Magical Girl Xiaomi

Blue Star is safe. As long as you don’t look beyond the Stellar Exclusion Zone.

Jiang Xiaomi never had to look. All she needed was to spend the day making a pot of thick porridge with her sister in their apartment block. But the abyss doesn’t care about reason, and mutants won’t go out of their way to avoid her sister handing out flyers.

She traded her life for a military contract: her sister would never be in danger again.

The price was that she herself was assigned to the expendable roster.

At sixteen, with both arms still broken, she was thrown into the wasteland for a survival purge. Her teammates were a gluttonous cat, a reckless lightning wielder with a crush on the medic, a lone-wolf ice wielder who never follows orders, and a poker-faced senior who treats the battlefield like an operating room.

The one piece of good news: she can conjure oversized heavy weapons out of thin air.

The one piece of bad news: they’re pink all over, like giant toys stolen from an amusement park.

The instructor glanced at her overall rating on the roster and wrote three words: “Under observation.”

Forty-eight hours later, those words were crossed out.

The new note had just one word: “Dangerous.”