I dug up the magical girl's corpse.

Chapter 9 Chapter Recollection

Lin Yongxi was even more professional than the driver; he walked around the car several times to check it before getting in.

She seemed to be hesitating about something:

"Where did you put the body when you brought it back yesterday?"

"The trunk."

Chen Mu replaced his original license plate with the fake one, and threw it into the garbage bag that needed to be disposed of. It had already been cleaned up using the tools from last night.

He got into the driver's seat, started the engine, and said, "Get in the car quickly."

"Well……"

Lin Yongxi finally prepared himself mentally and sat in the passenger seat.

"Are you deliberately keeping such a distance? There's no stench." Chen Mu criticized, "Is it disrespectful of the deceased to treat your sister like this?"

Lin Yongxi pouted and retorted, "People like you who have absolutely no respect for the dead are the minority, okay?"

Chen Mu's home was located in the suburbs, while the Demon Academy wasn't in the city center either, but rather at one end of the city. The distance between the two was so great that it spanned the entire Deep Moon City; just driving there would take at least two hours. When he was alone, he would usually turn on music or the radio to relax.

But since there were passengers in the car today, I had no choice but to strike up a conversation:

"My only worry is that if I take you to the Demon Academy to become their disciple, will they refuse to accept you as a student?"

"Can we please stop talking about this..."

Lin Yongxi smiled wryly. She was getting tired of hearing this. She knew that she would encounter all sorts of difficulties and obstacles on this trip to the Demon Academy, but she had no other choice now.

The best course of action is to take it one step at a time and avoid adding unnecessary pressure.

Chen Mu understood this principle and changed the subject:

"So what do you want to talk about? Xiaoxi, do you have a crush on anyone at school? Do you have a boyfriend? When are you going to bring him back so we can meet him?"

"No... and don't act like an annoying relative during the Lunar New Year."

Lin Yongxi surrendered with both hands raised. It would have been better to talk about the previous topic; at least the Demon Academy sounded more familiar.

She knew that since she had rejected two topic decks, it was now her turn to play.

My eyes darted around, and suddenly a brilliant idea struck me.

"That's it! I've got it!"

She tugged at Chen Mu's arm, only to be met with a hard smack on the head: "Sit still!"

Fortunately, there wasn't much traffic on the ring road, so there weren't any problems.

Although her head ached a little, Lin Yongxi, despite covering her forehead, couldn't hide her excitement; her eyes shone brightly.

"Brother-in-law, I'd like to know, how did you and my sister get together and then get married?"

Why are you asking that?

Chen Mu frowned.

"I attended your wedding, and hardly anyone from the Lin family came. I was all alone. I was thinking of just slipping away, but after looking at you all on the stage, I couldn't understand why my sister would choose to marry a man like that. That's not what I meant, brother-in-law, you are very handsome, but how should I put it…"

"After all, Lin Chaojing is such an outstanding magical girl."

Her doubts are not an isolated phenomenon.

Not only back then, but even now, marriages between magical girls and ordinary people are still extremely rare, which is why their relationship is so special.

Lin Yongxi tilted her head and asked, "So I think there must be some special reason why she chose you. Have you two been through anything together?"

"I have not told anyone these things, including the media that interviewed me."

Chen Mu's gaze was unfocused as he looked at the flat highway that stretched straight toward the horizon.

After all, she is Lin Yongxi, her sister, so it should be fine, right?

Perhaps, Chen Mu also needed an excuse to reminisce.

"Anyway, the journey will take a long time."

And so he began his long narration.

...

Let's rewind to seven years ago.

Back then, Chen Mu had just turned twenty and was still a young man who should have been in college.

However, due to the war, the university had already closed down, and with the threat of monsters, transportation between cities, whether by road or rail, was basically cut off.

He heard that the battle lines along the eastern coast remained tense, with monsters landing on the coast from time to time.

Even with magical girls joining the war, people still don't know when the war will end completely, like a dark cloud hanging over the sky, lingering and impossible to dispel.

"However, Miyuki City is located inland, so the monster threat here is relatively small, and the environment has been preserved in a relatively good way, so there is no need to live in fear every day."

Chen Mu was born during a time of war; at the time of his birth, the calamity of monsters had already begun to rage.

So he was used to this kind of life and didn't find anything unusual about it.

"I heard that twenty years ago, men of eligible age like me would be actively recruited into the army to fight monsters on the coastal front..."

But times have changed. Now, magical girls are the main force in war, and human artillery and weapons can only play a supporting role.

So after graduating from high school, Chen Mu started working to earn money.

His job is "food delivery guy".

In fact, Chen Mu had good grades and performed exceptionally well at school. Given the circumstances at the time, finding a job in a company wouldn't have been difficult. However, he was naturally carefree, lacked goals and motivation, and as an orphan without parental guidance or supervision, he simply acted entirely on his own whims.

He works one day at a time, saves up money, and then relaxes for the rest of the day – that's his life now.

"Maybe I just haven't figured out what I want to do yet..."

Sitting on the electric scooter, while waiting at a red light, Chen Mu took off his helmet, wiped his sweat-dampened hair, and looked up at the sky.

He hadn't told any of his friends that he secretly longed to fight monsters. In his twenty years of life, he had only seen pictures and videos on the news and television. He had never seen a monster in person, much less a so-called "magical girl." It was a pity that men couldn't master magic; this world was truly boring.

I doubt anyone else would understand what I'm saying.

Just as he was letting his thoughts wander and spacing out aimlessly.

Suddenly, I noticed something amiss at the intersection not far ahead.

A large truck loaded with goods is rushing towards us at an abnormally high speed from the opposite lane.

"Well?"

Chen Mu quickly turned his head to look at the traffic light; it was indeed red.

At this speed, the truck clearly can't stop.

Running a red light in broad daylight—was it drunk driving? Or was it intentional? He didn't have time to think too much. If he jumped out of the car now and ran away, he could still reach the sidewalk.

But then he saw a girl crossing the street.

It appeared to be a student around ten years old, still wearing a school uniform, holding a book in his hand, seemingly unaware of the speeding truck.

"Depend on!"

Without thinking, Chen Mu turned on the switch.

Looking back, he realized that he didn't intend to sacrifice himself to save others, but rather to save others along the way, hoping to survive himself while also helping others.

In fact, that's exactly what he did. He quickly drove the car onto the zebra crossing and grabbed the little girl in one swift motion.

"Wow!"

She seemed to make a very frightened noise, perhaps thinking it was a human trafficker.

But Chen Mu couldn't explain much, so he threw her into the back seat and tried to drive away.

However, he clearly overestimated the speed of the electric scooter. It's not a motorcycle, so it can't do any launch control.

The next second, a violent gust of wind was right in front of me, and it felt like a wall was crashing into me from the side. By the time I realized what was happening, I was already covered in shadow.

boom!

An unimaginable sound exploded in his mind, his whole body ached, then the pain vanished instantly. His vision swirled and spun wildly, and he didn't know how many times he had been spinning in the air. When he fell to the ground, all that remained were blurry lights and shadows, a buzzing roar in his ears, and the feeling that his consciousness was drifting away at any moment.

In his last moments of consciousness, Chen Mu had only one absurd thought left in his mind:

Looks like someone's going to go hungry today, haha.

But soon, it seemed like they heard footsteps approaching rapidly beside them.

Is it a doctor? An ambulance probably won't arrive that quickly.

Chen Mu tried to open his eyes, but he couldn't.

In a hazy state, it seemed as if a pair of soft hands were touching his forehead.

A sound rang out:

"As common as the sun."

"Yet heaven and earth and I will never forget."

He felt a blazing light.