Prologue: You Are Mine
Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by name, you are mine.
I had said I wanted to quit every single day, but I never imagined it would happen like this.
Crash— rumble.
The workplace that at least paid well was collapsing around me. It had never been a legal job, of course.
With my body in tatters, I forced myself to look around. Villains desperately trying to escape. Villains fighting to the bitter end. The rising morning sun. And beneath that morning light, the Magical Girls and their allies, shining so brilliantly it hurt.
The radiance was too dazzling. I closed my eyes.
"You're awake?"
"That... maybe..."
"No."
The Rank 1 Magical Girl—and my childhood friend, Lee Narin.
I had been kidnapped by her.