Contract With Me Right Now!!!
The second-floor window exploded with a deafening BOOM, and something copper-colored burst into view.
—Krrrk!
It wasn’t a living creature. It was a machine wrapped head to toe in copper-colored armor. More precisely, a humanoid robot with two arms and two legs. The crude, rugged copper plating made it far too massive to pass for a human. Its limbs featured double joints, granting an impressive range of motion. Pipes running across its body circulated energy at high speed, glowing with a faint blue light. The robot easily stood over three meters tall and possessed fists like massive iron hammers. A single blow from those would crush an ordinary human without so much as a scream.
“Krrk… Target acquired. Pursuit… continuing.”
The machine poked its head outside the building, its red mono-eye twitching as it locked onto the fairy. Having confirmed its target, the robot’s eye flashed and it leaped down.
—THUD!!
The giant body slammed into the ground, warping the pavement and sending shards flying. Without hesitation, it moved its thick legs, stomping heavily as it charged forward.
THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD!!
“Let go! Let gooooo! Goddamn it, let me gooooo!!”
Meanwhile, the fairy clutched in Jinwoo’s hand was thrashing wildly, trying to escape his grip. Jinwoo kept sprinting like a madman and spoke to the fairy in his fist.
“If I let you go, that thing will kill you.”
“What the hell are you—! Hiiiiiiik! Son of a bitch!! That goddamn tin can actually followed us all the way here!!”
A familiar development. If it hadn’t happened, it would have felt wrong.
“Look, fairy. I don’t know how you ended up being chased by that thing, but there’s one thing I can say for certain.”
By now the robot had closed the distance, its red eye flashing behind them.
—WHOOSH!
A gigantic fist came hurtling from behind. Jinwoo dodged it with superb reflexes and continued speaking.
“If you stay with me, you can survive.”
“Hey, you crazy bastard! That’s complete nonsense!! There’s no way a normal human like you can get through this crisis!!”
“Hmm… Is that so?”
“Obviously! Ugh… That insane robot even set up a barrier so it wouldn’t lose me! How the hell did you even end up in a place like this?!”
—KUUUUUUNG!!
He dodged once more and answered.
“Just happened to.”
“That doesn’t make any sense at aaaaaall!!”
The fairy glanced back for a moment. After confirming the robot was still chasing them with murderous intent, it shouted at him.
“Anyway! You run away! Its target is me!! Let me go right now!!”
Its words were rough, but it seemed to have a surprisingly kind heart. Jinwoo rather liked this arrogant little fairy.
“I can’t let go of a chance like this.”
“Let me go, you crazy bastard!!!”
He would have liked to check the robot’s status window, but there was no time. To see it, he would have to stare at the thing calmly, and the moment he did, it would attack.
—KUUUUUUNG!!
Getting hit by that would mean instant death. Every single strike was lethal.
“For now, I need to hear what that thing is straight from your mouth.”
“I said let go, you idiot! Don’t you value your own life?!”
—KUUUUNG!!
At that moment, the giant robot turned its red mono-eye toward the boy(?).
—Krrrk…
“Obstacle detected in target elimination. Eliminating obstacle. Initiating.”
—Weeeeeng!!
The red mono-eye glowed with murderous light. Then a red beam shot out from it.
“A beam from the eye! How romantic!”
Jinwoo smiled and threw his body aside with perfect composure, dodging the attack. The laser carved a terrifying straight line across the ground.
‘A-amazing! Can a human really move like that?’
The fairy had been too panicked to notice until now, but the physical ability of the boy (or whatever he was) holding it was incredible. It didn’t quite break the limits of an ordinary human, but it was safe to say he was at the very top of that category.
‘Even in a crisis like this, he’s not panicking at all. He’s staying completely calm. What kind of iron heart does this guy have?’
Jinwoo had plenty of experience from his previous life. He had been a pro fighter, after all, and even in daily life he could never tolerate injustice. He had fought one-against-many brawls against delinquents countless times. He had come close to death several times, but his outstanding skill had always let him survive.
However, the giant robot before him was on an entirely different level from mere street thugs. Still, for someone who had lived through plenty of spectacular experiences, this felt somewhat familiar.
He thought about checking its status window right now, but the robot kept attacking without pause.
‘There really isn’t any time to look.’
He needed at least some information about his opponent to deal with it. Was it too much to ask for that much?
In the middle of all this, the fairy finally shouted in frustration and began to explain.
“That thing! It’s a weapon called a Heavenly Machine developed by the angels! Like I said before! A normal human like you can’t beat it! Not even regular awakened candidates have a chance—only magical girls can hope to fight it!!”
So that’s what it was… A Heavenly Machine. There had been no information about it on the surface yet. It must have been developed quite recently. Or perhaps it simply hadn’t spread widely.
He had considered just punching it once, but after hearing the fairy’s words, it really did seem like something an ordinary human body couldn’t handle.
‘Good thing I didn’t move recklessly.’
In that case, there was only one thing left to do.
“Then, fairy.”
“What the—! Whoaahhh! Dodge! Dodge it!!”
—KWA-BOOM!!!
“Hey! Left this time! No, right! Whoaaaah! Hey you bastard! Are you trying to die together?! It’s coming straight at us noooooow!!”
—BANG! KWA-BOOM! BANG!!!!
“Shut up and answer my question, fairy!!”
“What the hell do you want?!”
—THUD!!
Jinwoo leaped high and landed on the hood of a stopped car, then asked the fairy.
“Contract with me right now!!!!!”
“............”
Huh? What did he just say?
The fairy froze, too stunned to answer. Jinwoo shouted again.
“I said contract with me! Fairy——!!”
“You fucking idiot! Does that even make sense?! You’ve got a dick, what kind of bullshit are you spouting!!”
The Heavenly Machine continued its relentless pursuit, firing laser beams at Jinwoo without hesitation.
—KWA-KWAAAAANG!!
He dodged the explosion by a hair’s breadth, just like a scene from a Hollywood movie, and landed.
—Tap!
Then he showed off a sprint that would put Usain Bolt to shame.
“Contract with me! Fairy! Right now—!”
“No, you crazy person! Even if I contract with you, you won’t be able to use Pegasus Meteor Fist! And you definitely won’t get a statue that turns into golden armor!!”
The fairy seemed to be under some serious misunderstanding. Jinwoo decided to make it crystal clear.
“I’m talking about making a magical girl contract with me—!!”
“What the…!!”
The fairy couldn’t believe its own ears.
‘M-magical girl?’
No matter how you looked at it, those broad shoulders, the bulging muscles that couldn’t be hidden even under clothes, and the overwhelming masculinity radiating from his face. That thick neck and the husky voice that sounded like it was crawling across the ground… No matter how you looked or listened, he was unmistakably a man. Right now, grotesque balls and a cock were probably dangling between his legs.
But what if…!
“You… you’re not a girl, are you?”
“I’m not———!!!”
Damn it. He wasn’t a girl.
“No way! A dick-swinging bastard talking about becoming a magical girl?! That’s the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard!!”
As expected, it was impossible to believe. From the start, this man was spouting complete nonsense. A magical girl was literally a magical girl. Moreover, to become a magical girl, one first had to ‘awaken.’ And to become an awakened candidate, one had to be female. There had never been a single case of a man awakening. Unfortunately, that was the iron law of this world.
Because the organ that produced mana during awakening was the female uterus. On top of that, maintaining virginity was a requirement to draw out the true power of a magical girl.
So a testosterone-fueled, end-of-the-world messiah-looking dick-monster becoming a magical girl?! What kind of bullshit was that?!
It would be more believable if he said he had the Big Dipper scars on his chest or an oni on his back. A man like that wanting to become a magical girl… Even if it was to survive, this was way too forced.
‘This bastard doesn’t even have a youth membrane or anything!’
Besides, being male meant he had no uterus. So where was the mana supposed to come from?
Most importantly, the fairy had a grand dream.
‘Haa!! Damn it all! My plan was to contract with a super curvy, stacked high-school girl and live happily ever after as her partner fairy in a rose-colored magical girl life!!’
Even if a contract was actually possible, it absolutely did not want to contract with this guy. Of course not. If it was going to team up with someone, it should be a pretty girl. What was the point of partnering with a disgusting muscle pig?
‘Unfortunately, I’m heterosexual.’
If it had been homosexual, the story might have been different. Though even then…
‘Even a homosexual might have mixed feelings about muscles this extreme…’
However, the Heavenly Machine wasn’t stupid enough to just watch their conversation.
—Krrrk!!
“Hiiiiiiik!!”
“Hup!!”
The Heavenly Machine charged at them once again. Jinwoo dodged with dazzling, eel-like movements and waited for the fairy’s answer. When it still didn’t respond, he pressed again.
“Contract with me!!!”
“Agh! This is insane! Goddamn it!!”
No matter how much it thought about it, there was no other way. Honestly, it was do-or-die.
“If you don’t contract, we both die!!!”
Yeah… What the man said wasn’t wrong. It was the plain truth. Rather than dying here, maybe taking a gamble on a contract with a man—whether it would work or not—wasn’t such a bad idea.
‘Fine. Let’s survive first.’
If it failed, they’d just die anyway.
“Alright! Then put this on your finger!!”
The fairy pulled something out of its front pocket.
“This is…”
It was a ring. Apparently this was the tool used for transformation. An intense energy swirled within the ring. At a glance, it was clearly no ordinary object.
This was exactly the ‘opportunity’ Jinwoo had been searching for all this time.
But there was one huge problem.
‘The ring… is too small!!’
Of course it was. This ring was an artifact meant for turning into a magical girl. It had been made for a girl’s finger size. There was no way it would fit on his thick finger.
‘Fuck. We’re screwed.’
The fairy noticed it too and let out a deep sigh, slapping its own forehead. This was the end. They were really going to die together nicely.
But…
“.....”
Jinwoo’s eyes had not given up yet.
“H-hey! You can’t be serious!”
“Whatever. Let’s just try it!”
“You crazy bastard! Stop! There’s no way it’ll fit!”
Jinwoo shoved the fairy he was holding into his pocket.
“Huuuuuumph!!”
With his eyes wide open, he clenched his teeth and forced the tiny ring onto his finger.
—Crack! Crunch!
As he twisted and shoved it on by force, a horrifying sound of flesh tearing and bone grinding echoed.
“Whoaaaaah! You insane bastard! Doesn’t that hurt your finger?!”
“Hup!!”
Blood sprayed as he ran. Having successfully forced the ring all the way on, Jinwoo grimaced in pain, his facial muscles twitching, and spoke to the fairy.
“Heh. What do you think, fairy? I put it on with the determination to carve through bone and flesh.”
“If you actually carve through bone and flesh, what the hell are we supposed to do?!!”
But it was on. That was a fact. Jinwoo then asked the next question.
“Now what do I do?”
The fairy still looked like it couldn’t believe this was happening, but given the situation, it had no choice but to answer.
“Right now! That ring is linked with my mana! So! If you really can form a contract with me! The ring will respond to you!”
—Krrrk!!
The Heavenly Machine closed the distance once again. Since Jinwoo had stopped moving, it was the perfect opportunity for the machine.
—Sluuuuurp!
The massive fist rose once more, blotting out the night sky. A huge shadow fell over Jinwoo’s head.
The fairy shouted desperately.
“So! While smashing the jewel on that ring! Shout!! TRANS ON!! —!!”
—WHOOOOOOOSH!!
The approaching black shadow had already transformed into death itself, rushing toward them.
In the middle of it all, Jinwoo was smiling.
“I see… Got it.”
Jinwoo clenched his fist. And then…
“TRANS!! OOOOOOON────!!!”
—DOOOOOOOOM!!
“K-krrk?!!!”
The moment that should have ended in crushing defeat. Jinwoo’s fist smashed the Heavenly Machine’s attack aside without hesitation. And then…
—Crack… Snap!!!
The jewel on the ring shattered, and a brilliant light enveloped his entire body.