Chapter 19 : Kabukicho Battle

To define the magical girl of [Machine Gun] described in the original work in one word, she was a ‘fanatic’.

Fujimoto Sumire, who commanded the magical girls in place of Fujimoto Eiji, who had already died in the story.

[Machine Gun] was described as a character deeply infatuated with her.

She was a magical girl who bloomed on the path of struggle through the glass stars of unbloomed 1-star magical girls collected by the alliance. So she remained loyal to Sumire and tried to massacre the magical girls of FLAG until the moment of her death in the story.

As if running away from something.

Like a clown performing a play.

[Glory to you, Leader!]

[Thank you, Leader! Please watch over us!]

[This power you’ve given us! We’ll use it for you!]

[Machine guns… are love!!]

She only showed superficial loyalty while imitating a madwoman.

She died shouting at Sumire to look at her until the very end.

* * *

Whoosh―

“Yahoo!!”

“H-Hana-chan! Let’s go together!!”

[Swiftness] Magical Girl’s Unique Skill

Flash Girl

Sato Hana was running while enveloped in dazzling light, leaping over building rooftops.

A tail of light stretching over tens of meters behind her.

It looked as if a yellow meteor was passing by.

Even though I was chasing after her by casting Blink every second with the overwhelming output of a born 3-star magical girl, I could only see her back.

‘It’s just like imagining someone chasing after you, leaping between buildings outside the window every time you ride the subway.’

A sudden idle thought.

That’s how amazing Hana’s performance was.

Even when the distance between buildings was over ten meters, Hana broke through the air, leaving a tail of light. I was more surprised by her performance showing mobility surpassing Blink.

‘How can a born 1-star have this much output, even if she’s bloomed.’

Considering that unbloomed born 1-star magical girls get tired after using basic magic a few times, this was an astonishing level.

Whoosh―

Whoosh―

Whoosh―

Like hopping across stepping stones between building rooftops.

A high-rise building appeared in front of the yellow meteor rushing with a sharp sound cutting through the air.

“Hana-chan! Let’s go around!!”

“Ahaha! It’s okay!!”

Hana, smiling brightly at me, continued to rush while increasing her speed.

As her speed increased.

The sound of air brushing her shoulders grew louder, making a threatening noise.

Whooshhhh―

The high-rise building was now so close that it couldn’t be avoided even if she turned as much as possible.

I urgently tried to protect Hana with psychic power. But I had to stop due to the amazing sight that unfolded next.

Fwoosh!

Tap tap tap tap tap―

Hana lightly kicked off the building on the opposite side of the high-rise and went up.

Her speed didn’t decrease at all despite the sudden change in direction.

She stuck to the high-rise building and easily broke through the vertical wall, going up.

A girl running towards the sky.

‘It would be a big problem if I forcibly try to follow.’

It was obvious that if I forcibly tried to imitate that, all the surrounding buildings would be smashed by my psychic power, so I obediently turned back to the original route we were going to take.

‘Th-This is…’

A performance that was hard to believe was from a born 1-star.

I could only watch in astonishment.

‘Sato Hana is special.’

There was no description of such a powerful born 1-star in the original work.

There were descriptions of magical girls overwhelming others of the same rank according to the magic power they absorbed through blooming or fighting. But showing such overwhelming output from the beginning compared to those of the same rank was only seen in 2-star girls like Fujimoto Sumire or Ichika.

“Hey! Leader! Sato! How could you leave me behind!”

Ichika, who had fallen slightly behind, finally caught up and shouted in a resentful voice.

Ichika had less output than me, who was pushing through with raw power.

And she was less skilled at using Blink than me except in combat, so she had been lagging behind for tens of minutes.

“Really!”

Pop

“What a!”

Pop

“Troublesome situation!”

Ichika, appearing with flashes through Blink, poured out complaints.

“I agree, Ichika.”

“Hikari-chan! I can see smoke ahead!”

“Looks like we’re almost there.”

“They really made a mess!”

Hana, who had gone far ahead, gradually adjusted her speed and approached us.

A straight line from Yokohama to Shinjuku where Kabukicho is.

We had run tens of kilometers and finally arrived at a place where Kabukicho was visible.

“Good thing we didn’t take the train.”

“Heh, it’s not as chaotic as I thought. We’re not too late.”

“Uu, bad people doing bad things!”

Ichika clicked her tongue seeing that sight, and Hana made a trumpet shape with both hands and made a boo-boo sound.

Us, standing in a row on top of a building.

Traces of destruction and smoke rising in the distance.

In our eyes, we could vaguely see a fluorescent orange dot wandering through the streets of Kabukicho like sewing, and the figure of an armor continuing its majestic march on the plaza boulevard far away.

‘As expected, since it’s in the middle of the city, the police have already appeared.’

It seems the police who had arrived earlier tried to stop them but failed.

Barricades were scattered messily in the middle of Kabukicho, having failed to stop them. Armed forces couldn’t approach easily due to the confused crowd and situation.

“What should we do, leader?”

“We have to stop them.”

“Alright.”

What we could see was an armored robot and a motorcycle.

It bothered me that we couldn’t see Machine Gun.

For now, stopping the rampage of those two magical girls and rescuing the involved civilians was the urgent priority.

Flash!

Colorless starlight.

Green starlight.

Two starlights sparkled where we were.

After the starlight passed, both I and Ichika changed into our bloomed magical girl forms. And I removed the illusion magic curtain I had put on our group earlier.

Our appearance revealed again.

It would be better to reveal ourselves to draw attention from the group claiming to be an organization created by the magical girl of [Beginning].

‘To prevent further damage, I need to bring this area under my control.’

I jumped from the building towards the direction of Kabukicho street while holding my unique weapon, a staff.

The first thing I practiced to survive against the magical girl of [War].

Large-scale illusion barrier magic.

[Deception] Magical Girl’s Unique Skill

Dream World

Wide Area Type

Ching!

A huge 10-meter square prism appeared above my head, shining in various colors.

The square prism rose into the sky and quickly moved to the center of the airspace above Kabukicho.

A cross-shaped crack appeared in the center of the square.

Eight pieces, divided into 4 each on the top and bottom, scattered.

Pop!

Pop!

Pop!

Eight prisms, quickly taking their positions all over Kabukicho, emitted rainbow-colored light to each other and connected.

Like a colorful constellation, the connected starlight.

The huge starlight domain connected in this way expanded from points to lines, from lines to planes.

“Whoa, what’s this?!”

“What, what are they trying to do?”

“Today’s really gone crazy!”

As the barrier formed, my consciousness expanded and I could hear people’s surprised voices seeing the barrier engraved around them.

This place is now my domain.

It’s connected to my mental image.

What I imagine in my mind is an illusion.

A warning to leave this place.

-I am the magical girl of [Beginning].

-Please escape following the guidance of this message.

-The group currently causing a disturbance is impersonating me.

-I have no intention of harming others.

-Escape from here.

I repeatedly showed warnings and phrases echoing in the citizens’ minds with my voice.

“Wh-What on earth is this…?”

“What should we do?”

“Is this real?”

Doubt.

Hesitation.

People couldn’t believe the message because those girls causing the disturbance claimed to be part of an organization created by the magical girl of [Beginning].

The main culprits causing the disturbance claimed to be [Beginning]’s subordinates, but now the leader [Beginning] was telling them to run away.

‘This is taking too long.’

Snap!

I deployed a new illusion.

A familiar face of a police officer I had seen before.

“This is the police! Please follow the words of the magical girl of [Beginning]!”

“They haven’t gone on a full rampage yet! Please evacuate in an orderly manner!”

“It’s dangerous if everyone suddenly rushes out together! Orderly!”

“The police will guarantee your safety!”

“We will help you evacuate safely!”

“Please evacuate with the elderly and children!”

“Please follow the earthquake evacuation drill!”

The appearance and voice of Yamashita, the police officer I had tailed from the Metropolitan Police Department.

I activated the illusion while recalling him, and suddenly, various hot-blooded police Yamashitas wearing different police uniforms appeared all over Kabukicho and started evacuating citizens.

“If it’s the police’s words, we should believe them!”

“Think of it as an earthquake evacuation drill.”

“Sis, all our shop’s people have evacuated safely!”

“Hey cop, thanks. Come visit our shop sometime.”

Tap tap

Here and there on the street, yakuza in charge of public order gave their business cards to (fake) Yamashita or expressed gratitude as they retreated.

The fake Yamashitas responded to such citizens’ gratitude with eyes shining with a sense of justice.

“Protecting citizens is the natural duty of the police!”

An unrealistic situation of magical girls causing a disturbance.

The citizens, who had been frozen, started to treat the situation like an earthquake evacuation drill at the familiar voice of public authority.

Familiarity.

Relief.

Citizens began to escape from Kabukicho to the main streets at a quick pace. When overlapped with the image of a familiar situation, their bodies moved automatically.

‘Good.’

While controlling the hot-blooded police Yamashitas in the domain, I simultaneously deployed a new barrier magic towards the sluggishly moving armor.

Whoosh!

A 200-meter diameter illusion curtain.

A black hemispherical barrier completely blocked light from the surroundings, surrounding the ivory-colored armor.

[Nyufufufu, Uwaaah?! What is this?! Super Cool Armor No. 1!! Deploy night vision goggles!]

If they recover their vision through night vision goggles, there’s no point in trapping them in a blackout curtain.

“Damn it! Ichika! Take care of that robot! Don’t let it get out of the domain!”

“Got it! Leader!”

Tap!

Ichika jumped down the building and shot towards the armor trapped in the illusion curtain, leaving a green afterimage.

Vrooom―

‘The motorcycle’s exhaust sound is getting closer.’

Light approaching from far away.

The fluorescent orange motorcycle that had shot far away after witnessing the armor being bound by the illusion curtain was now rushing at full speed. Even Ichika would need cover while subduing the robot.

“Hana-chan!”

“Yes! Hikari-chan!”

“Can you guide the motorcycle and lower its speed? I’m thinking of binding it like that robot.”

“Hmm, how can I stop it?”

“Try using yellow energy to press down hard on the back wheel like a pincer to stop it.”

“Aha! Like this?”

Crunch

Hana crumpled a pile of steel plates like paper with yellow psychic power and smiled brightly.

“…”

I was momentarily speechless at the spectacular performance she had been showing.

“Yeah, you can do it a bit weaker than that.”

“Got it! Magical Girl Sato Hana, moving out!”

“Be careful. I’ll keep watching and help you.”

“Mm! Don’t worry, Hikari-chan!”

A yellow meteor shooting out with a smile.

Whoosh-

Hana rushed towards the motorcycle like a streak of meteor.

A scene reminiscent of jousting.

The two starlights were approaching each other in a straight line.

‘Still, it’s worrying to send Hana alone…’

I detached my consciousness and sent 2 clones to follow Hana.

And while watching the situation of evacuating citizens, I monitored through the rest of my clones to block as many variables of this situation as possible.