Teacher, I Am Actually a Villainous Magical Girl: Star Flower

She had thought she would be a quiet, well-behaved child, but before she knew it, she had become clingy and annoying like a puppy.

"Then do you hate it when I hug you?"

Kazama Kiriori blinked innocently.

"..."

Haihara disliked intimate relationships, especially when others took the initiative to get close to her.

But if it was her daughter, there was nothing she could do about it.

She sighed and reached out to stroke Kazama Kiriori's head. Just like before, the girl's hair was cool and soft, carrying a faint floral fragrance.

"Have you been in a bad mood lately? Do you want me to move in with you? It's been a long time since we slept together, hasn't it?"

Kazama Kiriori looked at Haihara.

"You're not a little girl anymore. I'm not sleeping with you."

Although Kazama was her adopted daughter, after Kazama entered high school, she had moved out on her own, because this child was a little problematic in every sense.

Haihara suspected that the child's extreme lack of maternal love during childhood had led to a sort of mother complex.

When she had first met this child, she remembered her as a somewhat cold little girl.

She lowered her head and looked at Kazama Kiriori now.

The girl smiled, light and gentle as the wind, like sunlight spilling down in winter and softly brushing over one's whole body with a faint warmth.

Her hand felt slightly cool, yet delicate and soft.

Haihara looked at her and said:

"Still, it would be fine if you stayed over once in a while."

They had not spent time together in quite a while. Though this child could be troublesome, she was still her daughter.

It was just that this child loved pushing her luck.

"Then go on a date with me that day."

"A date?"

"Isn't a mother-daughter date perfectly normal?" She tilted her head.

"How is that normal... Whatever."

After the two of them stayed like that for a while, lunch break was nearly over, and Kazama Kiriori rose reluctantly.

She was, after all, the student council president. It would not be good for her to remain in a teacher's office for too long.

Haihara watched as she expertly drew the curtains open again, returning to her usual poised and elegant appearance, as though nothing had happened.

After Kazama Kiriori left, Haihara took off her glasses and wiped them lightly with a cloth.

Then, recalling her daughter's suggestion, she fell into thought.

In a few days, should she invite Ms. Suzuki on a date?

After leaving the office, Kazama Kiriori returned to her usual student council president demeanor.

Lunch break was about to end, so she needed to return to the third-year classroom building.

Not long after she stepped out of the office, she spotted a figure in a hidden corner some distance away. They appeared to be a first-year student.

If it was only a student, there was nothing to pay attention to, but...

She slowly pulled up her sleeve. There, an intricate hollow silver armband was giving off a faint glow.

"Looks like this time it's a Monster of the same type as me."

Kazama Kiriori spoke calmly, and then the furtive figure in her field of vision quickly disappeared.

Not long afterward, a disturbance broke out in the classroom building. Panicked shouts and screams from students could be heard, and through the windows, fleeing figures could be seen at the other end of the corridor.

"---Bzzz!"

Soon, the Monster attack alarm began blaring inside the building.

This city had grown used to the existence of Monsters, so there were dedicated alarms for Monster attacks. Even so, Monster attacks on schools had been rare so far.

As Kazama Kiriori remembered it, the last time a Monster had attacked a school was around three years ago.

Although all the other students had already left, she had no intention of leaving.

After all, Teacher Haihara was still in this building.

She slowly walked over to the window and looked down over the campus through the glass. As she watched the chaos outside, she slowly bent over, braced an arm against the windowsill, and rested her cheek on her hand.

"So then, Magical Girl Silver Feather, what will you do this time?"

The time rewound to a few minutes earlier.

In a dim corner of the classroom building, Kirishima Ai sat with a lunchbox on her lap, holding chopsticks in one hand as she slowly ate her lunch.

The classroom had been a little noisy today, and since she had no friends either, she found a mostly empty corner to eat lunch alone.

Today's lunch was fried pork cutlet she had made herself. The supermarket had been selling discounted pork yesterday, and since she could not finish it all alone at dinner, she fried the leftovers for lunch.

Fried food was delicious, but once it got cold, the texture became rather awful.

So she ate with little expression.

When she had eaten less than half of it, she suddenly heard footsteps and found it strange.

Normally, no one should have come near here.

If it was a teacher, explaining herself would be troublesome...

Kirishima Ai looked up toward the doorway and saw an abnormally tall figure with an extremely bizarre shape.

The figure was shrouded in shadow, and she could only barely make out its terrifying slender outline. Its shadow stretched across the whitewashed wall like a kite with legs.

...A kite?

Instinctively, she became alert and gently set down her lunchbox, trying not to make a sound.

However, the strange figure had already turned around, revealing a hollow, indifferent pale mask.

"So it really is a Monster."

This time, Kirishima Ai saw it clearly.

It was a gaunt Monster, almost nothing but a spine with scraps of flesh clinging to it. From each vertebra grew a kite-like membranous structure.

And this Monster had no hands, only tattered, filthy strips of cloth hanging down.

What kind of Monster was this?

Just one look at it in the darkness made Kirishima Ai feel nauseated and afraid.

"Found the Magical Girl..."

The kite-like Monster spoke in a low, distorted voice.

Kirishima Ai froze.

Why could this Monster recognize her?

Before she could react, the Monster had already pounced. Though it was so tall, its body was as light as cloth.

Seeing that ghostlike thing drifting toward her at lightning speed, Kirishima Ai swiftly dodged, but the place where she had been standing was crushed beneath the Monster's pounce.

"Bang!"

Her lunchbox shattered, and the unfinished lunch inside scattered all over the floor...

Kirishima Ai's expression darkened at once. She wanted to transform quickly, but the Monster moved too fast and became a flying shadow rushing at her again.

It brushed past her, but the wall where she had stood moments ago was smashed apart by the impact.

Chunks of stone crashed to the floor, and large amounts of white dust poured down. Kirishima Ai choked slightly.

But this was an opportunity. She ran out through the breach the Monster had made, pulling out her magical tool from the little bag she carried while striking the alarm on the corridor wall with one hand.

What came next was simple.

She snapped off the Feather Wing of her magical tool—

"Which one should I choose, which one should I choose..."

After the wall was destroyed, clouds of dust spread through the air, and the kite-like Monster stepped out from the haze one step at a time. Its grotesque form was fully exposed beneath the sunlight shining through the windows.

This time, Kirishima Ai had nowhere left to run. She felt the Monster seize her by the throat and slam her whole body into the corridor window.

The glass shattered.

She was knocked flying by the Monster and thrown out along with the glass.

Glass sliced open her cheek, blood seeped out, and pain began to spread...

Then Kirishima Ai began falling, and so did the Monster. Both of them plummeted rapidly, but with a human body, she was the only one who would be smashed to pieces in the end.

"--Silver White Feather!"

As her body dropped rapidly, she lost all purchase. The fierce wind of her descent made it nearly impossible to keep her eyes open. At the last moment, she struck her wand, knocking the Feather Wing back into place.

The fairy's chant rang through the air, and then a dazzling light enveloped her.

Her body gradually became lighter, and she gradually gained control over the fierce wind of her fall. At the instant she reached the ground, she and the Monster crashed down heavily with a tremendous roar.

The ground cracked, dust rose up, and as the billowing dust slowly dispersed, it revealed the Kite Monster lying on the ground.

Soon, a figure stepped out from the dust and stomped heavily on the Kite Monster's body—

"Boom!"

Under that stomp, the Kite Monster's entire body sank deep into the concrete.

The girl's figure gradually became clear.

"Magical Girl—Silver Feather!"

With those final words, the Magical Girl's transformation was complete. She wiped the blood from her cheek and looked down at the Kite Monster.

Magical Girl Silver Feather said grimly—

"You're finished."

Star Flower

This was the first time a Monster had come after her at school.

And this Monster seemed to be a type she had never encountered before.

Up to now, the Monsters she had encountered had mainly fallen into two types: "flowers" and "birds," along with the Thorn Monster, which had undergone a strange mutation recently.

This one looked different from the Thorn Monster as well.

At the beginning of the battle, considering that this was a school, she first deployed a barrier to keep ordinary people from entering.

For Magical Girl battles, ordinary people could be said to be the greatest nuisance.

Especially students.

Many instances of civilian casualties during Magical Girls' extermination of Monsters had been caused by students deliberately barging in.

This was especially true in Neon, where anime culture was so prevalent.

Many reckless high school students would deliberately approach when Magical Girls fought Monsters, attempting to punch the Monster or strike up conversations with the Magical Girl, along with a whole series of baffling human behaviors.

Not long after the battle began, Magical Girl Silver Feather felt that something was wrong with her condition this time.

She felt somewhat exhausted, and she could not seem to summon any strength.

She had just tried stomping on the Monster, but it had barely done any damage.

It was as if she had not yet recovered from her previous battle with the Thorn Monster.

Had using Snake's crystal that time consumed too much energy?

She pressed down harder with her foot, wanting to crush this Monster right there, but a spine draped in tattered cloth lashed at her like a whip.