Volume 1 Chapter 3 (2/2)

Though, Touta spoke without any hesitation Seeing a girl the sairl, Yol, also without uttering anything negative, accepted Touta’s prepared gifts Seeing the cute little girl saying “My, this is wonderful” and “Thank you” could ical Girl, she was kindly like a hus like “Oh, it’s no big deal,” but his expression was that of a grin Though it wasn’t the filthy smile of an adult, this was a pleasant one of a child

However, Yol’s folloas standing beside her, did not think this way, see at Touta Touta instantly raised his head, did he notice the glare? His eyes were like that of a child who thought he was being scolded for being naughty He hasn’t been accused of doing anything that bad

Margarite glanced at Yol’s followers—of which there were two—and glared at the one standing on Touta’s right Noticing it, the follower glared at Margarite this ti a robe with a coat of arms one rank below Yol, but she, and the other folloere also Magical Girls

The other follower looked troubled, looking around her surroundings noticing there was no one to rescue her Being a black-haired girl with bangs and round sunglasses was quite plain as a Magical Girl appearance, but it was still altogether very organized

Realizing that Touta was looking quite strange, Yol turned around, finally knowing that one of her folloas glaring

“What are you doing?”

“I’ ahead as usual, My Lady I was just…”

“You were just?”

“If there is souilty conscience on their heart, they would unconsciously divert their eyes”

“Meier, you always say that”

Margarite furrowed her eyebrows She couldn’t even pretend not to notice that the girl’s name had been spoken out loud Meier curled her lips, not overlooking that Margarite silently clicked her tongue

“Don’t pretend you didn’t notice, Miss Margarite”

She was an opponent who knew it’d be trouble if anyone noticed However, she also knew that it would be arite pretended not to notice

“Impossible I just noticed it now The Meier I know dresses differently”

“Hmph, you sound like you’ve prepared that excuse in advance…”

Did she notice the atarite and Meier, or did she not? Yol clapped her hands, gathering the attention of everyone

“The two of you are acquaintances, I see!”

“We’re not on such good relations to say we’re acquaintances, we’re rather on bad relations”

“Oh, you mustn’t say that After all, you’re the one who told ht, Meier?”

“If you’re friends, then yes, they’re important That hardly applies to people you’re not friendly with”

“You’ve met before, so you should at least rekindle your friendshi+p Come, let’s talk inside my room”

Yol stood up, taking Touta’s hand as he stood up Meier gazed her eyes when Yol grabbed Touta’s hand to leave, but Yol didn’t mind as she lead Touta to the back door Meier reached out her hand, stopped halfway, returned, then called out the other Magical Girl, Rareko, to which Rareko hurriedly followed her master and Touta

At the exit of the hall, Navi said “Oh, the children are leaving Have fun, you two” Yol replied back, “You’re always saying weird things, old man” Navi tried to say ed his shoulders and chuckled

The two children and one Magical Girl left the hallway Margarite and Meier stared as they stood there Meier was staring in closely as she thought Her face was ures”

“I didn’t expect to see you here”

“I could say the same”

She’s met Meier many times in events hosted by Mao’s School Not as students, but as external participants, despite how much she disliked it, she heard With a position sie’s family, when she participated in the events, she said her reasons were “I need to shape up ical Girls, these were arite felt pity for her as she made the excuse that this is for work, like a workaholic, but if that was the case, then she was no different froarite, as this was also an excuse for work

She didn’t the experience to fight until either of theical iron staff has taken the blood of ical Girls Also, her abilities didn’t see each other, unconsciously Margarite’s hand reached for her sword She could feel Meier’s rough killing sensation

“You never changed…”

“Guess that makes us the same I heard you quit Examination”

“That’s right”

“So you’re a Freelancer?”

“That’s also right”

“That was your employer?”

“Rude of you to refer to someone as ‘that’”

“Insects who coh to be called ‘that’ No”

Meier grabbed the tip of her wizard hat, holding it Meier’s wrinkled brand new hat covered the wrinkles that she had between her eyes

“There’s actually a worse insect”

“Who?”

“This scue vermin that ca the he Ah, abominable”

“They’re here now?”

Meier lowered her voice, lower and lower

“It’s fine, Margarite We’ll cooperate We’ll not let Navi Ru approach My Lady If he does, not even your ”

☆ Touta Magaoka

“Those tere glaring at each other, huh? You think they’ll be okay?”

“It’s fine, it’s fine, they’re good friends so they just want to talk”

Yol walked rapidly She walked as she held onto Touta’s hand Her fingertips were soft, set warmer and warmer When Touta noticed it was because his own hand was transferring heat, without thinking he pulled away his hand Yol turned her face around, “Oh rinned She opened a door and stepped to the side, as if to say, come in, he just noticed that he’d been taken all the way to her room

The inside was ht There was a s table There was also so that looked like a shelf for liquor and wine There were also two doors inside the roo When he thought of the words getting dressed, his face became red, Touta hurried off into the room

Yol sat with her cloak aside, she sat opposite the seat facing Touta, the glasses Magical Girl named Rareko was behind Yol

“Well then, shall we begin?”

“Begin… begin what?”

“Hmhm, don’t play the fool now”

She was a bit weird It wasn’t the kind of subtlety of the previous Yol Somehow she felt rather fearless, like the rival character in a Manga or Anime

“I’ve investigated how ic How you would capture such techniques as ic when you don’t know if it exists, or how you would cultivate it culturally”

“Oh, okay”

Yol suddenly stood up She flipped her cloak Behind her cloak was aWhen he finally saw it, it was soht’s Agony, Devilish Twin Angels, Robot’s Secret Roo card gaet proether in a narrow space

“Touta Magaoka When I heard your name, I instantly remembered You’re a duelist aren’t you? Third place winner of the nationwide 5th MagiBat elementary school championshi+p”

“Wha, how did you… oh, is it because azine?”

“It’s a rare na other cultures, I became fascinated by the Demon of Duelists…”

“Ah, I see”

“So, Touta! Choose the best regulations! We shall play the dark game here and now!”

“I’ my deck”

“Why?”

“Margarite told ht be a bother”

“What… But I heard that the deck was a duelist’s soul…”

Yol screa her hat on the floor Rareko was nervously unable to do anything Touta was also unable to do much, Yol stomped on her hat many times

“But reat success!”

“Hm? Satan control, you run a General Satan control?”

“I do You know it, don’t you? It’s the face of MagiBat control decks You just counter or bounce other cards until you get to the high cost demon General Satan”

“No, I know that… but you can’t make a Satan control now, can you?”

“Why? Butsuccesses…”

“But General Satan’s a banned card”

“You’re kidding!?”

“They adjusted it a week ago, it’s kind of an e, but sometimes erratas come out, then it was announced that General Satan beca General Satan started having their prices drop, and card shops say they refuse to buy them”

“That’s…… impossible”

Yol got down on her knees Her cape and the cards she set behind her fell to the floor gently, her hair following softly after

“I only get my information on Monthly TCG… so to say that it was last week… would that ed…!?”

“Yep”

“How cruel… how very cruel… I’ve adjusted my Satan control to the meta, to the meta’s meta……”

She was shi+vering her shoulders as both her hands and knees were on the floor It looked like she was in shock When he looked at Rareko, she was still acting nervous She wasn’t going to be very useful Meaning Touta had to do so

“Uh, um… Wouldn’t this be your chance?”

Yol raised her head Her face now visible where it was once hidden by hair There were tears in her eyes

“Chance… What chance? Satan-Chan’s gone now…”

“Well, we can’t do anything about that It’s because 90 of competitive winners all use Satan control… but see, when a card gets banned, it ht? Fa up new decks to doame”

Yol rose herself up, now sitting on her knees Her tears have now long gone

“Which means… it’s tiest deck, a chance to engrave your naiBat… yeah”

“Ah, yes Well, it seems that way”

Yol stood up grabbing her hat, dusting it off, then placing it on her head Her right ar up at the ceiling, then shouting

“There’s always an opportunity within disaster!”

“Oh, yeah, God Emperor Izuka always says that in the second season of the Anime”

“If that’s the case, let’s build a deck You’ll help too”

“Ah, yeah Do you have cards not in the deck stocked in your cape too? Isn’t that kinda bad”

“But it’s cool, isn’t it?”

“Well yeah, it’s cool”

“It’s custom-made”

“Awesome”

When they looked at Rareko, she iping away her forehead sweat

☆ Dreamy☆Chelsea

The cute Shepherdspie had fallen asleep Unlike Magical Girls Merry or Chelsea, a Mage’s toughness was just like a hu in the se, he was physically andto do anything anymore

Chelsea reflected a bit more The tension has risen up a bit too much for the start of her job Based on her current reflection, even though it ht only raise her evaluation a little bit, she decided to at least help the sleeping Shepherdspie have the strength to wake up, she decided to do her best, by heading towards Pastel Merry to fix whatever broken parts need repairing

“No, this isn’t gonna work You can’t repair this, we didn’t bring a carpenter along”

“Yeah, amateurs can’t possibly do it huh~”

They instantly had a setback

As a result of consulting with Merry, they at least decided to clean up afterwards, Merry used her drawn sheep to move the rubble, while Chelsea tied a yellow-colored rope around all the trees, hanging a warning poster While they were doing so, the island’s visiting Mages would occasionally visit, when they did, the girls would say “Shepherdspie isn’t feeling too well right now, he’s collapsed” They had to lead them to the annex

Ah, so this is what a job feels like, she thought Steadily, she saw that jobs wereMerry handle everything while Chelsea took a break is iht now

If she took a break after placing the food in the kitchen, would that be okay? She wondered as she took off fro, inside were so paper Chelsea’s intuition told her it was cookies If she was back home, she’d open it, eat it, and if there were any coize However, Chelsea didn’t have the courage to do so like this at work

This particular shop’s cookies use white chocolate, wouldn’t it be especially delicious? If she had the internet, she could look at reviews and a description, but here, she could only open the box Too bad, so sad, she thought as she opened the box, it’d be okay to just cut the seal However, when she was about to do that and unconsciously reached her hand out, she dismissed it, she had no choice but to stare at it, when she placed the table to the box thinking I should head back soon, she turned around, seeing Merry, who peeked her face behind the pillar

“I didn’t eat it”

“Really…?”

“I never ate it! Never mind that Why did you come all the way here, Merry?”

“You were cooing to grab a bite…”

“I didn’t eat it, I did Not It’s fine, everything’s fine”

Perhaps Chelsea had to be ical Girl known as Pastel Merry Chelsea reevaluated Merry in her h, if the rubble re was done, there wasn’tup the rope, finishi+ng up this one job, she looked up, she saw a hole in the walls of theon the floor, it was the place where she fell together with everything

“Oh yeah, forgot about that”

“Can we cover it up with a vinyl sheet or so?”

“We can? Can we?”

“It’d be bad if it started raining there and if it poured in, though”

“It’s sunny out, I doubt it’ll rain anytime soon”

“But the wind ht still blow it”

“Won’t it be nice for it to be a little colder, though?”

“It won’t look very good when you see it froh”

“But don’t you think it’ll be avant-garde?”

“Chelsea… Are you just trying to get less work?”

“No, no, I’ot lots of motivation for work… Huh?”

Soh the corner of her eyes A translucent hu a cookie jar in its hand, grabbing its contents and biting it-

“Hey! Wait a ical Girlish person!”

The seht, then looked to her left, then looked down, then pointed to herself

“Are you talking about Mei?”

“You can’t do that, you can’t just eat those cookies! How did you even get them out anyway!?”

“This belongs to Mei, so Mei eats them”

“That’s not yours, that’s Shepherdspie-Kun’s!”

“Mei doesn’t know Shepherdspie Funny Trick gave this This is Mei’s”

She rudely turned the other way, turning her back as if she was about to fly away At this rate, the cookie thief will escape Even though Chelsea had endured it, now this unnaical Girl is about to run off with famous brand cookies

Chelsea dropped several stones on her feet Should she throw these? But if she wasn’t a good shot or if her opponent dodged it, she ht hit the cookie jar If it broke, it’ll all have been for nothing She also paid attention to how the girl was transparent If an eneame was transparent, physical attacks won’t usually work

She aimed for the jar There was no physical transparency there There was noused either In short, she could steal it She closed in and snatched it

“W-What do we do, Chelsea”

“Have no fear, Dreamy☆Chelsea is here!”

She looked at the enemy’s position She was separated by Chelsea, currently, at a distance of eightthe wall should be enough With one step, she kicked the ground, then planted her feet on the mansion wall, froh the ht as the laenie She accumulated asher legs, before hearing an unpleasant noise, the scaffolding collapsed The walls were collapsing, Chelsea was thrown out to the ground, although she landed with a roll, Merry was running with her sheep towards the forest She turned around and looked back, Merry desperately shouting up,

“Up! Up!”

Following her words, Chelsea looked up, the stone wall of the cru this way Chelsea chased after Merry, then passed through her, then the wall, or rather part of thetrees with a loud sound and crowding it with , the rope that they had tied now crushed

Merry, Chelsea, and the sheep were able to escape to the safety zone No injuries Yet, they didn’t exactly feel like they were saved, since the dae scale Chelsea could tell how serious it hen Merry sighed out “Aaaa…”

Chelsea tried to think of an excuse for this situation, I was trying to catch the cookie thief That was the best she could go with

☆ Love Me Ren-Ren

Every Mage was a great person Without Mages, there wouldn’t be any Magical Girls

Since there were a nureat people around her, she was very nervous The half-beast Magical Girl Clarissa, the Mage-looking Magical Girls Meier and Rareko, the lady-like Magical Girl Miss Margarite were all standing by their e Maybe she should do the sarabbed her hand and stopped her

“Where are you going all of a sudden?”

“I wasn’t, I was just-”

“It’s talking ti, okay? So, let’s talk”

Agri moved seats, accompanied by Ren-Ren and Nephilia Mana and Yol were very cute, Ragi looked tired, probably because of his age, Touta looked like an ele they have in common is that they don’t seem to be bad people

After speaking, Agri returned back to Navi

“He’s a bit different from what I heard”

“Ah, the old man, huh”

The two of the in sic, none of the other Mages or Magical Girls could listen

“I thought he was a grumpy old man”

“Well… I’d say his age is to bla up in anger and all that”

“If he is, wouldn’t it be better if we didn’t make him our enemy?”

“As long as people keep quiet about it, sure”

The others didn’t seem like bad people, but she couldn’t be sure if those teren’t bad people To Ren-Ren at least, it was difficult

“What about the others?”

“Yol is an acquaintance She’ll be friendly However, Her Magical Girl hates me It’d be better if she doesn’t raise her opinions this way”

“Why does she hate you?”

“I don’t know I’ist I can’t understand women”

“Don’t hate all woenerally like that”

“I don’t hate therateful for them”

“Hold up”

Clarisa rose up, interrupting the two’s conversation

“Did you hear so just now?”

“No? Did you?”

“I don’t hear anything in particular, but”

Ren-Ren and Nephilia didn't hear anything either, but Clarissa kept her eyes open, her large ears shook on the smallest noises Navi crossed his ar but Clarissa” Just as she appears, she has good hearing

“That’s weird… It sounded like so collapsed”

“From where?”

“The mansion”

“Hey now, that’d be terrible”

“The place where it collapsed is somewhere over there, I think?”

“nobody’s caught were they? Should we go and see”

Navi clapped his palms on his knees and stood up He used a louder voice than the whispers he did earlier to say, “Hey, everyone!” instantly, he had everyone’s attention

“Let’s all head to the -”

In the corner, there was a crash noise Cups and its contents flew out It cah it was far, Ren-Ren judged what happened at a glance

The table was turned over Ren-Ren and Nephilia headed in front of Agri, Clarissa was beside Navi, spreading her ararite, as close to the exit, unsheathed her rapier, Meier took out a colorful cane 7753, as sitting beside her, clui fell,the table fall

“Hey, you okay, old man-”

While Navi tried to approach him, his body suddenly cruri suddenly reclined powerless towards Ren-Ren, Ren-Ren also hurriedly supported her

Ren-Ren ran her eyes across the rooarite started running to the back door

“What……”

Agri ilant

“My…… strength…… is fading……”

“Don’t force yourself, please”

She felt strange Who’s voice was that? She wondered However, it can’t be anything other than her own voice Suddenly, Agri’s body becaical Girls shouldn’t feel like one adult feh her down

Ren-Ren looked at her right hand while carrying Agri They weren’t sliers Her arms had hair that human arms had

She looked towards Nephilia There was a high school girl in a blazer uniform with a surprised look on her face Thick eyebrows, brown dyed hair trih there was soirl was Nephilia The only person ould look delighted in a situation like this would only be Nephilia

A girl with glasses and pigtails wearing a sailor uniforirl in her paja Mana—who looked to be in her mid-20s, lost her balance as she also headed to the sofa The girl crushed by Navi’s body, or at least she would if her skirt hadn’t been hanging out, was a girl that was probably about eleer

“What’s going on? What happened!?”

A 40-year old? The graying hair and business-suit wearing wohtly in her arlasses wearingwith distrust into the rooed even before her transformation, her appearance was plain Touta, who followed behind afterwards, was looking at Yol with a worried look on his face, but he was still able to walk on his own Behind Touta was a woarite She had a long T-shi+rt with a skinny rough look on her, coaze that embodied her calmness and cautiousness

“I asked you what happened!”

The Magical Girls—now no longer Magical Girls—all looked at each other They confirmed that nobody would answer, each of their faces had a worried expression As if they didn’t knohat happened However, they knew that this was a very troubling situation