Magical Girl Tyrant Sylph

Chapter 137

Chapter 4 — Sleep, until your life is over • Episode 4–5 — Happy Dream ①

Translated by KaiesV
Edited by KaiesV

In the beautiful emerald green sea, schools of small fish swimming like one giant creature, flashy fish of various colorings, and sometimes large sea turtles, all sea creatures rarely seen in daily life, pass in front of Chisaki’s eyes.

In late October, in the middle of autumn, Chisaki was enjoying snorkeling in Okinawa on a school excursion.

They talked about how it was a little late for the silhouette, but when they actually arrived, the daytime temperatures were still high and the weather was clear, so it was a perfect day for marine sports.

After spending a full two hours enjoying the underwater walk, they returned to the beach for a break and then went sea kayaking in pairs. Chisaki paddled out into the open sea with her best friend Miho. The route itself is a simple straight line, and it’s not a complicated one, just turning around at the designated point and coming back. However, middle school students are at the age where chopsticks are funny even if they fall down, and they are screaming with excitement when the splashing seawater touches their skin.

While enjoying activities and having their children’s taste buds tortured by the unfamiliar Okinawan cuisine at the guest house, the evening has come and gone, and the girls are having the standard adolescent girl love affair with the snacks they bought during their free time.

The two of them shared a room in a small guest house, and Chisaki’s partner was, of course, Miho, who was eager to ask how things were progressing after the incident the other day. She was already itching to get out of here normal school routine, but she saved the fun for the coming day.

Lying on two futons laid out in the small Japanese-style room, Miho immediately began her interrogation of Chisaki.

「So, how are things going, Chisaki-chan? How are things with that girl?」

「That girl?」

「Mmph, don’t play dumb! It’s that person you love, Chisaki-chan! I mean, come to think of it, I didn’t even hear her name… Was she from our school?」

「No, she’s not.」

To make the novice Chisaki, who didn’t even realize she was in love the other day, aware of her love, and there’s nothing funny about it, Miho couldn’t get excited to make her understand that it was nothing to be ashamed of, and as far as she was concerned, she could not ask Chisaki about the person he liked, but it bothered her so much that she could only sleep at night.

「I know, Chisaki-chan is so easy to understand that it would be easy to recognize her if she were from our school.」

「I–Is that so?」

「Well, putting that aside, what kind of person is she? The good-looking type? Cute? Wild? Cool? Gentle? Was she a geek? How did you meet? What kind of relationship the two of you have now? What do you like about her?」

「Ugh, I can’t answer that many questions at once.」

Chisaki smiled at Miho who was asking questions in rapid succession as she leaned forward, but even so, she answered Miho’s questions carefully one by one.

「She is usually unfriendly and blunt, but she is very sweet and forgiving to me. We met on the internet and now we are friends? My favorite part is all of her.」

「She made you fall in love with her, Chisaki-chan. Is the cute girl, like, younger than you? Do you have any pictures or something?」

「I don’t have a picture of her, but she’s younger than me.」

Chisaki answers honestly what she can answer, and talks without hesitation about the parts she can’t say for Sylph’s convenience, diverting the settings she had made for Futaba. Of course she can’t show her photos of Sylph as a Magical Girl, and even if she did, she wouldn’t be able to recognize her seriously, but that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have photos of her in real life when they went to the aquarium or other places for fun. However, even though Chisaki wasn’t familiar with sexual matters, she understood that homosexuality wasn’t so accepted by the general public, and she lied because she thought it would not be good to make people feel uncomfortable by showing them Ryō’s picture.

「I was wondering if you didn’t because you said you wanted to protect her. Rest assured! I understand that kind of thing! I’m totally okay with any age difference!」

「T–Thank you…?」

Chisaki wasn’t sure why Miho, with whom she had no direct relationship, would say something like “ok” regardless of the age difference, but she understood that it was probably said out of the goodness of her heart, and thanked her with a question mark in her voice.

Miho nodded her head in understanding, saying, “Don’t worry, I understand,” to Chisaki.

「So, what’s it like now? How far along are you?」

「I confessed.」

「!? It’s only been a little over a month since we last talked——」

「About a week after that, I kissed her and told her I loved her.」

「Eeeeehhh—!?!?」

「Miho-chan, your voice is so loud.」

“I can’t even keep from yelling this out loud!” And Miho covered her mouth with her own hand involuntarily as she was about to shout again. This isn’t her house, but a guest house where other students and teachers are also staying. If they make too much noise, they will be warned that they’re still awake. Lights out time has long passed.

「O–One week, and then a kiss!? Does that mean you’ve been accepted? I mean, you started dating and you kissed, right?」

「No. The girl probably only saw me as a friend, so I kissed her and then confessed my feelings to her in order to force her to be conscious of me.」

「…Wait, wait a second. Because it’s so shocking that it’s taking me a little while to accept it.」

Miho managed to accept Chisaki’s shocking confession while inwardly retorting, “I don’t remember raising such a petty child.” Miho couldn’t have imagined that the naive and innocent Chisaki, who wasn’t even aware that she was in love, would suddenly confess her love and even kiss her before that.

「So I got dumped. She said she liked me as a friend.」

「…I’m sorry about something. I got all weirdly excited.」

「No, I don’t mind. I told her I wasn’t going to give up on her and that I would make her fall in love with me.」

「About my best friend being too strong in love.」

「Eh?」

「Don’t worry about it. It just leaked out unintentionally.」

“Oni mentality at the level of a hero or something from a girl’s manga!” Miho, who was writhing around in agony in her mind, didn’t reveal her inner thoughts, but rather, leaked a little bit of it, but somehow managed to mend it and answered in a nonchalant manner. She understood that it’s absolutely impossible for her to not give up after being rejected, and to tell that to the other person face to face, blue is out of indigo, but bluer than indigo, she recognized Chisaki’s nesting and felt a somewhat satisfied sense of defeat.

「But, you know, of course I don’t think that, but the other girl is younger than you, right? Are you okay with that? Does she think you’re stalking her or something?」

She understood that Chisaki has no intention to do so, but there’s a saying that love is blind. Although it’s a wonderful and noble thing to be single-mindedly in love with one person, anything that goes too far can lead to bad results. Miho, for her best friend, chose her words intermittently, but in the end she expressed her concerns straightforwardly.

「…! I see, that’s one way to think about it. Don’t worry, the other girl said she doesn’t want to leave me.」

「It’s already a double love affair, isn’t it!?」

「Why the Kansai dialect?」

「That would be the Kansai dialect!! You should return my concern!! You are a clown!!」

Miho slammed her fist down on the tatami mats from under the futon and let out a cry of her soul. She was worried that she had been dumped, but it turns out that she was just told that she was in love with him. She was also about to get a retort in the Kansai dialect. Naturally, the teacher called them in and gave them a warning.

「Miho-chan, you shouted so loud that even I got angry.」

「It’s because Chisaki-chan is playing with my pure heart, isn’t it? But I’m relieved to hear things are going well. That’s all for today. I’ll let you hear the rest tomorrow. If we stay up any longer, we’ll get another warning.」

「…That’s true.」

Chisaki gave a lonely smile and nodded to Miho, who had closed the session with a somewhat relieved tone of voice and slipped under the covers. As for Chisaki, she had no intention of being in love with her. Rather, she wanted someone to listen to her and help her sort out her feelings so that she could give up her feelings for Sylph.

「I’m not giving up, that’s what I supposed to do…」

Chisaki, wrapped in a blanket like Miho, muttered in a voice so small that no one could hear her and shed a single tear.

Even if the feelings Sylph had for her were really only friendship, she still intended to fall in love with her. She had no intention of giving up. She was sure that she would get married to Sylph and they would be happy together.

Until she found out that Sylph was in love. Until she found out that she wasn’t in love with her.

It was when the two of them went to visit a theme park that existed in the Magical World that she began to feel uncomfortable. Of course, Sylph looked as happy as she always did when they went out to play together, but sometimes her expression faded. It’s a nasty discomfort in the sky above, not seeing Chisaki in front of her, with feverish eyes, as if her mind is preoccupied with something else.

However, a few days later, when the new Magical Girl from Sakira Town arrived one step behind Sylph and the others to defeat the Diests that had appeared, her forgotten sense of uneasiness became a certainty.

The expression on Sylph’s face as she turned to that new Magical Girl, Succubus, was exactly like a maiden in love, and Sylph’s face turned bright red just looking at the girl, she was so nervous that she was slurring her words, and after all, she ran away as if to hide her feelings, and all Chisaki could do was to watch her with envy. She was about to cry because she didn’t understand why it wasn’t her, why it couldn’t be her, to a girl who had never looked at her with such passion, who had never looked at her even as herself.

She thought she was closer to Sylph than anyone else, she thought Sylph liked her more than anyone else, she thought Sylph loved her more than anyone else, and she thought one day Sylph would be in love with her.

「Why… Sylph-chan…」

I was so depressed at first, so admired and adored, but she kept them away because she couldn’t be friends with a Magical Girl, so why not me? Why that girl? Why, why…

She couldn’t tell Sylph directly the question that kept recurring in her mind over and over again. If it were affirmed, she would know that Chisaki’s feelings would never reach Sylph.

If it was friendship, she was determined to turn it into love.

If it was because she was a man, or because she was older, she was determined to make her love her so much that she wouldn’t give up on her because of that.

She vowed to love and be loved so much that she would never let that happen again.

However, Chisaki didn’t think for a moment that she would like someone else.

And so, with her thoughts repeating in circles, Chisaki fell asleep.