Galaxy's Mission

(Miluno)

After hours of friendly boxing matches, the magical girls' combat lesson finally came to an end...

This is still a bit strange. Although I don't have a magical girl's mind like Ceruno, shouldn't magical girls be model girls who drink tea and eat sweets in their private lives?

Fortunately, there are support-type magical girls with healing magic, so no one needs to go to the infirmary.

Miss Bai Ze's lesson isn't just for newbies.

Even I've come to understand a principle: newly recruited magical girls basically only lose because of their lack of combat experience and mentality. Their magical power is by no means weak, and some of their strange and unquantifiable magic can catch people off guard, even making it easy for me to be defeated.

This same principle applies to Monster individuals as well.

Xiaoling had already put Ceruno's head back in its place, but the latter was still sighing.

"No, my magic really can't fight alone."

Losing to Xiaoling seems to have dampened Ceruno's confidence, but if it can curb her inexplicable arrogance, it might be a good thing.

"Okay~ Shall we go have lunch first?"

Xiaoling patted Ceruno on the back with a smug grin. Winning one round made her feel so good about herself. However, the conditions for activating her magic are still unknown. I can only avoid a disaster by ending the battle in an instant.

Ceruno asked, "Okay, shall we eat at the food stall today, or take the ingredients home and cook ourselves?"

"I'd better make it myself. There probably won't be many people setting up stalls at noon, since the stall owners are all students who have to attend classes."

That's my guess.

However, the street in front of the Materials Distribution Center remained lively, with quite a few magical girls rushing over to become little shopkeepers as soon as they finished class. Moreover, having broken down the language barrier, the magical girls had a strong desire to communicate with each other.

Setting up a stall even during lunch break, these magical girls are really pushing themselves too hard!

"Although they all look like students, most of them are working adults who have returned to school. They're all capable of enduring hardship. Although saying this might be a bit of a dream-breaker, the percentage of actual girls among magical girls is actually quite small~"

Ceruno said so.

This magical girl fan's comments have become more realistic.

"Ceruno ~ Come sit here!"

"Sister Jila, selling barbecue again?"

"After all, this is simpler to make. If you want to eat seared hand-rolled sushi, you can have that too. Yoko learned his dad's skills, although he's not very good at it."

Falcon and Heat Haze also dressed up as chefs and set up a stall, bringing their parents' Hawaii fusion restaurant to the City School. However, only the latter was for money, but since the ingredients were free, they only charged the necessary labor costs.

"I want a steak! Medium-rare!"

The Golden was the first to be targeted, and then it was criticized. "You've already told this joke before, haven't you!"

Xiaoling glanced at the menu.

"Heat Haze- nee, then I'll have a Wagyu beef rice bowl!"

"The rice is still cooking, you'll have to wait a bit."

"Huh? There's food there."

Heat Haze had an open rice cooker right next to him.

"This is sushi rice. If you want to eat ecchi rolls, I can make them now."

The sushi rice contains a special kind of vinegar, so it's a bit sour and not very tasty on its own.

Xiaoling looked confused, but nodded nonetheless.

"Then let's try this Epee Roll!"

This is a scam. The so-called "Hyebang Roll" is just seaweed rice roll, which is very easy to make and convenient for Heat Haze.

After settling Xiaoling, she looked at me and asked, "What does Miluno want to eat?"

"Then I'll patronize your business... eel rice?"

She immediately glared at him with displeasure.

"Hey, don't cause trouble! Please choose anything on the menu."

"You don't know how to do that."

"Of course not. Preparing eel requires a very high level of culinary skill. I can only make some simple Japanese dishes and barbecues, and that's something I've only just learned... You know, the only kitchen utensils I've used in the Past few years are electric kettles for cooking instant noodles."

The daughter of a Japanese chef can't cook; I think I can understand why they don't get along.

"Then let's make a steak burger combo. Can Fire Phosphor fry French fries?"

"Is it possible... you don't want to eat eclipse rolls?"

"I won't eat it."

I didn't order any Japanese food that she knows how to cook, which made her a little disappointed.

Ceruno ordered a grilled meat platter at Falcon, but Miss Extinction went to the stall next door and bought a pre-made Japanese bento box—the bento box looked very exquisite, at least better than the one made by Heat Haze.

Before leaving, Ceruno reminded them, "We'll head back now. Don't stay up too late; at least eat something before your afternoon classes!"

"We'll find time to eat. There are less than four hundred students in the whole school, so there won't be much business."

She's really changed now that she can express concern for others; hopefully, it's not just a fleeting change.

Back in my dorm, after eating the burger Heat Haze made, I lay on my bed for a short rest. The lunch break at the City School is relatively relaxed, so I even had time for a nap before afternoon classes...

[Urgent mission! Galaxy troops, please assemble immediately at the City School entrance]

Announced over the school's loudspeaker.

We need to get Ceruno and me involved...

... That means a witch has invaded.

"That's... a domain? Has the Imperial City already met the conditions for forming Witch Domain?"

Travel through the wormhole directly to the invaded location, the hometown of Xiaoling and Extinction.

In response, SpiCa explained through the earpiece, "The darkness in big cities is growing very rapidly, and it's impossible to stop it with our current purification capabilities. Your tasks will become increasingly arduous in the future."

A red curtain descended from the wormhole on the "The Other Side" and enveloped a movie theater... or at least it used to be a movie theater. The Witch Domain, like an upside-down clock, now made it impossible to see what was inside from the outside.

But it must be related to witches, like the simple and easy-to-understand scenes of Halley's stage and Jet's Sky.

They landed steadily on the street in front of the movie theater, carrying Ceruno, but now a new problem arose.

The previous two domain battles were fought directly from within the domain; we have no experience entering the domain from the outside...

"Let me try first."

Accelerate, sprint.

A kick delivered at forty times the speed slammed into the barrier of the domain, the recoil so strong it made my leg go numb...

But the barrier of this domain remained completely unmoved.

Armed police and magical girls from the Imperial City were also present, but their firepower was equally ineffective against the solid barrier.

"SpiCa, how do we get in?"

She countered with, "Huh? Your teleportation magic isn't working?"

Ceruno replied, "No, we can't use it if we can't see what's inside. The darkness within the domain can only be purified from the inside, but the wormhole on 'the Other Side' is the only entrance and exit to the domain... There's no other way!"

"Etc."

Ceruno's words gave me a wake-up call.

"Doesn't that mean there's an entrance?"

The only difference is that the entrance is on "the Other Side".