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"Nee~ Do you think there's a way for me to get better faster?"
Her brow furrowed in confusion before it quickly transitioned back to its usual gentle demeanor.
"Do you have something you're not satisfied with? There's nothing other than the injury itself hindering your healing, I would say you were quite lucky to be alive with that much blood loss if I didn't know magical particles stop you from experiencing shock. Magical girls bleed to death slower that way.
Well? Perhaps if you are worried about something, you can confide in this old ma-... Woman... "(Doctor Kassa)
Sweat could be seen dripping down her temples as her unkempt bangs shifted around. The rest of her hair was tied back into a ponytail and her lab coat wrapped around her voluptuous chest. A black shirt could be seen peaking out from underneath the gaps betwern her coat buttons, as well as a white mini skirt that seemed difficult to move in. In a way this old ma-... Woman's taste can be seen right through just by how she dressed. There are probably plenty of lab coats with a bigger size that doesn't wrap so tightly, even then she must have been here for a long time so getting a custom made would have occurred long ago. I shall refrain from commenting.
"... Take it as the ambition of a young ma-... Girl to want to recover faster and show off with her magic... After all, this wound was inflicted from a random attack. I was just visiting some friends and barely defeated the enemy with some help..."
"Ah. "(Doctor Kassa)
"Ah."
Damn it! I was thinking about how much he messed up that it affected my own speech as well! Ahhhhhh, how embarrassing. I didn't want to be on the side messing up, I returned the 'Ah. ' to mess with him, but surely he understood I was just covering up my own embarrassment.
"...." (Doctor Kassa)
"... Alright, I'll be going now... "
Picking up my new hand bag I grabbed on the way here, I hurriedly ran out of the doctor's office to head back home. Imagine if it got out that the doctor was an old man, and think about it. How many magical girls has he examined so far? How envio-! I mean despicable... I'll just leave it at that and let sleeping dogs lie. I may do something weird in the future anyway and wouldn't want some doctor to reveal my secret as well. A mutual secret, yes, perhaps he is also feeling this bond between us.
Before long, a week had already passed in my mundane school life. The number of students had grown by 2, while a few of the old students grew discontent. What they were discontent with was unknown, but they were quite easy to irritate and have fun with.
"Guh! Why are we learning this boring shit. Can't they just teach us how to use our magic better? All we do in the training space is practice martial arts, and we'll be stuck on the basics if it keeps going at only once a week forever!!" (Barius Kleine)
Locks of grey hair wavered about as varying pitches of noise flew forth from its source. Ultimately ending with a grunt, the chair had shifted quite some distance away from the table, due to it taking the brunt of her tirade. Barius Kleine, her first skill was the manipulation of water.
The more magic she put into it, the more force it conjured to destroy things. Her favourite technique was 'aqua spear', ultimately a common name that many water manipulating magical girls use. You could say that her powers were quite ubiquitous and unspecial, though her learning rate carries promise into what new techniques she may discover in the future.
Under her wrath, her standardised school uniform of a black pleated skirt and white button shirt had small accessories here and there as key chains weren't against the school rules. She does her, while I do me, even if I thought wearing key chains on uniforms look weird.
" I can't agree more, is it the learning speed? I've been trying hard to memorise and absorb all the knowledge, so it should be satisfactory enough the accelerate our education right? Is someone holding us back? "(Kenzi Fiur)
This one was a brown haired girl who had better looks going for her, narrow eyes that gave her a bewitching allure and a picture perfect nose that balance her face. She did mention working hard in her studies, though she does it very inefficiently, trying to memorise everything.
She doesn't show much, not even during training. So her magic skill is pretty much unknown except to the teacher. I can't blame her either since I'm also hiding my magic, though for a different reason. It's not jsut to look cool okay! I'm actually unable to use any, since all of it is concentrated towards my healing. In other words, the less magic I use, the faster I heal. I can already feel the anti-magic weakening and it's only been a week.
"Perhaps it's the one over there that's staring, I heard she got into a fight and has been recovering since with that large machine hooked up to her. Can't believe such a delinquent is studying the same school as us." (Garion Freu)
Her jet black hair shone with an elegant shine under the ceiling light, as if exuding a chilling era that cooled off the summer heat, it really makes one want to stay close to her to get some of that imaginary cooling. Even if we were underground, if the surface was overwhelmed with heat, it would permeate to our base and cooked us up even more over time.
That is if there weren't any magic assisted air ventilation, even then we would be used to the coldness of the underground and the impact of the heat becomes the same. Well, her specialty was ice magic, since it's her first skill. Though she's not using it at all, she just naturally looks cool headed which affected her surroundings.
This one had more of an atmosphere of grandeur around her, as if she was one of those nobles from an otome game. She pointed at me while her brows furrowed, face laced with disdain as if looking at dirt. Originally I wouldn't mind something like that, but now I was in my magical girl form. In other words I'm not as ugly anymore, in fact I'm suppose to be cute!!
"What are you staring at huh? Your weakened to human standards right? You still trying to pick a fight?" (Barius Kleine)
No, I'm not trying to pick a fight. I'm just a pervert who likes to stare at magical girls, but I overheard myself being dissed... You know what, I should mess with them. If they know what's good, they can't lay a finger on me anyway. Even then, they seemed to be the hardworking type even if their looks differ, there's a low chance of them breaking the rules to kill another student. Under the natural law, no killing!
"Hehe... ~"
How is that! ~I combined a cute laugh with a smug face, surely one of them would get pissed off.
The loud clang of a chair being pushed resounds, the culprit was a surprising one. The cool headed black haired noble sauntered up to me, her deep black soulless eyes stare into my own with a glare that coloured her expression red. Out of thin air, a chill could be felt behind my neck and a large ice shard materialised next to my life support machine pole thing.
"I thought you were more cool headed than that.... Why are you so eager to pick a fight?"
"Pick a fight?! You... Forget it. All I need to do is sever this tube right?" (Garion Freu)
"... It'll explode you know? This tech is important enough for them to strap a bomb to it..."
"Frozen things don't explode... Do they?" (Garion Freu)
"Who knows~... Want to try it out?"
At this point, the mood has gone beyond being strained. I could die at any time so why did I provoke her further?! Arggghhhhhh!!!? Well in any case, if I were to die....
"Guys, break is over. Sensei is coming here soon." (Myuu)
Nice save! I thought I was going to die... I can still feel my heart beating from that exchange...
"Mou... Why did you even try to provoke them?" (Myuu)
Her brown pigtails shook in anger, a pout visible on her cute small face.
"... They were unreasonably blaming me for things. I just wanted to pay back the favour..."
Saying it at normal volume, Kenzi blushed while looking into another direction. Did her magic involve enhancing her hearing? To assume it only boosts her hearing is not good, so perhaps her senses all get augmented as well? Maybe she was using her magic the whole time and people just couldn't tell. In any case, that should put a stop to it.
Focusing on the lesson, I noticed Myuu sneaking glances with my peripheral vision. Though it seemed like a blur, it was a different coloured blur. Controlling my reaction, I go back to the lesson.
Anyway, if I can't use my body's stockpile of magical particles, I still have my combat dress's. If I master the dress's abilities, perhaps I could still fight. The problem was that I don't even know what abilities my magical girl combat dress had. It was still a mystery, there's no instruction manual or convenient tool for that. Only trial and testing.
Perhaps it's related to my first skill, since my combat dress only materialises when my magic is activated. Being able to take it off and change into the school uniform was certainly strange. I always thought that the magical girl's costume was like part of her skin, that was why it was able to regenerate or not get damaged at all in anime. Maybe it's just different in reality, who knows?
From what research has gathered, some historical events like the burning of witches may have been caused by magical girls. There's a possibility that those witches were the magical girls themselves or illusions created by them. Other phenomena like natural disasters and the black plague could also be after effects of a battle between magical girls. Ultimately, people awaken into magical girls to fight monsters. Monsters like the ones that attacked me on the first day of the Great disaster.
Those monsters used to be more common and would also attack humans in groups. The humans of the past stood no chance until magic girls showed up to save them. Of course, it didn't always go smoothly. Magical girl casualties, infighting, underground battles and warring, vile curses, over exhaustion, suicide, differing ideologies would always stand in the way.
Even now, some of these were still happening out there, ultimately people who have this much power cannot unite. One will always have the false interpretation of usurping authority, many follow in its path and form an actual threat. One leader is replaced with another, one group is wiped out by a newer one.
It was only with the advancement of human civilisation, that the monsters became intimidated by the infrastructure and attacked less frequently. Often, they hide all traces of themselves with an unknown magic, the exact opposite of their behaviour right now. Now that 80% of human civilisation has been wiped out and human ingenuity has been crushed, the monsters are no longer scared to be exposed and attack places with full confidence of their own capabilities.
The Great Disaster was ultimately unnamed and was just left as it is, being referred to as The Great Disaster, a mere placeholder. Sometimes people would refer to it as The Exterior One as the large protrusions that pierced the skies and skewer half the buildings, seemed like it was a living things claws that came forth from a different dimension to let chaos ensue.
That was just the limit to the human imagination, at least the limit of the researchers'. In any case, it did not matter as it had already passed. The damage has been done and the only path of action left is to rebuild from the carnage. After rebuilding comes developing, then the growth of people's ambition and finally, invasion or diplomacy with other countries. Attacking earlier before any contact or agreement is made is practically a declaration of War. Maybe Ray's incident could drag us into war.