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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →