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.

“Besides, other magical girls are wearing the other colors, so we have to make sure they don’t overlap.”

In manga and anime they wear different-colored magical girl outfits too. I’ve never seen a work where they wear the same magical girl outfit.

“But that’s in manga and anime, right? We don’t have to do different colors.”
“If the outfit colors are the same in combat, it’s a problem. You can’t tell who’s who. It caused trouble a long time ago. So I used anime and manga magical girl outfits as a reference.”

Even a god watches anime and reads manga.

“But black feels like an evil magical girl, I think.”
“Pink and white are popular. Then blue, red, green, and yellow too.”
“So black isn’t popular.”
“Like you said, it looks like an evil magical girl.”
“Fine already. Black is okay.”

I like bright colors too, but I don’t hate black either.

“I do have a white one as well.”
“White?”
“I don’t think you’ll wear it, but I’ll give it to you just in case.”

The Cat God hands me a white magical girl outfit too.

“Can’t I use the white?”
“I’d like the main one to be black.”

I give in and decide to wear the black magical girl outfit.

“But do I have to change into this outfit?”

When I spread it out, the outfit is all frills.
It’s cute, but a little embarrassing.

“Unlike ordinary clothes, it doesn’t tear easily. You can fight in ordinary clothes if you want, but it would be a problem if they tore, wouldn’t it?”

It’s true, I couldn’t explain torn clothes to Dad.
If clothes tore, I’d have to buy new ones.

“And even if they tear, they auto-repair after some time.”

Auto-repair is convenient.

“And above all, it comes with a perception-blocking function. You won’t be seen flying through the sky or fighting.”

Perception-blocking.
It even has a function like that.
That really is important.

“Of course, other magical girls can see you, so don’t worry. Anything else you want to ask?”
“…”
“Can I do it?”
“That’s something you’ll have to ask your own heart. Even I, a god, don’t know. Actions and beliefs differ from person to person. But I thought you could do it, so I spoke to you.”

It feels like I’m being recognized, and that makes me happy.

“And above all, you have a lot of mana, so I think you can become a strong magical girl.”

Not yet. I don’t understand the mana inside me, so I don’t understand anything about mana amounts.
For now, I change into the magical girl outfit as I’m told.
It’s a black dress-style magical girl outfit with frills.
It’s a little cute.

“But changing into this outfit every time is a pain. I wish I could put it on like transforming.”

In manga and anime, there’s a transformation scene.
You can change into a magical girl outfit in a flash.
But reality is different. You take off the clothes you’re wearing, then put on the magical girl outfit.

“That’s fine, then. If you put it away in the Extra-dimensional Box, you can put it on easily.”
“Extra-dimensional Box?”

It’s the first time I’ve heard the words, but from the words I sort of understand.
A space where you can put things away.

“That’s right. This time let’s talk about the Extra-dimensional Box. The Extra-dimensional Box is a place made of mana, I suppose you’d say. It should have been created when you became a magical girl. Try putting those clothes you just took off into the Extra-dimensional Box.”

The Cat God looks at the clothes I’d been wearing, sitting on the bed.

“How do I put them away?”
“Magic is image. It’s free. So try imaging that there’s another space, in your own image.”

I try as I’m told.
I feel something like a space that seems right.

“There’s a space.”
“Take the clothes in your hand, and image putting the clothes into that space.”

As I’m told, I image putting the clothes in my hand into the extra-dimensional space.
Then the clothes I’d been holding vanish.

“They vanished.”
“They went into the Extra-dimensional Box. Now try imaging taking them out of the Extra-dimensional Box.”

I do the same thing.
Then the clothes are in my hand.
It’s strange.
It’s like a magic trick.

“Easy, right?”

It’s so fun I end up doing it over and over.

“Well then, leave those clothes in there.”

As I’m told, I leave the clothes in the Extra-dimensional Box.

“Let’s try transforming, like you wanted. Magic is image. Image yourself wearing the clothes you just put in the Extra-dimensional Box.”

As I’m told, I image wearing the clothes.
Then, in a flash, they change into the clothes I was wearing at first.

“Amazing.”

The clothes from before I put on the magical girl outfit.

“Where’s the magical girl outfit?”
“It’s in the Extra-dimensional Box, swapped. Now image yourself wearing the magical girl outfit.”

I image the magical girl outfit the same way.
Then, in a flash, I have the magical girl outfit on.
I was wearing the magical girl outfit.

“The only clothes you can change into are the ones you’ve put in the Extra-dimensional Box, so if you keep the magical girl outfit in there, you can transform whenever you want.”

It’s like the magical girls in anime and manga.

“It really feels like I became a magical girl.”
“Not ‘feels like you became a magical girl.’ You became a magical girl.”

That night, I put my pajamas and underwear in the Extra-dimensional Box, take a bath, and when I get out I try changing into my pajamas in a flash.
It’s convenient.
I can change in an instant. I try putting in hats and ribbons and such to test it, and a hat and ribbon are on me just as I imaged.
And my hairstyle changes in an instant too.
Twintails, a ponytail, buns—it changes freely.
Amazing.
Too convenient.
I put everything in the Extra-dimensional Box: the clothes I wear every day, underwear, socks, accessories, even clothes I don’t wear much.
I put away the ribbon Mom bought me too.

“Shoes too, I guess.”

I bought them, but I don’t usually wear them, so I put those shoes in the Extra-dimensional Box as well.
Because I can put on shoes just by imaging it.
Once I can transform, it really feels like I became a magical girl.