CH 20

Chapter 1 — Blow all of heaven and earth to smithereens! • Episode 1-6 • Date ①

Translated by KaiesV

Edited by KaiesV

「As expected, we can’t go out in these clothes, we have to change first.」

Elephant pointed to the patient gown she was wearing, and Sylph nodded silently in response.

Most of the magical girls active in the magical world wear post-transformation garments. There is no such thing as a sense of unity, and even if they are wearing eccentric clothes, they don’t stand out, but it is indeed a bit conspicuous that they are both wearing the same patient gown.

「Pop!」

Elephant gets off the bed, operates the magiphone, and in the blink of an eye, the change from the patient’s robe to a frilly, sky-blue outfit is complete.

The magical girl can call up her own costume at any time through the magiphone, as long as she is in a transformed state.

「Blow all of heaven and earth to smithereens!」

「Ehh!!?」

While Elephant was wearing the patient’s robe in a transformed state, Sylph, who was in a pre-transformed state, completed the transformation by chanting her catchphrase.

The figure was like a clergyman’s vestments, a costume Elephant had seen many times before, but she was astonished, as if she had seen something incredible.

「S–Sylph-chan, you weren’t transformed!?」

「…? Yes, that’s right. When I woke up, the transformation was lifted, so I came straight here.」

Elephant responded with a tilt of her head, as if she did not understand what Sylph was so excited about.

Elephant gave a thumbs-up and began to explain, as if she was trying to wind up the conversation.

「You know how magical girls have a magic of cognitive inhibition that prevents the general public from questioning things about the identity of magical girls and so on?

But it’s not just the general public that has cognitive blockage, it’s us magical girls as well. No one is supposed to notice how similar a magical girl looks before and after her transformation.

So even if they know who you are as a magical girl, they will never know who you are in reality.

But it’s a different story if they know you’re in a pre-transformation state. If they knew what you looked like before they changed, they could find out where you lived, your real name, and any number of other things.

Especially since Sylph-chan is so small and cute, you have to be careful. You’re not supposed to show it to anyone except people you really trust.」

（Geez, what the heck is Jack doing!）

Elephant was angry with the chaperone of the new magical girl as she explained.

This is the kind of thing he should have taught her. No matter how good the magical girls are, it doesn’t mean that some of them aren’t bad girls. Elephant herself has never seen a magical girl with a bad attitude, but she sometimes heard rumors.

The unfortunate thing was that Sylph’s appearance would hardly change before or after the transformation, so it would not be obvious at first glance that she was a pre-transformer. Even Elephant was unaware of the transformation until it happens right in front of her, so people who don’t know much about Sylph are even less likely to recognize her.

（But still…）

The more she looked at her, the more she saw no difference between her before and after transformations, and Elephant fell in love with her perfected loveliness.

Elephant herself has changed her hair and eye color before her transformation by becoming a magical girl, but her facial features have not changed. However, when she transforms, she reaches a level of beauty that nine out of ten people will look back on, while still retaining a trace of her original face. This is not so unusual, and it is said that most magical girls are more beautiful in their post-transformation forms.

In such a situation, she was so innately beautiful that she did not accept any correction for transformation. It was no wonder that Elephant was so taken by her beauty.

「I see that you did. But I think it’s okay. I haven’t seen anyone today except for Elephant-san.」

「I–I see. Then I guess I’ll be okay…」

（Nhn? Wait!! I guess that’s a roundabout way of saying you trust me, right!?）

Elephant is inwardly very excited by the words that Sylph uttered without thinking too deeply, but she does not show it and tries to continue the conversation calmly.

「Th–Then let’s go shopping first!」

Elephant was able to maintain her tension as usual, but she could not control the smirk on her mouth.

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Tyrant Sylph, dressed in a pure white one-piece dress that reaches just below her knees, blushes with embarrassment and holds down her skirt. She seemed unable to hide her confusion at the clothes she was not accustomed to wearing, or rather, had never worn before.

「Uh, uhm, today is a change of pace for Elephant-san, isn’t it? Why do I have to dress like this…」

They were currently at a shopping mall in the Magical World. The commercial facility, modeled after a certain large shopping mall in real life, has more than 10 apparel stores and various other stores, and is very popular with magical girls in their impressionable years.

Elephant initially said something about shopping, but in fact she had every intention of using Tyrant Sylph as a dress-up doll from the very beginning.

Sylph half-understood the purpose of this when she was brought into the store and handed the clothes Elephant had chosen, and she did not want to wear these clothes until the very end, but she could not resist Elephant’s momentum, who pushed her to wear these clothes because she felt she would feel better if she did.

「Nice! You’re super cute Sylph-chan! It suits well on you!」

「Uugh, please end this already!!」

The combo of her immature and dangerous cuteness (she looks about 10 years old) and the sense of shame brought about by her age-inappropriate smarts makes Elephant very excited and compliments her, but her words make Sylph even more embarrassed and she shuts the curtains to hide herself, closing the curtains.

Of course, shs was unaware of it, but even the gesture was mockingly adorable, and Elephant was enjoying the afterglow anyway, burning the current scene into her retinas and permanently preserving it in her brain.

However, she realized that if he spends too much time on it, Sylph will come out of the fitting room, so he changes his mind and makes a suicide attack on the fitting room to hand over the clothes he had selected while Sylph was changing.

「…Sylph-chan!」

「Ukyaah—!! Pl–Please do not come in!」

Sylph, who was in the middle of getting dressed, quickly hid her entire body with a dress she had just taken off.

「We’re both girls, there’s no need to be shy, so it’s okay, alright! Try this next!」

「W–When did you choose it? I mean, are you still going to continue…」

Sylph’s expression twisted in disgust when she saw the hot pants, striped knee-highs, and slightly larger T-shirt offered to her, but she accepted them maturely without further objection from Elephant, whose eyes were shining with excitement.

「I’ll tie the hem of your T-shirt at the side so that your belly button is showing!」

「Ehhh… Do you even give such detailed orders on how to wear it…?」

Sylph mumbled and complained, but maturely complied. Since she was accompanying her today as a thank-you to Elephant, she was willing to put up with it just for today if it makes her feel better.

「Is this okay?」

Sylph, who had just finished getting dressed, was much calmer than before.

Although Sylph has no experience with the navel-baring style, she does not seem to feel shame at the act of showing her belly, and sees hot pants as pants and knee-highs as just longer socks.

But the person who placed the order does not see it that way.

「It’s amazing, Sylph-chan! Sylph-chan is a genius!」

（Absolute area of her pudgy belly, hot pants and knee-highs! And the fact that she is not shy at all despite being dressed in such a revealing outfit is too much of a point! The sense of being so well dressed is extraordinary!）

Elephant vows to seal this coordination, saying that no one but her can see Sylph like this.

「This is pretty good, easy to move around.」

Meanwhile, Sylph, who was worried about the lack of decent clothes to wear when going out as a normal girl, not as a magical girl, was beginning to consider buying some, thinking that clothes coordinated by a real girl would be a sure bet.

She once misunderstood Jack’s story about magical girls having cognitive inhibitions, and was approached by the police after going out on a weekday wearing only a skimpy T-shirt.

Sylph had thought that she would have to do something about it eventually, but she had put off buying women’s clothing, a hassle she had no experience with, until later.

「No good, that’s no good! I can’t walk outside dressed like this!」

「I–Is it not good?」

「Absolutely! Then I’d rather wear the one-piece dress I wore earlier, for sure! Or this one!」

Again, before she knew it, Elephant had brought new clothes, and before Sylph could complain, she pushed them on and closed the fitting room curtains.

「Phew, I guess it’s hard to make the best use of good materials.」

Elephant, who was not sweating, made a motion to wipe the sweat from her forehead and muttered with a knowing look on her face. Her expression had the austerity of a skilled craftsman.