Magical Girl Hero - CH 7

A silvery glow that clearly doesn’t match the layout of the room, and the strong presence that it gives off even though it’s just a case, if I remember correctly, it’s something called deralumin case.

It’s a box that gives me the impression that the inside is full of stacks of money, but my weapon is not financial power or anything like that right…? Me over here isn’t even common people but a poor one.

I timidly unlocked the case and opened it slowly. What was inside was not money, but a weapon that looked like a sword and a gun. Multiple medals and cards that I don’t know what to use for, its also contained a foldable cell phone1 that made me want to ask what period it come from.

“Is this my magical weapon?”

“Seems like it kyu~. Most magical girls have wands, books, accessories, to things that are cute, but the one Roze has seems like a genuine weapon kyu~.”

“No, I mean it’s supposed to be creating a weapon, so there should be no problem right.”

Or rather how in the world do you use books and accessories as weapons, Is that just how magical girls are?

“When using a magic weapon, it doesn’t matter what its original form is or what it’s used for kyu~. It is only shaped into a form that the user think is easy to use for casting magic kyu~. For example, in the case of a book, each page has its own magic, by opening a specific page or using a specific wording, you can safely cast the magic doesn’t need to worry about miscasting2 kyu~. Even if you have a magical weapon, if you don’t take a certain action, the magic won’t manifest3 kyu~. Magical weapons aren’t just for activating magic, they also serve as safety kyu~.”

“Well, it’s true that it would be a disaster if you used the unintended magic4 or accidentally cast magic.”

“That’s how it is kyu~. It should be remembered that magical weapons come with magic manifestation, directivity, and safety features kyu~. Ah, normally you can’t use magic without a magical weapon, but in Roze’s case if your feelings are too strong, unintended magic may manifest, so be careful kyu~.”

“What do you mean, be careful, where did the safety feature go?”

“It can’t be helped kyu~. Even if there’s a safety feature, with the amount of magic power that can even alter the past, even the safety itself can be altered kyu~. That’s why Roze, it’s better to not make a strong wish while you’re transformed kyu~. To be frank, even if you have a magical weapon, your original magic power is so high, that a magic weapon is just something like a bonus kyu~.”

Bonus…Even though I finally got a hero-like aspect… Or rather, I’m a pretty dangerous person, aren’t I?

“For now, I want you to hold the magical weapon kyu~. Then define the magic you will use kyu~. For example, take the gun and try imagining that ‘When you pull the trigger, the thing in front of the muzzle will be restored,” and try it on the broken desk over there kyu~.”

I still don’t quite understand it, but I took out my gun and pointed it at the broken desk.

The pistol, which looks like a lump of iron is surprisingly light and fits comfortably in my hand.

While imagining that if I pull the trigger, it will be repaired, I pulled the trigger, and with a “click”, it was as if time had been rewound the broken desk regained its former appearance from about an hour ago.

“Oh! Amazing!”

“It seems there’s no problem kyu~. With this, the gun has become a magical weapon that casts ‘magic that restored the things in front of the muzzle by pulling the trigger’ kyu~. You can also use multiple magics in more detail if you define the magic name and make it manifest only while saying that name kyu. By having magical girls defines their magic like this, it prevents the wrong magic from activating kyu~.

Even if you try to cast large-scale magic that will make you run out of magical power, if you cast it using a magic weapon, the magical weapon will disintegrate first before the magic activated As long as you don’t pour all your magic power at once, it’s a safe kyu~. Well, that has nothing to do with Roze though kyu~.”

“Please stop pouring the cold water at the end. For now, it’s fine if I just define the magic and set it up5 on the magical weapon right.”

“That’s right kyu~. Earlier, I said, ‘If Roze’s feelings are too strong, unintended magic may manifest’, but if you define the magic properly, don’t go against it on purpose, and just go along with the definition, the magic will be cast properly kyu~. In a sense, it’s a pretty important thing for Roze, so I want you to do it without slacking off kyu~.”

” I won’t slack off!!”

Just what do you think I’m. Well, when think that I can use various magics, I can only think of it as a fun task.

For the time being, I take out all the weapons from the cases and check them.

First, the gun I used earlier. It has a shape and size that would be called a pistol, and the thickness is thin, and there’s a magazine on the grip. I take out the magazine, but there’s only one bullet in it, and it seems it cannot hold more than 1 bullet.

Looking at the duralumin case again, it seems there are bullets of various colors underneath the place for the gun.

The original bullet probably contained “magic that restores the things in front of the muzzle by pulling the trigger”.

In other words, the magic can be changed according to the bullet inserted. I understand.

Next is the sword.

The blade is short and can be handled with one hand, and it has a circular indentation on the part that connects the blade and the grip.

Well, the sword is an easy-to-understand weapon. You can cut or thrust with it. It would be a standard one among thinds associated with the word weapons. Rather, I can’t think of it as a tool for casting magic.

On a whim, I took out the medal and tried to match it with the circular indentation, and it fit perfectly.

In other words, you can change your magic according to the medals you put in, I see, I see.

When you think about it like this, unexpectedly it’s pretty easy to understand how to use them all.

For the cellphone seems that the magic can be set according to the number, and for the cards, the magic can be set individually.

Why isn’t there a transformation belt with this kind of lineup… Isn’t the mobile phone and the cards supposed to be used by inserting them into a belt…

“Ah, by the way, it’s not like you can’t use your mobile phone for something other than casting magic, Most magical girls use it as a normal mobile phone or a convenient item kyu~. Or rather, it’s the first time I’ve seen a foldable type. The ones the young children have all are the smartphone and touch screen type.”

“Can you even call this a mobile phone? I mean, I’ve also never had such an old type, so… if it’s not a touch screen then I don’t know how to use it.”

For my generation, foldable phones are antiques or rather romanticism, in short, it’s not common.

When I flipped the phone and typed in a number, the entered number was displayed on the screen.

If I treat it as a phone then I can probably use it.

“I want you to use this when communicating with other magical girls kyu~. Since it cannot be used by anyone other than the user, it can be treated as crime prevention, there are also bulletin boards dedicated to magical girls, SNS, and if you need help kyu~. Well, since Roze is a stray magical girl, you might not be able to use it that much kyu~.”

It’s obvious, but it seems the circle of stray magical girls is really small.

I imagined a hero as something like “friendship, effort, and victory” like in shounen manga, but I feel like the word “friendship” has already disappeared. On the contrary, from the way mokyu said it, compared to other magical girls, the “effort” part is also quite dubious.

I don’t want to lead a hero life with the slogan “Victory, Victory, Victory” like some black company.

“I’ve given you the general explanation, but if there’s anything you don’t understand, feel free to ask me kyu~. If you’re wondering what kind of magic to use, just read this book kyu~.”

“No, textbooks are pretty important, aren’t they?

“There’s no magic that’s suitable for Rose, and there’s no magic that can’t be used kyu~. The moment you can easily cast ‘magic to repair things, 80% of this textbook is already useless kyu~. Well, if you’re interested, you can read it kyu~.”

I was handed a book that 80% said was useless, but of course I decided to read it.

I don’t know what to say, I opened the book with a sense of excitement like reading an instruction manual to read before playing the game, or a strategy book full of data.

Magic” is a technology that uses magi power to change/alter things.

Magic is dangerous if mishandled.

Magic is not omnipotent.

The book started with the explanation about magic that Mokyu told me, then how to find out what kind of magic is suitable, how to handle magic power, such as the difficulty of magic and examples of safe magic, It’s a book that could be called a manual for magic.

It seems that each magical girl has an attribute they are good at when it comes to magic aptitude.

Like fire magic and water magic, things that are easy to imagine for magical girls, there also seems to be a wide variety of individual magic, such as hardening magic and magic to surprise people.

It’s not that you can’t use magic that you aren’t good at, but because the higher the difficulty, and control, magical girl first needs to learn magic that she has an aptitude for.

It seems that the degree of difficulty of magic is determined by how is it being altered. For example, magic that affects yourself isn’t so difficult, but iff you target an object, then the difficulty increases, the farther the distance, the more difficult it becomes, magic that directly affects other people seems to have a super high difficulty level.

So, I thought that magic to turn a man into a woman shouldn’t be difficult, but it seems that magic that completely rewrites the structure of the body is difficult and dangerous. Oi, steamed buns!

Anyway, the magic difficulty seems to be determined depending on the target and the scale of “what to change/alter and how much”.

If you think about it, I can’t even imagine how difficult a magic that can alter the reality that you’re a man to a woman, from the moment you were born to now, but since that’s possible it seems that it’s useless for me to think about how difficult a magic is and what my aptitude is.

Or rather it seems that magic that is too sloppy like, “pulling the trigger restores what is at the end of the muzzle” normally won’t activate.

The more I read, the more lonely I felt because I feel that I was different from a normal magical girl. I will just set up the relatively safe magic. However, it seems that there is no guarantee that it is absolutely safe because it is a magic to exterminate monsters.

“Magic sure is difficult.”

“Even with this, it’s already easier and safer kyu~. It’s not easy to eliminate 100% of the risks kyu~. That’s why when you fight ‘Wanderer’ you shouldn’t worry too much about the damage and don’t hesitate to use magic kyu~, There are some magical girls who got hurt because they care too much about that damage kyu~.”

Well, of course, it’s hard to not care when some buildings got destroyed or someone got hurt because of your magic. If I fell into such a situation, would I be able to continue being a hero without hesitation…

“Well, Roze admired a self-centered hero who didn’t even care about that kind of thing, so I wasn’t too worried.”

Even if you said that my boldness is the quality of a hero I’m not happy.