Shuttle Tower Ceruno

(Ceruno)

The tiger-striped catgirl made a heroic entrance, the exaggerated giant golden hammer in her hands as light as a plastic toy, but the cracked road surface proved its weight. She picked up the heavy hammer, twirled it in her hand, and hoisted it onto her shoulder, her expression becoming increasingly arrogant.

But it seemed that the impact of jumping down had made her feet numb, and her two thin legs were trembling slightly.

"Hey, Brother Dantai! Why aren't you coming out?"

This Miss Tiger Cub is here to see Dantai Zhengchu.

She shouted, "That damned demon from 'the Other Side' is coming again! I'm going to get revenge for what happened twelve years ago, and you're coming with me! Our power is for this moment, so if you run away now, I'll look down on you!"

She arrogantly blocked the car and started yelling, revealing a pair of prominent canine teeth as she spoke, completely ignoring us standing next to the car.

But at such a crucial moment, her appearance would naturally attract...

A large, white, six-rotor drone fell from the sky, and a warning from the Association staff came over a loudspeaker.

"Hey magical girl over there, if you want to join the battle, head to the assembly point! The fine for damaging the road will also be on your tab; pick up your ticket at the Association afterwards!"

"Huh? I'm not --"

I muted her halfway through her sentence using Bubble Membrane.

As she covered her mouth in feigned terror, I said to the drone:

"I'll take her Past. You all go and guide the other magical girls!"

"You're Miss Ceruno? I understand, then I'll leave her in your care."

The drone even swayed and nodded in a rather human-like manner before taking off and flying away.

Only then did I remove the Bubble Membrane.

"Swearing, who are you swearing at?"

Tiger Cub turned around with a loud clatter, his words muffled twice. Miluno couldn't stand it, so she stepped forward and flicked him on the forehead.

"Quiet down. I don't know where you came from, you stray cat, but at least consider the occasion."

Although Miluno said that, Tiger Cub couldn't hear it.

With Miluno's power amplified, even a simple headbutt could shatter a skull...

"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! My body is split open!"

"It's not cracked! Miss Tiger Cub, can you calm down? Since you want to deal with the enemy on 'the Other Side,' then we're allies. There's no need for such hostility towards us, is there?"

"Pah! I'll never forgive you magical girls!"

He spoke with great force, but the sight of him covering his forehead with tears in his eyes was rather embarrassing.

"Miss Tiger Cub, I don't know what grudges or grievances you have with Uncle Dantai, but look at her sickly appearance, can she really participate in the upcoming battle?"

I pointed to the back seat of Dantai Xue's luxury sports car... where a high school girl was lying.

Dantai Zhengchu has been turned into a girl by Dantai Xue!

How quickly things have changed!

And they even changed their clothes! When did they change?!

"Why is your body so weak even after becoming a magical girl? Aren't magical girls supposed to have eternal bodies?"

Tiger Cub crossed his arms and leaned against the car door, which accentuated his rather well-endowed chest. He said, "Brother Dantai, Brother Dantai, you couldn't beat anyone when you were young, but now you can't beat anyone in middle age. Tsk tsk, is this just fate playing tricks on you?"

Dantai Zhengchu simply shook his head indifferently at this.

"I'll find a way to come back."

"Are you really incapable of fighting? You were so powerful before!"

"... That's not my power."

During the conversation, the wormhole countdown ended.

Miluno shouted, "Those who can't fight, get out of here! Let's get out of the wormhole area first!"

The countdown ended, but nothing fell out immediately. Instead, a dark red barrier descended from the wormhole.

Then, the Association's drones in the air simultaneously went out of control and fell like rain...

There was no cell phone signal either, which is to be expected.

"A barrier? Wait, this is actually a Witch Domain with an enormous area?"

A normal Witch Domain.

The largest is as big as a stadium, and the smallest is as small as a church.

Aldebaran also showed us the smallest Witch Domain —it was only the size of a prison cell.

But this time, it was an unprecedentedly massive Witch Domain... The expanding barrier almost covered the entire Old District, not only encircling all the magical girls gathered there, but also the civilians who thought they had retreated to a safe area, were also shrouded in this red curtain.

"... Are you kidding me?"

Dantai Xue had driven a short distance when she turned the car back.

"Hey! We can't get out!"

"Don't worry, I'll use teleportation magic to send you out..."

However, the teleportation channel that opened within the domain was like Jim Carrey, who had drunk fake alcohol, twitching in the air as if he were dancing.

Dantai Xue complained, "There's absolutely no way this thing can lead to the right place, is there?"

Coincidentally, I think so too.

"They don't want us to escape, so they've interfered with the teleportation magic within the area..."

If this mechanism had existed during the previous battle against Fomalhaut, then Ceruno and I would have become German soldiers who fell headfirst in Moscow.

"You should hide in a safe place first. I'll prepare protective shields for you."

This is the only thing we can do for now.

"The inability to teleport must be due to some rule set for the domain."

Miluno her chin on her hand, analyzed, "Aldebaran previously stated that the Witch Domain was developed based on Ceruno's magic. Essentially, it's about cutting a region out of the real world and re-imposing rules according to the domain's owner's mental image..."

Dantai Xue helped her JK-style father out of the car and asked:

"Who is the master of this domain?"

Miluno shook her head and replied:

"The scenery here hasn't changed yet, which means the master of this domain hasn't appeared. To be able to unleash such a large-scale Witch Domain, it must be an unimaginably powerful enemy... But it doesn't matter. This Witch Domain contains nearly fifty magical girls, more than the number of the Expeditionary Force back then. Even if Fomalhaut himself came, he might not be able to return alive."

It was as if to confirm Miluno's words.

A long, narrow point of light, as dazzling as a shooting star, plummeted rapidly from above the wormhole.

"Such a large point of light... the thing thrown at us must have been quite big..."

It was even larger than previous missiles and Magic Titan.

Can my magic stop it?

No, it's impossible...

But Betelgeuse is still undergoing ideological reform in the Gongdelin, and there's no way that this thing could be Magic Titan...

The colossal object, moving at an incredible speed, pierced through the wormhole and crashed violently onto the ground.

Boom--

The buildings around the impact point were instantly shattered, and even some distance from the center, the ground shook violently, just like an earthquake of magnitude 8.

The object that crashed down was an enormous hexagonal club. Although it was tilted, the front of the club was completely embedded in the ground, standing out like a skyscraper in the North Suburbs Old Town where there were few tall buildings.

But then, doors opened one after another on the surface of the hundred-meter-tall giant staff, and hundreds of Monster poured out like a tide.

No, it wasn't just Monster; there were also several witches mixed in.

"Withdrawal of the preamble"

Even Miluno couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

"Fifty magical girls might not be enough..."