Chapter 88
The two-toned blue bob cut of Busan’s Blooming Born 2-Star Magical Girl Hong Na-yeon made a striking impression as she thought the past month felt like a dream.
Dun dun!
The revelation from Navigation Magical Girl Natalia, who pierced through the cold winter sea.
Whoa!
A nuclear attack by the Puppet Magical Girl overpowered Russia.
Kaboom!
The Sword Magical Girl who struck Beijing.
Slash!
The nuclear war crisis between the USA and Russia.
Yikes!
The founding of the Magical Girls city-state.
Ta-da!
Events that could flip the world upside down happened in succession. People were glued to their phones, wondering what would happen next. But the most shocking event for Hong Na-yeon was reuniting with her parents, who had been missing at sea for two years.
“Na-yeon!! Daddy’s here!!”
“Oh, I was so worried about our daughter!”
“D… Dad? Mom? Where, where have you been?”
Her parents were found below the lighthouse in Elysion, the city of Magical Girls. Two years ago, during an island migration cycle, they had an accident nearby and were miraculously rescued by the girls living on the island. Due to the strict rule from the Goddess that the island must not be discovered until the heir qualified, they had lived with the girls.
“Sweetheart, you’ve been through so much.”
“Just being able to live safely without you guys is enough.”
As soon as Na-yeon confirmed her parents were alive, she cried her heart out, unleashing all the hardships she had faced like a child throwing a tantrum. Seeing this, her parents, too, hugged their daughter and sobbed.
After hours of venting emotions, Na-yeon suddenly noticed her dad’s hair.
“Dad, your hair has grown… huh?”
“Uh? Oh, it seems it has!”
His hair, once darkened by long hours under the scorching sun and joked about being like a light bulb due to the skin curse, had remarkably retained the lushness Na-yeon remembered from her kindergarten days.
“Mom, your skin… looks nice?”
“Really? Maybe it’s because I’ve been eating good things that the kids there provided.”
While her mother had the weight of life closer to a grandmother, her appearance had transformed back to the dignified mother Na-yeon remembered from her younger days. Most notably, her previously hunched back was straightened out, revealing the proud figure of Mrs. Kim from Nampo Dong once more.
“……”
Feeling a sense of discomfort, Na-yeon stepped back from her parents and observed them slowly.
Dressed in ample white clothes as if they were from a traditional European village, her parents’ hair was completely free of gray. Their faces had lost the age spots and wrinkles, resembling how Na-yeon remembered them from when she was very young.
“Seriously… are you joking? Did you get your hair dyed or something?”
“The kids on the island fed me some amazing fruits and drinks while we walked around, I guess.”
“I had no mirror so I didn’t realize, but Mom, you’ve really become younger! It doesn’t look that obvious when we see each other.”
Na-yeon trembled as she took pictures of her parents to show them.
They looked as young as when they had just finished their belated honeymoon and Na-yeon was born.
When they saw their own reflections, her parents gasped in shock, then screamed after checking the missing persons documentation that listed them as deceased, and finally screamed again after receiving their health checkup confirming they were twenty years younger.
After a shockingly dazed day, Na-yeon’s family began to laugh heartily as they started to return to their daily lives. Although they lost their fishing assets due to the earlier betrayal of people they once trusted, they felt hopeful because they had been compensated with youth worth ten times the two years they lost.
“By the way, have you become one of those Magical Girls?”
“Uh? Uh-huh.”
“I saw in the news lately that the White Wing Unit kids get treated well and help others a lot.”
“Do you think I’m like them?”
“Why not? Weren’t there kids from that island who became Magical Girls a few months ago? They’re going around helping people with their magical powers; that sounds awesome!”
“I just prefer staying at home.”
“I appreciate you keeping the house safe while your mom and dad were away, but I really hope Na-yeon finds something she wants to do.”
As her dad flipped through the internet looking for other job opportunities, Na-yeon laid sprawled in the living room, suddenly recalling a silver-haired, squinted-eyed girl.
‘Now that I think about it, she really was the start.’
For two years, she had been tormented by a group seeking to plunder her family’s wealth during her parents’ absence, so she had pushed them away harshly. But her words resonated differently from others.
“……”
If she asks now to be accepted, wouldn’t it come off as shameless?
“What do I care? I just need to live well.”
Boom!
“Ah, you startled me!”
Mrs. Kim, with her youthful voice once bragged about in Nampo Dong, exclaimed as she smacked Na-yeon’s behind while she was contemplating on the couch.
“You! Skipping school and doing crazy dye jobs! Wearing such short skirts! Huh? Kids your age become Magical Girls and go to that weird island to help others!”
“W-why are you bringing that up all of a sudden! I’ll wear what I want, so leave me alone…”
“If you want to, then go and help people right now! Your mom and dad are young now, so we can eat whatever, no worries!”
“Yeah, it feels like Na-yeon’s been given an opportunity; try learning various things and come back.”
Her parents, who had received help from the golden-haired Magical Girls living on the island, expressed their hope for their daughter to do something as a Magical Girl. Unable to resist their persuasion, Na-yeon boarded the bus heading to the Supernatural Ability Response Team.
“Whoa, is that a new recruit?”
“……”
“A new recruit? Is that really a new recruit?”
“I’m a hopeful recruit! Still a rookie!”
Hee hee!
“I’m a rookie!”
Newbie alert!
Magical Girl incoming!
As the members of the White Wing Unit gathered in their dormitory, preparing training schedules, they were all dressed in short-sleeved shirts and casual pants provided by the army. Among them, Hong Na-yeon, with her bob hair and a blue two-tone hairstyle, stood out.
“Newbie…!”
Sixty members of the White Wing Unit in the dormitory stared with sparkling eyes and licked their lips.
The sweet scent of a rookie.
“Hopeful recruit! More people on duty!”
With the fighting spirit of those who had become victors of ground battles through real-like training, they easily made Na-yeon, the Blooming Born 2-Star Magical Girl, shiver.
“U-uh, I want to go to the Supernatural Ability Response Team instead of the White Wing…”
Click!
The sound of a door locking.
As Na-yeon turned around, she saw the commander of the White Wing Unit 1st Squad, Shooting Magical Girl Lee Min-seul, grinning at her, decked out in tactical gear and a uniform-patterned skirt.
Na-yeon felt chills from how much her short bob looked like that of a soldier.
“Welcome to the White Wing Unit, newbie.”
“…Can I leave?”
That day, South Korea welcomed its third Blooming Born 2-Star Magical Girl into a nationally recognized self-governing organization.
During her rookie training, she was dubbed the Ocean Magical Girl.
Dun dun!
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