Give children a little self-destruction shock to their worldview.

After she finished speaking, she raised her head and looked up, expectantly waiting for Mayumi Haga's reply.

In that case, Mayumi shouldn't refuse, right? This is a win-win situation!

The little bear made this suggestion partly because she was really hungry, and partly because, after eating a little bit of the sadness that had spilled from Mayumi Haga, she was a bit confused and wanted to do something for Mayumi Haga.

I don't want Mayumi to be so sad anymore; I don't like the look on her face that says she's about to cry.

That's why she secretly came to meet Mayumi when the magical girls and mages here were not around.

If you act as you normally would, appearing slightly harmless should be somewhat persuasive.

The little bear, who gained full intelligence after evolution, also has his own little thoughts.

But Mayumi Haga's reaction was beyond her expectations.

All that could be seen was the black-haired girl's expression freeze, then reveal a gloomy and fierce look of offense.

Main text: Chapter Nineteen: A Soft Heart

The little bear instinctively stepped back and raised its hands to protect its head.

The moment Xiao Xiong saw Mayumi Haga's expression darken, he felt that he must have said something wrong and stepped on her landmine.

The image of his arm being chopped off flashed before his eyes, and the little bear, feeling as if he would be torn to pieces at any moment, trembled and shrank into the corner.

But unexpectedly, the gloom seemed to only flash across Mayumi Haga's face for a moment. The girl, who quickly regained her calm expression, did not immediately draw her sword to chop the rude teddy bear into eight pieces.

"Get out." The girl's voice was very calm, without the expected anger. "I can pretend you didn't say that."

The little bear cautiously observed her expression and, finding that Mayumi Haga didn't seem very angry, finally mustered the courage to ask in a small voice, "...Are you angry?"

"..." Yuga Mayumi didn't answer her anymore. She just got out of bed, grabbed her, and prepared to throw her out the window.

Mayumi Haga's personality wasn't as irritable as Little Bear had imagined.

The reason why she is considered so fierce is probably because they were enemies when they first met, which is why Mayumi Haga attacked her without any mercy.

However, Mayumi Haga herself is not the type to get angry at others because of herself. No matter what the situation is during battle, as long as she is not considered an enemy, she can maintain maximum patience.

Her former guardian had said that her personality was too weak, and she would always suffer in silence; she needed to be more assertive. Later, when her guardian was misled by death and lost her mind, and insulted her as a pathetic creature after her resurrection, Mayumi Haga simply silently processed her emotions.

After all, in many situations, her own emotions are not as important as the things that need her protection.

Moreover, this stupid weirdo only made that absurd suggestion without knowing the truth. Although Mayumi Haga was displeased, she would not vent her anger on this weirdo who had come to flatter her so bluntly.

At least, when the bear offered to help her process her sadness, she didn't sense any hostility from it.

Mayumi Haga couldn't understand why this guy was coming to curry favor with her.

Weren't they enemies before? Why have their stances changed so quickly now?

Could it have grown a brain and decided to deceive itself...?

There was someone like that in the past, who initially targeted Mayumi Haga at every turn, verbally abusing her and relentlessly belittling her, saying she wasn't qualified to be a Guardian. Despite her infuriating way of speaking, her actions betrayed her true intentions and helped Mayumi Haga.

So Mayumi Haga didn't really pay attention to the other party, no matter how the other party targeted her, she just treated it as if there were birds chirping.

That person didn't live to see the calamity; he fell seriously ill and died.

However, this strange person has not done anything to harm others, and Mayumi Haga is able to allow him to continue to exist.

However, you can't stay in your vicinity.

I no longer have the desire to continue the conversation.

So, Mayumi Haga simply grabbed the teddy bear, grabbed the tag still attached to the back of the teddy bear—who knows which store this thing was stolen from—and threw it out of her room window.

The bear cub screamed and flew for two miles before its head hit a tree and it fell silent.

With the little bear, who always caused a lot of trouble, gone, the world seemed to become much quieter.

Distracted by the sudden visit of the teddy bear, Mayumi Haga glanced at the alarm clock on the bedside table and knew that she probably wouldn't be able to fall asleep for a while tonight.

After a moment's thought, Mayumi Haga decided to go out.

She was going to investigate the activity patterns of the insects that had died today.

She was also concerned about the fact that the ordinary people who were used as seedbeds, as reported in the news, had not died and had been rescued.

Why is that...? As the guardian who has dealt with that calamity the longest, Mayumi Haga finds it quite difficult to understand.

Generally speaking, ordinary people tainted by death will only decompose at the fastest speed. Although the humans in this world have magic that can slow down the rate of death, after being used as a breeding ground for so long, they cannot be cured by ordinary hospitals.

what.

Haga Mayumi understood.

It must have been magic that worked, since there was someone in that hospital who could use healing magic.

In a world where magical girls and monsters can fire magical cannons at each other's faces all night without waking the residents, and where ordinary people can fall from the thirteenth floor and have their spines broken by a magical girl catching them, magic can have an effect comparable to resurrection... which is quite normal.

Sugiyama Rika and the uninvited guest have both left, and now it's her free time.

So, the Guardian's paraglider reappeared in the city sky. When she couldn't get enough altitude, she put away the paraglider, gently landed on a house, and began running on the rooftop.

After all, the Guardian is not a magical girl, and her race in the original world is not a winged race living in the mountains, but an ordinary human, so naturally she cannot fly.

Her own mount could no longer be summoned using the saddle after the world was destroyed; perhaps those skeletal horses had ceased to exist along with the original world.

it's a pity.

The other vehicle has also been unused for a long time, and Mayumi Haga cannot use it until an energy source is found to refuel it.

This means that the Guardian needs to rely on her own two feet to move around. Fortunately, she has considerable strength and stamina, so she doesn't get out of breath after wandering around the city for a short while.

Suddenly, the Guardian heard a sound.

"Waaaaaah?! Don't peck my eyes! Don't pull my arm... It's going to break, it's going to break, it's going to break... Waaaaaah—"

She looked in the direction of the sound and saw a fluffy brown creature battling crows whose nest had been invaded, perched on a tree next to the roof where she was.

It's obvious that this strange person has been outmaneuvered by the birds, and now the cotton has been pecked out, making him look quite pathetic.

The only useless little thing like that is the teddy bear that the Guardian just casually tossed out.

Watching the little bear get beaten badly by fighting birds in the middle of the night, the guardian lady stood on the rooftop and watched for a while before finally sighing and going down to rescue the bear before anyone opened the window to complain about disturbing the peace.

She knew how annoying it was to have something making noise outside her window late at night.

Even though it seems like no one is disturbed while sleeping at night, she still did a good deed.

After this rescue, she was immediately entangled by the snot-nosed bear, who clung to her leg and wouldn't let go.

The guardian was incredibly annoyed and was arguing with the girl when the magical girl Crimson Night Patrol passed by and noticed the commotion.

Miss Guardian couldn't break free from the strange man clinging to her leg, so she could only stare at the magical girl Crimson.

Main text: Chapter Twenty: Stubborn

Magical Girl Crimson.

Mayumi Haga naturally knew that this magical girl, who had been active for several years, was her friend, Hitomi Tono.

But in the past, I had only seen them on TV or from afar at accident scenes. The last time I met them as a guardian, I was never this close.

In other words, this was the first time Mayumi Haga had spoken so closely to Hitomi Tono, who had transformed into the magical girl Crimson, under such circumstances.

Information like darker and longer hair color, which can be obtained from television, doesn't need to be repeated. Ignoring elements like clothing and hairstyle, which are fine no matter what, this magical girl's facial features and body shape didn't change after her transformation; at most, she just had a layer of light magical makeup.

Mayumi Haga carefully adopted the attitude she would use with a stranger, lest she appear too familiar in front of this face she saw every day.

“…Magical Girl Crimson.” The words, which seemed completely out of place, came out of the Guardian’s mouth. After noticing that Magical Girl Crimson was coming over, the white-haired Guardian secretly breathed a sigh of relief. “Dealing with monsters is your duty, isn’t it?”

For the guardian lady who lacks the ability to seal monsters, if this monster continues to recklessly pester her, she will have no choice but to cut it in half to temporarily disable it.

If there were experts who specialize in dealing with strange people, I could get rid of this annoying thing myself.

Upon hearing the Guardian's cold words, the little bear's sobs grew louder. She clung tightly to the Guardian's leg, desperately trying to climb upwards for shelter: "QAQ Waaaaaaahhhhhhh—"

It's so noisy it hurts my ears.

Magical girl Crimson was taken aback, glancing at the strange figure clinging to the guardian like a sloth, then at the guardian who was radiating an ominous aura: "..."

What's going on here?

Caught between the guardian's dark silence and the sad bear's tearful eyes, the magical girl Crimson was unusually at a loss.

She chuckled awkwardly and tried to smooth things over: "...Calm down, let's sit down and talk?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she received an incredulous look from the Guardian.

Please don't say that, Mysterious Warrior. Sad Bear hasn't done too many bad things yet; we can still sit down and have a proper talk...

Magical Girl Crimson attempts to convey this meaning through her eyes.

The white-haired guardian actually understood what the magical girl Crimson meant.

In this world, the definition of "enemy" is indeed different from that in her original world.

Since no one dies and damaged things will automatically repair themselves, most weirdos can only "cause trouble," like a bratty kid trying to get public attention.

In other words, in such a world, there isn't actually a strong opposing stance between magical girls and monsters.

Magical girls are quite adept at redeeming monsters; the dessert monster from the neighboring city has become the city's mascot, and anyone can take a bite. Mayumi Haga even visited last year, and everyone seemed to be having a great time.

Mayumi Haga couldn't help but sigh inwardly, but she didn't make things difficult for her friend who had stayed up all night to help others, after all, the cruelty of the enemies they faced was completely different.

This is why, even though Mayumi Haga knew that the magical girls' combat power was nothing to worry about, she still felt a strong sense of crisis regarding the invasion of the Death Worms.

The magical girls' strength goes without saying, and they might even develop magical skills to deal with the corrupting aura, but they have never encountered such an enemy before, nor do they have the ability to repeatedly try and fail like Mayumi Haga.

Despite understanding, she didn't want to waste time here with the magical girl Crimson.

Although Mayumi Haga was confident in her ability to conceal her identity, like Hitomi Tono and Yuri Takajo who could fool everyone with just a light makeup and a change of clothes, the Guardian's final appearance was completely different from that of the seventeen-year-old Mayumi Haga, making it even less likely that her identity would be exposed.

But since they were people she spent every day with, Mayumi Haga didn't want to take the risk.

Moreover... this face shouldn't be seen by anyone in the first place.

The Guardian grabbed the teddy bear, forcefully ripped the leech off her waist, and tossed it into the arms of the magical girl, Crimson: "Here you go."

She has important things to do and can't waste time here.

The cold-blooded guardian shook off the leech and turned to leave, giving the magical girl Crimson no chance to talk.

"Wait, wait, I have something to tell you...!" Before she could finish speaking, a soft, fluffy doll fell into her arms. Magical girl Crimson was startled, but upon closer inspection, she realized it was a teddy bear that hadn't reacted to her yet.

She came to her senses and wanted to chase after him, but found that he had left too quickly and she could no longer find him.

Holding the teddy bear and hovering in mid-air, the magical girl Crimson stared in disbelief: "So fast... how did she get away? Teleportation?"

In reality, the Guardian does not possess skills like teleportation.

In the original world, the Guardians could indeed use the ancient temple's teleportation facilities to quickly reach the other side of the continent. However, as time passed, the ancient temple, which had fallen into disrepair, gradually lost its power and never lit up again. Therefore, Mayumi Haga never used such a convenient facility.

She just used the old method.

After the magical girl Crimson, thinking she had left, searched around but found nothing and flew away dejectedly, the gray-white cat strolled out from the nearby bushes, nimbly leaped onto the tree in a few quick movements, and transformed into its new form.

However, what the Guardian didn't realize was that no matter how she changed her form, a certain sad weirdo could still find her by following her scent.

So, when she used the hang glider to move again, she suddenly heard a sharp gust of wind behind her.

A grinning face loomed over to her. Right next to her, the magical girl Crimson, clutching a teddy bear, flew alongside her, her eyes gleaming as she stared at her paraglider, exclaiming, "Amazing! Is that a paraglider? How did you do that?"

"..." The Guardian remained expressionless, giving the magical girl Crimson no further attention.

"Aren't you tired of holding onto the paraglider like that? I feel like your arms must be sore from holding it up like that."

"..." The Guardian closed her eyes with a hint of pain.

"Where are you going? The Crimson can take you there. I'll grab your paraglider; that should make flying much faster!"

Miss Guardian couldn't hold back any longer and snapped, "No need!"

...Air travel is still too slow. Next time, I must find a way to recharge the ancient vehicles. I must not give the magical girl another chance to catch up with me.

Miss Guardian was quite annoyed.

Chapter Twenty-One: But her heart still held expectations.

Footsteps echoed in the empty hospital corridor. Magical girl Crimson immediately shut her mouth after entering, but her gaze couldn't help but fall on the guardian girl walking beside her.

From her angle, she could see the other person's displeased, pursed lips, and their eyebrows, which were hidden by the hood, were probably also furrowed.

Magical Girl Crimson is considered petite among her peers, while the Guardian is already quite a bit taller, and even taller in her youth form. Therefore, Magical Girl Crimson has to raise her gaze more often when she tries to steal a glance at the Guardian.

The way it walks feels strangely familiar... Magical Girl Crimson thought to herself.