## Chapter 103 – Hunting Magical Girls (1)
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“My body… Ughhhhh… Uaaaaaaahhhh!!!!”
“What… what is it!? Are you okay?!”
– KWA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM—!!!!!!!!
The attendant suddenly cried out in pain, doubled over, and staggered,
before erupting into a massive explosion right where he stood.
“Kyaaaaaah?!”
Aquamarine and Seraphina were thrown back by the explosion’s flames and shockwave,
slamming their backs and shoulders hard against the exterior wall of a building behind them.
“Suddenly… why did an explosion happen…?”
Smoke and flames filled the street.
Aquamarine, who had crashed into the wall, barely managed to get up, dusting herself off,
and extinguished the fires by spraying water droplets on the burning areas.
“That… that… that’s…!”
Seraphina remembered.
The incident where a support staff member had been turned into an explosive and thrown at her.
She begged for him to be saved, but he disappeared without even a handful of ashes left.
The fear etched into Seraphina’s spine told her that the same thing was happening again, by the same person, using the same method.
“Who is it! Reveal yourself!”
Aquamarine quickly extinguished the remnants of the explosion with her ability,
firmly grasped Seraphina’s hand, who was in a panic, and tried to clear away the smoke.
– Thud… Thud…
“Kekekeke… Euhhehehehe…!!”
A chilling laughter seemed to respond to Aquamarine’s words.
Footsteps echoed from within the still-thick smoke.
“Haa…♥ Such a long-awaited thrill…!
My pussy’s throbbing…♥ I think I’m gonna cum…!!♥♥”
A voice filled with madness spewed out all sorts of perverted words,
and the footsteps slowly approached the two magical girls.
– Thump.
Aquamarine, who was craning her neck to find the direction of the voice and footsteps,
felt something touch the tip of her foot with a thump.
– KWA-BOOOOOOOOOOM—!!!!
“Kyaaaaaah?!”
A heavy explosion occurred the moment it touched Aquamarine’s foot,
but the water droplet shield she had deployed in advance protected Seraphina and Aquamarine.
“Keuheuheuh… Kyahahahaha…!!”
However, the voice beyond the smoke didn’t seem to care whether the explosion hit or not,
but simply reveled in the explosion sound and the shockwave each time.
“Seraphina! Are you okay? Are you hurt?”
“I’m… okay…….”
Seraphina, who had been in a panic, seemed to have regained her senses,
firmly holding Aquamarine’s hand as she recalled the events.
‘We managed to withstand it once thanks to Aquamarine’s shield…,
but it might be difficult to withstand the next attack with just the shield.’
The scale of the explosion at Aquamarine’s foot was not larger than the first explosion,
but even that was barely blocked due to the material limitations of water droplets.
“That guy… isn’t just throwing explosives to attack.
It must be an ability that turns anything it touches into a bomb.”
“Don’t tell me… that attendant…?”
“Yeah….”
Aquamarine hadn’t properly faced the explosion scene due to the shockwave,
so she was greatly taken aback when she heard that it was the attendant who had exploded.
“We need to stay focused. Otherwise… we’ll end up like that too.”
As the two leaned on each other and prepared for the next attack…
“You have more annoying abilities than I thought? Magical girl friends.”
Another voice, seemingly a bit more mature, overlapped from beyond the smoke.
“Not one… but two of them, it seems.”
Aquamarine and Seraphina realized there were not one but two opponents.
Instead of letting go of each other’s hands, they stood back to back.
“It seems… if we don’t attack first, we’ll just keep defending.”
“Yeah. I think so too.”
Explosives continued to be thrown from unseen locations, preventing the smoke from clearing,
and all they could do was avoid or barely block the explosions.
To break through this situation, they had to either escape to a smoke-free area to secure visibility,
or accept some damage and attack the entire area.
“Heuaaaah…!!”
– Kugu-gu-gu-gu-gu…!!!
Seraphina, thinking that securing visibility was the priority, stomped her foot on the ground,
and giant plant stems grew and rose from beneath the two magical girls’ feet.
“Keueut…!”
Thanks to the plant stems supporting the two, they succeeded in securing visibility outside the smoke,
but Seraphina coughed up blood from the backlash of the ability.
“Where are they…?”
Time passed, and thanks to the explosions temporarily stopping, the smoke was slowly clearing,
but for some reason, it was difficult to locate the two villains who had attacked them.
“Their voices were definitely getting closer… was I mistaken?”
Aquamarine sent water droplets created from her magic wand to various places,
searching for villains who might be hiding in blind spots.
‘There…!’
Then, reflected in one of the water droplets, the figures of two women wearing all black.
Behind the villain internment trailer, which was still burning from the aftermath of the explosion,
the figures of two women hiding in the narrow gap between two buildings were captured.
“Over there!”
Aquamarine pointed out the location of the two villains to Seraphina,
took her hand, and jumped down from the plant stems.
‘Something’s strange… how did those guys who were so close get to such a place…?’
Seraphina found it strange that the villains who were definitely close were farther away than she thought,
and that their location happened to be in the narrow gap between buildings.
– Splash—!
The two jumped down from the plant stems, holding hands.
Aquamarine safely landed on a puddle she created just before landing to cushion the impact.
– Tatatatat—!!
While keeping a distance from the surrounding objects that might be explosives,
they carefully ran towards the secured location, trying not to reveal their position.
‘They… probably don’t know we’ve come this far yet.’
Finally, the distance was narrowed to the point where they could clearly see them with their own eyes.
The two magical girls didn’t rashly approach the villains,
but calmly held their breath and exchanged glances.
‘If I use any more high-output attacks… my body might not be able to handle it.
But… if that stops the hero hunt.’
Seraphina and Aquamarine’s bodies were already tattered.
Thanks to undergoing ability enhancement procedures several times, the output of their abilities had become very strong,
but the burden on their bodies was increasing as a result.
Even now, they were experiencing side effects such as spitting up blood or feeling severe dizziness,
due to continuously using techniques that put a great strain on their bodies since earlier.
‘Just once… if even one attack hits perfectly….’
If just one attack hit and subdued those villains,
there was hope that the hero hunt could be stopped, even if their bodies were destroyed right now.
Seraphina and Aquamarine exchanged glances filled with that determined will.
And…
“”Heuaaaaaaaaaat…!!!!!””
– Shuaaaaaaaaaaaat—!!!!!
A sharp and massive water blade, resembling a heavy sword aura from a fantasy game.
– Kugu-gu-gu-gu-gu-gu—!!!!!!
The sharpest and most deadly thicket of flower thorns rising from the ground.
The two magical girls’ sincere attacks were unleashed towards the villains.
“Uaaaah?!”
“Kyaaaaaaaah!!!”
The flower thorn bushes, tougher than ever, tightly held the villains so they couldn’t escape,
and the sharp and massive water blade cleanly cut through the bound villains and the building on the left.
– Kwa-gua-gua-gua-gua-gua—!!!!!
– Kugu-gu-gu-gu-gu—
The cleanly cut upper part of the building slid smoothly along the cross-section,
and fell onto the road with a thud, collapsing.
The two villains, who had taken the two magical girls’ attacks head-on, couldn’t even scream,
and spewed out a massive amount of blood from their abdomens, which seemed to be almost severed.
“Are they… dead…?”
The two blood-soaked villains were already lifeless and motionless.
“We did it….”
She spat up blood and her face turned pale due to using the highest output technique,
but she felt relieved and slumped down on the spot after confirming the villains’ definite deaths.
“The other support staff… must have been hurt a lot.”
After subduing the giants, which was the reason they first came to this street,
dozens of support staff had come to the scene to transfer them and normalize the city.
However, due to the explosion of the support staff who had suddenly turned into bombs,
the support staff were either dead or seriously injured and collapsed.
“Yeah… probably.”
The two magical girls had subdued two dangerous villains,
but they lowered their heads in guilt for not being able to protect the support staff.
A hero is a hero who protects citizens from villains.
The support staff were also ultimately the same as the citizens that heroes had to protect,
so the two magical girls lowered their heads, closed their eyes, and mourned their sacrifice.
– Clap… Clap… Clap…!
“Ah… to be deceived by such a simple trick.”
“What… what is it?!”
A familiar voice was heard from behind them as they caught their breath and rested for a moment.
It was definitely the mature voice that had been heard next to the villain who had been laughing madly.
“A… Aquamarine… over there….”
Seraphina pointed in horror at the place where the villains’ corpses were.
“Th… there’s no way…?!”
However, the two villains’ corpses, which should have been in that place, had disappeared without a trace,
leaving only the rubble of the collapsed building and the thorn bushes.
“Hehehehe…♥”
And a mocking sneer was heard from behind.
“As expected, you heroes are… so foolish and weak.
I can’t possibly keep up with you, can I? Hehehe…♥”
