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

Kagura Yu was neither a magical girl nor a monster, and she had transferred to the school on the same day as her, so they could be considered to get along reasonably well. Therefore, after granting her request to sit next to Haga Mayumi, Koma had no objections to her.

Although Magical Girl Crimson and Iris were also there, she knew she was an oddball, and befriending them would only expose her true nature quickly. She might even be sent away, and she didn't want that.

What the little bear wants most is to stay by Mayumi Haga's side and also enjoy school life (raises paw and cheers)!

She's a strange person who can transform into human form, so naturally she wants them all.

Moreover, since magical girls are always out and about, Mayumi often feels lonely. She would feel better if she had herself and her other friends with her.

But what she didn't realize was that if they were just dolls, it wouldn't be so out of place for them to stick to the Guardian or Mayumi Haga.

And she is human now.

On her first day at this school, she was quite a figure of attention due to her outstanding appearance and endearingly clumsy yet beautiful demeanor.

If she were to cling to the leg of someone like Mayumi Haga, practically wanting to lie on her back, it would definitely attract attention.

That's super weird!

If this weren't a children's world, after a while, some unpleasant speculations about his private life would have surfaced!

Mayumi Haga was completely unaware of the public relations crisis the teddy bear in front of her would bring. She simply stared at the teddy bear for a couple of moments with a scrutinizing gaze and asked directly, "Are we that familiar, Belle?"

"But...but we just met recently, Mayumi." The little bear's tears were about to burst out dramatically. She wailed and tried to grab Mayumi's leg like before, "It was me! Me! The weirdo who stole the teddy bear from the store!"

At first, Mayumi Haga was quite shocked that the monsters in this world could actually turn into humans?

Although the word "monster" contains the word "human," according to Mayumi Haga's common sense, monsters and humans are worlds apart, with completely different structures, and it is absolutely impossible for a monster to turn into this appearance.

It's almost unbelievable, like registering centaurs as mounts.

Even witchcraft couldn't possibly transform a monster into a rational human being.

Like herself, she transformed into an animal through complete body reconstruction. Because her soul resides in her core, after becoming an animal, she is no longer limited by the structure of her brain and can think freely.

But how did the little bear in front of me manage to do that? Is it possible for a body to be created out of thin air in this magical world?

...It seems like it actually works.

Mayumi Haga admits that her knowledge of magic is limited.

She quickly realized that the little bear in front of her was probably there to reconnect with her painful memories, and a strange feeling welled up inside her.

This strange person is really persistent.

"..." After realizing that the little bear in front of her was the strange person who had been bothering her, Mayumi Haga's last bit of patience with her classmate disappeared. She pressed her palm against the other person's forehead to prevent him from getting too close to her.

She said helplessly, "What are you doing here again?"

Since everyone knows their own identities, there's no need for them to pretend anymore.

"I'm here to go to school." What Little Bear said wasn't exactly a lie, but it concealed another part of her purpose. She gave a sweet and innocent smile. "I've never been to school before. My brother told me to come and learn more."

Her eldest brother, the most senior of the negative emotion series of siblings, the [Fear] Abyss Gentleman, even borrowed money from other weirdos so that his little sister could go to school.

The Abyss Gentleman had never been to school, but he personally loved reading and would often go to the city library late at night to read. He even considered trying to take the college entrance exam if he could successfully transform into human form.

Unexpectedly, it was Sadness who turned into a human first. While the Gentleman of the Abyss was happy, he also had to worry about the sudden increase in tuition fees for his family. He couldn't bear to put too much pressure on his other brothers and sisters, so he found another job.

Once I got busy, I didn't have time to cause trouble for the magical girls.

Most of these oddballs don't have proper jobs and live hand to mouth. Sometimes, after being beaten up by magical girls, they still have to go to work with bumps all over their heads.

Before, the Abyss Gentleman had only two things to do every day: go to work and cause trouble for magical girls, and that was the cycle. But now things are different; he has to work both day and night.

There's no way around it, we need to eat.

The last time Little Sadness got a teddy bear from a store, he had to pay for it later. Goodness, that thing was really expensive; one teddy bear cost him a week's salary!

Despite their poverty, he was naturally happy to see Xiao Beishou want to go to school.

Given the family's current situation, it's possible that Xiao Bei'er will have to rely on the only thing she can do—to take human form and find a decent job—for a long time to come.

Cheer up, little sad one! Whether we can have meat at every meal at home depends on you!

Little Bear was well aware of his older brothers and sisters' expectations of him, so he tried his best to listen during class.

But this is high school, not elementary school, and she, who had never been to school, couldn't understand it at all.

Thinking of this, she deflated like a balloon with a hole.

"Learning is so hard, Mayumi, can you teach me to read?" The little bear seemed genuinely eager to escape illiteracy, his pleading gaze fixed on Mayumi Haga. "I'll keep it a secret, and I'll cover for you if anything goes wrong!"

She had done her research beforehand and found that Mayumi Haga had excellent grades, consistently ranking first in her grade. Tutoring her should be a piece of cake.

The latter had no idea the topic would take such a turn: "...Okay."

Anyway, I've tutored Hitomi Tono before, so tutoring this weirdo in front of me shouldn't be a big problem.

When she agreed, she never imagined that she would be helping the other person catch up on their elementary school curriculum.

Main text: Chapter Thirty-Three: In the backpack

After Mayumi Haga and Koma returned to the classroom, the bell rang to signal the end of lunch break.

Kagura Yu had already returned to her seat, but when she looked over, she could only see the other person's red ears and profile.

The two magical girls returned as the last bell rang. When they saw Mayumi Haga sitting in the classroom as if nothing had happened, they were relieved, though they didn't understand what had happened.

Under the intense, probing gazes of the two girls, Mayumi Haga secretly rubbed her forearm, which had been snapped off by a certain magical girl with superhuman strength, while attending class... It was still a little sore.

Unbeknownst to her, a strange change was quietly taking place inside her backpack.

The Guardians' backpacks are actually four-dimensional pockets prepared by the original world consciousness to facilitate their travels. As long as a Guardian has a "pocket" that can hold items, they can open the backpack space.

It's a bit like a game backpack without any preservation or temperature settings; the items you put in will remain in the same state as when you put them in, and they will never be damaged.

This can also be considered a blessing, a blessing that can infinitely expand the guardians' inventory.

Mayumi Haga's weapons, armor, and sets were all piled up inside, along with other miscellaneous items such as monster livers, Mayumi fragments, and gems. The sheer quantity of these items was something Mayumi Haga usually didn't like to tidy up.

Monster materials are actually used to make potions, which can enhance her combat abilities. Therefore, she collects materials from every monster she encounters.

Thanks to this habit, even when monsters became extinct, she still had a backpack full of potions.

When she arrived in this world, her potions were almost used up, but she still had more than half of the materials left. If calculated according to the average lifespan of people in this world, if she used the materials to make one bottle of each type of potion every day, she could outlive three generations.

This demonstrates the sheer quantity and extravagance of materials contained in Mayumi Haga's backpack.

As for certain fragments, she kept them carefully. If she took them out, they could flood half a city.

But that would be going too far; Mayumi Haga never intended to flood the city with orange juice.

There was even the soil she clutched in her hand in the final moments before the world was destroyed, before she came into this world.

The soil was brought into this world along with it. Knowing that she could never go back, Mayumi Haga cherished it and carefully stored it in a glass jar in her backpack.

In short, her backpack was really full and messy; if those monsters still had souls, it must have been teeming with vengeful spirits.

Unseen by her, a bizarre change was taking place inside the backpack.

The Guardian Core belonging to Urzana was actually carefully placed in the "Important Items" category by Mayumi Haga, separated from the other miscellaneous items.

This is, after all, the core of the guardian of our predecessors. Even if it has been corrupted by calamity, it must be properly preserved.

When the calamity is purified, Mayumi Haga wants to find a grave for her senior in this world and sprinkle Alamo's soil on the grave mound.

Because the core of the Guardian can actually regenerate, she specifically put it in a sturdy bottle to limit the range of its regeneration.

Generally speaking, this trick can work.

Resurrection requires sufficient space; otherwise, the growing flesh and blood will have nowhere to go and will only become grotesque.

Therefore, when the core is confined to a narrow space, resurrection is almost impossible.

The word "almost" is used because there is a special case, Mayumi Haga, whose resurrection and self-healing abilities far exceed those of ordinary guardians, and she is not subject to such restrictions.

Logically speaking, Ulzana's Guardian Core should not be able to function under such a placement.

The Guardian Core, whose surface was already half covered with dark cracks, had lost its original soft golden light and was now gray and dull, like a pebble about to break.

It was originally quiet, but Mayumi Haga placed it in her important items inventory, right next to the last Alamo Soil Jar she had put in.

The soil was moist and loose, mixed with a few small pebbles, and not much different from the soil that the guardians usually trod on.

Hidden within this small handful of soil are the most important seeds.

Those were probably just grass seeds, still retaining a slight degree of activity, and had absolutely no chance of germinating in this backpack space.

But at this moment, as it approached the core of Urzana's guardian, the tiny seed stirred.

Then, from the deepest part of that dusty gray guardian core, a faint light slowly appeared, almost imperceptible if one wasn't paying attention.

"Clap."

The bottle containing the Guardian's core suddenly cracked open. But immediately afterward, a thick, dark mist surged out, severely suppressing the golden light.

An unseen force clashed within, causing the bottle to shake. The golden light exerted its strength, fiercely lunging at the black mist, knocking over the bottle, which then began to spin rapidly.

The bottle rolled headfirst into the messy pile of materials, bumped into something hard, and opened up another crack.

.................................................. .................................................. .

"?" Kagura Yu suddenly heard a strange sound and subconsciously stopped in her tracks.

After school, my cousin, Yuri Takajo, said she had some things to take care of and asked me to take a car home.

But the driver said he would be a little late, and since she really wanted to see the school's club activities before deciding which club to join, she delayed her return home even further.

Only when the evening glow outside the window turned violet did she put on her schoolbag and prepare to go home.

The classroom was now empty, but she heard strange noises.

It was a strange woman speaking a language she couldn't understand.

She looked around, but there was no one there.

How strange...

[Hey! Stop looking around!] A girl's clear voice rang in her ear, [I'm behind the teaching building, come find me quickly!]

...? Behind the teaching building?

This time, Kagura Yu heard it clearly; the voice went straight into her heart.

She was bewildered: ...What is this? Magic?

[Hey! What are you hesitating for! I've finally found someone who can hear me, hurry and save me!]

However, this sound seems to be different from the first one.

Main text: Chapter Thirty-Four: The Little Snake

In a world where magical girls are a profession, encountering a strange voice calling your name after school is definitely the beginning of an extraordinary adventure.

Kagura Yu encountered such a situation, much like the beginning of a magical girl anime.

Following the voice calling her, Kagura Yu cautiously arrived at the back of the school building.

She has a rather awkward personality and isn't very good at talking to strangers. On her first day at school, she didn't speak to anyone except Mayumi Haga, so naturally she didn't have any other friends.

Perhaps because of the memories in her dream, she always felt a certain concern for Mayumi Haga that went beyond that of a stranger. Now, after comparing her to the guardian she had seen in her dream and the new city hero who had just appeared in the news, she felt even more curious about why she had become the way she was today.

After all, Mayumi Haga in the dream looked to be about nineteen years old, so there's no reason for her to suddenly shrink.

Forget it, let's not think about these things for now.

Alone after school, Kagura Yu looked around at the back of the school building.

She heard another urgent call coming from the bushes: [Over here! I'm tangled in tree roots, please pull me out!]

Kagura followed the sound and looked in the direction she saw—

—A snake with jewel-like, shimmering purple scales?

Although snakes are cold-blooded animals that most girls find physiologically repulsive, just looking at their pointed pupils and protruding tongues can be frightening, let alone touching their slippery bodies.

But Kagura Yu unexpectedly found cuteness in this exquisitely beautiful little snake with its arrogant tone.

She was one of those people who didn't dislike snakes. Seeing the little snake with half its body entangled in the roots of a plant and unable to move, she hesitated for a moment, but ultimately decided to help.

But as she touched the snake's body, she cautiously confirmed, "I've helped you, so you can't bite me."

She didn't want to be hospitalized again so soon after being discharged.

The little snake hissed, flicking its tongue, and quickly agreed: "[I absolutely won't bite you, don't worry! You're someone I approve of...]"

Halfway through its sentence, it realized it had blurted out something terrible and awkwardly shut its mouth.