A pink aura swirled around Candy Star, and the power of starlight seeped into her.
A considerable amount of magical power for just 1%.
PAAAH!
Her pink hair radiated light.
With a sound of “charaang~”, pink magical energy enveloped the pure white Holy Candy Stick.
Finally, her white boots stomped down hard, echoing with a KUNG!
“With the power of love and justice! Candy Star transform!”
The arrival of the magical girl was announced.
“…Wow.”
Clap clap clap.
[Oh]
[Transformation LOL]
[Magical girl LOLLLLL]
[HHHHHHHHH]
[Wow, wowwww..!]
[You’re the best, Candy Star!]
[WAAAAA!!!]
[HHHHHHHHH]
[That’s so embarrassing]
[Look at Yena clapping, LOL]
[Yena LOL]
[Candy Star’s face is turning red]
[Oh my]
[My hands and feet]
“…Damn.”
“You’re amazing, Candy Star!”
“…Quickly! Let’s hurry!”
With a face flushed red, Candy Star swung her pink candy stick with a swoosh, readying herself for battle.
Her pink eyes sparkled like stars.
Yena also took a serious stance, gripping two daggers.
A somewhat silly transformation, but it felt undeniably different from before.
‘But somehow it feels familiar…’
─Now, we will begin in 5 seconds.
The odds were 57.1% to 42.9%.
Yena had a slightly higher bet, but the difference wasn’t significant.
“Huuh…”
“……”
After 5 seconds had passed.
Peeet!
The blade of the dagger grazed the magical girl’s outfit.
“…!”
■
Magical girls.
Girls who gain the power of magic through the mascots of the Magical Kingdom.
All of them are strong and fight using magic or powerful weapons.
Naturally, magical girls are more powerful after transformation than before.
While they’re ordinary people before transformation, they become entirely different beings after, especially when transforming into their ‘battle form’, the combat power surges dramatically.
In other words, Magical Girl Candy Star’s combat strength was several times stronger than usual.
“Ugh!”
KWAANG!
The candy imbued with pink magical power struck the ground.
Along with dazzling starlight, the car in front was completely crushed.
But it only smashed the innocent car and the ground beneath it.
Sre…
She couldn’t catch Yena, who was dodging nimbly in her transparent state.
Peepeek!
Rather, her slightly exposed attacks from the daggers were causing scratches to accumulate.
Not critical hits, but if the wounds continued to stack, there would definitely be a problem.
[Candy Star! The enemy is tougher than we thought!]
“I know!”
Wuuung…!
The starlight pouring from the candy stick crashed down.
A technique that had once annihilated the monster alliance’s monsters in the past.
“Magical Crush!!”
“Kwaghaghaghagha!!!”
As the giant lollipop slammed into the ground, pink starlight poured forward like a wave.
Yena, who was evading in a state of invisibility, hurriedly pulled back, but it was already too late.
Puhwaaaak!
The wave of starlight grazed Yena’s shoulder.
Literally grazing, yet it still took out about half her stamina.
Taking advantage of the moment, Candy Star soared into the air and dropped straight towards Yena’s position.
“Magical Landing!!”
With a deafening noise that felt like a bomb going off, the glass windows of the already crumbling buildings shattered completely.
It was nothing short of overwhelming destruction.
[Wow]
[Is this just 1%?]
[LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO]
[OMG]
[Magical girls are invincible]
[Candy Star! Candy Star! Candy Star! Candy Star! Candy Star!]
[Is the end of the world for the regulars coming? LOL?]
[Transformed magical girls are invincible, LOL]
[Hero landing OMG]
[Magical girl (physical)]
[Yena’s death?]
[?]
[The end?]
As smoke billowed up and Candy Star finished her landing, she twirled the lollipop over her shoulder.
Anyone who witnessed that tragic scene would think it was over.
─That’s not true.
But I saw it.
Just before Candy Star fell, Yena made a shadow jump.
And the destination of that shadow jump was…
“One-hit kill.”
It was towards Candy Star’s neck.
■
“Kwaha! Finally killed that damn magical girl!”
“Damn it, she was such a pain. Unlike the other magical girls, she was just tough.”
“Kekeke… But I killed her, right? I want to see the looks on the faces of that magical kingdom’s folks. They thought that girl was so great…”
“Kwhaaaak!”
“How is she still alive! I definitely killed her!”
“Why?”
[Candy Star the Magical Girl won’t lose! Love and justice are with me!]
Indeed, love and justice…
No, that’s not it.
“Of course! I absolutely won’t die.”
A magical girl has two lives.
■
“I did it!”
Seeing that her attack had landed perfectly on Candy Star, Yena cheered inwardly.
One-hit kill.
She poured everything she could into her unique trait of ambush bonus damage.
This was enough damage to surely kill her.
As expected, Candy Star toppled over and rolled across the ground.
“She’s pretty strong.”
Familiar as it was, this magical girl seemed to be a hidden class, so it was incredibly tough.
Maintaining invisibility while sneaking in damage was not an easy task at all.
There were real moments when she almost got hit hard.
If she hadn’t steadily learned the Spear’s Roar and increased her understanding of mana, she would have 100% lost.
If Junhi hadn’t mastered the roar of the spear and increased her understanding of mana, she would have lost 100%.
‘There are so many talented people, just as I expected.’
“Phew…”
The invisibility wore off.
Yena looked once more at the fallen Candy Star and then gazed upward.
And she quickly leaped up.
Kwahwahwahwahbang—!!!
A strike that turned the spot where Yena had been into dust.
With a blast sound, Candy Star, with her black hair scattered, made a click sound in disappointment.
“I could have killed you.”
“…Resurrection?”
“Magical girls have two lives.”
One before transformation, and one after.
Candy Star nodded with two fingers and then stepped back.
Yena, who had been watching her intently, let out a faint laugh.
The profession’s trait is resurrection, huh?
Is it really a hidden class?
Whew.
“And though it’s temporary… ”
Candy Star, not in transformation, is weak.
Having died once and now out of transformation, it’s only normal for her to be unable to use her powers.
But the lollipop Candy Star raised was exuding a stronger power than ever.
“Right now, I’m stronger than before.”
“…That’s unexpected.”
“Isn’t it?”
A pink light gushed from the fingertips of the grinning Candy Star, something incomparable to before.
By the way, why the sudden informal talk?
I wanted to ask that, but Yena actually knew the answer.
Such abilities must surely come with penalties.
Transformation always having a trigger phrase as a penalty, doesn’t resurrection have one too?
…Thinking back, Deoen is truly a crazy game.
To think a mere game could mess with a person’s mental state.
“You’re the third one to kill me in my transformed state.”
“Is there anyone who’s killed me twice?”
“Nope, not until now.”
Really?
So, I’m the first, then?
“Yielding…”
Puhwahah!
[…Hmm?]
[?]
[?]
[Why death?]
[Whoa]
[Hahahahahahahahaha]
[???: No one has killed me (instant death)]
[What’s that?]
[What’s a Magical Girl!!]
The roar that tore apart the front literally erased Candy Star.
And it was done flawlessly and precisely without a single mistake.
Yena stared blankly at the pure white dagger in her hand.
“…Did it work?”
Why did it work?
But why am I so sleepy?
“Uh-oh.”
A sudden urgent sound resonated in the space.
But more than that, it felt like I would die…
─Miss Yena! Right now, immediately…
■
Yena collapsed.
Literally, Yena, who had collapsed, lost consciousness without even logging out, and the duel was temporarily halted.
…To cut to the chase, it’s my fault.
This place is where “that” and I used to train, battling each other at an equal level.
I remembered this place while looking at the great altar on Kiki Island.
Kiki looked at the great altar on Kiki Island and recalled this place.
The great altar is a spiritual world, detached from reality.
Although the altar and this place are a bit different, their nature is similar, straying significantly from conventional laws.
The most representative of these is the techniques that touch upon the ‘soul.’
The Devil’s martial art, Black Dragon, and Candy Star’s Magical Girl transformation are examples.
They resist constraints like a seal to some extent, but conversely, they have side effects that influence the soul.
This space amplifies such techniques, allowing them to be used better, but it also affects the soul more.
Of course, it wasn’t to a serious extent, so it was not a concern.
The problem was with the Celestial Race’s techniques.
The chosen battlegrounds are not virtual spaces.
They are all real locations, slightly modified and constrained to create a space.
It was set up to pursue more variety and usability, but ironically, that became a poison.
‘The moment the “limit” that the system had been protecting was completely released.’
The physical form that does not suffer from the pain of users, or the mind protected from external threats, all stem from the system.
No matter how strong the pressure or pain comes, it has a transcendent ability to block it down to below a certain level.
However, the techniques of the Celestial and Demon Races were difficult for even that system to block, leading to side effects where pain was applied in reality.
The problem was that as the world instantaneously flipped, part of the system protecting Yena came to a halt.
Yena, who had already learned how to use it, unleashed the spear’s roar as usual, and her soul was literally shattered.
Fortunately, the system that blocks external threats was intact, so Candy Star who took the hit was unharmed, but…
“……”
“Uh… what’s wrong?”
Leo, who had approached without me noticing, asked worriedly.
Did the chat window also catch onto the seriousness? The situation was filled with question marks.
I shook my head.
“Not yet.”
Should I be grateful that I haven’t logged out yet?
Or should I consider it a natural progression since the system had already stopped?
Whatever it is, if it were the real me, there would have been no way out.
However, the content being shown might lead to some misunderstandings…
“Everything happening here is just treatment. Please don’t misunderstand.”
[What is going on?]
[?]
[Is something wrong?]
As everyone was filled with questions.
My hand plunged into Yena’s chest.
[?]
[?????]
[Gasp]
[What are you doing…?]
[▣WhiteFall: Sir…?]
[Oh my]
[Is this broadcastable?]
[OMG]
[????????????????????????]
Support me by donating at least $10, and you'll have the right to request any novel from Novelpia (excluding 19+ content) using a newly developed tool.
