I, Your Teacher, Am Actually a Villainous Magical Girl

Her voice was overlapping and complex, as if many voices were speaking at once.

"Yes, it seems you have gained complete control over this mortal vessel."

Qingchuan smiled.

"This body is indeed a perfect fit for me, brimming with the magic of the Bird-Type... her sister is the same."

Hina raised her head; at some point, the withered narcissus from before had been replaced by a fresh one.

It was the sister of this body's owner who had changed it before leaving.

"Is it that ordinary human named Kirishima Ai? Do you need me to capture her as a backup for your vessel?"

"No need, I loathe the stench of Magical Girls."

The entity possessing Hina said as much.

Magical Girls were her mortal enemies.

Qingchuan wore a look of mild surprise, seemingly unaware that Kirishima Ai was a Magical Girl.

However, none of that mattered anymore.

Because the great one before him had finally awakened from her slumber.

Yes, at this very moment, the one possessing Hina was none other than the leader of the Black Death Cult, the King of Monsters, and the most terrifying enemy of the Magical Girls—

The Black Devil King.

Furthermore, there was no doubt that the one resurrected before him was the most cruel and cold-blooded of the four Devil Kings: the Bird-Type Devil King.

Shortly thereafter, the expression of the Devil King possessing Hina twisted.

"And... I don't know if it's just my imagination, but I smell the scent I hate most on that Magical Girl."

When she was near that little girl named Kirishima Ai, this sense of nausea was at its strongest.

That aura of magic tools and Magic Crystals...

It gave her a very familiar feeling.

She spoke the name of the Magical Girl from her memories with icy coldness—

"Overlord... that damned woman, why is her power inside that little girl?"

Regardless, once she sensed the other's aura, she could no longer suppress her rage and resentment.

As long as she found any trace of that woman, no matter what the connection was, she would destroy it completely.

"Hmph... whether you are dead or alive."

"I will make you taste the agony of a fate worse than death to avenge the hatred of having once been enslaved and driven by you..."

This was the greatest humiliation of her life as a Devil King.

To have been... by a mere upstart Magical Girl.

At some point, a sparrow flew in through the window.

The Devil King looked at the sparrow and reached out her hand.

The sparrow quickly landed on the back of her hand, affectionately rubbing against her fingers.

A transparent crystal emerged and rapidly fused into the sparrow's body.

In the dim hospital room, the chirping of the sparrow echoed, and then, on the wall, the shadow belonging to the tiny sparrow began to grow increasingly bizarre and massive.

"Next, I shall let my minions spread to every corner of this city, until there are enough to kill that ignorant woman and those Magical Girls."

Chapter 40: The Cuckoo Occupies the Magpie's Nest

The streets during the day were at peak capacity, with people coming and going; however, in the middle of such a street, the sound of a child crying suddenly rang out.

A little girl stood alone on the bustling street, weeping, as people passed by, occasionally glancing at her.

It looked like she had been separated from her parents.

"Mommy..."

The little girl cried while looking around, searching for the figure of her mother.

Just as she was at a loss, a gentle hand tapped her lightly.

"What's wrong? Did you get separated from your mommy?"

The little girl looked up and saw a beautiful older sister with black hair.

This older sister was wearing a loose short-sleeved shirt, revealing slender, fair arms, and on the chest of her shirt, a 'W' logo was visible.

It appeared to be a shirt themed after the Magical Girl Phantom Wind.

"Mm... Mommy is gone."

The older sister, Kazama Kiriori, patted the little girl's head and said gently:

"Then this big sister will stay here and wait for your mommy with you."

The little girl sniffled, looking at the pattern on the older sister's shirt.

"Big sister, do you like the Magical Girl Phantom Wind too?"

Kazama Kiriori smiled.

"I do."

"So, don't cry. After all, this city is my backyard, and I can't allow anyone to be crying here."

Having said that, she reached out to wipe the tears from the little girl's eyes, comforting her. After staying with Kazama Kiriori for a while, the little girl stopped crying.

The little girl blinked.

What the big sister just said sounded exactly like something the Magical Girl Phantom Wind had once said.

For some reason, seeing this gentle and beautiful big sister made the little girl's face turn red.

"In the future, if you get separated from your mom, it's best not to run around. When I was little, I also got separated from my mom, but I just stayed right where I was and waited for her."

Kazama Kiriori stayed with the little girl, waiting for her mother to find them. The little girl looked up and asked curiously:

"Did your mom find you later, big sister?"

"Of course."

Kazama Kiriori smiled.

A moment later, a woman with a panicked expression appeared in the crowd, seemingly searching for something. Upon seeing the woman, the little girl happily called out for her mother.

The woman froze for a second, looked over, and then ran toward them.

The mother and daughter were soon reunited. The mother hugged her daughter in relief, murmuring something to her.

After a while, the woman thanked Kazama Kiriori, and the little girl also said:

"Thank you, big sister."

Kazama Kiriori waved her hand and said with a smile:

"It's no problem. Don't lose your mom again next time, okay?"

She watched the mother and daughter leave. Before they walked away, the woman patted the little girl's head, comforting her:

"How about Mom buys you some ice cream..."

Standing there for a moment, Kazama Kiriori realized that she seemed to have lost her own mother as well.

"..."

She froze for a moment, looked around, but couldn't see her mother anywhere.

Today was the day she had come out on a date with her mother.

In the end, looking at the bustling street, she decided to do just like the little girl from before and wait right where she was.

Suddenly, she felt a tap on her head.

Kazama Kiriori turned her head and saw her mother, Haihara.

Haihara's expression was as indifferent as ever as she glanced at her casually:

"Mom will buy you some ice cream, too."

Kazama Kiriori's face flushed, but she quickly hugged Haihara's arm, rubbing her face against Haihara's without caring about the heat.

Haihara was a bit annoyed by the rubbing, but in the end, she didn't push this little puppy away.

On a bench by the side of the road, the mother and daughter each held a sundae, slowly scooping it up to eat. Haihara was eating a strawberry sundae, while Kazama was eating a melon-flavored one.

At some point, a small sparrow flew onto Haihara's shoulder, chirping away.

Haihara was getting annoyed by the noise, and her head felt quite itchy, so she reached out to shoo the sparrow away, but it immediately flew right back onto her shoulder.

Looking at this sparrow that had no sense of personal space, Haihara frowned.

Suddenly, an idea occurred to her.

She pulled a transparent crystal from her pocket and waved it in front of the little sparrow.

The sparrow seemed attracted to the object and immediately bit down on it with its beak.

Of course, the crystal was about the same size as the sparrow.

But soon, the crystal merged into the sparrow's body, though there were no immediate changes.

Recently, Haihara had developed an interest in things like monsters.

Although the memories she had obtained belonged to a Magical Girl, a portion of them was specifically about monsters.

Previously, because touching a Monster Crystal carried the risk of obtaining too many Magical Girl memories, she had tried her best to avoid contact with them.

But if it were a Colorless Raw Stone, there would be no such concern.

With that condition met, Haihara felt that monsters were actually quite interesting—it felt a bit like collecting and raising Pokémon.

As a witch who mastered "Snake" type magic, Haihara could also apply her knowledge to create other types of monsters, though the success rate was not high.

But just now, she had a feeling.

It seems that the success rate for creating bird-type monsters is higher lately.

Watching that Sparrow Monster slowly fly away, Haihara stopped paying it any mind, while Kazama Kiriori, who was still eating her sundae nearby, looked up, completely oblivious to everything Haihara had just done.

"Mom, speaking of which, the school is organizing a trip with Kaedehara Middle School in a while. Will you be going too?"

Kaedehara Middle School was the local junior high, and many students at Kaedehara High School had advanced from there.

The primary student groups participating in this activity were the junior high students and the first-year high schoolers.

However, as the student council president, Kazama Kiriori could go as well.

"...Can I choose not to go?"

Although she was a homeroom teacher and generally required to attend, the mere thought of camping in the mountains—where there was nowhere to bathe and she would be bitten by mountain mosquitoes—made her want to feign illness.

"I want to go with you."

"I understand..."

In any case, there was no way she could avoid it.

In the hospital room, the Devil King possessing Hina was controlling the Sparrow Monster she had created, looking down at the city while observing every corner of it, searching for traces of a Magical Girl.

As a Bird-type Devil King, she could easily command all Bird-type Monsters and share their vision and other senses.

Moreover, the Bird-type Monsters she created were far more powerful than ordinary monsters.

It should be said that these were the true monsters.

Minions created personally by the Devil King.

In terms of creating monsters, the only ones who could rival her were the other three Devil Kings, and... that damned woman.

That woman who usurped their authority as Devil Kings and had once been one of their own kind.