My Boss is a Magical Girl
Ash spoke coldly, as if the people collapsed around her weren't even visible.
Rapid was famous for rescuing victims one by one, even those hurt by monsters. Ash was the opposite. She was known for not saving people and just focusing on killing monsters. Rather than wasting time on rescues after the situation ended, she'd rather head somewhere else and hunt one more monster... She left the rescues to True Vision's rescue drones. That was the reason fans of Rapid and fans of Ash were so divided. Rapid's careful, one-by-one rescues were great, but while she was doing that, Ash would go to another spot and eliminate one more monster. Ash eradicated the root cause even if it meant some casualties, while Rapid stopped the immediate crisis... It was hard to say which was right.
"But those people..."
"Didn't they come out of a mock battle? They need to go back and keep practicing."
"Huh? They, they have to...?"
"Actually, it's good timing. Let's practice what you messed up. Start with applying vibration wave magic."
"But the people... Grape?"
As Rapid fretted over the fallen people and Grape, Ash slammed her high heel down on the ground with a sharp clang!. A strange resonance spread out in a circle from her body, sweeping over the surroundings.
"They're all alive. No one's in critical condition... Grape's over there."
"Ah!"
"Rescue drones will come if you wait. They'll be fine without us doing it ourselves."
The ticklish feeling from earlier must have been some kind of scanning magic to probe the area. Rapid belatedly spotted Grape among the fallen and rushed over, casting her magic. Grape's body trembled as she slowly regained consciousness. Rapid seemed like she wanted to keep healing until Grape was fully recovered, but the moment Grape came to, Ash urged Rapid on.
"Let's go, no time."
There was something off about Ash's attitude. Her words carried an urgency, like this wasn't the time for this, as if the fight with Esther was no big deal. It made you think she'd never been in danger. Her voice was strangely sharp.
"Rapid?"
"Y-yeah... Let's go."
Rapid approached Ash, looking somehow drained, and took her hand. Space warped slowly around them, light enveloping Rapid and Ash.
"She's still weak, so it's manageable, right?"
Rapid nodded with a reluctant expression at Ash's words.
Weak...? That?
The structures grazed by Esther's flaming sword were so destroyed that rebar was exposed, melted and sparkling. The concrete was still hot, shimmering the air as it cooled rapidly. The asphalt ground had melted and was bubbling.
A rescue helicopter had arrived overhead, broadcasting through its damaged speakers while spraying mist-like water to cool the heat first. This is weak? The broadcast wording nagged at me. Fled? What I saw was Esther dissolving into blood mist and vanishing. It should have been repelled or killed. But Ash had told Esther to come back stronger, too.
...Negative executives had never been reported killed on broadcasts before. Resurrection...? This must be censored info handled directly by the Defense Force. Better pretend I didn't hear it.
"Ah! Over there...!"
I called out to Rapid as she began to fade. Her magic was building up; their bodies were turning translucent. The incantation would trigger the teleportation any second.
"Thanks for saving me!"
Rapid heard me and erased her uncertain, hesitant expression, waving with a bright smile.
"Teleportation"
⟨ Teleportation ⟩
With Rapid's voice, Ash and Rapid vanished before my eyes. Only a small breeze remained as the light distorted the empty space and filled it back in.
"Hah... hah... hah..."
The moment they disappeared, I felt my heart racing. I'd been so tense around Ash that even my heartbeat had quieted, now pounding belatedly. The Negative fluids built up in my body added heat, sending blood surging through me. My head spun. It all felt like a dream. A nightmare if it was one, but a pretty good dream otherwise. Seeing four top-tier magical girls in A City after moving here—it was a first. I nearly died, but as a magical girl fan, it was thrilling. And with it came physical excitement. The survival instinct had suppressed my lust, but now it burned like fire.
But I had to hold back.
"Haaaah... Hoo... Hngh..."
The water from the rescue helicopter hit the heated ground, turning into thick fog. Women touched by the fog writhed in orgasm. ...I wanted to hide in the fog and pounce right now, but with the helicopter here, the whole area was being filmed. The mist might hide my appearance, but thermal imaging would catch me. Better avoid anything risky. Plus, Grape—who Rapid had healed—was right next to me.
"Hahk...! Hah...!"
Grape came to, propping herself up and breathing heavily as she slowly approached me. She was covering her broken visor with one hand to hide her identity.
...Shouldn't she cover down there instead? She had some torn cloth scavenged from somewhere wrapped around her waist, but it wasn't secure—her bottom was fully exposed. Maybe her large breasts blocked her view; she hadn't noticed. Her pussy dripped Negative fluids openly.
Addicted to the fluids, I felt my dick harden painfully at the sight of her, struggling to keep my reason. She wasn't neutralized. I couldn't jump her. Sure, she looked slutty, but forcing myself on a magical girl who could bend rebar like nothing was suicide.
"Th-thanks for saving me... You okay?"
I greeted her like I did Rapid. She'd lost to Esther but tried her best to save me. Seeing her in person suddenly brought my company team leader to mind—the one with the same name as a magical girl. She looked much taller in photos... but up close, she was about my height. Just like the team leader.
"Y-you..."
Grape stared at me, covering her broken visor, opening and closing her mouth repeatedly before pointing with a trembling voice.
"...What the hell?"
"Pardon?"
Her words choked me.
"What did you do to Esther? You... earlier, you commanded Esther..."
How did she know? Did she catch the hypnosis? No, if she knew, she wouldn't approach so defenselessly. She didn't know yet.
"...What are you? What the hell did you do?"
She must have overheard our conversation while swallowed by tentacles. A magical girl's sharp senses could pick that up. She didn't know exactly what, but she knew something weird happened. She suspected but didn't know it was hypnosis.
"Why aren't you talking...? Don't tell me you're already infected... No... Answer me!"
She slowly aimed her sword at me. My heart pounded.
"Ah, uh...! Sorry, I'm a huge Grape fan... I just lost it seeing you."
"...What?"
Stay calm. I can do this. It'd work on her too.
"Earlier, you called me a bitch like Grape..."
"Couldn't be helped. Even as a fan, in that situation..."
From her words, she'd definitely overheard my talk with Esther in the tentacles. I forced a smile and held out my Vision Phone to her.
"Forget that—could I get an autograph?"
"...Autograph?"
"Yeah, no autograph book, sadly... But if it's okay, maybe in the memo app here..."
The area was still shrouded in mist. Thermal cams might detect someone with Grape, but not that it was me.
"Look closely and sign properly."
Hearing I was a fan eased her guard. Now's the chance. I activated the hypnosis app right in front of her eyes. The screen filled with black, red, and white noise.
"...Huh."
The hand covering half her face slowly dropped. Her eyes lost focus. Good, it worked.
"...Huh?"
But through the broken visor, a familiar face appeared. Swallowing hard in disbelief, I blinked, checked again, and said,
"...Team leader?"
No matter how I looked... it was her. The team leader. Absurd, but definitely Grape the team leader. Same name for her magical girl alias? Who does that? I checked again and again. Twins...? No time for that. The mist from the drones was thinning. Once the heat cooled, rescue ops would start, and I'd be on camera. Getting caught hypnotizing her would be bad.
"Grape, about the hypnosis..."
I started to order her to erase hypnosis memories but stopped. Wouldn't that only erase the current hypnosis, not what she overheard in the tentacles? Bad command.
"No, erase all memories of seeing me here..."
Another problem hit before I finished. Grape was close friends with Ash and Rapid. If they talked later and noticed inconsistencies...
No, bad command too.
"...No time..."
No time for new orders. Soon Defense Force and drones would arrive, recording me with a zoned-out magical girl. Gotta move.
"Grape, pick me up and head right now to a place where no one will come and it's just us two!"
If no time, make some. Magical girls could leave incident sites freely for safety, mental care, and daily life. If caught on cam carrying me off, it might be an issue... but mist hid details. Any fallout later was on her. Priority: get to a safe spot to hypnotize properly.
Grape immediately wrapped her arms around my waist in a kidnapping hold and bolted at high speed.
"Whoaaa?!"
She kicked off the ground, cracking it, and ran up the building wall. In the absurd situation, I clung to her head instinctively. In seconds, she reached the rooftop, leaping between buildings, flying away from the site.
"Urp..."
Motion sickness incoming.