Magical Girl Tyrant Sylph

Chapter 33

Chapter 2 — Expand, my world! • Prologue • Vampire

Translated by KaiesV
Edited by KaiesV

In the darkness, covered by thick clouds and beyond the reach of even the moon’s light, there was still a visible, eerie, and disastrous collection of darkness stirring.

It was a blasphemous presence that would make one sick if they saw it without knowing what it was. A monster that crawls out from the distortion of the world, a Diest.

Its identity and ecology are still largely unknown, but we know from its behavior that it is an enemy of mankind.

The writhing darkness gradually formed a definite shape and became a gigantic spider. Its huge body, with legs spread out on either side, stomping on the earth, was about four meters in diameter. It was the smallest of the monsters known as a Diest, and the second weakest, called the Knight class, but it is still more than just a man can handle.

「Grovel.」

A Diest, with a destructive impulse, was about to attack a certain high school building, when it suddenly heard a dignified voice and stopped its movement.

A silver-haired girl wearing a black cloak over a slender bright red dress stood with a lecherous smile on her face.

「Kukuh, didn’t you hear me? I said grovel.」

「You’ve said it many times–pyon. Diests don’t understand words–pyon.」

A bright white stuffed rabbit floats next to the girl, cowering with a dumbfounded expression on its shoulders.

Whether because it understood that the girl was a Magical Girl, or simply because a human was there, for reasons unknown, Diest changed the target of its attack from the school building to the girl and began to move.

A spider-like Diest that runs at high speed with its large eight legs moving busily. In no time at all, the distance between that and the girl was so close that it could be said to be as close as zero, and it bit down with a speed that could be described as a rush.

「Trance Bat.」(TN : Night-dark Swarm)

Just before the sharp fangs of the Diest pierced the girl, the girl’s figure disappeared in an instant and a swarm of small bats appeared in her place. Scattering in all directions, the bats thrust their fangs into the Spider Diest’s body as they passed each other, inflicting a number of tiny wounds.

The bats flew away after a minor resistance and gathered a short distance away from the Spider Diest, to the point where their bodies almost collided with each other… it was wrong, their bodies collided with each other and became as if they became people, and the next moment, there was that girl.

「You’re quick. I haven’t even introduced myself yet.」

「The remaining amount is okay–pyon.」

「Okay, then.」

The rabbit asks the girl, her expression distorted with displeasure, as if she is about to vomit, in a worried tone.

However, there was no way the Diest would wait for their conversation, and it moved in a straight line at a speed that seemed to charge again without regard for the girl.

「No Life King.」(TN : Remains of the Immortal King)

The veins in the pale girl’s slender arms are pulsing, and she braces herself to meet the Diest head-on as it rushes toward her at a speed of several hundred kilometers per hour.

The collision was so severe that the ground was shaken by the shockwave. The stuffed rabbit screams and is blown away in the aftermath.

It was the little girl who was blown away.

It slammed into the school building and rolled around the room, smashing through the walls and engulfing the equipment.

Several desks and chairs were scattered around the area, and shards of broken window glass reflected the slight light.

「Shit… that was way too fast…」

The girl was acting as if she could afford it, but in fact, it was a somewhat heavy mission for her to take down the night class alone.

She was completely caught off guard in her first attack. She barely succeeded in avoiding it by means of transformation magic, but it greatly drained not only her magical power but also another power peculiar to her. There was not enough time to use transformation magic again. That is why she chose to defend herself with body enhancement magic.

No matter how quick she was, if she was caught, that would be the end of it. Even if she had tried to avoid the rush poorly, she did not know if she could avoid it. In addition, even if she had succeeded in evading the attack, there was a possibility that he would receive a follow-up attack while she was out of position. The decision was based on such a number of factors, but as it turned out, it was also a failure.

「Tch!!」

The girl who stood up after enduring the damage saw a Spider-shaped Diest about to move out of her line of sight. The girl immediately jumped up with her enhanced leg strength. Immediately after, a Spider-shaped Diest plunged at high speed into the spot where the girl had been standing and came to a sudden stop.

The girl involuntarily clicked her tongue once more. This is because this Spider-shaped Diest was found to be in complete control of its own speed.

This is the only place. The girl decided to use all her remaining「power.」

The Spider-type Diest stops moving and loses sight of the girl, albeit only for a moment. This is the perfect opportunity to strike.

Normally, a girl does not have the firepower to slaughter a Knight-class Diest in a single blow. However, with more than enough of her unique power, that assumption is overturned.

「Deadly Blood!!」(TN : The Reward of Crimson Price)

The Diest noticed the girl’s presence and tried to move, but the girl was quicker than that.

With a reddish-black glow, the girl’s sharply extended claws sliced through the Spider-shaped Diest and blew it apart with the impact.

A blow from the girl’s small fingernail would normally be enough to cause a scratch, but the glow brought about by the power of magic multiplies its power dozens and dozens of times over.

Most of the body of the mutilated Diest was gone, and perhaps the regenerative power of the Knight-class was not enough to completely revive it, as several legs were missing and the body was also distorted and uneven. It seemed that she could no longer move without crawling, and the Diest slowly approached the girl, scattering a thin haze.

「I’d like to introduce myself again. I am Vampire. Magical Girl Vampire, I beg your pardon in advance for your continued patronage」

The girl, Magical Girl Vampire, walked up to it with the same relaxed demeanor as at first, as if the previous struggles had never happened, and kicked the Diest with all her might to make it disappear.

「If left alone, it would have gone away eventually…」

「Better safe than sorry–pyon.」

The stuffed rabbit, which has returned before you know it, calls out to Vampire, who frowns at having done it. The fairy had a point, and it would be a hassle if it should regenerate from here. So be it, Vampire convinced herself.

The Magical Girl she looks up to as her mentor doesn’t much like to fight out of personal grudge or self-interest. Although she herself is not as harsh or noble as her mentor, she has a respect for her mentor’s way of thinking and a longing to be able to think like her.

So, even though she was aware that she had swung her leg through the air in anger at having been hurt inwardly, she sought a plausible reason and told herself that she had done it.

「I will get strong, if not…」

「It’s alright–pyon! Vampire have only just become a magical girl! You can become even more powerful from now on–pyon!」

「I don’t think I can afford to be complacent.」

Vampire knew that these words were meant to cheer her up, but even so, she could not be optimistic in the face of this devastation.

When she left the school building where she was forced into by the Diest and looked at the interior with holes in the walls from the outside, she saw the terrible state of destruction.

The battle for magical girls is to keep the Diest from appearing in reality, but nothing is absolute. In fact, several times in the past, Diests have escaped the Deception World and appeared in reality.

Fortunately, they were not very high in rank and did not cause much damage, but this may not always be the case in the future.

She saw before her eyes an actual example of the damage that could be done if, in the unlikely event that this Diest appeared in real life, the only people there was Vampire herself.

（I’ll protect the world. Even if it means the end of my life）

It was the teaching of Vampire’s master.

She embodies this philosophy not only with her words but also with herself, and as far as Vampire knew, she has been in many life-or-death battles.

It seems that she was once active in another town, and Vampire expects that she was just as active then.

The pride and strength of her mentor made Vampire yearn for her anew.

Something black and wriggling appeared at the edge of Vampire field of vision.

「Vampire! A Diest has appeared–pyon!」

At the same time, the stuffed rabbit screamed.

Vampire looked beyond the stuffed animal’s gaze to where her own vision had caught it, and there, about to move at any moment, was a Horse-shaped Diest.

「!!?」

「I’d say this place on the verge of becoming a hunting ground, but we’ve never had the luck to make consecutive appearances!」

The size is not so big. It is about a size larger than a normal thoroughbred, but as the theory goes, it is a Knight-class at worst. This is because the Common-class does not have a clear figure, and if it was Baron-class or above, it must be even more massive.

「Carol!」

「It’s a Knight-class–pyon! Not even a new strain–pyon!」

The distance from the Diest was just enough to move to the edge of sight, and Vampire did not have the luxury of operating her magiphone at leisure.

Luckily, however, Vampire had a support faerie, Carol, a stuffed rabbit. While Vampire remained vigilant, not taking her eyes off the Diest, Carol voiced the data that had been analyzed.

「Think I can do it?」

「You have no blood left in me–pyon! Not even for this night–pyon!」

「I see…」

「I’ve called for help–pyon! We’re getting out of here–pyon!」

Vampires, as the name implies, is Vampiric Magical Girl. The magic, which weakens in the daytime and strengthens at night, is always in effect, in addition, by consuming「Blood Power,」a power unique to Vampire, she was able to use even more powerful magic.

Blood Power is actually replenished by sucking blood from humans and is consumed to enhance magic or to use powerful magic. She usually replenishes her strength by receiving blood from her fellow Magical Girls and her mentor, or by purchasing it in the magical world, but she currently used it up in one battle against a Spider-type Diest.

Even without Blood Power, he can use magic to strengthen his body, but as he was defeated by the spider-type dist earlier, his bare strengthening magic will push him down against the Knight class.

Trance Bat and Deadly Blood are cannot even be activated without the Blood Power in the first place. Currently, it is not an exaggeration to say that Vampire’s chances of winning are close to zero.

Vampire took Carol’s decision and stepped forward with her chest out.

「Grovel. I am Vampire. Magical Girl Vampire. No one is allowed to pass behind me.」

「Vampire!?」

Even in a critical, potentially life-threatening situation, escape was not an option among Vampire.

The fact that she had just fought the Knight-class and was exhausted was no reason for Vampire to turn her back.

「What, don’t worry. Vampires are known to be stubborn.」

To Carol’s relief, Vampire smiles wryly.

「This Vampire!」

Be proud of yourself whenever and however you are.

And protect the world with pride. Put your life on the line.

It was a belief born from a mixture of her own pride and the teachings of her mentor.

It was a thick and big pillar that formed a girl called Vampire.