Chapter 3 : The Colorless Magical Girl

The energy of starlight enveloped my body, and the appearance that was revealed was like that of a magician.

Black suit pants clinging to my legs, topped with a white blouse.

A black cape that sparkled as if it held starlight.

A black staff in one hand, a black silk hat in the other.

I was wearing exactly the kind of outfit one would imagine when thinking of a magician.

“It would be nice if it wasn’t so tight in the crotch area.”

It was the downside of the outfit that clung to emphasize the chest in contrast to the thin waist.

In short, the outfit I was wearing was a subculture reinterpretation of a formal suit, so it was a suit that revealed my dramatic figure as a woman.

Tap!

When I struck the black staff on the ground, a rainbow-colored spark arose.

Looking at it, I elegantly put on the silk hat I had selected as my unique weapon, and the three-star decorations on the cape sparkled in the moonlight.

The abilities used by magical girls according to the dreams contained in the starlight are full of individuality.

There are abilities based on the most primitive concepts, like breathing fire, spewing lightning, or shooting water. There are also those who can erect solid walls, summon transformation robots, or summon machine guns.

In addition to these unique abilities, there are three basic magics that everyone shares.

The first is psychic.

Incredibly, telekinesis is provided as a basic ability.

This magic, most commonly used by magical girls, varies significantly in level depending on skill and talent. And if used by me, a born 3-star like the four strongest, even basic magic can be used at a level comparable to other magical girls’ unique powers.

‘While controlling the power appropriately.’

Not long after I had bloomed.

For a long time, I couldn’t control my power and kept destroying everything, but after two years of constant practice, I finally succeeded in controlling it to the point where I could move structures without destroying them.

‘Maybe I’m not able to use this power properly because I tried to forcibly uncover the fate in the first place.’

Tap!

With that thought, I struck the staff shortly, and multicolored light burst out from the colorless star, surrounding the empty lot of the old apartment and becoming a hemispherical barrier that blocked noise.

Unique skill.

The magic of a true magical girl who has completed blooming and uses transformation reflects the dreams and fate contained in the star, operating in a way that contains each one’s attributes.

In my case, it was transformed into illusion-type magic containing the fate of [Deception], and all magic had the characteristic of thousand changes that could reflect illusions.

If I spread out the curtain of illusion and adjusted the scenery of the apartment’s empty lot, I could practice large-scale magic without being detected to some extent. Of course, in a place where people are concentrated, someone might notice the sense of incongruity.

Creeeeak―

With an unpleasant sound, a container used as storage in the middle of the empty lot floated up, slowly rising to about 10 meters, like a scene from a cosmic horror movie. If a giant invisible giant were to grip and lift the container, would it look like this?

The amount of starlight that a 3-star magical girl basically has is indeed at a monstrous level, so I wasn’t tired at all even after showing this level of performance. I could maintain it sufficiently while doing other training for a while.

I then cast the second basic magic.

The second basic magic is Blink.

Short-distance warp is the primary movement skill for magical girls.

Snap!

I elegantly grabbed the cape fluttering over the blouse with one hand, covering my body as if drawing a curtain, and felt as if I was detached from this world for a moment, floating in the air.

Now, I can move to the desired location in an instant by setting the target point. But I also separated my consciousness.

Creak-

On the third floor of the apartment, ‘I’ succeeded in arriving at the room where I was residing.

Somewhere in the corner of the empty lot, another ‘I’ succeeded in short-distance movement.

From somewhere in the shadows of the storage in the empty lot, another ‘me’ succeeded in coming up.

This was repeated a total of 6 times, and there were a total of 7 ‘me’s gathered one by one in the apartment’s empty lot.

The illusion of [Deception] added the function of creating doubles to the teleportation.

And the illusion of [Deception] also changed the third magic, healing magic.

However, that power was of no use at the moment, so I decided to end the training.

Snap!

With the sound of a finger snap, all the scenes disappeared as if they were lies, and the quiet apartment empty lot returned to its appearance.

After finishing the training, I washed up at the tap and returned home, flopping down.

Since blooming the power of a magical girl, I’ve been practicing magic alone, but somehow it felt like hitting my head against a brick wall.

‘Soon, the first thing 1-star magical girls would use on their own would probably be psychic and heal.’

Although there wasn’t a detailed description of how it was used in the work, magical girls were said to start manifesting supernatural abilities all over Japan shortly after their appearance.

The healing ability used by magical girls in this world was not amplifying regenerative power by accelerating cells, but magic that truly causally made diseases or injuries ‘non-existent’.

Of course, it couldn’t heal amputations or congenital disabilities, but nevertheless, the usefulness of this power was beyond words.

That’s why from the moment 1-star magical girls learned psychic and heal, society became desperate to bring magical girls under their control.

‘Even with just basic magic, the value of magical girls skyrocketed vertically, but the real revolution is the ‘blooming’ of magical girls.’

When headhunting for 1-star magical girls who could use basic magic was in full swing, and research on ability blooming was being conducted through human experiments on orphaned magical girls under the surface.

The magical girls who were used as test subjects realized that Fujimoto Group was behind all of this and rebelled against the state and corporations. However, the daughter of the Fujimoto family head bloomed as a born 2-star magical girl, was given the fate of [Protection], and repelled all the magical girls who came to attack for the rebellion.

After that, magical girls became aware of their own power and competed and formed factions as more ‘evolved’ humans.

“…”

In the greater chaos to come, magical girls will begin to wield absolute social power, starting to destroy the existing order.

The beginning of all events.

The Shinjuku Incident caused by the [War] magical girl.

The tragedy of the protagonist Shikishima Yuki who got involved there.

The society of magical girls in a world where everything is broken and changed.

I gradually fell asleep thinking about these things again.

Imagining enduring all these things and returning to my mother at home.

* * *

“Huff… huff…”

Busujima Haruko, who ‘was’ an ordinary middle school girl, was out of her mind.

It was because she had struck down Yamahara, the delinquent girl who had been bullying her, with a brick, knocking her unconscious.

Childish provocations like emphasizing ‘Busu’ (ugly) from her surname Busujima were the basics.

They tore up her favorite manga book, which she loved, plastered it on the classroom blackboard, incited other girls, and chased her around to all the places where she could eat her lunch, bullying her, finally, from the day she was chased out of even the bathroom after being doused with water and had to eat her meal at the garbage incinerator.

Haruko felt like gunpowder was piling up somewhere in her heart.

-If… if I don’t prove that I’m special by bullying someone… I can’t live!

When she was chosen as a magical girl after the red broadcast, receiving proof that she was special.

She was convinced that her own thoughts were proven right.

-See, I’m… I’m more… than someone like you!

However, when she heard rumors that Yamahara, who was bullying her, had also become a magical girl.

Haruko felt like her head was spinning.

-Ken-chan! I’ve become special now too!

The day after seeing Yamahara boasting to her boyfriend, when Yamahara called her out and heard what she wanted, it felt like she was driven to the edge of a cliff.

-Hey, an inferior kid like you doesn’t need something like that at all, so why don’t you hand it over?

-N-No!!

When she saw Yamahara, who said she would become even more special if her stars increased, sitting on top of her petite frame and forcibly tried to take away her star.

Haruko felt something heavy in her hand.

[Magical girl A from Arakawa Ward was unharmed despite being hit by a steel bar while passing by a construction site.]

[This incident revealed that magical girls are physically stronger than ordinary people…]

[Compared to ordinary people, it’s as if magical girls are always wearing protective gear.]

[Moreover, these changes are accelerating.]

The violence that she originally wouldn’t have been able to commit due to her conscience.

It was carried out with the news she had heard on the morning news today becoming a trigger in the confusing situation.

There would be no problem.

Haruko swung what she was holding in her hand, and Yamahara collapsed right there.

“…”

Ah.

She did it.

Finally, the gunpowder in her heart ignited, and through the shock of the violence carried out, Haruko, who was trembling, heard a male voice.

“Hey, what are you doing there?”

“Eek!?”

It seems Yamahara’s boyfriend thought it was suspicious that the two of them hadn’t come out after going into the alley to talk. A tanned male student with a rough impression approached with a frown.

He discovered Yamahara, who had fainted and was trembling.

“Yacchan? Is that Yacchan collapsed there?!”

“Ah… aaaah…!”

What should I do.

She did it.

She hit someone.

If she gets caught by the police like this, suspension or expulsion would be the least of her worries, and her parents would be contacted too.

‘What should I do what should I do what should I do what should I do…’

In the intense panic, she saw the male student tapping on his mobile phone to report.

Haruko pointed her finger.

Without knowing what she could do.