Chapter 13: The “Deal” with the Magical Girl
“…How is this possible? We can’t even scratch her?”
“What do we do now??”
“I-I don’t know!”
The two delinquent magical girls had spammed beams until their mana was nearly depleted, yet failed to land a single hit on Su Tang. Panic set in.
“Don’t you two know the concept of ‘running away’?”
Su Tang’s voice rang right in their ears.
They whipped around—
Su Tang had vanished from her spot and teleported to point-blank range.
“W-when did you—?!”
“This is bad!”
The next instant, the long whip rose high and rained down like a storm.
CRACK-CRACK-CRACK-CRACK-CRACK—
“Kyaa—!”
“It hurts! It really hurts! Stop, please stop! Waaah—!”
Their combat suits were paper-thin. The two spun like tops, never-tasted-pain magical girls instantly broke into tears and begged:
“Please! No more! Ahh, it hurts!”
“Spare us! We’ll do anything! Kyaa—!”
“Anything?”
Su Tang halted the whip like hearing a safe word, asking coldly:
“Promise kept?”
“W-we swear!”
“Liars are puppies!”
They nodded frantically, clutching the lifeline.
Su Tang already had a deal in mind.
“Do one thing for me, and I let you go now.”
“Fail or betray—you know the consequences.”
The boomerang hit home.
“U-understood.”
“So… what is it?”
“The takoyaki stall in the night market run by a harmless monster—remember it?”
She pointed groundward.
They followed her finger, thought a moment:
“Mm… kinda rings a bell.”
“The… octopus guy’s place?”
“Now you call him ‘sir’?”
Su Tang smirked:
“Right. You harassed him daily, smashed his shop—he never reopened.”
“B-but that was because—”
“Still making excuses?”
“N-no!”
Su Tang’s voice spiked; the pressure crushed them into silence.
“Visit him in person, kneel, apologize, compensate, and help him reopen.”
“Three days. If ‘Octo-Bro BBQ’ isn’t back in business—you know what happens.”
A distant THUD.
“Flew pretty far—just landed now.”
Su Tang gazed afar, murmuring:
“Message clear? Relay it to your third teammate.”
“Y-yes!”
“On it!”
The two fled in tattered suits, tails between legs.
Su Tang turned and flew back to the balcony.
Only now noticing—
A giant Q-version Evil Doctor doodle on the wall, screaming “I’M HERE” to magical girls.
“First battle success—good work~”
The Evil Doctor strolled out with a glass of water…
and Su Tang’s loli panties as a tissue, dabbing tears.
“THAT’S NOT A TISSUE!”
Su Tang snatched them back.
The Doctor flipped to serious:
“In twenty years, no monster achieved this.
This could be the turning point for monster-kind.
I’ll nominate you for executive—no objections.”
Su Tang’s brow twitched.
The Doctor added:
“Relax—no forced labor.
Just a title—with salary.”
“WHAT?!”
“No pay, who fights magical girls?
They’d all get harmless certs and clock 9-to-5.”
The Doctor shrugged.
…She’s not wrong.