The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

Chapter 501 Some Remaining Issues

My brief trip to Syracuse has come to an end.

However, although they boarded the plane back to Chengdu, it didn't mean that the Heart Moon Fox Squad's activities in Snow City had come to an end.

The blooming of marigolds

Su Tianqing is still pondering how to make the marigolds bloom with a protective will.

He has considerable experience in inspiring magical girls to unleash new wills, so it wouldn't be a problem to call him the mastermind behind the magical girls of Rongcheng.

However, when facing the newcomer Jin Zhanhua, Su Tianqing struggled with how to strike the right balance.

In her analysis, Marigold's ability to become a magical girl is largely due to her long-retired mother.

The retired magical girl [Cephalotax] doesn't generate much discussion within the magical girl community; she's just an ordinary magical girl.

She was active in Changchun, Jilin Province for quite some time, and together with her companions, she protected Changchun for many years.

Perhaps for personal reasons, this senior retired gracefully after completing his studies, settled down as an ordinary person, and lived a happy life.

The magical talent inherited from her mother, the attention from the stars, and the relaxed standards of stargazers during magical storms all contributed to Jin Lanshuang's becoming a magical girl, despite her initially insufficient qualifications.

If we follow this line of thinking, there are now two possible paths—

First, rush to her house, tie up her parents, and tell Marigold that if she doesn't come to fight, she'll throw her parents into the sea to feed the fish, and she'll transform into a magical girl to fight to the death.

But that absolutely won't work.

First of all, this doesn't fit my character, and I would never do something like destroying someone else's family, so I'll pass on that.

So the second one is to investigate Marigold's personal relationships, find her closest companions or friends, and create a seemingly accidental but actually carefully designed conflict, just like Wang Xiaowang and Aurora.

However, this approach has a downside: it doesn't guarantee that it will inspire her protective will, and it might even backfire, just like when Iris became depressed and wanted to give up.

"It seems like a lot of trouble."

After getting off the plane and returning to her residence, the fox girl, having finished her bath, lay on the sofa receiving a hair-drying and grooming service from her familiars, and spoke to the cat girl opposite the coffee table.

"Hmm? What's so troublesome?"

Nan Jiayu was sorting through the local specialties and toys she brought back from Snow City when she heard Su Tianqing suddenly say something that seemed out of place, and asked curiously.

"That's her! The newcomer we met in Snow City, Marigold, Little Fish, do you remember her?"

"I remember, she was quite talented and learned things very quickly from Iris." Nan Jiayu nodded, her cat tail curving into a question mark behind her.

"But what's wrong with her? Has she caused you any trouble, Tianqing?"

"It's not a problem, it's just that... like this and that..."

Su Tianqing told the cat girl in front of her about the marigold flower, omitting the beginning and end, and adding some embellishments, successfully leaving both of them completely confused.

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"Clatter".

Nan Jiayu placed the freshly brewed hot milk on the coffee table, took a sip herself, and quietly observed the fox girl on the opposite sofa who was holding the hot milk in her hands and sipping it.

"I think I understood."

The cat girl continued,

"Tianqing, you mean that Marigold and Winterflower were forced into this role without understanding the will of a magical girl, so you want to give them a push?"

"That's exactly what I mean! Little Fish is so clever!"

The fox's tail swayed vigorously behind it, looking quite pleased.

Nan Jiayu took another sip of milk, feeling somewhat out of touch with the little fox's whimsical ideas.

However, on the other hand, what Tianqing did was indeed reasonable, since the foundation of magical girls' existence is the "will to protect."

Without this underlying logic, Marigold will definitely not go very far in the magical girl genre, and may soon lose the attention of the stars.

The catgirl racked her brains trying to think:

"But is there really a way for us to solve this problem on our own?"

"We can handle Meng Donghua, after all, Tao Tao is her older sister. They must have gone through a lot in Kalia's barrier, so I don't think we need to worry about her."

"But marigolds... umm..." Nan Jiayu scratched her head in distress, unable to think of anything.

I know far too little about marigolds, not nearly as much as I do about hyacinths.

But he couldn't very well go directly to Hyacinth to ask about the marigolds. Whenever he saw her, his hands would itch, as if he had found a perfect punching bag and couldn't wait to rush up and give her a couple of punches.

"It seems the only option is to try and work on Hyacinth and the others," Nan Jiayu said thoughtfully.

"What do you think, Tianqing? Let's pass this on to Hyacinth and the others, and ask them to help Marigold. Maybe it will have an unexpected effect."

"...Little Fish, do you think the hyacinth will listen to us?" The fox girl said after a brief silence.

The two imagined what might happen then:

Hyacinth: Heart Moon Fox! I've finally caught you! Today I'm going to defeat you!

[Heart Moon Fox: Miss Hyacinth, listen to me, I have something to tell you about your junior...]

Hyacinth: What?! You're still eyeing the marigolds?! I'll stop your evil scheme!

Hellcat: (Silently raises its fist)

"Probably not," Nan Jiayu replied, shaking her head.

"Then let's take a balanced approach. Instead of rushing for Marigold to unleash her protective resolve immediately, let her first see the 'protective will' of her other companions. What do you think, Little Fish?"

Su Tianqing, with a sudden twist of her cunning, proposed a solution.

The catgirl listened carefully and nodded gently.

"Yeah, I think this is pretty good. It makes more sense than us just sitting here thinking aimlessly."

"In short, let's take action first; we might even get some new inspiration from it."

"So how do we let Marigold see the protective will of others? Should we show her the video of Lily protecting the city? Or the video we recorded before?" Su Tianqing tilted her head.

"If that's the case, it's no different from taking online classes. I think experiencing it in person is much better."

"Xiaoyu is a practical person," Su Tianqing commented.

With this plan, Su Tianqing was able to formulate a plan much faster, and quickly came up with one.

"We can involve Marigold in Hyacinth and the others' daily activities, so that she can personally experience Hyacinth and the others' determination to protect the city. Maybe that will inspire the same will in her heart."

"The name of my plan is—"

[The Marigold Support Program starts with beating hyacinths]