Magical Girl Hero - Chapter 10

She was, in a word, blue.

Clothes, skirts, and shoes with deep blue as the primary color.

Her light blue hair and eyes.

Her waist-length hair was tied around her shoulders, and the ribbon that tied it was glittering with blue crystals.

It’s a color that gives her an impression of being serious rather than cold, in addition to that her slanted eyes, and puckered lips reinforced that impression.

The little girl clearly isn’t a normal girl, furrowed her eyebrows, and is clearly showing signs of being wary of me.

Even though she was the one who called out to me, even if you acted as if you were the one who had been entangled by a suspicious person, I don’t know what to do.

Hmm.. wait isn’t that more like how you would act when you discover a suspicious person?

“Nice to meet you. My name is Sapphire, a magical girl belonging to the Central Japan Branch of the Magical Girl Committee. Could you please tell me your department and magical girl’s name?”

Something like an interrogation suddenly began. Or rather what do you mean by, “what department do you belong to”, maybe it’s about the organization that Mokyu was talking about, but honestly I don’t how to answer it.

“It seems you won’t answer me. You know, in order to prevent the misuse of magic, all magical girl is obligated to join a committee. Judging from the current situation, you’re probably not a magical girl from outside of the central branch either. Are you the one who defeated the ‘Wanderer’ that appeared near here earlier? If possible I would like to hear about the details, so please accompany me obediently.”

Has her suspicion already turned into conviction? She seems to have tensed her neatly aligned feet.

(Mokyu, what should we do? Somehow she’s being hostile too me.)

(As I explained at the beginning, a stray magical girl is the same as a delinquent who abandons her duties kyu~. Of course, from the perspective of those who belong to an organization, they think of stray magical girls as a useless person who doesn’t do any work and just play around kyu~.)

(Eh… I though I properly fight the “Wanderer”)

(If you don’t belong to a company, then it’s only natural that you won’t be evaluated even if you do your job.)

Guess it’s not a job that allows self-employment.” understandable but sad.

(What do you think I should do? Honestly speaking I don’t even know if it’s okay to say something)

(I think it’s fine if we run away kyu~. In the first place, Roze is a stray magical girl, so it’s obvious that she’s hostile kyu~. Just give out your name and run away kyu~!)

“If possible I don’t want to use force, so please accompany me. Or if you didn’t know, then it’s the negligence of the “fairy” who didn’t explain it to you. Please rest assured that we will do our best to take care of it. I’m sorry if I scared you with the abruptness. However, this is very important, so if you would please come with me.”

At first, she was intimidating, then her tone gradually became weak, and at the end her tone changed to a caring one.

Well, if it was a normal girl being suddenly confronted like that, then of courses the girl would frightened.

I’m not a little girl, but maybe that’s what it would feel like I was suddenly called out by a policeman.

Seems like the other side really doesn’t want to use force, well if she won’t take the first action, I will just go first.

“Accel”

“…!? Wait! Didn’t you hear me!? Magical girls are obligated to belong to a committee! Worst case scenario, you could be prosecuted as a criminal ! ! Cease your magic and come with me! !”

“My name is Blackrose. I have no intention to join any kind of organization, and I do not take orders from anyone.”

Put your strength into your legs and step backward.

40 floors above ground. Free falling from one of the tallest buildings in the area, even with magi powers, it’s a bit daunting.

The girl in blue who was in in front of me shouted something, but the wind blocked it and eventually I couldn’t hear anything.

I don’t think she’ll come after me, but if I just go straight home and my address was found out, I won’t be able look at myself in the eye anymore.

While jumping up and down through the rooftops of the building one by one, I decided to speed up and make a detour before going home.

“I’m back~”

After landing in front of the entrance to my home and making sure no one is watching, I go inside.

As soon as I canceled my transformation, the magic disappeared, and my clothes changed back to the usual–it’s hard to say since I’m already turned into a girl, but I’m dressed lightly, the one for home use.

It feels weird when I changed from the cute magical girl outfit to my usual one.

The clothes are too simple and too far from what you would call cute. I’ll need to go shopping sometime in the future.

“Roze, first of all thank you for your hard work kyu~. You being able to safely defeat ‘Wanderer’ is a very happy hing for me kyu~ .”

“Thank you. It was easier than I expected, so I think I’ll get through it.”

“That’s the spirit kyu~. There are still a lot of ‘Wanderers’, so you to beat them all kyu~.”

“No, it would be a problem if there are too many of them… More importantly, it makes me depressed when I think that all the magical girls I’m going to meet will treat me like that.”

“I “That can’t be helped kyu~. That is the fate a stray magical girl kyu~. However, as the girl who called herself Sapphire said, the organization has branches and there are also some that have magical girls as the person in charge kyu~. I also don’t know the exact details, but, magical girl itself is currently in shorthand, so there shouldn’t be many chance for you to meet other magical girls kyu~.”

“But if we meet, I’m going to be questioned like a suspicious person again, right?”

“Hmm… To be honest, I didn’t expect it would go that far kyu~. Magical girls are generally elementary and junior high school students, so children who move because of obligation or senses of responsibility are quite rare kyu~. I think it’s just that the girl from earlier was the serious type.”

“A serious hero huh. Hmm, thast’s nice.”

After all, there should be such a serious child among the heroes. Appropriate for the name justice.

The problem is that right now that seriousness is bearing its fangs on me.

“For now, Sapphire-chan is it? So other than her, I don’t need to worry about it that much.”

“It’s better to be somewhat worry about it, I don’t think there’s anyone who would treat you cruelly just because you are a stray magical girl kyu~. I they will at least be friendly or indifferent kyu~.”

“Being treated indifferently is harsh too…”
 

If it’s possible, I want the next magical girl I meet to be friendly.

My life as magical girl seems like going to steadily accumulate mental damage even if there is no physical damage.

“More importantly! It’s time to turn the magic stones to points kyu~! Open your phone kyu~!”

“Don’t say that! Didn’t yous say it’s important to motivate magical girls! ”

“It’s not like you’re aiming to be a magical girl that everyone likes, even if you worry about it there’s nothing you can do kyu~. And, If you know what kind of things that the magic stone point can be exchanged, your motivation will go through the roof kyu~.”

I wonder why Mokyu’s tension is higher than mine.

Isn’t this a system to motivate me.

Since it can’t be helped, I opened my phone as I was told and opened the application as instructed.

“Magical Girl App”

The application has a very straightforward name, when opened, the whole site is displayed along with the name of Black Rose, on the side there are various commands.

Somehow it feels like a raising sim game. Should I give it some food.

“What is this, a game?”

“Wrong kyu~. This is called “Magical Girl App” in it there’s SNS for magical girls, rankings, news, and information on the appearance of “Wanderer”, well, there are various useful things kyu~.”

“Isn’t your explanation too crude?”

In the first place, what are the rankings for? Do you guys have a beautiful girl contest? If that’s so I’m going to be the champion you know?

“Honestly, there are too many functions that you won’t be using. ‘I want that too’, ‘I want this too’, so it was added, Even we (Mokyus) didn’t grasp the whole picture kyu~. Well, I’m sure you will remember all of itit after you got used to it, maybe kyu~. Anyway, quick take out the magic stone and press it against your phone kyu~! ”

Mokyu grabs my hand and pulls it towards my phone, but no matter how hard Mokyu try, my hand doesn’t move. what a weak steamed bun.

As if realizing that it wouldn’t move even if Mokyu pulled with all its might, Mokyu hit my arms to urge me hurry up.

I would like to tease Mokyu a little more, but I want to take a bath already, so without resisting I press the magic stone into the mobile phone.

I thought it would just hit the screen, but… The magic stone sank into the screen and disappeared.

“I didn’t think it had a vanishing trick function.”

“I want you to at least say that it’s magic kyu~. Mokyu doesn’t remember making you a magician kyu~. The results of the assessment is… Jan! 330 points kyu~! Well, it’s normal kyu~.”

“Even if you say 330 points, I have no idea what the point itself is.”

“These points are like the money you get for your magical girl activities kyu~. For example, how many Wanderers have you defeated? Developing a new magic, you can earn points by producing various results kyu~. Magic stones are one that results and the points you get are determined by their size and purity kyu~.”

“It looks more and more like a game app. So what can you exchange it for?”

“Various things kyu~. From magic items and useful skills to daily necessities and food items, it offers a wide range of service and goods kyu~.”
 

I wonder if it’s something like an online store. Being able to see the results points with your own eyes certainly will lead to increased motivation.

“By the way, for the exchange value from points to Japanese yen, 1 point is around 10,000 yen1 kyu~.”

“What?”

So the stone just now is worth about 3.3 million yen2? Just how much is the hourly wage…

“You might feel like it’s too cheap for a such dangerous job, but In addition to the magic stones, we will also give you a reward for your work, so please don’t worry kyu~.”

“I don’t think it’s too cheap. But I see, it is a dangerous job.”

There was no crisis this time, but you might end up getting injured. And like other normal people, you might fall into a coma due to the ‘malice’.

Magical girls are superhumans, but they’re not omnipotent.

Will there be any compensation for work-related injury…

“Basically, each country and organization are collecting the magic stones, So this way, we (Mokyus) make sure that there are a standard value for it kyu~. Otherwise, in the worst case, there will be some places that are collecting the value of the magic stone without paying anything kyu~. Such unhealthy behavior also can be the cause of the creation of new monsters kyu~.”

“Even though it’s only a single magic stone it’s quite complicated…”

“A new resource is something that will always be valuable ​​and cause many problems kyu~. Leaving aside the difficult topics, I think you now understand how to use the magic stones kyu~. I want you to continue to use this ‘Magical Girl App’ and aim for a better life as a magical girl kyu~.”

It’s not a very good for emotional education in elementary and junior high school students, well there’s no use thinking about it.

If one “Wanderer” can bring in this much money, I think I can lead a very fulfilling life.

Should I try looking for clothes through the magical girl app?

On the way to the dressing room, while I play with my mobile phone and thinking, what kind of things can be exchange with points, Mokyu handed me something that is wrapped in furoshiki3.

“This is today’s salary and a congratulatory gift for the birth of the magical girl Black Rose kyu~.”

It was a pile of bank notes.

1 USD = 137.56 JPY (as of 27th August 2022) 3,300,000 JPY is around 24,000 USD (as of 27th August 2022) Something like this.