Volume 1 Chapter 3 (1/2)

Chapter 3

☆ Touta Magaoka

When his aunt told hi After she transforical Girls are here They’re real

“Awesome!”

“Hahaha, what do you think?”

“Me? Clearly, I think you look just like soical Girl”

“If that was the case, I’d have quit being a Magical Girl in my teens…”

She lifted a cabinet with just her right hand, while carrying it, she hummed as she cleaned the tatami mat, cabinet still in tow She placed the cabinet, then jumped off the veranda, before Touta could screa on the front door

Also her boobs were huge

Magical Girls Not to mention, he knew her Whenever he asked her what she did for a living, she was always vague and avoided it, he was convinced that this hy Unlike his friends’ houses, he was convinced that the gap between the cabinet and the wall or the fridge and the floor did not have any dust

“Are there boy heroes too? The ones that get reiant robots? The ones that shoot beams and lasers?”

“I’ve never heard of any Ah, but occasionally there are boys that becoical Girls”

“So you have to be a Magical Girl… That’s okay It’s a bit unfortunate, but it’s okay”

“Why are you looking down on it? You have to cos”

“Okay, I’ll compromise”

“You’re unexpectedly quick to give in”

“By the way, I’e, aren’t I?”

“You’re the grandson of a cousin of a Mage, yes You’re… ue, but not learning how to use it is the sa it at all Ah, also, you probably already know this, but ical Girls, you can’t tell anyone If you do, your ”

“They can do that?”

“Well… How can I say this There’ve been ical Girls I don’t think Mages are any different, though”

“Huh? What happens to them? I’m kinda scared now”

“Well, it’s okay to be scared as long as you remember You can’t tell anyone, not even your friends, okay?”

“Okay!”

Touta had never experienced fantastical events before There were mountains of thes happen around him

His parents had gotten in a traffic accident before he could even understand anything, he got into a fight with a kid who said Santa Claus wasn’t real and cried, he snuck out to a particularly haunted place at night with his friends, but nothing happened there, then he was scolded when people found out what he’d been doing All of thes that could be classified as “Non-fantastical events” Miracles, ghosts, none of the Touta felt that nothing fantastical happened, and he hated it Sos, he was sure it would be very wondrous, yet none ever came to Touta

But that was also until the other day Now, his aunt was clearly bringing hi like this The only person who knew about his aunt was hisShe didn’t look like an ordinary working person, it’d be very weird to go to earing a T-shi+rt and sandals Once she said she was a Magical Girl though, Touta thought “Oh, I get it now”

“H?”

“I’ve got work that I can’t let out of my hands”

Whenever she said that, he never even joked in a “So work’s more important than me?” way He didn’t want to see his aunt’s face when he said those words a second or a third time

“So I’ alone?”

“I’ve asked a friend of h, she’s a bit ical Girls are like that”

“She a Magical Girl?”

“Yep She worked harder than anyone back then, but a bunch of things happened and now she’s kind of lazing around She’s turning into a slacker, so I thought I’d give her some work”

After that, she said “You can ask anything about Magical Girls, Mages, or the Land of Magic to her” He felt that she kne much he wanted to ask, but Touta just silently nodded He also nodded when she said When you meet her, eat as happily as you can okay?

A few days later, the Magical Girl they arite, was just like her aunt said, ht-like slender sword, she also wasn’t eating any of the delicious beef with chopsticks While Touta was nervous about ical Girl other than her aunt, he ate his beef happily just like she asked hi it out loud, he did coarite’s boob size was different to her aunt Margarite’s was norical Girls get ridiculously huge ones

Margarite seemed to look a bit sullen His aunt looked really pleased Which o as she planned When he returned ho “Good on you for co our breast size” Panicked, he tried to put on a face that said he did it on purpose, but it was pretty clear that he didn’t do it intentionally

It’s been two days since he ate at the beef shop, Margarite, who volunteered to help Touta with his preparations, ca, “She’s here!” he cried as he looked into the arite reflected on it Did she coetup?

The automatic door of the entrance soon opened up Her aunt hasn’t come home from work yet, so it was just her and him One on one Touta rubbed the sweat on his palms on his trousers When they sat across fro at different ends of the table, soed to make Touta shi+ft his chair

Margarite grabbed the cup, drank the barley tea, then placed it on the saucer Touta stood up, he went to the refrigerator and poured barley tea froarite’s cup

“Thank you”

“It’s fine”

He beca, he had to talk soarite didn’t look like a person who loved to casually talk She was probably as Touta iined, his aunt really was mean to do this

“You’re both the same…”

“Excuse me?”

“Uhh, it’s nothing”

Maybe Margarite was nervous too? He thought, which ed to relieve a little bit of tension While she talked like how his teachers talked, rather randomly, but the way it felt forced looked a bit cute

“So?”

“Uhh, nothing”

“I see Then let’s get ready”

“Okay”

He heard it’d probably be about one week So this would be enough right? He thought as he laid out the objects he’d prepared in the Tataarite looked at each of the objects from one end to the other and shook her head

“Too much”

“But I already decreased it”

“You don’t need this gaaames either”

“Huuh… but”

“You do not Need it”

“Okay, then I’ll leave the cards I’ll use for trading They’re kinda heavy and bulky But I can bring ”

“If you bring gary?”

“You’re not wrong, but-”

“You’re not going there to play So you don’t need anything to play with”

“But there ht be opponents I can battle there”

“Only Mages and Magical Girls will be there Not your playmates”

“Oh, okay then… But won’t we get bored at night?”

“We’ll sleep at night It’s to prepare yourself for work in the ”

“Okay…”

“Also, those fish tanks… Are those… Crayfish? Why are you bringing this?”

“No one’s gonna look after them”

“Leave it to your friends”

“These guys have failed a bunch of times before they finally molted, this is the most iet to feed ‘eet to clean the tanks, it’s not easy taking care of them”

“Then leave it to your aunt”

“My aunt hates crayfish She keeps saying how crayfish s about how she’ll throw them out the veranda”

Margarite s kind of s kind of smiles

“Then you should strongly insist that you can’t leave without giving these over to someone else For now, just leave them with your aunt”

“Oh… Okay then”

His aunt had pushed a job onto Margarite, it looked like Margarite would get pleasure froh his aunt was friends with Margarite, was this what friends do? The friends that Touta kneere—now that he thought about it, were ive people what they disliked

“I guess that’s how things are, huh…”

“Excuse me?”

“No, it’s nothing”

“Oh, there are so Robes, cloaks, and a hat”

“What are those?”

“They’d want you to look appropriate when you go to a gathering of Mages Robes, cloaks, and pointed hats, those are clothes that befit a Mage”

“Ah, okay, so I should wear soht? But I don’t have any”

“Then let’s ask your aunt to prepare you some Also, I want some souvenirs from her”

“You wanna ask my aunt for that too?”

“That’s right I don’t ht sweets, the more expensive the better”

“How et?”

“I actually have heard no infor She should prepare as h”

“And we can eat the rest, right?”

Margarite grinned

“Not a bad idea”

Touta replied with another grin

☆ Miss Margarite

After dining together in the beef shop, once again she called to ask what she and Touta should do, she listened in case there were any unworded intentions, and when she found out what she was asked to do, Margarite pulled away her furrowed eyebrows

She wasn’t being asked to ith her co asked to educate an aarite was for her ‘experience’ Margarite, who has worked for ical Girl in public, knew that the Land of Magic was like that, she rees would commune They wanted toto teach Touta

Margarite gives what she is asked for to the best of her ability She’s always been like that She’d do the sa too, that’s how she’d work to get money Fortunately, Touta was an obedient child She’s known ical Girls ere elementary schoolers pre-transfor selfish one way or another Coh if she said he was a good boy out loud and let it get to his head, it’d be trouble for her, so she mess with his behavior

On the way, she es and Magical Girls working in the Exah the Gate, and finally arriving at the island Meanwhile, Touta’s curiosity got the better of him, “hello!” “Nice to meet you!” “What’s that?” “I’ve never seen that before” he said, wanting Margarite to explain to hi in a late arrival

Touta’s great aunt, the Magical Girl Death Prayer, said that the reason she wanted Touta to participate in the event is “Less the inheritance itself, nized” She saved up some money for it, she wouldn’t mind if she died at any time, but that was all she orried about Touta’s father had a ether with him in a traffic accident, but his father lived his life as a worker for a trading co involved with the Land of Magic and stopped using arite was involved with ic, she could understand the idea of not wanting to get into trouble

However, Death Prayer’s position was different She didn’t say it directly, but Margarite could infer it, and she knew exactly what Death Prayer was going for The job that Death Prayer had eht that Touta could be the only one left standing If his great aunt died, this elementary schooler will be thrown into the world If that happens, it’d be better if he had a status as a Mage, but he had yet to possess knowledge about the Land of Magic If there was a record that he had received a heritage, then Touta’s status as a Mage would be see whose family name is famous, as an heir, it can be inferred that he’d have plenty of status Using that, he can make connections with people, not to arite That hat Death Prayer was thinking

As a recluse, Margarite was too weak to refuse this She had a youthful feeling in her that felt like her weakness had been exposed by mentors ere once ashaood in feeling like it was inevitable, since she was dragged into this

She taught Touta things that he didn’t know That was also part of Margarite’s job When she answered politely to Touta’s “What’s that” “What’s this” questions back at the Exa deeply

“Miss Margarite, you know everything, huh”

“I do not know everything Don’t rely on me too much”

“Ah, I knew it”

“You knew it?”

“My aunt says you just throay any praise that comes your way”

Margarite cleared her throat, but she silently cursed at Death Prayer, who she orking for

That aside, one of the things that Margarite had to teach him was “How should I make connections?” There were people ould spoil hi to be a child forever Even a child should remember courtesy and common sense That was just manners

What should Touta do when he first arrives at the island? Introduce hi is necessary for communication Since the island’s ad in bed for such a long tireat, they sent a ave the candies prepared by Touta’s great aunt to a Magical Girl subordinate

Since he was the island’s ades If Touta did so, Shepherdspie could probably help hih you could hardly rely on a sick person Shepherdspie’s two subordinate Magical Girls, Dreamy☆Chelsea and Pastel Merry couldn’t afford to be calm either, since their employer was sick in bed The flock of sheep wasrows in order to carry loads Their faces slightly raised upwards, their legs proudly , Touta turned around and looked up at the mansion

“Whoa, awesome The mansion looks like a castle… Oh, look, look! That wall’s broken”

Touta’s index finger pointed to where a section of the stone wall had been torn off, its majestic appearance impaired

“Keep those thoughts to yourself Don’t say anything or point fingers at it”

“Okaaay!”

Chelsea and Merry—while really aardly fluttering about—guided everyone to the closely visible annex and told them to wait there Fro, the annex was only 25it was considerably new, its size was also sh, as private property, it was a fine mansion, with considerably no problems It probably hasn’t even been 10 years since it was built It looks cheaper than thearite saas correct, it had high a and earthquake resistance

“Why are you knocking on the walls?”

“You don’t have to worry about that”

If any unwanted guests pass through, alarh the entrance, they went to the lobby according to theon the wall

At the hall, there were already a nuathered In the approximately 20 meter square room was a round table and chairs with armrests, there were furnitures like silver candlesticks and ar spears lined up, the soft furred carpet was dyed a bloodshot red Each person was sitting side by side as they pleased, talking aood atave them the souvenirs were also quite so-and-so, it felt like they just accepted it indifferently

“I see… so you’re distant, yet you have Satabourne’s blood”

“Uhh, yeah I’ve never h”

Margarite knew his naical Girl Departical Girls

Rather than saying Ragi was gentle, he see his body weight with his twisted cane, his body so on it He was unlike the rury oldue He probably chose a seat secluded fro he didn’t want to converse with anyone

When Touta was talking to Ragi, he see away Not to the old ical Girl standing beside hi unconsciously gazed at, standing by the side of the old Mage withoutan inch He was probably just interested because she looked like someone chopped off a deer from the top of its body and placed a human on the upper half

Before even being introduced by Ragi, Margarite knew about the girl Ever since Anna Marie was killed, she had discreetly investigated the Children of Claround as a Children of Claical Girl exuded all over her She had no openings in her appearance When she received Touta’s candy offers as souvenirs, even though she was just standing there, she wasn’t neglectful of her surroundings

She heard that Ragi was a stone-cold Magical Girl hater, why did he bring along a Child of Claical Girl Department, a man of such status should know of Clantail’s identity No arite was careful not to let her guard down

The i was called Navi Ru He claiic If that were true, then he’d be one of the elite However, theof status or authority, he welcomed Touta with a friendly attitude and casual words

“Well then, when all this is over, would you like to pay ood word for you if you’d like a job”

“Uhh, well, I’d um, have to ask my aunt”

“Whoa hoa, that’s not exactly somewhere you’d take children”

“Now, hang on Clarissa… You’re right, though You have a point It’s not a place for kids”

He was quite earnest until now, but Touta’s eyes were discourage once he realized his e his shoulders Navi gently tapped on Touta’s shoulders It seemed like that cheered up Touta’s disappointment

“Don’t look so down C’mon, I’ll show you some other places There’ll be somewhere for a kid like you to have fun”

“You’re so irresponsible You don’t even have that h”

“Maybe you should stop saying things like that, huh Look nice for a change”

Clarissa opened her big s fros, suitable for a feline The way she clapped her hands, bent her body, and sh which you could see her fresh ical Girl norhter

Also, Ragi’s outwards appearance of being rough yet loving old man to children couldn’t possibly be the kind to live in the Land of Magic and ith sly and cunning Mages The Magical Girl he brought along was also not just as a conversation partner, she had fighting abilities Margarite had to be cautious

Agrielle wo closely with Navi, but it looked like they had just met on this island

Rather than taking an interest at Touta hiround Meaning, Agri was attracted to the fact that Touta had Satabourne’s blood in hiri was closer to the deceased than both Ragi and Navi She wasn’t a former schoolmate or a distant disciple, she actually had blood ties with him

“Relation-wise, we’d be… distant relatives I wish there was a better term for it”

“So what should I call you?”

“It’d be quite troublesome for you to call me ‘aunt’ all of a sudden”

“Yeah That’s what I think, too”

Agri sarite, and sarite sical Girl who observed theical Girl sitting beside her, Love Me Ren-Ren, chided Nephilia with a whisper

Agri began to investigate Touta’s circuh their eyes were still cautious They weren’t the type to use physical strength, so was it their Magical Skill, or so else? People who couldn’t be beaten by direct coical Girls along should know this as well Although Margarite saw Agri as a Mage she couldn’t underesti Touta, who saw her as an older aunt-figure After their conversation, Margarite would have to teach him that she was an opponent that he couldn’t show any mercy to

Margarite rang her nose with a sardless of no one being able to perceive it, Nephilia spurted out, shaking the cup on the table, spilling black tea all over the saucer

“Miss Margarite!”

She turned around at the voice calling her, there she saw a familiar face No, this person has soh, she was still quite childlike

“It’s been a while, Mana”

The Mage who caarite’s acquaintance

“Why are you here?”

“Chaperoning a Mage”

“You? A chaperone?”

“It’s just a job as a Magical Girl Freelancer”

“If you were gonna be a Freelancer, I wish you hadn’t quit the Examination Division Without you, the whole Division’s weakened If we don’t have one good teacher, that’s just what happens”

“You overestimate me”

Mana was a Mage affiliated with the Exae to want to be directly involved in Investigation Tea to polish theh there is a tendency for those views to be narrow, to Margarite, it ator

Touta looked alternately between Margarite and Mana while being flustered Margarite turned her hand to Mana

“This is Mana”

Margarite cut off her words, keeping silent She didn’t introduce her properly It was natural of Margarite, as higher in position at the Exaarite’s not in the Examination Division anylect manners, but it seems she couldn’t even do it that well herself when it was her turn

Margarite confir her, when she didn’t, Margarite continued

“She’s a forue of ue”

Touta nodded convincingly To which Mana tilted her head

“Aunt?”

“Death Prayer”

“Oh, he’s related to Prayer”

It’d be troubleso explanations would lead to even bigger trouble Margarite switched where she pointed her hands, now pointing towards Touta

“This is Touta Magaoka, Satabourne’s family and my-”

He wasn’t her earite received payment fro he’s the person she’s bodyguarding is too indirect It wasWith only a moment of hesitation, she said…

“-Apprenticeish kind of person”

“Nice to meet you, Touta Your aunt has always been very… helpful”

Perhaps Touta could feel that Mana was collecting her words, as he apologetically bowed his head

“Sorry for whatever aoka”

“No, it’s… Well, in either case, this Magical Girl is 7753”

She faced her pal beside her Because she pointed to the Magical Girl wearing a boy’s school uniforles on her neck whipped and hit her forehead

“She’s a Magical Girl working in Human Resources”

Exareat friends Margarite didn’t hear anything about the friendly since she quit either She wasn’t a Freelancer, it didn’t look like she was being paid to coical Girl Margarite was secretly delighted that even sory as Mana would find soht as she sarite’s expression

“We also brought in one more, but…”

Mana grabbed the bri her eyebrows

“She’s not here, huh Hey, where’d Tepsekemei head off to?”

“Uh she floated off outside with a cookie jar earlier”

“I thought I told you to supervise her properly”

“S-Sorry, I tried to stop her but she didn’t listen”

“Figures… Well, looks like she’s played off somewhere, we have time to introduce each other later anyways 7753, this is Miss Margarite… Hana’s teacher”

When she had heard that Hana Gekokujou had died, she wondered if it was a mistake, but when she found out Mao Pa she could do Even a an excellent Magical Girl, but no matter how excellent you are, there was no way to survive in a battlefield where Mao Pam died Rather, it was more unusual that Mana survived it, but she was sure Hana had acco Mana’s facial expressions, and 7753’s at the tiarite the whole story

Mana, together with Margarite, exchanged words with Touta, sometimes they’d talk to 7753, who’d panic, it was an adequately peaceful conversation Mana was also nicer than she re more kind It was probably thanks to 7753, probably also thanks to the influence of the other Magical Girl who isn’t here right now too

After separating froarite

“Hey”

“So?”

“I’m your apprentice?”

“Unsatisfied?”

“No… Actually, I’m all fired up”

She didn’t knohat thatas he wasn’t unsatisfied, it was good

The next relative after Mana was a fee shouldn’t be different from Touta, but her tone was mature

“Greetings, Sir Touta I am Yol”

“Oh, greetings”

She had such a large volu them up into spirals would take a considerably aical Girls, her hair wasn’t automatically perfected as she didn’t transforic, but to atheir own figure would take far es, her robe and hat eolden threads, she chose so but soeous western doll-like appearance, coe unconsciously prostrate before her