[CH.45] Great value for the money

In order to repay the debt, I became a magical girl

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[CH.45] Great value for the money

Upon reading this message, Alice's cheeks turned red instantly. She quickly sat up from her bed and began typing rapidly to explain.

"I sent the wrong message," those three words had just been typed onto the screen by Alice, and a strange feeling spread within her, casting a hazy color over her heart.

Maybe... maybe she was overthinking it?

The last time her senior had said she wanted to kiss her, it had only ended with a peck on the forehead. Her senior had consistently teased Alice with similar tactics, and perhaps this time was no different.

Her fingers paused on the keyboard, and Alice silently deleted the words in the chat box.

Deep down, Alice was hoping for a more intimate connection with her senior. She wanted something warmer than a hug, something sweeter and more heart-pounding than a kiss.

With that in mind, Alice couldn't act like an inexperienced young girl. She had to take the initiative!

After a brief internal struggle, Alice replied to her senior with a shy emoji.

"Be gentle with me tonight, okay?"

She sent the message, but her senior seemed to have gone silent. Alice stared at her phone screen until a new chat window popped up.

"I'm buying the ingredients for tonight. What do you want to eat? Beef stew with potatoes or curry?"

Seeing this message, Alice pouted unhappily. Her senior didn't continue discussing what had just happened, it was clear that she was changing the subject. This indicated that she was just joking and had no intention of doing what Alice had hoped for.

"Aren't beef stew with potatoes and curry the same thing?"

"They have some differences. Which one do you want?"

"Doesn't matter."

Alice angrily tossed her phone aside and buried herself under the blanket.

Honestly, Alice did indeed hope for a more intimate connection with her senior. Whenever Alice mustered the courage to invite her senior closer, her senior would choose to evade it.

Her senior, who had initially taken the initiative, who had kept Alice by her side, and who had previously expressed affection and kissed her cheek and forehead in moments of tenderness...

The one rejecting her advances was still her senior.

What Alice wanted was something warmer than a hug, something sweeter and more heart-pounding than a kiss. On the other hand, her senior seemed content with the current state of affairs, without any additional plans.

To be honest, Alice was finding it increasingly difficult to understand her senior's thoughts.

"If only I could read minds."

Right, Alice had the Magical Girl System. She could purchase skills with love points!

Alice's consciousness immediately delved into the system.

【Love Points: 108】

Although she hadn't eliminated many monsters during this period, there had been too many things happening between her and her senior, accumulating quite a few love points.

Over 100 points may seem like a lot, but the cheapest skills in the system store also cost 100 love points. Alice could only choose from the most affordable skills for now.

As a love-based magical girl, most of the skills Alice could exchange for were highly destructive offensive spells. Some of them had names that were self-explanatory, such as 【Love Kick】.

There were also a bunch of skills with names like 【Ferocious Tiger Heart Extraction】, 【Crow Riding an Airplane】, 【Tornado Destroying a Parking Lot】, and other inexplicable stuff.

Since the store only displayed the names of the skills and their point prices, Alice had no idea what these skills would actually do when activated.

However, a skill like 【Tornado Destroying a Parking Lot】 should have significant power...

"Why am I wasting my time here? What I want is a skill that can help me understand what my senior is thinking."

Suddenly, it was as if the system had understood Alice's thoughts. A large amount of inexplicable content disappeared from the store. In an instant, there was only one magic skill left in the store.

Magic Skill: 【Hypnosis】, Price: 100 points

As soon as Alice saw this skill, her eyes widened.

This skill... it looks a bit questionable...

Hypnosis was essentially a technique that induced relaxation in a person, which could be used to explore their deeper thoughts. From a certain perspective, this skill could indeed be used to confirm someone's thoughts.

But... but...

Without any further hesitation, just as Alice was still struggling with her rationality, her consciousness trembled as it extended its hand and pressed the confirmation button within the system.

{Acquired Magic Skill: 【Hypnosis】, Remaining Love Points: 8}

Exiting the system, Alice stared at her hands in a daze.

Despite spending a whopping 100 love points to purchase the hypnosis magic, Alice felt no remorse whatsoever.

Upon acquiring the skill, she had also probed its usage effects.

As she had suspected, this hypnosis magic could effectively distort right and wrong and implant thoughts into the target's mind. Despite being a 100-point skill, its effects would only last for 60 minutes. However, the person under hypnosis would unquestioningly follow Alice's commands, and after the effect wore off, they would forget everything that had happened during that time.

This skill seemed almost too perfect for Alice, to the point of being unbelievable. Alice was becoming impatient and wanted to use this magic on her senior right away.

"Making my senior do this and that for me in just an hour... I'm sure I'd be so happy..."

Alice hugged herself, indulging in fantasies of what might happen, her emotions taking on a rosy hue. She was panting, her face flushed with a faint blush.

However, this behavior triggered the condition for 【Love and Justice: 1+3】. Alice suddenly shivered and snapped out of her daydream.

Using magic to achieve such things... it felt like cheating no matter how she looked at it.

What if her senior really disliked that sort of thing? What if her senior only saw Alice as a cute and ordinary junior, and hugging and being close were just ordinary emotional exchanges between seniors and juniors?

Would using magic to forcibly engage in a relationship with her senior make her uncomfortable?

"No... it's better not to use magic..."

Alice lowered her head and stared at the 【Hypnosis】 skill in her list once again, deep in thought.

"Maybe... just this once... after all, my senior won't remember anything after being hypnotized. Yes, if it's just this once..."

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In the evening, the orange-hued sunset bathed the courtyard of the villa. Li Meiting, dressed casually, carried a large bag of groceries in her hands. She hummed a cheerful tune as she walked into the villa.

The room was dim, with no lights turned on. The orange light filtered through the sheer curtains and spilled into one corner of the living room. The shadows of the furniture silently extended across the floor, creating a tranquil atmosphere.

"Alice! I'm back~"

There was no response, but Li Meiting didn't pay it much attention.

"Is she sleeping... hehe, I'll get to see Alice's cute sleeping face again later—oh, but I should start cooking first..."

She moved briskly, and her sneakers made a happy, rhythmic tapping sound on the floor as she walked. Li Meiting couldn't help but sing.

"Alice~ Alice~ Together with Alice—Wow! What are you doing here?!"

Li Meiting had just put the groceries in the fridge and turned to go upstairs when she saw Alice sitting on the middle landing of the staircase, her gaze vacant.

"Really, if you're at home, you could at least say something. Were you trying to startle me? Your methods are too childish. I wasn't scared at all, not at all!"

"Senior... can you come here a bit?"

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