The ship was caught in a chaotic situation without any explanation.
Once they realized that the invader was the Magical Girl Sun, some monsters remained oddly calm…
“Could it just be that she took a wrong turn?”
These were, after all, a few monsters who had talked with Sun after negotiations. The Magical Girl Sun they remembered, although identified as an enemy, was like an older brother who would at least consider their situation and answer their questions.
In the impression that Magical Girl Sun was a sensible being, they were the type to view the invasion itself with suspicion.
“Are you crazy!? Don’t avoid reality!”
Of course, such extreme opinions were quickly silenced by others saying, ‘She’s finally lost it.’
Then there were the spirited monsters who had only heard about Magical Girl Sun’s strength.
With a self-sacrificing spirit, they thought, “Aren’t we all just the same kind of Magical Girl?” and decided to head toward where she was to stall for time.
The problem was that instead of stalling, they ended up getting captured and turned into a mobile vending machine spilling information.
That wasn’t Sun’s intention either, but as monsters started to invade, she simply subdued them and only asked what she was curious about.
“Where’s that monster called Medic Tentacle?”
“C-Cough… why would I tell you that! I would die a hundred times before I could ever say it!”
After wandering the ship for twenty minutes, the repetitive and constant security announcements inside the ship led to a ringing in my ears.
Despite asking in the loudest voice possible after subduing the invading monsters, the returns were only negative responses mixed with resolute refusals like, “Absolutely not,” and “Never.”
They seemed to think I was calling for a higher-up to resolve issues…
But I’m also in trouble without you guys.
You want me to bring someone who can talk, right? Is that so hard to understand?
“I’m losing my mind here.”
After venting such complaints in my mind, an anxiety that had been ignoring me quietly enveloped my heart.
This can’t really go on, right?
I still need to make dinner, do the laundry, and clean up.
With no choice, I ripped off every door I saw in a frenzy to find where that tentacle or octopus monster was.
The unpleasant sound of metal twisting cruelly was made.
Not caring whether it’s unpleasant or not, I pulled off door after door at regular intervals.
In a situation where it seemed like I couldn’t ever return home, what did a little noise matter?
By the thirty-fourth dismantled door, my hands were beginning to get the hang of it.
As I spent more time on the ship, the speed of tearing off doors began to accelerate.
What started as a door being ripped off every three seconds sped up to 2.9 seconds, 2.7 seconds, 2.3 seconds, 2 seconds…
By the time I felt I was noticeably quicker, I…
“Hmm?”
I found a room that looked out of place at first glance.
It appeared to be a sealed room not used for a while, with no power supplied.
There were several futuristic devices and tools, but it seemed they hadn’t been used for quite a long time… dust was piled high.
While my mind was captivated by the strangely mysterious room and I looked around for a moment…
Suddenly, a jolt covered my body as if the ship had settled down.
“Uh-oh?”
Immediately after the shock… I started floating.
It was the zero-gravity state I had only heard about; come to think of it, this was space, right?
The very fact that there was downward gravity was strange.
It felt considerably uncomfortable to move my body compared to swimming.
Holding the backpack tightly to avoid its contents spilling out, I began to move, grabbing items around me with one hand.
I had no clue what caused this phenomenon, but with awkward movements due to the sudden change, I left the room in search of the next one.
“…Has it stopped?”
“…Yes, for now.”
In response to Sun’s indiscriminate violence, it was the executives in the control room and their subordinate monsters.
They too had the desire to escape, as abundant as the stars in the galaxy.
However, the executive Asura had a sense of responsibility. The other monsters felt pressured with their boss nearby.
Due to such feelings of helplessness, they held their ground and ended up serving as a barrier that slowed down Sun’s advance.
From the control room, they could see the situation on the ship at a glance.
Destruction of the entrance to room 579, destruction of the entrance to room 580.
As phrases appeared one after another on the control panel, they acted to slow down the damage by disabling the ship’s gravity control.
“Magical Girl Sun has now exited the monster development room.”
“Well, that’s a blessing in this misfortune…”
The catastrophe named Sun, the disaster that bore that name, faced by champions.
But even that was merely delaying the ship’s destruction a little longer.
In just ten minutes, measured by earthly standards, the rate of damage to the ship resumed accelerating as if they had grown accustomed to the zero-gravity conditions.
Suddenly, the monsters in the control room began to question the actions of Sun, who was ripping off every door.
In the silence-laden control room, one finally spoke up.
“By the way, doesn’t it seem like she’s searching for something?”
“Hmmm….”
Asura, the executive, let out a vague grunt in response.
It wasn’t just he who felt that something was off about Sun’s actions.
In this extremely serious and precarious situation, they simply hadn’t been able to bring it up.
They all recalled the unprecedented damage done to the ship during the Clone Sun incident.
Tearing through thick metal walls like paper, that nightmare presence that had easily overpowered everything visible in front of them.
If she was stronger than that clone, why was she searching instead of causing destruction?
While the uneasiness was felt strongly among them, there was no monster brave enough to ask directly.
The only one who had talked with her was Medic Tentacle from the recovery room.
It was impossible to guess the thoughts of someone without even having a conversation.
“For now, let’s try connecting to the recovery room.”
“Yes, understood.”
Amid the chaos on the ship, Medic Tentacle, who received the communication from the control room late, heard the fact that Sun was the cause of the confusion that could be called a Great Depression, and the gazes of the recovery room monsters turned hopeful toward him.
Only one monster could put an end to this disastrous situation.
Those hopeful gazes instead hurt him deeply, piercing his heart.
“Why does it have to be me again?”
Medic Tentacle.
He was afraid of the usual fears, terrified of the terrifying.
But in the past, there was a single instance of courage.
That brief moment of small courage had unleashed a massive butterfly effect.
Before long, he had solidified his position as the only weapon capable of talking to Magical Girl Sun while also being the recovery room executive…
Following the previous sortie, after the monster combatant was sent to the black zone and died without even having a chance to take a single step, his position had only grown more secure.
However, the hopeful gazes of the subordinate monsters filled with expectations were now mixed with fear for the future when those gazes could turn into disappointment.
“Hah…”
More than the fear of Sun, he was ultimately afraid of the future where those gazes would change to disappointment, and so he left the recovery room with a deep sigh.
As though guided there, he received kind directions to Sun’s expected route.
Would he survive today? His mind was filled with negative thoughts.
At last, when he faced that terrifying being not on land but aboard the ship…
“Oh! I found you.”
“Ah, I’m alive.”
Reacting to her finding him, Medic Tentacle inwardly sighed in relief that he was alive.
At least, it wasn’t a hostile reaction, and he was deeply thankful for that.
Once Sun’s movements stopped in whatever corridor on the ship due to Medic Tentacle, the incessant alarms also ceased.
At that moment, even though it might not have reached far into the ship…
The monsters in the control room cheered Medic Tentacle’s courage, exalting his status.
In the corridor where the two life signs had come to a halt.
What conversation was taking place there, the monsters in the control room could not even dare to speculate.
Was Medic Tentacle firmly telling the Magical Girl to go back?
Or was he displaying astonishing eloquence to placate her?
Either way, it was likely content that they couldn’t possibly imagine.
…They thought so.
“So, I accidentally came here, and everyone I meet wants to fight, and I was looking for you.”
“Ah… I see.”
In reality, it was Magical Girl Sun answering, ‘It was an accident’ to Medic Tentacle’s question, ‘Why did you come all the way here?’
With such a simple human reason instead of any grand context, even Medic Tentacle stammered, surprised.
His enormous bag, the size of his own body, had a device placed inside, which made the resulting disaster occur.
And to think the reason for all those ripped-off doors was to find him.
It was a reason for a behavior he couldn’t report officially.
No matter how dedicated he was to the collective, he couldn’t handle the aftermath of fifty-seven doors torn off the ship.
“Well then, allow me to guide you to the teleport room, so please follow me…”
Under the kind direction of the executive, the Magical Girl Sun was able to return to Earth.
What remained on the ship that was left in chaos was the obligation to repair the fifty-seven ripped-off doors.
“Damn it, how the hell am I supposed to report this without mentioning the Magical Girl’s invasion?”
“If word gets to the higher-ups that a Magical Girl entered the ship, we’re done for. Let’s just say it was an incident of group food poisoning during battle rations or something.”
“Ugh…”
…And thus the deep sigh of the resource management monsters, who had to bear this burden.
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