Chapter 85 : The Successor

February 6, 2012

“Ahahahaha! This is really funny!”

“What? What’s wrong with the tea house I made!”

“It looks like an abandoned house with nothing but green plants everywhere.”

“I think it’s better than your building with mismatched flowers haphazardly woven together.”

“This is what gardening is! This is why country bumpkins from the countryside…”

“Hmph. Once Dad and the uncles bring the tea house equipment from home later, you’ll see what natural beauty is.”

The two girls who had been talking loudly in front of their respective buildings were wearing the same flowy white dresses made of the same white fabric. And they were chattering while their Glass Stars dangling from their waists sparkled.

Today, when diplomats from various countries and invited UN ambassadors were visiting.

Because the founding ceremony was scheduled to be held immediately after the talks ended in the huge hall created by magical girls below the giant lighthouse, all magical girls had been asked by Sumire, the head of the Council, to wear white clothes for the ceremony.

The founding ceremony of the Elysion State, which will become the geographical center for magical girls.

Since a week ago, magical girls had been decorating their own spaces with permission from the magical girl of [Beginning] to freely decorate the island the size of a local city. Magical girls with abilities to distort or create space were going around the island receiving more attention and requests than ever before.

“Amy! Sorry, but can you expand the workshop warehouse a bit? Mom said she’s coming to visit today and the warehouse is too small.”

“Okay! Just wait a moment. And I told you yesterday we should make it bigger already.”

“Hehe, sorry…”

Unlike the Sky Garden, which is a domain completely isolated from normal space, this huge island where sea breezes can be felt.

Directly decorating an island that even ordinary people can enter and leave was so exciting for magical girls that they focused intently, even sleeping in tents for a week.

For the founding day, they were about to burst with anticipation of bringing family and friends they couldn’t bring to the Sky Garden to the opened island and showing off the spaces and abilities they created themselves.

Between the two girls chattering with such anticipation, a hesitant voice was heard.

Flower buds held in both hands.

The flower buds growing on trees that only grow on this island contained clean water.

“Water… I brought some. Please drink.”

“Huh?”

“Oh, oh thank you…”

A voice that sounded alien, unlike the magic of [Unity] used to communicate with magical girls from other countries or [Cyberbrain]’s communicator. An island resident with sun-like golden hair and eyes.

“…”

“…”

Amy and Lea, who had been chattering with each other, were from Japan and France respectively, so they didn’t mind different races. But the girls who had been living as residents of this huge island felt somehow alien.

“Um… do you want to come see the clock workshop I made?”

“Cl…ock?”

“Um… it’s a tool that tells time with hands ticking on a circular face.”

Although they had heard explanations that the girls living on the island were born and raised only on this island since ancient times and were ancient humans who didn’t know death, it was hard to adapt.

‘Aren’t they just angel-like creatures?’

Lea, from a devout Christian family, thought that the girls living on this island might really be actually existing angels. She guided the girl to show her clock workshop.

“Wow…”

Tick tock tick tock

Lea, who wanted to become a clock artisan following her father who worked in a Swiss clock workshop, continued making various clocks even after awakening her magical girl abilities.

‘Mom and Dad just smiled wryly saying the concept was amateurish…’

The sight of hundreds of clocks ticking on neat wooden shelves. It was a sight her friend Amy had seen countless times, but for the golden girl who brought water, it was so amazingly fascinating that she couldn’t take her eyes off it.

“Hey, what’s your name?”

“…Here they call me the bird living next to the purple flower.”

“…”

When she entered the Free Magical Girl Federation as the magical girl of [Wing] under [Revelation]’s orders to test the successor’s will, she used the alias Violet. But she wanted to reveal her real name to these two girls who approached her with pure goodwill.

“Hmm… purple. Purple… iris.”

“Lea, what on earth are you trying to say?”

Ignoring Amy’s comment, Lea pointed at the magical girl of [Wing] and exclaimed.

“Iris!”

“Iris?”

“Iris…?”

And she smiled brightly and took the hand of the girl with golden eyes.

“From now on, I’ll call you Iris!”

“Iris…”

“Naming someone else as you please…”

“…I like it.”

“Ahahaha! Then shall we go see Amy expanding the warehouse?”

Amy and Lea took Iris’s hands on both sides and led her behind the clock workshop.

‘I wonder what amazing things are in the warehouse?’

Iris, the magical girl of [Wing], had been sealed on this island for tens of thousands of years.

And 17 years ago, she awakened in the light sent down by the goddess of [Beginning] along with the birth of the Divine Maiden, and for the first time other than just blankly spending time on the island or waiting for the Divine Maiden’s orders, she could feel that she was living in this world.

She felt grateful once again to the magical girl of [Deception] who rose up to save these beautiful things that exist outside the island without abandoning them.

* * *

“Well well.”

The agreements with countries belonging or planning to belong to magical girl society, including the UN, had already been concluded long ago. So the emergency general assembly that began just before the founding ceremony was quickly wrapped up.

The magical girl of [Beginning] agrees to create an organization equivalent to a state to clearly control magical girls and not infringe on the interests of other countries.

The US President, who had fled from the Oval Office due to the nuclear war crisis and degenerated into a machine just stamping documents tucked away in a corner, focused on opening diplomatic pipes with the Elysion State rather than persuading each member of the Free Magical Girl Federation individually.

Even those who had tried to plot behind the scenes on the agenda regarding magical girls could only watch silently for now, holding their breath at [Beginning]’s moves.

“I thought she could do anything since she even stopped a nuclear war alone.”

“A flying giant ship and a magical country created by girls.”

Hundreds of foreign reporters who came to record this historic moment couldn’t believe their eyes even as they panned their cameras around.

“The empty island changed like this in just a week?”

A miracle created by thousands of girls chirping like larks with their white dresses and Glass Star belts fluttering.

The somewhat lonely looking island was now bursting with various colors and vitality, enough to be called a magical city without exaggeration.

As if someone had scattered flower seeds in an abandoned arboretum.

The bizarre-looking barren island was gradually changing into a paradise of various colors.

[Woaaah?! Move aside, move aside! It’ll be a big problem if you get crushed, so please move!]

[Oops, excuse me. There’s a lot to move, so please excuse us.]

In the distance, a giant robot and a giant in yellow armor were stomping around carrying things and food needed for the ceremony. And the silver ship hundreds of meters in size floating above was still transporting people through hundreds of silver gliders even after transporting reporters and diplomats.

“There are only girls everywhere.”

As a reporter filming the island with a camera blurted out, the pre-founding state of Elysion looked more like a girls’ school just before a festival rather than a lair of a group with formidable power unafraid of nuclear missiles.

“Haha, actually my daughter is participating in this too.”

“Oh really?”

“When I only saw the news from outside, I thought some national-scale terrorist organization was launching, but it’s just the same as my daughter’s school festival.”

“That’s right.”

Thousands of girls held each other’s hands, smiling and welcoming families who came on the silver giant ship. And the miracle city created by their enormous power shone with all sorts of colors, radiating their dreams.

“It’s like… paradise.”

Click

The reporter muttered while photographing thousands of magical girls gathered in the square created with white stone floors and a huge fountain, now facing the founding ceremony.

[Now we will begin the founding ceremony of the Elysion State.]

The voice of the magical girl of [Beginning] echoing throughout the island.

“Huh? Already? There’s nothing in the square yet.”

“What on earth are they going to show…”

“Are they thinking of doing another debutante or something.”

While muttering, hundreds of reporters simultaneously raised their cameras and started broadcasting live.

Thousands of magical girls who had decorated their white dresses with flowers taken from here and there.

Families and friends invited by magical girls gathered in the square who visited through the Sirius.

Diplomats from various countries and UN ambassadors who gathered in the square after finishing the talks.

People around the world marveled at the sight of paradise seen through the broadcast camera.

They just quietly waited for the magical girl of [Beginning] to appear.