the running just now.
Today she was still wearing that oversized white camisole T-shirt, and for her lower half she had chosen a pleated skirt, exposing a section of pale calf.
“Cute—” Rakuraku took out her phone and captured Nadeshiko looking like this.
“Ah! Rakuraku is so sneaky, don’t take pictures of me.” Nadeshiko hurriedly blocked with her hands, but Rakuraku easily dodged past them.
“Just one picture, okay~?” Rakuraku blinked those big eyes and acted spoiled toward Nadeshiko.
“I really can’t do anything about you~” Nadeshiko tidied her hair and naturally took Rakuraku’s hand.
“Since you’ve finished taking pictures, let’s set off then.”
On the loop train of the new urban district, the two of them gazed at the scenery in the distance.
“Even though I can see this kind of scenery every day on the way to school, I still feel like I never get tired of it.” Rakuraku let out a sigh of admiration.
“That’s right~” Nadeshiko agreed.
The loop train of the new urban district was built above the entire new urban district, circling the landmark building Seika Tower.
From the train, one could clearly see the prosperous CBD buildings.
Huge electronic screens displayed advertisements for magical girl idol tours.
Pedestrians came and went on the floating layers.
The entire city was thriving.
After the monster tide ended, humanity had not stagnated because of the brief pain.
They extracted new energy from the remains of the giant monsters, and productivity increased by a large margin.
In two years’ time, they had basically completed the postwar reconstruction.
Some regions had rapidly developed by turning magical girls into idols.
The new urban district was one such city.
But that did not mean people had forgotten the history of fighting monsters.
In the park beneath Seika Tower stood a huge monument, commemorating the magical girls and the tens of thousands of ordinary people who had sacrificed themselves to protect civilization during the monster tide.
Nadeshiko pulled her gaze back from outside the train window and let it fall on the pink-haired idiot who had been excited the whole time since earlier.
She had fallen into reminiscence of the past again.
This was not something worth being happy about.
She had still been young when she first crossed into this world, and she had immediately had to face a hell of blood and tears.
“Nadeshiko-chan, we’re almost there.” Rakuraku sitting beside her spoke up to remind her.
The train slowly pulled into the station.
Passengers got off one after another.
Rakuraku pulled Nadeshiko’s hand and got off the train together with the passengers.
They boarded the long scenic elevator and soon arrived at the park beneath Seika Tower, which was also the place where the monument Nadeshiko had seen from the train was located.
Although it was late autumn right now, the sunlight falling on their bodies instead made people feel warm and cozy.
Rakuraku volunteered to take on the duty of tour guide.
The moment they landed she pulled Nadeshiko around everywhere, and Nadeshiko was happy to get farther away from this monument.
“Nadeshiko-chan, look!” Following the direction Rakuraku’s hand was pointing, there was an ice cream shop with a huge sign.
Most of the passing tourists were holding that shop’s ice cream in their hands.
It looked like business was extremely booming.