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

Chapter 344 is like having a new "finding fault" plan on the first day of the new year.

New Year's Day.

Chengdu was enveloped in the joyous atmosphere of the New Year.

The residents slept in late, ate some glutinous rice balls or dumplings or something else for breakfast, and welcomed the first day of the new year.

Su Tianqing, however, was an exception.

I got up early, took the dumplings I made last night from the refrigerator at Xiaoyu's house, and put them on the steamer to steam.

Today, a highly anticipated event is about to take place—

"The annual meeting hosted by the Heroes Association will be held at Qiuxi Road Square in Rongcheng. Citizens are requested to watch in an orderly manner. This annual meeting will also be broadcast live on the TV channel."

"Just this afternoon!"

While eating dumplings, Su Tianqing spoke to Nan Jiayu beside her.

Grandpa and Grandma got up early, ate breakfast, and went out for a stroll, which is their daily routine, so no one paid too much attention to it, only reminding the two elderly people to be careful.

Nan's father had been working on some unfinished work from before the new year in his bedroom early in the morning, but now he came out to have breakfast, and the whole family was enjoying themselves.

However, there were quite a few people sitting around the table.

Su Tianqing looked around.

Xiao Yu beside her, Nan Xiaofeng across the table, and Hua Ling and Lin Muyao beside her were all vying for a plate of dumplings filled with shrimp and cabbage and pork.

"Hua Ling, Mu Yao."

"Did you know that when eating dumplings, you need to eat them one by one from right to left, so that..."

"There's a flaw!" Lin Muyao swiftly reached out with her chopsticks.

"Goohoo! Don't even think about it!" Nan Xiaofeng also stretched out his chopsticks to block the last shrimp dumpling.

Seeing this, Hua Ling pushed up her glasses, the reflection of the lenses obscuring her eyes. She also quickly reached out with her chopsticks, but was stopped by Nan Xiaofeng and Lin Muyao.

A battle over shrimp dumplings is about to begin on the table.

Su Tianqing watched the three of them chattering away with great interest, and smiled as she put a chive dumpling into her mouth.

Just as the three pairs of chopsticks were engaged in a fierce battle, a fork suddenly appeared in the center of the battlefield and deftly pierced away the last shrimp dumpling.

"Aww...chew chew chew..."

The blonde girl put a shrimp dumpling in her mouth, bit off half of it, and chewed it carefully.

Then he looked up and met the gazes of the three people sitting across the table, who were frozen in shock, and was immediately stunned.

"...If it's for Aurora, that would be fine too."

Hua Ling chuckled and sighed, picking up a cabbage and pork dumpling and casually erasing the dramatic ending of the dumpling battle.

—Aurora.

Because she had stayed out too late the night before and there was no transportation back, Aurora stayed overnight at Nan Xiaofeng's house after getting her father's permission, sleeping in a small temporary room.

According to Aurora herself, her family tradition is to celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. She doesn't have any special feelings about the Lunar New Year's Eve and Spring Festival in Chengdu; she just celebrates them as local traditional festivals.

Of course, her public identity is that of an international student, and it is said that her father is contacting the school, so no one has investigated further.

As for Xia Taotao and Fei Yelan...

After setting off the fireworks, the two of them rode their electric scooter home. Apparently, they ran into the same shop owner who sold them the fireworks on the way, and it's unknown whether they bought some more.

"Besides, Dad is very confident in the security in Chengdu, so there's nothing to worry about," Aurora said.

After all, the Heroes Association of Chengdu is quite famous throughout the country. Su Tianqing thought to herself.

You asked how Aurora was able to undo her transformation early?

This brings us to the information Aurora herself discovered: as long as the Ripper Monster is dealt with, she can cancel her transformation early and doesn't have to wait until late at night.

But upon closer reflection, the golden-haired fox felt there was something rather strange about the situation at the dinner table—

Across the table were three upright individuals—Hyacinth, Iris, and Nightingale.

On this side of the table are two veteran villains and one new villain—Heart Moon Fox, Hellcat, and Alice.

There are a total of four Star Shadows on both sides. Apart from being able to open the boxes with the secret manual, both sides are tacitly unaware of each other's existence.

Even the most unpredictable Aurora, her uncontrollable transformation only appears at sunset.

"The magical girl's cognitive shielding is so useful," Su Tianqing thought.

Hey, Secret Codex, this isn't the situation you wanted to see, is it? You weren't secretly watching the show somewhere, were you?

Su Tianqing tried to question the void, but received no answer.

……

After breakfast, everyone went out.

The subway and public transport started operating later, but the crowds were just as bad as before.

Especially on Line 1 and Line 2 leading to Qiuxi Road, Su Tianqing felt that if it weren't for Xiaoyu blocking the way ahead, she and Aurora would not have been able to squeeze in at all.

"This is... the Chengdu subway..." Aurora timidly huddled in the corner of the carriage, close to Su Tianqing and Nan Jiayu, and whispered.

Su Tianqing, hugging her enormous, bulky fox tail, replied:

"It's not usually this crowded outside of rush hour. Today it's because there's a company year-end party to watch, so everyone's here..."

"...Is reciting ash fun?"

Aurora tried to pronounce the words Su Tianqing was saying, but she didn't seem to be familiar with the pronunciation and didn't pronounce them very well.

"That's called the annual meeting, it's an event that the Hero Association holds every year."

"This year we invited the Qiu Gui Squad to perform, and they are very popular."

"Qiugui... Ah, I know them."

Aurora blurted out these words.

"Huh? Aurora actually knows about Qiugui?" Su Tianqing blinked in surprise.

I had always thought Aurora was the kind of girl who didn't have many entertainment activities, since she rarely even watched TV, so it was surprising that she knew about Qiu Gui, this popular idol.

But then I thought about it again, and realized that she was a magical girl enthusiast after all, so it was understandable that she would know these things.

"Yes, because Qiu Gui and her group once performed in London, and I went to see their performance."

"It's that global tour from last time, right? It toured more than forty cities around the world in two months." Su Tianqing finally remembered it and suddenly realized.

In short, Qiugui Squad is a global idol group.

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The subway has arrived.

The moment the train doors opened, the throng of people, like tiny blood vessels being cut open by an intern's scalpel during surgery, almost instantly filled the entire platform hall.

The three of them took the elevator down to the ground floor, where the bustling commercial streetscape of Qiuxi Road came into view, quite different from their last visit:

The shops were decorated with bright red lanterns and Chinese knots, and the loudspeakers played festive greetings like "Wishing you prosperity," filling the whole street with a lively New Year atmosphere.

The most eye-catching feature, however, is the rising and lowering stage set up in the center of the square.

Huge posters of the Qiu Gui team were hung around the stage, and enthusiastic fans had already started their support activities around the stage, which blended in quite harmoniously with the New Year atmosphere.

"Wow..."

Aurora gaped, seemingly having never seen such a lively scene before.

"How about it? Qiu Gui's team has quite the grand entrance, doesn't it?" Su Tianqing said with a smile.

"It is indeed quite large." Nan Jiayu nodded in agreement.

After a brief silence, the cat and the fox looked at each other and smiled happily.

"Tianqing, you're thinking about strange things again," Nan Jiayu said with a smile, sounding helpless.

"Hmph, of course, but considering it's the Lunar New Year, let's just enjoy the show today!"

...Will they really "behave"?

Seeing the wicked smile gradually blooming on the fox girl's face, Nan Jiayu swallowed hard.

A loud sneeze seemed to come from behind the stage.

Miss Qiugui, best of luck.