Teacher, I'm Actually a Villainous Magical Girl

Silver-white was the crystal color of the bird type.

Kirishima Ai placed the crystal atop her wand and slowly set it in—

"Silver White Feather!"

Likewise, when the Magic Crystal was inserted, it came with sound effects.

She gave the wand in her hand a light wave, then returned the folded Feather Wing to its original position, pointing it straight toward the street where the Monster was rampaging.

"Transform."

Kirishima Ai spoke calmly.

The Feather Wing on the wand bloomed with silver-white radiance, and then a wing made of light immediately enveloped half her body.

Her shop clerk uniform rapidly faded away into nothingness. The girl's body was covered in light, and then a gorgeous silver-white feathered dress slowly emerged.

Silver feathers layered and interwove into an intricate skirt, gradually outlining the girl's beautiful figure from her waist to her neck.

"Sky! Wings! Future!"

Her short black hair gradually lengthened and drifted apart, dyed a dreamlike silvery cyan by the light.

The clear blue of the sky also appeared in her eyes.

Feathers fell away from her formal dress one by one, covering the ruined street below and gradually restoring it to its original, intact state.

The transformed girl took a step forward, and the final words proclaimed the birth of a warrior—

"Magical Girl—Silver Feather!"

The legendary warrior—the Magical Girl—had completed her transformation.

Magical Girl Silver Feather slowly walked down the street and sighed. No matter how many times she transformed, she found it hard to accept the fact that it came with sound effects.

Let's finish this quickly...

She lightly pressed her foot against the ground, then braced herself and exerted a little force.

Then—

"—Whoosh!"

Her foot kicked off the ground, and immense force launched the girl's light body forward. Like she was flying, she crossed hundreds of meters in an instant, shooting from one end of the street to the other, where the Monster was.

As she soared through the air, the Magical Girl quickly saw what had swallowed half the street.

It was thorns dancing like snakes.

It should have been the Thorn Monster from before. Sure enough, that thing hadn't been completely defeated last time...

But this time, it seemed much stronger.

Compared to before, the number of thorns was like the difference between a raging river and a pond. A huge, dark mass of thorns had nearly swallowed the buildings whole.

As she approached, countless thorns shot out, trying to cut off her path.

Magical Girl Silver Feather lightly raised her hand. Light turned into several feathers and gathered in her palm, rapidly lengthening and transforming into a sharp long blade.

She raised her hand toward the sky and slashed downward. The silver-white feather blade struck the thorns and met slight resistance, but then their dark green skin split open. The crack was torn wider and wider, and a clean slash split the foremost thorn in two.

Then the white blade light continued carving a path forward. One thorn after another was severed, and that single strike opened the way ahead.

"..."

Though she had cut through them, they felt much tougher than before.

Magical Girl Silver Feather continued gliding swiftly through the air. When she reached the massive wall of thorns, she used Magic Feather Blade once more, cutting open a gap in the wall and flying inside.

Although she had launched herself with tremendous force, she landed with incomparable lightness, stirring up only a faint cloud of dust.

The severed portion of the wall was quickly flooded by more thorns, which filled the gap again.

Slowly rising from her crouch, Magical Girl Silver Feather raised her head—and was stunned by the sight before her.

At the center of the street stood a cocoon-like Monster covered in thorns.

The Thorn Monster from before had even had its mask, its soul, covered by thorns. It was like it had been parasitized, becoming a puppet of the thorns.

A sense of unease spread over her skin.

Though it felt strange, what she needed to do had not changed. She only had to defeat the Thorn Monster.

She raised her wand, and its shaft bent accordingly, changing from a staff into the form of a gun—

"Bang!"

She poured magic into the gun. Light became a bullet, which shot out at high speed and pierced the thorn-wrapped Monster.

Dark green plant sap burst forth. The Thorn Snakes, their mouths filled with sharp teeth, let out threatening, enraged growls. Several Thorn Snakes emerged from the Monster's body and lunged at Silver Feather.

One after another, they lashed out like whips. Silver Feather leaped to evade them, twisting and spinning through the air, but the thorns moved even faster in midair.

Just as a vine whip was about to strike Silver Feather, she poured magic beneath her feet, used the air as a foothold, and made a second jump.

As she flew through the air, magic bullets fired again, snapping several incoming thorns. Her other hand became a feather blade and swiftly slashed at the nearby Thorn Snake.

A strain she had never felt before rose within her.

What was going on? The Thorn Monster hadn't been this strong before.

Silver Feather landed on the ground again and stepped forward, trying to approach the Thorn Monster's main body.

"It didn't speak this time either..."

The previous Thorn Monster had been able to talk, but this time it was like a completely lifeless thing. Instead, these thorns seemed more alive.

Suddenly, countless thorns entwined and connected.

This was...

Before Silver Feather's eyes, the thorns rapidly gathered into one mass, transforming into something like a massive tree. Then the giant vine split open, revealing densely packed sharp teeth inside, and charged at Silver Feather.

"—Boom!"

This time, even she could not react in time. The enormous Thorn Snake slammed heavily into her, sending her flying.

Intense pain spread through her waist. If she had not transformed, that blow would probably have snapped her in half.

After transforming, her tolerance for pain also increased—or rather, she became braver.

She gritted her teeth and forced herself up. Raising her head, she saw the enormous Thorn Snake, its mouth split into four sections like a ferocious python, hissing coldly and darkly.

When she looked up, the sky had been woven shut by vines, with only a few rays of light filtering through the gaps. Then several thorns dropped from above, trying to tear and pull her apart.

Coming back to herself through the pain, Silver Feather returned the magic gun to wand form and raised it high. A beam of magic instantly pierced the mass of thorns in the sky, letting the light shine through again.

The thorns immediately lost their strength and fell away, revealing the street that had been covered before.

What should I do...

Magical Girl Silver Feather felt like these thorns were impossible to finish off.

Why hadn't the other Magical Girls arrived as reinforcements yet? Did those people think she alone was enough here?

Once she realized she could not deal with the Thorn Monster by herself, Silver Feather decided to stall for as long as possible. Her transformation duration was fairly long, so she should be able to hold out until the others arrived.

However, just as the thorns fell away and revealed the original street, she suddenly noticed that there seemed to be someone in the corner of an alley that had been concealed.

Magical Girl Silver Feather's eyes widened—

"..."

In the dim alley, a black-haired woman wearing glasses was hiding there. Only half her body was visible, and with the thorns blocking the way, she had nowhere else to go.

Once Magical Girl Silver Feather saw who it was, her previously optimistic mood was instantly replaced by anxiety and panic.

Teacher Haihara...

Had she failed to get to shelter in time?

Why was she there...

Magical Girl

While Magical Girl Silver Feather fought the Thorn Monster, Haihara remained in the corner of the alley, quietly observing the battle.

As expected, the current Magical Girl Silver Feather was no match for the Thorn Monster after it fused with a Snake crystal. If this continued and no other Magical Girls arrived, Magical Girl Silver Feather would be defeated.

As she stood with her arms crossed and watched, a somewhat frivolous woman's voice spoke up.

"I heard you're a teacher. But just standing there and watching your student get hurt makes you quite the scumbag, doesn't it?"

Haihara casually turned around and saw a figure that had appeared from the dark corner at some unknown point.

It was the figure of a tall, glamorous woman, but a closer look revealed that she did not seem to be an ordinary human.

She was covered in a dark military uniform. Though it was a military uniform, it exposed a great deal of skin, clinging tightly as if emphasizing the woman's curves. She looked seductive and dangerous.

Her skin was dark gray, covered in black thorn-like tattoos.

Beneath her pale bangs, the whites of the woman's eyes were entirely black, leaving only a pair of scarlet pupils.

She was a seductive woman dressed in a military uniform.

In every sense, she looked like a Villainous Female Executive.

Haihara merely looked her over from head to toe and casually said,

"Whether I'm a scumbag or not doesn't matter. She won't get hurt anyway."

She still possessed a little basic teacherly morality.

It would also be troublesome if a student got hurt. After all, her goal was to get her students back to class, not have them lying in hospital beds.

She could roughly guess the identity of the woman before her.

An executive of the Black Death Cult—an Apostle.

Not a Monster, but a servant of the Demon King who wielded the power of Magic Crystals.

"She won't get hurt? Isn't Magical Girl Silver Feather already injured?"

The female executive in military uniform touched her face and asked curiously.

On the battlefield, Magical Girl Silver Feather had already been lashed several times. Her originally pristine and gorgeous silver-white battle dress now bore several tears, exposing skin streaked with blood.

Haihara calmly said,

"Only the Magical Girl will be hurt. Her human side won't be."

She did not care whether the Magical Girl got hurt.

Magical Girls did not cry. They were warriors of love and courage.

No matter how timid or frightened their human side might be, once they transformed into Magical Girls, they would become perfect warriors and fulfill their mission of defeating Monsters.

Seeing Haihara's cold-blooded appearance, the female executive froze for a moment.

This woman...

How was she worse than even the Black Death Cult's executives?

Haihara said nothing more after that. She only continued looking at the female executive, until the executive herself began to feel uncomfortable.

Especially the exposed parts of her body—it felt as if they had all been examined carefully. Even though they were both women, being looked at like that still made her uneasy.

The female executive awkwardly covered her chest.

"What are you looking at?"

Haihara shook her head.

"Nothing. I just think you're dressed pretty slutty."

The female executive's dark gray face immediately flushed crimson.

"...Huh?"

Within the battlefield surrounded by thorns, Magical Girl Silver Feather endured wave after wave of thorn attacks. But after seeing Teacher Haihara in the alley, her heart was instantly filled with panic.

A Thorn Snake struck her while she was distracted, sending her flying once more.

Her whole body slammed heavily onto the ground, but several more thorns shot out and wrapped around her hands and feet, trying to pin her to the ground.