Interlude) The Magical Girls Gather Again! +Tail

“Ugh… my head, ow, it hurts…”

A throbbing headache, contrasting with the soft, warm sensation.

As I endured the nausea and the headache that squeezed my head, I opened my eyes to see a neatly arranged Staff Dormitory.

What exactly did I do yesterday… I had dinner with Sekhmet, and because he underestimated my alcohol tolerance, I chugged it down, and then…

“…….Crazy…!”

As the memories slowly returned, my mouth dropped open.

That was me? I was *that* kind of person?

I couldn’t accept it, and I didn’t want to.

Not only did I flirt with a man, but I even whimpered, telling him not to leave. I felt like swallowing a fireball right then and there.

And then, at the end… I thought such vulgar things like “you can do whatever you want” and “I’d be endlessly happy if my womb were filled with Sekhmet’s.” I felt endlessly ashamed and wanted to die.

“Th-that’s right! It must have been because someone put an aphrodisiac in my drink! Otherwise, there’s no way I would act like that!”

I punched the innocent blanket, but even with plausible excuses and denials, I could only think that I had been drunk.

Right… still, it ended without anything serious happening, didn’t it?

It was my first time… but it wasn’t that bad, I guess-

“N-no! It was bad! It was really fucking bad!!”

Even if it was both our first times, I can’t admit that it was my first time just getting pounded on my hands and knees like a dog! I won’t!

I really hate a Dick that’s just stupidly big!

“Haa… haa… Hmph. Where did he go?”

Calming down a bit, I looked around again, but Sekhmet was nowhere to be seen in the room.

I worried that I might have been abandoned like this, but then a letter next to a cup on the table caught my eye. It was honey water and handwritten words.

“…..It’s auto-translating.”

Having lived on Earth my whole life, the script used on this planet was naturally different, but thanks to the skill 『Auto-Translation』, I could read it without any problems.

Sitting on a chair, I drank the warm honey water and read the letter. It was Sekhmet’s brief account of what had happened yesterday.

First, Sekhmet himself couldn’t stop embracing my body yesterday due to the influence of his berserk state, and an apology for seeing me as a woman was written at the very top.

“I’m sorry for messing up the room. And I was so surprised when you fainted. Please understand that I had no choice but to give you a shower…”

No wonder… I thought I had fainted all sticky with sweat and everything, but my sauna gown and matted hair were all clean… Alright, let’s just move past this.

“I warmed up some honey water in case you felt sick when you woke up. You probably won’t be able to forgive me when you wake up.”

No… forgiveness? Why is he acting like it’s all his fault?

Honestly, I’m angry, but… a lot of it is my fault. I was the one who told him to stay for dinner, and I drank the alcohol he told me not to drink, didn’t I?

“…He’s a strange guy… really.”

Anyone would think he was taking care of his girlfriend…

Do you think I’d fall for some handsome but unrefined guy like him? No way.

Well… being friends wouldn’t be so bad. If I become best friends with a Seven Star on a planet where I know no one, even nobles wouldn’t be able to easily mess with me.

“I’m really sorry about the tail and ears.”

Tail?

Ears?

Wait… did my side hair originally cover this far?

Only then did I feel a strange, fluffy sensation touching the back of my thigh.

“Fuck… no way…!”

A chill ran down my spine, and I touched my face and around my shoulders with the hand that had put down the cup and letter. Thankfully, no disaster like my snout elongating like an animal’s or body hair growing all the way up here had occurred.

I immediately ran to the bathroom, and the moment I looked at my face in the mirror… things that shouldn’t have been there, were there.

On the back of my left hand, a red pattern resembling the side of a wolf, the 『Brand of the Devil』.

The round ears that should have been located under my swept-up side hair were nowhere to be seen, and when I slightly parted my lips, unusually sharp canines appeared.

Furthermore, wolf ears similar to Sekhmet’s, perked up on both sides of my crown, and even a bushy tail that he didn’t have.

“Sek… Sek…”

“Sekhmetttttt!!!!”

Coming out of the bathroom and changing into my Magical Girl battle suit, I immediately kicked the door open and headed straight for the Arena.

The party celebrating the battle Sekhmet and I had fought was over, and cleaning was in full swing. Among the guys tidying up, I grabbed the collars of the ones who called themselves my managers, who had put the Choker and Power Limiter on me yesterday.

“Where is Sekhmet?!”

“Mera-chan, good morning~ Kuh-hek?!”

“Hey, tell me where your boss is right now! Before I turn you into a pulp!”

“Th-the Emperor-nim, why? He usually works in his office at this time, ack?!”

As the manager I had grabbed dangled in the air, swinging wildly, I only let him down after he pointed to the top of what looked like an unusually sharp tower.

“So he’s there… or else you’ll know it.”

“Keck… why are you suddenly doing th-… huh? Mera-chan, you had a tail?”

“Th-that’s… Shut up! Don’t ask!”

How could I tell him?

How could I go around saying that the bastard who claimed to be a man had sex and turned into a half-monster?!

Without answering the manager’s question, I soared up in an instant, enveloped my entire body in flames, and crashed with all my might into the outer wall where Sekhmet was supposedly located.

KWAANG-!!

Stones fell with a thud. Thanks to sensing the Magical Power inside and deliberately breaking a spot where there were no monsters, no one was hurt.

Everyone was just confused by the attack of falling fireballs, but as the dust cleared and I became visible, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Regardless, I slowly walked towards the location of the unusually massive throne.

And Sekhmet, who I thought would be there….

“…Why are you making that kind of face?!”

“……..”

He was avoiding my gaze with the face of a virgin who had lost her purity, completely unbefitting his large stature.

The boiling rage gradually subsided as I looked at him, and an inexplicable pounding in my chest continued to make me feel suffocated.

“..Mera, are you feeling alright?”

“D-don’t worry about it! Don’t come near me! Don’t act like my boyfriend!!”

As Sekhmet stood up and approached, my tail swayed on its own.

Even when I gripped the swaying tail tightly with both hands to stop it, it didn’t cease, and instead, as if resisting, it wagged even more fiercely.

Realizing it was no use, I grabbed the base of the tail, connected to my upper buttocks, and a tingling sensation that seemed to paralyze my waist made me involuntarily plop down.

“Sh-should I help you?”

“Don’t come near me! After branding me with something like this…!”

“Mera put on the ring herself… Don’t you remember?”

Ah.

Ah.

Although I had come here in a fit of pique because of the tail and ears, thinking back, what happened in the Staff Dormitory was my own karma.

Sekhmet’s only fault was not being able to resist my Pheromone skill… and you can’t really call that a fault, can you?

In the end, I, who had come in a fit of rage, couldn’t say anything more, and this time, I couldn’t look Sekhmet directly in the eye.

“You’re not hurt anywhere, are you? Do you want to go into a medical capsule?”

“Ugh… I’m healthy even if you don’t worry, so don’t bother with unnecessary concerns…”

“…….”

“…….”

“Hey… Mera.”

Amidst the silence, Sekhmet called my name softly.

Struggling to suppress my embarrassment, I looked up at him, and Sekhmet also looked up at the sky, letting out a deep breath.

“….Please take care of me.”

It wasn’t a long-winded, empty phrase, nor was it an overly presumptuous statement like “I’ll take responsibility if a child is born between us, after this crazy relationship we formed by getting drunk and going all the way in just one day.”

He simply extended his hand for a handshake, conveying all his feelings and apologies towards me, asking me to continue to take care of him in the future.

“So this is… the hand that freely kneaded my body, huh?”

“Th-that’s…! I mean…”

“It’s fine. I touched you freely too, so let’s call it even.”

As I pressed his rough palm and smiled, Sekhmet’s already flushed face ripened completely.

There wasn’t much to touch, though… with a palm this big, he could probably cup my entire breast with one hand… I wonder why he cried out so much over breasts like these…

When my lower belly swelled after being penetrated, he kneaded it so much… I thought I was going crazy because of it.

“Anyway, please take care of me too.”

“I’ll pay you back by fighting in the Arena, so please overlook me breaking the wall.”

I properly held the palm I had been toying with and returned the handshake.

As expected… it’s really big…

“Things like yesterday… well… I won’t do them anymore, okay?”

“Ah, I know! I’ll restrain myself too, so Mera, don’t drink alcohol anymore. Got it?”

“W-why would I drink it, am I crazy?! You’re the one who should hide your crotch better right now! It’s all showing through your pants!”

There’s no way I’d become lovers with this guy. Yesterday was like a midsummer night’s dream.

Now that I think about it… it felt like a lot of skills activated yesterday… Eh, it’s probably nothing.

Surely nothing else would appear besides a tail and ears, right?

삐리리리리릭─!

Next to the throne, a display panel appeared in the air with a reception notification sound.

[Hello, Sekhmet-ssi. I have something to discuss, so I was wondering if Mera is with you right now?]

“Oh, it’s Luna. What’s up?”

“….Luna?”

As Sekhmet pressed the button, a familiar voice was heard.

Then the display panel lit up brightly, and a girl with sparkling amber eyes and hair as white as a snowfield appeared.

[Phew… so you were right next to him. It’s a relief that you’ve changed… but why ears and a tail instead of horns?]

“And what about those horns on you? Did you betray me too?”

Similar to Hyun-ah, who had betrayed me, I felt a slight wariness towards the pure white horns that had sprouted on both sides of Luna’s forehead.

More importantly, “it’s a relief that you’ve changed”? It’s as if she knew I would end up like this.

[Sekhmet-ssi. You haven’t told Mera yet?]

“A lot of things happened. Actually, I haven’t even told her that you became a Seven Star.”

[Ah, I see… That’s understandable. It’s okay. Mera seems to have been released.]

…Released? What are these two talking about?

I woke up in the Arena yesterday, didn’t I? What happened in less than a day?

[Mera, you might be very surprised, but everything I’m about to tell you is the truth.]

[For the sake of the Magical Girls’ disappearance due to the Guardian Force, and for our senior. We need you.]

[But… getting you to understand is the priority, so I hope you’ll listen carefully to everything.]

…..

“To summarize… Magical Girls are beings who could disappear at any moment due to Earth’s Guardian Force, and if they transform into monsters… into the Klaus Tribe, they can avoid annihilation.”

“And you became a Demon of Lust to save the wanted Lee Seri, took the place of the 『Pig King』 we defeated, and became a Seven Star… is that right?”

[I didn’t voluntarily become a Demon of Lust, but… yes. That’s what happened.]

Just in case someone had disguised themselves as Miweol, I asked questions about secrets only the two of us knew, but she answered everything cleanly.

Currently, Miweol has become a Seven Star under the alias 『Magical Girl』, has taken over the territory ruled by the 『Pig King』, and has been appointed as its new master.

As a result of becoming a Seven Star, she ordered the nobles who were targeting Phantom Thief Lupin and Lee Seri to lift their wanted status, and is now studying to manage the territory, which is divided into seven regions.

“Then isn’t that a good thing? Why do you need me?”

[After I became a Demon of Lust, I lost my reason and went wild… so our senior currently trusts no one.]

Lee Seri, who dramatically contributed to rescuing Miweol and me after Hyun-ah’s betrayal.

However, immediately after Miweol became a Demon of Lust, she was so consumed by instinct that she displayed overly obsessive behavior towards Seri, and from the moment Seri woke up until now, she has become distrustful of everyone.

She even said that Lee Seri’s psychological state is so severely damaged that a terrible suggestion was made to completely erase her memories with the Doctor’s Nanomachines and implant a new personality.

“It’s serious, huh… So, you’re not asking me to go and talk her out of it, are you?”

[Uh-uh, that would probably be impossible. Mera isn’t good with words.]

[So, we’re going to deceive her to the very end.]

Apparently, everyone except me has already gathered at the Seven Star Doctor’s Workshop.

“Well… alright. I don’t want to be the only one left out when everyone else is there.”

“And… get that bitch Hyun-ah ready. I haven’t even hit her once yet.”

Ciel, who looks identical to Miweol but has green horns growing.

Soo-ah, wearing a strange Shrine Maiden Outfit with holes in various parts instead of a ninja uniform, waving at me from beyond the screen.

ChuChu, who looked no different from when I last saw her, but was emitting an ominous Magical Power.

And even Hyun-ah, confined in an acrylic box, having every orifice violated by mechanical tentacles.

[I’ll open the Warp Gate right away. Please come in when you’re ready.]

Our team’s task is… to break the Phantom Thief’s heart, just once.

Everyone knew that method was terribly wrong… but since normal methods no longer worked on her, everyone decided to take extreme measures according to Luna’s will.