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.”

I’m curious what kind of work she did, but I don’t ask.
Dad didn’t talk about work in detail either.

“Yuna, weren’t you bored alone?”
“I was exploring the forest with Kumayuru and Kumakyuu, so I was all right.”
“Exploring the forest—Yuna, don’t tell me you went into the forest?”
“I did.”

At my words, Sarche’s mouth stays open.

“I told you there are monsters, so you must not go into the forest, didn’t I.”
“I went in as a test, and I did encounter monsters, but I could defeat them, so I thought it was all right.”
“You defeated monsters?”
“And I was flying most of the time, so there wasn’t any danger.”

I did come down to the ground sometimes and walk too, though.

“Flew?”

Sarche’s face becomes a “huh?” kind of face, a what-are-you-talking-about kind of face.

“Right. Sarche, can you dismantle the monsters I defeated? I defeated the monsters, but I can’t dismantle them or anything, so I couldn’t take the magic stones. Also, besides magic stones, can you sell monsters too?”

In manga and novels, defeating monsters often becomes money.
There are adventurers who live on that too.

“Wait a minute, that’s too much information.”

Sarche turns her palm toward me.

“What?”
“First, what’s this flying through the sky?”
“It’s as the words say.”
“In other words, you can fly through the sky?”
“Yeah.”

I float in the room to show her.
Beside me, Kumayuru and Kumakyuu float too.
Seeing us, Sarche holds her head.

“You defeated monsters?”
“I defeated the monsters that attacked. I thought about leaving them, but I thought magic stones become money.”

Sarche holds her head even more.

“Yuna, Kumayuru, Kumakyuu, sit.”

I stop floating and sit in a chair.
Kumayuru and Kumakyuu sit on the floor too.

“First, as common sense of this world, people cannot fly through the sky.”
“Is that so?”
“Can people of your world fly?”
“Ordinary people can’t fly. The only ones who can fly through the sky are people who have mana and can use magic.”

All magical girls can fly.
So I had thought anyone with mana could fly.

“In other words, you’re flying with magic.”
“Yeah.”
“And you said you defeated monsters.”
“I defeated the monsters that attacked. And the ones that looked vicious too.”
“Where are those monsters?”
“They’re in the Extra-dimensional Box.”

At my words, Sarche holds her head.

“There are a few things I want to ask. May I?”
“If it’s something I can answer?”
“I’ll say it again, but in this world there are no humans who can fly through the sky. As far as I know. Now it’s only left in legend.”
“Then there were people who could fly in the past?”
“That’s why I said legend. The past. And it’s dubious, too.”

I wonder if my world’s magic and this world’s magic are different.
But if there’s a legend that people could fly in the past, then in the past they could fly?
Sarche lets out a sigh.

“And defeating monsters—weren’t you scared?”
“I said it before, but in the original world too I fought magical beasts, which are close to monsters.”

The first time I fought youkai and ghosts, it was disgusting.
There were times I couldn’t sleep for several days after fighting.
But people get used to things.
As I fought over and over, the fear went away.
But I’ve never dismantled magical beasts or youkai, so I can’t dismantle monsters.
Hearing my story, Sarche lets out a small sigh.

“You command bears, you blocked my attack, you built an archive and a warehouse with magic, I thought you weren’t an ordinary child, but defeating monsters without being scared—”
“Kids don’t defeat monsters?”
“They don’t.”

In the original world, the only ones who could fight magical beasts and youkai were magical girls.

“Haa. I get that Yuna has no common sense. Well then, let’s dismantle the monsters already.”

We go outside the house.
Then, following Sarche’s instructions, I take out the monsters.

“Wolves, a Big Boar. And a Zuun.”

Wolf is a wolf-like monster, Big Boar is a monster like a large boar, and Zuun seems to be the name of a bird a little larger than a hawk.

“If you can defeat this many monsters, you’re a fine mage.”

It feels like I’m being praised, and that makes me glad.
Well, the one who gave me this power is that Cat God, though.
If I hadn’t become a magical girl, I wouldn’t have been killed.
But if I hadn’t become a magical girl, Dad would have died a year ago.
I don’t know what’s right.
Either way, Dad died, and I was killed.
There’s only one thing I do know. If I hadn’t become a magical girl, I wouldn’t have met Kumayuru and Kumakyuu.

“Besides magic stones, can you sell monsters too?”

In other-world manga and novels, you can sell them.

“It differs by the monster, but horns and fur can basically be sold. Depending on the kind of monster, the hide can be sold too. Depending on the kind, the meat can be sold too.”
“You eat monsters? Isn’t there poison or anything?”

When I watch other-world manga and such, I sometimes think. Don’t monsters have poison?

“That’s the same as ordinary animals. There are animals that have poison, right?”

If I think about pufferfish and snakes having poison too, maybe it isn’t strange for there to be monsters you can eat.

“Well then, I’ll dismantle them.”

Saying that, Sarche starts dismantling.
Beside her, every time she dismantles I shout “Uwah” or groan “Nnh,” so I’m told I’m annoying, I’m in the way, and to stay inside the house.
Not in exchange, but Kumayuru and Kumakyuu help with the dismantling.