The girl in uniform is Kisayama Chisaki, aka Magical Girl Elephant, one of the six Magical Girls in Sakira Town, and her rendezvous was with Mizukami Futaba, aka Monarch Sprite, the Lightning Witch who once stood at the virtual top of all Magical Girls.
Neither of them knows the other is a Magical Girl, but they seem to have hit it off since Tyrant Sylphâs dress-up photo session they held the other day, not content with simply exchanging contact information and keeping in touch daily with Sylphâs movements, the two became friends enough to have tea together to further deepen their friendship.
As for Futaba, she wants Chisaki, who is the only friend for Sylph who doesnât attend school, to continue to be friends with Sylph, If she, a former Magical Girl who knows the situation to some extent, donât support their relationship, she thinks that one day a fatal misunderstanding might occur between them, she couldnât do nothing. She didnât want to let another tragedy like her own and her brotherâs repeat itself.
Chisaki, on the other hand, is trying to follow up with Sylph, who has made peace with her family, so that she wonât become estranged again because she is a Magical Girl, and, she was also full of enthusiasm to become close friends with Sylph in the future, and she gladly accepted Futabaâs invitation for tea with the intention of building a good relationship with Sylphâs relatives and becoming an official family friend.
In other words, this was a win-win secret meeting for both parties.
ăI apologize, for making you wait.ă
ăI didnât wait at all. Iâm sorry itâs your day off. Do you have club activities today or something?ă
ăYes. I had track practice only in the morning. I didnât have any plans for the afternoon, so I was rather happy to be invited.ă
ăAhaha, I feel a little better if you say so. Shall I just order first? Itâs Onee-sanâs treat today, so you can order whatever you like.ă
ăThank you, Iâll take your word for it then.ă
Although they are friendly enough to joke around with each other on the talk app, this is the first time theyâve met in person since the dress-up photo session the other day, and they seem a little awkward, perhaps because they donât have a mutual acquaintance, Sylph, with whom they share a common interest.
Chisaki earns a good amount of money from defeating Diests, and sheâs not particularly spendthrift, so she isnât in financial trouble, but thinking that she should take advantage of the kindness of her superior in such an occasion, she thank her for her hospitality, look over the menu lightly, and quickly place her order.
After ordering, the topic of conversation shifted to Sylph, and the initial awkwardness of the two became more and more talkative, and although they did not make a loud noise because of the location, their reserve and nervousness disappeared completely.
ăBut thank you so much, Chisaki-san. You take RyĆ-chan to many places, donât you? She doesnât talk much on her own, but when I ask her who she went with and where she went today, she usually ends up talking about you, Chisaki-chan⊠I really wish her father or I could have played that role, butâŠă
ăDonât worry about it at all, itâs something I like to do. Besides, Futaba-san must be busy, and RyĆ-chanâs parents, wellâŠă
ăHave you heard anything from RyĆ-chan?ă
ăAs for the mother not being there. I donât know the details about her father, but he doesnât seem to be home all the time.ă
ăI seeâŠă
Futaba asked questions in the hope that Chisaki, who has become closer to Sylph than before she met her, might know something about Sylphâs parents, but she was unable to obtain any promising information. This is also true because Chisaki has consulted with Sylph in advance and has come up with a set-up in advance regarding their relationship externally. For Sylph, it was a measure taken to prevent her from inadvertently leaking the fact that Chisaki was a Magical Girl when Futaba and others were digging deeper into Chisaki, and she had no idea that the two would meet in this way without her knowledge and that the setting would be used in this way.
Sylphâs age is approximately 10 years old, which means that she is about 4 years older than Chisaki, who is in the second year of middle school. It could be a senior student from grade school, or an older sister in the neighborhood, or there could be a case where they are friends even if they are a little older than each other, in Sylphâs case, she doesnât attend school and doesnât live close to Futaba, making it difficult to explain how the two became acquainted and friends if they try to hide their commonality as Magical Girls. It was a setup to avoid ragging when suddenly asked and to avoid contradictions between the two arguments.
In fact, Futaba asked how RyĆ and Chisaki became friends once in the exchange on the application, so it was a good decision to make the setting consistent. Incidentally, in the setting, they are friends who met via the Internet, found out they lived in the same town, had an off-line meeting, and became close friends in real life. For those of them who are older, it may seem risky to become friends with someone we are not familiar with and cannot see their face with in real life, but for todayâs young people, friends over the Internet are not uncommon. If Chisakiâs gender also had been male, she wouldâve been suspected of being a pedophile looking to meet someone, but the fact that they were both girls and that their ages were within the realm of common sense made Futaba let her guard down. There was no way she couldâve known that Sylph wasnât only being targeted but even forcibly kissed.
ăWhat RyĆ-chan like at home? She often go out with you, but Iâd like to hear about her everyday life.ă
ăSheâs always playing video games and reading comic books. Iâve been trying to get her to go to grade school, but sheâs just not that into itâŠă
ăAâAhaha, thatâs troublingâŠă
Chisaki knows that Futaba, who doesnât know that RyĆ is RyĆichi Mizukami, is saying this with 100% good intentions, but Chisaki, who knows RyĆâs true identity, cannot agree lightly, and her words are muddled. If, as Sylph said, she will return to being a man after the fight with the Diests is over, then it wouldnât make much sense for her to attend school now. Besides, Elephant understands that Sylph feels guilty about her identity in her activities as a Magical Girl. Itâs hard to say that forcing them to attend grade school will not end up only hurting Sylph due to her guilt. And unlike the society of Magical Girls, sheâs not in the society of grade school. Even if something were to happen in that closed world, she wouldnât be able to take the side of Sylph.
On the other hand, if Sylph chooses not to return to normal after this battle, then of course she should attend school as well. If she have decided to live her life as a girl named Mizukami RyĆ, there is a life that is appropriate for that. The excuse that she will become a man someday is no longer acceptable. Ryo has the right to go to school, make friends of the same age, and be happy. Chisaki thinks so.
ăAh, but lately, Iâve noticed that she seems a bit preoccupied or unfocused in whatever sheâs doing. Suddenly her face turns red, she has a kind of feverish look in her eyes, she sighs a lot, and it seems like sheâs having some trouble. I tell her to talk to me about everything, but she wonât take me seriouslyâŠă
ăThat is worrisome. Iâll ask her about that too.ă
ăThanks, Chisaki-chan. RyĆ-chan seems to be very fond of you, so I feel a little safer if you say so, Chisaki-chan.ă
Chisaki felt a slight pain in her heart when she saw Futabaâs relieved, good-natured smile and sensed the face of RyĆ.
âIâm sorry, maybe itâs me that Sylph-chan is worried about,â Chisaki apologizes inwardly, but at the same time, she pauses, gut-punching in her heart, convinced that her own furious attacks are definitely bearing fruit.
When she stopped Sylph the other day and rode the Ferris wheel alone with her, even Chisaki didnât originally intend to go that far. Forcibly kissing someone who hasnât given her the OK to do so is a heinous act that could be reported depending on how the other person feels. Although she felt that she had done this once before at the victory celebration and that it was inevitable in order to make Sylphâs feelings for her, she also regretted that she had overdone it a little.
So she was really going to follow her mentorâs advice and make a romantic confession again, saying that she love Sylph in all its good and bad qualities, with a beautiful scene at a memorable place. However, Elephantâs plan was brilliantly undermined by Sylphâs words.
The fact that sheâd been rejected once wasnât so much a surprise as it was within the realm of expectation. Even when she wanted to be friends with Sylph, it was not a simple matter. Chisaki knew that it would not be so easy when she wanted to take the relationship further than that. That is why she didnât ask for an answer on the day of the victory celebration. Until the time when Sylph fell in love with her, Saki was determined to keep trying without giving up no matter how many times she was rejected.
Surprisingly, Sylph pleaded with a protective, half-crying expression that she still wanted to be friends with her. She said to Sylph at the time that it was wrong of her to say such horrible things to her, but in fact she wasnât even a little hurt, she was even moved.
Sylph is a very troublesome Magical Girl who is negative, backward-looking, and self-contained when she thinks in the wrong direction, and itâs hard to believe that she used to be an adult. This time, too, she had expected him to say something that Chisaki would never understand, such as that they could no longer go back to the same kind of relationship they had before, so letâs at least say goodbye before their friendship was destroyed. Of course, she had no intention of giving up when she said that, and she intended to remain friends with Sylph until she fell in love with her, but Sylph betrayed Chisakiâs expectations.
She was sure no one but Chisaki would know how happy that made her.
Her own past actions, the friendship she had nurtured with Sylph, and her love for Sylph had had such an impact on her that it had overturned a fundamental part of her.
Even though she thinks negatively, backward, and in a bad way, she is still so supportive of herself as Sylph that she canât give up.
And while Elephant was chewing on this emotion, Sylphâs true feelings and confession of love were spewed out in rapid succession.
I canât believe she havenât wanted to leave since I kissed her,
I canât believe that she was trying to get back to being a man, and now sheâs lost in that end result,
I canât believe that she was shaking like that, asking for courage to hold my own hand,
ïŒThat means she already likes me!?ïŒ
So she couldnât stand it.
She realized that Sylph was just like she was not long ago.
She believed that they were in love with each other, just not understanding the difference between friendship and love.
In fact, it wasnât just a touchy kiss, but a very deep kiss, and since she didnât show any signs of reluctance, it was probably not a misunderstanding. Elephant also noticed this and was already convinced of her own victory. She was sure that in the not-too-distant future, Sylph would realize her love for her and reciprocate her love for her.
ăLeave it to me. I will make Ryo-chan happy.ă
ăI feel like Iâm overreacting a bit, but⊠Iâm counting on you.ă
Chisaki answered with her chest puffed out in pride, to which Futaba replied with a slight wry smile.