I'm almost done painting my canvas and since we're near the end, Setsuna has returned to sit while Ayane finishes signing the last sheet.
The silence was great and having Setsuna as a model clarified several things, even though she's now put her coat back on, I still painted a decent enough work of art.
'It's good enough' The painting is quite good, but it's not as satisfactory as I'd like, so later I'll try again with new paints, colors, and scenarios I think I need to portray her in a different way in the paintings.
"Ophelia, I've finished signing everything, here are the papers for you," Ayane says with a smile, placing the paper on the table. I roll my wheelchair to the desk and take a quick look at the papers.
'Seems good enough...but it's something to look into better later, this isn't my area.' Normally, I'm not the one who deals with this, I just wanted to do it this time because Setsuna came along.
And I wanted to take the opportunity to finish painting the canvas with her here serving as my personal model.
"Setsuna, I remember now that you still need to add a bank account for transfers," I say, putting the papers back on the table and returning to my canvas as if it's no big deal.
I'm really curious about what reaction Setsuna would have to seeing such a painting, although I don't think it would be a very good reaction and with favorable results for me, which is a shame.
"Yes...I'll provide a bank account in a few days, don't worry," Setsuna responds briefly.
"I understand, well, in your own time, I also recommend that you both buy things in the basement of the building, there's a whole system of shops there with clothes, accessories, electronics, etc." In the end, according to the data, 89% of magical girls buy things there.
Which makes all the money come back to me while I get these things from a supplier at a great price.
"Everything that would be extremely expensive in regular stores, but here has a reasonable price, it was made to help the mental state of the girls, after all, it's great to buy new things," I tell them.
"Wow, there are a lot of stores here?" Ayane questions as if it's something incredible.
"Yes, you can go there anytime." It's not like it's something very grand, it was really just made to help them have a better mental state to continue their duties as magical girls.
"By the way, I've already decided who will join you two to make you a team, it will be Lenore Hollowgrave, she's an experienced magical girl and can take good care of you two, her magic is Telekinesis." This is my personal secretary.
"You can find her downstairs in 30 minutes, if you want, you can leave now, I'll just review these papers and talk to Lenore about my decision."
"Thank you for the help, Ophelia, we'll wait downstairs," Ayane thanks politely, followed by Setsuna, who thanks equally and gets up from the sofa, going with Ayane.
"..." I watch as the two leave through the door, while a secret elevator in my room opens and Lenore, who had been listening to everything from the beginning, comes out. This base has many secret passages for my personal use.
"Miss Ophelia, do you want me to protect Setsuna in a special way?" Lenore asks almost mechanically as soon as she comes into the room.
"No, just act like a normal magical girl, even if she dies, you don't need to save her or anything like that." I wouldn't care if she died, we could recover her body, and even if it was irreparable, I could still paint a tragic picture.
In the end, it all comes down to natural art, I don't like it when they interfere with the natural cycle of things, because it's as if in a play, someone from the stage suddenly came up to disrupt the scene.
"Do you love her, Miss Ophelia?" Lenore briefly and hesitantly questions me, and I momentarily think about what she said.
I wouldn't say I love her, I just find her a beautiful work of art that excites me, it's natural for some to get excited about magnificent arts like her that directly touch my feelings.
"No, and even if I loved her, I wouldn't want you to protect her or try to conquer her." To me, the most tragic love is the most beautiful, if she died while I loved her, that would be beautiful, like in the theater.
And even if by chance I started to love her, I would keep it to myself, because unrequited love is also tragically beautiful.
In fact, if I loved Setsuna, I would love for her to break my heart by loving someone else, I think I might be a bit masochistic, but if I loved someone, I would love for that person to love someone else who is not me.
Because that would make it tragically beautiful, just as the others are art to me, I too am a form of art that is in a play called life.
I would love for Setsuna to step on my feelings and give all her feelings to someone else, I think that's the only way I'd have a climax right here.
I can even imagine the scene, Setsuna getting together with someone else while I'm completely alone with just my paintings, it would be magnificent.
'Seems I'm wet again...' Just the imagination has left me a little wet, Setsuna is really incredible for causing me these delicious sensations, she came here to end my boredom.
"Alright, Miss Ophelia, I'll do as you wish," Lenore says as I see the form she's using now. Lenore is not just my secretary because she's very useful.
She is my personal secretary precisely because, in addition to being useful, she is also a magical girl like me who has a very beautiful and poetic ability.
This form that Lenore is using is her "standard" one, but Lenore actually has a much more interesting magic than just the Telekinesis I had told the two.
Lenore's true ability is Mimicry, and its offshoot is False Form. With the Mimicry magic, she can take on the form of others and have the talent of the person or, in the case of magical girls, their magic.
However, there are very specific conditions that she herself does not know, and this makes this magic quite limited, and the offshoot called False Form allows her to only copy the appearance of the person.
Of course, as a condition, Lenore lost her real form, she can never assume it again, so she usually keeps the appearance of the first magical girl she transformed into, which is the current one with Telekinesis magic.
She has long brown hair and black eyes, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, as well as a black and white dress, she is tall at 170 centimeters, she uses this form to maintain a recognizable standard.
Moreover, I know that Lenore is romantically interested in me, so I like to keep her around because Lenore knows that I will never love her and that I like to see how she loves me without getting any love in return.
But of course, she also knows that I know, this is the relationship we've created. Lenore knows that I can never like her because she is not the form of art I seek to say is something I have loved.
So she just loves me silently, in the end, we both will end up without the people we love, because I don't want a reciprocal love and I won't give love to another person in a reciprocal way.
"So, miss, all I need to do is be a tutor for the two of them in monster hunting and then switch teams after a few days, as is the standard?" She says, citing the switch for the sake of experience.
As she is experienced, having been a magical girl since a very young age at 29 years old, she ends up participating in many new teams to help the newcomers fight monsters and learn.
"Yes, that's exactly it, and also bring me new paints, I'll give you a list later." I say, taking the canvas.
"And destroy this painting, I didn't like the result." As I say this, she uses her magic to crush the painting and compress it into a small ball, she didn't even look at the content because I've already made it clear that art to be thrown away shouldn't be observed.
She takes the ball and stores it in her pocket to destroy with fire later, I just roll my wheelchair to my desk to think a bit about what to do.
Lenore is such a convenient person, without her, my life in the past would have been very difficult, and even now I ask her for many things, it's great to have someone so blindly loyal.
"Miss Ophelia, do you believe I can now take my leave?" Lenore asks out of courtesy.
"Yes, you can go do your work." I say, trusting that Lenore will do a perfect job, I've known her since childhood and I trust her very much.
However, I don't want her to help Setsuna too much or anything like that, just act like a normal magical girl and teach her as such, and that's because it's better for everything I want to do or see.
If Setsuna loses to monsters, I think she could become an even more beautiful art.
I watch as Lenore leaves the room through the elevator, going downstairs, while I just sigh in disappointment, I only got a little bit about Setsuna and boredom has hit me.
I'll have to wait a few hours until I can be busy with something again.