Chapter 20
Chapter 20
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 20
Chapter Title: The Visitor
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"...A house? Mascots have houses?"
"I can walk around in human form like this, so of course I have a place to live."
"...How'd you make the money?"
"We mascots get a fat stipend when we come to Earth. The seniors said it was a hassle getting it in cash... but cards work fine these days, right?"
Solia showed off a mysteriously sleek black card pinched between her index and middle fingers.
"Roughly 3 billion won."
"What?!"
Hwa-yeon jumped in shock at the massive sum—way bigger than she'd expected.
Solia waved it off like it was nothing and urged her to get ready quick.
Hwa-yeon washed up in a flash and threw on a crop knit with skinny jeans.
She grabbed her long golden blonde hair and tied it into a ponytail. Solia clapped in admiration.
"Definitely pretty, huh? As expected from my magical girl. A magical girl has to be beautiful."
"Whatever. So where's this house?"
"Just follow me. I'll show you around the neighborhood on the way. Oh, and outside, call me 'Sori.' Solia doesn't really fit with Korean names."
Grasped by Sori's hand and led along, Hwa-yeon rode the subway and got off.
"This is..."
"Just a short walk from here. You can handle that much, right, team leader?"
"Hey, hey! I endure when I have to! Even at my part-time job, I held it together with those total asshole customers!"
"Sure, sure, of co— holy shit!"
"W-what?! Why all of a sudden?!"
Sori, who had been strolling along casually like she owned the place, suddenly shrieked like she was having a fit.
Hwa-yeon nearly tripped in surprise because of it.
Sori grabbed her shoulder urgently.
"What is it?"
"A monster appeared. Right in front of my apartment."
"What?!"
"Transform now."
"I-is it okay here with all these people and CCTV everywhere?"
"We mascots can handle perception filters, so trust me and just do it."
"You can do stuff like that too?!"
"Enough, hurry up!"
Her laid-back attitude from moments ago was gone; she looked seriously on edge.
'Even you mascots worry about people—'
"My property value's gonna tank! Hurry!"
"Goddamn money-grubbing bird."
Hwa-yeon shot Sori a pitiful look, then let out a deep sigh and shouted.
"A heart as fierce as the sun! Transform! Magical Solar!"
Solia reverted from human form back to her puppy shape.
She turned into a burst of light that enveloped Hwa-yeon, transforming her into Magical Solar.
"Alright, let's go!"
Solar yelled confidently and shot up into the sky.
The moment she transformed into a magical girl, she could sense the monster's presence and flew straight toward it.
She arrived in front of a certain apartment complex.
'Over there.'
She sensed it around the 15th floor.
The instant she tried to dart over—
-Boom!!
The wall exploded, and a monster that looked ridiculously bulky came crashing down.
"What the?!"
While she was flustered, another monster—this one with a gun for a head—dropped from the same spot.
Looked like the monsters were fighting among themselves.
"...This is bullshit."
The first one that fell looked tough enough, but she figured the gun-head would get seriously hurt from that height. That's when—
"Huh?"
Hwa-yeon noticed something off.
She'd sensed only one monster presence.
But two had fallen... and the presence she felt was still up on the 15th floor. Which meant...
'Three monsters?!'
Solar dove through the gaping hole in the wall without hesitation. At that moment—
"Ahh, so the magical girl finally shows up. This is getting annoying. Buheet."
"What the hell are you!"
She came face-to-face with a massive guy whose face looked like an ugly fat human, but his body was grotesquely bloated.
His sheer weight had to be over 400 kilos.
"I am the Breeding Monster. Nice to meet you, buheeheet."
"Ugh, fuck! You're disgusting!"
"I haven't even finished introducing myself..."
"Shut up. What's your deal with those other two monsters?"
"Ah, those 'siblings'? They've earned the death penalty for daring to harm our comrades."
"Don't mix in that shitty Japanese. I don't speak it."
"Then, as a gentleman, I shall adjust for a lovely lady."
"Whatever. You're dying here."
Solar gripped her staff and dropped into a boxer's stance.
The Breeding Monster eyed her and licked his lips.
"Heh heh, feisty ones are my type too. But I have my mission, so pardon me."
"What?"
In that instant, the Breeding Monster charged at Solar.
-Jiggle jiggle.
"Kyaa, fuck! So gross!"
His mass of flesh jiggled even more than her chest, and Solar recoiled backward without thinking.
The Breeding Monster barreled toward her like he was going to collide, then twisted his body at the last second to dodge.
"Huh?"
"My target's this way! Hahaha!"
He hurled his heavy bulk out the hole.
Solar stared blankly in the direction he'd vanished.
'Kuhuhu, stupid bitch.'
Meanwhile, the Breeding Monster sneered inwardly as he plummeted.
He'd been ordered by the higher-ups in the monster organization to take out these monster siblings.
"Wohohohoho! Here I come! Lady!"
Falling at high speed, he aimed to crush the revolver-headed female monster sprawled below.
Even her gun-headed body looked appetizing to him.
The moment he was about to land on her—
"Sis! I'll protect you!"
-Smack!
"Wohoook—!"
The younger brother monster bashed him with the hammer on his right hand.
The blow wasn't enough to send him flying far due to his mass, but he still sailed about two meters.
"Sis! You okay?!"
"Ungh... other than my one arm being broken..."
In the meantime, Ji-hoon carefully helped his sister Ji-yeon to her feet.
Her right arm had snapped from the fall.
"Sorry... I'm weak. Couldn't protect you..."
"No, Ji-hoon. It's because your sister's weak. Our Ji-hoon's strong..."
They blamed themselves and apologized to each other.
But someone crashed their pity party.
"You brute with that hammer! That kind of attack can't even scratch my super body!"
"...Damn."
"He's... insanely strong...!"
The Breeding Monster approached, his belly fat gleaming, without a single mark on him.
Ji-yeon broke into a cold sweat.
'At least Ji-hoon...!'
She vowed silently to save her brother at all costs, then gathered light from her unbroken left arm and the gun barrel on her head.
-Whirr...
Blue light gathered rapidly.
It shifted from sky blue to deep navy, forming a translucent massive bullet that fired at the Breeding Monster.
-Bang!
Two bullets rocketed toward him in an instant.
They struck his belly fat dead-on.
-Ting!
"Huh?"
They bounced off as expected.
"Idiot. I am the Breeding Monster! Or Breeding Daddy, if you will! Female attacks never work on me!"
"What kind of bullshit power is that..."
"That's what being a monster is! Wohohot!"
"Sis, I'll protect you!!"
While Ji-yeon panicked, Ji-hoon rushed in and swung his hammer down hard on the Breeding Monster.
Too heavy to dodge, his shoulder got smashed, forcing his body downward.
Seizing the gap, Ji-hoon bit into the opposite shoulder with his sharp teeth.
-Slide.
"?! It won't bite!"
But his teeth slid right off the Breeding Monster's skin without piercing.
As Ji-hoon hesitated, the Breeding Monster shoved him away with his gut.
-Thud!
A deafening boom that didn't feel like hitting a belly.
Ji-hoon flew far off and embedded into a building wall.
"Ji-hoon!!"
"Give up. I'm the ultimate Breeding Monster."
"Hey!!!"
As he leered and approached Hwa-yeon with a sleazy grin, a sharp scream came from behind.
He turned quizzically, and in that moment—
"Magical Sunlight!!"
Orange light beam slammed into the Breeding Monster.
'One down for now!'
Solar was sure it'd kill him—it had hurt that beast before—but her expression hardened fast.
"Ahh, to repeat myself... female attacks don't work on me?"
"What...?"
The Breeding Monster walked out unscathed.
"Female attacks don't work? What kind of cheating-ass power is that!"
"Heh heh, I get the frustration, but what can you do when it's real? I'll breed you later, so wait up."
"You fucking bastard!"
"Heh heh, I love it when my opponent gets pissed."
"Is that so? Same here."
"Ho, someone with the same tastes as— who?"
"Clok."
-Stab!
"Gaaahhh!"
Clok, the clock-headed monster, had appeared out of nowhere and pierced the Breeding Monster's heart.
Solar watched him casually impale the guy and thought:
Does he always have to show up like that?
"Gaaahhh!"
The Breeding Monster who'd been smirking sleazily just seconds ago was now a snot-and-tear mess, howling in agony with his heart skewered.
I let out a quiet sigh of relief as I took in the scene.
'Phew, almost tanked my property value.'