My name is Lu Yue, and I’m 16 years old.

I live in Tongjiang Bay Community, Central District, Tongzhou City.

No dating experience.

I’m a first-year student at Tongzhou City No. 1 High School.

From Monday to Friday, I have classes until 8 p.m.

I go to bed at 11 p.m., making sure to get a full eight hours of sleep.

Before bed, I always drink a cup of warm milk heated by my mom.

Then I play Magic Kill for an hour.

Once I hit the bed, I fall asleep instantly.

I wake up refreshed, never carrying fatigue or stress into the next day.

This was Lu Yue’s self-introduction to her magical girl senior today.

Not long ago, during a class break, Lu Yue ran into her frequently tardy best friend, Xiao Yan, while rushing to the bathroom.

Or rather, Magical Girl Jin Yan—the red-haired, golden-eyed magical girl.

Right before Lu Yue’s eyes, she released her transformation, reverting to the familiar figure of Xiao Yan.

Lu Yue only remembered coming out of a bathroom stall to wash her hands.

At that moment, a figure climbed in through the window.

Hearing the noise, Lu Yue turned and locked eyes with Magical Girl Jin Yan.

With a cry of “What the heck!” Jin Yan released her transformation, turning into Xiao Yan.

“Is that your transformation release line?” Lu Yue asked hesitantly.

“No way! It’s me—I mean, I’m not a magical girl!” Xiao Yan nearly shrieked, quickly covering Lu Yue’s mouth and dragging her into the innermost stall.

Later, Xiao Yan explained to Lu Yue how she became a magical girl.

A year ago, while staying up late watching a variety show, she saw Magical Girl Corona talk about her past bond with Yuehua.

She couldn’t fight off sleep and dozed off.

“Hey, Lu Yue, you have no idea how stunning Corona looked that day.”

“Those legs, that waist, and those…” Xiao Yan gushed animatedly.

“So, how did you become a magical girl?” Lu Yue cut off her friend’s rambling.

“Oh, that?” Xiao Yan got serious for once.

“I woke up and found myself a magical girl.”

“Huh?” Lu Yue couldn’t comprehend.

“To be precise, I nearly died from exhaustion that day and awakened as a magical girl,” Xiao Yan explained solemnly, dropping a bombshell.

“My body, to keep me from sleeping forever, automatically transformed into a magical girl.”

“That’s just ridiculous,” Lu Yue said, her fantasies about magical girls crumbling.

In Lu Yue’s mind, a magical girl’s awakening was supposed to be full of fantastical elements, ceremonial.

First, a magical girl should have grand ideals and a perfect character.

In a moment of crisis, she awakens, saving the masses from peril.

That’s the kind of ritualistic awakening a magical girl should have.

Not some reckless idiot nearly dying from staying up late and awakening as a magical girl.

Lu Yue stared at Xiao Yan, a flicker of jealousy rising within her.

Why aren’t I a magical girl? she asked some unknown entity in her mind—maybe Xiao Yan, maybe another magical girl, maybe the “God of Magical Girls.”

But that trace of jealousy was quickly overshadowed by joy that her best friend was a magical girl.

After all, how many ordinary people could befriend a magical girl?

“Xiao Yan, um, can you show me that thing?” Lu Yue asked, nervously tapping her index fingers together.

“Which thing?”

“How a magical girl transforms?”

“Oh, that? Watch me perform.”

Xiao Yan smacked her forehead, then extended her right hand.

Her fingertips glowed with colorful threads of magical energy, weaving together.

With a grab at the air, a key shaped like a ruler materialized in her hand.

She pressed the key to her left chest, silently chanting, ‘Transform.’

Before Lu Yue’s eyes, the girl transformed into Magical Girl Jin Yan.

“That’s amazing,” Lu Yue said, her eyes sparkling.

“But, isn’t a magical girl’s transformation device usually a staff?” Lu Yue asked, puzzled.

“Of course not. Magical girls don’t rely on staffs to cast spells,” Jin Yan explained.

“When I first became a magical girl, my senior taught me about transformation devices.”

“A magical girl’s transformation device is essentially her companion weapon.”

“It’s indestructible and can’t be lost.”

“Completely indestructible?” Curious Lu Yue pressed.

“Of course—not,” Jin Yan said, dragging out the word.

“A transformation device is, to be precise, a manifestation of a magical girl’s traits and talents.”

“It’s just those traits taking form through the magical girl’s magic in the physical world.”

“Even if I break it.”

Jin Yan summoned her transformation device and gripped the ruler-shaped key with both hands.

With a slight effort, the key snapped in half, scattering tiny particles of magical energy into the air.

“See? And then, like this.”

Jin Yan released her hands, and the broken key dissolved as it fell.

She grabbed at the air again, and a brand-new key appeared in her hand.

“I see. Can I touch your transformation device?” Lu Yue asked, curious about its texture.

“Of course, here you go,” Jin Yan said without hesitation, handing it over.

Lu Yue took Xiao Yan’s transformation device.

It felt metallic to the touch.

Weighing it, it seemed as heavy as a regular key.

In her hands, the key was just a peculiar little trinket.

Lu Yue had a bold idea.

What if she touched the key with her magic?

Acting on the thought, Lu Yue channeled her magic through her palm into the key.

A sensation stirred within her.

“I can’t hold it back,” Lu Yue muttered, her brows furrowing, her body slightly curling.

“What can’t you hold back?” Jin Yan asked, confused.

A brilliant light erupted from Lu Yue’s body.

Jin Yan instinctively tried to shield her eyes, but it was futile.

And so, in the unglamorous setting of a bathroom, Lu Yue completed her first transformation into a magical girl.

“Hey, how did you… with my transformation device…”

Become a magical girl?

Jin Yan was speechless, staring at the girl before her.

Silver hair, unchanged features, dressed in an intricate white gown adorned with purple accents.

She wore high heels, and up close, you could clearly see her delicate feet in white stockings.

Hmm, are those pantyhose or thigh-highs? Jin Yan wondered.

Her mischievous hand reached for the hem of the magical girl’s dress, trying to peek.

Smack! Lu Yue delivered a swift chop to the head of the pervert trying to lift her skirt.

“Ow! My bad!” Xiao Yan clutched her head, apologizing.

After disciplining Xiao Yan, Lu Yue finally examined her transformed state.

Magical girls—forever young, forever beautiful, forever wonderful.

Becoming a magical girl was her dream.

She never imagined it would come true today, in such a bizarre way.