The spaceship is caught in an unprecedented chaos.
Upon learning that the assailant is the Magical Girl Sun, there were some strangely calm Monsters….
“Was she just in the wrong place?”
These were Monsters who had talked with Sun after the negotiations. The Magical Girl Sun they remembered was like a slightly older brother figure who would understand their circumstances and answer reasonable questions, even if she was considered an enemy.
At the very least, they thought of Magical Girl Sun as a lifeform with common sense, and they were puzzled by the invasion itself.
“Are you crazy!? Don’t try to escape reality!”
Of course, such a minority opinion was dismissed by the other Monsters who thought, ‘She’s finally lost it.’
Meanwhile, there were spirited Monsters who had only heard about Magical Girl Sun’s strength through word of mouth. With their self-sacrificial mindset, they thought, she’s just another Magical Girl, and they headed to where she was, intending to delay her.
The problem was that instead of delaying her, they ended up getting captured and became a mobile vending machine that spat out information.
Sun herself had no intention of doing that; she was just suppressing the Monsters that attacked and asking questions out of curiosity.
“Where’s that Monster called Medic Tentacle?”
“G-gah…! Do you think I would tell you? I’d rather die a hundred times than say anything!”
After wandering the spaceship for 20 minutes, the sound of the continuous security alarms inside the ship was at a level where it caused ringing in her ears.
Even after suppressing the Monsters that attacked from time to time and asking kindly in a loud voice, the only responses she got were negative replies mixed with firm words like ‘never’ and ‘absolutely not.’
They seemed to think she was going to call some high-ranking officer….
I’d be in trouble without you, too.
You just want me to bring someone who can communicate, right? Isn’t that hard to understand?
‘This is ridiculous.’
After expressing such complaints inwardly, the anxiety that had been unnoticed in the silence slowly enveloped her heart.
It isn’t going to be impossible to get back, right?
I still need to make dinner, do laundry, and clean.
Reluctantly, she started tearing down every door that looked like it could lead to the tentacle or octopus-like creature.
The unpleasant metallic sound from forcibly twisting metal.
Whether it was unpleasant or not, she didn’t care and systematically ripped off the doors at regular intervals.
In a situation where it seemed impossible to return home, what did it matter that there was an annoying noise in her ears?
After tearing off the 34th door, she was starting to get the hang of it.
As the time spent on the spaceship increased, the speed of tearing off the doors began to accelerate.
The doors that had been torn down at intervals of 3 seconds became 2.9 seconds, 2.7 seconds, 2.3 seconds, 2 seconds….
By the time she felt that she was noticeably getting faster,
‘Huh?’
She was able to find a room that looked distinctly different at a glance.
It was a closed room that seemed to have not been used for a long time, with no power supplied.
Although there were many futuristic tools and devices, they seemed to have not been used for quite a while… dust was piled up thickly.
While momentarily distracted by the strangely mystical interior of the room….
Suddenly, a vibration enveloped her body as if the spaceship was descending.
“Whoa?”
Right after the vibration occurred… she felt her body lift slightly.
A state of weightlessness she had only heard of; come to think of it, this was space, wasn’t it?
The very fact that there was gravity directed downwards was strange.
It was an incredibly uncomfortable environment to move her body, even more so than swimming.
Holding tight to the bag, which seemed to want to spit its contents out, she started to move by grabbing onto nearby objects with one arm.
She didn’t know why this phenomenon was happening, but with awkward movements due to the sudden change, she managed to exit the room and head for the next one.
“…Did it stop?”
“…Yes, for now.”
The ones responding to Sun’s indiscriminate violence were the officers in the control room and the Monsters under them.
They had as much desire to run away as there were stars scattered in the galaxy.
However, the officer, Asura, felt a sense of responsibility.
The other Monsters felt pressure from having their superior nearby.
Due to those feelings of helplessness, they maintained their positions, and as a result, they became a barrier that somewhat slowed Sun’s advance.
The situation of the spaceship visible at a glance from the control room.
Destruction of the entrance to Room 579, destruction of the entrance to Room 580.
Seeing the phrases appearing in turn on the control room panel, they were acting to slow down the speed of damage by deactivating the ship’s gravity control system.
“Magical Girl Sun has exited the Monster Development Room as of now.”
“That’s a silver lining….”
The catastrophe named Sun, and the heroes standing against it.
But even that was only slightly delaying the ship’s demise.
In just 10 minutes on Earth, as if becoming accustomed to the absence of gravity, the speed of damage to the spaceship started to accelerate again.
Suddenly, the Monsters in the control room grew suspicious of Sun’s actions of tearing off every door.
In the control room, filled only with silence, one spoke up with difficulty.
“By the way, doesn’t it seem like she’s looking for something?”
“Hmmm….”
Asura, the control room officer, let out a vague groan in response to that query.
It wasn’t only him who felt uneasy about Sun’s actions.
They had all been unable to mention the situation, which looked far too serious and precarious.
They remembered the colossal damage that had occurred on the ship during the Clone Sun incident.
An entity that tore through thick metal walls as if they were mere paper and effortlessly overpowered everything in sight like a nightmare.
Why was she, who was supposed to be stronger than that clone, searching instead of destroying?
Although they felt the unease adequately, they were Monsters without the courage to ask directly.
The only member who had engaged in a conversation with her was Medic Tentacle from the recovery room.
It was impossible to guess the thoughts of someone with whom they hadn’t even exchanged a single word.
“First, let’s try connecting to the recovery room.”
“Yes, understood.”
Amid the chaos on the spaceship, Medic Tentacle, who received a delayed contact from the control room.
When he learned that the cause of the chaos could be attributed to Sun, the gazes of the recovery room Monsters turned to him with hope.
The catastrophic situation could only be resolved by one single Monster.
Those hopeful gazes were, in turn, painfully overwhelming for him.
‘Why always me?’
Medic Tentacle.
He was also terrified of anything ordinary and afraid of the terrifying.
But in the past, a moment of courage.
That one moment of small bravery had created a massive butterfly effect.
He had by now established himself as not only the recovery room officer but the only weapon capable of conversing with Magical Girl Sun….
His position had become even more solidified after the last deployment, where the Monster combatants sent to the black zone had died without ever taking a single step.
However, filled with the expectations of his subordinate Monsters, their hopeful gazes.
“Haah….”
More than the fear of Sun, he was afraid of the future where those gazes would change into disappointment; eventually, he sighed deeply and exited the recovery room.
As if guiding him to go in that direction, he was kindly directed to Sun’s predicted path.
Would he survive today? His mind was filled with negative thoughts.
At last, the moment came when he faced the formidable entity not on the ground, but on the spaceship.
“Oh! Found you.”
‘Ah, I’m alive.’
At her reaction upon discovering him, Medic Tentacle let out a sigh of relief inwardly, thinking he was alive.
At the very least, it wasn’t an antagonistic reaction; he deeply appreciated that.
When Sun’s movements halted in the corridor of the spaceship thanks to Medic Tentacle, the continuously ringing alarms came to a stop.
In that moment, even though it wouldn’t be heard all the way far from the spaceship….
The Monsters in the control room raised cheers and praises for Medic Tentacle’s bravery, elevating his status.
In a corridor where two life signs had stopped, the Monsters in the control room couldn’t even dare to imagine what conversation was taking place there.
Was Medic Tentacle firmly telling the Magical Girl to go back?
Or was he astonishingly using his eloquence to persuade her?
Whichever it was, it was surely something beyond their imagination.
…That’s what they were thinking.
“So, I accidentally came here, and every single one I meet comes at me, looking for you.”
“Ah… I see.”
In reality, when Medic Tentacle asked, ‘Why did you come all the way here?’, Sun responded that it was ‘by mistake.’
In place of a grand reason, those two simple human words were enough to leave Medic Tentacle flustered as he stumbled over his words.
The bag, the size of his own body, which he used to put the device in, turned into a disaster after he pressed a button.
The reason for tearing down every door he saw on the spaceship was to find him.
The reason for his extraordinary behavior, which couldn’t be included in an official report.
However devoted to the group he was, he lacked the confidence to handle all 57 torn doors of the spaceship.
“Then… I’ll guide you to the Transmission Room, so please follow me well….”
Following the kind guidance of Magical Girl Sun, he was able to return to Earth.
What remained on the spaceship, which had narrowly avoided destruction, was the obligation to repair the 57 torn doors.
“Damn it, how am I supposed to report this and have it approved, excluding the part about the Magical Girl’s invasion?”
“If the higher-ups hear about the Magical Girl entering the spaceship, it’ll be a total disaster. Let’s say it was a riot caused by food poisoning in the combat food group instead.”
“Ugh….”
…And thus, it was the deep sigh of the resource management Monsters who had to bear the consequences.
