Transform into a magical girl after getting off work-Chapter 337 - 42 Bo Xue Lightly Fluttering_4

"What are the things in your memory?" Lin Yun pressed.

He remembered that Bai Jingxuan’s magic outfit—the Heavenly Sound—was shaped like a music box, and a magical girl’s magic outfit often had deep connections with their personality and experiences. Clearly, to Bai Jingxuan, the music box seemed to be an object of special significance.

Regrettably, after he posed the question, he didn’t get any further answer from Bai Jingxuan.

The two of them continued to wander around the mall. During this time, no matter what gift Lin Yun suggested buying, it was met with rejection by Bai Jingxuan. This caused what should have been a half-hour trip to drag on and on, with the two leaving only when it was nearly six o’clock. After several unsuccessful suggestions, Lin Yun could only helplessly give up on the idea of buying a gift—since the purpose of gift-giving was to bring joy to the recipient, if that couldn’t be achieved, it was better not to buy anything at all.

After leaving the mall, Lin Yun drove the car, taking Bai Jingxuan along the snow-covered highway. Looking outside through the windshield wipers swinging left and right, just as he concentrated on the road ahead, he suddenly heard a faint voice from the seat beside him:

"When I was little, I was very ill and basically couldn’t go out," she said.

It was as if she were answering a question that had been asked long ago, somewhat out of the blue: "So I could only listen to my dad telling me stories, telling me what the outside world was like, telling me there were many wonderful things in this world."

Although her words seemed abruptly spoken, like murmurings in a dream, Lin Yun faintly realized that she might be referring to the question he had asked earlier at the handicraft store.

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"Whenever I fell ill while sleeping, when my head hurt so much I couldn’t sleep, my dad would come to comfort me. He would hold my hand by the bed, tell me stories, and lull me to sleep."

Bai Jingxuan’s voice became soft, as if talking to herself, she continued: "One day, Dad told me he had to go on a business trip, but I would not let him go, so he took out a little box from his bag and placed it by my bed, telling me it was called a ’music box’."

"He said if you wind it up, the music box would play music, and there would be little figures dancing on it. If I couldn’t sleep, just open the music box and listen to its sound, then I could fall asleep, just as if he were there."

"I didn’t believe him, but he opened the music box and let me watch the little figures dance, and after a while, I really fell asleep."

"So, after that, the music box became my friend. When I couldn’t sleep; when I was bored alone at home; when I felt upset... Just by opening the music box and listening to its sound, I felt my heart grow calm."

"Only, later on, my parents encountered Remnant Beasts, and they... they both died."

"A group of men and women in black clothes came to our home, took away my parents’ belongings, and sent me to the orphanage. My dad’s music box was also lost somewhere."

At this point, Bai Jingxuan paused, her gaze flitted towards Lin Yun but swiftly retreated as if the exchange had never occurred, and she went on:

"Originally, even if the music box was lost, I didn’t care. Because as long as I closed my eyes, I could still recall the sound of the music box; it was in my head."

"But last month, those bad people came. They told me that my parents were not really my parents, and I was not their child, but a Remnant Beast, a monster."

"The reason I get headaches is that I am a monster, and the music box was actually made by my dad to control me. When you open the music box and listen to its sound, the Remnant Beast falls asleep. So I would also sleep, and that way, I wouldn’t lose control."

After saying all this, silence returned to the car.

Lin Yun, having listened to her words, pondered for a long while before he finally asked, "Why would you believe what the bad people said?"

"Because when I later felt my consciousness blurring, as if I was going to turn into something else, one of those bad people hummed a tune."

Staring out the car window at the snowy scene, Bai Jingxuan’s lips hummed:

"The song he hummed was... identical to the one played by the music box."

The car passed the snowy crossroads, and since it was on the outskirts, there were hardly any other vehicles around. For a moment, it seemed that the silver-white road was solely occupied by the two of them, advancing through the darkness.

Lin Yun’s face remained expressionless, his lips tightly sealed, but his hands gripping the steering wheel tensed.

He seemed to understand why there had been no survivors at the scene of Black Ash Dawn and why the Remnant Beast who seemed to be the leader had been tortured in such a manner.

Bai Jingxuan too stopped talking for a while, apparently thinking about something, and after a long time, she finally spoke:

"Uncle, they said my name is a lie, my parents are a lie, my identity is a lie. They said I was a Remnant Beast with nothing, just like those disgusting monsters."

"But they never told me if my birthday was a lie. So, it seems like that’s the only real thing I have."

"I wanted to be as happy as everyone else who celebrates their birthday on this day. I wanted everyone to be happy on this one true day. And I hoped, by coming to see you, I would bring the one real thing that I own... this way, I would feel much more real now."