Magical Girl Hero - Chapter 14

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In a room, the sound of something being tapped at irregular intervals can be heard.

Sometimes spaced apart, sometimes continuous, the sound is irregular, yet somehow rhythmic.

The source of the sound is a girl clad in black tapping happily on something like a black board, and every time her finger touches the board, a small popping sound is heard.

“How is it Roze kyu~”

“I’m almost done. Fufufu, you should regret being born.”

The girl’s name is Roze, also known as Magical Girl Blackrose.

She is a hero who defeats evil and carries out justice… Or at least that’s what she’s supposed to be.

However, the way she happily tapped on the board while muttering disturbing things, she would probably be more apt to be called evil than justice.

Her face, which is more suitable for the expression “cute” rather than “beautiful”, her strong-willed eyes shining sharply, and her pale pink lips curved like a crescent moon. The occasional giggle and glimpses of her teeth that can be taken as a sign of innocence, however, in this scene, it’s just one more factor that adds to the creepiness of the sight.

On the screen of the tablet, Roze is staring at and toying with her fingers is the image of “Wanderer”, a small, round, black creature that shudders and freezes in fear as it watches its own kind disappear in turn. It was hard to tell which of the two was the bad guy as she happily crushed the “Wanderer”, who was clearly the weaker of the two in this situation.

Ignoring the pleading gestures of the poor lamb that had become the last one after its friends disappeared, the magical girl mercilessly crush it.

With a light tap of her finger, there was nothing left.

“Uu, yay!”

“It ended several dozen times faster than expected kyu… No matter how small it is, it’s definitely a ‘Wanderer’, so I expected it to at least take a few days kyu~. No matter how much magic power you have, that’s too much of an outlier kyu~. Even though Reze finished it without resting, I still can’t see any signs of magic power depleting, After all, the magical girl is a calling for Roze kyu~!”

“I felt like I was playing a music game because all I had to do was touch the ‘Wanderers’ that were being born one after the other. Is it fine to assume that the malice is gone for the time being now?”

“Kyu~. I’m sure that eventually, that same malice will build up again, but for the time being, it will not be a problem kyu~.

“But this is not a fundamental solution. I was able to erase the malice, but in the end, I don’t think this will help the magical girls…”

I have destroyed the “Wanderer” outbreak before it happened, so in that sense, it might have helped, but the thought that magical girls would continue to get hurt as a fellow hero it made me feel depressed as well.

Having said that, there is probably nothing more I can do.

It’s not like I can just wipe out the people who are spreading this malice, and I’m sure there are people who just did it on an impulse.

Even if I had the skills to delete such posts, they would still remain in people’s memories.

“It’s not like everything has been resolved, but thanks to Roze, quite a few magical girls have been saved.”

“If that’s the case then that’s good.”

“I’ve carefully thought about that part too when I constructed the magic kyu~. Roze doesn’t need to worry about it, so when the malice builds up again I want Roze to just blow it away kyu~.”

“Well, I’m glad it wasn’t a difficult job, though it did make my mood worse.”

The world that has been changed by “Wanderer” seems to be a terrible world even for heroes.

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“Director Iida, can’t you simplify this a little more….This format takes too much time, and it’s a waste of time…”

“Impossible. No matter how much information about magical girls is exposed, there are procedures and rules to delete it. When and where it was posted, and whether it is a valid reason for deletion, the upper management will decide. It also has to be recorded, and an application has to be submitted to the place where the post was written. We don’t have that much authority to just do that on our own.

“Even if you say that. There are many slanderous and baseless rumors, there are even people who directly called out the magical girls directly. It’s too cruel to treat the magical girls who protects the country like this, It’s too much… We can’t even interfere with such a small case…, If there is a delay in dealing with personal information, we adults will not be trusted. Mental care for magical girls is also our job, but with this roundabout way this kind of case will only increased!”

The headquarters Magical Girl Committee is filled with people who are being overworked today.

Even if there is no solution to the labor shortage, The things that need to be done won’t wait for you.

The two people who are in charge as the director and chief of this committee, which is facing a lot of troubles, had several anonymous bulletin board pages open on the computer in front of them.

Some of the various malice that Roze and the others saw was picked up there.

Dealing with the malice against magical girls. It was supposed to be one of the things that the adults, who had no way to fight the “Wanderer” monster, could do to protect the children, the magical girls.

“What was I going to do with all these sheets…”

Worried that she’s really starting to blur, she puts the blank paper back in place.

However, the results were not good, and although the addresses, families, and hospitals of many magical girls were exposed, it took a considerable amount of time to deal with each one of them.

Normally, the appearance of a person before and after her transformation into a magical girl is different, and magic is also applied to make people perceive her as a different person. The effect of the magic is so great that. before they transformed, if you didn’t know it beforehand, it would be impossible to guess who is which magical girl.

T/N: I make a mistake on Black Rose name, it’s supposed to be Blackrose. And also you can see, just how uncanny Roze’s power is when seen from the other’s POV. Note that Roze doesn’t even realize she had erased everything, she thought it’s only the wanderer that she erased

However, all magical girls are children.

If there’s a desire to show off, they do not understand the danger of exposing themselves as magical girls, and they are not careful enough when transforming or turning back.

Once a crack appeared, information flows out like water, and information will flow down like overflowing water, and the result is just like the one shown on the computer. This is also the cause of the headache for Sawada Yuko, who is in charge of solving this problem.

“Can’t you at least do something just for this document? If I have to write and submit it one by one, the sun will set.”

“We are also sending a form to improve that. But in the end, it will take time to revise such a form. This kind of situation will continue for a while.”

“Aren’t there too much bureaucracy!?”

“And you work for that government office. Complaining won’t get you anywhere. Give up and move your hands, not your mouth.”

Sawada grumbles and complains, but it’s true that it won’t end unless she moves her hand, so she decides to fill in the paperwork silently.

The “Application for Approval to Protect Magical Girls,” as the name implies, is a document for applying for action to protect children who have become magical girls. As the Magical Girl Committee is still in its infancy, it does not have the know-how and has not yet established a set procedure, so every time you do something that needs permission, you must first apply for it with this kind of document.

The application to delete the leaked personal information of the magical girls is no exception to this, and Sawada faces the computer while filling in the application form as if to crush the mountain of information bit by bit.

Just as she was getting dizzy from the mind-numbing task, she suddenly heard something popping.

Sawada thought she might be hallucinating because she was so tired, but the display he had been staring at earlier felt strange. Even though it shouldn’t be like that, it’s as if the part she was looking at just now has become blank.

Maybe I am tired. No, it is too modest to say might be, but it is probably just my imagination. Then the words and images that make me want to erase them, disappeared right in front of my eyes.

When I become a superhuman existence like a magical girl, I want that kind of magic. My exhaustion must be at its peak for me to think like that. But no matter how tired I am, I have to go on with the work.

When I regained my composure and concentrated on the computer, a phenomenon that could not just be settled with a feeling of discomfort occurred.

“what’s… this···!?”

This time it’s not just a strange feeling, it’s a phenomenon that’s definitely happening. The slander that had been displayed disappeared one after another. Not only the personal information that had to be deleted but also the slander that the committee could not interfere with, everything that’s apt to be called human malice disappeared.

The phenomenon was not limited to her personal computer, but her colleague who was doing similar work also leaked out a surprised voice.

An abnormal situation that would normally be impossible is definitely happening.

Now that the feeling of discomfort had turned into conviction, some action had to be taken.

Sawada stood up from her desk, jumped out of her chair, and reported the situation to the person in charge, Director Iida.

“Director Iida!…… Erm… What was I doing just now?”

“What are you talking about, Sawada, have you started to become senile at that age?”

“How rude! To make fun of a woman’s age you sure have no sense of delicacy!”

“If you don’t want to be thought that way, go to work. Your job is… what were you doing just now?”

“Isn’t even the director started to get senile?”

“Don’t be stupid. I’m confident in my memory. Rather than that, we still have a lot to do. Don’t need to worry about it.”

Iida took out a binder from the desk and handed it to Sawada.

“It’s a request from the magical girls. Please read it and put it together.”

“I understand. And also I’m not senile!”

Sawada returns to her desk and begins to put together the documents in the binder.

She puts back his chair, which for some reason had fallen, takes a seat, and begins to work on her computer, which shows no signs of having been worked on, when she notices that her desk area is a mess.

There were several copies of the “Application for Approval for the Protection of Magical Girls” on the desk, and a few even had fallen to the floor.

“What was I going to do with all these sheets of paper…”

Worried that she’s really starting to get senile, she puts the blank paper back on the desk.

T/N: I make a mistake on Black Rose, it’s supposed to be Blackrose. Also, you can see how uncanny Roze’s power is. Note that Roze doesn’t know she had erased everything, she thought its only the wanderer