Magical — Girl Chinese

Meihua pocketed the marble (a "grief seed" equivalent, but in this economy, she called it "overtime pay") and checked her phone. 10:14 AM. She’d missed twenty minutes of physics.

"Exorcise," she whispered.

She groaned, slipped out of the classroom while the teacher was erasing the blackboard, and walked toward the pool. By the time she reached the locker room, her school uniform had shifted. The white button-up became a of shimmering jade silk, high-collared and slit to the thigh, but over it, she wore modern combat greaves and armored bracers etched with protective runes. Her ponytail was bound with a red string that glowed faintly, and her eyes turned the color of old bronze. magical girl chinese