CH 5

In the end, I need to live as the civilian Roze and do my hero activity as the magical girl Black Rose.

You can say that it’s inevitable, even so I can’t help but complain.

If you say you can’t return back, then that’s it. In the first place, it’s futile to try to understand something like the past was altered using magic.

I just decided to think that, that’s just how magic is.

My feelings about living as a girl are very complicated, but I decided to tell myself that I am starting a new life right now. As a Japanese, I also wondered if there’s nothing that can be done about only having “Roze” as a name.

“It can’t be helped, I will do my best as a hero, reluctantly though.”

“No, even if you say it with enthusiasm, it isn’t persuasive…”

I reveal my determination to Mokyu while confirming my looks in the mirror

Now that I think about it, I haven’t really seen how I changed, but it’s not bad.

No matter how you look at the face, it’s pretty cute. The long eyelashes combined with the bright purple eyes give a mysterious impression and when she smiles the pink lips that shine against the pale skin become a weapon to appeal her innocence.

With black and purple as the base as a whole, it seems more like a villain than a hero, although it’s not uncommon for allies who appear as the phantom sixth member to have white or black as their personal colors.

I tried various poses and expressions in front of the mirror, to decide which angle will look cool.

I don’t have a deep knowledge of how the magical girl genre works, but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to take this opportunity to study it.

“So, what should a magical girl do? Exterminate monsters?”

“Ah, yeah. For Mokyu it’s a good thing that you’re surprisingly quick to adapt kyu~. For now, I’ll explain the roles of magical girls and what the world situation is like right now, so please look over here and not the mirror kyu~.”

Mokyu beckoned me with its staring eyes.

I wanted to look at it a little longer, but I’m sure I’ll have plenty of chance later.

I sit down on a nearby sofa and focus on the steamed bun standing on the cracked desk.

“Something special?”

“Kyu. First of all, let’s talk about what a ‘Wanderer’ is kyu~. ‘Wanderer’ is a monster born from the collection of negative emotions such as ‘dissatisfaction’ and ‘maliciousness’ of you humans kyu~. It’s a lump of emotion, so if you get close to it you’ll feel sick, and if you touch it you’ll lose your sanity.”

I see. The identity of the monster is a collection of negative emotions. Well, it’s a common development.

“I want you to know about various circumstances, so I’ll be frank first, but in fact, it was us (Mokyus) ‘Fairies’ who made ‘Wanderer’ kyu.”

“What?”

The fairies who produced magical girls made the Wanderers? What kind of joke is this?

“Just to be clear, the term ‘fairy’ isn’t something that we (Mokyus) choose kyu~. It’s just that the girls who were turned into magical girls called us that kyu~. As expected it’s embarrassing to call yourself a fairy kyu~.”

“No, that’s not what I want to ask.”

I’m not questioning the fact that a magical girl’s partner is a fairy. That’s a matter of course, so I just ignored it.

“What do you mean that ‘fairy’ made ‘wanderer’? Are you doing match pumping1?”

“If you look at the result, you’re right kyu~. But at first, we didn’t intend for it to happen kyu~. You can say that a small accident happened, so we are offering a “magical girl” as a fire extinguisher kyu~.

“That’s kind of a bad analogy…”

What did these guys do to give made such monsters with a small accident?” Or rather, please don’t destroy my hero image any further.

“As I said earlier, for Kyuu and the others, negative emotions are food, in other words, they’re indispensable for survival kyu~. It’s not just as a meal, it’s like a super-convenient energy that can be used for anything kyu~. The magic that we give is originally a product we got from researching that energykyu~. We already had plenty of surplus energy to live, so when we thought about a more efficient method for further development, an epoch-making method was proposed.”

“I have a bad feeling about it.”

“Yes, it’s cultivation.”

This guy said something dangerous. These guys are the evil ones after all…

“I don’t want you to misunderstand me, we just tried to collect the bad emotions, grow them and use them as energy, we’re not trying to get new negative energy from the human race or anything like that kyu~. “

“Of course not. If it’s really like that, I’ll destroy you guys, so don’t worry.”

“I’m not lying, so please stop kyu~! Continuing the story, the cultivation of collecting negative energy and growing is a success kyu~. The energy problem is solved, the future development was supposed to be a matter of course kyu~. It’s just that we got too carried away. We thought that since we succeeded in cultivating it, if we make it grow further, then it would be even more efficient, and so we pushed it into the limit.”

“And so the monsters was born. I don’t want to say this, but it feels like it was bound to fail.”

“I’m ashamed kyu~. We (Mokyus) have a bad habit of not being able to think of the aftermath when we’re focused on one thing kyu~. Anyway, the monster that has grown like that is the ‘Wanderer’, and we’re asking the ‘Magical Girl to subjugate it kyu~.”

How should I say it, it’s a match pump after all? I think. Well, it doesn’t seem like there was any malice, so I don’t intend to blame them too much.

“For the time being, I understand the situation. Personally I got to become a hero, so I’m not going to say anything. More importantly, how many ‘Wanderers’ were made in the end? How many more have been subjugated?”

“Umm…a lot”

“Eh… you’ve made more than you can count?”

If that’s the case, it seems that there is plenty of work for magical girls.

“Wrong kyu~. There should be only one “Wanderer” kyu~. But, umm… some of the Mokyu’s ‘Fairies’ said that we should made more ‘Wanderers’…’

“So, there are defectors and new ‘Wanderers’ are always being made.”

“Just like you said kyu…”

The researcher wants to continue the experiment so they leave their current organization, and made their own evil organization. So easy to understand.

“So the Wanderer will keep appearing if we don’t destroy the root cause.”

“To be honest, I can’t say that kyu~. As you know, “Wanderer” is now confirmed all over the world kyu~. But looking at the scale and pace it was produced, I think it’s already different from the method that Mokyu knows kyu~. Worst case scenario, it might be already automatic kyu~.”

It seems that they did something more dangerous than I thought. After all, wouldn’t it be better for the world and humans to destroy these “fairies”? Well, for me, it’s a blessing to have more opportunities to play an active role.

“If that’s the case then magical girls will be very busy. Won’t they be unable to go to school or work?”

“As for school, we made a ‘Magical Girl School’ kyu~. Of course, magical girls also get paid properly kyu~.”

“‘Magical Girl School’ such a cliche… Rather, where does the salary come from?”

“Let’s put aside the ‘Magical Girl School’ for now kyu~. Roze is a stray magical girl, so there’s no need to worry about it for a while kyu~. For now, I just want you to know that it exists kyu~. When it comes to money, We’ve prepared something that can’t traced, so don’t worry about it.”

“Saying things like it can’t be traced will only make me worrier. Well, if I can get paid, I’ll be grateful for it… But what do you mean by stray magical girl?”

“Stray means that you don’t belong to any organization kyu~. Except for you, all of the magical girls are young girls kyu~. If a magical girl reveals her true identity due to youthful indesecretion, or if she abused her magical power, it will undoubtedly become a disaster even greater than that of Wanderer kyu~.In order to prevent such things from happening, and to deal with them when they do occur, the government created an organization to manage magical girls kyu~. Fundamentally, it depends on each country not us (Mokyus), so we’re not really involved, but the “Magical Girl School” is a joint project of each countries with “fairies”, the salary also come from there kyu~.”

“Organization huh… If the damage is this big, then the country will also take action. I’m impressed that the countries are willing to team up with the culprit, the ‘fairy’.”

“Oh, I forgot to tell you kyu~. Please keep this story a secret kyu~.”

“What?”

Mokyu looked away awkwardly and said.

“I told Roze the inside story but, I didn’t tell anyone else that we (Mokyus) were the cause kyu~. On the surface, We (Mokyus) are just spirits who can create magical girls that can defeat evil monsters kyu~.”

“Eh… isn’t that too irresponsible…?”

“Even if you said that, even when ‘Wanderer’ was made, The majority of “Fairy” only thought “we made something amazing”, and the reason we’re creating magical girls is because the curiosity in “the strong” fighting against “the strong”. The reason it’s limited to little girls is because they’re convenient and easy to deceive kyu~.”

“These ‘fairy’ are really nothing good.”

I feel sorry for the child who gave them the name ‘Fairy’, but I think it would be better to change their name from ‘Fairy’ to ‘Devil’. What good neighbor?

“Please think of ‘Fairy” as that kind of selfish beings kyu~. I mean that’s the reason why “Wanderer” was created in the first place kyu~. And we (Mokyus) come here with the feeling that it will have a bad aftertaste if the human race perish like this kyu~.”

“Humanity’s life is so light… Of course it’s not a story that you can tell to the big shots…”

However, it’s also true that without these fairies, there won’t be any magical girls, and if so would be no way to counter Wanderers. Maybe eventually humans will be able to do something about it, but looking at the current situation that would be too optimist.

In the end it’s a match pump isn’t it.

It can’t be helped since I already heard the story. If these guys get off track, I’ll take responsibility and handle it. The hero inside me says I that’s what I should do.

Heroes grow by shouldering this kind of missions.

“Um, I’m sorry, but the explanation isn’t over yet kyu~…”

“Mokyu. Please don’t make me dirty my own hands .”

“I don’t want you to say something so scary kyu~…”

1. A person who takes an action or a problematic motion without considering the consequence, but frantically tries to settle down the commotion/problem after causing action, and realizing the gravity of his own action.