Soon, the armored vehicle carried everyone to the Third Processing Plant. The heavily muscled Marines and the Magical Girls led by Red Ponytail climbed out one after another, leaving only Ripley, the girl, and several others inside the vehicle.
"You really aren't staying behind?"
One of the muscular Black men grinned at Red Ponytail, who had followed them out.
"It's safer in the vehicle, you know."
"You'll soon understand that cold weapons can sometimes be more useful than guns."
Red Ponytail smiled faintly at his question. The man shook his head and turned to head down the passage. Then Red Ponytail suddenly remembered something...
"Hold on."
Red Ponytail grabbed Kozue and stared at her and the other three.
"How well can you handle gore?"
"Gore...?"
"Have you watched B-movies? The Western kind, where guts and internal organs spill out at the drop of a hat?"
"I've watched a little. It wasn't very interesting."
Kyoko answered first—and that was perfectly normal. Since she played games so often, she had surely seen plenty of similar stuff.
Yachiyo shook her head.
"I'm not interested."
As a Magical Girl college student nearing her expiration date, she had never cared much for B-movies.
Akemi Homura likewise shook her head without speaking. She had little interest in movies to begin with, much less B-movies.
"I... I don't really like those kinds of movies..."
Kozue answered timidly, and Red Ponytail smacked her forehead.
She had nearly forgotten that, aside from Akemi Homura, the Magical Girls who had come with her this time were all newcomers. It would have been fine if it were Xia Shi or Tina; those little girls spent every day playing hide-and-seek with the Swarm in Heavenly Dao Palace and were long used to it. But strictly speaking, these Magical Girls were visiting a