Chapter 1 – #Prologue an Earth Invaded, and a Magical Girl of Hope (1)
―Earth has been invaded by alien enemies.
For several years now, this Earth has been exposed to invaders who introduced themselves as being from a planet called 【Mekraq】.
However, at the time, although they had superhuman physical abilities and over-technology skills, their numbers were not large, and they did not pose a major threat.
Above all, thanks to the appearance of magical girls and their dazzling performance, they could no longer be a threat.
The power of the magical girls was superior to the over-technology of the invaders.
The actions of magical girls who, as individuals, demonstrate more power than the military, are quick.
In addition, in addition to the laws provided by the country, magical girls have their own special ‘rules’ that apply to them, so at least they did not do anything that was harmful to humanity.
It’s strong, fast, doesn’t cost a lot of money, and above all, it’s reliable and safe force.
Thanks to such magical girls, the threat posed by alien invaders was eliminated, and on the contrary, videos of their annihilation and videos of the magical girls’ activities even provided new entertainment for those who were looking for stimulating entertainment.
It continued for several years, and there was no anxiety about alien enemies in people’s minds.
I’m sure it will work out somehow.
No matter if an alien invader appears or something happens, at least there will be no change in your life.
Probably everyone thought that way.
That’s right.
Until just three months ago, Many people would have thought so…
* * *
“Omg… Omg… Omg… !!”
A magical girl is running inside the city.
On a dark night, streetlights here and there light up and the street has a clear view. In the past, it was called a busy street.
However, even though there are many entertainment facilities, most of the stores have the lights off and there are few people.
This street, which had become sparsely populated, was so empty that it was reminiscent of the countryside.
In the middle of the street, a pretty and beautiful magical girl with sparkling light flowing from her entire body was running alone.
“【―――――】… !”
While running away, the words of a spell came out of the magical girl’s mouth.
At the same time, the figure disappeared as if melting into the light of the streetlamp.
The street returned to the empty and quiet state it was before the magical girl arrived.
And not long after, several tall men entered the street, accompanied by violent voices.
“Damn… !! Where did that magical girl go!”
“That’s right? It would have been easier to detect if it had flown in the sky…”
They are men who each wear a special type of suit. Some have a body shape similar to that of an ordinary person, while others have a completely different appearance, such as having an extra pair of arms or tentacles sprouting from their bodies. There was even.
They are the invaders of this Earth.
Strange people with superhuman powers who are by no means normal.
An enemy of humanity on Earth who came from the planet [Mekrak].
This area has already been occupied by 【Mekrak】, and most of the residents have immigrated to the newly prepared ‘city’.
However, there are still some remaining residents, and the mission of these monsters here was to protect those people and search the surrounding area in order to kidnap them.
Tonight as well, I found a family remaining on this street and targeted them, but I was interrupted by a magical girl who came in at a critical moment, and I even missed the target.
Truly, a humiliation.
Kidnap… Losing sight of the object of ‘protection’, being kicked by a magical girl, and even losing sight of that magical girl.
It can’t be helped that they huff and puff and try to find the magical girl.
“Is there support from headquarters yet? There was still a magical girl left in this street!”
“They say it will arrive soon, senior. Please wait a little longer.”
“Wait for that and all the magical girls will run away!”
“Hmm… Still, given that it hasn’t been caught on the district radar yet, it probably didn’t run out of this area.”
“Tsk… Then what…”
The leader seems to be a humanoid monster at the forefront.
Wearing a suit that felt like pantyhose all over his body, he slapped the wall of the building next to him as if he didn’t like it. He kicked it, smashed it, and screamed at the surroundings.
Magical girl, come out right now, she will be nice to you when you come out… She shouts words like
There is no way she will listen to that, and there is no way she will believe it.
A group of such monsters move through the deserted streets…
* * *
“… Did he go?”
Srurrrr!’
A location a bit far from the street where the monsters passed by a little while ago.
As if part of the space was melting, a magical girl appeared.
A little while ago, she was using magic to hide her body.
A magical girl controls her magical powers, and she can use magic.
Against these alien enemies who use cutting-edge over-technology, the same scientific weapons are not of much help.
Earth’s guns, swords, and even cannons and missiles are either of no use to them or are taken away.
However, the magic of magical girls, the power that goes beyond their perception, is effective enough even for them.
That’s why magical girls were considered the natural enemies of monsters and the only hope for humanity.
‘… To call it hope, we are too inferior.’
Still hiding her body in the alley, the magical girl squatted down with her back against the wall.
She is a female college student, and she makes a contract with a fairy she meets one day… In order to earn her meager tuition, she became a magical girl.
Even though she is a magical girl, most of her magic is simple, and her combat power is somewhat inferior compared to magical girls who produce flashy results.
She is a civilian with no professional combat training, and a magical girl whose powers are not particularly special.
Even so, if she is that level of an enemy, she can defeat that level of monsters with her single body.
‘But she might do it for no reason and attract attention.’
‘More than anything, there is talk that these guys are using unidentified weapons these days…’
She did not have an active community among magical girls.
Thanks to this, there is not enough information.
It can be said that it is fortunate that magical girls who belonged to a specific community were caught up in the back and chased down by that community… Lack of information is fatal.
That’s why she’s been hiding herself so far, using her confidence in [Stealth magic]…
“Did that family escape successfully? .”
Originally, she wasn’t planning on coming forward.
However, after seeing a family in trouble on the street a little while ago, my body stopped moving on its own.
There were monsters trying to get their hands on the family who were trying to run away secretly in the darkness of the night, and they immediately kicked them away.
After that, she hid the family with her magic and ran away here as a decoy.
Now, the spell she put on there must have been broken, but I’m worried that she may have escaped in the meantime.
‘… She doesn’t have time to worry about that right now.’
‘In the first place, the world has already become like this… No matter where you run, there will be no hope.’
‘I’d rather be caught by those guys… It might have been better for the family to be ‘raised’…’
She gets lost in those negative thoughts for a while.
A sigh escaped me.
How on earth did this happen?
How did the world become like this?
Is there really no way to go back to the way it was?
“Hehe, I was here.”
“?!”
The magical girl who was squatting suddenly raised her head.
Entrance to the alley.
There are monsters standing there that you must have passed by a long time ago.
“Ugh… !? Why… !”
“Wow, it’s not inside the building, it’s not even in the basement, I didn’t know you’d be in a place like this yet. Thanks to you, I found it easily~.”
The humanoid monster in the lead takes off her visor and examines the magical girl’s body with exposed eyes.
He is appreciating with sinister eyes the beautiful, feminine body clearly visible beyond the highly exposed costume.
The magical girl stood up on the spot, covering her body with displeasure at the sticky gaze.
It makes no sense to find it so easily.
Now, the [Silver Magic] That completely hides her body has been removed, but there was a magic barrier in this place that was undetectable by their electronic radars.
So I thought it would be difficult to find her on this wide street…
“Hey, what kind of etiquette is it that you throw a kick at a good person like me? Are all humans on Earth like this?”
“Shut up! Yes, where is the goodness?! It looks vicious from the beginning!! You are just violence!!”
“… That’s harsh. And it’s not good to judge based on appearance. Just a little while ago, I was just trying to protect my family who was fleeing. “I just wanted to give you some candy since you still have a child.”
“How do you know if that candy is okay?! “How can you just watch when I’m trying to feed my child something strange?”
“What’s the matter? It’s good. It’s a candy that makes you feel good when you eat it, right? When you put it in your mouth, it’s just shwaaaaa… And it makes you feel better, right?”
“Then it doesn’t get any better?!”
It’s not a particularly special medicine, but it’s a popular, nutritious snack that releases refreshing and cool carbonation when you put it in your mouth… It seems like that fact has not been conveyed.
Although he has a grim face, and the child he was trying to give candy a little while ago looked like he was going to burst into tears when he saw his face, the two younger monsters who followed him knew well that he was actually a warm neighborhood older brother who loved children. …
『Guess… 』
At that time, ‘it’ came into the eyes of the magical girl.
Next to the monsters, the ‘thing’ crawling on the floor with something like a leash attached.
‘It’ was a special creature that looked like a giant leech or a piece of meat, and was an object that made one feel physiological disgust just by looking at it.
There were no eyes visible on it, but a tentacle-like tongue was hanging out from what looked like a mouth.
She didn’t know what that was.
However, in addition to physiological disgust, I felt something like an instinctive threat.
You can’t just leave that alone.
That is a harmful entity.
When I thought that, my body immediately took action.
“【Invisible】.”
At the same time as I muttered softly in my mouth, the body disappeared as if melting.
Just like before, it completely hid its appearance.
Even body temperature and the sounds the body produces on its own are completely blocked, making it impossible to detect them with any surveillance equipment.
Her fighting power is inferior compared to other magical girls.
But that in no way means she doesn’t have the strength to fight, and it doesn’t mean she’s weak.
As her own image disappeared, she held the magically created knife in her hand, admiring the confused looks of her enemies with a sadistic smile.
She is an ugly thing that does not fit her title as a magical girl, but this type of blade suits her best.
Because you can comfortably send your opponent to the goal in the blink of an eye with a strike from a dead angle.
Above all, this knife, made of magical power, has lethal and destructive power that is incomparable to ordinary knives…
‘Then… Goodbye, trash.’
They are alien enemies anyway.
They are not the same person.
Not only that, they say that even if you kill them, their personality data is saved separately.
I don’t know the details, though.
We approach without delay, drawing a clear line that even if you kill, you don’t die, it doesn’t apply to murder.
‘First, let’s start with this unknown monster――huh?’
Meat monster.
That monster will have no eyes.
However, isn’t the location where the eyes are supposed to be, the part of the face that appears to be facing towards you…? I had that illusion.
In this dark alley, it feels like I’m looking right through myself as I hide myself with magic.
… It can’t be.
That can’t be possible.
As evidence, other monsters are panicking and wandering around looking for themselves.
‘Body odor, sound, body temperature, everything was erased.’
‘There’s no way I could ever get caught――’
Convincing herself that she was mistaken, she held the knife in her hand in return.
And then, without hesitation, she tried to slash it at the monster in front of her.
『――――――!!』
Puhwaaaaa…?
From the mouth of that monster.
The pink fog――neutralizes the magical girl 『Weak Gas』It spewed out towards the magical girl.
