“This thing has already become part of my body, just like the tail!”
Su Ruanruan touched the cat ears on her head that refused to come off and felt like crying.
“It’s over… I’ve really turned into a cat girl now…”
“But… the most urgent thing right now is to figure out what this world is like…”
She sniffled, her face full of grievance, and picked up the oversized tracksuit that the tail had forcibly stripped off her earlier.
She yanked it back on haphazardly.
Dragging the half-fallen pants, she crept through the living room to the floor-to-ceiling window, alert at every step.
To her surprise, the sky outside wasn’t the evil, gloomy haze that stories about the Magical Girl World had described.
Instead, it was an impossibly bright, vivid blue.
The sunlight seemed to have a soft filter over it.
The entire world’s colors were bright and warm, giving off a lively feeling that felt extremely uncomfortable to Su Ruanruan, who was used to gray skies.
The shops lining the streets were clean and tidy. People on the road wore colorful clothes, smiling and greeting each other kindly.
She could even hear cheerful music coming from somewhere in the distance.
“This… this is…”
Su Ruanruan clutched the windowsill, pressed her face against the cool glass, and peeked outside like a thief.
Her cat ears were nervously flattened against her scalp.
Just then, across the street downstairs, a loli in a dress with long straight pink hair seemed to sense something.
She stopped walking, looked up, and her gaze landed directly on the sneaky white-haired cat girl behind the second-floor floor-to-ceiling window.
The moment their eyes met.
The pink-haired loli didn’t look scared at all.
Instead, her eyes sparkled.
She flashed an extremely bright, sweet smile, raised the lollipop in her hand, and waved vigorously in Su Ruanruan’s direction.
“Eek—!!”
Su Ruanruan’s cat ears shot straight up in fright. Her tail puffed up in terror and instinctively tucked itself between her thighs.
She yanked her head back like a startled little mouse.
She clutched the heavy curtains tightly, pressed her back against the cold wall, held her breath, and rubbed her bare legs together uneasily.
“One second… two seconds… three seconds…”
Nothing happened?
It was probably just an ordinary human child.
Driven by curiosity, Su Ruanruan pressed a hand to her pounding chest and slowly turned back around.
She knelt on the floor, stuck her perky little butt up high, lifted the bottom edge of the curtain just a tiny crack, and continued peeking outside with narrowed eyes.
Down on the street, the pink-haired loli had already skipped away.
Everything was still peaceful and bright.
“Phew…”
Su Ruanruan let out a long breath. Her tense little body finally relaxed.
“What the heck… it’s not that dangerous at all. That idiot Hoshino Haruka was definitely just scaring me…”
The moment she muttered that and her nerves loosened—
BOOM—!!
A terrifying supersonic sonic boom exploded without warning in the air extremely close by! It tore through the peaceful clouds!
“Kyaaaa!”
Su Ruanruan looked up in terror.
Through the floor-to-ceiling window, she saw a pink afterimage diving down from the sky at supersonic speed!
It was a Magical Girl in a fluffy pink battle skirt, holding a heart-shaped magic staff.
The instant Su Ruanruan saw her face clearly, her cat pupils shrank to pinpricks—
That face… wasn’t it the pink-haired loli who had waved at her downstairs just now?!
Floating in the air opposite the pink-haired girl was a woman dressed extremely provocatively.
The big sister’s tight black leather outfit could barely contain her full chest.
Large stretches of snowy-white, tempting skin were exposed, and raging purple-black electricity crackled around her!
Even through the thick glass, Su Ruanruan could feel the terrifying mana contained inside that “female executive”!
Yet the pink-haired girl in mid-air raised her staff high. In a burst of blinding light, she shouted cutely:
“Fresh Peach·Heart Shower—!!”
The next second, the sky was dyed a blinding bright pink. A massive peach-shaped energy cannon dozens of meters wide shot out with a roar!
Immediately after, hundreds upon thousands of dense, saturation bombardment light cannons poured down like a storm of pear blossoms!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
Even the seemingly powerful female executive was beaten into a sorry state by the mana-sparing barrage.
Her black leather outfit was burned in several places.
The purple-black lightning was suppressed by the light cannons.
The female executive groaned as she was forced back through the air again and again, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth.
The terrifying mana clash filled the sky like a barrage of bullets!
In mid-air, the pink-haired Magical Girl Peach Red, who held the upper hand, swung her staff and shouted angrily:
“Lilith! You’ve gone too far!”
The one called Lilith wiped the blood from her mouth and laughed arrogantly. Her laughter cut through the explosions and echoed across the entire block:
“Hahaha!! How does it feel to have your lollipop stolen? Do you finally understand the humiliation I felt from you three Magical Girls’ pranks?!”
Lilith let out a coquettish laugh in mid-air.
The raging lightning in her hand instantly formed a black-purple electric whip.
With a crisp crack, the electric whip wrapped tightly around Magical Girl Peach Red’s ankle at a tricky angle!
“Get down there!”
Lilith swung her arm fiercely, smashing the Magical Girl in mid-air straight toward the ground!
CRASH—!!
Magical Girl Peach Red’s petite body shot down like a meteor, smashing through the huge billboard across the street before slamming hard into the road.
The solid asphalt shattered into a terrifying crater!
Yet the people on the street didn’t run away. Instead, they stopped as if this were completely normal and excitedly raised their phones!
“Don’t lose, Peach Red-chan! You’re the best!”
At that moment, the violent shockwave from their battle swept over like a typhoon and yanked open the curtains right in front of Su Ruanruan!
Caught completely off guard, Su Ruanruan’s legs went weak from the terrifying mana fluctuation and she collapsed heavily onto the hard wooden floor.
“Waaa…! This is the city center!”
Su Ruanruan was scared out of her wits. Her legs were so weak she couldn’t even stand.
She scrambled backward across the smooth floor on all fours, not even bothering to pull up her fallen pants.
She had only crawled two steps when—
Thud!
In her panic, her ankle got caught in the half-lowered pant leg. Her delicate body lost balance and she fell flat onto the floor, her fair knees and elbows turning red from the impact.
“It hurts… wuuu… waaahhh…”
Sobbing, she rolled and crawled in a panic all the way back to Hoshino Haruka’s bedroom.
Thump!
Su Ruanruan dove into the bed that still carried a faint citrus scent and wrapped herself tightly in the large white duvet until she became a completely sealed cocoon.
Hiding in the pitch-black covers, she clutched her head with both hands.
The white fluffy cat ears on top pressed tightly against her scalp.
“Hoshino Haruka… where are you… wuuu…”
In the empty room, only soft, teary whimpers filled with a thick crying tone came from inside the duvet.