The Magical Girl Has Come to Attack (3)
『Yaaah! Lighting team, get over to Room A-8! They need you right now!』 『When are those new girls supposed to show up~~~! We can't start shooting like this~~~~!』 『Whoa! Hey! The props are collapsing! Grab them! Someone fix the bottom! We can't film like this!』
Following the man's lead, we moved stealthily to avoid the eyes of the passing monsters. Whenever it looked like we might get caught, he smoothly covered for us with lines like "They're new actresses." ......Somehow, it felt more chaotic than I'd expected.
"What the... It really feels like some kind of broadcasting station...."
On top of that, it was surreal to see that none of the people wandering around were ordinary humans—they were all monsters in bizarre costumes or forms. Watching a massive tentacle clump of a monster carry a lighting stand as it passed by made me wonder if we'd stepped into another world entirely.
"Hehe. I hear they also run Mekrak's own over-the-air channel. It might not be all that different from a real broadcast station. Hehe."
At Alpha's mutter, the driver-man gave a servile laugh and explained. From what he said, the adult videos specially produced here weren't just being dumped online for profit.
"W-we don't know the details either! Heh, hehehe. Th-they just said that if things go well, Earth will quickly become theirs...."
"And you still cooperated after hearing that? You're absolute trash."
"Ehehe. That's right, I'm trash, hehe."
"Tch, tch. That beard's still not coming off, huh. I can just yank it out like this, right? Tch."
"Hkk, heh, hehe, it's an ugly beard, hehe."
Even as Yura plucked at his patchy, unkempt beard, the driver-man only kept up his servile hehe-laughing. It seemed Yura's terror outweighed the pain. After all, his manhood had been on the verge of being completely crushed... I could only imagine how terrifying that must have been. Just thinking about it made my face go pale. Good thing he didn't wet himself, that guy.... A look of pity rose unbidden.
"W-well, we've passed the studio lobby now, but it's pretty big... Where would you like to go, Magical Girl sirs...."
"Hmm...."
Yura glanced at us as if seeking advice. Our goal here was to wreck this hideout by causing chaos, but we also had to prioritize rescuing the kidnapped women. If they were used as hostages, things would get extremely complicated—and more importantly, Blue Sapphire was captured too....
"Then should we look for Blue Sapphire first?"
"Of course. More fighting power is always better. I came here for that reason too. Hey, mister, you mentioned Blue Sapphire back in the car, didn't you? What do you know? Anything?"
"Ah, that~ I don't really know. This place is managed by the Mekrak guys~ I'm just in charge of transport~."
"Is that so?"
"That's right~ Ehehe."
Yura raised her club.
"Really?"
"......."
"Maybe if I smash one side in, you'll remember?"
"Aaaaaah! I think I remember now hehehehehe! S-so... that Blue-whatever girl... they said she needed training or something... so she'll be in the acting guidance room! Probably! Heh, hehehe."
"Guide us."
"Yes ma'am~."
When Yura jabbed the iron club into the man's back like she was shoving him forward, he hurriedly started leading the way.
"By the way, 'acting guidance room'—does that mean there's a trainer or something?"
"It's called the acting guidance room... but it's really a training room, hehe. Rebellious females or women who aren't used to filming get sent there. They also do modifications to make them feel things better...."
Yura frowned in disgust, but the driver didn't notice and proudly started listing things like how modified women trembled at the slightest touch and were easy to handle, or how their bodies would twitch like they were about to come with just a little stimulation. Eventually he even said, "H-how about you try it too, Miss Yura? You could fully enjoy the pleasures of being a female... a woman! Heh, hehehehe...." while laughing.
Was he insane? Yura was already tapping her club with clear intent, but he didn't seem to see it. I felt like something inside Yura had just snapped, but the driver kept laughing hehe as if he had no idea.
In all my twenty-plus years of life, I'd never seen a human who valued his own life this little. Maybe he was just stupid.
'A map...?'
As we passed through the corridor, there was a map that seemed to cover the entire studio. When I stopped to check it, the others ahead also halted to match my pace. Fortunately, no one was passing by, so I could leisurely examine the map from end to end.
"First floor... It's divided by floors."
"Hehehe. That's right."
I hadn't expected a building this size to be single-story, but seeing the map made it feel overwhelming. With multiple underground floors, the thought of clearing enemies floor by floor... it was like pest control on a massive scale.
"Should I take a photo?"
After Alpha took a picture of the map with her smartphone, we kept moving. The studio seemed clearly divided into sections; after passing through a short corridor, the atmosphere changed completely. There were fewer people than before, and the overall darkness and emptiness gave it the feel of a sealed cave. The reason became clear when I noticed there were no windows that would show the outside. There were ventilation ducts up above, though....
"The air feels like it would be bad."
Yura said, wrinkling her nose.
"Mekrak's technology is so advanced that it's not a problem. If you look closely, there are machines infused with Mekrak's initial magical power, and just being here is supposed to improve your health."
"Oh?"
"Women are valuable assets, after all. And while they do kidnap women at will and commit heinous acts, they're not completely evil either, those guys. Heh, hehehehe...."
"If kidnapping people, raping them as they please, and modifying them doesn't make them evil, then what does?"
"W-well, that's true..."
"......Do you hear something?"
At Alpha's suddenly lowered voice, everyone fell silent and listened. Mixed in with the murmur of voices, faint sounds like "Huu... haa..." could be heard.
"This is......."
It was a woman's moan!
"It seems to be coming from here......."
We carefully followed the sound and approached the door it seemed to originate from. Peering through the barred opening in the door, we saw a considerable number of monster-like men gathered inside.
『Hnnng... haa...!』
At the end of the men's line of sight, several women were tied to pillars with their legs spread in an M-shape. All of them were naked, with rotors attached to their trembling nipples of various sizes, and their pussies were impaled on dildos fixed to the floor with tape.
『Uut... I-I'm coming......!』
One of them arched her body sharply and twitched. She seemed to have climaxed.
『Number 3, you came already?』 『That's no good. At this rate you won't become a top-tier actress~ You need to make coming look more seductive.』 『If you can't control your pussy properly, you can't be a top actress! You can do it! Try harder! Here, I'll turn the rotor up higher! This is all for your sake!』 『P-please stop... hgggaaaaah...!』 『Is that weak voice coming from this mouth? Huh?』
"Ladies, I'm going in."
"Ah?!"
Before anyone could stop her, Yura kicked the door down in one go and charged inside.
『W-what the?!』 『A dokkaebi cosplay special? She's got presence, but...』
"You vile, heaven-defying pieces of trash!!"
Yura drowned out the monsters' flustered voices with a shout and twisted her waist, swinging the heavy iron club in her hand. For a moment I thought the distance was too far, but the club in Yura's grip expanded rapidly as she swung it.
"Yaaaaaaah!!!!"
"Kuhk?!"
The alligator-headed monster let out a sickening crunch and flew at terrifying speed, taking two other monsters with it before slamming into the wall. It was a miracle they didn't turn into paste.
"M-magical girl?!"
"【Burn away the filth, Will-o'-the-wisp】!"
Fwoooosh-!
When Yura raised her hand and blew lightly, blue flames engulfed the monsters who were just starting to grasp the situation and panic. It was the same one she'd used against the mushroom monster Porcini King last time!
"That's right, we're magical girls, you trash. Die quietly."
Thud- Crack! Whoosh-!
What followed was nothing short of a massacre. Every time Yura swung her arm, monsters went flying and crashed into walls. Whether their necks snapped on impact or they burned to death, the monsters quickly turned to black dust. There had been quite a few of them, but they were all wiped out in an instant.
"W-we have hostages! Don't move, magical girl!"
"Tch...!"
But it seemed they were outnumbered after all. While we were dealing with them one by one, one of the monsters slipped behind one of the captured women and pressed his claws against her. From the look of him, he had a lynx-like head and sharp lynx-like claws.
Taking a hostage! Classic villain cliché!
* * *
At that moment, Alpha muttered in awe.
"This composition... it's just like Witch Girl Season 2 Episode 4...!"
"Huh... You thought so too, Alpha?"
"You too, Kei?"
"“Yeees~!”"
Alpha and I high-fived with a loud smack. The driver-man gave us a weird look, but who cared! Recreating scenes from the original was every fan's dream!
* * *
Witch Girl Season 2 Episode 4. There too, Rubii and Blue Moon formed a united front and easily overwhelmed the enemy, only to have hostages taken and be forced to discard their magic sticks—the source of their power—just like now. With hostages captured, the two had no choice but to surrender and throw away their sticks, then, at the enemy's demand, masturbate to render themselves powerless. That scene was a heartbreaking masterpiece that couldn't be watched without tears.
So now Yura's surrender scene was coming up! Forgetting our objective in excitement, we watched from behind with pounding hearts when—
"......."
Without a word, Yura extended her arm and pointed the tip of her heavy club at the monster.
"Haha, what are you gonna do from that distance? Hurry up and throw away that dangerous club and surrender, you insolent magical girl! This body will personally train you—"
"【Extend, Dokkaebi Club】!"
At Yura's cry, the club in her hand shot forward and instantly lengthened, smashing the monster's head in one blow. Instead of bright red blood, dark blue bodily fluids and chunks of flesh splattered everywhere.
Whoa...... I probably wasn't going to be able to eat today....
"Hmph... In that scene, she should have looked at them with more greedy eyes and said 'Kneel and give up, you sow bitches!' As a Witch Girl fan, I can't forgive such a half-hearted recreation of the original."
Or something like that. Hmm.
* * *
Damn it damn it damn it damn it!
The driver-man who had been forced into the role of Yura's group guide watched everything unfold from behind and ground his teeth in secret. Everything had gone completely off-script. The women who were supposed to be offerings turned out to be magical girls, and they had the audacity to grab his precious male symbol as a weakness to threaten him with... Really, it was like he was cursed or something.
Still, at first he hadn't thought it was a big deal. That Blue-whatever magical girl they came to rescue had ultimately submitted to the monsters' onslaught anyway. Especially the monsters in the acting guidance room... the 'training room' were particularly strong. They were a combination specifically designed to break arrogant magical girls, so he'd honestly thought these insolent bitches who looked down on him would be dealt with somehow.
But what was this?
'The monsters are weak!'
Whether the monsters were weak or Yura was just ridiculously strong, a single woman had swept away all the monsters present in an instant. The driver could only stare in shock. So this was a magical girl... And not just one—there were still two more whose power he hadn't even seen yet. From the earlier conversation he'd overheard, they had come to destroy this hideout, and now he thought it might actually be possible.
'Then we're in trouble.'
This Mera Studio and Mera Films were his precious livelihood, his precious source of income!
'Huu...... No... Calm down, calm down. Calm yourself in the name of Na Woon-jeon.'
He set aside his real name that no one cared about anyway.
Anyway, it wasn't over yet. There were still plenty of monsters to go around, and there were the executives of this Mera Studio...! The executives who had supposedly dealt with so many magical girls before would be reliable. With their extraordinary power, they would surely do something.
'Yeah... It should definitely be possible... They'll defeat these evil magical girls with justice... Yeah...! No problem...!'
If that happened, he would beg and plead until he could personally violate that Yura bitch with his own hands. He would crush that arrogant dokkaebi woman beneath him and fondle her massive breasts to his heart's content with these hands. Na Woon-jeon felt his resolve return.
* * *
"By the way, why haven't you two transformed yet?"
After wiping out the monsters, we quickly rescued the women. We untied them, removed the rotors and dildos, and covered their bodies with the clothes of the monsters who had turned to dust.
"Lucky Roulette has a time limit on transformations."
"Huh... Does the transformation wear off?"
"It reverts to default form. Weak. Stronger than a civilian, but not by much."
Apparently the form we'd first seen her in at the store was her default form. Hmm.
"Then what about you, Kei-unni?"
"Ah, I tried to transform? But it looks like I don't have enough transformation uses left...."
"Eh...?"
Yura stared in bewilderment. Yeah, that made sense. It was literally like going to war without a gun or a sword. Hahaha. I hadn't checked the number of costume change uses.
"Th-then what do we do, Kei-unni?!"
"Can't be helped. This is what you get for being a Rubii fangirl. All flashy on the outside, but when you look inside, it's empty, like hollow fried snacks. Completely incompetent."
"Ang?! You're the one who's gonna end up naked and overpowered anyway since you rolled a '0' or '1'!"
"That was a special case last time, you idiot! Don't underestimate this body's gacha luck! This time I'll definitely roll a 7 or 8 and stomp on your head while laughing hohoho!"
"Um, the ones we need to fight aren't each other...."
Anyway, the situation wasn't great, but there was nothing particularly alarming either. If there were monsters nearby, Cookie would come and transform me anyway, and if worst came to worst, I could just spend points to buy one more Costume Change use. I didn't want to do that since points were precious, though.
"But what about these women?"
"Hmm...."
When I asked while looking around, both Yura and Alpha made troubled faces. The women, who had roughly covered themselves with clothes, were watching us with anxious eyes. We couldn't just leave them here, but taking them back with us wasn't practical either. More importantly, it wouldn't be efficient to keep going out every time we rescued kidnapped women.
"W-would you entrust them to me..hehe...."
"What? Do you want your tongue ripped out first?"
"N-no, Miss Yura. That was a slip of the tongue..."
Leaving them with this guy didn't feel right either. The one who would think of something like this was Cookie, but there was no sign of him coming. Would he even come in the first place?
"That Cookie bastard, is he even coming...."
"Did you call, nyang?"
"Kyaaah?!"
I let out a strange sound in surprise at the unexpected voice right behind me.
"C-Cookie?! You actually came?!"
"The mascot of the Magic Kingdom who responds to a magical girl's troubled voice—it's Cookie, nyang. I've been watching everything, so I understand the situation, nyang. I'll call a magical girl with spatial transfer ability right now, so leave the women to her, nyang. She has no combat ability but excellent rescue ability, nyang."
A chorus of impressed "Ooooooh" sounds rang out. Look at that, this is our fairy. Hahaha.
"And I'll help you transform too, nyang. It's troublesome if you come to the enemy's hideout looking like that, nyang."
"......."
"...Why are you staring at me like that, nyang?"
"No...."
I looked at Cookie with a subtle gaze. After briefly reflecting on past memories, that subtle look turned into a 'suspicious' one.
"You... aren't you plotting something?"
"Nyaaang?! W-what are you saying, nyang...?"
"No, it's just... you've always seemed like you only enjoy tormenting or inconveniencing me. Suddenly helping out so perfectly like this makes me feel really uneasy...."
"Th-that's unreasonable, nyang... A fairy's mission is to help magical girls! To doubt such pure goodwill, nyang! I'm going to sulk, nyang!"
When I didn't withdraw my suspicious gaze even after Cookie's words, Cookie clearly started sweating profusely. How was an doll-like body sweating? Hmm.
Seeing us like this, Yura couldn't take it anymore and intervened.
"Unni! Stop it! What do you gain from bullying a cute fairy! You should be grateful since she's helping us!"
"W-well, I guess...."
"That's right, nyang! Really, dokkaebi girl, you have good breasts, nyang!"
"M-my breasts...."
Anyway, the conversation seemed to be settled for now. There was no point in being suspicious anyway. Right now, Cookie was the only one we could rely on.
"Fine, fine. Just hurry up and transform me, you rice weevil."
"......."
"Huh? What's with that look? You got a problem? Not gonna transform me? Who do you think I'm doing this for right now?"
Cookie grumbled something discontentedly, then extended a hand toward me. And my body was enveloped in the usual light of Costume Change.
Now, what kind of costume would it be this time....
"......Huh?"
And the next moment, as the light faded and the costume's appearance became clear, my eyes widened.