Welcome to the Brussels Region, the capital of the autonomous federation

The sun was already up when Kim Erise groggily opened her eyes.

She prepared to stretch as usual, but as soon as she began the movement, she realized that something heavy was pressing on her.

Looking down, she saw a girl with beautiful pink hair, wrapped in bandages from head to toe, sound asleep on her chest.

Ah, she remembered.

Last night, she had been comforting Xiaoyu and after nearly an hour, either she had vented all her emotions or she was tired from crying.

Anyway, she had fallen asleep in her arms.

She had wanted to put the girl on the bed, but the girl was holding on to her tightly and wouldn’t let go, and any force would make her enter a hysterical state, so she had to hug Xiaoyu and fall asleep together.

With a gentle touch, she stroked the pink hair, Kim Erise activated the headset on her ear and sent an email to a familiar person in the holographic window:

“What date is the official inauguration of the mayor?”

Mo was sitting on the dressing table nearby, quietly chewing on rock candy hawthorns.

Seeing the red-haired girl wake up, she said softly:

“Breakfast is ready, it’s in the microwave. There’s a serving for you and Xiaoyu each.”

“Oh ho, didn’t someone say she really liked wearing lolita dresses?”

Casually pulling herself out from under Xiaoyu, Kim Erise, who rolled off the bed, grabbed the lollipop on the bedside table and stuffed it into her mouth, asking with a smile:

“Why did you suddenly change back into the original black JK uniform?”

“…Because you are a hopeless idiot.”

Twitching her hair, Mo didn’t stop eating the rock candy hawthorns because of the speech:

“Yesterday’s combat suit wasn’t taken off just to use the combat stance and tie you up for a good night’s play, but it was disrupted by this poor girl’s actions, so it was a no go.”

“Pffft, don’t be ridiculous, you’re being so shameless.”

The red-haired girl turned her head away in embarrassment, but soon became curious and asked again.

“So, do you like lolita dresses or not?”

What answered her this time was silence and a barely visible but still keenly detected eye roll.

“But the long hair you styled for her is really pretty, and it doesn’t need any additional decorations like hairpins,”

Looking at Xiaoyu, who had drooled all over the bed, Kim Erise stretched, took a deep breath, and slightly frowned at the bright sunshine outside the window:

“It’s a pity, I also wanted to try the Mohawk on her again…”

Whoosh—

Silver ropes suddenly shot out and wrapped around her neck, tying her up before she could react.

“If you mention that chicken crest-like ugly head shape again,” Mo, who was holding one end of the rope, threw the eaten rock candy hawthorns into the trash can:

“It’s not three days you can’t get out of bed, but a seven-day tour of heaven and hell.”

“Okay, okay, I was wrong, I was wrong…”

The red-haired girl, whose whole body was covered in cold sweat, quickly raised her hands and performed a French military salute, wondering why the other party’s personality had turned from a three-no girl to a dominatrix since yesterday evening.

Could it really be that the experience on the Osiris Bridge had stimulated her?

“Not this again,” Mo, who had removed the rope, took out the comb and started to take care of her silver hair in front of the mirror of the dressing table.

“Go eat breakfast quickly, it’s going to get cold.”

“Oh, okay.”

Kim Erise, who had run away, came to the kitchen and opened the microwave.

She took out the preserved egg and lean meat porridge, baked cake, and hot milk.

She had originally wanted to eat in the dining room, but she just guzzled it directly in place.

Ah, refreshing!

Wiping her mouth, the red-haired girl prepared to run to her entertainment room and continue the single-player game journey from last time, but she was interrupted by the vibration of the headset.

A communication request, you don’t even need to look to know who it came from.

“Erise, Erise, I say you’ve become enlightened, you’ve been persuading you for several months and finally you’re willing to be mayor!” As soon as the request was connected, it was a string of extremely excited verbal bombardment:

“You really gave me a headache before. I was thinking whether I should die in advance to avoid seeing the destruction of the world if you didn’t become mayor, but now, there’s nothing…”

“Stop, stop, stop,” Kim Erise, whose ears were almost calloused, hurriedly stopped the other party:

“Eagle, you don’t need to ramble about what’s useful or not, get straight to the point: when do you take office, what do you need me to prepare before then, be clean and straightforward.”

“Well…” The other end of the headset suddenly became awkward:

“Come to the city hall, it’s really hard to explain clearly in a few words…”

“Okay, got it.”

The red-haired girl, who hung up the communication, sighed silently.

She had a feeling: From now on, the good days of playing games all day long, watching anime, and chasing novels like before would be gone forever.

One last time, I swear, definitely the last time.

“Wu, good morning, Sister Erise.”

Kim Erise, who had returned to the living room, happened to bump into Xiaoyu, who had gotten up.

Rubbing her sleepy eyes, she greeted herself, holding one of the many plush toys she had placed on the bed, the Moonglow dragon.

Damn it, she almost forgot, today she also planned to take the girl to the hospital for a full body checkup and treatment.

She needed to change the bandages and also have her teeth filled.

After all, the last surgery was only done on the most serious and obvious external injuries, and heaven knows how many problems were inside.

But considering the hospital and the city hall were not far apart, it would be a convenient route.

“Come on, Xiaoyu, let me help you wash your face, and we’ll take you for a walk after breakfast.”

But speaking of breakfast, she had actually slept until almost noon.

…

“Wow…”

Half an hour later, the girl in the passenger seat watched the skyscrapers standing densely between the sky and the earth outside the window with awe, and instinctively wanted to put her hand on the window, but was afraid of dirtying the glass: “So big… tall…”

“That’s natural,” Kim Erise was driving, with a lollipop in her mouth, and she was comfortably cruising on the wide overpass:

“Have you ever been to such a big city before?”

“No, no,” Gently shaking her head, Xiaoyu held the Moonglow plush toy that she had been given before getting in the car, and was a little nervous:

“I have always lived in a small town with my father and mother. The highest building in the house is not as high as this bridge.

Later, my father and mother went to a very, very far place, and I lived with the teacher in the ruins.”

“Understood,” The red-haired girl, who was holding the steering wheel with one hand, stretched her free left hand out of the window and felt the gusts of wind:

“Welcome to the Brussels District, the capital of the Autonomous Federation, and one of the largest cities in the world—by the way, just like I said before, forget the teacher in your mouth, and don’t mention the name of the person who abandoned you, and that painful old life.”

“Ah, okay,” Crying was indeed one of the best ways to vent emotions, which made the girl’s heart feel a lot better, although she still felt a little sorry for the teacher, she also nodded obediently.

She wanted to lean on the big sister’s body, but she helplessly found that the seat belt, which was strictly forbidden to be unfastened, blocked her, so she had to continue to hold the Moonglow plush toy tightly, trying to gain the same sense of security as in the big sister’s arms:

“Ah, that, Sister Erise, can I ask what the Autonomous Federation is?”

“It’s a union formed by magical girls three years ago to unite all combat strength,” Kim Erise replied leisurely, recalling the past, and waved her hand outside, greeting a motorcycle driver who was quickly overtaking her.

“Actually, it wasn’t called the Autonomous Federation at first, but the Free League.

After all, the magical girls at that time were almost a subordinate of humans, without any dignity, so they spontaneously formed an organization to seek rights.

After the war ended, we had already obtained half of the world’s territory, so there was no need to continue using the original slogan, and we changed our name.”

“Mm…” Nodding in a daze, it was really difficult for a girl who had never been to school to understand this long speech:

“Then what are magical girls?”

“Like me, girls who satisfy their own wishes by signing a contract with the spirit dragon,” Throwing the finished lollipop stick out of the window casually, Kim Erise took out a new one and put it in her mouth:

“We will gain extremely powerful strength because of this, but we also have to bear the mission of fighting against the pseudo-gods.”

Satisfying their own wishes?

Xiaoyu’s eyes lit up when she heard this: “Sister Erise, Sister Erise, can I sign a contract with that whatchamacallit dragon? I want to make a wish too!”

“No,” Glancing at the girl in the passenger seat whose eyes were full of light, the red-haired girl again took her hands off the steering wheel and shook her index finger.

“Being a magical girl is a very hard, very tiring, and very dangerous thing, and what you need to do now is to live happily, do you understand?”

Living happily?

Xiaoyu, holding the Moonglow plush toy, muttered this sentence to herself, and then nodded in a daze.

“By the way, Sister Erise, this big city is so quiet.

In the town where I used to live with my parents, there would be many, many cars and people no matter where I went, but now I haven’t seen a few cars, how strange.”

“It’s normal that you can’t see them.

This overpass is a special bridge for magical girls, and ordinary people are down below.”

“Below? Mm, may I, may I take a look?”

“Of course, no need to use honorifics.”

Slowing down to thirty miles, Kim Erise deliberately drove the car to the edge of the bridge, unfastened the girl’s seat belt and, with a single button, opened the roof and turned it into a convertible:

“Just stand on the seat and watch, be careful not to fall out.”

“Mm-hmm.”

So, the short Xiaoyu, with the help of the height of the passenger seat, finally saw the scene below the bridge.

The bustling crowds, the slow-moving two-wheeled and three-wheeled vehicles, and the occasional honking of cars, formed a lively scene.

“Eh?” The girl, enjoying the breeze, suddenly felt something was wrong:

“The streets below are so dirty and messy, and the houses on both sides seem to be so dilapidated, which is similar to where I used to live with the old… where I used to live before.”

“It’s normal. After all, those are humans without a master, who can only squeeze into the back areas with poor housing conditions.”

“Those people are so pitiful…” Holding the Moonglow plush toy in her arms, Xiaoyu’s eyes sparkled with crystal light:

“Why can’t they live in those tall, clean, big, mo… mo-skyscrapers?”

“You mean skyscrapers, right?

Those, like where we live, belong to the front areas, and only magical girls and those chosen by them can live there.”

“Na…”

The girl, who sat back in her seat, fell into a tangle, and then stood up as if she had made some decision and looked at Kim Erise:

“That, Sister Erise, do you have any way to help those people?”

“Yo ho, I really didn’t expect that our little Xiaoyu is still a girl with a broad mind,” With a grin, Kim Erise gestured for the other person to sit back in her seat, fastened the seat belt for her again while closing the roof, and said,

“There are of course ways, but it will probably take a very, very long time to be effective—sit tight, I’m going to speed up.”

And then, she stepped on the accelerator, and the car sped up with the roar of the engine.

This feeling of flying.

It was a good experience with a Rolls-Royce sports car.

With a strong physique, she could of course run at high speed and even glide short distances, but it was still tiring, and not as easy and free as just stepping on the accelerator in a car.

Hehe, buy a helicopter and play with it sometime.