November 5...
Hmm, I forgot what day of the week it was.
I didn't even remember when I'd gotten into bed.
"Big Sister! Get up! You can't sleep anymore!"
Through my sleepy haze, Azura pulled off my blanket and dragged me out of bed.
The girl was awfully noisy today.
"They're assigning jobs! We've all got ours already! If you're any later, you might get stuck cleaning toilets!!"
No way!
Robots handled cleaning on the Zodiacal, though there were indeed a few jobs left that nobody wanted. Mostly service-sector work, like staffing the supply center, probably?
The open space in front of the station beneath Monument Square had been chosen for assigning jobs because it was easy to get to.
"Miluno, you're a little late!"
The Zodiacal was now a space station, with Xiao Yi serving as its director.
But the person responsible for assigning jobs to the magical girls was her secretary, Anjie. The red-haired secretary in red stockings pushed up her glasses and swiped across the tablet in her hand.
"Xiao Yi advocates assigning duties scientifically, based on the type of magic people have. But you don't have any magic, so there isn't much you can do... Still, it wouldn't be right to assign you nothing."
Oh, so now you're looking down on me for being useless?
Doing nothing would actually be fine. I didn't particularly want to work anyway.
"You won't die no matter how badly you're hurt now, right? How about being a punch... a sparring partner?"
I raised an eyebrow at her. She'd been about to say punching bag, hadn't she?
But thinking about it seriously, the job really did suit me.
Although I was no longer a magical girl and had lost my magic, my physical abilities remained. Especially after using Dark Catalysis, I