I'm a magical girl in the future

Chapter 55 I've fallen behind!

After preparing breakfast for her family, Shen Zixin also went to school.

He has two classes today, both in the morning. In fact, Shen Zixin only has three days and five classes a week, and they are all elective courses to earn credits.

Unlike the usual school process, Noah followed him side by side.

Neither of them spoke, but the atmosphere was anything but heavy.

Noah kept looking around at the street scene, which made Shen Zixin wonder—what's so interesting about this street?

"I said," Shen Zixin spoke first, "you don't need to come to school with me, do you?"

"Um?"

Noah turned her gaze from the street scene to him. "Don't forget you're still injured. Although you're almost fully recovered, you still need to rest."

"Besides, what if you encounter another monster? Knowing your personality, you'd probably just charge in without thinking, right? So let me go with you."

Noah's tone was relaxed, but Shen Zixin could sense that her behavior stemmed from her lingering fear and concern from the previous day.

"...The frequency of the disaster beasts isn't that high, like once a day."

"That's hard to say," Noah tilted her head. "After all, there's no set pattern to how the calamity beasts appear; it's possible for them to appear two days in a row."

"So... aren't you afraid of being mistaken for a high school student and kicked out while wearing a high school sailor uniform?"

Shen Zixin looked at Noah's attire and asked from a different angle.

"The university I attended wasn't that strict," Noah chuckled. "Besides, there's no rule against university students wearing sailor uniforms, is there?"

She walked quickly to Shen Zixin, then turned to face him, playfully extending two index fingers and gently pointing to her face.

"Even if I said I was a freshman auditing the class because I admire an upperclassman, that would be perfectly normal, right?"

"...You're still going into the classroom to attend the lesson?"

Shen Zixin couldn't understand why Noah was coming to this boring class.

"Of course. Just think of it as me reminiscing about university classes."

Noah put her hands behind her head and continued walking side by side with Shen Zixin.

What's the point of reliving something like this...?

However, Shen Zixin did not respond; he simply silently felt the new "presence" emanating from the girl beside him.

Yes, she is still Noah.

Her smile remained calm and serene. To outsiders, she seemed no different from a few days ago.

However, Shen Zixin could feel that the barrier between her and the world had been completely shattered by the tears she shed that night.

It's not that she has completely let go, nor that she has emerged from the shadow of despair.

However, she no longer shut herself off.

She no longer deliberately pushed everyone away, no longer used that "savior" mask to disguise herself. That wounded soul, though still fragile, was no longer alone.

She began to try to experience the world, so she stopped so stubbornly rejecting its beauty.

For Shen Zixin, from the moment Noah revealed her most painful weakness and sins to him, their relationship had already undergone a kind of "transcendence".

However, Shen Zixin harbored some worries about the future.

Although he was prepared to bear everything Noah had gone through, he could sense that there were still many unimaginable secrets hidden behind what Noah had experienced.

It might even be something more terrifying.

But he had already made up his mind to accompany her to the end.

As Shen Zixin pondered these thoughts, she chatted casually with Noah, and before they knew it, they had arrived at the school gate.

Then, I saw someone I knew.

He Yuran stood at the school gate, seemingly waiting for someone.

When she saw Shen Zixin and Noah approaching, He Yuran frowned slightly, then put on her usual smile and stepped forward—

"Good morning, A-Xin. And... Noah too."

He Yuran's expression remained unchanged, but her eyes were fixed on Noah.

"Good morning, Miss He." Noah returned the same calm smile. "I happened to have nothing to do today, so I came with Zixin."

"I see..." He Yuran's gaze softened slightly, but remained sharp. "But Noah, didn't you say you were going to save the world? You don't seem very busy. I didn't expect you to have time to visit our school."

"It's not that urgent," Noah ignored He Yuran's slightly barbed words and looked at Shen Zixin beside her. "Occasionally, in my daily life, I still want to experience the school life I used to have."

"...You've experienced this before, so you should know very well that there's nothing to miss." Shen Zixin glanced at her. "If it weren't for the graduation credits, I really wouldn't want to go."

"Hehe, maybe this is part of the everyday life I miss." Noah's gaze shifted to He Yuran, still smiling. "Then, let's go to the teaching building together, Miss He."

Seeing Noah's appearance, alarm bells rang in He Yuran's mind.

—Something is different now.

He Yuran noticed the unseen change in atmosphere.

Noah's heart was no longer as hard as it used to be. It was as if... she had encountered some kind of salvation.

However, what bothered her even more was the relationship between Noah and Axin.

The two of them... seemed to have gone through something.

It wasn't a physical action. They didn't hold hands or make any physical contact; they maintained a perfectly normal social distance.

It wasn't even spoken. Their conversation sounded just like that between ordinary acquaintances, nothing special.

However, what surrounded the two of them was a sense of shared identity that seemed to only arise after they had jointly experienced some significant ceremony...

Ah Xin's gaze towards that woman was the same as usual, but it carried a hint of "tolerance."

The woman still had that infuriating look, but when she stood next to A-Xin, there was a strange sense of belonging.

He Yuran understood instantly.

Just when she thought she had successfully gained the upper hand in this battle through her proactive confession and intimate contact—

At some point, the two of them achieved a resonance that they could never reach on their own.

That's not even a definite emotion like "admiration".

Confessing one's love, staying overnight, holding hands... all those behaviors that "progress" in the conventional rules of dating pale in comparison to their extraordinary affection.

He Yuran discovered an unacceptable truth—

I've fallen behind!