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Part 4
After Noah has jumped down
“If we don’t hurry, Kaede-san will… I need something, something… Ah, this is it!”
She picked up a dragonfly that was nearby and began to quickly recite a spell.
“Um, ‘O thou inner light, by my prayer, grant me magical power…’─Whoa, if I keep chanting the spell, I won’t make it in time! Oraaaaa~~~!”
Kyuuiiinnnnn!
The dragonfly immediately began to glow with seven different colors.
Noah threw the glowing dragonfly at Kaori.
“Kaori-san, here!”
“Awawawa! W-what is this dragonfly…?”
“I made it into a magic tool! Now hurry up and use it!”
“Er, um, how do I use it…?
“Don’t you know? You ride it and fly!”
“Can I really fly with it?!”
“Of course magical girls fly on brooms!”
“But this isn’t a broom, is it?”
At that moment, the starting signal sounded.
Kaede ran down the track where the Debipachi were waiting.
“Ah, Kaede-san…!”
“Please go! Kaori-san’s prism power should be enough to make it in time!”
“Y-yes!”
Kaori straddled the dragonfly.
She suppressed her impatience and channeled her power into it.
“Please, Dragonfly-san! Haaaahhh~~~!”
“Let’s go~~~!”
The next moment, the dragonfly soared into the air and took off with tremendous speed.
“Hyaaahhh~~~!”
“Whoa! It’s going at an incredible speed!”
“Kaori’s prism power is way beyond normal-maru!”
“Awawawa, it’s so hard to control~~~!”
Kaori soared into the sky, performed a spectacular loop, and then descended straight toward the track.
On the track, Kaede was in the lead.
“(Hah, hah…! It feels good…! If I can keep this up…)”
She ran, gasping for breath, her eyes fixed on the finish line.
But…!
“Gyagyagya~~~!”
A tentacle that had grown from the ground wrapped around Kaede’s leg.
Kaede, who had been running at full speed, fell over with a thud.
“W-what is this…! Aaahhh…!”
The ground seemed to be getting closer and closer as she looked out over the wide-open field.
If she fell, she would not only be eliminated but also seriously injured.
Depending on the injury, it could even affect her career.
“No way… I’ve worked so hard…!”
Kaede couldn’t help but close her eyes at that moment.
“Kaede-saannnn───!”
BWOOOOOSH!
Something caught Kaede in a gust of wind and carried her away.
“Hyaahh?!”
Kaede cautiously opened her eyes and gasped.
Unbelievably, her body was floating in the air.
She was being held in someone’s arms.
The one who had saved Kaede was a magical girl astride a glowing dragonfly.
“I-I made it in time…!”
“Wh-who are you?!”
“Eh? Uh, I’m just a passing magical girl!”
Kaori replied while checking the situation on the ground.
The other athletes running along the track were also confused, having stopped in their tracks at the sudden gust of wind.
The tentacle seemed to have lost its prey and retreated to the ground.
Kaori confirmed this and continued to fly, setting Kaede down on the spectator’s seat.
“Are you hurt?”
“Y-yeah, thanks. But just now, it felt like something grabbed my leg, but what was it…?”
“Gyagyagya~~~!”
“!”
She turned around at the strange roar.
A huge tentacle had appeared on the ground.
“Hyii…!? W-what is that…?”
“It’s bigger than the Debipachi I’ve seen before…!”
Kaori’s voice trailed off involuntarily.
The tentacle that had suddenly appeared in the middle of the floor was about a meter long.
The tentacle seemed to be in a killing mood after letting Kaede escape.
It wriggled around, trying to catch a new victim.
“Gyagyagya~~~!”
“Waaaaaaa!?”
“W-what is that black tentacle?!”
As the other athletes around them ran, the tentacle retreated into the ground─or so they thought, until it blocked the way of the athletes trying to escape.
“Giiiii~~~!”
“Whoa! Now it’s appeared over here!?”
“Is it coming after us…?!”
The place was in a panic at the sight of the mysterious tentacles.
Kaede paled with fear.
“Could it be that the tentacle that grabbed my leg earlier…?!”
“Kaede-san, please run away! Get as far away from the field as you can!”
“U-um, thank you, Magical Girl!”
Kaede thanks and runs away.
Noah and Sumimaru run to Kaori.
“We made it in time, as expected from Kaori-san!”
“Noah-san, Sumimaru-san! That tentacle is…”
“Debipachi-maru! It’s that thing moving at high speed underground!”
The tentacles chased after people who tried to escape or suddenly blocked their way, repeatedly making tricky movements that struck fear into people’s hearts.
“The main body is hiding underground, so we can’t purify it!”
“And besides, we can’t predict their movements! We have to think of a way to lure the main body out somehow!”
Kaori held her breath and stared at the tentacles’ behavior─and then suddenly leaned forward.
“That Debipachi seems to be reacting to the fastest-moving thing!”
“Oh, r-really!
As Kaori said, it seemed that Debipachi was targeting the fastest prey on the ground.
“That’s amazing, Kaori, you noticed that-maru!”
“Once you know its habits, it’s all yours!”
Noah shouted, looking around.
“Let’s see, something good, something that could be used…! Ah, if I use this…”
“Is that… a cheerleader’s pom-pom?!”
“‘O you, inner radiance, by my prayer…’ …it doesn’t matter what it is, hyaaaahhhhh~~~!”
“What is the meaning of the chant…?”
Noah picked up the pom-pom and poured magic into it.
Kyuiiiiiin!
The pom-poms glow with magical power.
Noah offers the pom-poms transformed into magical tools to Kaori.
“Kaori-san, please use this to cheer for Noah!”
“Eh? Cheer on?!”
“Yes! This is a magic pom-pom─or as they call it, a special magic shiny pom-pom!”
“A-a special magical shiny pom-pom?!”
You just thought of that, didn’t you-maru?”
“When you cheer on your allies with this special magical shiny pom-pom, you can increase their abilities. Noah will run and act as a decoy to attract the enemy!”
“Th-That’s dangerous! And just attracting them won’t be enough to pull the enemy out of the ground, will it…?”
“Huh? Uh, um, this… Oh, you use this!”
“Is that a long jump tape measure?”
Noah put magic into the tape measure.
“Oh, inner brilliance, my…’─Ah, I don’t care about the spell!”
“The spell is getting shorter and shorter…”
Noah clenched the tape measure that had become a magical tool and glared at Debipachi.
“Anyway, Noah has a secret plan!”
“What secret plan…?”
“There’s no time to explain now!”
Noah stared at Debipachi with a stern expression.
“Besides, this guy… this guy alone, Noah has to finish it…!”
“Noah-san… so you can’t forgive Debipachi for messing up the tournament so much…!”
Noah left the impressed Kaori behind and lightly stepped down to the ground.
As she assumed the crouching start position, she stared at the black tentacle with a serious expression.
“The type of Debipachi that burrows into the ground has a peculiar taste that goes perfectly with vinegar and soy sauce, and it’s traded at an extremely high price… I’m definitely going to get my hands on it!”
“For that reason?!”
“As usual, you’re so trivial-maru~.”
“Kaori-san, cheer for me!”
“Okay, I understand! Fuh, go, go, Noah-san!”
Kaori raised the special magical shiny pom-pom high in the air and cheered.
Immediately, Noah’s body was enveloped in a dazzling aura.
“What? I feel a power I’ve never felt before…!”
“Kaori, you can do more-maru! Jump around with energy-maru!”
“Yes! K-keep going, keep going, Noah-san!”
“Fufufu, that’s good-maru, your cute belly button is showing a little-maru! Lift your legs too, higher, so you can reach the sky-maru!”
“Fight, fight, Noah-san!”
“Uooohhhh, I-I am filled with tremendous power! I can do it! I’m going!”
“Kaori, lift your leg higher-Maru! That’s it, that’s good-maru! This angle is the best-maru!”
Noah stepped on Sumimaru, who was looking down at Kaori as if licking her from below and made a powerful start.
With a cloud of dust, she sprinted across the ground.
“Debipachi, this will be this month’s rent~~~!”
“S-she’s fast!”
“Gyagyagya!”
“Debipachi reacted-maru!”
Debipachi, who was about to attack the other players, immediately reacted to Noah.
The tentacles that had been moving at high speed rushed to wrap around Noah──
“Be careful, Noah-san!”
“I’ve got you, Magical Measure!”
Something slipped out of Noah’s hand and wrapped around the tentacle.
“That’s─the measuring tape from earlier-maru!”
“Doseeeiiii! It’s all about rent~~~!”
“Gyagyagya~~~!”
No-Noah-san, that’s amazing!”
With Kaori’s help, Noah’s increased strength easily pulled the main body out of the ground.
A black octopus danced in the blue sky.
“Gyagyagya~!”
“It’s out! That’s the real one!”
SWOSH!
The Debipachi, who was knocked to the ground, glared at Noah in anger.
“Gyagyagya~~~!”
“Noah-san, that’s dangerous!”
“What are we going to do from here-maru?!”
Noah shouted proudly in response to Kaori and Sumimaru’s questions.
“To be honest, I hadn’t thought about what I was going to do after dragging that thing out! And it seems to be stronger than I thought, and I’ve been running at full speed, so I don’t have much energy left, and it looks like I can’t stand up to it now! It’s bad!”
“No-Noah-san!”
“Are you stupid-maru?”
“Gyaa~~~!”
Debipachi lunged at Noah, billowing smoke in its wake.
“Owahh──!? Please help me! Somebody, somebody, somebody, something, something, something─haaa, this is it──!”
Noah quickly picked up the disk.
“‘Thou art within’ Eiiii! Orrraaaaaaaaaaaa!”
“You’re shorting it too much, aren’t you?”
Noah poured all her strength into the disk, transforming it into a magic tool, and then threw it at Kaori.
“Whoa!?”
“Kaori-san, please! Only you can defeat this guy… Please use all your power and hit it with that UFO!”
“This is not a UFO, you know!”
“It doesn’t matter what it is; Kaori can defeat it!”
“I-I understand! Haaaahhh~~~!”
Kaori threw the rainbow-colored disk with all her might at the Deblpachi, which was about to wrap itself around Noah.
“Prism Disk Attack──!”
Whooooosh!
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