Poor magical girls, work for me!

Tokyo.

Shibuya.

Friday night...

FamilyMart convenience stores have finished their 12-hour daytime operation and it's time for the shift change.

Ryosuke Miyagi, the store manager, stretched and glanced at the time. Half an hour had passed, and the new shift employee hadn't arrived yet. He opened the duty roster.

Tonight's night shift is Yukio Matsushima.

Senior employee Yukio is always very punctual, but today she's been over half an hour and still hasn't arrived...

What's going on today?

If it drags on too long, Ryosuke Miyagi, as the store manager, can only ruthlessly record her lateness in red on her attendance record.

You picture Matsushima Yukio wearing an old white wool sweater. She has always lived a frugal life. Convenience store employees don't earn much, and their only advantage is that they can enjoy half-price or near-expiry food earlier, which is her main source of income.

Being late once could make life even harder for Matsushima Yukio, so you, being kind-hearted, decide to use it as leverage to show her that sometimes there are other ways to earn money besides work!

[Bonus: 50 ways to blackmail employees as a store manager (slander, making things difficult, deducting wages; sometimes, as a store manager, your power is a bit excessive! Senior, you don't want your perfect attendance bonus to be deducted, right?)]

The voice in his mind kept chattering, but Ryosuke Miyagi ignored it; clearly, this wasn't the first time he'd heard it.

A week before I came into this world, this voice kept ringing in my mind.

It really is Ryosuke Miyagi's cheat code.

However, this cheat code kept tempting him to commit crimes...

To use a cheat code.

This world is a giant open world! He is free to do whatever he wants in this world!

On his first day in this world, Ryosuke Miyagi passed by a convenience store.

He still remembers the narrator and what he said.

The entire city of Tokyo is like a real-life GTA game for you; you don't need to think too much! Go to the supermarket, buy some steel pipe marbles, craft a shotgun, and then riddle the convenience store owner with bullets!! Nobody will know it was you who did it!

A beautiful landlady adds another layer of allure, just like in the movies... Landlady, you wouldn't want to stand before your husband's memorial tablet..., would you?

[Become a DIY expert! (From glue to welding, from paper to metal; a life without imprisonment isn't a perfect rebirth, and a life without experiencing the life of a widow isn't a life of Cao Cao.)]

Ryosuke Miyagi was in a daze at the time.

On the first day, he actually made a shotgun according to the narration, but before he could even start committing the crime on the second day, he was sent to the police station on the grounds that the sound of his homemade steel pipe shotgun was too loud and was reported by the downstairs residents for disturbing the peace.

A perfect crime, thus stillborn.

Fortunately, it was just a warning... Of course, no one thought that broken cannon could fire deadly steel balls.

Therefore, this world is a real world, and it is neither an open world nor a game.

Ryosuke Miyagi resigned himself to his fate and worked diligently.

He honed his eloquence through somewhat effective narration and became the manager of a convenience store.

Life is barely getting by.

As for those odd and useless pieces of knowledge, just enjoy them for fun.

For example, "50 ways to coerce employees as a store manager".

Are you kidding me?! Is he that kind of person?!

Remembering Yukio-senpai's frugal life, Miyagi Ryosuke unconsciously began to look up "50 ways to blackmail employees as a store manager".

I won't use it, but I will look at it.

……

The automatic doors slid open to both sides with a "ding-dong" sound.

Miyagi Ryosuke's thoughts were interrupted, and he stretched out his body to look outside.

A familiar figure rushed into the convenience store.

Matsushima Yukio...

finally come.

He glanced at the time on the wall.

I was half an hour late.

The words I was about to say were swallowed back down.

Matsushima Yukio looked nervous as she entered the room. She braced herself against the door frame with one hand, her chest heaving violently. Her chestnut hair was disheveled by the night wind, with a few strands clinging to her sweaty forehead.

She wasn't wearing her usual worn-out wool sweater; instead, she was wearing a thin shirt with a crooked collar and rolled-up sleeves, revealing a suspicious dark stain on her forearm.

Ryosuke Miyagi looked at Yukio Matsushima.

Not wearing work clothes and rushing around like that... Even the store manager can't tolerate this kind of work attitude, and even a senior colleague shouldn't go this far...

They really should be given a good scolding using "50 ways to blackmail employees as a store manager".

"Ryosuke-kun!"

"You must get out of here with me right now, that thing is coming!"

Matsushima Yukio bypassed the counter, grabbed Miyagi Ryosuke's wrist, and turned to run outside.

???

What does that mean?

The blinding high beams shone directly into the convenience store! Instantly filling the entire glass curtain wall!

Matsushima Yukio's expression changed drastically, and she abruptly looked up at the street outside the door.

Rumble!

The roar of engines, growing louder as they approached, reached their ears...

Ryosuke Miyagi saw it clearly: it was a huge, out-of-control truck heading straight for the convenience store's main entrance!

In Tokyo, this situation usually involves the teleportation rhythm of time travelers.

However, Ryosuke Miyagi is unsure whether, after being run over, he, as a transmigrator, will be able to transmigrate again.

The massive steel shadow reflected in the glass rapidly magnified, and the oppressive feeling of death froze the air in a fraction of a second.

It's too late to run...

[A roaring truck speeding by in the distance, like a teleporter from another world, this is pure physical crushing! This is way more direct than a cursed spirit's attack! Your night shift pay and workers' compensation claim will reach an all-time high... assuming you're still alive to fill out the forms! (Forgot you're an orphan, so you don't need to pay!)]

[Bonus: How to survive a collision with a heavy truck traveling at over 200 km/h (This is a joke; you couldn't possibly survive. The truck driver was flooring the accelerator that hard; how could you possibly survive?)]

Ryosuke Miyagi's mind went blank. Just as the truck's cab was about to shatter the glass!

Suddenly, Yukio-senpai beside me let go!

She suddenly took half a step forward, blocking Miyagi Ryosuke's path with her entire body.

"Henshin!"

A clear shout severed the frozen state of fear.

Ryosuke Miyagi stared wide-eyed at Yukio Matsushima striking a pose in front of him!

She quickly crossed her hands in front of her chest, her fingertips tracing brief and mysterious streaks of light.

The movements were exactly the same as the magical girl transformations in anime.

hum-

Time seemed to be stretched out and tightened.

From the point of contact between their fingertips, the ordinary shirt and pencil skirt worn by Matsushima Yukio suddenly burst forth with an intense, icy blue light! The ordinary clothing vanished rapidly in the light!

The light exploded into blue light!

Instead, she wore a deep blue ice crystal armor that clung tightly to her skin! Her chestnut hair turned into a frosty silver-white.

To Ryosuke Miyagi's incredulous gaze, Yukio-senpai, who always struggled to make ends meet and ate only near-expired convenience store bento boxes... and lived in a capsule dormitory because she couldn't afford it, suddenly... transformed into a magical girl next to him?!