Arifureta After III Tortus Travel Journal ⑲
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Ur Town, the northern grain field area.
It was a legendary place were a great swarm of sixty thousand monsters marched into in the past and got massacred. Right now it was becoming a beautiful place that displayed golden wheat tips swaying like a ripple thanks to the “goddess of fertility” too.
In such famous place,
「Love and courage~♪ Changed into a single bullet~♪ Shooting through~~♪」
An angel was dancing. On a makeshift stage, with the golden ripple of wheat and brilliantly shining sun as the background, wearing attire of pure white frilly mini skirt, an angle was dancing and singing like an angle――it was Myuu.
A smile that turned tens of thousands of people were subdued by her, elegant steps, carefree song, a stick mike that emitted sparkling rainbow effects in a pentagram shape in her hand.
And then, using that stick mike,
「Right into the middle of the heart♪」
When it was pointed up toward the sky, it immediately unleashed a rainbow flash!
That figure was exactly that of a dancing and singing magical girl! The Magical Myuu of shooting and explosion!
She was extremely adorable. The citizens of Ur that crowded the place went ‘Hyahha!’ in great excitement. Nagumo family was busy taking photos without rest!
And then, of course such cute magical girl had a partner.
「Ba~d children will be~♪ Punished by the authority!」
The one who similarly wearing an attire of frilly mini skirt (gold color) holding a stick mike in hand while winking splendidly was, to tell the truth, the princess of this country Liliana――no the magical girl of politic and incitement! Pretty Lily!
And then, when she lifted up the stick, crimson light instantly surged out! Each time they witnessed it, the citizens of Ur would go ‘Fuuh! Fuuh!’ with their excitement at the peak!
But however, the main star of this stage wasn’t Magical or Pretty.
Yes, the unit’s leader was, the magical girl of fertility and victory――
「Affectionately~♪ Nurturing~♪ With care✩ If not~ Gas explosion! Will – come – down – on – you♡」
It was Miracle Ai (twenty six years old!)! Of course, she was equipped with frilly pink mini skirt and magical stick mike. Along with a beautiful step, she placed a horizontal peace sign over her eye and sent a full power wink! Seven colored stars flew! Right now Miracle Ai was shining at her brightest! And then, her eyes were dead!
「……Horrible」
While the special stage was enveloped in a vortex of wild enthusiasm due to the idol magical girls unit, Yue’s leaked out muttering resounded strangely clearly. Surely, she was representing the feeling of everyone other than Hajime without a doubt.
Now then, if it was asked why the past event replaying of 60,000 monsters VS Hajime and co was becoming an idol live event like this……
The replay was carried out safely without accident. But, because of the show, it became the cause of this.
Because, it was just too horrible in a different sense from Miracle Ai.
Blood sprayed, earth was overturned, the air exploded. Roar, explosion, and then cries. A single electromagnetically accelerated bullet would pierce through the enemies until far behind, causing shower of flesh and blood to pour down. Rockets that struck down like heavy rain ripped off flesh and blood as expected and dyed the air red. Flame grilled flesh and super gravity mass produced red stains on the ground.
The clamoring sixty thousand monsters were reduced into mere mince meat like a joke. Thousand, tens of thousands of them.
At that time the citizens’ lives were at risk. Even the people remaining in the town consisted only of people with the will to fight. That was why, even when they saw the monsters dying, and even after everything was over, it was excitement and relieve that occupied the majority of their heart.
However, right now was a time of peace. The citizens here were mostly people who were fundamentally unrelated to fighting. Although they had at least watched adventurer or vigilante corps battling against monster, it was only against several monsters at best.
They were such normal citizens. And they witnessed it.
The hellish scene of pandemonium. A real mountain of corpses and river of blood.
Legend was beautiful only because it was inside a story. Story that was passed down was interesting exactly because it was glorified.
For many people, they could enjoy battle only because it was only in the realm of imagination.
And so, half of the citizens of Ur fainted. There were also cases of vomiting occurring here and there.
From the perspective of ordinary people, seeing the ground covered with living thing’s flesh, blood, and entrails even if they were from monsters was a gruesome scene that inflicted considerable damage to their mind.
It seemed that the sensitivity of Hajime and co were slightly numbed, so by the time they realized it was already too late. Rather the audiences were also turning into a hellish scene of pandemonium. If Tio didn’t stabilize their mind with soul magic right away, surely it would become an even bigger disaster.
Of course, Tomoichi and Kaoruko, and then Akiko were also fainting with the white of their eyes showing. Kaori and Yue were the one to deal with that.
Sumire, Shuu, and also Remia were turning a bit pale, but they held out somehow. They were quite something. Yaegashi family was……a slightly special family so you could easily guess.
But well, because of that, the citizens who held out nursed the citizens who fainted and vomited while raising voice 「O, oo~」 that sounded admiring even while their expression was cramping. The atmosphere was getting dry but……
Seeing the situation, the one who felt the biggest guilt was――
「I, it was Aiko who incited them, so perhaps this should be considered her reaping what she sow?」
Akiko said with cramped expression seeing her daughter sparkling with dead eyes. Just as she said, it was Aiko.
Aiko said “With just soul magic I am worried what will become of them after we left. Can’t we give them some care?”, “For example can’t we do something to improve their memory of today even just for a bit”, “Is there anything that I can do for the citizens, I’ll do anything!” and consulted Hajime desperately.
She messed up. Inevitably Hajimed replied 「Hm? Just now, you said that you will do anything?」……and it ended up like this.
「No, Akiko-san. The one with biggest fault is my son. I’m really sorry. He is an unworthy son who always led the pure Ai-chan into a horrible path.」
Sumire bowed her head deeply. It was exactly like she said. Perhaps inside her heart she was also thinking that Hajime was the cause, Akiko only kept her cramped smile without denying or affirming it.
「And, Hajime. Can you explain it already?」
Shizuku represented everyone and questioned the horrible Hajime who was still busily recording his daughter’s big moment while completely disregarding both Aiko and Liliana even though he was the major cause of this.
「Explanation? For what?」
「Your idea to rewrite the incident today with the memory of the improvised live event, well, I’ll unwillingly accept it as a good idea.」
However.
Those attires, or the sticks, and above all else how could they sing and dance like that even though this event was decided so suddenly. Or why was Ai-chan-sensei able to continue dancing so radiantly even though her eyes were dead like that?
「――Spit it out. What did you do?」
No matter how they looked at it something was fishy. Then, the cause was Hajime. It was like how 1 + 1 = 2. It seemed Yue and others also had no objection to what Shizuku said. Everyone were looking at Hajime with a blank stare like Yue’s.
Hajime put away his camera and opened his mouth with a quiet expression. Behind him, Magical Myuu and Pretty Lily and Miracle Ai started their second song. The three lifted their leg & winked simultaneously! It was beautiful.
「It’s because Myuu watched an anime and said she want to try being a magical girl.」
He made it, the transformation set. Although, it didn’t mean that they could transform anytime anywhere. The principle was simple. It was a quick change of attire using “treasure warehouse”. And so, Hajime must be within several meters from them for it to work.
After all, the transformation needed sparkling magic power effect, the light effect that enveloped the body while the clothes they were wearing got stored into “treasure warehouse”, and then teleporting magical girl attires and fixing it on their bodies perfectly to the inch. It was a special technique that couldn’t be done if it wasn’t Hajime who possessed the skill to perfectly teleport six bullets into his gun’s cylinder. Also, the attires themselves were something he ordered to be made through his connection. In other words, it was a professional work.
「Please wait Hajime-san. I understand about the costume change, but putting aside Myuu-chan, why are you carrying attires that matched Aiko-san and Lily-san’s size?」
「It’s because, Myuu want to become magical girl together with her Onee-chan.」
Shudders ran through them. In other words, Hajime had prepared magical girl costume for all of them! And then, as long as they were within the effective range of “treasure warehouse”, there was a risk of them being transformed into magical girl!