The broom train continued flying upward into the sky, but Jiang Si could sense that sothing was off with ti and space.
There was definitely sothing wrong, or rather chaotic, about the ti and space here.
Because Jiang Si discovered that the surrounding environnt was constantly enveloped by a strange magical energy, and when they reached a certain altitude, his vision even began to distort.
By the ti the broom train slowed its flight speed, he found the world turned upside down.
This wasn't just a figure of speech, but a literal description.
The sky was beneath his feet, while the ground was above him. Looking up, he could even see the previous station platform, distant and ethereal.
And beneath his feet were layers of cumulus clouds, thick and solid like ground, with a very modern high-rise building abruptly standing atop these clouds.
On such a fantastically magnificent landscape, a modern building suddenly appeared.
If not completely unrelated, it was certainly jarringly out of place.
The Disaster Control Bureau's taste remained as despair-inducing as ever.
Though ever since seeing them copy the Platform Nine and Three-Quarters station, Jiang Si had already given up hope for their aesthetic sense.
But seeing such a sudden scene still exceeded his expectations.
"Don't worry, as long as it's not a Disaster Beast, ordinary people and Magical Girls can all stand on these cumulus clouds." To reassure the two, Silver Lotus even bounced a few tis on the clouds.
She wasn't tall to begin with, and now she looked even more like an elentary school student...
Jiang Keke first tentatively extended her right leg, testing the cloud surface with her foot, confirming she could feel solid ground before putting her other foot down. She held onto the broom, gradually releasing her grip, carefully walking on the clouds.
"How is it? I didn't lie to you, right?"
Jiang Keke also bounced a few tis—she was still young, having just entered middle school this year, with a childlike nature. However, due to her family circumstances, she usually suppressed herself, appearing quite mature.
But faced with this situation, she felt sowhat excited, hopping and skipping on the clouds, finally showing so behavior appropriate for her age.
Silver Lotus jumped around with Keke nearby, looking as if Keke was playing with her younger sister.
Jiang Si watched for a while, originally planning to confirm there was no danger before letting go.
Although holding onto the broom handle throughout the journey had made his hands sowhat tired and sore, he couldn't easily release the broom before confirming safety.
After all, if he really fell, he could only transform, but transforming here was clearly not a wise move.
But just as he touched the clouds, his legs feeling the soft, sinking sensation—
The broom in his hand suddenly disappeared.
This was clearly unexpected for Jiang Si, and worse, having lost his support point, when he stepped onto the cloud layer he couldn't feel any solid ground at all. Instead, he directly sank into the cumulus clouds and even began falling downward!
But saying he was falling downward also felt like the disorienting sensation of flying upward.
"Be careful!"
Silver Lotus noticed sothing wrong first and imdiately rushed over.
For a mont, pink magical energy flashed around her. Empowered by magic, she grabbed Jiang Si's hand at incredible speed.
Jiang Keke nearby also instinctively ran forward two steps, then seeing Jiang Si caught by Silver Lotus, she breathed a slight sigh of relief before slowing her pace, walking over to help Silver Lotus grab his other hand, preventing him from falling further.
"Hold tight, don't let go!"
"As expected, you're not human. How could you fall through even this..."
"What kind of ti is this for such comnts, Keke!"
To avoid exposure, Silver Lotus also withdrew the magical energy from her seed, but then discovered—he's so heavy...
She was starting to lose her grip.
Feeling puzzled about why he was so heavy—Jiang Si wasn't large-frad—she imdiately said:
"Hang on, I'll call the broom back right away!"
She took out the key again, this ti clearly visible pink magical energy swirling around the key before spreading outward.
The previously vanished broom abruptly fell from the sky, though this ti without the carriage.
It lonely cushioned beneath Jiang Si's feet.
By now, half his body had already sunk into the cumulus clouds.
"Are you, are you okay?" Only after Jiang Si flew up standing on the broom did Silver Lotus breathe a slight sigh of relief, clearly quite frightened herself. She had never seen anyone able to fall through these cumulus clouds before. "How could you suddenly fall through? That shouldn't happen?"
Jiang Keke nearby added another comnt, "Truly not human."
"Have you had any contact with Disaster Beasts recently?" Silver Lotus seed to rember sothing. "Could it be that you've been contaminated by a Disaster Beast?"
Jiang Si thought for a mont, "Oh, yes, I went to the middle school section and stepped in that giant bat's blood."
"That might be the reason..."
Actually, contamination wouldn't be that simple. Jiang Si had sowhat guessed it was probably related to him absorbing the Grief Seed's magical energy.
It seed the Disaster Control Bureau had so thods after all...
As Silver Lotus helped support Jiang Si, controlling the broom toward the Disaster Control Bureau building, Jiang Keke suddenly asked from behind, "Why did you go to the middle school section?"
"Passing by."
In reality, he had only gone to collect Grief Seeds and absorb magical energy along the way.
But to the two girls, this carried another aning.
After passing through the cloud layer, they could see the Disaster Control Bureau's entrance, with a shining plaque displaying the three characters "Disaster Control Bureau." The door was a commonly seen glass revolving door.
Testing the ground in front of the door and confirming it was solid, Jiang Si finally stepped off the broom.
Compared to cloud layers, marble flooring was indeed much more substantial and reassuring.
After confirming Jiang Si's safety, Silver Lotus also retrieved the broom, then took two steps back, creating distance from Jiang Si. She leaned close to Keke, lowering her voice, "He wouldn't have gone to the middle school section because he was worried about you, would he?"
"He doesn't lie." Keke's tone was indifferent. "Or rather, he can't be bothered to lie. If he says passing by, then it's passing by. Don't overthink it."
"But it's such a coincidence! How could he just happen to pass by the middle school section, go inside, and step in the bat Disaster Beast's blood? I think he really was worried about you, so he went to check the middle school section. Then he got contaminated by the Disaster Beast and almost fell to his death..."
Keke imdiately rubbed her senior's face, "Don't let your imagination run wild!"
Don't make imagine things.
Worried about ? Impossible. This guy would absolutely never worry about . He didn't even care about our parents' deaths, why would he care about my safety?
It's more likely he wishes I were dead so he could live more easily and monopolize our parents' inheritance.
Thinking this, she looked at Jiang Si's back and took a deep breath.
He absolutely couldn't have gone to the middle school section because he was worried about !
Even if he almost fell to his death, that was his own fault and has nothing to do with .
"Keke? Keke?"
Snapping back to reality, Jiang Keke looked at Silver Lotus who was calling her, "What is it?"
Silver Lotus waved her hand in front of her, "Nothing, you just spaced out for a mont. What were you thinking about?"
"I was thinking maybe I should join the Disaster Control Bureau." Jiang Keke looked up at the service counter staff. "This way I can leave Jiang Si sooner."
"While I'm happy you're willing to join the Disaster Control Bureau, your reason is rather hard to feel happy about."
As for the two girls' murmuring behind him, Jiang Si naturally had no interest.
The entire building was very modern. After entering the Disaster Control Bureau building, there was a long corridor.
He waited for Silver Lotus to walk ahead, to avoid triggering any more chanisms.
Both walls of the corridor were hung with many frad paintings.
All depicting Magical Girls and Disaster Beasts.
These paintings were animated—when approached, the Disaster Beasts would roar toward the viewer as if about to leap out of the painting.
As for the Magical Girls, so were reading books, and when approached you'd find they even turned pages within the painting. So Magical Girls were painting, with their artwork constantly changing.
He rembered Harry Potter had similar animated paintings, but couldn't recall clearly since he'd only glanced at it casually without paying much attention.
They completely copied it.
But they stopped at the corridor's end.
Looking up at the painting at the very top of the corridor, Keke also stopped, staring blankly at the Magical Girl in the painting.
Silver Lotus, who had been walking ahead, turned back when the two stopped.
The blue Magical Girl in that painting blinked her eyes and winked at the viewers, cute and charming.
"This is Senior Kingfisher. Are you fans of hers too?" Silver Lotus began listing details like reciting from mory. "Senior Kingfisher is only seventeen this year, but she's already one of the top Magical Girls in the Disaster Control Bureau. Not only does she rank among the highest in Disaster Beast hunts, she also participates in the Bureau's idol project, earning substantial activity funds for them. I heard her academic performance also ranks at the top..."
"What kind of all-powerful superhero is that." Keke comnted beside her. "I knew she was impressive, but this is too impressive, right?"
Keke said softly, "Three years ago, when we encountered Disaster Beasts, it was Senior Kingfisher who saved us."
"Oh." Silver Lotus imdiately nodded understandingly. "Then admiring Senior Kingfisher is quite normal."
"I wouldn't say admiration."
Keke said with so guilt, "At that ti, I said the wrong thing, blaming Senior Kingfisher for not coming sooner to save our parents. I've always regretted it and wanted to apologize to her."
Silver Lotus patted her back—she originally wanted to pat her head but couldn't reach—comforting gently, "It's okay, Senior Kingfisher won't mind. But if you really care, joining the Disaster Control Bureau will give you many chances to see her. You can properly apologize then."
"Yeah..."
Jiang Si glanced at his sister for the first ti, "Have you decided to join the Disaster Control Bureau?"
"As you wish, so I can beco independent sooner."
Long accustod to her tone, Jiang Si simply nodded toward Silver Lotus, "Then let's register her."
"We're almost there, follow ."
The three passed through the corridor, first arriving at a hall. The reception desk wasn't staffed by humans, but by two Incubators.
One white, one black. Although they looked similar to the Incubator Jiang Si had seen, their aura was worlds apart.
Jiang Si's Incubator was lazy and foolish, now clinging to Bingtang, usually unwilling to even co out, let alone offer combat power. It was fortunate if it didn't hold him back, and its knowledge about Magical Girls was half-understood, unable to explain things clearly.
In Jiang Si's perception, Incubators equaled useless.
But these two Incubators at the counter were clearly different.
Not to ntion the pressure they exuded, their magical energy was especially profound.
Incubators basically shared their Magical Girl's magical energy—his own had ntioned this. When his magical energy increased, its magical energy would grow too.
aning, the owners of these two Incubators were very likely Full Bloom level Magical Girls.
Because re Blooming couldn't achieve such profound magical energy—Jiang Si knew this all too well himself.
"Silver Lotus, why are you back so late? Did you find any Disaster Beasts yesterday?"
"Found them, found them. And," Silver Lotus imdiately pushed Jiang Keke forward, "I found a new Magical Girl!"
The previously composed two Incubators imdiately beca excited, "What, you actually brought a new Magical Girl!"
"We must celebrate!"
"Hurry, hurry, call An Ruola over..."
They even seed sowhat flustered.
"Hey hey, help with registration first."
Jiang Si found a seat nearby and sat down. The Disaster Control Bureau's hall layout was quite similar to the police station he'd visited before, just with fewer people.
Aside from the front station platform and corridor, most of the building's layout clearly showed it was directly modified from a police station.
After ntioning registration, he saw the Incubator pull out a computer from below, then plug the computer's power cord into its own tail.
Then the two Incubators began fussing over Jiang Keke like kindly old folks.
Clearly treating her like a discovered treasure.
For the Disaster Control Bureau, having seen no newcors for so many years, Jiang Keke's arrival was truly a precious find.
At least there was no need to worry about Keke being bullied here.
"That person over there." The black Incubator flew up, calling toward him, "You're Keke's guardian, right? Co sign here."
"He's Keke's older brother." Silver Lotus reminded from nearby. "Be more polite."
"Even Keke doesn't like him, why should we be polite?"
Silver Lotus was montarily speechless, just taking small steps over to Jiang Si's side, "Sorry about that, these two are just a bit thick-headed."
The two Incubators imdiately protested, "Who are you calling thick-headed, Silver Lotus!"
Jiang Si didn't particularly mind, walking to the counter to look at the docunts printed by the computer.
It was roughly a contract. Since Magical Girl appointnts were official employnt, they needed employnt contracts with many detailed rules. Jiang Si skimd through it—nothing majorly problematic.
The Azure Cloud Sect had also issued employnt contracts internally. Bingtang said they were copied from the Disaster Control Bureau's, so he knew sothing about them.
Casually signing, he had nothing else to do.
Waiting behind for Keke's procedures to complete, Silver Lotus both instructed Keke on the process and occasionally looked back to check on Jiang Si sitting alone, ensuring he didn't feel neglected.
She looked quite busy.
So Jiang Si stood up, planning to return to the corridor to look at the various Magical Girls again.
But before he could take two steps, the entire hall suddenly flashed with red light.
A sharp alarm sound pierced through the entire building!
"All units attention, all units attention! Miracle Seeds from the security room have been stolen. All personnel remain in place! Do not move!"
Accompanied by urgent alarms, a group of fully ard soldiers poured out from upstairs.
They carried Arican MK18 weapons, equipnt that appeared around the early 2000s alongside the M16A4, with quite good aesthetics.
The problem was, this place served as the Magical Girls' headquarters—why was security handled by the military...
The leader was a golden-haired girl wearing dashing military uniform, her erald-green eyes exceptionally cold.
All doors suddenly closed, soldiers arranged themselves on both sides, surrounding the entire hall.
The golden-haired girl's gaze imdiately swept over Keke and Jiang Si, "Monitoring detected fluctuations in the cloud layer earlier. Which one of you caused it?"
Hearing this, Silver Lotus imdiately showed a pained expression.
This is trouble...
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