The Temporary Magical Girl Team Has Surrendered to Conspiracy and Deceit (1)
I let out a pitiful whimper. “Ugh… ugh… haa……”
The sound echoed through the room. With hands still clumsy and unfamiliar, I rubbed my pussy and clit over my panties, steadily building pleasure. My top was pushed up to completely expose my breasts.
“Hehe… ugh…… ah♥ Right there… that feels good……”
Little by little I was discovering my own sweet spots, experimenting through trial and error to figure out exactly how to stimulate them for maximum effect. At first I had only rubbed through the fabric, but now I was pulling my panties aside and plunging my fingers deep inside my pussy.
Even though it was my own body, there was still so much I didn’t know. Even though I was touching the same genitals, pressing one side of my inner walls felt completely different from pressing the other. My cervix and clit were far more sensitive than I’d expected, and I instinctively learned I had to be careful when touching them.
Here. If I rub right here like I’m crushing it…
“Hiiik……!”
I straightened my legs with a snap and prepared to finish. My panties and fingers were soaked with slick juices, but I ignored it and sped up my hand. Part of me wanted to enjoy it longer, but if I got too absorbed in masturbating I’d miss my chance to sleep. Besides, it left me ridiculously exhausted. And the more I indulged in this pleasure… the more it felt like I was sinking into an irreversible swamp. That terrified me beyond words.
“Ah♥ Ah♥ Hng♥”
Sweet, lewd moans. My hips drew circles as if begging for something. Something… something was missing. It was good to explore my own weaknesses and attack them, but even taking that into account, it still wasn’t enough.
What came to mind was the time I’d been tormented by that perverted freak, Pervert007. I immediately shook my head violently. No. What the hell am I thinking?
“Haa… hah…… I’m… cumming……!”
I thrust my fingers deep inside while furiously rubbing my clit with my palm. An electric jolt of pleasure surged up my spine like a tidal wave.
“Ugh, kuu…… ha… ah……”
Still lying face-down on the bed, I pulled my fingers out of my pussy. A sticky string of love juices stretched between my fingers and my slit.
……Once I came, an indescribable sense of emptiness washed over me.
Why was I even doing this…?
Originally, thanks to the Orgasm Addiction trait, I should have gotten even more aroused with every climax. But from what I’d experienced in this body, these traits seemed to activate randomly. Thank god for that. Just yesterday the trait had made me masturbate so much I stayed up all night.
……Is that really all it is?
It was a very faint, barely-there thought. Maybe it wasn’t just random activation… maybe it was because plain masturbation simply wasn’t enough anymore. After all, I’d been interrupted right before those Normals could rape me. Perhaps… I was secretly expecting something more.
“Aaaaaaaaah~~~~~! What the hell am I thinking~~~~!”
Disgusted with myself, I slammed my face into the pillow again and again.
The outskirts of District A. At the entrance to an abandoned mine that almost no one visited, the temporary magical girl team had gathered.
It had once been used as a tunnel, but after ground subsidence made it dangerously unstable, entry had been strictly forbidden.
“If Yura’s here too, that means everyone’s arrived. Can we head straight in?” Noman asked with a cheerful expression as she looked around at the group. There were still five minutes left until the appointed meeting time. But the magical girls of this temporary team all seemed to have impeccable time management—even Yura, who had arrived last, was already here. The cautious Rine had shown up a full hour early.
“Looks like everyone’s fine, so I’ll go over the positions one more time. Since this is Blue’s first large-scale extermination mission, listen especially carefully.”
The explanation itself was simple. Power-type Yura and all-rounder Noman would take the front line. Long-range attacker Blue Sapphire would stay in the middle, support-type Rine would take the rear, and speed-type Danae would protect both Blue and Rine.
The most important thing to watch was each person’s remaining magical energy. Since everyone had their own role, even one slip-up would throw the whole formation off balance.
When explaining this part, Noman pulled a small glass bottle from the pouch at her waist. Inside, a mysterious blue liquid shimmered with an ethereal glow.
“For this, it’s good to buy potions in advance. It costs points, but you’ll earn way more than that, so don’t be stingy. Once you’re already exhausted, it’s too late, right?”
Blue Sapphire immediately opened the Point Shop and purchased a potion. A hole suddenly appeared in thin air and the potion flew out with a whoosh. It was actually pretty entertaining to watch.
Noman nodded and continued. “The next important person is Rine.”
Rine was a magical girl dressed like a classic witch—glasses, a wide-brimmed hat, the whole look. But with her yellow and orange color scheme, including her hair, she didn’t give off a dark impression at all.
Rine had no offensive abilities. Instead, she could cast buffs and debuffs, and most importantly, she could use the Return spell once per day to teleport back to a designated location. Since it could move everyone in contact with her at once, they could escape safely even in an emergency.
“Rine unnie is basically a spare life coin in a game!”
“Haha, thanks……”
“It really is like that. But Return consumes a ton of magic power, so Rine, be extra careful with your reserves. The second potion’s effect is weaker, too.”
“Got it.”
“Noman. That’s enough explanation. How many times have we done this already?”
At Yura’s words, Noman gave a bitter smile. Yura, who possessed unusually powerful strength, had never once lost or even been put in a dangerous situation.
That’s exactly when it gets the most dangerous~.
It wasn’t something someone weaker than Yura should say. “Then let’s go.”
The five magical girls stepped into the dark mine that served as the freaks’ hideout.
The next day, I woke up and stayed lying face-down on the bed, lost in thought. Most of it was about that temporary magical girl team.
They were supposed to attack the freaks’ hideout today. Yesterday Cookie had told me there was an abandoned mine in District A being used as a base by some freaks.
What are they, ants? Digging holes to live in.
I thought the people who went out of their way to find the place and stir up trouble were pretty diligent.
――‘I don’t know if you’re doing this because you have a wish you want granted, or if you’re just trying to earn money…’
Come to think of it, that’s what Noman had said yesterday. Was she working so hard to collect points because she had a wish?
……All I wanted was to quit being a magical girl as soon as possible.
A wish, huh… a wish……
“Point Shop, open.”
I rolled around on the bed and opened the Point Shop to check the contents. What I’d seen last time had only been a fraction of it. There were so many different categories it was hard to look through everything.
“……Search.”
I muttered it just in case, and a familiar search bar appeared. It was convenient, but it really didn’t feel magical at all. More like sci-fi. Using technology that looked like it came straight out of a movie gave me a strangely smug feeling.
When I said “Wish,” several entries scrolled down below the search bar. Among them was a simply titled Wish option.
Wish: 1,900,000pt
…………………………?
I cleared the search and tried again. This time with the keyword ‘Magical Girl Contract Termination.’
Magical Girl Contract Termination: 9,999,999pt
“Cookie, get out here right now!”
Of course he was nowhere to be found when I needed him. If he had been, I would have torn him to shreds on the spot. That bastard tried to trick me!
The points needed for a wish were 1.9 million, but terminating the magical girl contract required nearly 10 million. It genuinely didn’t make any sense. I couldn’t accept it.
“Haa… still, it’s a relief……”
I let out a long sigh. Yes, it really was a relief. The points needed to terminate the contract were absurdly high, but a wish only required one-fifth of that. Good. I’d collect points. The sooner I gathered them, the sooner I could return to my original body!
Having a clear goal nearby filled life with energy. At that moment, I was overflowing with hope.
The human mind is convenient. If you don’t consciously watch yourself, you only see what you want to see. Given even the faintest thread of hope, nothing else registered. You were supposed to examine every explanation in detail, yet—
Wish: 1,900,000pt
*However, the Magical Girl Contract cannot be terminated with a Wish.
“Bibibibibibi!”
With a sharp slash—!
The mass-produced freak, a lower grunt, was instantly sliced in two by the massive iron club Yura swung. On the outside, the Bibi looked exactly like an adult man wearing a full-body spandex suit. Seeing something like that die so gruesomely should have made one flinch, but the magical girls—who had already slaughtered countless freaks—didn’t even bat an eye.
“There’s only small fry here. We won’t earn many points at this rate.”
“Don’t worry. Since it’s a freak hideout, there should still be plenty left. There’ll probably be a boss-type too. We’ve got a mountain of unopened treasure chests in front of us and you’re already complaining there are only herbs?”
“……I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
“I was making a game analogy. Was it bad? Ugh, I can never tell what the young ones are thinking these days……”
Noman twirled her fingers together in a dejected manner. Yura thought with a sigh that every single one of her actions was strange. It wasn’t that she disliked her. In fact, the very strangeness made her easier to deal with.
Looking only at appearance, Noman and Yura didn’t seem that different in age, but from the occasional slips in her speech, it was clear there was some gap. Someone older could have taken a more authoritative attitude, but Noman instead told weird jokes and acted laid-back, creating an approachable atmosphere.
Yura was aware that her own personality could come across as arrogant. But that was simply because she had absolute confidence in her own ability and behaved accordingly. She had no intention of compromising. In that sense, Noman was a surprisingly compatible partner.
The fact that this temporary team had lasted this long was largely thanks to Noman’s social skills bridging the gap between Yura and the other members.
I’m not the type to thank anyone, though.
Anyway, Noman probably wasn’t the type who wanted to hear thanks either. She had the composure of an elder. Unlike a college student like herself, Noman calculated everything—work, money, points—with cold precision. Maybe it came from life experience. Or maybe it was just her nature. Either way, it didn’t matter. In fact, that calculating side that always looked for profit was actually comforting.
“That makes twenty-three.”
This time a mid-level grunt was cut in half by Yura’s hand and collapsed. Beside it, several freaks lay sprawled, impaled by spears of ice.
“This one seemed a bit stronger.”
“Still just one hit for Yura unnie, though.”
Seven freaks had charged at once and nearly caused trouble, but everyone had moved better than expected and they were easily defeated.
“The way they rushed us like that means they must have noticed our infiltration.”
“We tried to take them out without being seen as much as possible……”
Noman narrowed her eyes sharply and advanced cautiously. “They seem weak, but don’t let your guard down. There’s no winning against numbers. If a huge swarm comes at us it’ll be a pain. I wanted us to thin them out more before we were discovered.”
They’d been noticed too early. Still, they couldn’t turn back now. The magical girls proceeded deeper into the mine with heightened caution.
“This place……”
“A room?”
At first the mine had been nothing but a simple tunnel with construction-site lighting, but the deeper they went, the more polished tiles began to appear. Following the tiles, they eventually reached a strange room.
It was a long, narrow room with large doors at both ends. It looked like a passageway.
“Maybe once we pass through here we’ll reach the boss zone.”
“It could be where the real hideout begins. Everything we’ve fought so far has been too weak.”
“Ah, so everything until now was like the entrance hall?”
Blue Sapphire turned around with an odd expression. “But if it’s a passageway, why are there doors?”
They were quite large doors, yet they opened obediently. Or rather, the moment the girls approached, the doors opened by themselves as if they were automatic.
“Big buildings usually have double doors, right? To keep air from escaping. Maybe it’s something like that?”
“That makes sense.”
Thinking casually, they walked through the passageway-like room. Excluding the relatively new Blue Sapphire, they were all fairly experienced veteran warriors. However, because they had only encountered ridiculously easy enemies on the way here, they had honestly lost their edge. They thought they hadn’t lowered their guard, but unconsciously they had grown complacent.
That was why they couldn’t react immediately to the sudden change.
“““Huh?”””
Suddenly the lights in the passage went out. The vision that had gone dark in an instant made Blue Sapphire let out a bewildered cry. Immediately after, the only source of light—the entrance door they had come through—closed by itself. When even that faint ray of light disappeared, their vision was swallowed completely by darkness.
“W-what’s happening?! Noman unnie?! Rine unnie?! Where are you?!”
“Don’t panic, Blue! It’s okay! Danae! You have the Suggestion skill, right? There might be enemies trying to ambush us in the dark, so keep watch! I’ll buy something from the Point Shop to create light right now, so stay calm and wait! Watch your surroundings carefully! Try not to move from your spot and don’t swing your weapons recklessly! You might hurt your allies!”
It was a sudden crisis, but Noman gave calm, precise orders. Her command was appropriate. Suggestion was a skill that allowed the user to see in the dark as clearly as daylight. Only Danae had it, but if she was watching over them, they could relax. Noman trusted her skill completely and believed that if danger came, Danae would handle it somehow.
What she was actually worried about was someone panicking and moving around, accidentally injuring their own teammates.
“Point Shop, open.”
Hurry, hurry… something I can use instead of a light…
She searched for ‘light.’ Nothing useful. Next, ‘lamp.’
Light Stone
This should work.
“Found something good! Right now——”
In the darkness, a short scream rang out. Immediately after came the dull thud of someone collapsing. That voice…
“Rine?!”
Noman cried out in shock. What happened to Rine?!
“Ha, ah……?!”
Next came Blue Sapphire’s voice. Yura gripped her iron club tightly.
“Danae, Rine, Blue! Are you alright?!”
Yura shouted while staying on guard. If Rine and Blue had been taken down, that meant Danae—who should have been using Suggestion to protect them—had already been defeated too.
“……?! Kugh?!”
A sharp whooshing sound cut through the dark. Yura barely managed to knock it away by instinct. A projectile? It was too light to be a proper weapon. The object that bounced off her club and flew away hit the floor with a crack. It sounded like plastic.
“Light Stone purchase complete! Let’s see… how do I use this… whoa?! Something’s flying at me?!”
Noman barely dodged the incoming object by feel and tossed the Light Stone into the air. It floated in midair as if held by an invisible hand and began to emit light.
The darkness of the long passageway room lifted, and the scene that was revealed left both Noman and Yura frozen in shock.
“Danae… you……”
“……Dodging that. Impressive.”
Under the dim glow of the Light Stone, Rine lay collapsed on the floor. Blue Sapphire was held in Danae’s arms, a syringe buried in her neck. Whatever had been inside the syringe, Blue’s face was flushed and she was panting heavily, barely conscious.
Danae savored the furious gazes of the two women staring at her with a sweet, intoxicating expression.
“Welcome, both of you. Let’s all enjoy a wonderful time together in this place… for the rest of our lives♥”