episode_0045

“Ha, ha. Hahaha… Hahahaha!! Is that the answer?”

“Yeah, why? I’m serious.”

“Are you really serious about what you said?”

“Look me straight in the eye. Do you think I’m lying?”

As she said, there was not a single bit of falsehood in her eyes or expression.

Ha, I was thinking at least of an answer like ‘for the children’.

Ha, haa.

“Yeah, that’s the answer? Is that why you brought Ellie here?”

“Well, it was necessary. Now that it’s over, I’m going to send you back to your original school.”

Ellie looked at me with displeasure at Blanc’s words that she was going to send me back to school.

And then he said to Blanc.

“No! Don’t leave me alone with Vinnie! Oh, even though I heard the answer just now… My only family… Vinnie… Please don’t leave me alone with Vinnie… ”

“Ellie… ?”

“Bine, you don’t want to be separated from me, do you? Yeah?”

“Of course. But… wouldn’t it be better than getting involved with magical girls in a place like this? If the association gives permission, I can just go there and meet them.”

“No, I don’t want to. I don’t want to be apart from you anymore. That day, when I left headquarters, I was so scared, so afraid. I thought I would never see you again. Huh? In the end, I gave up and endured until now. I thought that living a new life was the only way to repay your sacrifice. But, I saw you alive, and with my own eyes. How could I leave you… I can’t. Huh? Blanc, please. Huh? ”

“Haa… Really… Then what are you going to do? Huh?”

“I’d be happy to be a slave to a magical girl if only I could be by your side.”

“Real Ellie, haa… Then Blanc, can you help me just this once?”

“Vine, it’s been a long time since you asked for help.”

“Haha… I’m sorry to say this right after hearing that story… ”

“Well, there are plenty of empty rooms. It doesn’t matter. But I don’t think anyone would object to me letting you in, right?”

When Blanc’s positive reply came back, Ellie finally seemed to have calmed down and hugged me happily.

Of course, there was one person who couldn’t just watch that scene.

As I patted Ellie’s back and shouted surrender, unable to breathe due to Ellie’s sudden embrace, Arin quietly showed her objection.

“I don’t like it! How can you let a villain like that into the magical girl dormitory? Do you know how much he’d do to my sister Bine! He might have another secret! And he’d use that secret to… !”

“No, I wouldn’t do that. I’ve already given everything to Blanc! If I do something stupid, my life is already dead, and it could be taken away more easily than a mayfly flying around there. Why should I do that? And why do you think I would do something that would separate me from Vinnie? I’d be okay being locked up in the marina if Vinnie was by my side!”

“How can I believe what you say!”

Haha… It’s noisier than I thought.

As the fight between the two intensifies, you can feel them both expel magical power from their bodies.

That magic filled the entire room and covered me…

“Coolook, coolook! Heuk, heuk… Both of you calm down… ”

“Ah, it’s raining!”

“Hey, Sister Binnie!”

My body is already weak, so if I receive this kind of emotional magic, it’ll be a little difficult…

“Calm down a little… please. Arin. Ellie, calm down too. Okay?”

“Bine’s sister… Why did you become so weak… ”

“Haha… This is what happens when you lie down for too long. So, are you feeling better?”

“Yeah… But, I don’t know what that strange woman might do… ”

“Haha… I’ve been watching Ellie for a long time. And that contract magic that Blanc is holding is more poisonous than you think. When you make a contract like this with a monster, you can know all of its thoughts?”

“Yes… ?”

“So, if Blanc wanted to, he could know every nook and cranny of our poor Ellie’s heart. Even her subconscious.”

When I told Arin that story, Blanc looked at me with a puzzled look and asked.

“That, that function existed too?”

“Isn’t that contract magic? Haa, I just finally understood in my heart that I was going to entrust Ellie to you, and you don’t know that? ”

“No, how do you know that…?”

“If you focus along the thread of magical power connected to it, you will hear it… Haa, can’t you just let it go?”

“Letting go… Hmm… Let’s just watch for now. Unlike you, I can’t trust this girl, Ellis.”

“Yes?”

“I tried reading the inner thoughts you just told me.”

Ellie runs towards Blanc to stop him from speaking.

What were you thinking that made you run out to Blanc?

“Ellis inwardly… Vine you… Ugh! Ugh!”

“Blanc, I’m sorry! Please don’t do this! Forgive my rudeness! Please, this can’t be done! I’ll stop it even at the cost of my life!”

“Eww! Ellis! Get off me!”

“Yes, yes!”

Ellie stepped back, following Blanc’s orders.

As expected, contract magic…

“Contract magic really does work… So why did you say you can’t release it?”

“Well, Ellis’s true intentions are sinister.”

“You’re being sneaky?”

“That’s… ”

“No! Please! Please! Blanc! I’ll do anything you say! I’ll do anything, but please, just tell Vinnie what it is about… !”

Hmm, I wonder why Ellie doesn’t want to tell anyone.

“Blanc, can you tell me? I’m even more curious after seeing Ellie’s reaction.”

“Wouldn’t you be surprised to hear that? It was a bit shocking.”

“Would you like to escape from this magical girl’s den?”

“Hmm, no… It was something closer to instinct. With Vine and… ”

“No! Please!! Stop!! Kkiyaak!!!”

Ouch… My ear hurts…

“Ellie, what were you thinking when you did that… ”

“Absolutely not! If you hear this, you’ll definitely hate me. So no!”

“Haa… Blanc, is it that serious?”

“Hmm, no? I don’t think so… ”

“But why… Ellie is being so mean… ”

“I was just thinking about you normally. There was something a little… sinister about it. Well.”

“Oh, is that so?”

I continued speaking to Blanc while glaring at Ellie who was looking at me.

Ellie was already on the floor in despair, with only that little bit of truth.

It seems like he was thinking something more sinister than I thought.

Look at the way he looks at you while glaring.

Ha, I’ve been really good at sensing people’s gaze since long ago.

I’m saying you’re good at reading the mood.

Glancing at it like that is really…

In the past, when I was caught doing something wrong, I had that same expression on my face right before I got scolded.

“Hmm, then I guess you should keep holding the leash… ”

I guess I’ll come to my senses after getting scolded for a bit.

“Eh, eh? Vine? You, you weren’t on my side… ?”

“I’m on your side. I want you to be happier.”

“Right? So there’s no need for such an inhumane and coercive contract, right?”

“Wouldn’t that require a safety device?”

“No no no no no no, let’s think about it carefully, we really… ”

“Ellis, shh.”

Blanc used the contract magic command to silence Ellie.

Yeah, wouldn’t it be better for Ellie to stay like this so she can be safe?

Rather, if it’s to protect Ellie, it would be Blanc who holds the leash.

“Blanc, so, can you please take good care of that leash called contract magic?”

Yeah, if it’s Blanc.

Well, yeah. Blanc trusts me too.

I have to trust Blanc.

What I have entrusted to you is the life of my precious person, everything.

Well, haha… It’s strange that you don’t trust Blanc.

I’m already having a lot of influence on her.

She also has a lot of influence on me.

Besides, you really searched for Ellie, who was hiding so carefully, just to wake me up.

And, that answer from before.

That alone is reason enough for me to trust her.

Haha… Yeah. That’s right.

I’m just a defeated villain.

A magical girl, someone you can trust.

haha…

“Blanc, please take good care of Ellie.”

“Okay, wait a minute. Vine! Really me… !”

“Elido. If you want to be with me, you have to get along with the magical girls you live with, right?”

“Vine… ”

“And… Hmm, Blanc. What should I make Ellie do?”

“That’s something you, as a senior, should decide.”

“Oh, is Ellie also being hired?”

“First of all, let’s do that. Well, I guess we’ll do it by signing a contract with the association externally.”

“Association…? I don’t remember signing a contract with the association… ”

“Well, there are various circumstances.”

When I told her that story, Ellie asked me.

“Employment? What do you mean? ”

“Oh, right. I forgot to tell you. I’m currently working at the Magical Girls’ Dormitory.”

“… What?”

Yeah, this is the kind of reaction that should come out.

You can make Ellie’s dumb reaction.

“Living with a magical girl.”

“Hey, wait a minute. You live together?”

“Yeah, helping out in various ways.”

“Helping a magical girl…? Really? A magical girl? Why?”

“Well, if I tell you, it’ll be really long. I’ll tell you later. Like at headquarters.”

“Ah, right…! No, no! What are you talking about!”

“Arin, Blanc, Redhead… Are they all hanging out together?”

“No, wait, what are you saying right now…? ”

“Yeah, why Ellie?”

“Everything I just heard is true? You’re not sick yet, are you? Wait a minute… I don’t feel any fever and my magic is still somewhat… ”

“Ellie.”

“It’s all true.”