Volume 1 Chapter 18: Be Good, Then I’ll Like You
“A passing… magical girl?”
Hearing that, Heidi tilted her head in confusion, as if thinking about what Kaguya meant.
“So that means you are not our enemy?”
The girl spoke without thinking, looking a little lost.
After all, seeing how bloody and frightening this girl’s transformation had been, even Heidi herself had been shocked.
If someone said this girl was also an officer of their Empire, no one would doubt it.
Because in Heidi’s mind, magical girls should all be like that purple-haired one from before, shining brightly all over.
How could a magical girl look like this person, giving off danger from head to toe?
But right after speaking, it seemed she heard something again.
Startled, she quickly stepped back a few steps.
“Wah! I know already! I know they’re on the same side! Stop yelling at me!”
Heidi slapped her red cheeks hard, then looked seriously at Kaguya with her young face.
“This magical girl lady… if you are also our enemy, then we can only say that is unfortunate.”
“Fusion Beast, destroy them.”
As the girl softly gave the order, the huge disaster beast roared.
Its ugly wings trembled slightly, its eyes glowed red, and it coldly stared at Kaguya and Amethyst, as if looking at two dead people.
“…Are you really okay?”
Looking at Kaguya standing in front of her, Amethyst wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and forced herself to stand steady.
A trace of worry appeared on her pale face.
She did not know whether Bai Muxue was transforming for the first time, or if she had hidden this power all along.
But no matter what, fighting a disaster beast of this level alone was too dangerous.
“I think we should fight together—”
“Shhh~ Don’t always make that worried face.”
Before Amethyst could finish, the girl in front of her smiled that unreadable smile again.
Then Kaguya stood slightly on tiptoe and gently pressed a slender finger to Amethyst’s lips, telling her to be quiet.
“You should be a good girl. You are my possession, aren’t you? If you behave, then I’ll like you.”
“Eh…?”
Amethyst froze for a moment.
Then a strange haze appeared in her eyes.
For some reason, she felt that after transforming, Kaguya had a strange power.
That young voice, together with those shining eyes, gave off a dangerous charm.
A charm that made people want to fall into her spell, hold her small body in their arms, do whatever they wanted…
Even if it meant completely losing themselves, they would accept it willingly.
“Then… I’ll leave it to you…”
A strange numbness and weakness spread through Amethyst’s body.
The light around her disappeared, and her transformation ended.
She returned to her usual self, Shen Jingyi, cold and calm.
Her magic power had already been almost empty.
She had only forced herself to keep going in order to protect Bai Muxue.
Now, after Kaguya deliberately disturbed her heart, the exhaustion and sleepiness she had been suppressing rushed over her at once.
She slowly fell to the ground.
“Be careful…”
This monster healed much faster than magical girls.
Delaying the fight would only make things worse for them.
But just as Shen Jingyi finished warning her, Kaguya’s voice slowly sounded beside her ear again.
“Ah, Teacher Shen, don’t worry. I’ll handle it. But after this, you really owe me a favor, okay? After all, this is not included in the contract.”
Kaguya lightly jumped into the air above the disaster beast.
Compared to the giant monster, her small body looked like a blade of grass beside a mountain.
So tiny.
Ha… contract.
Hearing that, Shen Jingyi, who was usually calm and graceful, showed a rare helpless smile.
At a time like this, she was still thinking about that stupid contract...
“ROAR—!”
The disaster beast did not care that the magical girl in front of it had changed.
Its sharp claw swept toward Kaguya without mercy.
It seemed Kaguya had misjudged the beast’s speed.
She could not dodge in time, nor could she defend herself.
The attack hit her directly.
“What—?!”
Seeing this, Shen Jingyi felt her mind shake.
Her eyes widened in shock.
Even Heidi in the distance covered her mouth in surprise, as if expecting a terrible bloody scene.
Crack.
Countless cracks quickly spread across the girl’s whole body.
Her figure blurred, then shattered like glass.
The expected scene never happened.
Other than broken glass pieces flying everywhere, Kaguya herself was nowhere to be seen.
Even the disaster beast stared blankly at its own claw, then looked around at the empty space.
Its mind was not smart, but even it knew hitting a human should not feel like that.
“That was… a mirror?”
Is that her power?
Before Shen Jingyi could think further, Kaguya suddenly appeared behind the beast.
A faint blue light glowed in her palm.
Then, as if casually, she blew the blue light toward the beast’s swinging tail.
The dark blue light shot out at once, bringing freezing cold with it.
Even the windows of the nearby buildings were covered in thick ice.
The huge beast could not react in time. Its giant tail was instantly frozen layer by layer, the ice spreading rapidly. It screamed in pain again.
The frozen tail distracted the beast.
While rolling and crying out, it swung another sharp claw toward Kaguya.
But the moment the claw touched her, her body shattered like glass again.
This time, she slipped past the beast’s side and appeared above its head. Then the girl slowly made a finger-gun shape with her slender hand.
“Bang.”
No extra movement.
No wand.
A blazing light instantly covered the beast’s body.
It pierced through the creature’s hard skin, and roaring flames rushed inside, swallowing its body whole.
Waves of heat spread everywhere.
First ice.
Then fire.
The beast’s entire body was burned black. Its roar shook the sky. Its huge body rolled wildly, pulling electric wires in every direction.
Bricks and concrete rained down like falling stones.
Kaguya’s long hair danced in the wind. But her eyes showed no emotion at all.
Her young pretty face was full of coldness. The cute and charming look from before was gone.
What remained was an overwhelming pressure that could not be described.
“It is your fault for annoying me.”
Another wave of flames roared forward.
At last, the disaster beast stopped struggling.
Its violent movements slowly ended.
Its huge body collapsed onto the already ruined ground with a heavy crash, shaking the area.
There was no life left in it.
Three moves.
Against the terrifying disaster beast that Amethyst had struggled so hard against, Kaguya only needed three moves.