booktalesy Chapter 88 Identity Plaque
Chapter 88 Identity Plaque
Chapter 88 Identity Plaque (Two Chapters Combined)
Hoshino Seri covered two of his classes last week, and he returned the favor last week. Looking at Hoshino Seri's empty desk, Bai Yuze felt a little bored.
He searched for past college entrance exam questions while eating the chocolate bars and pudding he had bought last time.
It was fine at first, but after eating a lot, it felt really greasy. I really don't know how Hoshino-sensei manages to eat so much without getting tired of it and without gaining weight.
"Ring ring~"
The bell rang for evening self-study. Bai Yuze picked up a brand-new test paper and prepared to leave. It was given to him by Hoshino Seri before she left.
They said that during the two evening self-study sessions tonight, they would be given a test paper, and Teacher Bai wouldn't need to do anything but sit on the podium.
I must say, Hoshino-sensei is really considerate.
I had just stepped out of the office when my phone rang. I picked it up and looked at it.
It was a notification from the CCSA inspection team, asking him to go to the "Ink Rain" coffee shop for an investigation that evening.
The patrol team has extensive authority, backed by the World Tree and human authorities. If needed, the Yeqiu City Security Bureau and any magical girl team must provide assistance to each other unconditionally.
If the suspect does not cooperate, they even have the right to freeze all positions and funds of the magical girl under investigation.
Therefore, it's rare for magical girls to have unpleasant encounters with inspectors, and he was no exception.
I let out a long sigh. There was nothing I could do; it was all to avoid unnecessary trouble.
Bai Yuzhe could only retreat to his office, his gaze lingering on the desks in the classrooms before finally settling on Teacher Zhang, who was eating instant noodles while watching a TV series.
Who else but you? It's you, Zhang Pikachu!
A few minutes later, Bai Yuze left the office amidst the latter's indignant and angry gaze.
Moyu Cafe is located at a convenient distance from Qiuyuan No. 1 High School, in the heart of Yeqiu City's high school district. This makes it easy for magical girls to gather, chat, party, and relax...
However, after Bai Yuze returned to Yeqiu City, he basically never came here again, and there was absolutely no need for him to come to this place of sorrow again, since most of his former acquaintances were no longer there.
In Violet's memory, this coffee shop was not very large.
But when I got there, it was no longer the small and exquisite coffee shop; it looked completely different.
Times are progressing, things are developing, and nothing can remain unchanged.
When she went to the cafeteria at the Magical Girl Headquarters, she had a premonition. Pushing open the glass door caused a wind chime to ring softly, its sound clear and pleasant.
As evening approached, the café appeared to be relatively empty.
The café is covered with posters and paintings of currently popular magical girls. There are magical girls from all over the world, including China, Europe, and America. It is full of youthful energy and has a very casual style, unlike a normal café.
It seems that this place is incredibly appealing to those in the anime and manga fandom.
As soon as you enter, a large group of magical girls surround you.
A pitiful and lovable loli-type magical girl; a melodious and youthful-sounding girl-type magical girl; a gentle and caring mature woman-type magical girl.
Just thinking about it makes one feel comfortable and relaxed.
Unfortunately, this coffee shop is surrounded by a magical barrier, so normal people can't get in at all.
Violet's arrival immediately sparked a discussion among the surrounding magical girls. These days, loli-type magical girls are already quite rare, especially one like Violet, who is all emotion and no feelings.
"Huh, who is this magical girl?!"
"Is she a newcomer? What an adorable little girl."
"Sister, you smell so good!"
Violet, expressionless, refused several groups of magical girls who wanted to take photos with her, and went to a private room on the second floor.
The second floor of the café is significantly more luxurious than the first floor. A bright red carpet stretches from the first-floor staircase all the way up to the second floor, and the minimalist European-style design is composed of curves and asymmetrical lines.
Designs inspired by intertwining, sprouting, grapevines, insect wings, and the various beautiful, undulating forms of nature are incorporated into decorations such as walls, railings, window frames, and furniture.
Some lines are soft and graceful, while others are bold and powerful, creating a sense of rhythm. The overall three-dimensional form is in harmony with the orderly and rhythmic curves.
It looks very beautiful and luxurious.
Violet, however, preferred the Ink Tea House run by the Demoness Iris. Its decor leaned more towards the architectural style of the Xia Kingdom, with a faint sandalwood scent filling the air, and dappled sunlight filtering through the intricately carved windows.
Fresh and leisurely.
I knocked on the door of room 04 and waited a short while.
A magical girl with golden hair opened the door, her gaze first falling on Violet.
He looked her up and down for a while, then glanced at both sides of the door to make sure only Violet was there before stepping aside. "Violet Mage, please come in."
Violet entered the room and glanced around. Compared to the outside, the layout of the private room was relatively simple, with wood-grain tiles on the floor and light-colored background walls, making the whole space look exceptionally understated.
His gaze then fell upon the three magical girls in the patrol team.
One familiar, two strangers...
The familiar one is Kikyo the Magician, who chases her around like a mad dog. She can't beat him in a fight, and she can't escape him either, which is very frustrating.
These two unfamiliar magical girls must be the inspectors sent down from above.
As Violet carefully examined the other person, Tulip, who had opened the door for her, spoke first: "Violet Mage, hello, I'm sorry to bother you at this time."
Violet didn't want to listen to the other person's long-winded explanation and interrupted them directly, "If possible, I hope we can get to the point as soon as possible. My time is very precious."
She preferred dealing with obedient students to dealing with these two greenhorn mages.
What angered her even more was that this was the first time he had agreed to help Hoshino-sensei, and he hadn't even done it properly, which was inexplicably infuriating.
"We are inspectors appointed by the World Tree. Please show some respect, or we have the right to seal your magic core directly."
Before the Tulip Wizard could speak, the Hyacinth stepped forward, furious.
Upon hearing this, the Tulip Mage took a few steps back, moving slightly closer to the Bellflower Mage...
Hyacinths debuted late,
You may not have heard of Violet's title of "God of Slaughter".
But she had heard about it before, and she was just thinking about how to ask the other person about the year they had disappeared from a different angle.
I didn't expect Hyacinth to be so brave and go straight up; she's completely seen through my shamelessness.
Violet didn't even glance at the pale purple-clad magical girl in front of her; her gaze went directly towards the tulip magician.
"If you don't have any substantial evidence, then I'll head back now. There's no need to waste each other's time here."
The Tulip Mage turned her head and saw the Bellflower Mage sipping her tea. When she noticed her gaze, she gave her a slight smile.
That calm yet confident demeanor seemed to say,
Go ahead and do your job. If anything happens, I'll take care of it.
Encouraged by the bellflower magician, Tulip's confidence increased significantly.
They are inspectors, not those cats and dogs from the abyss.
Tulip took out the letter of complaint, which contained several photos of Violet and the Witch Snake meeting, with the two appearing in the same photo.
There are also a few photos of him meeting the witches, but they only show the background.
"Violet Mage, we have conducted a detailed investigation into the '0721' Arbiter's death incident and the Akizuki Mountain incident that occurred a year ago."
Before the accident, you disappeared for a period of time. Later, it was because of your greed and recklessness that you encountered the Abyss Demoness, resulting in the death of four magical girls and injury to one of them. After the incident, you mysteriously disappeared.
We first checked the archives from that year and consulted the Lotus Magical Girl on-site. We discovered that you were already severely injured while blocking the Abyss Demoness and had no ability to escape from the subsequent enemy pursuit.
Therefore, we speculate that it is highly likely that you had already sided with the Villainess before this operation, and then cooperated with the Abyss Demoness to stage a ruse to lure the magical girls back to support you, after which the Villainess killed them all.
Violet didn't even glance at this so-called evidence, and said coldly,
"Putting aside the fact that my allegiance to the Villainess is a joke, if that's the case, why didn't I cooperate with the Abyss Demoness in the first place and just keep them all? Why would I go through all that trouble to pull off a self-inflicted injury? What would I gain from that?"
Moreover, the inspection team should be a magical team entrusted with important tasks by human officials and the World Tree, serving as judges.
In order to live up to the expectations of the magical girl and the people, one must strive for excellence and be meticulous in one's work.
As an inspector, one should act with courage, composure, and secrecy in all one's actions. But what you are doing now only shows me frivolity and carelessness. Have you even verified your so-called evidence?
The first photo was taken in a park in Dongguan City. There, I beat the snake up. If she hadn't run away quickly, Sakura, Hongmei, and Xuemei, who arrived later, would have only seen her bare body.
The fifth rule of the patrol officer's code states that evidence itself must be proven. Haven't you read that sentence?
"As an exception, the transcript you left on the table—I glanced at it briefly, and it was incredibly long and tedious. The content was disorganized and repetitive, the clues were like a tangled pile of straw, and it didn't even achieve the most basic clarity and validity of a transcript."
Violet walked up to Tulip and pointed to the notebook on which the other had placed high hopes.
"I'm starting to seriously doubt how you two passed the inspector's test at the World Tree. Did you bribe the magical elf examiners with snacks and electronic gadgets?"
At this moment, Wen seemed to have returned to her student days, facing her homeroom teacher on the podium, the heavy pressure making her unable to speak.
"We...we didn't do that!" Tulip, who was specifically criticized, said when talking about the notebook.
He had already lowered his head deeply, and only when the other party touched his last line did he reluctantly raise his head and retort in a low voice.
"You're not an inspector, what right do you have to criticize us?"
The fact that the tulip was speechless after being scolded did not mean that the hyacinth was afraid of the other party. It stood straight in front of the tulip and asked in return.
Upon hearing this, Violet's lips curled into a meaningful smile. She pulled out a square crystal core that looked exactly like a jade artifact from her collar. With a light touch of her finger on the crystal core, a bright purple magic instantly filled the entire crystal core.
In an instant, a small, lush World Tree appeared in the air, with seven star wheels shining beside it, each engraved with a name. Their gazes quickly fell on the fourth star wheel and they saw Violet's name.
Violet raised her head, crossed her arms, and introduced herself indifferently:
"Perhaps you have already checked my identity before you came, but with your current permissions, you cannot find out too much. So let me introduce myself first. I am Violet, the captain of the first S-class adjudication team in Yeqiu City, the champion of the Magical Girl Contest, an advisor to the Abyss Processing Security Bureau of Tianjing City, one of the members of the World Tree Trial Court Conference, and currently the vice captain of the Sword Orchid Team of Qiuyuan No.1 Middle School in Yeqiu City."
Hyacinth barely noticed the numerous unfamiliar titles before, until she heard "one of the members of the World Tree Tribunal."
She looked incredulous. The inspector's direct superior was the Trial Court Conference. Wasn't their trial of Violet just a disguised form of insubordination?
Hyacinth turned her head, still thinking that tulip could help her share the burden, only to find that the latter had already run behind the magician Kikyo.
At this moment, even the courage to look directly at the violet had vanished.
"Hmph, you coward."
Hyacinth gritted her teeth and snorted coldly, staring intently at Violet's pale purple eyes, biting her lip and struggling to say, "So what if you are one of the members of the World Tree Tribunal? You still can't explain your disappearance for a year, or how you were able to come back to life despite being on the verge of death."
"I'm sorry, I can't answer the first question, but I can answer the second one."
I survived only because I had a [phosphophyllite] crystal core.
Violet returned to her usual indifference, no longer as aggressive as before.
After these words were spoken, the scene fell completely silent. Tulip and the others no longer had the courage to ask Violet any more questions.
Only the long-haired, waist-length Kikyo mage calmly sipped her tea, dignified and beautiful, elegant yet stunning, as if everything happening around her had nothing to do with her.
Seeing that three gazes were all directed at her, Kikyo, the magician, finally put down her teacup and smiled, "Miss Violet, I heard rumors about you a long time ago and have always hoped to meet you, but unfortunately, I have never had the opportunity."
She stood up, walked to the opposite side of Violet, and extended her fair and delicate arm: "Miss Violet, it's a pleasure to meet you today."
"Me too."
Despite saying this, Violet didn't reach out to grasp that snow-white hand. She had been dealing with the Kikyo mage for so long...
To put it nicely, it means knowing everything about the enemy and yourself;
To put it bluntly, Kikyo knows exactly what kind of fart or poop she's going to let out the moment she sits down.
On the surface, it was just a simple handshake.
In fact, as soon as someone comes into contact with Kikyo, their inner thoughts will be completely exposed to her.
Mind reading offers absolutely no privacy.
"Miss Violet, are you prejudiced against me?"
The hand that had been frozen in mid-air was retracted, and Kikyo tilted her head, seemingly puzzled.
"I'm very sorry, I just don't like physical contact with others, it's not targeting you specifically, Ms. Kikyo."
Violet took a few steps back as Kikyo, the mage, approached.
The faint scent of bellflower on the other person felt to her like a swift and fierce wild beast.
She was afraid that she might lose her temper and slap him across the face.
"It seems that's true. According to the information, Senior Violet and her teammates always kept their distance in their daily lives, as if she didn't like others getting close to her." Tulip chimed in from the side, but this time she used polite language.
"is that so?"
With a hint of doubt, the magician Kikyo stared into Violet's eyes and asked gently, "Miss Violet, do you need any help? I've studied some books on psychology, and perhaps I can help you."
"No need. If there's nothing else, I'll head back now."
Violet has an innate aversion to contact with bellflower, and she can't explain why.
Perhaps it's because the other person has the ability to see through people's hearts, and the thing she least wants is for others to see through her heart:
The Violet Mage pushed open the door and left.
Tulip and Hyacinth seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and collapsed onto the soft sofa.
"I was terrified! Facing this Violet Mage is like facing my old menopausal homeroom teacher. I didn't dare say a word in front of her!" Tulip complained.
"You have the nerve to say that? I turned around and, lo and behold, such a big person was gone."
Hyacinth gritted her teeth and grabbed the tulip that was trying to escape, "You don't have to betray your teammates like this."
Kikyo, the magician, shook her head helplessly at the two clowns behind her, walked to the window and watched Violet's departing purple figure, a thoughtful look in her eyes.
Is a dislike of being touched by others caused by a psychological or physical problem?
The former includes traits such as a desire to be loved and noticed, an overactive sense of self-protection, and a lack of security.
The latter could be due to excessive physical violence experienced in childhood, leading to a association of physical contact with negative emotions, or psychological trauma caused by certain forms of physical contact, such as being molested or sexually assaulted.
It seems this Miss Violet has some serious psychological issues.
Kikyo, the magician, let out a long sigh.