Thus began the second monster capture operation, with only the people changed.
By coincidence or fate, the place where the monster appeared was familiar to Sun’s mascots.
Not long ago, well, it had been a while…
It was the apartment where Magical Girl Sun had failed to capture a monster.
Cautiously, Magical Girl Moon and the two mascots flew around the stairs to avoid people’s gazes, reaching a structure on the rooftop.
On the wall of that structure was the hole that Sun had made.
Of course, the wall had been repaired by the apartment managers, and the stone debris scattered on the floor had been cleaned up neatly.
Additionally, there were no trespassing tape sectioning off the area until the cement fully dried out, just in case people unconsciously passed by.
The newly coated, gleaming gray cement filled the hole.
“How long has it been since I dropped it, and now I’m told to find it…?”
Beyond that, a Magical Girl and two mascots were muttering about their target.
Grumbling, grumbling…
If the monster’s complaints were to be expressed in text, it would feel that way.
Muttering to itself, not looking for anyone to answer.
The transmission device dropped around December.
So it was only in January, after the new year, that they sent him back to find it…
Naturally, it was no surprise that neither the device nor even the broken debris was present.
Even if he was ignorant of Earth’s circumstances, fixing a building broken by something was a standard action for living beings forming a society. Moreover, if the transmission device had remained there, it was obvious that someone would have claimed it.
The monster, sweeping over the empty floor, was feeling self-loathing or emptiness from such a meaningless task.
“Is it inside…?”
A glimmer of hope, which seemed pointless even when it spoke for itself.
Clinging to that faint thread, the monster turned the doorknob.
The rooftop door, which hadn’t even been locked, opened far too easily…
With a creak, the two beings, separated by a wall, faced each other without having time to prepare mentally.
“Uh.”
“Eh.”
A surprised exclamation layered too abruptly.
The Magical Girl hadn’t expected the monster to open the door and enter the building.
The monster hadn’t suspected there’d be a Magical Girl lying in wait inside the building.
In an instant, the apartment rooftop froze colder than a winter’s icy blast.
“Graaaah!”
Startled, the monster swung violently, and the burst of ice flowers blossomed sharply like a surging current.
“Wha—! That startled me…”
The monster’s sudden appearance at the door led to a reflexive use of its powers.
The passage to the outside froze along with the monster.
Fortunately, the monster didn’t seem to be dead… instead, it was trapped in ice, shivering from the cold.
‘Okay, then, should I… capture it?’
Once the startled heart calmed down, it realized it had meant to ask something… allowing for some leisurely thought.
What had Bear and Baemi said?
Ah, right. That.
‘Recently, if you see Mari’s face, you disappear…’
“Um…”
After recalling what it wanted to ask, it cautiously uttered the first line to start a conversation.
Come to think of it, this might be the first time it was directly talking to a monster.
Or was it? Not sure. I don’t remember every single day from kindergarten when I first became a Magical Girl.
“J-ju, jujuh….”
The monster, frozen within the ice.
It seemed unable to move its body and stared with only its eyes blinking, making faint sounds as if it was murmuring something.
“Excuse me?”
“If it’s to kill me… just do it quickly….”
Straining to hear, its ear drew closer to catch the monster’s words, which were telling it to hurry up and kill it.
It had just intended to ask, but the monster seemed to struggle against the cold.
What to do? There were a few things it wanted to ask…
In this situation, Sun… what would Mari have done?
‘Let’s ask Bear.’
Without saying a word, leaving the monster alone, it stepped slightly down the stairs to check what it had in its pocket.
Just in case the mascots might find it inconvenient, they went down far enough that the monster wouldn’t see.
Mascots typically don’t reveal themselves in front of monsters.
“What would Sun do in this situation?”
“If it were Sun, hmmm….”
Bear’s murmured contemplation followed briefly.
With anticipation, it gazed intently at Bear’s face alongside Baemi.
It was clear that Bear had witnessed the actions of Magical Girl Sun the most closely.
What would Sun have done in such a situation? Surely he had some idea in his head.
After waiting, Bear finally spoke.
“Something like, ‘If you tell me all you know, I’ll let you die quickly’…?”
“Uh…Would, would she really say that?”
A chilling statement slipped out nonchalantly, causing it to tilt its head.
Huh, was that the vibe?
Baemi, listening from the side, nodded, seeming to agree.
“Right, that’s what she’d say.”
“D-Did you both think so too…?”
With a puzzled and slightly flustered expression, it asked them both again.
Somehow, it felt quite different from Mari’s usual image.
Though her words were harsh, she was a kind person; is that how it seemed from the outside?
It had expected an answer stating otherwise, but the two mascots were resolute.
“Yes.”
“Yep.”
As their answers overlapped, it began to ascend the stairs again, somewhat sulking.
“‘If you tell me all you know, I’ll let you die quickly,’ huh?”
Could a Magical Girl say such a thing?
Well, but still, in order to obtain unknown information…
It would have to act like a bad Magical Girl toward the monster.
“Phew, ahem.”
As a Magical Girl climbed the stairs, taking a deep breath and clearing her throat, at that moment.
The monster, having opened the door unexpectedly and frozen, was engulfed in a confusing pain, which it couldn’t quite comprehend, whether it was being burned or frozen, staring intently down the stairway where she had gone.
After a moment, it barely managed to align its gaze with the Magical Girl who was climbing the stairs again.
I want to feel better soon. I want to die.
When a living being is engulfed in pain covering their entire body, such thoughts can arise; it had never known that before.
“If you tell me everything you know, I’ll let you die comfortably!”
“Wha-what are you…?”
Engulfed in the sensation of freezing or burning to death.
At her sudden words, fearing the proposal would vanish, the monster hastily responded.
Though she spoke with a calm expression about death, it was so firm it felt terrifying enough to almost be repulsive.
As if to say, “I’m not used to this kind of thing…”
Even the polite way she spoke in this situation felt fearsome and detestable.
How terrifying it was for a girl accustomed to defeating monsters to say that with such an expression…
The monster realized right there what true madness and fear was, frozen in place.
“I-I heard that lately when a Magical Girl appears, they disappear right then….”
“Y-Yes, it’s true….”
The monster’s words, once clear, trailed off as it struggled to form coherent syllables.
It must not be irritated by the mood even slightly.
If asked, it would answer everything without exception.
That was the one thought tightly packed in its mind.
“Why is that?”
“Um, that’s….”
With quaking pronunciations, it conveyed as much as it could.
From the monsters’ perspective, the battles occurring in the ‘black zone’ were already ‘fights they absolutely cannot win.’
Facing a battle with no chance of victory, rather than participating, the commanders judged it was better to just leave dust on the face.
Also—there was the existence of the ‘reverse transmission device,’ which had now become even possible to produce for monsters arriving at the ‘black zone.’
Thanks to that device, when faced with a Magical Girl, they immediately returned to safety became a trend.
They said it was a type of reflex testing, revealing everything thoroughly.
“Th-this is… it?”
“Got it, thanks for telling me!”
As soon as that was said, the monster’s vision was covered in ice, and its thoughts came to an abrupt halt.
In the void of pain, a beautifully adorned staff was rapidly closing the distance before its eyes.
The ice, shattering like glass fragments while simultaneously focusing its gaze, revealed the shattering of its own body.
However, even in such a grim sight, no pain or thought remained.
At that moment of liberation from pain, the monster’s final emotions were actually relief and joy.
“What do I do…?”
Left behind at the scene of destruction was Magical Girl Moon, Siyeon.
Though she had acted impulsively in surprise, the rooftop door and its entrance lay in shambles along with the scattered ice flower remnants.
Upon the monster’s defeat, the two mascots, emerging from her pocket, directed their gaze toward her.
While she looked as if she’d committed a great sin, the two mascots remained indifferent.
“What can we do about something that’s already wrecked?”
“Right, let’s leave it to the adults.”
“Y-Yeah, we should do that…?”
With no other options available, she bashfully scratched her cheek while there was nothing else she could do but leave the scene.
And then, that dawn.
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