CH 47

Chapter 2 — Expand, my world! • Episode 2-4 • Raid ①

Translated by KaiesV

Edited by KaiesV

Rabbitfoot later understood that although the encounter was accidental, it was probably the result of her own good fortune.

Tyrant Sylph.

A Magical Girl whom she once encountered once and fought together against a Marquis-class Diest. She was a mysterious girl who disappeared before Rabbitfoot had time to ask her name, and when she looked for her later, she could find no definitive trace of her.

Since she mainly used Wind Magic, the name was among the last three names narrowed down after a search on the official website using words that seemed to be related, including their activity history and the fact that they had not uploaded any videos.

On the day the new Witch was widely announced on the official website, Rabbitfoot was convinced that Tyrant Sylph must be the Magical Girl she had met that day. It would not be surprising if it were said that she had already awakened as a Witch at that point, because her power was so certain.

Rabbitfoot’s move to capture Tyrant Sylph rather than Extend was based on ease of control.

She decided that Tyrant Sylph was easier to deal with, based on her impression from actually meeting and conversing with her directly, than Extend, who had a good amount of experience, a successful name, and was rumored to be a troublesome type.

However, that does not mean that it is easy for Rabbitfoot to handle, but rather that it seems to be easy for Wigs Crosseau, an ingenious schemer, an evil Witch.

Rabbitfoot’s view was that Extend would be 50-50 if left alone and taken in by the Thread Witch’s forces, but she was convinced that Tyrant Sylph would almost certainly be turned into a puppet.

She is new to the level of even knowing about Witches and is not a pushover. In fact, when she was forced to take a quota, she didn’t reject it after all. Since Rabbitfoot has passive magic for luck and charm, she wasn’t sure if the Thread Witch would be able to get her hands on Tyrant Sylph with the same gusto, but I expected that it was not unlikely. That is not a judgment based on underestimating Tyrant Sylph, but a judgment based on a high regard for the Thread Witch. The Thread Witch’s handiwork is not only gory. Rather, her true nature is to entangle the opponent with clever traps.

Thinking it would be too late to take the long view, Rabbitfoot quickly formulated a plan with the best outcome being the capture of Tyrant Sylph, or at the very least to keep her out of the hands of the Thread Witch.

Originally, she was planning to visit the three Magical Girls she had narrowed down to the last three in the near future. The official website gives her an idea of the area of activity, even if she can’t see what they look like. That’s why she went out of her way to tell Ex–Magna and Bullshark, with whom she have a mutual assistance agreement, that she was planning a trip in the near future.

If she went away without a reason and intervened in a battle in another region, they would be suspicious of what she were there for. So, ostensibly, shs was going to say that the Diest occurred accidentally on the trip and that she had joined in. Of course, she would enlist their cooperation behind the scenes and keep her existence under wraps as a trump card until the time came to play it.

However, the situation changed when her own searcher was a Witch and her existence became known to the public.

The Thread Witch would be the first to try to meet with Tyrant Sylph, taking advantage of her position overseeing the Witches. And she should nail her with something like don’t do anything unnecessary until then to keep the whole Magical Girls’ balance intact. Most Witches are fooled by the seemingly hole-free, good-guy tone, and a tacit understanding is created that there is no loophole.

To move alone in such a situation would only create a backlash and thus diminish one’s own power. Rabbitfoot had to trace a line of reasoning that he had only met and befriended Tyrant Sylph by chance.

Hastily secure a ticket to Mouse Country and book a hotel in Sakira Town for three nights. According to preliminary information, it has become a Hunting Ground, and although the Diest may appear for a day, there is no guarantee that Tyrant Sylph will be there. The itinerary was for insurance purposes as well.

It was really fortunate for Rabbitfoot that the announcement of the new Witch coincided with summer vacation. Rabbitfoot, who is still in the fifth grade, usually has school, and even if she were to take a sabbatical and head out on her own, her parents would not allow her to travel alone. She couldn’t have done it in such a forceful way if her older college brother hadn’t been on summer vacation as well as Rabbitfoot.

Rabbitfoot, accompanied by her older brother, had a great time in the Mouse Country on the first day, and decided to tour the town and surrounding area in a rented car with her brother on the following day. Considering the range of notification for the Diests, it is not possible to leave the town too much. Nevertheless, if the range of activities is narrowed, the number of tourist attractions will naturally be limited.

（There’s nothing in this town. I must get the hell out of here.）

By the time lunch was over and snack time was about to arrive, Rabbitfoot was completely bored and slightly grumpy.

Even for a Magical Girl of her age, she is still just a child over 10 years old. It is not surprising.

While Rabbitfoot’s brother went to buy some juice to put Rabbitfoot in a good mood, an explosion rang out from Rabbitfoot’s small pouch. But the people around them don’t seem to care about it at all. It’s a notification of a Diest occurrence.

Rabbitfoot, who confirmed the notification of the occurrence of the Vikant-class Diest. In her Magiphone, uttered the key word along with the transition.

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「Jump up!」

A translucent, gigantic white rabbit appears in the body of a small Rabbitfoot and slowly overlaps it.

At the same time, Rabbitfoot’s plain clothes glowed and popped, revealing a frilly orange apron dress.

Rabbit ears sprouted from her beautiful pure white head of hair, and ribbons of the same color extended from her orange strap shoes and tangled around her slender legs wrapped in black tights.

「Magical Girl, Rabbitfoot!」

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As soon as her transformation was complete, a large shadow appeared over Rabbitfoot’s head.

Rabbitfoot backsteps and distances herself faster than she can look up at it. Immediately after, a huge monkey Diest fell on the spot where Rabbitfoot had just been. The asphalt road could not withstand the impact of the landing and cracked like a spider’s web, causing the ground around the area to partially lift up.

「Tch, it came too soon.

Grab The Sky.」

Rabbitfoot observed her surroundings while keeping the Ape-shaped Diest at the edge of her vision, but saw no other figures. It must be the first.

Rabbitfoot, which invoked a strengthening magic that is particularly weighted toward leg strength, leapt up on the spot with a small “ton, ton” and began to move at the moment it landed.

「Come on, try a little harder!」

The Ape-shaped Diest moves around anomalously, kicking the walls of the house while making strange noises, but Rabbitfoot moves even faster than that and plays with the Diest in the opposite direction. It is Rabbitfoot, which is considered the fastest Magical Girl in a simple straight line run. Its combat maneuverability is no less than that of a mere Vikant-class Diest.

Rabbitfoot poked and prodded the Diest around, taking it easy so as not to knock it down with a single blow, and then, perhaps in a fit of excitement, started playing with it like a soccer ball without ever dropping it to the ground. No, it is more of a lifting rather than a cueball, since she is kicking it up without using her hands.

「So boring!」

Rabbitfoot, not originally a soccer fan, quickly became bored with the lifting and kicked the Diest to the ground as if she was going to shoot the ball into the goal.

But Diest had been waiting for this, and while it screamed in agony as it was struck, it quickly got up and turned its back on Rabbitfoot and began to flee.

「If it ran away, that means it’d found a Boundary. What a hassle!」

Diests usually do not run away from Magical Girls, no matter how unfavorable the situation. The reason for this is unknown, but based on the data accumulated so far, even the Common-class does not flee away from Witches. However, there is an exception. That is when they invade the real world, which seems to be their original goal. When they realize that this is a fake world and discover a「Boundary」closer to the real world that is easier to escape from, the Diest gives up the fight and gives priority to invading reality.

If a witch, even allowed a mere Vikant-class to escape and invade reality, she will not be exempt from being held accountable. There will be no clear punishment, but Rabbitfoot’s voice will be greatly reduced.

「Don’t you dare run away from me, you little fish!」

Rabbitfoot accelerated to top speed and caught up with the Ape-shaped Diest in the blink of an eye, while inwardly ranting that she had luckily encountered an outbreak of the Diest, but that she had been unlucky at a crucial point.

As a last-ditch effort, the Diest turned around and swung its arm to counterattack, but was quickly pushed back down when it collided with the Rabbitfoot’s right leg, which was swung out at the same time. Or rather, it wasn’t even a shoving match. Overwhelmingly, as if a car repelled an insect, Rabbitfoot twisted and turned the Monkey-shaped dist.

「Tssk!」

After annihilating the Diest in just one blow, Rabbitfoot kicked the debris that had been lying around high into the air to relieve her frustration. Not at full force, of course. If Rabbitfoot were to get serious, it would be pulverized the moment she kicked up.

Nevertheless, it was still a burden for a mere stone to receive the Witch’s power. The kicked-up debris was scattered into several pieces like a scattering bullet, and they were flying up in the sky at high speed.

「…Hnn?」

As she followed with her eyes the whereabouts of the piece that Rabbitfoot kicked up, she saw some kind of flying object in the sky above her.

The flying object had been flying normally until then, but suddenly stopped moving as if it had collided with something and fell within a few seconds. And it was accompanied by a strange, eerie voice that made her want to cover her ears.

「So there was another one?」

It roared like a monster and slammed into the earth. It was a Bird-shaped Diest whose entire body was covered with holes. It is larger than an ordinary bird, but not as large as the great ape I mentioned earlier. It is a Baron-class Diest at best.

Looking at its condition, it seemed to have been accidentally hit by a piece of debris kicked up by Rabbitfoot. It seemed to have lost most of its regenerative ability, and the hole showed no sign of closing.

「This, there’s someone in here.」

If the Baron-class is in perfect condition, that level of damage should be repaired, and the fact that it was not means that someone had already been fighting it. She don’t even know if it was Tyrant Sylph at the end of the line, but a Magical Girl working in the same area might know something about it.

After stomping down the Bird-shaped Diest for a moment, Rabbitfoot started running in the direction from which the Diest had flown.