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.

Was that a dream?
But I’m alive.
And Kumayuru and Kumakyuu definitely should have died too.
That suffering is left in my heart.
After I died I met Dad and Mom, and talked a lot.
At the end they told me to live in a new world.
I don’t know what’s a dream and what’s reality.

But the only sure thing is that Kumayuru and Kumakyuu are alive.
I hug Kumayuru and Kumakyuu.
I’m glad.
Maybe Dad and Mom brought them back to life.
Thank you.
Even if it was a dream, I’m glad I could see Dad and Mom at the end.
I stand up and look around.

“Where is this?”

A meadow?
The place I’m standing is the middle of a meadow with nothing in it. A pleasant wind is blowing.
If it isn’t a dream, Dad and Mom said a new world.

“Kumayuru, Kumakyuu, where is this?”
“Kuun?”

Kumayuru and Kumakyuu tilt their heads.
Looks like Kumayuru and Kumakyuu don’t know either.

“Right. My phone.”

I take my phone out of the Extra-dimensional Box and open the map app.
The screen stays on searching and doesn’t display.
When I look closely, the phone’s antenna display is out of range.
In other words, no signal is reaching it.
Don’t tell me this is overseas?
I’ve heard that overseas, a phone contracted in Japan won’t connect to a signal.
Is “new world” overseas?
One of a magical girl’s powers is that I can speak overseas languages, and I can understand the languages, but…
Before that, this phone is one Dad contracted for me. Dad died, so the contract may have been cancelled.
While I’m thinking through the situation, Kumayuru cries.

“Kuun!”

The instant Kumayuru cries, I see magic coming at us.
I make a mana barrier on the spot.
The attack target was Kumayuru and Kumakyuu.
Someone attacked Kumayuru and Kumakyuu.
A magical girl?
I go into a combat stance and look the way the attack came from.
There’s a woman around twenty in a strange outfit.
An outfit I’ve only seen in fantasy manga.
A magical girl grown into an adult?
An ally of the Cat God?
Did she come to kill me?
I step in front of Kumayuru and Kumakyuu.
This time, I’ll protect Kumayuru and Kumakyuu.
I won’t let my important family die again.

“Do you want to kill me that badly? I won’t have anything to do with you people anymore. I’ll just live happily with Kumayuru and Kumakyuu.”

I shout at the woman who loosed the magic.
That’s what Dad and Mom wanted.

“If you mean to kill me, that means you’re ready to get killed yourself, right?”

My hands are stained with blood.
At this point, adding one more won’t change anything.
If it’s for Kumayuru and Kumakyuu, I can stain my hands with blood as many times as I have to.
I never want to see Kumayuru and Kumakyuu die again.
I don’t want to taste the feeling of the connection with Kumayuru and Kumakyuu breaking.
I don’t want to see Kumayuru and Kumakyuu not moving.

I loose a mana bullet at the woman.
The woman dodges, surprised.

“W-wait!”

I don’t wait.
I don’t ease up on the attacks.
But the woman blocks.
She’s strong.
If this is a magical girl grown into an adult, the experience is different.
I’ve been a magical girl about a year. But the other person is several times that, or more.
The gap in experience is too big.
That doesn’t mean I intend to be killed easily.
I hone my mana thin, like a spear.

“Pierce!”

A thin spear flies toward the woman.
It pierces the woman’s magic barrier.
But the spear stops partway.
The woman had layered magic barriers several times over.

“Wait. I won’t do anything.”

The woman raises both hands.
I stop moving, still in an attack stance.
Kumayuru and Kumakyuu stand beside me.

“Kumayuru, Kumakyuu, get back!”
“Kuuun.”

Kumayuru and Kumakyuu get in my way.

“I’m sorry I attacked all of a sudden. I thought you were being attacked by the bears.”

The woman speaks to me.

“Bears—you mean Kumayuru and Kumakyuu?”
“Yes, those bears. So they’re called Kumayuru and Kumakyuu.”

The woman tries to come closer.
I loose wind in front of the woman and draw a line.

“If you come any closer, I’ll attack.”
“Understood. I won’t come closer.”

The woman stops walking.

“I’m Sarche. What’s your name?”

She doesn’t know me?
I don’t know what country this is, but from the name, the clothes, and the face, she isn’t Japanese.
The Cat God said there are magical girls all over the world. I’ve actually met a few magical girls from other countries. Is this a magical girl from another country who became an adult?
We can talk with automatic translation, so I can’t tell what country it is.

“…”
“Won’t you tell me?”

I almost answer, at the kind voice.
I can’t let my guard down.

“You know even if you don’t ask. You came to kill me.”
“That’s why I’m saying I didn’t come to kill you. I happened to come here, it looked like you were being attacked by bears, I tried to help you, and I ended up attacking the bears. That’s all.”

I don’t feel a lie.
She really doesn’t know me?

“And I’m supposed to believe that.”
“If it’s attacking your bears, I’ll apologize for that.”

She really didn’t come to kill me because the Cat God told her to?

“Then answer my question.”
“Yes, if it’s something I can answer.”
“Where is this?”
“This is a forest west of Arulari.”

Arulari?
I’ve never heard of it.
Some small country?
I don’t know every country in the world.
I studied world maps in school, but I haven’t memorized all of them.

“Where is that? America, Russia, or near Japan (Nihon)?”

I ask with big place names I know.

“America? Russia? Nihon? I’m sorry. I don’t know any of them.”

The woman tilts her head.
She doesn’t know?
The words are being translated properly, right?

“Then China, Europe, Asia?”

The woman shakes her head.
She really doesn’t know?

“Then Earth?”
“I’m sorry.”

There’s no way she doesn’t know Earth.
If it’s being translated properly, it should have gotten through.
I remember Dad and Mom’s words.
Be happy in another world.

“…Another world.”

Then this isn’t Earth, it’s another world?
The strength leaves me.

“Hahaha.”

I cling to Kumayuru and Kumakyuu.
In other words, this might be another world, like the ones I saw in manga and anime.