"Hey, Jiang Keke, is your older brother coming to the parent-teacher conference again? I asked my sister to come this time..."

During the class break, a male classmate's attempt at conversation made Jiang Keke close her book.

She picked up her lunch and left the classroom.

"Ah, you scared her off again."

"I just wanted to talk to her..."

Jiang Keke had good grades at school, so she wasn't actually bullied.

Although she had been laughed at before about her brother coming to parent-teacher meetings, the teacher was very responsible and had severely reprimanded the students who made fun of her.

The classmates in her class didn't actually look down on her or isolate her.

After all, she studied very well.

Especially boys.

She hated boys, and the one she hated most was her older brother Jiang Si.

Poor grades, always skipping classes, liking to fight, causing trouble.

And, he never apologized.

It had been like this since the day their parents died.

Thinking back on it now, sometimes she felt quite dazed.

Actually, from a very young age, she knew that Jiang Si was a very cold person.

Apart from daily self-destructive exercises like he was crazy, he wasn't interested in anything.

But back then, he still respected their parents very much, listening to whatever Mom and Dad said.

And at that time, Jiang Keke really liked clinging to him because although Jiang Si didn't like talking, he was always willing to play with her.

Thinking about it now, perhaps that was just to appease their parents.

From the very beginning, that person didn't care about her at all, nor did he care about their parents.

Unfortunately, Jiang Keke back then hadn't understood this, just foolishly thinking her older brother was actually good, just not good at showing it.

Until their parents passed away.

He didn't shed a single tear, not even willing to attend the funeral.

The impatience and absent-mindedness he showed standing before their parents' bodies couldn't be faked.

Selfish, cold-blooded, utterly inhuman.

This was Jiang Keke's complete evaluation of her own blood-related older brother Jiang Si.

She took out the lunch box she had made last night - leftovers, somewhat cold.

Since their parents passed away, she rarely ate warm meals.

She didn't eat the food Jiang Si made, not wanting to depend on that Jiang Si who always wanted to abandon her.

During school days, she only had time to cook at night, so she would make extra to eat the next day.

By daytime it would be cold, and there was no place at school to heat her food.

Eating the cold rice, she picked up the water bottle beside her - at least the school had hot water to warm her stomach.

The noon wind blowing from the construction site carried a chill. Summer always came late in BH City, winter's coldness lingered too long, making the early spring warmth in this cold wind feel like a small sugar cube dropped into bitter tea.

Not even a trace of warm sweetness could be tasted before being drowned by the bitter cold.

She curled up in the corner of the third-floor balcony, looking at the distant park in the city center.

That was a place their parents often took them when they were young.

Their parents would run around the park with them, finding fun and interesting playground equipment to make them happy.

After playing until tired, their mother would carry her on her back, while their father would carry Jiang Si on his back, singing children's songs for them as they walked home.

She still remembered when their parents thought they were asleep, their casual conversations on the road.

Discussing when to buy a car in the future. Their parents' salaries weren't actually low, but to raise two children, much money couldn't be spent recklessly. Buying a car had to be postponed, and their father even considered buying a used one to use first.

Saying they would teach Jiang Si to drive...

When she felt cold, memories from the past would surge up, giving her a little warmth, then turning into greater chill.

Therefore, she couldn't forgive Jiang Si.

Couldn't forgive that blood relative who showed no sadness after their parents died.

Couldn't forgive him for still living as if nothing happened, living well all by himself!

"Boom!"

Suddenly the entire teaching building shook.

Jiang Keke's lunch box fell to the ground, spilling everything. Although somewhat heartbroken, she quickly picked up the lunch box and looked down from the teaching building.

A bat-like Disaster Beast burst out from the ground in the schoolyard in front of the teaching building!

Disaster Beast appearances had become frequent in BH City in recent years, so for many people, it wasn't as shocking anymore.

But without Magical Girls, the danger was still very real.

The school security guards reacted quickly, immediately sounding the alarm. Students and teachers rapidly evacuated from the teaching building.

Although somewhat noisy, there wasn't too much chaos. Several security guards retired from the Disaster Control Bureau stood at the front, holding sprays - Disaster Beast repellent spray developed by the Disaster Control Bureau.

It could briefly make Disaster Beasts fearful, even stop their movements, buying time for Magical Girls to arrive.

However, the bat showed no reaction to the spray, only letting out a sharp screech!

The first affected were the security guards standing at the front holding the sprays. Under the screech, they collapsed to the ground without warning, the spray cans in their hands rolling to the Disaster Beast's feet, only to be crushed under its foot.

Large amounts of spray splashed on the Disaster Beast's body but had no effect whatsoever.

The volume of the screech gradually decreased to inaudible levels, and throughout the school and surrounding streets, there wasn't a single person left standing.

Everyone lay on the ground, quiet as if in a graveyard.

Jiang Keke wished she had fainted too.

But she didn't.

The screeching Disaster Beast turned its head, its terrifying eyes fixed intently on her.

It was always like this.

She tightened her grip on the lunch box, trying hard to inhale, but only found it difficult.

Every time it was like this.

The Disaster Beast suddenly flapped its wings, the strong wind stirring up surrounding debris, making it almost impossible for Jiang Keke to keep her eyes open.

When the large bat's feet firmly gripped the window frame, hanging upside down to look at her, Jiang Keke took a step back.

Then her legs gave way, and she sat down on the ground.

She bit her lip, feeling more wronged and sad than fearful or panicked.

Why did she always have to experience such things? Why did nothing good ever happen in her life?

Her father and mother died at the hands of a Disaster Beast.

The blood relative left behind was so cold he didn't seem human.

Alone, struggling, not knowing what for, she had lived until now.

And now, even the small wish of just surviving couldn't be realized.

When the Disaster Beast opened its large mouth, its dark shadow covering her.

Jiang Keke still subconsciously took out her seed.

Magic Seed.

Proof that could transform into a Magical Girl, which she obtained the day her parents had the accident.

However, from the day she got it until now, the Magic Seed had remained a dull gray.

As if something had sucked away its energy.

What she held in her hand was just an empty shell.

Just like her life, always giving her the deepest despair when full of hope and happiness.

Mocking her own weakness and ugliness in the face of misfortune.

Leaving only an empty shell that didn't know why it existed.

"If only... I had never been born from the beginning..."

Closing her eyes, after giving up struggling, she actually felt a sense of relief for a moment.

But she was still afraid of the pain, afraid of the unknown death, trembling slightly.

"Disaster Beasts grow stronger when they eat people."

A bell-like clear and pleasant voice reached her ears, then she felt warmth that dispelled all cold.

"Screech!"

The Disaster Beast also let out an abnormal cry.

So, Jiang Keke carefully opened her eyes.

Purple flames descended from the sky like meteors, crashing down onto the Disaster Beast with a boom!

The Disaster Beast, headfirst into the ground, let out a pained scream, momentarily buried in dust and smoke.

The purple flames gently landed in front of her.

Elegant light purple long boots made a crisp sound upon touching the ground, the purple light resembling burning flames quietly dispersing.

A purple-gold long dress, lightweight ribbons fluttering behind, cute bow decorations, purple hair swaying in the wind.

Until that beautiful yet cold face came into view.

"If a Magical Girl gets eaten, the Disaster Beast becomes even stronger." The purple flower-like girl said to her, "It would be troublesome if you died."

That day, the sun rose again in Jiang Keke's life.

Although it was purple, the warmth remained the same.