“Kyubey!
Kyubey!
Wait for me!”
Kaori started running; it was the first time in her life she had engaged in such vigorous exercise, but unexpectedly, she didn’t feel tired at all, only slightly unable to keep up with the running Kyubey.
“Where exactly are you taking me?”
Out of trust, Kaori subconsciously believed in Kyubey, not caring about the strange looks people around her were giving her.
Kyubey stopped in front of a restaurant and then circled around to the back of the building.
“Kaori, don’t throw up when you see it later.
To avoid any accidents, let’s transform here.”
Kyubey stopped and looked at the corner less than five meters ahead, speaking to Kaori behind it.
“Okay.”
Kaori didn’t ask why; she realized there was definitely something filthy up ahead.
“How do I transform again?
Transform?”
Kaori hurriedly took out her soul gem, and her casual clothes dissolved into streams of light, reforming into a dress with apricot yellow and white as the main colors, her golden hair shining as it was suffused with magic.
“That’s it?
I’m transformed?”
It was completely different from what she had imagined.
She thought there would be a cool transformation sequence, but it turned out she just transformed whenever she wanted.
“What is this?
My violin?
How did it appear in my hands?”
Kaori recognized it at a glance as the violin she had used for years.
“Are you ready?” Kyubey asked.
“I’m ready.
It’s just up ahead, right?”
Kaori guessed what Kyubey wanted her to do.
Even though she knew beforehand that she was going to fight, she wouldn’t refuse out of fear.
Following Kyubey to the corner, which was the location of the restaurant’s back kitchen, she saw a man in a white uniform tearing into a disemboweled corpse.
He appeared to be a kitchen employee, matching his uniform.
“You, why are you eating a person?”
It was the first time Kaori had witnessed something like this; her face went pale, and the hand holding the violin trembled.
Seeing this, Kyubey felt quite helpless; he couldn’t blame a patient who had never fought before for not being able to fight properly.
The man stopped eating when he saw Kaori in her dress, slowly standing up, his entire face devoid of any expression a human should have.
His face split open from the crown of his head, and three tentacles shot out from within.
The middle one revealed a black and white eyeball, looking extremely disgusting.
The other two tentacles were a meter long, with axe blades glistening with a metallic sheen at their ends.
“Kaori, don’t hesitate.
He isn’t human; just finish him off.”
Kyubey shouted at Kaori while hiding far away.
Even though this thing couldn’t see him, if he accidentally got caught in the crossfire, he would end up cosplaying as 2.5 Gojo Satoru / Satoru Gojo.
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Okay.”
By the time Kaori reacted, the two axe blades were already slashing at her; a normal human would never be able to react to such an attack.
But Kaori saw it clearly and ducked to avoid it.
When the first strike failed, a second one followed, with both axe blades sweeping toward Kaori from the left and right.
Kaori used her legs to spring into the air, flipping nimbly in mid-air as the axe blades grazed past her.
“I can’t just keep dodging like this.
What should I do?”
Kaori had never fought before, nor had she ever joined any sports clubs; she was only managing to hold her own due to her physical fitness.
“Since I’m a Magical Girl, I must be able to use magic, right?”
“What is my magic?”
This was another blind spot in her knowledge.
Looking at the violin in her hand, she was at a loss.
Surely it couldn’t be that she was supposed to play for the monster right here and sing it to death, right?
That didn’t seem possible at all, did it?
The Parasyte’s attacks were becoming increasingly ferocious, and Kaori could only keep dodging, having no idea how to counterattack.
Clang!
Clang!
In her desperation, Kaori used the violin as a shield.
Unexpectedly, the axe blades, capable of cleaving a person in two, were deflected by the violin, unable to even leave a scratch on it.
The Parasyte retracted its axe blades, staring intently at the violin in Kaori’s hand, as if trying to figure out the principle behind it.
“Kaori, take this chance and just smash him!” Kyubey shouted from behind.
“I’m going in!”
That idiot!
Kaori shouted as she charged at the Parasyte, raising the violin.
The two axe blades headed straight for Kaori again, but this time they deliberately bypassed the violin to attack her directly.
Clang~ Clang~ Clang~
Kaori wielded the violin entirely as a weapon, each strike hitting the axe blades with precision, deflecting them all.
She gradually got into a rhythm, getting closer and closer to the Parasyte.
Seeing Kaori approaching, the Parasyte instinctively backed away.
“Ah!!!”
Seeing that the monster couldn’t hurt her at all, Kaori’s courage surged, and she began running at full speed, her strikes twisting the axe blades into a tangled mess.
The Parasyte didn’t even realize what was happening before Kaori arrived in front of him, leaped five meters high, and raised the violin with both hands.
Bang~ Bang~ Bang~
The violin was used entirely like a hammer, continuously bashing the Parasyte, with intermittent violin sounds and the noise of it hitting the floor intermingling.
Kyubey was stunned watching from behind.
Wait, what about your magic?
Magical Girl battles aren’t supposed to be like this!
The Gun Queen Akemi Homura and Tomoe Mami: Magical Girl battles are exactly like this!
“Alright, Kaori, he’s thoroughly dead.” Seeing that Kaori was still bashing it, Kyubey had to speak up to stop her.
The corpse that had belonged to the human male had been bashed into an unrecognizable mess of paste, scattered here and there.
“Ah???”
Kaori finally came to her senses.
Looking at the blood still seeping from her violin and the pile of paste in front of her feet, she covered her mouth with a pained expression, feeling a wave of nausea.
“Kyu…
Kyubey, did I…
did I kill a person?” Kaori trembled.
She couldn’t believe she had been capable of beating a corpse into such a state.
“Let’s leave this place first; someone is coming out soon.”
Kyubey didn’t explain to Kaori, instead signaling her to jump directly onto the roof.
Kyubey went down on all fours and ran up to the roof.
“This kind of thing is easy for a Magical Girl; just jump up.”
“I’ll try.”
Kaori swallowed hard as she looked at the roof twenty meters off the ground, then bent her knees and leaped up.
Although she didn’t jump all the way to the roof in one go, she landed firmly on the five-meter-high wall.
“Don’t be afraid.
Just jump all the way up.” Seeing Kaori hesitating, Kyubey encouraged her from the roof.
“I’m going for it!”
Kaori stopped looking down and mustered her courage, jumping back and forth between the walls until she finally grabbed the eaves, vaulted into the air, and landed steadily on the roof.
“I did it!”
Kaori was very happy; she had even managed to jump up easily using only her legs while holding her violin.
“Kyubey, that monster from just now…
are there many of them in the city?” Kaori felt a lingering fear thinking about the Parasyte.
“I don’t know.
Probably not a small number, but definitely not as many as humans.” Kyubey didn’t know how far the Parasyte plot had progressed either.
“Doesn’t that mean these monsters are hiding in our human society just like the rumored Ghouls?” Kaori felt a wave of palpitations thinking that she might have come face-to-face with these monsters in her daily life.
“That’s why you Magical Girls are needed.
Humans alone cannot completely eradicate these man-eating monsters.” Kyubey didn’t choose to reveal the truth about Tokyo Ghoul right now.
“I understand.
I will definitely work hard to eliminate these monsters.”
Speaking of which, Kaori remembered her performance and couldn’t help but feel dejected: “Kyubey, was my performance just now really bad?
It was nothing like a Magical Girl.”
“It’s okay.
No one is born a warrior.
Humans reached the top of the food chain by constantly learning.
You just need to understand your abilities well; these monsters are nothing but speed bumps to you.”
The potential of Kyubey-series Magical Girls was far beyond what these Parasytes and Ghouls could compare to.
Even someone like Kaori, who had just been born and wasn’t familiar with her abilities, could brute-force her way to beat a Parasyte to death.
If it were only Parasytes and Ghouls, he would only need to sign a few Magical Girls to steamroll them.
“Are there any other girls similar to Kaori?”