Peering at her wives sprawled across the bed, Su Qi felt she had reached the pinnacle of her life. The thought of two more such conquests filled her with exhilaration. She decided to conserve some energy.
Gazing at the soft, delicate figures of her wives, Su Qi was tempted to nestle among them for a blissful sleep. However, after taking a couple of steps, she realized a shower was in order first.
After all, her body bore the evidence of purifying her wayward wives.
Stepping into the bathroom, Su Qi turned on the bathtub faucet and examined herself in the mirror.
Her pink and white stockings, having endured three rounds of tearing, were reduced to mere tatters.
The magical girl outfit now barely concealed her charms, revealing skin as smooth as polished jade.
That flawless skin was now adorned with sixteen tiny rabbit head icons.
Su Qi counted carefully—a staggering sixteen in total.
Sixteen rabbits, each composed of twelve strokes. 16 times 12—the sheer number made Su Qi shudder.
Observing these rabbit icons, Su Qi suddenly realized something was amiss.
Given the intensity of purifying her evil wives, she should have leveled up. So why hadn't she heard the system girl's notification?
Puzzled, Su Qi inquired of the system girl.
Being the early hours, it took a few attempts before Su Qi heard the system girl's crisp, sweet voice, tinged with sleepiness.
"Huh? Host, what's wrong? I wasn't sleeping..." came the system's drowsy response. Su Qi found it rather amusing—this was clearly a case of being caught napping, quite literally.
Faced with the adorable system girl, Su Qi decided not to call out the little white lie. After all, children need their regular sleep.
After some thought, Su Qi gently asked, "Don't the special status change after transforming into a magical girl?"
As she spoke, Su Qi pointed at the rabbit icons adorning her body.
The system, seemingly still groggy from being abruptly awakened, took a good ten seconds before chirping its answer.
"They don't change, Host! Because when you transform into a magical girl, it's the magic durability that's consumed first - that is, the durability of the magical girl outfit. Otherwise, even with the jade seal's nourishment, your body wouldn't be able to withstand it. However..."
Hearing the first part, Su Qi marveled at how thoughtful the system girl's design was.
But upon hearing the "however," Su Qi suddenly had an ominous feeling. Swallowing hard, she listened as the little one continued: "However, to prevent other female humans from discovering Host's secret, a portion of the sensations stored during transformation will be fed back to Host through the abdominal pattern when the transformation ends!"
After the system finished speaking, Su Qi finally noticed the heart-shaped pattern on her lower abdomen, which looked eerily like some kind of evil insignia. It had remained perfectly intact despite the three instances of clothing damage.
Looking at this pattern and recalling the system girl's description, Su Qi couldn't help but shiver. Why did this situation seem so familiar?
It was just like the plots in some 'time-stop' anime.
Thinking of the exaggerated reactions of female protagonists in anime or games after time resumes, Su Qi suddenly felt a bit panicked.
However, Su Qi's worry didn't last long as she heard the system girl's crisp voice again:
"Host, don't worry too much. It's not that extreme. The magical girl outfit only stores a tiny fraction of the sensations each time. Host should have some idea. It definitely won't harm your body!"
Hearing the system's response, Su Qi felt somewhat relieved.
As for the 'stored sensations' the system described, Su Qi could roughly guess what it meant.
Because when she was purifying her evil wives earlier, Su Qi had sensed something unusual.
How to describe that anomaly?
Although each time was pleasurable, compared to usual, the pleasure seemed to be lacking just a tiny bit. Su Qi had assumed it was due to the transformation, not realizing it was being stored up.
Despite the system girl's reassurances, Su Qi's legs involuntarily weakened as she looked at the countless rabbit icons all over her body.
However, Su Qi quickly realized something important:
She must secretly undo the transformation. Su Qi didn't want to leave an impression of starting strong but finishing weak among her wives.
While Su Qi was communicating with the system girl, the bathtub had filled up.
To avoid wasting the hot water, Su Qi quickly rinsed off before gently lifting her dainty foot and stepping into the tub. For once, Su Qi enjoyed the luxury of having a bathtub all to herself.
Since she had transformed into a magical girl, the outfit was now part of Su Qi. She could only bathe with her clothes on.
The bathwater was quite hot. If it were the old male Su Qi, he would have found it scalding, but now as a girl, she found the temperature just right.
After the intense battle earlier, Su Qi thoroughly enjoyed relaxing in the tub. Her raven-black hair spread out in the clear water like an ink painting, mesmerizingly beautiful.
Looking at her waist-length hair that had grown so much in just a few months, Su Qi felt a sense of unreality. But what felt even more unreal was the fact that she now had several wives.
Thinking of how the delicate Bai Miao had also joined the 'big family' and even joined in teasing her, Su Qi didn't know whether to be happy or excited.
The clear water flowed over Su Qi's smooth, delicate skin, washing away the superficial grime. Su Qi thoroughly enjoyed this comfortable bath, at least when she was alone.
Gradually, the bathwater cooled from its initial warmth. By then, Su Qi had finished enjoying herself and prepared for the end of her transformation.
After asking the system girl for the detransformation incantation, Su Qi took a deep breath and said somewhat embarrassedly:
"For the sake of love and justice, to vanquish evil, Magical Girl Su Qi's transformation ends!"
With Su Qi's incantation, the remaining tattered magical girl outfit on her body gradually dissolved into the water, yet without coloring the clear bathwater at all!
The heart-shaped mark on her lower abdomen also disappeared along with the outfit.
Just as Su Qi thought nothing would happen, she noticed a very eye-catching pink heart-shaped pattern appear on her abdomen where the outfit's mark had vanished. In the center of the pattern was written the number 192.
Looking at this number, Su Qi felt she had seen it somewhere recently. Instinctively, she reached out to touch the pattern.
As she did, the number changed from 192 to 191.
Accompanying this was a tingling sensation. Su Qi let out a sigh of relief—it seemed quite bearable, even pleasurable.
Just as Su Qi was thinking of enjoying it slowly, she noticed the number was decreasing at an alarming rate.
Initially, it dropped one by one, but soon it began decreasing by tens.
Su Qi, still in the bathtub, realized that things were not looking good.