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.”

The rope is tied to the tree. At the end of that rope was Dad’s neck.

“The end of the rope is cut?”
“So it was found after all.”
“There’s been no contact with the police. Already confirmed.”
“Then he was alive, and ran?”
“You confirmed he was hanging and dead, didn’t you.”
“Well, yeah.”
“Then someone took the corpse?”

These three are the ones who killed Dad.

“If we don’t know whether he’s alive or dead, how do we explain it to that person?”

That person?

“It isn’t even on the news. No contact with the police either.”
“If he was alive, he might have been taken to a hospital.”
“That’d be a pain.”
“But who took him to a hospital?”
“The daughter, maybe? You sent the daughter a map of this place on chat, didn’t you.”
“An elementary schooler?”

So you’re the one who sent that map.

“We set it up so she’d find him and contact the police. If he was alive at that point—”
“No, he was dead, no mistake. You confirmed that too.”
“True, but the corpse being found isn’t on the news, and no contact has come in to the police. There’s no fuss here either. That’s why that person ordered us to come confirm, I suppose.”

Do they have acquaintances in the police?
And this “that person” they keep saying—who is that?

“Then do we check the hospitals just in case?”
“Wouldn’t checking on the daughter be faster?”
“True. I’ll go to the daughter. You two check the nearby hospitals.”

The instant the man turns, all three go down.

“Ow, what the—”
“My legs.”

I froze the men’s legs with magic.

“Why are my legs frozen—”
“Hello, misters.”

This is where my slaughter began.

I got information out of the men.
The culprits were people who thought Dad, who was investigating a certain case, was in the way.
He was in the way, so they killed him.
That was the only reason.
They’re the ones doing wrong, and they kill you if you investigate them.
The criminals were a large organization.
That organization had foreigners, hangure, yakuza, and even the police involved, they said.
The instant I heard the word police officer, I felt like I’d go mad with anger.
Police officers, the same as Dad, were in with people like that.
And together they took part in killing Dad.
That day, for the first time, I killed ordinary humans not tainted by miasma.
I buried the corpses deep in the earth. So these men will never be found.

Using the information I heard from the three, I look for the people involved with Dad, and get new information.
Among that, I was able to get information on the police officers involved.
A colleague of Dad’s, who had been a friend.
He was kind to me too.
But he betrayed Dad.
I captured Maehara when he was alone.

“So you leaked Dad’s information, Maehara.”
“Your dad is the one at fault. I stopped him over and over. But he kept investigating. That’s why he got killed.”

I get information out of Maehara, then kill him.
I won’t forgive anyone who killed Dad.
The Cat God appears in front of me like that.

“Turning a magical girl’s power on people is an act that isn’t allowed.”
“People who kill people are evil too. They’re no different from magical beasts.”
“But God says you mustn’t kill people.”
“Then why is the whole world killing each other?”
“That’s something people decided. People are free to kill each other too. And even if humanity is destroyed by it. We gods only watch. Because that’s what people chose. Our role is to protect from unknown threats. That’s all.”

There’s no getting through to him.
After that I became hostile to the Cat God, and the other magical girls started targeting me.
The Cat God had ordered the magical girls to stop me, even if they had to kill me.
I run from the Cat God and the magical girls, and come home for the first time in several days.
The ice I froze Dad in has started to melt a little.
I freeze him further so he won’t melt.
I still can’t have Dad be found.

“Dad, I’ll definitely avenge you.”

But I can’t stay here long.
I don’t know when the Cat God and the magical girls will come.
I have a feeling I can never come back to this house.
The house of important memories with Dad and Mom.
But there’s no one in this house.
I may never come back.
I put the things in the house away in the Extra-dimensional Box.
What’s here is memories with Dad and Mom.
The only thing I leave behind is frozen Dad.
I thought about putting Dad in the Extra-dimensional Box and carrying him, but if I die, Dad will stay inside the Extra-dimensional Box forever.
But here, someday someone will find him.
He’ll be able to rest properly.
Then I thought about taking Mom’s photo too, but I set that photo beside Dad.
Mom’s photos are on my phone.

“Mom, please look after Dad. I’ll come too, once I’ve killed the people who killed Dad.”

To hide from the Cat God and the magical girls, I hid in empty houses, and rested in the mountains.

“Kumayuru, Kumakyuu.”
“Kuuun.”

Dad is gone. But Kumayuru and Kumakyuu are by my side.
They’re my important family.
From what I heard from Maehara, who I killed, the ones who gave the order to kill Dad were a foreign criminal group.
And the one who tried to have it processed as a suicide was the city’s police chief.
This was connected.
Maehara said it was orders from the police chief too.
Until I kill these two, I can’t let the Cat God catch me.
The Cat God is trying to dispose of me. He said I’m a failed product. I can’t die until I kill the ones who killed Dad.

Somehow, I found the top of the foreign criminal group. The man who gave the order to kill Dad.
But nearby was the magical girl Chika.
She seemed to have gotten here first, knowing I would come.
Chika is a magical girl two years older than me.
She’s taught me all kinds of things.
I don’t want to fight Chika. But I can’t leave the people who killed Dad alone.
And I, who have already killed people, don’t have much time left.
I don’t think I can keep running from the Cat God.
If I’m caught, I’ll lose a magical girl’s power.
Then I can’t avenge Dad.
And while fighting Chika several times, I was able to kill the top of the foreign criminal group, and the executives.
But the price was being attacked by Chika and the magical girls, and taking injuries.

“Kuuun.”

Kumayuru and Kumakyuu look worried.

“I’m all right.”

I do simple treatment.
The pain eases.
I can still fight.
One person left.
Only the city’s police chief.

“Stay back! You’re the one who killed everyone!”

A man in a suit points a pistol at me.

“You’re the one who killed Dad.”
“Because he ignored the order to stop the investigation.”
“Catching criminals is what a police officer is supposed to do. Even I know that, and I’m a kid.”
“This world isn’t made of pretty words alone.”

The man fires the pistol.
But my magic barrier blocks it.

“Monster.”

I never thought I’d be called a monster, after all the monsters I’ve taken down.
The thought that I became a magical girl and fought monsters to protect people like this made me feel sick.
Dad is gone now, and Mom is gone.
With a feeling like no feeling at all, I loosed magic.