Magical Girl Tyrant Sylph

Chapter 121

Chapter 4 — Sleep, until your life is over • Episode 4–1 — Succubus ①

Translated by KaiesV
Edited by KaiesV

In the center of the stylish room, where every corner was cleaned and neatly put away, a girl with wavy, permed, light blue hair, Kisayama Chisaki, was talking enthusiastically to a woman with short-cropped black hair about something.

While Chisaki, who was probably just on her way home from school and still in her school uniform, was giving an impassioned speech, a woman in a jersey was operating a smartphone on her desk while giving random responses.

「Mmph! Did you listen to me properly, Master!?」

「I heard you, I heard you. It’s true that the amount of sweets these days is getting smaller and smaller, and they’re not enough～」

「You didn’t listen to me at all! I never said anything like that!」

「Ah～ Sorry about that～ I’m almost done with all my dailies, so just wait for me while you eat some snacks. Ayumi will be back soon.」

The woman Chisaki called “Master” replies in a stilted voice with one elbow on the desk, her eyes sleepily glazed over as she digests the daily quests in a mobile game.

She is Sasaki Yuuki. also known as Magical Girl Grid. She was once active in Sakira Town and taught Chisaki the ropes as a Magical Girl. Although she has given up the key to the treasury and retired as a Magical Girl, she and Chisaki haven’t grown apart since then, and they continue to keep in touch on an irregular basis.

Since the two have developed trust in the course of their Magical Girl activities and interact with each other in reality by revealing their identities, Chisaki understands that Yuuki is of this nature and decides to wait quietly as she is told, while giving her a jealous look as if to say, “It can’t be helped.”

「I’m sorry, Chisaki-chan. You came all the way here to play with us. This is all I have, but if you like, you can have it.」

「No, no, I’m sorry I came to visit you out of the blue. Thank you very much!」

As if in response to Yuuki’s words, a tall woman with brightly dyed brown hair entered the room with a teacup, teapot, and a stylish plate of cookies on a tray, and apologized to Chisaki, who shook her head in outrage and put the cookies on the desk.

「This is very delicious!」

「Oh, really? Actually, I baked it. I’m glad it was good for your taste buds. Yuuki, since Chisaki-chan came all this time, don’t play games too much.」

「I know that.」

「Well, I’ve got some business to attend to, so I’ll leave you two alone for a bit.」

The woman’s face broke into a happy smile at Chisaki’s genuine compliment, and she put her hand over her mouth and smiled elegantly with a muffled giggle, then gave Yuuki a brief warning before leaving the room.

「I’m so glad she took care of you.」

「I guess? I think she really had something to do, didn’t she?」

「Master is really random…」

The woman mentioned earlier, Kirishima Ayumi, is Yuuki’s live-in partner and girlfriend.

Chisaki and Yuuki have a master-disciple relationship as Magical Girls, but Ayumi isn’t a Magical Girl and doesn’t know that Yuuki was a Magical Girl. In other words, Ayumi doesn’t know much about Kisayama Chisaki’s relationship with her girlfriend, Yuuki. Despite this, she has never made a deep inquiry into her life, and when she come to visit her, she treats her kindly rather than treating her ill.

「I know there’s a lot of ill-intentions about your own lover being intimate with someone you don’t know.」

「Ayumi is crazy about me. And I told her that we are good friends and senior-junior. I told her that nothing is going on between me and you, Chisaki.」

「I can see the size of Ayumi-san’s capacity when she believes in that and doesn’t get too deep into it.」

With a heterosexual couple, playing with friends of the same sex wouldn’t be something to suspect, but with a same-sex couple, even friends of the same sex could be potential rivals. Chisaki herself is bothered just by imagining Sylph being intimate with another girl.

「Let’s put Ayumi aside, what is that something you want to consult about?」

After finishing digesting the daily quest, Yuuki put her phone to sleep, threw a cookie into her mouth and chewed and swallowed it with munching and puffing cheeks, and then asked Chisaki.

Yuuki, freed from the drudgery of labor by her savings from her Magical Girl days, usually enjoys the life of a NEET, with her days and nights reversed, and in the evening hours like now, she is either still sleeping or just waking up.

However, the day before, she had received a call from one of her mentees who had something she wanted to discuss with her, so she had no choice but to get up a little earlier to go about her daily routine.

「Actually, there is a girl I like…」

Her cheeks were slightly flushed and her shyly downcast eyes were moist with a feverish moisture, which, for all intents and purposes, was the expression of a maiden in love.

Whether she is confiding in her friends with whom she will share the battlefield or her mentor, or whether she is shy about discussing her love life, Chisaki shows a girlish primness that is a complete change from when she declared her love for Sylph to Blade.

「I’m sorry, Chisaki. I have Ayumi, so I can’t accept your feelings…」

「It’s not about you, Senpai.」

Chisaki’s apologetic expression was gone from her maidenly expression, and with a straight face and a tone of voice that dropped to a whisper, Chisaki dismissed Yuuki’s words with a crisp, clear smile.

「Ahh, okay. But then, why bother asking me for relationship advice? I thought Chisaki knew I wasn’t cut out for that kind of thing.」

「She’s a younger girl than me.」

「…Hmm?」

「I told you, I fell in love with a younger girl!」

Chisaki’s face turned bright red and she raised her voice a little as she tried to explain again.

In fact, the person Chisaki has fallen in love with, Tyrant Sylph, is not a younger girl in the purest sense of the word. Rather, the opposite is true: she is essentially an older man. If so, then perhaps she should consult with them as such, but if she were to tell them here that person was an older man, when all goes well and she were able to go out with Sylph, there’ll be a discrepancy between what she consulted with them and the results. Considering the fear that the discrepancy might lead to the revelation of Sylph’s secret, she couldn’t say anything else.

Furthermore, there are plenty of ways to approach older men on the Internet, and there is no need to consult anyone if you want to find one. In fact, Chisaki also looked into this area at first. However, the results were mind-boggling.

Examples of advice that can be found all over the Internet include calling the person by name to shorten the distance, complimenting them on their good points, and giving them casual body touches, all of which she have been doing without even being aware of it.

Chisaki’s understanding was that Sylph was once an adult male, but now she was a little girl, so she thought she was communicating appropriately. She also told Sylph that this was normal for a normal female friend. She had no idea that this would come back to bite her in the neck.

So, in order to break out of the current situation and get Sylph crazy for her, she asked for advice from Yuuki, who was the only female Chisaki knew of who had been successfully conquered by a slightly older partner.

「A younger girl, huh? I kind of understand why you came to me, but Chisaki is in the second grade now, right? How old is that girl you like?」

「She’s… in middle school, I guess. Ahaha.」

「…Worthy to go to jail.」

「No, uhh, she’s an okay girl. It’s legal!」

At Yuuki’s half-joking accusation, Chisaki hurriedly defends herself.

Although Yuuki is a pain in the ass, sloppy and lazy, she has about as much common sense and ethics as anyone else, and Chisaki knew that if she told her the other party was a younger girl, there was a chance she would say so. However, having made such a big show of「I’ll make you crazy about me」to Sylph, she couldn’t be at a loss without knowing what to do, and after much conflict, she decided to ask for advice, thinking positively that her master would understand.

Originally, Chisaki had no intention of proceeding so hastily. She was aware that she was in love with Sylph, but she didn’t think she had to tell her that right away, at least not until that Witch Cup day. She thought that she should approach Sylph slowly so that she would respond to her feelings, little by little.

But that day, when the Witch Cup was over and Sylph held her victory party, Chisaki realized that she saw Sylph with a serious expression on her face, saying that she wanted to return to her former self and start over with her family. That Sylph was trying to get away from her. She didn’t let her finish saying those words, but she knew as soon as she thought back to what Sylph had once told her. Sylph told her that she couldn’t be friends with her, as she was the opposite sex of her age, and that such a thing would be weird. At that time, Chisaki’s characteristic forcefulness succeeded in closing the distance and getting along well with her, but the words, the idea, were probably not gone from Sylph’s mind.

So Chisaki told her how she felt and took her lips by surprise. She wanted to make herself so strongly etched in Sylph’s mind that even if she returned to her original form, she wouldn’t be able to forget her, would not be able to even think of leaving her. When she said that she didn’t want to give her to her family, it was her true intention that came out on the spur of the moment because of the strength of her feelings, but that doesn’t mean that she’s thinking of interfering with Sylph’s purpose. Even if Sylph could return to Mizukami Ryōichi, Chisaki has no intention of giving up.

「Legal…? Ahh, I understand now. Not only because you were a same-sex couple, but because you were also Magical Girls, which makes you two suitable for this relationship. If so, I’d say the partner in question would be… Succubus-chan or Tyrant Sylph-chan?」

「…I would appreciate it if you would not pry further into the matter.」

「All right, all right. I’m not going to get into any trouble.」

The word “legitimate,” which Chisaki had unintentionally uttered, was something that Yuuki, a former Magical Girl, could easily imagine that there was something about the person she was talking to.

The Magical Girls of Sakira Town, where the age range was relatively high, have just recently added two children in the middle elementary school age range, so it is natural to link them to this.

「Well, Chisaki is a serious and good girl, so I don’t think you’ll do anything unusual, but don’t let me worry on you too much. So, what do you want to ask? I can kind of guess.」

「Master didn’t originally like women, did you? Ayumi-san’s fierce attack on you made you fall in love with her, didn’t it? I was wondering what kind of approach was particularly effective.」

「I guess that’s what you meant…」

As Chisaki said, Yuuki had no particular interest in or prejudice against homosexuality. She had never been romantically interested in anyone until she hooked up with Ayumi, and since she’d been earning enough money as a Magical Girl since middle school, she didn’t envision a future in which she would marry someone, and thought that she would live on her own, doing what she liked.

But Ayumi is still attacking her fiercely, and before she knew it, she is bonded to her, and they are even living together now. And Yuuki herself didn’t felt strange about it. In fact, although she had never been interested in love, she has somehow come to think of Ayumi as an indispensable partner, and she certainly harbors affection for her.

「Hmmm, I don’t really remember what kind of approach worked for me, but I guess that’s what made me think that if she was that into me, I might as well give it a try.」

「Ohhh! What did she say to you!? Or what did she do to you!?」

「She said she would provide for me for the rest of my life. I don’t have to do any work, housework, or anything else, and in return, I’ll just look out for her, I guess. I thought, “I don’t have to worry about how much money I have, and if she’s willing to provide for me, I don’t see any reason to say no.”」

「…That’s so very like you to say that, Master. And Ayumi-san really loved Master.」

「I don’t know what’s so good about me that I’m so lazy, if I say so myself. Well, I mean, I can tell you two things. One is to give her what she’s looking for.」

「What she is, looking for.」

What is it that Sylph is looking for? Before Chisaki could clearly envision it, Yuuki continued to weave her words.

「The other is to let her know that you can accept her bad parts too. I know that I am a lazy and useless person, but I was happy that Ayumi said she was fine with that. So, Chisaki, don’t just look at the good things about the other person, look at the bad things too, and if you still feel the same way, just tell it like it is.」

「I–I get it now…! As expected of Master! I found it very helpful!」

Accepting even the bad parts of the other person is something we overlook when we are so caught up in love that our perspective is narrowed. It’s not uncommon for love to cool down after a relationship when one starts to see the bad in the other person.

Chisaki herself was aware that she had fallen in love with Sylph after understanding her absurdly backward and troublesome personality, but she had never directly told her this.

「Fufun, well, I guess that means your Master isn’t just for show! By the way, let me tell you another good story. This is not a love story, though. Have you heard of FX, Chisaki? The era is investment, investment. The idea that you can rest easy if you keep your money in the bank is outdated. There is also the risk of inflation. Magical Girls like us who can make a lot of money are the best at making money by making money work for us. And there’s nothing like money to make that girl you love happy——」

「I’m not sure what it is, but that investment? Is it? I think you should talk to Ayumi-san about it.」

When Yuuki was about to tell her a story about a profit she hadn’t heard, Chisaki managed to wrap her words of advice in an indirect way, swallowing the words she was about to say, “Master is a cool person when it comes down to it, but usually she is a no-good person.”

Yuuki has a history of trying to do things the easy way and repeatedly failing, and it was a sign that she was starting to get on a roll in this way.

Whether or not Chisaki understood her advice, Yuuki continued to talk happily about easy money with her half-heard knowledge for a long while.