Regarding the fact that my best friend is a magical girl

The violent explosion that Yang Yan was so proud of failed to harm the stone monster in the slightest. The white rock still faintly glowed with firelight, like molten lava.

Explosion resistant.

Could it be that they took advantage of Milno's inactivity during the day and deployed these monsters specifically to target her?

When the attack failed, Yang Yan threw out a few more feathers. Her feathers were also covered in fire phosphorus, and when they hit the monster, they exploded with the power of a small missile.

Roar--

The rock monster roared again, and astonishing heat burst forth from the cracks in its body as it charged toward Yang Yan with unexpected agility.

Then, another explosion occurred.

Even more intense than the scorching heat, the explosion blasted half of the shops on both sides of the street, making the already sweltering summer air feel like hell.

Yangyan spread her wings and rose into the air with the help of the blast, then began to scatter an even denser mass of fire phosphorus—the big one was coming.

"Oops!"

But she flew too high, causing some of the phosphorescent fire to drift onto the roof of the building where I was.

Fear spurred me to get up and run. Although I'm a fan of magical girls, I had no intention of dying at their hands.

boom--

An explosion that nearly shattered eardrums rang out behind me, followed by a heat wave and shockwave.

I tumbled and scrambled into the stairwell on the top floor, barely escaping most of the potential harm.

"Phew, that scared me to death."

Even so, watching the battle between magical girls and monsters up close like this, the burning sensation on my back made me forget my fear. My excited heart was pounding, and every beat was like a blow to my eardrums.

But my life is more important.

There's a back door at the bottom of the stairs; going out from there will take you away from this street that has become a battlefield.

As soon as I got down to the second floor, I saw Yang Yan crash in through the window, but he fell right at the entrance of the second-floor stairwell, breaking several feathers from his headdress.

She looked disheveled; her proud explosions had failed to cause any effective damage, and the stone monster was even stronger than her, leaving her helpless for the time being.

"Ahem, why haven't you left yet?"

But she still looked up at me.

Are you alright?

"I have a way to solve this! You run first!"

However, a sound of a door being broken open came from downstairs; the stone monster was coming up the stairs.

"...I have nowhere to run now."

“I’ll distract him, you jump from the second floor.”

"I can't jump from the second floor."

"You otaku are so lame!"

She grumbled and pushed me into the second-floor shop, then closed the door to the stairwell.

A series of explosions came from downstairs, but soon the fragile door was blown open. Heat filled the entire second-floor shop, and I felt my hair start to curl. The violent impact almost knocked me unconscious.

Then, this floor collapsed.

In a daze, I felt myself falling and being hit.

"Well……"

A burning pain spread across my back.

Hey! Fatty!

It was Kagerou's cry.

I gritted my teeth and opened my eyes, only to see her struggling to hold up a floorboard that was about to fall on me.

She hissed at me, "If you're awake, get out of here!"

Then, the stone monster charged like a bull and knocked her and the supporting floorboards flying. Although I was saved, I was caught off guard and attacked by Yang Yan, and I fell on the square and couldn't get up for a while.

She was badly injured; after all, her battle suit looked to have very low defensive capabilities.

However, the stone monster's collision this time did not cause an explosion, and its body returned to its original white color.

I understand.

It absorbed the explosive power of the blazing sun, which transformed it into a lava-like bomb.

"Miss Kagerou, you can't use Phosphorus Fire! It's absorbing the energy from the explosion!"

I instinctively spoke up to warn him, and the strange man turned around and looked at me...

It has no facial features, and its head is just an irregularly shaped rock.

But it was indeed watching me.

Fear, guilt, helplessness, and hatred of one's own powerlessness.

Overwhelmed by chaotic emotions, I wanted to run away, but when I stood up I found that my left leg wouldn't obey me, and I fell down again on the rubble-strewn ground.

My leg was injured when I fell from the second floor, and I can barely stand up now, let alone run away.

It sucks.

Ordinary people have no chance of escape when targeted by a strange person.

Only now, as I face death, do I regret my foolish actions... I should have gone to seek refuge with Ye Zi.

"Wow ah ah!"

With a roar, Yang Yan detonated the fire phosphorus beneath him, rising into the air with the blast wave. He spread his arms and lunged at the stone monster's back, using his glider to cover the monster's head.

She is a magical girl who uses magic as her primary means of combat, so close-quarters combat like this is not in line with her style, especially since she is currently seriously injured.

She wasn't just buying me time to escape; a large amount of tiny, but dense, fire phosphorescence was accumulating around the monster...

Kagerou plans to self-destruct.

He even mustered the strength to shout at me, "Run!"

I dragged my injured leg and tried to leave, but as soon as I turned around, I was hit on the back.

Kagerou was swung at me like a rag doll by the stone monster, knocking me to the ground.

I painfully checked on Yang Yan's condition. She could no longer lift her arm; the gliding wings on her left arm had been torn apart by the monster, making it impossible for her to fly.

Then, another explosion occurred—the final burst of fire phosphorus from the Yangyan.

But when the smoke cleared, the stone monster was still unharmed.

It even infused him with energy, and the white stone had turned into scorching lava, the high temperature even distorting the surrounding air.

"This guy and I are so incompatible... I'm doomed..."

As Yangyan leaned on me and said that, although I longed for the idea of ​​a magical girl lying in my arms, I felt nothing but guilt.

"sorry."

"To die alongside someone like you... I'd be so unlucky..."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

The lava monster standing on the street looked this way.

Heat was brewing in his uneven mouth, and steam was rising from the cracks in the rocks on his body.

Clearly, he's about to charge in and explode again.

But we had no way to escape.

Just like Kagerou said, everything is over.

"Time-freeze!"

The sound coming from the air was like a glimmer of hope amidst despair.

In the next instant, as if pierced by an electromagnetic cannon from above, the lava monster's upper body was shattered and then collapsed with a bang.

“...Miluno”.

A cold-faced girl stood behind the pile of stones that had once belonged to the strange man.

She's my favorite magical girl, but right now all I want is for Kagerou-san to survive...

"Please, help her!"

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Severely injured, Kagerou was sent to a medical facility exclusively for magical girls.

I was taken away by armed police for trespassing into the combat zone.

I fully plead guilty.

I also bear responsibility for the harm that Yangyan suffered, so I am willing to go to jail even if it means going through jail.

But not long after, I was taken over by the Magical Girl Association and boarded a helicopter to the association's headquarters.

The young woman who brought me out of the police station asked, "Sun Yao, do you know why you were able to get out?"

"...Is that Dad?"

"No, we did ask Chairman Sun for his opinion, but he didn't intend to bail you out."

My relationship with my dad is not good.

If I go to jail for this, he probably won't even come to see me.

"I think so... but why is that?"

"Kagero may be bedridden for a while because of this incident."

She looked at me and asked directly, "Sun Yao, do you want to take this responsibility?"

Chapter Three: The Mysterious Beautiful Girl?