1 Magical Girl, Murdered — Prologue

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/1/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

“Nnh…”

My whole body hurts.

“…Kumakyuu.”

Kumakyuu is lying there.
She died shielding me.
She had been with me ever since I became a magical girl.
When I was lonely, when I was sad, when I was happy, she was always at my side.
But she isn’t moving.
Kumayuru died too, sacrificing herself so I could get away.

“There are no more bears left to protect you.”

The magical girl who killed Kumayuru and Kumakyuu comes closer.
A white cat sits on that magical girl’s shoulder.
The white cat speaks to me.

“A shame. You had talent as a magical girl, and then you went and broke the contract.”
“Thanks to that talent, I was able to kill the ones who killed my dad.”

To become a magical girl, you had to make a contract not to harm people.
But I used a magical girl’s power to kill people.

“A magical girl’s power isn’t meant to be turned on people. It’s there to protect.” Continue reading →

2 Magical Girl Meets the Cat God

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/2/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

“Become a magical girl.”

I’m sitting on the bed in my room, reading manga on my phone, when someone speaks to me.
This is my room on the second floor.
At this hour there’s no one else in the house.
The TV isn’t on, and neither is the computer.
I look around the room, and there’s a white cat by the window.
Did the cat talk?
No way.
I’m already a fourth grader.
When my birthday comes this year, I’ll be ten.
I’m old enough to tell reality from manga.

“Hey, become a magical girl.”

I hear it again.
I look around the room.
But there’s no one here except the white cat.

“Don’t tell me you’re the one who talked?” Continue reading →

3 Magical Girl Stretches Her Mana Lines

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/3/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

“But how do I become a magical girl?”
“Take off your clothes and lie on the bed.”
“My clothes! I knew it. A groper. A peeping tom.”

I throw a pillow at the cat.
But the cat dodges it easily.

“I told you, that’s not it. Girls with the makings of a magical girl have a core that produces mana near the heart. But as you are now, you can’t handle it, so you can’t use magic.”
“…A core that produces mana.”
“Mana lines come out of that mana core like blood vessels carrying blood, but for most people they haven’t grown. To use mana, you have to stretch them through the whole body. Ah, this apparently hurts. Every girl who becomes a magical girl cries.”
“It hurts?”
“I don’t know, since I haven’t experienced it. But it apparently hurts enough to cry.”
“……Um, is there a way it doesn’t hurt?”
“No. But you want to save your dad, right?”
“You’re like a demon.”
“I’m giving you the power to save your dad, so I’m a god, aren’t I? So, what will you do?” Continue reading →

4 Magical Girl Hears the Rules

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/4/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

“Awake?”

The white cat is sitting on me, looking at my face.
I try to move my body, but my body screams.
It hurts.

“Demon…”
“Calling me a demon is cruel.”
“De—definitely only a manner of speaking.”

Even when I screamed that it hurt, over and over, he wouldn’t stop.
Even when I told him to stop, he wouldn’t stop.
Even when I tried to run, my body was fixed in place, and I couldn’t.
He’s not a god. He’s a demon.

“Everyone calls me a demon, or an oni, after they stretch these mana lines through their body. And I’m such a cute cat.”

At first I thought he was a cute cat.
But now he only looks like an evil demon.

“Nnh…”

It hurts.
Even twisting my body a little sends pain through me. I can’t move a single finger. Continue reading →

5 Magical Girl Transforms

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/5/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

From the next day, I practice becoming a magical girl.

“As thanks for becoming a magical girl, I’ll give you this.”

The Cat God takes a black cloth out of nowhere.

“What’s this?”
“A magical girl’s outfit.”

I take the outfit and spread it out.
It really does look like a magical girl’s outfit.

“Try it on.”
“It’s a magical girl’s outfit, but it’s black?”

In manga and anime, magical girl outfits are often bright colors like white or pink, but this is black.

“Your father is a police officer, isn’t he. I thought black would suit you, so I got it ready.”

Dad wears a dark suit to work.
It does feel a bit like Dad, maybe. Continue reading →

6 Magical Girl Learns Magic

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/6/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Once I received the magical girl outfit, I had to learn how to handle magic.
Even if you have mana, you can’t use magic if you don’t know anything.
In manga and anime, they use magic the instant they become a magical girl, but apparently it isn’t that easy.
You can’t do schoolwork if you don’t study, and you don’t get good at sports without practice.

“The basis of magic is image.”
“Image? You don’t say spells, or chant?”

In some anime and manga, you can use magic by saying a spell or chanting. And using magic without a chant often gets you respect.

“No spells, and no chants. You’ve watched too much manga and anime.”

I don’t want to hear that from the cat who based the magical girl outfit on anime.

“I told you there’s a mana core near your heart, right?”
“Yeah. We stretched mana lines out from there.”

It hurt a lot. Continue reading →

7 Magical Girl’s First Battle

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/7/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

I spent about a week being taught how to handle magic, and in that time I studied magical beasts and youkai too.
A week of my summer break disappeared.

“Shall we try actual combat soon?”
“Then I can save Dad?”

That’s why I became a magical girl.
And lately Dad’s face looks terribly tired.
The Cat God said it’s because he’s cursed.
I wanted to help him right away, but he said he was still all right, and didn’t do anything.

“But before that, it would be better to fight a low-rank magical beast first.”
“A low-rank magical beast? I still can’t save Dad?”
“There’s an order to things. What will you do if your first fight against a curse is a loss? With other magical beasts, if you lose you can just run. But in your dad’s case, if you run, it might get worse. So failure isn’t allowed. That’s why it’s better after you’ve had actual combat. And more than anything, if you fail and you resent me, I’ll be in trouble.” Continue reading →

8 Magical Girl Saves Her Father

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/8/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

After I killed the crow tainted by miasma, I ended up in a feeling I couldn’t put into words.
The Cat God told me, “Try thinking of it as defeating, not killing.”
The words are similar, but killing and defeating are different.
I switch my feelings.
I tell myself I can fight.
From now on I have to fight as a magical girl.
And more than anything, I have to save Dad.
I can tell my heart is gradually settling.

“Ordinary girls cry, or they hate it, but you’re different.”
“So, with this, can I save Dad?”
“I still think it’s early. But stopping you looks pointless.”

I know Dad is suffering.
I want to save him even a little sooner.

“Well then, tonight, let’s save your dad.”

I can finally save Dad. Continue reading →

9 Magical Girl Is Asked to Subjugate a Bear

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/9/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

About half a year has passed since I became a magical girl.
Since I saved Dad from the curse, he hasn’t been cursed, for now.
He’s working in good health.
And as for me, I’ve kept being a magical girl.
The biggest reason is that Dad might be cursed again later.

The first time I saw magical beasts, youkai, and ghosts, I was scared.
But I saw them attacking people.
People can’t do anything, get attacked by a magical beast, and get hurt. In the worst case, they die.
Even if you take one down with a hunting rifle, it just moves to another animal. Nothing is solved.
If a magical girl doesn’t defeat them, the damage spreads.

I’ve told the Cat God we should just make more magical girls, but there aren’t many girls with the aptitude to become one.
And as he said at the start, it isn’t only having mana. Personality matters too.
So there aren’t many girls who can become magical girls.
If I quit being a magical girl, I’d be making other magical girls do the things I don’t like.
And I don’t know when Dad might be cursed again.
If I didn’t have a magical girl’s power then, I couldn’t save him.
That’s why I keep being a magical girl. Continue reading →

10 Magical Girl Meets Bears

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/10/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

I come to the mountains to defeat a bear that has become a magical beast.
The season is winter.
Snow is piled on the mountains.
But I’m not cold.
The magical girl outfit doesn’t only defend; it protects you from heat and cold too.
My legs and arms and face are showing, but it’s strange that I’m not cold.
Incidentally, you can protect yourself from heat and cold by covering your body with mana as well.
Lately I’ve been wrapping myself in mana when I go to school.
I’m not cold, so it helps.

And when I arrive at the mountains, Dad calls, and I can pick up.
By then the phone charge has gone up to 50%.
I put the phone away in the Extra-dimensional Box.

“So, where’s the bear?”
“That way.”

I follow the Cat God flying through the sky.
Then there it is: the bear I was looking for, tainted by miasma and turned vicious.
If this bear came to where people are, there would definitely be damage.
I use magic and fight the vicious bear.
The bear’s eyes are red, its fangs bared, and it comes at me.
The bear slashes the magic I loose with its claws.

“Strong.” Continue reading →

11 Magical Girl, One Year On

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/11/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

A year has passed since I became a magical girl, and a new summer has come.
I had my birthday on March 30 and turned ten, but as of July some of my classmates are already eleven, which is unfair.
It’s still eight months before I turn eleven.
But from the summer I became a magical girl, in this one year, I’ve fought all kinds of magical beasts, youkai, ghosts, and things hostile to people.
I’ve met magical girls from other places, and fought together with them too.
There aren’t many magical girls.
The magical girls I’ve met are five or so, at most.
A lot, and not a lot.
I’ve even met a magical girl from overseas, just once.
As a perk of becoming a magical girl, being able to understand overseas languages helped.
I mean, I don’t understand foreign languages, and I can’t speak them either.
But the Cat God used a magic circle and made it so I can understand foreign languages.
Of course I can speak foreign languages too, and I can even read foreign writing, and write it.
This applies in ordinary times as well.
I feel like I’m cheating somehow, but I’m risking danger to fight, so I think it’s all right to have this much of a benefit.
The other day I even went to see a foreign movie with subtitles.
I can follow the movie without looking at the subtitles.
It felt a little like I’d become a grown-up. Continue reading →

12 Magical Girl Searches for the One Who Killed Her Father

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/12/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

The next day, I went to the place where Dad committed suicide.
I have no way to get information on the one who killed Dad.
So I came to the place where Dad died.
Even if you say it’s a place with little foot traffic, there are fields, and in the daytime people pass through.
And whoever killed Dad used Dad’s phone to send me a map of here.
In other words, they arranged for the corpse to be found.
But I recovered Dad, so no one has found him.
If the culprit finds out the corpse hasn’t been discovered, they should come back here to check on Dad.
That’s my wish, and with how I am now, it was the only thing I could do.

After that, Maehara contacted me, but he says Dad hasn’t been found.
I didn’t tell him Dad is lying on the bed at home.
Not until I find the one who killed Dad.
And I waited, morning and night.
When I wait three days at the place Dad died, three men in a car appear.

“No corpse, but the rope is left.” Continue reading →

13 Magical Girl Dies

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/13/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

I was able to kill everyone involved in killing Dad.
I kill the man, go outside the building, and am surrounded by magical girls.
I fight on the defensive.
There are a lot of them. Eight magical girls attack one after another.
But half my heart thinks it’s all right if I die.
I killed the people who killed Dad.
Dad is gone.
There’s nothing left I regret.
But Kumayuru and Kumakyuu fight the magical girls to protect me.
No matter how hurt they get, they try to protect me.
The magical girls attack all at once, but Kumayuru takes the attacks in my place.
Kumayuru is in tatters.
Even so, Kumayuru doesn’t fall. Continue reading →

14 Magical Girl Meets Her Parents

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/14/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

My head is working, even though I should be dead.
I open my eyes.
Pitch-black space.
I killed a lot of people, so maybe I’m going to hell.
And at the end I killed the Cat God too.
Then I can’t go to heaven with Kumayuru and Kumakyuu.
Dad was an ally of justice, so I think he’s in heaven, so I can’t see him.
Kind Mom is in heaven too.
I’m going to hell alone.
Hell, huh. I don’t like pain.
But I killed people, and at the end I even killed a god, so hell is a sure thing.
I don’t know what happened to the Cat God in that explosion. But the fact is I attacked a god.
I wait, thinking I’m going to hell, but it stays a dark space the whole time.
Don’t tell me I’m supposed to live in this darkness?
That would be agony too.
While I think that, it starts to shine in front of me.
In the darkness the light is so bright I can’t open my eyes.

“Yuna.” Continue reading →

15 Magical Girl Goes to Another World

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/15/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

My body shakes.
Someone is shaking my body.
I want them to stop shaking me.
I try to drive off whatever is shaking my body.
Soft fur touches me.
Even with my eyes closed, I know, from being touched so many times.

“Kumayuru, Kumakyuu, don’t shake me.”
“Kuuun.”

My body shakes even harder.

“I’ll get up, so don’t shake me.”

I open my eyes and sit up.
As I thought, the ones shaking my body were Kumayuru and Kumakyuu.

“Kuuun.”

Kumayuru and Kumakyuu look at me, worried.

“What’s wrong?”

I remember.
I killed people, and at the end I was killed by the Cat God and the magical girls. Continue reading →

16 Magical Girl Goes to Sarche’s House

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/16/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

“Um, are you done asking questions?”

The woman speaks to me as I burst out laughing.

“One last thing.”
“What is it?”
“Are you connected to the Cat God? No—do you have any connection to a god?”
“Um, a god? A god like the ones people worship?”

I nod.

“Did you come to me on a god’s orders?”

Even if this is another world, if gods are connected to each other, it could be orders from a god of this world.

“Gods are the ones you make wishes to when you’re in trouble, right?”

I nod again.

“I do pray to the gods sometimes, but I’ve never met a god, and I’ve never heard one’s voice. So I haven’t received any orders. Besides, even if you want to meet a god, you can’t, can you?”

From the woman’s tone and expression, it really does seem she’s never met a god.

“Was that answer all right? Well then, it’s my turn to ask questions. What’s your name?”

The woman asks my name again.
I know this is another world, but that doesn’t mean the woman in front of me is an ally.
But I need information.
So I decide to give my name honestly.

“Yuna.” Continue reading →

17 Magical Girl Cleans

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/17/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

“Kumayuru, Kumakyuu, we’re going to clean.”

I look at the dirty room and declare it.

“You don’t have to.”
“I can’t settle down like this.”

For someone who has cleaned and tidied the house since Mom died, this is an unforgivable situation.

“Kumayuru, Kumakyuu. First, gather the things that are the same.”
“Kuuun.”

I give Kumayuru and Kumakyuu instructions.
What there is most of in the cluttered room is books. Then laundry, then daily goods. There are a lot of things in the room I’ve never seen.
It’s hard to believe, but I think it’s certain this is another world.
I pick up a book at my feet.
It’s writing I’m seeing for the first time, but I can read it.
It’s the translation function the Cat God gave me, but I didn’t think it would translate not only English, but even another world’s writing.

“Relations Between Men and Women.” Continue reading →

18 Magical Girl Eats Dinner

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/18/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

I go into the refrigerator to make a meal.
It’s cold, of course, so I cover my body with mana and protect myself from the cold.
There are ingredients I know, and ingredients I’ve never seen.
When I go farther in, there’s another door, and when I open it, chunks of meat are lined up.
This place is frozen, like a freezer.
I close the door.
I don’t know what kind of meat it is, of course, so I’m scared to use it.
There was bread, so I decide to cook mainly with vegetables I know.

“This, and this, should be all right.” Continue reading →

19 Magical Girl Talks with Sarche

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/19/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

I decided to live in this world, but I have to earn money.
There’s a wallet in the Extra-dimensional Box, but it’s only a few thousand-yen bills and some change.
And when I put the things from my room in the Extra-dimensional Box, there’s also a bankbook where I deposited New Year’s money, but there’s no way I can withdraw it here.
And more than anything, in this world you can’t use Japan’s money.
I don’t have money that can be used in this world.

“Are there jobs even a kid can do?”
“I think there are if you look. Don’t tell me you mean to work?”
“People can’t live unless they work and earn money.” Continue reading →

20 Sarche Meets a Magical Girl

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/20/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Having finished the meal, I go back to my room and collapse onto the bed.
The food Yuna made was delicious.
And on the bed, I think back on today. Continue reading →

21 Magical Girl Tidies Up

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/21/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Since I ended up living with Sarche, there’s something I was curious about, so I ask.

“Don’t tell me, Sarche, are you an elf?”

I didn’t notice at first, but while we were talking I noticed her ears are long and pointed.

“Oh my, you knew?” Continue reading →

22 Magical Girl Finishes Tidying

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/22/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

The room gets tidied smoothly.
While I’m tidying the room, there’s a wooden box on the floor, and I think it’s not good to open a box on my own, but I can’t tidy unless I check what’s inside, so I open the lid and check.

“Gems?” Continue reading →

23 Magical Girl Hears About Magic Stones

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/23/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

“Created works, huh. Well, that’s fine. I don’t know if they’re the same as the magic stones in your created works, so I’ll explain.”

Sarche stands up and takes one magic stone in her hand.

“Magic stones are, as the words say, stones with mana packed into them.”
“How do you get magic stones?”

In manga and novels, you got them by defeating monsters, or mining them in mines.
Depending on the story, the way you obtained magic stones was different.

“We need an explanation from there, don’t we.”
“Is this general knowledge too?”
“Wouldn’t people ordinarily know it?”

I don’t know the things people of this world know.

“Well then, today I’ll explain about magic stones.”
“Please do. Teacher Sarche.”

When I call her teacher, Sarche starts explaining with a happy face. Continue reading →

24 Magical Girl Makes a Bath

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/24/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

I stare at the magic stones.

“Magic stones can put out water, and heat water, right. Then the kitchen water and the shower hot water use these magic stones?”
“Yes, they use magic stones.”

Someday the mana will run out, and water won’t come out, and you won’t be able to use the shower either.
But she said reusing magic stones a moment ago.

“The reusing magic stones you mentioned a moment ago, how do you do it? Do you ask someone? Or do you put mana in yourself?”
“Um, magic stones absorb mana in the air. So when they aren’t being used, the mana is replenished. Of course, someone who has mana can also put mana into a magic stone.”

That’s like electricity being charged on a solar panel?
Being able to replenish, that’s what it meant.

“But as I said a moment ago, it isn’t permanent. If you keep using them, cracks enter the magic stone and it breaks.”

Chargeable batteries also become unusable someday.
But being able to use them over and over is nice. Continue reading →

25 Magical Girl Explores the Forest

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/25/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Sarche has gone out.

“Now then, what should we do. Kumayuru, Kumakyuu.”
“Kuuun.”

The house’s tidying is done.
I made a bath too.
There’s nothing to do.
I decided to become happy in this world.
In other words, that means having fun.
Dad and Mom should want that too.
There’s no Cat God here, and no magical girls after my life.
I don’t have to move on the Cat God’s orders.

“Kumayuru, Kumakyuu, let’s go explore outside!”
“Kuuun.”

I get ready to go out. That said, I only make a boxed lunch. Continue reading →

26 Magical Girl Dismantles Monsters

Author: Kumanano
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n7313mj/26/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

“I’m home.”

Sarche comes back looking tired.

“Welcome back.”
“Haa, I’m tired.”

Sarche sits in a chair and collapses onto the table.

“Good work.”

I set down a cup with water in it.

“Thank you.”

Sarche drinks the water in one go.

“Was work hard?”
“Well, you know.” Continue reading →