"Jiang Si isn’t bad looking either; he inherited his father’s excellent genes. His eyebrows and eyes resemble yours a bit. There are bound to be girls who don’t care about height. Don’t worry yourself. Maybe a bunch of girls will chase after him in the future, and then you’ll have to worry about him not becoming a heartbreaker."
"With his personality, hardly saying a word day in and day out, if I were his age, I wouldn’t give him a second glance. No girl will voluntarily talk to him about love. Stop fooling around. He needs to be more proactive and learn to chat with girls."
Keke lifted her eyes to look at her parents.
She couldn’t rember such a thing happening.
Back then, she should have been asleep, so there’s no way she could rember this.
Which ans this illusion is based on soone else’s mory, or perhaps it’s an image recorded in the Disaster Beast vine...
"Jiang Si, Jiang Si."
Her father suddenly called sneakily, then tilted his head to gesture towards a pretty girl on the side behind him, "Is she good-looking?"
Jiang Si just glanced briefly, "Hmm."
"Hmm? What does ’hmm’ an? I’m asking if she’s good-looking or not."
"Probably good-looking."
"You little rascal," Father suddenly lowered his voice, "Go over and say hello, will you?"
"Are you that idle?"
"Oh, your mother keeps nagging that you’re always working out and won’t grow any taller; what if you can’t find a girlfriend in the future? Go make friends and prove her wrong."
"No ti."
"Clearly, you have ti."
Mother started to hold onto Jiang Keke, trying to pull her away, but little Keke just clung stubbornly to her brother’s clothes, refusing to leave.
And deep down, Keke wished she could dig a hole and bury herself in it.
Let go, truly!
Mother had to pull for quite a while before she managed to pry her off Jiang Si.
Father sat over, "Hey now, don’t be shy. A man needs to be bold when pursuing a girl. What young person doesn’t like a pretty girl? I went through the sa thing. I started talking to your mom by approaching her on a bus..."
"Stop with the nonsense."
"Well, that’s pretty much it," Father tugged at Jiang Si, "Go say sothing."
"Not going."
"Tsk, you..." Father reconsidered, "Okay, let’s make a bet. If you go over and tell her you like her, and she responds, I’ll buy you those 160-kilogram dumbbells you wanted so much."
The mother beside him gave Father a fierce glare.
Clearly unwilling.
Jiang Si was already working out without gaining height, and now buying him those dumbbells.
But Mr. Jiang just waved his hand, ignoring his wife.
Jiang Si finally turned to look at him, "You’ll keep your word?"
"We’re buddies, I’ll definitely keep my word."
Jiang Si then stood up and went straight to the girl’s side.
Keke took the chance to glance as well.
Very pretty, reddish hair, pupils like crystal, not very tall, about twelve or thirteen, actually about the sa age as Jiang Si.
Seeing Jiang Si suddenly approaching startled her, making her lean closer to the nearby adult.
Beside the red-haired girl was an aunt, who was now smiling at Jiang Si.
She must have heard the earlier conversation between Jiang Si’s father and Jiang Si, as they weren’t far apart, and the aunt was watching with a look of amusent.
"I’ll start confessing now; I’ll give you three seconds to prepare. If you don’t respond within three seconds, it will automatically be a rejection." Jiang Si spoke rapidly, "I like you, be my girlfriend. One, two, three, three seconds ended, thank you for your answer."
Jiang Si turned back and sat down beside his father, "All done, buy the dumbbells."
"Hey, hey, hey, does that even count?"
"You didn’t explain the process clearly. I didn’t cheat."
"Not that I’m saying, buddy..."
Thus, the aunt next to the red-haired girl, and Keke’s mother, both started laughing together.
During the boring long ride, the two sides began a conversation, and amid this, the red-haired girl, blushing, ran over to give Jiang Si so cookies, which he ended up feeding to Keke.
Keke returned to Jiang Si, lying on his lap, watching his expression as he gradually began to drift off to sleep.
Soon, she sensed sothing.
A seed held tightly in her hand.
The Miracle Seed that sohow appeared at so point.
The Miracle Seed is a miracle called forth by a strong desire when a girl faces despair from the Disaster Beast.
But here on the drowsy bus, there was neither a Disaster Beast nor a strong desire.
It just appeared ordinarily, the Miracle Seed ca into her hand.
Keke thought back to what the Disaster Strategy Bureau said.
Disaster Beasts are born from negative human emotions due to the existence of Magical Girls.
So, at the beginning, was it the Magical Girl or the Disaster Beast that was born first?
Her thoughts were quickly interrupted.
Because the Miracle Seed didn’t bring a miracle, but rather disaster.
The parents were chatting rrily until soone started snoring.
The bus was filled with terrifying calm, mixed with soft whispers and snores, lightly tainted with the sll of smoke and cold air, until the mont it plunged into chaos.
The tentacles of the Vine Disaster Beast suddenly overturned the bus.
Even knowing this mont would co, when it really happened, Keke couldn’t help but shiver.
In fear, she wanted to reach out for her parents.
But Jiang Si firmly held her down, telling her not to move, using his body to create a small safe space for her inside the bus.
No matter how the bus rolled, her body was kept controlled within that small safe space.
The younger Keke didn’t manage to do anything before passing out.
But now, as she watched Jiang Si, who had stubbornly created a safe space for her, she was montarily stunned.
She had always thought that it was Cui Que who arrived and saved them on the bus back then.
She always assud Jiang Si did nothing at the ti, just trying to save himself.
When the bus finally stopped rolling, Jiang Si kicked open the window, pulled her out of the bus, and placed her in a safe spot nearby.
Jiang Si’s right leg was gashed by sothing, bleeding profusely, his back a ss of flesh, yet he acted like nothing happened, limping back to tear open the bus door, searching among the bodies and injured for sothing.
Looking for Mom and Dad.
After searching for a long ti, confirming he couldn’t find them, he sat among the bodies, looking around wearily and blankly.
Glancing up at the Disaster Beast on the building.
When a blue rainbow light streaked across the sky, Jiang Si picked her up again, carrying her to a safer place where the rescue team was.
Then he turned and ran towards the direction of the Magical Girl.
Not caring about the blood splattering from his leg or the injuries on his body, completely forgetting about her and their parents, running with fervor and excitent!
Keke didn’t chase Jiang Si; she controlled little Keke’s body to stand up, wobbling as she walked in a direction.
Sothing faintly guided her, guiding her forward, all the way ahead.
She didn’t know how long she walked, far, far away from where the bus had stopped.
The sounds of the battle between the Magical Girl and the Disaster Beast surrounded her.
In the sky, the shining girl brought miracles and happiness, continuously suppressing the Disaster Beast’s actions, protecting the surrounding area.
Anywhere the Magical Girl’s light shone was a safe zone.
Keke looked up, seeing the blue Magical Girl in the sky.
The Magical Girl who could bring miracles and happiness.
She staggered forward, clutching the Miracle Seed in her hand tightly.
On a charred, pockmarked road, she finally saw the "miracle" she had created.
Her father, whose head was crushed mid-flight, lay silently within the ruins where the telephone pole had crumbled, with wires sparking and crackling over his body.
Only identifiable from his tattered clothing and body, that it was her father.
She was at a loss, looking at her father with the Miracle Seed in hand.
The seed for calling forth a miracle...
Stumbling forward, trying to be near her father, she heard a weak call.
"Keke, Keke..."
She struggled to open her eyes blurred with tears, searching around, finally discovering her mother, who had called for her, under a car.
Her body cut open, crushed below the car, her lower half shattered, even an arm was severed. The mother who had just held her gently on the bus and joked about her always clinging to her brother, her pupils gradually losing focus.
Gently gasping, struggling to stay conscious, Mother, calm and weak, just looked at her with reluctance.
"Keke, be good."
She heard the words her mother used to say when coaxing her to sleep when she was little:
"Be good, close your eyes."
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