We're Escaping! (1)
“...Lady Danae, did you call for me?”
“Ah, there you are~?”
Danae’s office.
Normally, only a limited number of people were summoned to her office. Aside from the carefully selected executive-level monsters she needed for administrative work, no one entered unless they were a magical girl she had acknowledged as her pet.
Recently, no magical girls besides Kei had been allowed inside.
Into that same office stepped a magical girl who looked uncertain of herself.
A plain-looking girl with glasses, fidgeting and glancing around nervously.
It was Clara, the magical girl who had joined Kei and Er in their escape plan.
“Clara.”
“Y-yes!”
At the sound of her name spoken in that gentle voice, Clara snapped to attention.
“I’ve heard you’re a clever girl, so I thought I’d call you in and see for myself. Don’t be so tense~. You can sit on the sofa over there.”
“C-clever...? Someone like me...?”
“Ahaha, no need to be so modest. Ah, I’ll get you something to drink. Would you prefer tea or coffee?”
“Ah... L-Lady Danae, for someone like me to...”
“Oh come now, don’t be so formal.”
Danae’s eyes flashed red for an instant, carrying a clear threat.
“I hate lies. Girls who act timid and harmless like that... make me want to beat them to death for real.”
Under that icy, murderous gaze, Clara trembled violently—then the atmosphere shifted. Her eyes narrowed.
“......So, Lady Danae, why did you call me here?”
The frightened, rabbit-like trembling had vanished completely. Clara asked the question with a blank expression.
Danae smiled at the change.
“I just wanted to see your face. There was also something I wanted to talk about.”
“Something you wanted to talk about?”
“If you don’t mind either tea or coffee, I’ll go with coffee. I quite like coffee, you see.”
Tap! She snapped her fingers, and the nearby pot, coffee maker, cups, and spoons all moved on their own. The office was soon filled with the rich aroma of coffee.
With another flick of her finger, a cup on a saucer floated through the air toward Clara.
“...Thank you.”
Clara accepted the cup that had come right up to her face.
Danae took her own floating cup and plopped down right beside Clara on the sofa.
“So, Clara. You seem to be getting along well with Kei lately. Are you two planning an escape or something?”
“.......”
“Not going to answer?”
“I’m not sure what you mean...”
“I thought I said I hate lies?”
“......Haa. And if I said yes?”
“Ahaha, so it’s true? That girl Kei really never gets tired of this~.”
“That’s what makes it fun,” Danae said, taking a sip of her coffee.
“You know, Clara. How about becoming mine?”
“Save the sleep-talk for your dreams.”
“Your tone is a bit much, don’t you think?”
“Oh dear, my apologies.”
“Hmm...”
Danae set her cup and saucer on the table in front of them and reached out to stroke Clara’s cheek.
⟨ Skill: Seduction Lv.7 ⟩
A sweet, cloying pheromone scent wafted through the air. Even though they were both women, and even though it was only a hand touching her cheek, Clara’s breathing grew ragged and her face flushed red.
“Ah... ugh...”
“Clara, Clara.”
A sweet voice called to her from right beside her ear. It felt like her mind was being pried open.
It was like having her heart seized in the devil’s grasp.
“Ugh... Lady... Danae...!”
This was the same temptation every magical girl experienced the moment they were brought to this castle. Clara was no exception. She could feel memories buried deep in her soul being dragged to the surface.
“Remember, Clara. You wanted me to touch you, didn’t you? You wanted me to take you, didn’t you?”
“Ah............!!”
“It’s all right, Clara. It’s all right. I love you so much~? So very, very much.”
Hot breath tickled her ear. A bewitching seduction.
Clara felt the world spinning before her eyes. The coffee in the cup she held sloshed back and forth.
“What do you think of me, Clara? Do you like me? Will you love me?”
“Lady Danae... Lady Danae...!”
“Will you give me your body and your heart? Will you become mine?”
Clink—
The cup slipped from Clara’s hand and fell to the floor. Coffee stained the carpet below, but neither of them paid it any mind. More accurately, they had no time to care.
“I wonder which parts you like. Here? Do you like it here? What kind of feeling did you enjoy? Ah, you liked it a little rough, didn’t you?”
“You look plain, but your chest is surprisingly big, Clara. Your nipples are so soft and fun to play with.”
“How does it feel here? You seem to like being touched like this.”
Hot breath filled her ears. Clara had no idea when her clothes had been removed.
Every time Danae stroked her sensitive spots, every time she breathed teasingly against her ear and neck, Clara could only let out sweet moans.
“Aaah, Clara, Clara. It’s all right. Be honest with your desires. Do whatever you want to do.”
“You can feel as much as you like. You can come as much as you like. If there’s something you want to take, take it. If there’s someone you want to ravish, ravish them to your heart’s content.”
“I accept everything. As long as it’s loving and being loved, fulfilling desire—anything is fine. I’ll allow it all. I’ll accept all of you.”
“Clara, Clara.”
Danae’s seduction continued.
Clara’s eyes grew pitch black, completely glazed over.
“Will you... become mine...?”
In that moment, the honey-sweet voice spread like poison, dominating Clara’s brain, her blood vessels, her heart...
Clara parted her trembling lips.
“Yes... Everything I have... belongs to Lady Danae...”
At that answer, Danae smiled deeply and gave Clara a light kiss, gently biting her lip.
“Good girl, Clara... Then I’ll give you a happiness you’ve never felt before♥”
Danae pushed Clara down onto the long sofa.
She stripped the moaning, dazed girl and began to slowly savor every inch of her body...
* * *
Danae’s castle, the dining hall.
Even after getting caught once before, we had continued sneaking into the dining hall for secret meetings without worry.
Just as Danae had said, she seemed willing to turn a blind eye to us hiding here.
“D...dear........!”
I threw the last crumpled ball of paper with trembling hands. Er caught it with a grin.
That was the final map page we had obtained from that damned old man.
“We collected them allllllll!!!!”
“Yahoo~~~!!!”
“...Good work.”
Er clapped softly in congratulations, and even Danbi offered rare, genuine encouragement without any harsh words.
Anyway, it had been a grueling journey.
The old man’s demands had grown increasingly maniacal toward the end, and fulfilling them had been no easy task.
Still, it was easier than having to make him finish... though my mind had nearly reached its limit.
At least it was over now. That was a relief.
“We’ve got the maps, but what now? We’re supposed to escape today, remember.”
I asked while slurping up the spaghetti Danbi had made. After recruiting Clara, we had only focused on collecting maps while waiting for the right day to escape. Honestly, we hadn’t made any concrete plans at all.
Well, we had been busy during the day too.
Whenever Danae called for me, I was used like a toy.
...I’d appreciate some praise just for managing to collect the maps without any holes in them....
“You don’t have to worry about that. Clara said she’d come up with everything.”
“And where is this Clara?”
“She should be here any minute—”
“E-excuse me....”
Suddenly, the door creaked open.
When we all turned to look, a bespectacled magical girl peeked her head in hesitantly.
“Clara!”
“H-hiik... Shh... Why are you being so loud...”
“No one patrols around here anyway! Anyway, you made it! Want something to eat?”
“Ah... Then, that orange one...”
“Got it! Here’s the orange tart!”
“Just an orange would’ve been fine...”
Clara approached hesitantly, her arms full of the maps I had collected, along with notebooks and various other items.
After receiving the final map from me, she scanned it from top to bottom with sharp eyes, then opened her notebook and began scribbling furiously.
Her timid demeanor was nowhere to be seen. The intense focus in her expression left the three of us holding our breath as we watched in silence.
A moment later, Clara burst into laughter and stopped writing.
“It’s done! Perfect! The final piece is in place! The escape plan is complete... or so I thought.......”
“Why is your voice getting smaller...?”
“I just... started worrying about what happens if we fail... Aah!”
Danbi gave Clara’s head a firm thwack! as she muttered anxiously.
“It’s not like we have anywhere lower to fall. Failing or not failing doesn’t matter. It’s still better than doing nothing.”
“D-Danbi...! Aah, you’re the milk-colored goddess... My breathing, my breathing...!!!”
“Kyaa, Clara!”
“......Haa.”
Er barely managed to catch Clara as she collapsed, while Clara let out a sigh as if her head hurt.
Watching them with a chuckle, I grabbed a beer can that had been chilling in ice water. Danbi had prepared it with good sense.
“Then how about one last drink before we go? A single can of beer won’t get us drunk, right?”
“...Not a bad idea.”
Danbi nodded in agreement, and even the timid Clara didn’t seem opposed. Er, of course, needed no asking.
From my experience serving that old man drinks last time, this body didn’t seem to have a very high alcohol tolerance... but back then I had been transferring fairly strong liquor mouth-to-mouth, so that probably explained it.
“Well then, to the success of our escape plan.”
““““Cheers!””””
Clink!
We clinked our beer cans together and shouted enthusiastically.
‘Kyaa, it’s been so long since I had beer—I feel alive!’
Caught up in the excitement of escaping and drinking beer for the first time in ages, I failed to notice something. Even if I hadn’t been distracted, I had barely spoken with Clara anyway—our meetings had always been brief and secretive—so it was only natural I missed the subtle change.
I didn’t notice the faint shadow of worry on Clara’s face.
* * *
“All right, I’ll explain the plan.”
Clara spread several maps across the table in the now-cleaned kitchen and began explaining the escape plan point by point.
“The first place we need to take is the CCTV room.”
The last time Er and I had tried to escape, the CCTV room had spotted us and sent patrols after us.
The maps from the old man had detailed the locations and angles of the surveillance cameras, but...
“Escaping while avoiding the cameras is extremely difficult... No, it’s impossible.”
Given the purpose of the cameras, trying to slip through only the blind spots wouldn’t get us where we needed to go.
“So first, we’ll neutralize the CCTV room.”
That was the first step of the escape.
Clara declared it with absolute certainty.
“......Hey, I get that, but can I ask something?”
“Yeees~~~ What is it, Danbi-unnya~~~♥♥♥!!!”
Clara answered with hearts practically flying from her eyes. Her love for Danbi was still excessive.
Danbi frowned and looked down at herself. More precisely, at her own outfit.
“Do we really have to go like this...?”
“Yes! This appearance is absolutely essential for the escape plan~~~ Ah, Kei-unni and Er look super pretty and cute too~~~!!!”
“.......”
“......Ah, haha....”
The three of us—me, Danbi, and Er—were not in our usual costumes.
These were the extra items Clara had brought along with the maps.
A fluffy chest covering that barely covered our breasts. Below that, pitch-black panties that left nothing important hidden. An anal bead with a cat tail swaying from it. And cat-ear headbands that twitched on our heads.
The three of us, excluding Clara, stood stiffly in the cat cosplay she had provided.
......Did we really need this for the escape...?
(Magical Girl Danbi)