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

The three of them gathered around another bed that wasn't wet to discuss the matter. Mayumi Haga's nonchalant attitude of "I won't die anyway, so I can do whatever I want" was hard for Hitomi Tono to accept.

Are all people in another world like this?

You didn't just peel an apple; you practically opened a person's head and took things out of it.

Is it really okay to be so careless with your health?

Doesn't it hurt or make you uncomfortable?

Tono Hitomi wanted to say something, but seeing Mayumi Haga's completely expressionless face, she stammered and didn't know what to say.

"...Besides changing bodies, there must be other methods we can use, right?" Tono Hitomi muttered in the end, her mood visibly becoming even more depressed.

Why does Mayumi never seem to take good care of her own body?

Whether it's her casual remarks before or her completely indifferent expression now, these are all things that Hitomi Tono cannot understand.

Mayumi Haga was unaware of Hitomi Tono's feelings. Rather, even if she had been aware of Hitomi Tono's feelings, she wouldn't have changed her approach now.

She raised her hand and realized something was wrong.

The speed of self-healing... seems a little different than usual.

It's a bit faster now.

Mayumi Haga wasn't sure if it was just her imagination.

While she was thinking, Rania suddenly said, "I have already removed the aquatic mark from you."

Mayumi Haga's attention was drawn to it.

The latter looked much more listless, his eyelids were drooping uncontrollably, and the redness in his eyes was gradually fading.

After possessing Kagura Yu, Lania's magical abilities were derived from the magic power within her body. However, using this magic power also consumed a considerable amount of her strength. After erasing the aquatic mark from Haga Mayumi and then covering it with her own mark, Lania's time was up.

The energy was used up too much, greatly reducing the time that was originally available for activity, and it will probably need to rest for a period of time to recover.

So, taking advantage of this last bit of time, she instructed Mayumi Haga: "I [see] the calamity underground, and its power is accumulating."

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The little bear has a high fever.

She suffered heatstroke while handing out flyers yesterday. After returning home, she ate something casually and developed a high fever that evening.

Even eccentric people get sick.

But for an eccentric, getting sick is no small matter.

These magical creatures, born from spiritual veins, live independently in society just like humans, yet they still maintain a natural connection with the spiritual veins that nurtured them.

This connection is stronger than that between monsters or humans who are also protected by the spiritual veins, to the point that sometimes the state of the spiritual veins can affect the state of monsters in some way.

For example, a bear cub weakened by heatstroke, in its delirious state, dreams of a tranquil river hidden deep beneath the earth.

Its tributaries converge from all directions, and countless sounds ring in your ears. What should have been a place of laughter and joy is now filled with discordant noises.

Black spots.

Countless dark blue insects emerged from the corner, like black spots growing in this radiant river—flaws, discordant notes.

After they appeared, laughter turned into screams, wails and cries grew louder, the once vibrant river darkened, and the water gradually dried up.

The gods are still asleep.

Those golden eyes remained tightly closed until a blurry figure arrived.

The figure fell from a great height, like a broken doll, accidentally tumbling down the cliff and beginning its free fall.

Countless hands reached out to it, seemingly trying to save it, or perhaps to hold it back, but they only slowed its descent.

The figure finally floated down like a feather, landing lightly on the surface of the long river.

Like a snowflake, it vanished.

The figure melted into the highly concentrated magic solution, disappearing completely from the deep lake before anyone could even react.

Where it disappeared, only shallow golden ripples remained.

It seemed that it had disturbed the place where the gods were sleeping, for the golden light finally shone again from the bottom of the water.

It was at this moment that the gods opened their eyes.

It was at this moment that the little bear was awakened from this oppressive dream by the Gentleman of the Abyss.

"Little Sadness, get up and eat something, it'll make you feel better... Little Sadness?" The Abyss Gentleman put the bowl of porridge aside. He noticed the little bear's frightened eyes after it opened them and couldn't help but ask with concern, "What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"

The little bear nodded, still shaken.

Main text: Chapter 110 The Substitute Magical Girl is...?

Akari Arisu stands on the street of Miracle City.

She was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and a black face mask, covering herself up completely.

Although she has been traveling to this city that needs her support recently, she hasn't really come here much as "Arisu Juri" outside of work.

She usually flies over here to help in her transformed form.

Dr. Ayasa Terasaki prepared a teleportation point for Akari Arisu at the magic clinic. She usually wouldn't use it because the speed at which magical girls fly is enough for her to get here from the neighboring city in thirty seconds.

The most important problem of information transmission was also solved through the application of the magic of telepathic communication.

She would set off immediately if Ayasa Terasaki conveyed a message to her through telepathy.

The only problem was that the timing of the city's strange attack was very unfortunate.

Every single time... it almost always happens during class time, or some important time period, when I suddenly receive a message, rush over from next door, resolve the issue, and then immediately return.

Fortunately, her attendance rate was quite good, and her idol work often required her to take leave, so she had already established a good relationship with the teacher and was not given an ultimatum.

If a magical girl skips classes all the time and fails her exams, not only will the city administrators pay close attention, but her contract with the Jewel Beasts might also be affected.

Because the magical girl contract only applies to children who have shown exceptional talent. If a child loses their original sparkling qualities after becoming a magical girl, the contract with the Jewel Beast will weaken or even disappear.

Moreover, the day of the Gemmons' [Return Visit Day] is getting closer and closer.

Every year, the creators who sculpt the Soul Gem into the prototype of the Gem Beasts will visit the contractors of the Gem Beasts in the early morning of May 27th. That day is designated as the Visit Day.

However, no magical girl has ever seen the creator's true face. Rather than a fixed character, the creator seems more like Santa Claus.

So, how can we prove that the follow-up visit date actually occurred?

The Gem Beast will remain conscious during the return visit.

Furthermore, if the magical girls and the Jewel Beasts fulfill their contracts a certain number of times on the return visit day, accumulating enough understanding or bond, the creator will unlock the [lock] that restricts the Jewel Beast's original abilities.

In other words, the Return Visit Day is actually the time when the Gem Beasts regularly settle their points and battle records and receive rewards.

If you are a diligent magical girl, you can get more rewards, stronger power, and sometimes even special buffs, such as enhanced learning ability.

There are four forms of Gem Beast.

The first is the shape of a round stone, which presents the basic appearance of a gemstone.

In this form, the gem beast lacks consciousness and cannot communicate with its contractor, but the contractor can transform and use magic.

Gemmon like Hitomi Tono, Yuri Takajo, and Akari Arisu are still in this state. It's the most basic contract.

The second stage is the "beast-like" stage, where the animal prototype can be condensed, communicate with it, and possess consciousness.

At this stage, the Gemmon gains the ability to move and speak freely, but it still cannot survive without its contractor and lacks combat capabilities.

At this stage, magical girls can unlock even more advanced level two magic, which requires the cooperation of gem beasts.

The little snake Lena is in this state.

Above the level of the beast-like form are the states of "True Form" and "Origin". The former is a form in which a portion of the gem beast's magic can be released for a short period of time, while the latter is a form in which all restraints are removed and the beast is unleashed at full power.

The magical girls' abilities to use will also be unlocked and upgraded, allowing them to access a deeper level of magical order.

Like Sugiyama Rika, who seemed to have almost broken through to the fourth stage of Jewel Beast [Ryan].

However, after retiring, Jewel Beast Ryan changed partners, namely Hitomi Tohno, and regressed back to the Cobblestone stage.

Actually, aside from the return visit day, magical girls can also break free from the constraints of their partner gem monsters due to their improved magical abilities or other reasons.

However, that is the path of a "genius," requiring even greater talent and luck than most magical girls.

Like Arisu Akari, most of the time she can only rely on return visits to improve her abilities through her outstanding performance.

Before the return visit day arrived, she wanted to boost her own performance, so she would help Miracle City whenever she had time.

It was actually something that Terasaki Ayasa asked for.

During this time, Terasaki Ayasa was also busy with the magical girls, and she also had to go to the dessert market during her breaks to treat the child that the future monster Kazu had been thinking about.

What modern medicine cannot do can be made simpler with magic, but the difficulty is still very high, and Terasaki Ayasa needs to spend a lot of time and energy on it.

She also noticed the current manpower shortage in Miracle City and proposed a solution:

Just increase the number of magical girls, right?

At first glance, this proposal seems quite impractical.

The number of magical girls cannot be increased arbitrarily.

Due to the limited number of Jewel Beasts, the number of magical girls will also be limited. If we want more magical girls, we need to find more Jewel Beasts.

Terasaki Ayasa even went to the back hill of the school to look for the little snake that had been buried in the ground before, hoping to let her hardworking partner use her abilities again. Unfortunately, the little snake was either dug up by someone else or left after it woke up on its own, and Terasaki Ayasa could not find any trace of it.

What if we don't require them to be magical girls...? We could teach other people magic and have them help us.

That's not feasible either.

Because aside from obtaining primal magic through a contract with a gem beast, the conditions required to cultivate a magic user are extremely demanding, and it would probably be five years before such an assistant is cultivated... a distant solution that cannot quench an immediate thirst.

So, let's look at it from another angle.

We don't require that person to learn magic, but only to master how to use magical items.

In that case, the standards have indeed been lowered considerably.

Even without magical aptitude, one can use tools to subdue monsters and strange people... all you need to do is find someone willing to do the job.

She's not a real magical girl, but she's just as upright and kind, and her physical abilities must be excellent enough to use those amazing tools with exaggerated recoil, lethality, and weight.

Incidentally, these amazing tools were all invented by Ayasa Terasaki in her spare time. She didn't have much time to fine-tune them, so they might be a bit difficult for the average girl to use.

She hoped that Arisu Akari could help her find a "proxy magical girl" to test... no, to use these items for her.

This is why Arisu Akari appears on the streets of Miracle City when there are no monster attacks.

“...Even so, we can’t just hand this agency certificate to any random person.” Arisu Akari sighed.

She felt a headache coming on when she recalled Terasaki Ayasa's casual and hasty attitude when she assigned her the task, as if she wanted to just throw her on the roadside and let whoever found her do the hard labor.

Even if it's truly an emergency, you can't entrust something so important to just any random passerby.

Akari Arisu is very meticulous.

Therefore, she plans to carefully screen this proxy magical girl.

Thinking this, Arisu Akari reached into her pocket to check if she still had the Magical Girl Agent Certificate.

Suddenly, her face froze.

Her previously solemn expression suddenly turned panicked. She stood by the roadside, frantically reaching into her pockets.

...Where's the magical girl agent's pass?!

That's a huge piece of agency certificate, as big as her palm!

Because she rarely went out in casual clothes, she forgot that the pockets of her clothes were rather shallow, and she kept checking her pockets to make sure she had her agent ID... Arisu Akari didn't know when she lost her agent ID and was in big trouble.

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As Mayumi Haga passed by the alley entrance, she saw a stray cat nearby running past with something in its mouth.

She was puzzled: "...What is that?"

She could tell that it was an item similar to a magical artifact, but she couldn't tell what its function was or why the cat was carrying it around.

Looking around to make sure no one was watching, she hid the cat food she was carrying next to a trash can and then slipped into the alley.

After a series of bone-cracking, spine-chilling sounds, a gray-white cat strode out.

She had a graceful figure, but for some reason, a section of her tail was not covered by fur and muscle, revealing her white bones, which looked quite eerie.