Living with a Magical Girl, but a Monster Executive

Well, because she herself grew rather slowly and had always looked young, she became a mascot alongside Xiao Cui.

Calling her a mascot might not be quite right...

More accurately, she was "the cuteness everyone acknowledged"... and besides,

Nagashima Koki might never grow up either.

Just like most people in the world now.

Because of magical girl and monster—Nagashima Koki was a monster now—modification surgery...

Nagashima Koki would remain looking like an adorable elementary school student, both now and for the foreseeable future.

She herself quite enjoyed it.

But the clear-eyed insight she had possessed since childhood, the core of her observations, had never disappeared.

That talent had even finally blossomed during a trip to Central City, bearing abundant fruit.

From then on, Nagashima Koki might have become extraordinary amid the ordinary, becoming a new version of herself.

Then...

Interestingly enough, Nagashima Koki, who had no strength whatsoever, was the first to realize what "thought" truly meant.

What one could not forget would surely receive an echo.

Nagashima Koki wanted to do something for Cong Yu, even though she did not think Angel's destruction was all that bad.

But even if it was only to prevent misfortune from falling upon those she knew and cared about...

Nagashima Koki believed she had to do something.

Even selfish Nagashima Koki judged that she seemed to hold some crucial position in this great upheaval.

So she used her talent and opened her eyes...

"This time, I've made a huge contribution!"

Declaring this proudly, Nagashima Koki planted her hands on her hips and announced it to Doctor and Cong Yu, who had already moved some distance apart.

"Kehehe... cough, cough... cough cough—"

Cong Yu and Doctor exchanged a look at Nagashima Koki, who had choked on her own saliva after her villainous laugh, then