"Don't be afraid, I, Ayane Fujisawa, have come to save you...huh?...w-wait, I shouldn't have said my name." I murmur a little embarrassed in front of the mirror in my home. In a few minutes, I'll go out to defeat some monsters.
This will be my first time acting as a magical girl ally of justice, and I'm very excited, although a bit scared about having to fight monsters.
I've never seen a monster before and don't know how strong they are, but I still think I can handle this on my own and make the city safer.
'Okay...I can do this...my family would be proud, I'm sure mom and dad will be proud of me in heaven,' I think, trying to convince myself to lose the fear.
I must not be afraid, many have the power, but don't make a difference in the world, and now I have the power to make the world better, and I will do it. My powers may not be the best for fighting, but I should manage.
"I'll just take the keys and a small photo of my family to give me strength," I murmur as I go to my room. I heard that monsters do terrible things to girls.
I must be careful, I can't underestimate the monsters. I put the small photo in my clothes and go outside. When I transform into a magical girl, my current outfit will disappear and reappear after the magical girl costume vanishes.
I leave the house and carefully close the door, hiding my key in my clothes.
'I have...the strange feeling that I'm being watched...' I slightly look around the environment, but see nothing, so I ignore it as just a feeling. I run to a nearby alley to become a magical girl.
I could have done this inside the house, but I felt a bit embarrassed to do it at home and have someone see me coming out in costume, even though they said no one would notice.
In the alley, I activate my magic, and soon a very beautiful magical girl outfit appears with a faint purple glow.
'This is so cool!' Wearing this is always fun, and with the magical girl outfit, I soon detect a monster nearby.
It's strange, I just know there's a monster close by and feel more or less where it is, although I don't have much precision on its exact location. I start to go, guided by this feeling while holding my weapon.
My weapon is a staff, and just like my magic, it's not suitable for fighting alone. Maybe I should form a team with someone soon, or I may be in serious danger.
'Well...it seems to be just a weak monster, I shouldn't have trouble defeating a single one, and one less monster means one person saved, even if not directly.' I quickly reach an alley.
'The monster is here...' I grip my staff tightly. I'm a bit scared, but I can't let fear dominate me. If I want to be a great magical girl who helps others, I need to be brave.
If not for myself, for my deceased family, so that they may be proud of me from heaven, knowing that I'm helping many.
"C-Come out, monster, I know you...a-are here..." Something moves in the trash can, and soon a grotesque mass of pink and reddish flesh comes out of the trash can.
Honestly, the sight is a bit disgusting. The mass has eyes and a mouth while looking at me strangely with its bulging eyes. It must be almost 2 meters tall.
"Well, well, what do we have here, a cute little magical girl," the monster speaks in a distorted and strange voice. I grip the staff tightly, preparing to fight while taking a deep breath and ignoring the fear.
"S-Surrender, monster, I don't want to hurt you! But if you continue to run loose, you'll hurt people, and I can't allow that."
"You have a nice body?" the monster says with its distorted voice, cutting off my warning for it to surrender.
"..." It looks at me lustfully, making my body shiver.
"I'll love to fill your cute little body," the monster says as its distorted mouth takes the form of a disgusting smile.
I look at this thing with disgust. It makes me question how many innocent lives this evil abomination has ruined.
"I won't let you hurt anyone else, you monster!" I move forward a bit and swing my staff downward, creating a blue barrier that falls, crushing the monster.
But the monster's form seems not to be made of something that suffers much damage from crushing, so even flattened by the barrier, the monster is still fine. The monster pushes my barrier upward, getting out of the attack area.
'H-How?' Now that the monster has come out from under the barrier, the barrier has sunk into the ground, cracking it, showing the strength of this attack that did nothing to the monster. This is much harder than I thought.
I'm scared and disgusted, but I convince myself that I can win. I must be brave and make my family proud. I can't falter here...even if no one is waiting for me at home.
Even if no one knows or cares about my acts and attempts to help, in the end, I don't do it for recognition, I just want to try to make the world a little better.
The monster attacks with tentacles made of flesh, but I create a barrier in front of me, protecting myself. At least this monster is not that smart and is not that strong either, so its attacks are extremely predictable.
I make more barriers to try to crush the monster. My ability is not suitable for combat against this type of monster. Every time it is crushed, it barely suffers any damage.
If I were stronger, I could crush it with so much force that I would win, but I lack strength, and this leaves me slightly desperate. I want to run, I'm afraid.
What forces me to continue is only determination. I don't want people to get hurt because I failed here and fled like a coward. I feel that if I run, I'll never be able to see my face in the mirror without seeing a coward.
So I keep attacking, even though it does almost nothing. The monster's form is very soft, and it has no bones, so the barriers practically don't do any damage. It's like trying to flatten minced meat it just changes shape, but is not really that hurt.
"Hehehe, I'll love to rape your cute little body, girl," the monster says maliciously with its distorted voice while attacking me. I barely defend myself with a barrier in time.
'P-Please, s-someone, h-help' I only think, wanting help, but I don't say anything. I don't want to seem weak. My fear increases along with the adrenaline. This is much harder than in my imagination.
I got one of the worst possible enemies for my magic and weapon. I really need to join a team. There's no way I, who can only use barrier magic and a healing branch, can continue alone.
"Hyaa!" The monster grabs my foot with a tentacle and knocks me down. My barrier covered the entire short space of the alley, so it couldn't pass its tentacles through the sides, and I trusted that.
But it passed its tentacles under the ground, and I didn't even notice.
'A-Am I going to lose?' I'm scared by this. My hesitation makes my barrier weaken and break with the monster's blow.
"Hahaha, are you afraid? Don't worry, you'll soon be moaning like a whore..." The monster starts to approach as tears begin to form in my eyes.
'P-Please, someone save me!' I mentally plead, a bit disappointed that I failed in my first mission as a magical girl.
Bang.
A sound, more like a hum as if the air were being cut, soon a slight thud, and then the monster falls to the ground. I didn't see what happened, but I noticed something hit the monster.
"W-What...t-that" I look at the fallen monster and the wall behind it. It has a hole the size of a large cup.
I look at the monster, which has a hole in an area that would be its left eye and its brain near the center, where its forehead would be. There is a huge hole.
But with the difference that the hole is not bleeding because it is covered by a strange black aura. This aura is somewhat liquid and seems sticky, dripping to the ground.
The monster does not react, and I no longer feel a monster in the area, indicating that the monster is dead. The monster that I initially judged to be weak and turned out to be strong ended up being killed with a single blow.
'I-I was saved.' I quickly look around, searching for my savior. It can only have been another magical girl, although the scene with the monster is frightening and even grotesque, I'm glad to have been saved.
But even looking around, I don't see anyone, and I also don't know where the powerful blow that defeated the monster came from.
"T-Thank you...t-thank you so much," I thank my mysterious helper, not knowing if they heard or not. After this experience, I realize I need to get stronger.
Without giving up, I'm scared, but I won't give up. I'll get stronger, and the first step is to train and find more magical girls to form a team, so that we can cover each other's weaknesses.
"...I'm grateful...I'm very grateful to have been saved...b-but...w-why does this scare me..." I murmur, looking at the hole in the monster's body. All the fear I had of the monster turns into fear of my savior. I'm happy with them.
Very happy and grateful to have been saved, but this blow was strange. The one who saved me could easily have killed me if they wanted to, and that's not what scares me. What scares me is that black, sticky liquid on the monster's head.
This doesn't seem like magic, but I feel it's dangerous, as if it wants to grab me, trap me, as if it just wants to destroy everything around it, but at the same time avoid affecting me.
"I-I think...i-it's just my imagination..." There's no way this could be like that. It's as if there's something that would affect the others, but only avoid me. I think I'm just letting fear dominate.
The monster's body will disappear on its own in magical particles at some point, so I just run to go home. I need to rest. This was too much for just one day. I hope my savior is doing well, and I hope I'm just mistaken about that strange, sticky black fluid.