episode_0131

-[General If you want to go quickly! Anyone!] I was kicked out of the party.

“?”

An incomprehensible thought wave echoed in Rufina’s head.

As a magical girl from Sky City, I know better than anyone else what being kicked out of a party means.

However, there was one reason why the hand holding the staff was stiff instead of trembling due to the absurdity.

I know that the ‘real’ magical girl Rufina’s reputation has plummeted from the bottom to the bottom because of the few ‘fake’ magical girls in Sky City.

From idle heroes to adventurers from another world. Various people gathered together and everyone had a party window above their heads, but it was also the reason why seven letters including a space were always added at the end: /Magical Girl Envoy/.

In that sense, I was lucky today.

From the recycling center where you purchase unidentified items at low prices to the dungeon entrance where you put the items. The word “magical girl” could not be found in the party window floating above the crowded heads of people.

Rufina, who pretended not to be a magical girl every day and looked around the party window wearing clothes that were far from ribbons and dresses, couldn’t help but have her happiness circuit turned on.

The goddess who gave me a special jewel that allowed me to transform into a magical girl in my dreams. It seemed like the people of Sky City had finally understood what the flying plush doll of a magical girl who chose a partner over a jewel had said.

The biggest reason why the recognition of magical girls has fallen is not because most of the skill trees are focused on area magic.

Before wondering whether there was a party hall in the cramped dungeon to take a magical girl to, there was a more fundamental cause.

The reason is. This was thanks to the characteristics of Sky City compared to other cities.

A plush toy given by the goddess as a friend’s partner. If what Popoko said is true, the dungeon was not a meeting place where various people, from merchants to adventurers, gathered to recruit party members.

If it was not completely cleared, monsters would pop up every day, and it was a dangerous zone where the Knights, the largest military group regardless of kingdom or empire, were stationed.

If it weren’t for the uniqueness of Sky City, which developed such a dangerous place into a meeting place. It was clear that this would be a very popular class that would safely defeat monsters coming up from dungeons while using flight magic.

It’s not a dungeon where wide-area magic can be used without problems because it’s far away from where people live. This was a problem that arose because Sky City was where apartment complexes and high-rise buildings began to be built.

I thought people were finally realizing the penalty magical girls receive in Sky City. Rufina’s happiness circuit ends there.

“Hey?! Expulsion? why! Why are you being expelled? There was no mention of banning magical girls!”

“Isn’t it natural to be a magical girl? They say most of them are criminals?”

“Crime…so…?”

The fingers of the ‘real’ magical girl who was about to turn on her smartphone and give the party a one-star rating became stiff when she was told she was a criminal.

There was something about the word criminal that gave me an idea. Since there were not just one or two incidents, but dozens, I was worried about what to remember.

Rufina decided to think a little about the minor mistakes she had to make because of the ‘fake’ magical girls.

Since there was no party to accept her, she just fired wide-area magic at the field monsters that appeared on the street before the fake magical girls who happened to be able to transform by gaining magical girl privileges while leveling up.

The truck that Humanoid was driving exploded, but it was not intentional but a mistake. He clearly apologized as well.

therefore. This is the cover and first page of a dungeon strategy book sold by the Porters’ Association with permission from the copyright holder. It was clear that it was due to the incorrect explanation written in the attitude as a party leader part.

A hand was placed on the shoulder of the ‘real’ magical girl Rufina, who was frozen in confusion. It was slightly cold but smooth.

The person standing behind Rufina must have felt sorry even though he was kicked out of the party. He was not an adventurer who rummaged through his backpack to give Rufina something before entering the dungeon.

“How long do you plan on running away? Criminal?”

It was a pure white fox beast.

‘Stand there! Magic Girl!’ When the truck carrying a lot of flour accidentally exploded once again, he was one of the pursuers who stopped laughing and pursued him as persistently as an android.

The latex bodysuit worn by Humanoid was the same, and the visor and receiver covering the eyes made it look even more like a robot.

At first, I thought he was a hero sent out by the Hero Association who damaged the ground escalator. The fox beastman who had been persistently tracking Rufina for the past few days had a barcode clearly engraved on his inner thigh.

The problem was that he wasn’t sleeping and that there was a tracer that appeared even during the day and night. For Rufina, the ‘poison’ that someone had spilled into Sky City with a clear purpose was also a problem.

One day, a file related to magical girls appeared on the Internet.

It was a summary of how magical girls were ‘used’ in other cities where all budget was invested in magical girl research and the occurrence rate of ‘magical girl perks’ was much higher than that of Sky City.

A new way to use magical girls has been discovered in Sky City, where all that is done is having delinquent magical girls perform volunteer work to maintain public order in the name of correction.

Magical girl type combat unit.

It was a device that was trained to obey orders by forcibly installing a positive reinforcement learning device, which was only given to academy students with low grades.

Combat units made on a similar principle as brainwashed combatants were cheaper than expensive combat-spec androids as they had magic circuits from the beginning.

It was similar to how dealers flocked to me when I took a physical test just in case and found that my aptitude for mechanized modification was extremely high.

The perception of magical girls was the worst, but now they have gone from being shunned party members to being a mere fixture.

“Are you crazy?!”

And unlike the dealer who would return if you refused, Rufina barely avoided the fox’s punch that was sure to make her faint if hit.

His shoulders were held tightly and his waist was targeted, but he released his transformation and transformed again to escape.

“Please…help!”

In response to a request for help from the magical girl Rufina, who is also a student at the academy, several adventurers put their hands on weapons with a righteous heart…

“Who helps criminals? If you help, you’re an accomplice~”

No one tried to stop the fox prisoner, who openly declared kidnapping and assault, saying that if he resisted, he would take him by force.

**

“Huh….!”

This was not the first time that Rufina encountered a pure white fox beast, clearly sent by the Megacorp Hero Association.

Even if they weren’t pure white fox beastmen, I’ve met many trackers who gave off a similar vibe.

People with red hair and big breasts and elves proudly wearing maid uniforms that only minimally covered the parts that needed to be covered were all shaken off.

I could feel the atmosphere, but I was confident because everyone was hiding their eyes with the same visor.

And the fact that the fox beastman, who seemed to have the most physical strength among them, was in full charge of it.

“Can this be avoided?”

We also found out that a group called Megacorp is not stopping development to capture the magical girl herself.

“Chiit…!”

Instead of opening her mouth to use magic, Rufina used her staff to deflect the black object flying at high speed.

The situation was not good for her to fall into the pride that it was natural that she was chosen by the goddess and was stronger than fakes who only became magical girls with special abilities.

The object that was thrown hard was lodged in a sidewalk block in Sky City.

The shiny black object was shaped like a long stick.

The design, which was designed to bend upon impact and wrap around like a necklace, was an object that a pure white fox, unable to use flight magic, would throw whenever it got close.

“Let’s see if we can avoid this too~”

“You did it wrong! sorry! So stop following me!”

Rather than throwing it, I started throwing it.

Perhaps because they want to show that they are making progress, they have now even created a special launcher and started firing it all at once.

I just had to be careful when the fox beastman jumped up with all his might. Now I had to avoid objects that were randomly thrown at me as if it didn’t matter if it got wrapped anywhere, even if it wasn’t around my neck.

And on the next meeting, today, instead of firing a coiled choker with a clunky launcher, they were firing thick bullets.

Just like the necklace and choker I had thrown away, it was shiny and black as if it was made from melted latex.

(If things continue like this… we will definitely catch up…)

Unlike Rufina, whose magic power had begun to decrease due to the flight magic, the pursuer, rather than being tired as if he were really a robot, continued to maintain the same speed as before.

The only way to shake it off is to destroy the launcher in the pursuer’s hand. If you couldn’t break it, dropping it briefly was enough.

Rufina stopped using her flight magic and came down on her own.

“If you broke it, you don’t have to come and apologize!”

“Well…I’m sorry about that! There was nothing I could do because of the monster! Transformation!”

The conversation didn’t last long.

Thinking of a cowardly but effective method, the magical girl lowered the launcher and released all her magical power as light in front of the fox beastman who asked her why.

“Wait..wait!”

“Sorry! I will repay you somehow later! Please watch now!”

Rufina flew away without even looking back. I didn’t forget to change my outfit every time I passed through an alley.

The black, shiny bullet had melted and stuck to the neck of the magical girl who had emptied all of her magical power.

**

Rufina succeeded in returning home safely.

After resting well, I grabbed the jewels the goddess gave me and transformed, intending to look for field monsters that appeared in the city instead of the dungeon, but I felt a different texture from usual at my fingertips.

“Huh?”

Instead of the clothes I was wearing changing with the brilliant light as usual, a sticky rubber film spread out.

“Now…wait a minute?!”

Once the transformation started, it could not be stopped in the middle.

When Rufina opened her eyes, a black latex bodysuit with purple mechanisms had already been created.

“This is how it is…! That…same as that!! ”

The bodysuit, which had even the slightest trace of a magical girl, was similar to the outfit worn by brainwashed combatants.

Shocked, Rufina tried to cancel the transformation…

“It’s all stuck to the inside of my belly button?! Ugh….Ugh….♥”

Naturally, the transformation was not canceled.