Chapter 68 – #17 Magical Girls Believe in the Power of Bonds (6)
What appeared splendidly through the water of the lake was a huge giant or monster with the head of a bull and a horse.
The giant’s body, wrapped in hard-looking muscles, was surrounded by a soft white light, and for a moment I felt divine.
“Ah ah ah ah ah…”
It was a blue sapphire that sat down.
Not caring that the hem of her blue dress was getting dirty with dust, she looked up at the giants with a bluish face.
‘…It’s bigger than that robot from last time.’
The giants look even bigger than the robots that looked like the final weapon of the baboons.
Not only that, the sense of intimidation that makes the viewer feel intimidated, or the feeling of oppression that suffocates, is incomparable to the robots I have seen before.
For example, if the previous robot felt like a model made by entangling paper boxes, this time it would be the difference between a real giant brown bear standing there. Although the scale is more than twenty times different.
“Hey, Alpha.”
“Why.”
“Am I shaking right now?”
“Yes. I am trembling.”
“I’m honestly scared.”
“Me too.”
“It’s the first time I’ve been this scared since my mom found out I became a woman.”
“It’s the first time since I had diarrhea a month ago, 3 minutes before the broadcast of 〈 Witch Girl 〉.”
“”Right…””
“Why are you two so carefree!”
As we faced each other and sighed, Yura shouted in protest.
Why are you sleeping, and if you don’t joke in this situation, you won’t be able to survive.
By the way, maybe now.
The giants that rose from the lake didn’t even move, and now they are staring blankly at the empty space while breathing heavily.
“Good good! The strongest weapon now appears! This body is fit for a king of Mekrach! …Yes? What? How can I control this?”
Black, who was floating in the meantime, tilted his head as if wondering.
He is holding on to the magic stone and shouting something to the giants, but the giants just stand there and do not move as if they are drowsy.
“It seems to be late. It seems like I took out the troublesome thing. I hoped.”
“Hey, did the cookies come?”
“It came.”
Cookie, who looked like a cute cat doll, burst through the space and appeared.
Cookie looked at us, then at the giant, then at us again,
“Anyway, it’s like I can’t do anything right. What do you expect from you? Really, I can’t put into words how pathetic it is. Don’t you regret being born? No, I hope you will regret it. I have to do that, so it won’t be worth at least a buzzard. Huh? I want you to be ashamed of being alive. Like it’s a nuisance.”
Thuh, he spat and said gurglingly.
After a while,
“Hey, Yura. Can you make a fire for me? I’ll do the rest.”
“… Sister, I really don’t want to, but… That… You’re trying to burn the fairy in his hand…”
“Save me… Save me…”
Cookie, bruised here and there, struggled in his hand. Unfortunately, Yura didn’t bring out the fire, so he decided to let it go.
“Cookie, do you know what that is? Does it look very dangerous?”
“…It doesn’t look dangerous, it’s actually dangerous. 〈 Mekrak 〉 An ultra-dangerous weapon made using ancient technology and a lot of missing parts. In the first place, this dungeon throws the captured magical girls and extracts the fuel to use them.”
This is the first time Cookie has said anything like this. I opened my eyes wide in surprise.
“Is it that dangerous?”
“…The horse head over there, I’d say 〈 Mad Head God 〉, that’s 〈 Specialized Physical Attack 〉 Weapon. If you hit it once with your fist, the mountain will split.”
“Oh wow…”
“And the cow head over there, 〈 Head Human God 〉 is 〈 Specialized Magic Attack 〉 Weapon. I heard that the magic cannon it emits can dry the sea in one shot.”
What is that, i’m scared
“Besides that, there is basically a thick magic glove flowing on the outside of that thing. No attack can penetrate the armor and damage the main body.”
“When it comes to games, I hate kids with protective shields or ‘damage cuts beyond a certain amount’ the most.”
“It’s a coincidence, so am I.”
“I want you to take it seriously, you guys…”
Cookie sighed and waved her tiny cat hand in the air.
Then the jjook-space split left and right and opened his mouth. Through the gaping hole, I could see outside, the sun shining through.
“All the women who were kidnapped here were sent out. You guys should also run away.”
“That one?”
“It’s okay. That’s a bunch.”
This is the first time Cookie has spoken so firmly.
“Did you hear capybara in your head? I want you to feel a little bit of a sense of crisis. Those giants are basically for killing. It’s like a weapon of destruction that destroys without mercy. Even if you’re lucky enough to survive, you’ll eventually be caught and eaten with that mouth.”
“Do you eat it?”
“They’s stomach is divided into several rooms, and they beat and beat until the woman they swallow is destroyed to extract her mana. The dirty traps in the dungeons are so radical that they can’t be compared. Then, when the woman breaks down and becomes inefficient, she is sent to the stomach as it is.”
“I don’t have to say anything after that,” Said Cookie, staring at me sharply.
The situation is different from the monsters of the past. Unlike the past, where they were simply captured and raped for the purpose of extracting magical power, they had to risk their lives for real.
‘It’s very dangerous…’
I glanced at the giant once more. Perhaps because of the still unmoving giant, Black is restless and shakes his magic stone around.
I don’t know what the problem is, but I hope you don’t move like that. It is a bit daunting reality for me, who lived a life as an ordinary petit bourgeois until recently.
“Once we get to the ground, we should first gather as many magical girls as we can. I don’t know what will happen if all the strong magical girls gather and fight. If that doesn’t work, I have no choice but to dedicate the earth. Anyway, it’s not better than dying. …Go quickly. Hey, you sitting there, come first. You did a good job.”
Cookie patted Blue’s head, which was still shaking, and urged him on.
Blue silently looked back at the giants and stood up.
Then Yura. Yura bit her lip in anger, and supported Blue as they tried to step into the space together.
However, the moment the two of them tried to step out, the crack opened by Cookie faded and disappeared like a mirage.
“Uh…?”
“Nyan?”
Yura opened her mouth, and Cookie was taken aback. She stirred her hand a few more times, then clicked her tongue in a disapproving “Tsk!”
“Because of the giants, the magic interference is severe. I want to get out of here at once.”
“You useless fairy!”
“Kay, you’re just going to be crushed here.”
“I’m sorry!”
“Yayayaya. Wait a minute. Look at that.”
Tap-tap-tap-tap as Alpha patted me on the back from behind, I turned around.
Alpha pointed to Black and the two giants. Among them, he pointed at the cow-headed giant with his index finger.
“It looks like it’s trying to move?”
…Really?
Certainly, it seems that the guys who were staring blankly into the air just a moment ago are now rolling their eyes and glaring at me. A strange vitality has returned to the unfocused eyes.
“Oh, oh oh oh! Move, move!”
Black, who was in the middle of it, was doing a hurrah pose and saying he liked it.
The first to move was the horse-headed giant.
Three pairs of arms, at first giggling like rusty, ungreased machines, clenching their fists a few times, then
Fuck!
He swung his fist at once, shattering Black in the air.
“””…Uh?”””
Our dazed voices overlapped.
If you haven’t looked at it wrong, no, definitely. The swinging fist of the giant shattered Black floating in the air without leaving a trace. The magic stone that was with him was also swept away by the giant’s fist and turned to powder.
The giant clenched his fists a few times, as if he was still lacking something, then looked at each other and raised his head.
A large mouth gaped open.
『Buooooo!
『Gwoaaaaa!」
A duet of terrifying cries resounding in the cave.
The two gigantic giants rose from the lake and let out cries that shook the air as if they were realizing that they were alive.
“Wowaaaaa!”
“Quaaaaa?!”
The cries reflected on the walls and ceiling grew several times louder and resonated throughout the closed space. It felt like their ears were about to explode, so both Alpha and Yura fell on their stomachs with their ears plugged. Blue seemed almost faithful, so I hugged Blue’s head tightly and crouched over him.
『Hewaaaaa that
The giants, who had cried at each other over and over again, soon turned their heads and began to look around.
It seemed that they did not like the stuffy ceiling and walls that restrained them.
『――――――――――!!」
Koo Goo Goo Goo Goo Goo!!! Aaaaa!!!
The first to move was the horse-headed giant. Swinging his three pairs of arms at random, he started hitting the wall and the floor again and again.
Bang! Kwak! A terrifying sound like an explosion echoed through the room.
Wherever the giant’s fist touched, it was shattered, and cracks like spider webs appeared. Dust rises, and the entire room vibrates.
『Buooooo―――』
Then the bull-headed giant started moving.
Compared to the horse-headed giant, the cow-headed giant arrogantly spread out its three pairs of arms to the extent that it seemed elegant, but rather majestic. It’s not like I’m swinging that thing.
However, I could see something like blue particles coming out of his mouth.
If Cookie’s explanation earlier was correct, that guy would be a guy who uses a magic cannon that is so powerful that it can dry up the sea.
No way, when I thought about it, it seemed that the preparations were already over there.
『――――――――――――――!!!!
Kwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa-gwa
The giant leaned forward, releasing a glistening particle cannon from his ferociously open mouth. A terrifying energy cannon that seemed as if everything would disintegrate and disappear just by touching it, spurted out along the giant’s head and whipped it like a huge whip from one end to the other end of the entire filming set.
“Quaaaaa!”
“Aaaaa…!”
At the loud noise and vibration, Blue screamed out in my arms, and a voice mixed with fear escaped from my mouth.
Dust rose, and the large studio and dungeon shook as if they were about to collapse.
* * *
Koo Goong- Koo Goo Goong-.
The dungeon collapses. The room collapses.
Sand dust and broken stones fell from the ceiling one by one. In just a little while, this place will completely collapse.
‘…Is this the third basement floor… Or the fourth floor? Want to go lower I don’t know.’
If it collapses like this, will it simply be crushed? I thought about it in a daze with an unrealistic head.
“…Everyone is alive.”
“Somehow…”
Amidst the collapsing rubble, he poked his head out.
Yura also helped Alpha and pushed away the wreckage with a heavy-looking iron stick.
Giants are still rioting in one corner of the large set. The horse-headed monster is trying to break down walls, floors, and ceilings with its brute strength, and the bull-headed giant emits energy cannons at random as soon as it gathers strength.
At least, it was comforting to know that their bodies were still submerged in the lake and that the large set was quite large.
“I’m glad you didn’t seem to be hurt. It’s like running away like this. If we continue like this, the dungeon will collapse and everyone will be crushed.”
Cookie ordered in a nervous voice. There was no reason to refuse, so we faced each other and nodded yes.
“It’s like running away carefully so you don’t get caught by those giants. The exit is…”
Cookie glances over the wreckage. The exit is quite far from here. Still closer than a giant.
“Let’s go. Be careful.”
Sasasak, we moved unnoticed behind rubble.
Blue doesn’t seem to have any strength in his legs yet, so he comes out from the side and Yura supports him and runs. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry…” I feel sorry for Blue, who sheds tears and apologizes. No. You can be scared in front of something like that. Sometimes, when I was in front of an angry mother, I was afraid and my legs gave out. It was fine until I found out that she was a woman, but after that, the pile of 〈 Witch Girl 〉 goods was discovered. I was scared of my mother at that time … But now my mother became a fan of her 〈 position girl 〉 too. But when will you return my stolen goods, mother?
“Where is it? Dangerous.”
Jump-!
A stone the size of a fist fell on her head and lightly cut it in two with a knife.
“I just need to get out of the room. If you go outside, you will be able to open up the space…”
“Oke oke. By the way, Cookie, you usually say you don’t know me, but what did you say today? Why are you nice Did you eat something wrong?”
“Because this body is made of kindness and love.”
“Are you crazy?”
“…It’s not like it’s weird. I hate it when someone like you dies. I just want to eat sweet desserts comfortably.”
If that’s the case, it would be nice if you could help out a little.
They said they didn’t know me when this side became a toy of monsters and was being harassed.
“It’s not like mechraks also have to eat. It’s not like you’re caught and killed by a monster, and while you’re living as livestock, other people are safe. Both of these are necessary actions. Do I need to intervene?”
“…You’re the one who made me become a magical girl in the first place.”
“If you give me the strength to fight, it’s enough, what more do you want? You’re like a child who wants to cook and even feed you. The mental level is just that. …What are those eyes? You want to fight? You think it won’t be good this time? I will respond with a fairy-style crushing fist and a cat-nyang punch!”
“Okay, today I’ll rip off your limbs and replace them with stitches!”
“Two, if you both make noise, you’ll be caught…!”
Yura is shh-shh-! While paying attention.
Anyway, that’s it. Cookie gave me the power as a magical girl, but it seems that she is not entirely on the human side.
Did you say there are multiple definitions?
〈 Mekrak 〉 has no choice but to steal magic from others in order to survive.
From the point of view of Earthlings, 〈 Mekrak 〉 is the worst enemy, but from the point of view of a third party, the invasion of 〈 Mekrak 〉 is simply an act to survive, and it is like the providence of nature.
The strong take from the weak. The weak are weeded out and the strong survive.
Originally, Earth should have been helplessly conquered by 〈 Mekrach 〉, whose technological power was several centuries ahead of them, but the grace period was only slightly longer due to the activities of 〈 Magical Girls 〉.
“But why are you guys helping us Earthlings?”
The question that popped out of nowhere didn’t go through her head, it just popped out as a reflex.
If you think about it, it’s an obvious question, but why didn’t I even think of it until now?
“…”
Strangely, however, when I asked a question, Cookie’s rare hardened face and stopped in the air. I, who followed him, followed him and stopped.
Did I ask a strange question?
The Earth has been able to withstand the invasion of 〈 Mekrak 〉 with the help of 〈 Magical Girl 〉.
And the 〈 Magical Girl 〉 power was provided by the cookie-like fairies of 〈 Magical Land 〉.
The reason why 〈 Mekrak 〉 is invading Earth is to exploit Earthlings’ magic power. The reason why 〈 Magical Girl 〉 protects the Earth is that the Earth is her hometown and at the same time has the benefit of 〈 points and 〉.
So, what is 〈 Magic Land 〉?
Why do fairies like cookies help us by giving us points?
It wasn’t Cookie who answered my question, but Yura, who was listening while moving alongside me.
“Sister, what are you talking about? Isn’t it natural for the fairies to help the Earth?”
“Of course…”
“Because the fairies are allies of the earth.”
No, what is that convenient title?
“Because fairies are on the side of Earthlings! That’s why I’m helping you!”
“No… It’s strange, that.”
“To? What?”
When Yura tilted her head, her soft bobbed hair came down. There was no question in her expression or in her voice. She truly believes she believes so.
Without reason, without reason.
“What makes it strange that fairies are allies of Earthlings?”
The eyes, like a pitch-black swamp, that have somehow lost their intelligence and do not allow objection.
I know these eyes.
Our eyes, which had been immersed in Peter’s hypnosis all along and forced to return to consciousness, felt exactly like this.
“Ugh…!?”
Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain in my head, and I fell staggering on the spot.
“Sister?!”
What the heck, my head hurts I feel like I’m remembering something.
Questions flow back and forth in my head. Something like a door that was forcibly blocked opens, and through that gap, questions that have never been thought of or were not allowed to be thought of come up.
“…!”
To have a headache.
I gritted my teeth and looked up at Cookie. The cause of this headache is…
“――The hypnosis seems to have been released.”
The cookie floating in the air muttered quietly.
What did you say? Hypnosis?
“Sister, sister ?! It’s okay?! Why are you suddenly collapsing?!”
“… K-nyang. I guess I have to run away now. Don’t be fooled by thoughts…”
Hypnosis. Mekrak. Magic Girl. Magic country. Fairy.
Each word goes round and round in my head. I don’t know where or how the connection points are. If I think about it a little, I feel like I know it, but if I tried to doubt it, I felt like I was going to throw up.
I don’t know why, but my anger flared up, and I glared at the cookie while gnashing my teeth.
Dimly, dimly. Cookie Guy seems to know that fairies have been messing with people’s heads. What have you done, you rotten bastards?
“Hey guys. Wait a minute. I don’t know what you’re talking about in a whisper.”
Alpha, who had been advancing while supporting Blue, came closer and patted me on the shoulder.
Alpha’s golden eyes, extremely nervous, are looking at the giant behind my back.
“I think we were caught…?”
“What…?!”
Following Alpha’s gaze, I turn my head, and next to the horse-headed giant who is rioting in the distance, the bull-headed giant is Diruk! He rolled his big eyes and glared at us.
I thought time had stopped. Either that or the heart stopped.
『Guoo—-』
“Run! Dali! Quickly!”
Particles began to gather in the mouth of the bull-headed giant, as we had shown a lot so far.
If it gets shot, everyone dies. You have to run before you get shot!
“Waaaaa!”
“Exit! The exit is right in front!”
Ride on! Kurreuk!
There was no need to hide and run away. We jumped over the rubble and ran in a straight line, slashing anything in our way with my sword or shattering it with Yura’s club.
With Yura’s shout, the exit was finally visible. The exit, which was made of heavy iron, was fortunately slightly open, perhaps because the monsters had left it open while running away.
If you push it open like this–!
I threw myself away thinking so, but
Kurrrr!!! Kurung!!
“””Ah…!!”””
With a new vibration from the horse-headed giant swinging its arms, a pile of stones collapsed from the ceiling, blocking the exit. We had no choice but to stop, stunned.
‘Oh My God. If this happens, how am I supposed to escape… No, if I clear the pile of rocks somehow…’
Without even a second to think about it, Alpha exclaimed urgently.
“Back! Come!!!”
『―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――!!!
The cow-headed giant, 〈 Bullhead God 〉, released a concentrated energy cannon with terrifying force, accompanied by a loud cry.
The vision is stained white.
“――――!”
I was at a loss for words and prepared to die at the terrifying energy body that crushes and annihilates everything it touches and even dries up the sea. As if it were their last attempt, they pushed Yura and Blue behind them and stood in front of them with Alpha.
If I had known it would be like this, I would have changed my costume. As for the warrior costume, 〈 mana management 〉 has been changed to 〈 swordsmanship 〉, so the body is not as strong as usual.
“Sss…Aaaaa!”
I stand with my sword in front of me, and Alpha is spinning 〈 lucky roulette 〉 as if right now. I don’t think the time is right though.
The energy cannon is slower than light, but it flew right in the blink of an eye anyway. The reason I could recognize it was because my five senses were strengthened with magical power, and most of all, it was because everything seemed slow, like the so-called ‘one second before death’.
Slowly but surely, with the signs of death approaching right in front of my eyes,
“Damn it!! If you die, I will resent you!!! Really!!”
“Uh…?”
In front of me and Alpha,
In the oblique line of the energy cannon fired.
Cookie suddenly came forward as if throwing herself.
