Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Chapter 2 –

The First Transformation

[Transform.]

When I just blinked without answering, the metal ball kindly repeated what it had said.

Even though it saved me without saying anything, I thought it was my savior, but it seems to be the destroyer of my dignity.

Transformation? Does it mean what magical girls do?

‘You want...me to do that?’

Suddenly?

“That doesn’t sound like a good idea.”

Where is the demand for that?

Of course, it’s rude for me to judge like this since it’s not my body.

Still, my mind doesn’t change. In the end, it’s just a dark male body, isn’t it? What’s so good about putting a fluttering dress on it?

The metal ball firmly shouted.

[Transform.]

Hearing its inorganic voice gave me a creepy feeling.

[Transform and take care of the villain ahead.]

I came to my senses at this voice. The villain who had been knocked down by this transformation obsession started to get up again.

“Krrk...”

Its massive body was quite threatening. The shadow that even the night couldn’t swallow gradually cast over my face.

Just like when my neck was hung, my body violently craved life. Enduring the contracted muscles, blurred vision, and the sharp pain spreading in my abdomen, it started to find a way to somehow survive.

[The price of non-compliance is.]

My thumping heart was loud. The inorganic voice of the metal ball and the thumping footsteps of the villain louder than my heart combined to create an indescribable tension.

[Death.]

“Ha...” I laughed dryly like a dazed person. Now I’m even getting death threats from an inanimate object.

When I first came here, a rope welcomed me. The first living thing I encountered was a villain, and the first one who spoke to me was a metal ball.

All of them seemed to want to kill me.

I realized bitterly that this was not the ‘reality’ I used to live in.

A world with monsters and heroes where life-threatening situations are frequent.

Whether I die by the villain or the metal ball, what’s the difference? The only way to survive I could see was one.

Yes, to survive, I can sometimes let go of human dignity.

The villain was approaching me with no delay to crush me, and the metal ball remained silent as if waiting for my response.

In that strange silence, I took a deep breath and spat out along with the lump of refusal in my heart. “Okay, I’ll do this silly thing. Transform.”

[Approved.]

As soon as I spoke, a small crack began to form in the metal ball. A red light seeped out from the crack, and the metal ball turned white.

The villain raised its fist. A fist more than enough to instantly turn a person into a lump of meat.

Following the crack, the metal ball unfolded. It was no longer a shape that could be called a ball. Rather than a ball......

A belt buckle.

Not a fashion belt, but a design you’d see in toys or some sci-fi movie. Exactly that kind of shape.

The buckle came toward my waist.

With a clink of metal wrapping around my waist, the metal ball completely became a belt.

‘Ah, this is probably...’

It seems a bit different from the transformation I expected.

The moment the belt was fastened, a blueprint rose in my brain. It felt like an instruction manual was directly inserted into my memory.

A map appeared in my head on what actions to take to use this belt.

Following the drawn map, I moved my arms and placed my hands on the belt.

Whish!

The sound of wind being torn came. It was a signal that the villain had swung its fist.

The fist had already come right in front of my nose, but I felt no sense of crisis at all. Rather, I even felt a slight thrill.

Taking the sound of my pounding heart as my transformation cry, I muttered, “Transform.”

[ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATION.]

When the fist covered my entire field of vision. What I saw was not a shadow, but light.

Astronomical observation.

As the words from the belt implied, celestial bodies flickered in my eyes.

[That is my assistance. I am analyzing the enemy’s movements in real-time and transmitting the optimal movements to your brain.]

Another surprising thing was this power.

‘The power of the Big Dipper, indeed?’

In the magical girls chronicle, the size of one’s power was determined by the brightness and number of stars assigned to each individual.

All magical girls could wield the power of one star. And they would also decide their transformation name from the name and color of that star’s light.

Most are derived from actual existing stars, but the power of a magical girl and the actual brightness have nothing to do with each other.

Regardless of whether it’s a first-magnitude star or not, they can hone their star and increase their power.

Anyway.

The number of stars I saw was a total of seven.

Just from the voice the belt spoke, the power I could command was undoubtedly the Big Dipper.

A simple calculation would mean it was the power of seven magical girls combined. And I might even be able to further increase this power later.

‘Extravagant.’

It was too vast a power obtained without any will to acquire it.

Paak!!!

By the time the villain’s body was in the air longer than it touched the ground, I strongly kicked up its abdomen.

On a night when all the street lamps were off and the moon and stars shone brilliantly, a new monster adorned the sky.

A power I couldn’t even imagine normally. Yet I still had considerable energy left.

I bent my body, twisted my waist, and adjusted my sights to land a punch on that falling villain anytime.

I grabbed onto one of the paths the belt had drawn in my brain and followed it.

One of the many ways to kill the villain.

The technique for the finale.

[SET. Reverse Star.]

A green glow similar to the color of the stars I had seen earlier coiled around my fist.

Toward the squirming, falling villain, I thrust it in.

Reverse Star.

The star that rises in reverse.

As the name implies, the starlight didn’t flow from the sky to the ground, but from the ground toward the sky.

Kwaaang!

The meteor didn’t fall, but rather it shot upward.

My fist that had straightened upward shattered the villain’s body and caused a small explosion.

[Reverse Star manifestation successful. Reenactment rate 50%. Villain neutralized.]

It’s a bit concerning that I only unleashed half of its power. But in the end, I succeeded in neutralizing the villain.

“Whew...” I let out a deep sigh as the tension dissipated. With this, I won’t have to be threatened with death for refusing to transform anymore.

As for you, belt, go out into nature and live freely now.

No matter how strong the power, I don’t want to do the crazy thing of fighting without compensation.

As I was about to place my hand on the belt to cancel the transformation,

[The act of canceling the transformation is not recommended.]

What?

[A magical girl is rapidly approaching this location. Do not cancel the transformation. I repeat. Do not cancel the transformation.]

A magical girl? Then I should cancel the transformation even more. With this appearance, it’s perfect for being misunderstood.

[New quest updated.]

“Who is it?”

The voice of the belt and a woman’s voice coming from the night overlapped.

When I turned my eyes, I saw a woman flying toward me surrounded by a cluster of light that looked like it was being emitted by a tinkerbell.

A magical girl.

[Take down the magical girl in front of you.]

“Are you, are you a survivor over there?”

My heart started pounding heavily again, even though the battle had ended. Was it because of the joy of meeting the subject of my fandom in reality? Or was it because...

[The price of non-compliance is death.]

“...?! A, a villain?”

Was it simply because my stomach felt uneasy?

If I continue like this, I’ll become a possessed person.

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