episode_0139

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“Did I act too hastily…”

Rufina thought she had made a mistake.

Already from the dungeon training session, Rufina was standing alone with a bright red face among the trainees, who were wearing latex bodysuits that clung to their skin and standing like cyborgs, repeatedly calling each other by their identifying names instead of their names, and making minimal communication. It wasn’t.

Because the other trainees had perfectly practiced the mindset of a cyborg, he was not a cyborg who was learning how to block the natural signals of his biological brain on his own while receiving everyone’s support.

Rufina, who was chosen as a magical girl by the goddess of fairyland instead of the sharp-looking but actually very kind black panther instructor, was regretting her choice that day.

Even if I made excuses, I couldn’t turn back the opportunity that had passed, but there was nothing I could do.

I was so anxious that I didn’t have time to think deeply. My body moved before my rational thoughts.

“That brainwashed combatant….. very similar.”

There is one choice that Magical Girl Rufina regrets. It was her action that dealt the final decisive blow to the high-level brainwashed combatants who appeared in Sky City.

I wanted to help a magical girl whose dress had all been torn and all that was left was a swimsuit.

I also thought that if this incident was featured on the local news, the perception of magical girls would improve a little. Another reason was bigger.

It’s also unpleasant to sit back and wait for a magical girl to fall in order to take ownership of an expensive brainwashed combatant. The adventurers who came from the fantasy world were actually cheering on the brainwashed combatants.

Just looking at it made me stressed.

A free punching bag appeared for Rufina, who was nervous to the point of death due to the continuation of an ordinary day with nothing happening, so there was no reason not to use it.

It’s really nice to have a peaceful day every day, but that wasn’t the case for Rufina.

The Megacorp Hero Association, which had destroyed delivery trucks, Humanoids, and ground escalators and even sent chasers, stopped responding at some point.

At first, when the happiness circuit was turned on, I thought they had generously overlooked the mistakes of the magical girl who struggled to save the world from monsters.

Even if that wasn’t the case, I was convinced that it was just like getting bitten by a dog on the street and let me just spit it out and move on.

Everything was perfect until I heard that the Megacorp Hero Association had accused a magical girl.

I sent a settlement proposal that very day, but no response came back, let alone a response.

I was nervous because nothing happened.

Fighters who receive support from people instead of magical girls, raising awareness of magical girls, etc. There were various reasons for helping a magical girl wearing only a swimsuit, but the reason was that Rufina used an unrelated brainwashed combatant as a punching machine to vent her anger.

“Fake… That brainwashed combatant told me I was a fake.”

The presence of brainwashed combatants is common.

The same goes for cities other than Sky City. There were many beings who were treated like dolls, with their egos completely destroyed and left behind.

These ranged from cases where a dragon came looking for a bride and fell into a state of enchantment while wearing magic armor as a gift, to cases where the cyber implant chip in the brain was hacked and controlled.

Even if you are a non-combat academy student who has to be careful on the streets at night. For the magical girl Rufina, being a brainwashed combatant was nothing more than experience points.

Of course, I have never deliberately searched the back alleys, so I have never taken it as loot. There have been many times when I witnessed a fight with someone like this one.

“It was a lot… different.”

Rufina turned on her smartphone.

What you are searching for is a brainwashed combatant. As with the product images posted on the Small Business Exchange, everyone was wearing similar monochromatic bodysuits.

The world of mechanized tags was selling barcode stickers for people who wanted to walk around the streets pretending to be maid robots or humanoids.

Naturally, an advertisement for cosplay goods that satisfied the combatant fetish also appeared on Rufina’s smartphone when she searched for brainwashed combatants.

Latex bodysuit. It varied from black to purple, but had the same shiny appearance, soaked in oil.

What was being sold on the Internet were not bodysuits as protective gear, but adult products that satisfied latex fetishes.

When you swing the staff with all your might. The feeling that came to my fingertips was not like tearing tough latex, but like hitting a solid metal plate.

It was clear that the person Rufina defeated was a brainwashed combatant.

The brainwashing villain organization was not a brainwashing combatant that randomly created and scattered random people in order to catch reincarnated people who came to this world without knowing anything.

It was clear because people were calling the Soche Exchange and asking how much they could purchase advanced brainwashing combatants.

In Sky City, there were fighters hiding despite being brainwashed, wearing latex bodysuits and receiving orders to act out their normal daily lives instead of kidnapping people.

Two months ago. When a security guard with an A-class hero as a witness held a scanning device to his head, the hero attacked, claiming to have received orders, as evidence.

“Ugh…idiot! Haha…”

Rufina threw away the opportunity to obtain information.

He was able to examine the appearance of a brainwashed combatant who was very similar to himself, although his chest was slightly larger and his skin was more shiny.

-Actually, isn’t that real? is not it? Fake Rufina~?

It was something my friends said as a joke. It was true. To everyone else, it was the same Rufina.

The brainwashed combatant’s bodysuit and the outer appearance of the academy uniform were the only evidence to distinguish between the positions.

I was able to listen a little more to the words of the advanced brainwashing combatant who cried out in frustration and shouted that it was a fake. I kicked myself.

The reason why Rufina kept thinking about the brainwashed fighter was because the story of a magical girl who showed courageous behavior was also posted in the academy’s school newspaper.

She was not a magical girl, but a transformed heroine.

Yuna, a second year student in the Department of Combat. There were rumors that she was an excellent student and was actually a magical girl, but that wasn’t important.

What is important is who was sitting next to the transformed heroine when she was interviewed by her guardian due to poor grades.

“Megacorp…Hero…Chairman of the Association…!”

This was the only opportunity for transformed heroine Yuna to ask the Megacorp Hero Association, which had posted a sign prohibiting entry except for authorized personnel and even deployed a security drone, why they were ignoring the response.

So the magical girl went to find the transformation heroine.

“Ah. Luffy-”

“Can you give me a moment? Yuna?”

stop. The transformed heroine, who had raised her hand in welcome as soon as she saw Rufina, froze.

The emotion that appears in the eyes that have become visual modules is joy. Recognizing the mistake, Megacorp’s transformed heroine corrected the current state.

I hid my joyful hands behind my head.

The friendly gaze toward a colleague who shared the same space with the same instructor changed into a cold gaze that only looked at an unrelated person.

The transformed heroine did not have the feelings of regret or embarrassment that appear when someone she meets for the first time mistakes her for someone she already knew.

Wouldn’t it be better if it were Rufina, who was embarrassed whenever her name was called, but honestly declared that she was Megacorp’s property?

Even though Uncle Hyunwoo explained to her step by step why the goddess of the fairyland was a fraud, she had nothing to say to the real magical girl who did not listen.

Yuna could barely resist the urge to take Rufina to Megacorp right away and turn her into a magical girl-type combat unit.

“The magical girl Rufina caused serious damage to Megacorp.”

“…Then you probably know why I came here. What do you want?”

Yuna puts her hand in the pocket containing the transformation device and instead of letting the ‘real’ magical girl, who is wary of her, know through her body that the back is empty. Megacorp’s method was used.

“I’m worried because I don’t know what to accept. If there’s something you really want to see… That expression right now?”

The transformed heroine’s answer was the worst.

They say that the best thing about a magical girl is that she spends each day anxiously in an uneventful daily life. I hid a straw-like hope by saying that I felt like I had enjoyed it enough.

“Can you tell me that you have reflected sufficiently? Magical Girl Rufina?”

“Please tell me that I am truly reflecting. Please do me a favor.”

After that, he reassured Rufina so that she could focus on her ‘real’ magical girl activities.

There was no need to touch the magical girl who was heading towards a bad ending on her own.

Instead of pushing them from behind, they simply removed trash from the side of the road that got in the way of walking and installed water fountains for hydration.

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“Warranty…Guarantee?”

“That’s right, pong! Now is the moment when you need help!”

Words that shouldn’t come out of the magical creature’s mouth came out.