Volume 1 Chapter 2 (1/2)
Chapter 2
☆ Pastel Merry
Ree and small stones on the shoreline promenade, by the tie, the sun was shi+ning at its highest point Her job ofthe roads so that custo was, no matter how h she had to clean it before any visitors visit, some visitors seemed to have already arrived While the visitors didn’t see it directly, she received a e from her master, who couldn’t keep his frustration hidden That fact darkened Merry’s ive a depressing report of “I didn’t finish in half a day,” her master’s mood was already bad before the report
The island was far too vast From one end of the island to the other, that would span a distance of 10 kilo the hout the island, even getting sheep to help her would take herthat, she started her work at dawn, in the end, despite working 6 hours, only the west side was done and her asn’t over,
being carried over to the afternoon
With the strong, dark orange-colored sun illu the auto she was overwhelmed and excited by the 300 meter, both vertically and horizontally, 4-story stone castle, Oh this is an enormous place to work in, she shuddered, but after one week of working there as her part-ti to her
She ascended the stairs of the first and second floor, going through the hallway of the third floor into the next building Over there were siether, but she didn’t knohere or which rooht now Merry stopped at the one marked with a star nameplate that said Shepherdspie This was Merry’s e quarters
The hall was large, and since Merry had just been hired, she couldn’t remember it at all Since she repeatedly madehow it “ruined the aesthetics” of the place while ha it in Since he still wanted to keep the aesthetics of the place in good shape, he used a star-shaped nameplate, not even Merry would make mistakes now, it was very easy to understand
She opened the door to give the report-
“Kyaaah!”
“S-Sorry!”
Surprised by the large screa, she tried to process the scene she just saw
Why was there a naked woman?
Merry checked on the star naain Shepherdspie ritten there That was her master’s name It’s such a weird naet it That means it should be her master’s room So as there a woman she didn’t know there Not to mention one that was naked
Merry began to think Maybe she made a mistake For example, maybe it was just an obscene doll, or a poster that was pasted on, maybe that’s what it was When she opened the door, the wind probably blew so hard that she heard the scream of a woman That’s probably what happened
Was that reality, or just a ? She had to make sure She turned the knob so it wouldn’t h the gap There she saw a face
“Whoa!”
“Hya!”
Merry raised a scream and fell on her butt, even from the other side of the door, the sound shewent quiet It was different from the erotic scream back then, but she did hear a woman’s voice
Even if she missaw it, she didn’t mishear it She was sure
She felt her heartbeat rise, while holding it down desperately, she held the knob once again, she also remembered that she didn’t knock last time, so she knocked on the door three times, and the voice from the other side replied “H-H-Hold on a minute!” She can’t really escape now
About 30 seconds after she felt a rumble in her tummy, the voice from inside the room called out
“Okay, all dressed, come in!”
“Excuse me……”
“Ah, of course Come in”
She wasn’t naked She had a bathrobe It was far too big, it had rolled up hems It looked like she was forced to wear a men’s bathrobe Her face was cheerful, her hair had stea, and her skin hite with no ht blue bathrobe she earing, everything about her said that she had just taken a bath, but her eyelashes were standing firmly
———Who was this?
She knows that there was someone that she hasn’t seen before If she tried to think of anything more than that, she had no idea what to think Not toof eaten sweets, Manga ave off any conclusive feelings As Merry looked on confused by the surroundings, the stranger had a look on her face as if someone had noticed she was a failure
“Ah, yeah my bad…”
“Huh? Your bad?”
“Yeah, well… It’s a bit cluttered”
“Ah, no, I wasn’t worried about that U impolite I’m really sorry I’m just here to report that the west is finished…”
“Huh? The west is finished?”
“Huh? Well, uh”
“Are you talking about… World affairs?”
“N-No, I wasn’t talking about that… sorry, I s in the west aren’t finished yet… It took a lot longer than I expected”
“So you’re saying… The Cold War is still going?”
“Huh?”
“Huh?”
What was she talking about? Merry had no idea The girl was also tilting her head as if she didn’t get it either
“Uive a report…”
“A report? Huh? What report? A e report?”
“No, I’le Wait, that’s not my point”
“Ah, I’le”
She’s replying as if she’s not listening
“Okay, hang on Let’s reorganize”
“Um, okay”
“Why are you here?”
“I have a report The western maintenance isn’t finished”
“This has nothing to do with e”
“No it doesn’t, and I’le”
“Do you have a boyfriend?”
“Boyfriends… How do I say this, they tend to naturally disappear”
“Won’t it be great if you did have one? Myto s like ‘if you’re not going to work, at least get married’ Well sorry, that’s not how it is”
“U”
“Then let’s reorganize again You have a report that says you’re finished with the western maintenance?”
“Yes”
“You didn’t cory at the mess?”
“Yeah”
“Thank goodness… I didn’t think you’d be angry atmessy, but you never know”
“Huh?”
“Huh? What is it?”
“Your room?”
“Yeah My room”
This was Shepherdspie’s rooirl says that this is her room that means she’s Shepherdspie, but the Shepherdspie that Merry kneas completely different
——Wait a minute, this means…
She re at hiet into a love affair He was also uneood it was not to work Hislike that Furtherirl said this was her room She wasn’t that different froht about it, only her appearance was different
“Transformation……?”
“Transfor, huh Transforh”
“Yeah… I guess it does”
“I don’t hate it though Still, it’s different than when you’re just relaxing”
“Um… You can transform?”
“Yep, I can!”
“Ah, right Sorry for the weird question”
——It was hiic!
If so, then everything would coincide The Mage Shepherdspie transforic She didn’t knohy he had the desire to transforirl If it becaht understand why he wanted to transform
Okay, so that’s how it is, Merry was convinced, then the corridor creaked, and footsteps followed When she turned around, she saw Shepherdspie with his big belly appear
“There was a screa… Are you okay?”
“Huh!? Why!? Why are there two of you!?”
“You… Why are you so… surprised?”
She saw that this was for real Golden hair that wasn’t dense, white moustache, black robes, the short staff with unfinished ork that went up to his waist, that breathtaking figure too, this was none other than Shepherdspie
“Which one of you is real…”
“Like I said… What are you talking about?”
The male Shepherdspie wiped his forehead sith the sleeves of his robe after a sigh, then he looked at Merry, then the fe his head
“There’s a couple of things I’d like to ask, if that’s alright with you?”
“Huh? No, uh”
“What’s up?”
The female Shepherdspie seemed so calm at this abnormal situation Thehis face to the female Shepherdspie
“Why are you wearing my bathrobe?”
“I was naked and so”
“I’m really sorry about that…”
“Oh don’t worry about it”
“The details don’t ”
“Well this bathrobe is here for ht? I mean it was in the room”
“This isn’t your room This is my room”
“What? Really…? Oh, uh, sorry The nameplate said Dreamy☆Chelsea so it’s clearly my room”
“That’s not what I wrote That says Shepherdspie”
“Huh? Really? But the nameplate was in a star-shape…”
The girl was trying to find an excuse
“I guess Che and She looked similar…”
“I can understand that you o so far as to make a mess here?”
“I’reat to make the place just like my house”
“Am I supposed to take that as a serious answer… No, it’s fine That’s my bad, then More iical Girl?”
“Huh? You ical Girl?”
Merry retreated half a step back, she felt like she was being sandwiched by these two having a conversation so she’d like to escape if possible As a result, she hit the back of her head on a wall, but the two of the
“You’re the one who’s wondering if you can’t not be a Magical Girl I hired you as a Magical Girl, I didn’t hire you as a human”
Hearing herexpression
“But transforh…”
“So with that?”
“It’s fun to laze around as a huh…”
“Did you say so?”
“Ah, no, just talking to myself Anyways, um, uh, yeah, about that I just think it’s weird”
“What’s weird about it?”
Merry see This wasn’t the sa the back of her head while gulping, she watched the two of them
“Well, uical Girl to usually be transformed”
She was asserting so, but her eyes see to Merry for advice, but Merry just turned her head down Herwith unresponsive voices, before finally breathing out a sigh
“What’s your point?”
“Well, look, see Magical Girls are, in the end, norical Girls aren’t transformed They just laze around… as huical Girl would you be if you use a Magical Girl’s powers for yourself? When someone else is in trouble… Yeah, we transforirl is pushed to unhappiness, we use our ical powers to counterattack, then we resolve their troubles Making people smile is what sets the audience’s hearts on fire They’ll think aweso?”
Merry was about to raise her gaze,her master’s eyes Now she couldn’t deviate from it, she could only shake her head at herto do with you?” Her er and little finger and made a silently dull sound A small pot flew from the hallway and hit the wall, it rolled over the carpet,a sound she didn’t want to hear
“Oh, wait That’s wrong This isn’t what I wanted”
The raciously picked up the s hisa better snap than before A glass bottle flew froht by his hand He twisted the bottle cap, tilted it, then drank it in one gulp, sighed deeply, and threw the bottle back, histhis, he had sweat on his forehead
“Sigh… What you say ”
“Yeah”
“Relying on your s are unnecessary, I think this as well”
“I know, right?”
Her ainst his mouth, then cleared his throat
“However… You ”
In an instant, the woman’s face slowly became cloudy
“Me? What? What did I misunderstand?”
“Our current situation is already an eical Girls”
Her master continued
“A lover’s daughter, a famously stubborn person, a resident of the Ivory Tower, a policees that will need delicate treatment will soon come to this island Well, some of them have already arrived I’ve made soh Stubborn high-classed people would consider that natural and request more I can only do so ical Girls This is an eency We need the powers of a Magical Girl”
The wo look on her face That expression wasn’t trying to conceal the way she thought that “I’d better avoid any trouble, he shotat the woman with a self-confident expression The wo honestly
“I’ical Girl…”
“Thank you Now then, hurry and transform into-”
“Ah, it’d be bad to transforical Girl, so do you have anywhere I can hide to transform?”
“Oh, yes Use the room next door”
The girl with big thighs left the roo the door Herwith his index and little finger, a dull sound rang The chair made wrinkles on the carpet as it slid, her master sat on it The chair bent, but it did not break
“So annoying… Magical Girls are like that, it seems”
“Well, there are people like that, sure…”
“No, you’re also very much like that”
“Huh? What? R-Really…?”
“Whenever so happens, you fall down, don’t you?”
“No, I can explain… uh, how do I say this… My physique and my head, completely different from when I was a human…”
“But you see, I can’t deny that you’re still better Do you think everything would be okay if I leave the guiding and cleaning to her? I don’t think so”
“Ah, I thought so I’ve been listening in on the conversation and I thought so, too So she’s a newbie part-timer?”
“Did you think she was anything else?”
“Well… No, I didn’t really I just thought she was a bit tired”
”I'm tired as well…”
With a huge sigh, her master wiped off the sweat on his forehead
“Tell me what you don’t understand, and I’ll support you if I can There’s no tiical Girls I was naive to think that they’d come if I put up a wanted ad If I increased their paycheck, I thought ood talent would show up…”
His expression was htened up, it was stiff and puffed Someone else hired other than her should naturally be better at Magical Girl work, or be the center of her job, or be someone that she could rely on, but that wasn’t the case at all
“You do the catering and serving Try not to make too much of an appearance”
She’s already being treated like that
“But, uh, I, that’s going to be the first time I do that kind of job”
“Ah, yes I know”
“It’s unreasonable Didn’t you say earlier that there’s a stubborn person, a secluded woes are people that are hard to please”
“It’s fine They all came here for their inheritance They don’t want to cause any unnecessary trouble The only person who’d be angry at a serving Magical Girl who fell would be…”
Her master stopped his words halfway, closed hisfor a bit
“Well, as long as you don’t fall and spill soup on sory”
He added that sentence Merry moaned “Aaah” and looked up at the sky
“If you say so it’ll probably happen now…”
“No no no, don’t be like that Be careful please I did warn you”
“You can warn me but it always seee is-”
With the sound of the door opening, Merry’s words were interrupted Looking back, she saw a flashy colored Magical Girl standing posing with a cane Her appearance was like an eleh schooler with a petite physique Her height, weight, leg and arm size had also shrunk from the woman before, but there was no aardness like Merry
On the small cane, she had a small star decoration It also somehoas sellotaped like it was under repair
“A cheerful how do you do! I’ical Girl, Dreamy☆Chelsea!”
Merry took half a step back, taking her previous position to give some space between her master and Dreamy☆Chelsea, she bent her back and lowered her head
“Ah, hello A pleasure You can call me, Pastel Merry”
There was a pause, then her master also bowed slowly
“Pleased to meet you… John Shepherdspie”
“Nice to meetcha, Merry-Chan, Shepherdspie-Chan!”
“Ah, nice to meet you”
“Nice to meet you… could you not call me Chan?”
“Then, Shepherdspie-Kun!”
“Well… I’ll take it, I guess”
Chelsea spun the cane in her right arm, at the same time she spun whatever she had in her left, then crossed her ar she had twirled with her cane was her Magical Phone
“Y’know, I can’t get a signal online with ical Phone”
“It was the intention of the deceased to be isolated froe indeed It’s even inconvenient for me”
“Whaaat? That’s so laht I’d post it on my social media”
“Regardless of whether you can connect or not, you shouldn’t do that”
While Chelsea was ical Phone in her breast pocket, when she looked up her discontent disappeared, she had a bright bottomless smile
“Oh that’s right, that thing from before!”
“What? What thing?”
“That thing that flehen you snapped your finger, that was ht?”
“No, it wasn’t ic You can use specific cos”
“Awesome! Can I do it too?”
By the tiht hands were already snapping about By the time her master wanted to raise his voice to restrain her, a bunch of things flew froe who lacked exercise, the ile
Without looking behind her, Chelsea squatted on the spot, a red plastic container nearly grazed her head, Merry panicked and dodged the object that was going to hit her directly, she broke her balance, fell, tuled up on the carpet
With no one stopping it, the plastic container crashed into the wall, its contents sprinkling to the floor Transparent liquid spilled, a sti the room
“A-”
Chelsea’s voice reacted, Merry tried to look towards her, but her master’s belly was in the way, so she couldn’t However, she saw that the light of a torch fire flying With no one to stop it, the torch hit the wall in the same orbit as the plastic container, the sparks scattered and bounced, falling on the floor, burning it
Heron it many tiorously Chelsea stomped on the floor as hard as she could, she stoan to shake, the furniture collapsed, there was a sound of so, her master shouted, and by the time Merry wanted to screa Chelsea, her handheld console and a bunch of other things falling doith it
There was dust and black soot that scattered about, it was hard to see 50 cm ahead with the smoke, but she could feel heat, and she could hear the sound of soone yet Merry took out one sheet of paper fro pastel sheep The paper beca out
“Get some water buckets and help, please!”
The sheep bleated “Baa”, heading outside towards the exit, but on the hen it juht on fire The sheep cried out with a sorrowful voice, rae hole nearby, it fell down They could hear the screams of one person and one sheep from below them
She didn’t think about it hard enough Sheep were not suitable for locations on fire She had no choice but to go it alone That’s what Merry decided, she stood up, ran out, but since she was all tangled up when she forcefully ran off, hermaster dropped down the hole
From below the hole, she could hear the screarettably, she didn’t even have time to help them She had to put out the fire as soon as possible, otherwise the ser fire Merry ran, on the way, she received a heavy shock to her forehead Since she didn’t look ahead when she was running, she hit the wall next to the door, and before she could understand what happened, she fell on her butt, there was nowhere for her hand to support her body, so she fell down the hole
☆ 7753
After passing through the gates of the Exa at the map that came with the envelope, they walked for 15 minutes on the animal trail They walked up an uphill slope, then downhill where rocks rolled, surrounded by trees, they couldn’t see the sea The earth had a very undulating look, even just walking straight made them spend some time They still haven’t reached their destination, the castle at the middle of the island The aniht, so it was dirateful for theto have to keep watch to swat out branches that protruded from their sides every time
Mana looks so pained from her teleportation-sickness, I e arrived sooner, she thought, but they wouldn’t arrive early just by hoping and thinking If she had lent a shoulder, carried her on her back, or held her as she walked, Mana would’ve been feeling a lot better, but if she did that, Mana would get angry Her pride was high and steep
7753 was affiliated with the Huical Girls, their abilities, self-assertiveness, philosophy, faned to check a variety of things like that as her job When she equipped her goggles, even though the data displayed on them had the possibility to be viewed by someone other than 7753, the only one who could quickly fine-tune which status they viewed through those goggles was 7753
This thing that only 7753 could do satisfied 7753’s self-confidence, at the same time, the number of business trips she went to has increased There were countless business trips to the countryside and country houses, but never to a dark and naturally surrounded relaxation-filled island before Currently, she entered the forest froh the anireenery had barely run out, ah the road that was maintained to a sorry extent
Firstly, the smell was different The thin setation The sh to push the self-assertive smell of the tides to the corner The branches shook in the wind, the leaves trerass rew thick on the exposed earth as if surrounding it There was a tropical-style red and yelloer, beside it was a japanese fatsia standing with trees possessing pal it was a fine coniferous tree that was reminiscent of those at the local shrine by the forest japanese pale fern plants that was as tall as an adult male, their shapes just like a royal fern It wasn’t just that there were a large nuions, the plants were living together ignoring habitats and cli some kinds of adjustments to fit the island’s climate and temperature Since it didn’t look like beauty and landscape was being given priority, itThere were no natural or unnatural things in ic
A cool breeze stroked her cheek Tepsekeo anywhere we can’t see you, she had been told, she see, but since there were tall trees and spreading branches and leaves blocking the Tepseke with the sun, 7753 used her right hand to shi+eld her eyes The bush in front of her made a scrunch scrunch noise, before two colorful birds flew out, when she saw Tepseke those birds away, 7753 called out
“Don’t chase the birds!”
Tepsekemei looked back, she disappeared, fluctuated, 3 seconds later she returned to her original density, when she returned to her original fore look on her face
“What’s wrong?”
“The books you read told you not to mess with animals, didn’t it?”
“As long as you help the spider in the end, everything is forgiven”
“You’re still getting the wrong e, then… Um, how do I put this, it’s not just spiders you have to help If you help birds too, then they’ll carry you from hell to heaven That’s safer than a spider’s thread, isn’t it?”
“Is that hoorks…”
She ree of books she read had expanded, so she’s getting stranger influences There was an educational effect on reading, but the amount of trouble they had increased too
Tepsekeeness to a difficult expression, slowly she descended 7753 noticed that she stopped walking, so she tried to apologize to Mana as standing beside her, but Mana wasn’t looking at her, she was staring up at Tepsekemei
7753 looked at where Mana was looking Tepsekeray like black paintwhite paint, its shape was about 10 centimeters in a circle It seemed to be a fruit Bite marks There were bite marks on them
“Aaah! Did you just decide to eat the things you found here!?”
“It’s delicious Eating it makes Mei happy Mei will share for Wedin and Funny Trick”