The Line That Must Be Protected (7)
I became a strange tentacled monster and fell into the Demon Realm. And in that world of survival of the fittest, I ended up becoming the pinnacle there.
The most important thing I learned was to abandon my old self. To become a demon race, a Demon King, ruling over the Demon Realm.
It intensified my nostalgia, but it was a big help for my survival, so I have no regrets.
"What the hell, what are you doing!"
"Have you never seen a magical girl working? Killing evil people to build up performance points."
The purple-haired magical girl screamed in shock, but I didn't care and rolled on the ground, kicked her with my foot, and hurled her down to the apartment below.
"N-no, don't say nonsense!"
"If not, how could I touch this body of mine? In fact, the performance points have risen, right?"
"That's completely disrupting the order! Most magical girls follow the social order and laws of their respective countries and act accordingly!"
Even as I smirked, her pale face twisted into an expression of madness as she yelled at the top of her lungs.
"According to what you say, there are many people caught in this apartment too. The company's criteria for good and evil often differ from modern Earth humans! If through the media, celebrities slander specific individuals, turn them into the perpetrators, and frame them falsely. There are tens of millions of people who don't know anything and blindly follow. You will kill all of them as evil people...?"
"Too many, it's annoying. But I can't just do nothing."
Her face grew even paler. But I was serious.
"Good and evil? Those are just useless illusions and fabrications. The truth is only one: one's own power. The strong are good, order, and justice. Do you think that's idealistic? Do you think I'm crazy? The system has been like that from the beginning, what's wrong with it."
I laughed at her stupid face. To others, I might look like an irregular, but I was simply riding the existing order as is.
I just took the positions of the magical girl companies that were leading the order until now, and did as they acted.
"I have been moving according to the order you all created so far. I haven't violated a single rule. If you have complaints, challenge me anytime."
"...You're still young, you don't understand. The world isn't about living alone."
"That's right. That might be true. So, challenge me. Challenge and defeat me, trample me. Then you can realize your definition with me."
Her words made me laugh. If she's older than me, does that mean she's an old lady in her 100s?
As expected, they couldn't attack me.
"If you can't, step aside. I still have things to do."
At the moment the police broke the door and entered the house, I floated towards the empty space where the people below were gathered.
The rookie patrolman who opened the door and came in was so shocked by the corpses with their necks torn off that he vomited.
"You will be harshly judged sooner or later."
"Judgment. That sounds appealing."
Her words weren't threatening at all. It was something to be looked forward to. Who could judge the Demon King of the Demon Realm, whom even the Archangels of the Celestial Realm dare not mess with.
"...Those kids are still chasing me."
"Doesn't matter."
I crossed the sky quickly. The magical girls were still chasing me from behind, but they were just annoying flies. I was going to leave them behind until I returned.
"How the hell are you trying to find Mammut?!"
"I'm wondering that too."
Ren, sitting on my uniform, said that. I straightened my body in the air.
Clearly, how could I find that Mammut guy who's moving with some purpose. Ironically, the only clue was the underground organization I advised Aria to look into.
"...I can't move unless it's night."
Because I have to live a normal life to maintain my identity, my activity range was narrower than Aria, who is a collaborator of the Management Bureau and a high school student.
It was unsettling that I might lose the bet with Aria. More annoying than the words to stop killing was the fact that I might lose the bet.
"What about Aria? Did she achieve results?"
"I won't tell you even if you ask."
"...If I tear off one of your seniors' limbs here?"
I tried to threaten her with a bit of seriousness, but the purple-haired one, seeming older, shook her head with a firm face.
Since I had no intention of touching her, I sighed.
"Are you giving up?"
"Are you crazy? I'm a body that can never lose to anyone."
I shook my head firmly at Ren's words. I moved the shadows full of my power. I was a pure physical type, didn't like using magic much, but I could use it if needed.
"U-uuuaaah..."
"What the hell is this..."
The magical girls recoiled in horror. Unbothered, I used the shadows wrapping my body to float a tree in the air above the city.
At the ends of numerous branches, there were big and small eyes blinking. This was a magic to summon eyes so you can see anywhere.
"S-so! Can you see Mammut!?"
Ren, hanging on my skirt, shouted. I can see it. But it wasn't the information I wanted.
Mammut was nowhere to be seen, instead, Aria and the magical girls fighting someone were visible.
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"Ah, no... I can't touch her!"
"Hena!"
In the dark night, the formation of the magical girls who raided a certain street collapsed as is.
Among the magical girls who were holding shields, spears, etc., and taking the front, a normal-looking girl of similar age had dug in.
However, this girl with a doll-like frozen expression wasn't wearing the magical girl's vestment. In that state, she was fighting equally with the magical girls.
"Aah!"
One of the magical girls was hit in the stomach by her swing of a hand burning fiercely and rolled on the ground. No mercy in that strike.
The girl was really swinging her power with the intent to kill the magical girls.
"Retreat. I can't respond... Kyaaah!"
Moreover, there were more than just this girl. Soon, organization members equipped with armaments came attacking with magic bullets and net guns for magical girls.
'I was careless.'
Aria bit her teeth so hard it felt like blood.
She had focused only on gathering info about the organization and hadn't prepared enough for when they actually face them.
It was true that she moved quickly by separating from the police and Management Bureau who were always with her, but thanks to that, the magical girls had no choice but to be at a loss against this experimental girl who couldn't be touched.
She thought one or two would be easy to suppress, but the organization wasn't so easy.
"Kuh!"
"It's Aria! Kk..."
So she charged at the organization members first.
Those who were hit in the vital points by her punches and kicks collapsed on the ground with a thud.
"..."
She grabbed the net gun flying towards her and tore it apart. Her power was already enough that even if it wasn't just the experimental girl, she could wipe out the whole organization by herself.
'No rebar... or anything.'
Aria tried to restrain the experimental girl like Takilas did in a hurry, but unfortunately, there was nothing useful around.
"Ah, Aria!"
"I have no choice but to catch the leader of the people controlling that kid!"
Ignoring Lulu's shout, she ran to the abandoned factory next to the street where the organization members were coming out.
Even though automatic rifles appeared to stop her in this country with gun regulations, the S-rank magical girl broke through all those defenses and knocked down the organization members.
'As fast as possible.'
While her comrades bought time against the experimental girl, she had to finish it.
Aria grabbed the collar of the knocked-out organization member and threw him away. She stood in front of the passage to the underground, panting.
"Don't move!"
Aria, who shattered the thick iron doors locked triple-layered with a fist burning with flames in one breath, entered the secret underground laboratory of the organization.
In the widest central hall there, the head of the organization, Andrei, who had fled here, and the mid-level executives were waiting.
"The brat is making a fuss for nothing. Grab him."
"T-this..."
Following Andrei's command, three men in black uniforms and masks rushed forward quickly.
While Aria, startled by their movements beyond human, raised her guard first, their fists indiscriminately stabbed into her belly, side, etc.
"The Super Soldier project is now outdated, but this is definitely a valuable experiment."
"Kuh... Horrible experiment again."
Aria grabbed their fists, gritted her teeth, and threw them away in one breath.
The last remaining one kicked her in the neck, but she knocked it away with her elbow and then delivered a punch to the chest of the opponent whose leg was broken.
"..."
Andrei's face hardened at the sight of the man spitting blood foam flying under his feet.
"So this is different from the famous S-rank, huh?"
"A.. no..."
But Aria soon staggered in despair.
When the researchers who were deliberately blocking with their bodies moved aside, three girls with clear surgical scars on their heads ran towards her while burning black flames.