Around 10 PM, in a Park.
Covered in wounds, Hiiragi Utena finally snapped under the constant pressure from Satou.
The Whip of Domination struck the two trees beside her.
Struck by the Whip of Domination, the two trees came to life, grew limbs, and walked toward Satou, while vines appeared all around her.
Satou’s red pupils scanned her surroundings tightly; she could feel that the aura of the girl who had previously only known how to run away had completely changed.
“Is this your ability?”
Several throwing knives appeared in her hands again, and she threw them in all directions.
Swapping places with a throwing knife, Satou appeared above the head of a tree monster and stabbed both daggers into its trunk simultaneously.
But such an attack was clearly useless against the tree monster; it still swiped at Satou, who swapped positions with another throwing knife.
Clearly, her target was Hiiragi Utena.
Hiiragi Utena was completely different from when she only knew how to run; facing Satou, who had teleported behind her using the throwing knives, she turned and whipped her immediately.
Satou could only block with her arms.
“It hurts!”
A bloody scratch appeared on her arm, followed by a lightning-fast five-whip combo from Hiiragi Utena.
Each whip was more vicious than the last.
“Weren’t you having so much fun attacking me?
Fight back, fight back!”
“Hahahaha!”
Hiiragi Utena laughed maniacally, the speed of her whipping increasing, making it impossible for Satou to even get close.
She summoned the throwing knives again, tossed them around, and swapped positions with them.
Just as she tried to use the momentum to get closer to Hiiragi Utena, she found her body unable to move.
It turned out the target she had teleported to was a tree monster already transformed by the Whip of Domination.
She frantically looked toward the positions of other throwing knives, wanting to swap and escape immediately.
“Is Satou-chan looking for her throwing knives?”
Hiiragi Utena was standing on a broken throwing knife, and the surrounding transformed tree monsters were each holding the throwing knives that had been tossed out earlier.
Even if Satou swapped again, she would just be trading one prison for another.
The tree monster gripped Satou’s body tightly, making it impossible for her to break free.
“I was clearly trying to talk to Satou-chan nicely, so why does Satou-chan have to keep chasing me?”
Hiiragi Utena showed none of her usual weakness; instead, she walked up to Satou with a joyful smile and lifted her chin with one hand.
“Hmm~ How should I punish you?
Naughty children need to be properly educated~”
“What do you want to do?” Satou looked at her expressionlessly, a bad premonition faintly rising in her heart.
The vines wrapped around her and the tree monster holding her shifted Satou’s body into an angle convenient for “education.”
Her hands were firmly bound behind her, and her whole body was positioned in a ninety-degree bow.
A trace of confusion appeared in Satou’s expressionless eyes, until a crisp “slap” sound echoed.
Satou: “＼（〇_ｏ）／”
She…
she was actually hitting her there???
It was rare for Satou to feel such shame and anger in her life; she roared: “Are you humiliating me?!?”
“That’s right, I am humiliating you!”
Hiiragi Utena swung the whip to lash Satou, the frequency increasing:
“Bad children must obediently accept their punishment~”
The sound of whipping echoed throughout the Park, continuing for a full five minutes before slowly stopping.
Venalita, watching from above, smiled: “That’s right, just like that, keep it up, Utena-san.”
“This is what I wanted to see.”
…
“Ki-kill me…”
Satou shouted feebly, tears in the corners of her eyes, her entire face ashen.
“How could I bear to kill Satou-chan?”
Hiiragi Utena still wore that little devil smile; she walked forward, grabbed Kyubey, who had been hidden in Satou’s bag, and held him in her arms, stroking him gently.
“No!
Give Kyubey-kun back to me!”
Seeing Kyubey being held and stroked by Hiiragi Utena, the previously feeble Satou stared fixedly at Hiiragi Utena and struggled violently.
“As the price for being the loser, I’ll be taking care of Kyubey-kun from now on.”
“I’ll kill you!”
Satou’s magic power erupted tangibly, shattering some vines, but she was quickly wrapped up by even more vines.
“I’ll kill you!
I’ll kill you!
I’ll kill you!
I’ll kill you!
I’ll kill you!
I’ll kill you!
I’ll kill you!
I’ll kill you!”
Satou’s eyes were filled with killing intent, hating Hiiragi Utena to the bone.
“So scary~~”
Seeing Satou like this, Hiiragi Utena’s star-shaped eyes spun around once, then she smirked: “Satou-chan likes Kyubey-kun that much?
I like Kyubey-kun just as much, you know?”
“You haven’t kissed Kyubey-kun yet, have you?”
“Utena-chan, what are you doing?” It was Kyubey who spoke; he felt a sense of foreboding as he watched Hiiragi Utena pinch his face with one hand and turn it toward her.
Hiiragi Utena brought her face close to Kyubey’s right in front of Satou and gave him a light peck.
Mwah~
Satou’s eyes widened tremendously, freezing at the very moment Kyubey and Hiiragi Utena made contact.
After pulling away, Hiiragi Utena pointed at herself with a joyful smile: “Kyubey’s first kiss wasn’t you, it was me, Hiiragi Utena!”
“No!!!!!”
Satou let out a shrill wail before passing out completely, her transformation state dissolving.
The soul gem hanging in front of her chest was visibly cloudy, covering one-third of it.
“Eh?” After Satou fainted, Hiiragi Utena seemed to lose her target, her star-shaped eyes faded, and she reverted to her original, weak-willed self.
“I’m sorry!
Kyubey-kun, I…
I didn’t mean to!” Hiiragi Utena gently placed Kyubey on the ground and put her hands together, begging for forgiveness.
“Utena-san, you really do have the potential to become the leader of an evil organization.”
Venalita flew down from the sky, seemingly very satisfied with Hiiragi Utena’s performance earlier.
“I don’t want that kind of potential!” Hiiragi Utena felt mortified when she remembered her performance earlier.
“Utena-chan, thank you for defeating Satou, and letting me regain my freedom.”
Kyubey’s words puzzled Hiiragi Utena, and she pointed blankly at Satou, who was still wrapped in vines:
“Wasn’t Satou-chan good to you?”
“No, she was too good to me.
So good that she wanted to watch me every moment, restricting my freedom, and preventing me from going to visit my other Magical Girls.”
“That’s too much, isn’t it?
Why restrict Kyubey-kun’s freedom?” Hiiragi Utena didn’t even restrict Venalita’s freedom; she knew just thinking about it that forcing a companion to stay by one’s side would only be miserable.
“It’s a long story.
Utena-chan, could I trouble you to take me in?”
Kyubey said this and jumped into Hiiragi Utena’s arms, and she took him and held him carefully in her arms.
“No…
problem.
I’m very happy that Kyubey-kun is willing to come to my house.”
Although Hiiragi Utena was afraid of Satou coming to her door, she couldn’t bear the thought of Kyubey being dragged back to be imprisoned by her.
The normal Hiiragi Utena was still an upright, kind-hearted good girl, though that was a different story after she transformed.
“What a pity, such a good seedling was actually snatched up by Kyubey first.”
Venalita looked at the unconscious Satou and shook its head with a hint of regret.
A troubled girl like this, with just a little bit of training, would make a good cadre for an evil organization.
“I advise you not to mess with her.
Anyone she deems a threat, she can kill.” Kyubey probably knew what Venalita was thinking, so he warned it.
“So, so scary…”
Hearing that Satou had absolutely no qualms about killing, Hiiragi Utena shivered.
Even in that state earlier, Hiiragi Utena never thought about killing anyone, just giving them a good lesson.
“Utena-chan, Satou has completely identified you as someone to be killed.
If you don’t want to be killed, then improve yourself properly and find new cadres.” Venalita covered its mouth and laughed.
“Who do you think caused all of this?”
Bringing this up made Hiiragi Utena furious.
If she had known this Magical Girl was a yandere that you only see in games and anime, she wouldn’t have come back no matter what.
Targeted by someone like this, how is she supposed to meet more Magical Girls to be friends with in the future?
“Sorry, Utena-chan, it was me who requested Venalita to bring you here to save me.
I had no way to contact any other Magical Girls who could rescue me.”
Kyubey said a kind word, considering that Venalita had called someone to save him.
“It’s okay, it’s really great that Kyubey is free.
Why don’t you stay with me for the time being?
Okay?”
Hearing what Kyubey said, Hiiragi Utena stopped complaining and instead felt pity for Kyubey.
“Mm, I’ll be troubling you for a while, Utena-chan.”
Kyubey had almost suffocated staying by Satou’s side.
I really don’t know how those people can say they like a girl like Satou?