Chapter 29 : The Third Light

“When the training period for 50 additional volunteers ends, we have decided to immediately dispatch 10 teams of 6 people each, including one senior relief corps member, to conflict areas and regions in medical blind spots.”

Himari, the born 2-star magical girl of [Nursing] with impressive golden hair and eyes, calmly continued speaking while turning to the next page of her documents.

“We have created a basic manual for using healing abilities and distributed it to local government facilities and libraries, and have finished negotiations for overseas dispatch personnel to act under the supervision of the Red Cross.”

After reporting all the prepared content, Himari bowed slightly to Sumire, the interim representative, and quietly sat down again.

“Wow, the magical girl of [Nursing] seems to be very good at speaking. Inspector Yamashita!”

“Team Leader, please be quiet during the meeting.”

Even if not to the level of Himari, who acted as the representative of the first officially recognized magical girl organization, the magical girls selected as council members were quite knowledgeable in their respective fields.

Perhaps due to their experience working with experts in the field, the presentation session proceeded in a reasonably proper manner.

‘I expected it to be like a class presentation or flea market.’

Since the atmosphere of high school or middle school that Yamashita had experienced wasn’t like this, he was genuinely surprised by the meeting atmosphere of these experienced girls.

‘It’s as if all sorts of colored sparkles are flying around the meeting hall.’

When Yamashita glanced at the ceiling of the meeting hall, he saw that intangible energy was overflowing and scattering sparkles every time the girls presented their achievements.

“I’ve heard well. Next, the head of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Magical Girl Countermeasures Team will present.”

“Ah! Hello! I’m Ishikawa Tsugumi of the Magical Girl Countermeasures Team of the Japanese Police Metropolitan Police Department!”

“Do you have anything to present?”

“No! Currently, all 30 members of the Magical Girl Security Force are in training, so we are on standby!”

Our hastily formed organization is just idling.

Yamashita, hearing the kind of presentation that should never be made during an achievement reporting session, barely held back from slapping his forehead and mumbled in his mouth.

‘At times like this, you should talk about future visions and gradually change the subject! Team Leader!!’

“I’ve heard well. Next is…”

“May I present?”

Murmur murmur

When one girl stood up from the ‘full’ central table, everyone in the meeting hall was shocked.

“Huh…!”

“[Beginning]?!”

“When?!”

She was sitting there.

* * *

She was sitting there.

‘Fujimoto Sumire…’

Perhaps we had been entangled much earlier than we thought.

Perhaps from the moment I ate at Master’s shop after coming to this world.

Perhaps from the moment, Hana called me Hikari-chan from her wheelchair.

Perhaps from the moment Ichika and Kyoko patted my back, saying thank you.

Perhaps from the moment I started recalling the connections here as much as thinking about Mother.

While taking one step at a time on a path different from the original work.

I had been covering it with hesitation that rose up just in case.

I will no longer cover what I ‘thought was right’ deep in my heart, which I had been hiding behind a mask of selfishness since two years ago.

“The chairperson candidate is very late.”

“Yes, the road was so complicated that I got lost for a while.”

“…I’m glad you found your way here, even now.”

Fujimoto Sumire looked at me with complicated eyes for a moment and then mouthed:

‘Even now.’

Was it the last warning sent by her before she took on her father’s ghost?

Or was it an illusion shown by my selfishness telling me to turn back and run away even now?

“I will…”

“…”

“…not take on the role of chairperson of the Magical Girl Alliance Council.”

Murmur murmur

The ‘secretaries’ standing behind the girls in the meeting hall were all connecting their radios to receive instructions. I could hear the related parties sitting in the gallery talking in urgent voices.

Zing

I could feel the cameraman who had been filming us from the corner of the meeting hall urgently zooming in and focusing.

The world was paying attention to our conversation.

“Then regarding the magical girl of [Beginning]’s future activities in officially recognized magical girl organizations…”

“Instead.”

Silence.

Everyone held their breath as the direction of the future era of magical girls would be determined based on how [Beginning], who suddenly appeared, responded.

“I want to become a king.”

“…?”

“King?”

“What on earth does that mean, a king…?!”

“Is she asking for the Emperor’s position? But the imperial family’s descendants…?!”

Shh

Sumire extended her hand to silence those who were agitated and looked at me again with calm eyes.

“This is an official place. Please refrain from jokes or statements that could be doubted for their intentions.”

I held up the colorless Glass Star.

Three starlight guided by my heart shone brilliantly.

For the past two years, it had never shone so brilliantly, not even in Odaiba or Kabukicho.

A sparkle allowed only to one who truly deceives the world.

To protect what I thought was ‘right,’ I deceive the predetermined fate of this world.

I deceive <Magical Girl HAZARD> created by three evil gods who deceive humans.

The era of magical girls will begin with my words as a human, not the declaration of evil gods.

I separated my consciousness and declared to both the world and humanity.

“Under the third light, I, the magical girl of [Beginning], declare.”

[Under the third light, I, the magical girl of [Deception], declare.]

“To those who live on the land where all girls’ dreams began.”

[To those who live on the tragic land destined for destruction.]

“To girls born under the stars that guide others with dreams.”

[To future girls who will hurt each other due to ignorance.]

“Be protected and respected under eternal dreams and fate.”

[Deceive even the future and fate given by the three evil gods.]

“Hope that leads others will become the virtue of this land.”

[Deception that deceives even fate will become the victory of humans.]

At that moment, the world responded to my sincerity.

7381 first lights resonated and entered the star, becoming dreams that form the world.

67-second lights resonated and entered the star, becoming fates that lead the world.

And I shot a single-third light up into this land.

Flash!

The colorless light illuminated in the center of the meeting hall became a pillar and shot up into the sky.

The light that rose beyond the blue sky to the first edge of the dark universe spread widely, embracing the land where magical girls were born.

“Wh-What is that?!”

“It’s all light, nothing but light?!”

“What on earth is happening!”

Chaos.

Shock.

As the light bursting from the center of the meeting hall pierced even the roof, people scattered in panic.

Some were hurriedly trying to escape outside the meeting hall.

Some were just staring with wide eyes, trying to witness the change of the era.

“Ugh, because of the light curtain… I can’t go.”

“M-Miss, it’s dangerous!”

The bodyguards who rushed to protect their VIPs in this abnormal situation could only shout, unable to approach because the light curtain blocked the central table.

Tap!

I tapped my staff to compose the place that would become my domain.

Imagine a paradise for all girls.

A place where dreams grow.

A place where all dreams begin.

“Interfering adults, please exit for a moment.”

Pop!

Pop!

Pop!

All the adults standing behind the girls at the back of the central table were enveloped in dazzling light and exited outside the meeting hall.

I smiled at the girls who were confused or showing tears amid chaos.

“Welcome. To the Garden of Dreams.”

“Gar…den?”

Himari, who had been watching everything with a remarkably calm expression, was shocked when she looked around.

The drab-colored tables and chairs that had filled the meeting hall where the girls were sitting had all been replaced by glass, emitting a soft rainbow-colored light.

“Huh? Where is this?”

“Trees… trees?!”

At the end of their gaze turned with the fresh breeze were countless trees and flowers.

“In the middle of Tokyo?!”

“Why is there a botanical garden when it was a meeting hall?!”

Garden.

It was a vast garden.

It was a garden so large that even hundreds of girls who had been in the meeting hall’s tables and gallery seats couldn’t fill it all.

Brilliant sunlight shone under the soft rainbow-colored glass cover, and on the beautiful glass tables and chairs where the girls were sitting, a cup of black tea was placed on each.

“What… on earth… is this…?”

Sumire’s eyes were shaking uncontrollably as she struggled to continue speaking in shock.

Because.

The garden was in mid-air.

The garden contained in a huge glass sphere was floating in the sky above Tokyo.

Outside the spherical shield, the sky of Japan, which you would only see on a science channel, was visible.

We have temporarily risen to a space where only the masters of this land can stay, free from the bonds of the land we originally lived on.

“Inspector Yamashita!! There’s something like a curtain over all of Japan!!”

As Tsugumi said, unconsciously looking for an adult who wasn’t present, the entire sky of Japan was covered with a curtain shining like the surface of a prism.

Like an aurora, it spread over the sky of all Japan, which had only been blue, painting it over with colorful paints.

Tap tap

I drew the attention of the girls who were about to faint from shock or looking around frantically with the sound of my staff.

“Everyone.”

“Let’s begin now.”

“A meeting of only magical girls.”

“The Dream of Walpurgis.”