Demon King Girl (6)

Demon King Girl (6)

“D-don’t move, monster!”

“Hmm…”

The one who swung the large axe to cut off the Mammoth’s tentacles was not Serika, the magical girl he was targeting.

The Mammoth openly clicked his tongue upon seeing the black magical girl who had barged in. While her courage to intervene alone despite trembling was admirable, unless she was as strong as Serika, he had little interest in magical girls who weren’t powerful.

“Get lost.”

The Mammoth swung his arm, this time sending tentacles with such force that they would be impossible to dodge. The tentacles soon became whips, smashing through asphalt and cars as they flew towards her.

“Aaagh!”

She managed to dodge narrowly. However, the whip grazed one of her legs.

As if cut by a knife, a bright red fountain of blood spurted from her calf, which had been cleanly severed.

“How impudent.”

The Mammoth was enraged. It wasn’t as if he hadn’t given her time. Nor was his reputation low.

When he rampaged in Korea and Japan, S-class or higher magical girls would rush in without delay to interfere.

It was unimaginable for a lone magical girl, at best A-class like now, to step forward.

“The price of foolishness is paid in blood.”

The Mammoth’s fingers, which had been writhing as tentacles, split open and increased their number more than twofold.

He swung the tentacles, now split into hundreds, literally grinding the area.

A wind made of the blood of sacrificed victims scattered.

Machine gun fire and Hellfire missiles from the arriving Apache helicopters flew towards him, but the Mammoth, unscathed, shot energy beams from his wide-open mouth, annihilating the helicopter formation in one go.

“Are S-class and above magical girls scared?!!!”

He shouted from the center of the city, now a mess of countless corpses and destroyed debris.

“We need to go now!”

“B-but the law designated this time…”

The U.S. government’s Magical Girl Management Bureau in the western United States where the Mammoth appeared.

Here, magical girls who had finished transforming were shouting at government officials.

They were all high-ranking magical girls who had revealed their identities to the U.S. government and were working closely with them.

“Are you kidding me? You’re saying the fastest black S-class magical girl will take over an hour to arrive! Are you really going to be picky about that in this situation?! This is an emergency!”

“But what can we do when the designated quota system is set up like that!? Oh, they say we should apply the rules even more strictly for major incidents because of their greater impact…”

As the magical girl at the front glared, the employee closed his eyes tightly and shook his head. Their deployment was blocked due to a recently enacted law.

This was literally an era where anything could become money and influence. The same was true for magical girls.

The U.S. government had long pondered ways to control magical girls, who wielded influence and popularity surpassing that of most celebrities with their strength, beauty, and mystique. As a result, they managed to persuade over 60% of magical girls to collaborate with the government.

However, problems with this system began to emerge in recent years, as a faction that started to raise its voice gradually became the majority, calling for racial and regional quotas even in the activities of magical girls who had strong influence throughout society.

“Does this make any sense? What’s more important than ability when catching villains? These stupid humans!”

One mascot swung its fists futilely at the government officials, as if in disbelief.

“People’s lives are at stake. The SS-class monster Mammoth isn’t something that common sense applies to.”

Finally, one magical girl who gave up on deploying sat down with a thud. However, since the U.S. government knew their true identities, they couldn’t risk their daily lives being disrupted.

This might have been different in North America until now, where there hadn’t been such major threats. But with the appearance of an unimaginable enemy like the Mammoth, all common sense was denied, and systems were put to the test.

And at least the system they had built was now receiving the worst evaluation in history due to the Mammoth.

“The higher-ups are in an urgent meeting right now. So if you could just wait a little…”

“Ah, please shut up, Chris. Dozens have already died, and who knows how many more will die. It’s all your fault.”

The bureau employee who had unnecessarily spoken up couldn’t respond to the pointing finger and lowered his head.

“The only option left is…”

“What else can we do? We have to hope that the ‘non-cooperators’ the bureau gentlemen so despise and hate will step up.”

The magical girls whispered among themselves, looking at the Management Bureau employees with contemptuous eyes.

As long as they couldn’t move, the only ones who could act now were those who were free from government orders from the beginning.

*

“It’s so, so disappointing.”

No matter how much he rampaged, no magical girl came. Even Mammoth himself was bewildered.

From his perspective, chaos was truly desirable. However, true chaos is something that must be created by many.

Chaos created by one person alone was just a mere struggle.

Therefore, Mammoth couldn’t dare call it chaos when he saw people who were busy helplessly evacuating rather than confronting him.

“The justice of this land has died, by what exactly?”

It was a phenomenon he couldn’t understand at all. In a situation where even fighting with all their might wouldn’t be enough, a few incompetent ones had rushed in like moths to a flame and died.

The incarnation of chaos and destruction was now worried about the justice of this land.

“…Ah. Finally.”

But then. He sensed something and turned his head. High up on a building, a magical girl was standing with a staff in her hand.

Mammoth immediately leaped into the air, shattering the asphalt ground he was standing on. Magical Girl Serika bit her lip. She also swung her staff, spewing out a huge flame towards the front.

“Why! Did you appear only now!”

Mammoth, who had transformed his fingers into long, sharp blades, swung his hand to cut through the flames.

Terrified, she quickly jumped to avoid the debris of the rooftop shattering and scattering in the air.

“You killed it, because you were incompetent!”

“No… It’s not my fault!”

The barrier Serika cast was instantly shattered by his furious strike.

“Then, who is at the end of this incompetence?”

She staggered at Mammoth’s words as it flicked its tongue.

In fact, even S-class could only hold out, and the best way to defeat Mammoth was for multiple S-class to gather and attack together.

Nevertheless, Serika came alone. Ready to die to protect people.

“That’s…”

“Can’t answer, can you? Then, just, die.”

The tentacles that Mammoth spewed forth rushed forward, pressing Serika back.

She barely managed to escape from her position. However, Mammoth, who had suddenly planted himself on the ground, swung his tentacles and brought his foot down on her from above.

“Kuheck…”

Driven into the ground with a powerful shockwave, she was buried there, creating a crater more than 3 meters deep along with the shockwave that destroyed and scattered the road.

Due to her finely shattered bone fragments, even barely breathing meant coughing up blood.

“Strong, magical girl’s, blood.”

Mammoth, who had stomped on her, grinned with its tongue out. It planned to tear her apart and eat her alive like this.

“Hey. Egg head.”

“…This can’t, be.”

However, at that moment.

Mammoth turned around with a grin.

True strength that couldn’t be felt from anyone encountered until now.

Monsters recognize monsters. Mammoth grinned at the appearance of another monster that rivaled itself.

‘…An average Corps Commander? Maybe even beyond that.’

Takilas, who had crossed the Pacific Ocean at incredible speed, gauged the level of Mammoth whom he properly faced for the first time.

In the past, Mamut’s power had grown stronger than when he was hiding in human form. It was because he had devoured the chaos that had occurred in the meantime.

“Let’s finish this quickly. I have a curfew.”

“Kuhahaha!”

Both were giving it their all. Especially for Takilas, it was practically the first time she had drawn out this much power.

Her shadow writhed and spread out. Its size was over several hundred meters in radius, and she even pulled out her weapon, a barbed steel whip. Mamut also inflated his once slender body, transforming it into a form suitable for battle.

Just the collision of their powers made the atmosphere rumble, the ground corrode, and radio waves cut off. And finally, just as they were about to take a step…

“Ah- Stop right there. Your actions now are a violation of international law, Takilas! It’s forbidden for a magical girl from another country to use force, and the Korean government will punish you for leaving the country without permission…”

A helicopter buzzing overhead poured cold water on the situation, blaring through a loudspeaker.

‘Are they crazy? How dare those guys, to me?’

She snorted in disbelief.

To her, who considers her identity to be the Demon King of the Demon Realm, American law or Korean law is nothing but a piece of tissue paper.