Chapter 113 : Calm Sea

June 21

“So! I’m saying it’s right to disperse the magical girls belonging to the Free Magical Girl Federation while carefully considering their nationalities!”

“What nonsense…! Do you know how much money the US has invested in recruiting magical girls?”

“That’s America’s situation! Isn’t that right, everyone?”

“I agree with that statement. Magical girls should be according to their original nationality…”

“That sounds like Russia, China, and Korea, which have over a hundred affiliated magical girls, want to take a step back from all security responsibilities from now on?”

“Responsibilities? Responsibilities? Weren’t you the ones who shouted every man for himself before the trials came? Now you’re asking to distribute security responsibilities?”

“Well, although it’s not the fault of the current Russian interim government, isn’t Russia in a situation where they need to be somewhat cautious about security responsibilities?”

“Hmm… that’s subtly arguing that the US is free from all responsibilities.”

“No, you…!”

The conference room was burning hot with debates about the placement of magical girls from each country.

After confirming that conventional weapons were ineffective against demons, the placement of magical girls was connected to critical security situations, so there was no room for concession.

‘…I feel awkward.’

I was sitting nervously, holding coffee served by a UN staff member, wearing my white magical girl outfit.

White clothes

White halo

White hair

And even a white chair.

I was emitting a strange atmosphere like the only completely bleached thing inside the conference room.

‘I’m not some decorative doll… this is embarrassing.’

Unlike the calm-colored chairs where foreign ministers representing each country were sitting, I alone was told to sit in a white chair made of marble. At first, I suspected it was part of a power play to shame me.

But that suspicion gradually disappeared due to the attitude of the dozens of staff who brought me here.

-If, if there’s anything lacking, please be understanding…

-Could you tell me if there are any aspects I should pay attention to?

-Um… never mind. If the goddess would just be present…

-It’s a bit burdensome to be called a goddess, couldn’t you just call me a magical girl?

-I’m, I’m sorry. Goddess.

Unfortunately, because Animus had declared herself equal to a goddess, I who won the battle ended up bearing that responsibility.

‘I have no intention of creating a pseudo-religion.’

Since there were movements trying to promote me as some kind of saint or angel after the first trial, I calmed things down by issuing statements to various religious circles that I was neither a divine being nor a saint or angel corresponding to their religion.

-Dorim, can you make me an official SNS account?

-Why that all of a sudden?

-Just to post what I eat every day.

-Unnie… you like that kind of thing.

I tried to break the atmosphere leading to idol worship by consistently appealing in various ways that I was an ordinary human who ate, slept, and went to the bathroom.

‘I didn’t expect it to turn into promotional activities…’

-Successor, the number of believers has increased a lot.

-How many?

-20,000.

-Hmm… that much should be manageable in Elysion, let’s just feed them and send them back.

-20,000 per day.

-We’re doomed.

Even people wanting to convert to the “Goddess Religion” that only believes in the golden girls from Elysion were appearing by the tens of thousands every day.

I created the most friendly atmosphere possible for them and instantly turned it into a tourism atmosphere.

‘I managed to soothe them all, feed them, show them around the neighborhood, calm them down and send them back, but.’

How nice it would have been if I could have fried all the demons of the approaching trials, spanked the goddesses’ bottoms, and returned magnificently.

The process of preparing for the battle was not easy, but the process of coaxing and soothing each country that had fully realized the true existence of the crisis of human extinction and the true value of magical girls was also difficult.

-Black lions keep appearing!

-I’ll dispatch magical girls to that area through the Threads of Fate.

-Food prices are skyrocketing because logistics have stopped due to the demons!

-I can create as much as is lacking.

-That’s… enough for 200,000 people to eat…

-When would you like me to make it?

-We’d be grateful if you could make it even now.

-I see.

-And people injured from attacks by black lions…

-I’ll heal them all.

Because I could now use the unique skills of all magical girls, I could solve most problems on my own.

The number of magical girls was far from enough to protect all countries, and even mobilizing all the miracles of Elysion, their schedules were tight. So I had been going on business trips to areas where magical girls couldn’t reach, quickly solving various problems.

The newly bloomed unique skill of [Hope] was very useful in that process.

Flow of All Things. The power to affirm and change or restore the human world.

I could easily solve most problems wherever human history existed.

-Is there any other problem?

-No… there isn’t.

There was another new discovery.

Another ability I gained when I bloomed as the magical girl of [Hope].

A different type of avatar from Animus’s Divine Manifestation.

If there was a medium that could contain the divinity contained in the fourth star, I could create an avatar that could act autonomously. The problem was that in the process of creating the medium, a believer had to make it with affection…

‘…Horse mask.’

Very timely, there was a believer who had tried to recreate me in detail since the debutante.

The horse mask I met while looking for a vessel to contain the avatar was surprisingly a woman with a calm impression.

When she first came, looking like a cool-headed OL.

I thought the shy horse mask had sent the company president instead.

-You’re… a woman?

-…Yes.

-Why, why such… activities…

-Women like cute girls too.

-I… see.

After an awkward meeting, I succeeded in descending divinity into 10 new dolls that the horse mask made and sent.

10 dolls starting to move.

“Py-Pygmalion…!! I have surpassed you…!!”

Seeing 10 of me transform into magical girls, the horse mask cheered and jumped up and down.

The sight of her, who looked like a calm team leader in a suit, jumping around happily like a girl was cuter than I expected.

-You did very well.

-Thank you.

-I’ll praise you.

-Whoa?! Wa-wait a minute!! Hehe…

-Hm?

As a joke, 10 of me surrounded her, linked arms or patted her head, but she suddenly fainted with a nosebleed, so I hurriedly stopped. I was surprised when there was a sincere reaction to the prank I did feeling like teasing an older sister who was older than me in my previous life.

‘She had a calm impression, but she was more passionate than I thought.’

After pondering for a while about the treatment of the avatars, I decided to use them only in emergencies.

-Hmm… let’s hold off on using them for now.

-Ah… what a shame.

If I used dolls imbued with my divinity to have countless mes performing miracles all over the world, it seemed like it would accelerate the atmosphere of trying to enshrine me as a goddess, so I decided to stop.

‘No… to be exact…’

Because it seemed like humanity in this world would become dependent to the point of not being able to live without me.

Because it seemed like it would change into a society relying on someone transcendent like in the age of goddesses.

I decided not to intervene in this world anymore, except for damage caused by goddesses and trials.

Fighting against demons and helping people was a problem only for the magical girls of this world to solve.

If all problems were solved, I would become an unparalleled threat and foreign substance to this world.

I had to gradually complete my preparations.

“…”

Separating this world from the goddesses and the will of the stars and returning it to the people. And creating an environment where they can live well without me.

It was my task while dismantling the remaining trials. Thinking about those things made my chest tighten with a sense of responsibility rising up.

A sigh let out due to the tightness.

“Whew…”

“…”

“…”

“Huh?”

The conference room suddenly fell silent.

I looked forward in surprise and saw everyone looking at me with startled expressions, reacting to my sigh.

Blink blink

The scene of ministers who were about to grab each other’s collars just a moment ago now looking around nervously with rabbit eyes somehow made me feel sorry for them.

I understand that the people who should lead this world are being cautious in front of trials.

‘But it’s troublesome if they react so sensitively to my every move.’

Isn’t this happening because they put me in such a conspicuous chair in the first place?

I thought I should ask to replace it with a calm-colored chair next time.

“Ah, it’s nothing. Please continue the meeting.”