District 5 of Alpha City was famous for its many respectable schools and educational research to nurture many budding talents.
Towering buildings adorned the district with their sleek curves of futuristic architecture. Hologram screens floated everywhere, showing where to go all around the street and information as well as various colorful ads.
Sunlight curved off the metal and glass buildings in a warm, gentle light instead of a harsh reflection often reflected in normal skyscrapers.
This city's district technology advanced rapidly because it was a hub where many research centers were located, and many talented youngsters gathered from Alpha City and the surrounding area.
They spent most of their time from morning to sunset, studying to become assets to become Guardians or researchers in the future.
In fact, some of the most talented students in District 5 had already worked as active Guardians; the most famous of them was a female Guardian group, often called the Magical Girl group, 'Luminesce', which consisted of three young girls with different personalities.
The morning was often met with young students walking toward the school while joking and having fun with their friends.
Many people also expected that until a large dark portal with an unpleasant aura popped up in the middle of the street.
The alarm blared loudly at once as the floating holograms all over the city turned red with a warning. Then notifications popped up from everyone's smartwatch.
[Extity's portal is confirmed in District 5! Civilians are instructed to hide and go to a safe house by following the green lights! Once again, all civilians–]
"Wha–"
"Run!! Run before they come out of the portal!"
Panic ensued instantly. Everybody shouted loudly as they began to run, following the hologram green arrow's direction.
They ran like a group of sheep chased by a dog, not caring whether they pushed someone else to the ground or not. They only cared about their safety above anything else.
Children were picked up by their parents. Students slung their bags over their backs and ran with all their might, with fear written clearly on their faces.
The area was empty at once in less than a minute. The alarm kept blaring, and the hologram stayed red to warn people this area was dangerous.
A few moments later, they appeared.
*Broom–!*
Three dark green vehicles, trucks, flew out of the portal at a fast speed. Black smoke blared from their exhaust, and screeching sounds rang loudly as their wheels rubbed against the soft road made from hard materials.
*Screeecchhh–*
The back door of those trucks was kicked open from the inside, and many people wearing black bodysuits and white masks, minions, hopped out while screaming loudly.
"Let's rob the bank!!"
"I will destroy some vending machines! They took my money last week!"
"That's a good idea! I will take care of the cleaning robots. They took my panties and put them in the trash!"
"Hyahaaaa!!!"
"Where are the people?! Where are the people?!" Miss Clown shouted loudly as she looked around. Then she found the last green arrow showing the way to shelter that disappeared as soon as her eyes landed on it. "Ah, that way is the shelter! I will go there!"
They immediately spread around to do what they wanted to do. Such was Extity's method. They could care less about their goal and had diverse kinds of people who had their personal goals.
And among them, two minions jumped out from the first truck last and looked around, confused.
"What do you want to do?" The male minion, Rai, asked the female minion with large breasts beside him. "I will walk around to see if there is anything fun. What about you?"
"Hmm, that seems fine with me."
Ami replied as she looked at Rai with a blank white mask. Her expression couldn't be seen, but it was clear she wasn't that interested in what the others did yet.
"I still can't transform as the leader hasn't given me my System Watch yet. But it's different for you, right?" She asked.
"Right." He replied and looked at his watch.
It was true that Ossa had given him System Watch already, and it had the choice to transform him to allow him to handle the Magicule inside his body. But the other minions hadn't received it yet.
"Let's go then. I can't promise anything to you, though."
"Fine by me." Ami nodded. "I don't have anything to do either. The weapon I sent to the base hasn't arrived yet."
"I see…"
Rai looked around to see if there was anything worth noting. The other minions had begun their destruction, but the Commander called Sweet Devil hadn't shown up yet.
Maybe she still had some other mission to finish or waiting for the Guardians to show up.
Ossa clearly told him Sweet Devil would definitely be with them, so he didn't need to worry.
After looking around for a moment, Rai finally decided what he wanted to do.
"The Guardians haven't arrived yet. How about we get some juices and wait for them?"
"Juices?" Ami asked, holding her chin. "I want orange juice."
"Alright. Let's find a vending machine."
They began to move toward the direction where the minion who shouted he would destroy the vending machine because they took his money last week.
Many tall buildings surrounded the street where they came from. The portals from earlier were already closed.
The street was devoid of people, so finding where that minion went by earlier was easy. That minion went to the nearby intersection, and a loud banging sound rang right around the corner.
"Take this! This!!"
Rai heard a loud shout belonging to the previous minion. And when he arrived at the intersection, he saw him punching the vending machine with his fist, deforming the rectangle machine, and spewing the canned juices all over the sidewalk.
"Hey," Rai called out to the minion, causing him to stop and turn to him.
"What?"
"Toss me an orange juice and a green tea. The cold one."
"Ah! Sure." The minion chirped happily. "Hah!"
*Bam!*
He then punched the vending machine again. It created a fist mark on its metal frame, and then…
*Clack clack!*
Many cans fell down and spewed out of the machine. The minion immediately grabbed two cans, an orange juice and green tea Rai requested, and tossed them.
"Here."
"Thanks."
Rai caught them in his hands and gave the orange juice to Ami while he popped up his can with his finger.
*Pop!*
Tilting his mask slightly, Rai gulped down the green tea at once. It was the first drink he had tasted in this world, and it was way more delicious than what he had back on Earth.
Ami also did the same and drank her orange juice while trying to keep her face under her mask. Many cameras were watching, waiting for a chance to even disclose a single minion's real identity so they could track the evil organization's base.
Even now, Rai was observing his surroundings without lowering his guard. He knew that Ami also did the same and was observing the surroundings and him.
Yes, he felt her gaze landed on him. Both interest and wariness overlapped in that gaze, but Rai didn't think much about it as she didn't feel that dangerous or had bad intentions.
'Probably she's interested in me as her partner and because Ossa personally chose and recruited me, unlike the others.'
The minion continued to punch the vending machine before he stopped and moved to another across the street without saying anything to Rai and Ami.
Many things in this world were foreign to Rai. His only knowledge came from the web novel that hadn't even 10 chapters and only had a rough idea of what magic was and who the main character was.
But, this world was fun. He knew that it would be fun, more than his previous one.
So he would have fun. And to do that, caring about another person's feelings would be the last thing inside his mind. Being selfish was something important if he wanted to have fun, not caring how people would look at him.
Relationships would be better to be kept at a certain distance. He had decided that.
'Oh?'
When he finished his green tea and fixed his mask, he noticed something unusual in the distant sky. Three people wearing mechanical suits and one person wearing frilly outfits were flying toward the rowdy area filled with the minions.
*Crunch!*
Destroying the can in his hand, Rai's lips curled up a little. Ami turned around to see what Rai had seen, and her body jolted a little.
"So they are here." She muttered, throwing the empty can in her hand to the ground and fixing her mask. "Will you join the fight immediately?"
"No." Rai shook his head as he watched those four people approaching fast. "I'll watch first."
Just a moment later, those people arrived and landed in the middle of the street. They looked around at the scene of destruction, and the only female with frilly white and blue outfits which exposed her sideboob raised the wand in her hand and declared.
"Guardians have arrived! Surrender right now, and you won't be harmed, Extity!"