Starting as a Magical Girl, I Alone Shall Rule for Eternity

“Why hasn’t big brother come back yet…”

Keke complained as she leaned against the windowsill. “It’s already so late. Teacher Shion didn’t drag him into something dangerous again, did she?”

Inside a private room at the Beihai Disaster Control Bureau, the celebration wasn’t over yet.

When the former bureau chief heard that Keke had won the championship, he was so happy he paid out of his own pocket for them to celebrate properly.

So Susan booked the whole hotel without hesitation, spending freely.

Not only people from the Beihai Disaster Control Bureau came to celebrate; some competitors who had participated in the contest earlier also showed up to join the festivities.

They partied until well into the night. Keke felt a bit tired and stepped outside to get some fresh air.

“Hmph, big brother and big sister are just like that.”

She muttered to herself. At that moment she glanced to the side and realized the panda girl had somehow slipped outside. The girl was holding a bottle and was chugging it straight into the panda head—so far, no one had ever managed to take off that panda mask.

“Isn’t it inconvenient to eat and drink like that?”

“Not really, you just get used to it.”

The panda girl copied Keke by leaning on the railing and looking out. “Big brother and big sister are really annoying, aren’t they, Keke?”

“Yeah, is your sister that troublesome?”

“Super troublesome.”

The panda girl muttered and listlessly shook the panda head. “Sometimes I want her to play with me, but she ignores me. Then at night she insists on holding me and watching me sleep, using me as a pillow and almost strangling me every night.”

“...Isn’t that kind of nice?” Keke said.

“What’s so nice about that?”

Keke curled her lips. “If it were my brother and I wanted to sleep together, he’d kick me down from the bed so I’d have to sleep on the floor.”

The panda head listened blankly for a moment, then nodded. “Oh, then my sister is actually pretty good...”

Suddenly she realized something was off. She’d come to gripe about her sister, not praise her, so she quickly added angrily, “And another thing, we agree to eat together, but she eats first and brings me leftovers to heat up. She always makes me eat leftovers!”

“My brother throws cold food at me and tells me to heat it myself,” Keke thought, “most of the time he just gives me money to buy my own food.”

“...Also, my sister used to hum to soothe me to sleep, but then she put a tape recorder playing a lullaby next to me to fool me, and it’s super noisy so I can’t sleep!”

“My brother would just knock me out to make me sleep.”

“......”

“Is that your real brother?”

“Absolutely, genuine.” Keke sighed. “You aren’t trying to show off your sister, are you?”

“No no.”

The panda head sounded a little apologetic. “I mean, you know how their family is—”

“It’s fine. Most of the time we get along well. And my brother has a lot going on every day. We rarely get to play together.”

“Mm, same here. Sometimes she gets tired and tells me to go play by myself because I’m too troublesome.”

“Right, right, exactly like that.” Keke sympathized. “She acts like she’s on a different plane, thinks I don’t understand anything, and refuses to tell me things. Hmph.”

“Yeah. I actually understand why she does those things. I know she cares about me,” the panda girl said quietly. “But she always pretends not to care. It’s annoying—everything’s left for me to guess.”

“I think that’s better,” Keke pondered.

The panda girl tilted her head. “Huh? Why?”

“Because whenever I imagine my brother suddenly being very affectionate and overly gentle with me,” Keke shivered, “it’s disgusting…”

The panda girl immediately laughed. “Haha, what’s up with you? Your brother cares about you and you find it gross? If he was genuinely gentle, you might actually be happy.”

“Maybe…”

Keke was about to agree, but she remembered the fake brother they had met when the captain had captured her—the one she had kicked and left dead by the roadside.

“No way.”

“Eh?”

“Anyway, it’s just gross.”

The panda girl scratched her head. “Alright, why?”

Keke looked troubled. “It’s a habit thing. If he had always been gentle, I’d probably get used to it. But he’s been like that since childhood—aloof, but still watching over me properly. In my heart, that’s my brother. If he suddenly turned warm and affectionate, I’d feel alienated and disgusted…”

“True.”

The panda girl murmured while staring at the night sky. “Same with me. My sister has always been like that. If one day she suddenly said cheesy things like ‘I really like you,’ I’d feel gross too.”

“Siblings are like that.”

Keke patted her panda head.

Then she wondered why the girl’s head was so small and pinched the mask, unable to reach any face inside. “Everyone has their own way of relating. No need to force change or envy others. Who knows if it’s actually better.”

Just like Yiyi.

Keke had envied that sisterly bond before, but in the end, the sisters’ relationship wasn’t necessarily better than hers with her brother.

Even if they had cold wars or fought, between brothers and sisters there was always family beneath it all.

No one ever intended to hurt the other.

Sometimes a seemingly great relationship hides resentment and hatred beneath.

So Keke was content with how she and her brother related.

“Yeah, I don’t want to change either. I know my sister has her reasons and she’s put in more effort than I imagined. I just wish we could be closer…”

Hearing the panda girl, Keke sighed. “Who wouldn’t want that.”

Although satisfied with the current relationship, thinking that her brother and Teacher Shion were closer made her a little gloomy.

Possessiveness isn’t limited to one kind of relationship—be it familial, friendship, or even teacher-student. Once you’re treated specially, you can’t help wanting to monopolize it.

Everyone’s selfish that way, thought Keke.

She wanted to monopolize Teacher Shion’s care and didn’t want anyone else to take away her brother’s attention.

But when two possessive people meet…

the result isn’t double joy, it’s double sourness.

“Sometimes trying too hard backfires,” the panda girl said softly. “The more you rush to make things better, the more you mess them up. Even siblings can break apart if they don’t handle things right. Doing nothing might sometimes be best, but doing nothing feels so uneasy. Being a little sister is hard.”

Keke had nothing to argue with there.

Being Jiang Si’s sister was pretty easy…

At least for Keke, she hardly needed to do anything for Jiang Si. Although she wanted to help, her brother would probably just find her annoying.

For Keke, as long as her brother was safe, there was nothing else to worry about.

Jiang Si handled studies and life—she just had to not be a nuisance, and she’d be a good sister.

“If only I could be as strong as Ruri, then my sister wouldn’t leave me behind.”

“Don’t worry, family ties aren’t that fragile,” Keke comforted. “Just try your best, they’ll understand.”

After all, her brother wouldn’t demand she become like Teacher Shion. That wouldn’t be familial love, it would be control.

“Mm.”

“Even if he rarely says it, and sometimes seems fierce or cold, a brother is still a brother. Have faith, they won’t abandon their sister!”

The panda girl suddenly smiled and hugged Keke. “Mm.”

“Heh, I’m a worse sister, but my brother hasn’t abandoned me either.”

“Your brother is really nice.” Remembering Jiang Si’s earlier scolding of Keke, the panda girl added, “Even if he doesn’t show it.”

“My brother is like that, I think he’s just shy,” Keke said seriously. “He’s the type who gets embarrassed expressing feelings. He cares a lot but must act aloof. Like before, he was actually satisfied with my grades but insisted they weren’t good enough…”

“Are you sure that isn’t just your rose-colored glasses?” the panda girl whispered. “I feel like he really isn’t satisfied.”

“You don’t understand my brother more than I do!” Keke tugged the panda girl’s mask furiously. “He definitely thinks that!”

“Okay, okay, I’m wrong. Your brother cares a lot about you!”

The two little sisters laughed. The panda girl hugged Keke and gazed out at the night. “Are we friends, Ruri?”

“No.”

“Hmm…”

“Call me Keke and we’re friends.”

The panda girl froze, then happily tapped Keke’s forehead. “Hmph, you scared me, Keke!”

“What’s your name then?”

“Leia.”

“Leia?” Keke found the name uncommon but nodded. “You should come visit Beihai!”

“No way, Beihai’s Azure Cloud Sect is too scary. I’m not brave enough to go.”

“It’s not scary at all…”

The two chattered on. Suddenly the night sky outside burst into brilliant colors.

The panda girl panicked and leaned forward to look toward the neon-like display.

“So many magical girls?”

“They must be facing a Disaster Beast,” Keke craned her neck to look. “Where is that?”

“Guangzhou. My sister is still in Guangzhou!”

“Should be okay, so many magical girls…”

The panda girl fell silent for a moment and then took off, “I have to go check.”

“Hey, wait!”

Seeing the panda girl leap down, Keke quickly transformed and followed, notifying Susan and Yiyi on the way.

It never hurts to report when heading to South China; it’s dangerous there.

But Guangzhou?

Keke felt puzzled. Wasn’t that where the championship prize had been awarded by the Disaster Control Bureau? Why such a commotion?

Could it be Teacher Shion…?

She felt uneasy. If Jiang Si had gone to South China, Teacher Shion probably came too. She might not know where or how, but Shion would certainly come if Jiang Si was there.

Could Shion be trying to reclaim the championship prize for her?

Keke felt a bit vain thinking that and then scolded herself. Teacher Shion wouldn’t bother with such trivial things.

“Leia, slow down!”

She kept close behind Leia and also intended to head to Guangzhou to check things out.

But before they’d gone far there came a low roar that spread across all of South China!

In the next moment, a colossal golden Calamity Dragon, exuding a holy and majestic aura, beat its wings and soared into the sky!

The dazzling golden radiance and the earth-shaking cry sent the panda girl tumbling backward!

Keke hurriedly grabbed her. The two looked up at the arrogant golden Calamity Dragon hovering in the air.

The golden light cloaked all of South China, almost turning it into daytime!

“It’s like the Sun…”

The panda girl whispered, stunned and dazed. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Keke was slightly surprised too. She stared at the enormous Disaster Beast and wondered if that might be Teacher Shion’s arrival.

The aura clearly belonged to an S-rank Disaster Beast, and probably only people from Azure Cloud Sect could handle it.

Still, she wasn't shocked. Having seen Teacher Shion’s power before, few things surprised Keke.

It was that sun-like unleashing of mana that made Keke think of Teacher Shion.

Not that Teacher Shion was a Disaster Beast—that would be rude.

And magical girls don’t turn into Disaster Beasts!

It was the arrogant, wanton display of magical energy and presence that reminded her of Shion’s style: the grand opening move Shion taught, the “Heaven’s Desolation” finger move—maybe powerful people all fought like that.

“I need to find my sister!”

The panda girl panicked and rose to run, and her panda mask fell off.

Amid the Disaster Beast’s roar, Keke and Leia froze.

Keke looked at the panda girl. After the mask fell, there was nothing inside—completely empty.

“Where’s your head?”

Before Keke could ask, the panda girl hurriedly pulled the mask back on. “This is actually a trick—eyes on the head and the real eyes are on the chest…”

At once Yiyi, Susan, An Shiyu, the Beihai Disaster Control Bureau magical girls, and the local contestants who had attended the celebration all rushed out.

“Keke, don’t run off!”

The Beihai magical girls landed, while the local contestants immediately flew toward Guangzhou. “We’re going first!”

Another roar sent golden rain cascading from the Calamity Dragon’s body.

The countless colorful light points representing the magical girls exploded into brilliant bursts!

Explosions rolled out beneath the dragon in the sky, continuous and deafening.

Magnificent and dazzling!

Keke watched the panda girl fearlessly head toward Guangzhou and grabbed her. “Wait! It’s too dangerous for you alone.”

She glanced back at Yiyi and the others. “Her sister is in Guangzhou. I want to go with her and see, Captain.”

Not as a friend, but as a teammate applying to join the mission.

Li Yi looked up at the Golden Calamity Dragon King and took a deep breath.

Then she asked Susan, An Shiyu, and Peony, “What do you think?”

An Shiyu nodded. “It looks like the magical girls there are in a tough fight. We should go help.”

After all, the Golden Calamity Dragon King is probably Jiang Si’s doing, so it’s not that dangerous.

It’s mostly just a color change; aside from being larger, it’s not that different from the original Disaster Dragon.

Maybe he came because of Keke’s Dream Core—no wonder they left in such a hurry.

Susan nodded. “No problem.”

Peony: “I want to go back to sleep.”

“Fine, then let’s all go.”

“Wait, I didn’t agree!”

Ignoring Peony, Silver Lotus walked up to Keke. “Let’s go. We can’t leave South China’s magical girls stranded. Winning the championship deserves a response.”

“Mm!”

Keke picked up the panda girl—indeed very light. There was no one inside at all!

Her heart stirred. She planned to ask what was going on later; with so many people around, it wasn’t the time to force the issue.

Holding the panda tight, she wouldn’t let her go.

As they prepared to fly to Guangzhou with the other Beihai magical girls, a girl with gray pupils stepped forward and stood before them.

“Oh.”

A girl wearing a black magical outfit smiled calmly and waved to them.

“Long time no see, Susan, Yiyi, and Peony. You didn’t slack off—surprising.”

All the Beihai magical girls went quiet.

Even Keke widened her eyes in disbelief.

“Senior Hyacinth!”

“Oh, isn’t this Keke?”

Hyacinth smiled gently and reached out her hand. “Give Leia to me.”