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Sugiyama Rika is the most talented magical girl she has ever seen, and also the most talented magical girl her jewel beast, Lena, has ever seen.
Not only does he have an exceptionally high aptitude for magic, but his magical power is also hundreds of times greater than that of ordinary people.
The key, Lena said, is having a resilient heart.
This is a more important part than aptitude and innate magical power.
It's just that the person is a bit stupid, otherwise they could be considered perfect.
However, it's quite rare for both sisters to be magical girls.
This wasn't said by Terasaki Ayasa herself, but by Lena.
Generally speaking, such a situation will not occur.
unless……
Chapter 220 Disappearing in the Mirror
"Shin-Shin-Yumi... This oil is crackling and popping so scary."
As the little bear spoke, it couldn't help but shrink back under Mayumi Haga's stern gaze.
The two are in the kitchen of the Emotional Eccentrics' house, taking a cooking class that Mayumi Haga specially taught for the little bear.
Because of the disappearance of the Abyss Gentleman, Little Bear and Angry Monster Anne, who is still at home, have to pull themselves together and learn how to do housework.
Cooking is a skill that everyone must learn.
In fact, home economics classes that teach cooking are not absent from the curriculum of most schools, but the problem is that Xiaoxiong is not an ordinary human. She has only been a monster with a complete mind for less than half a year, so naturally she has never attended school before.
In this house of oddballs, the oddball primarily responsible for all household affairs has always been the Abyss Gentleman. As the first among this group of oddballs to develop sanity and negative emotions, the Abyss Gentleman is only a teenager in the strictest sense, but he is already quite stable and mature in his dealings with others, and can be said to play the role of both parent and child in the family.
Without the Gentlemen of the Abyss, this house is prone to chaos.
Although the angry and eccentric Ann is working hard to earn money, her spontaneous combustion makes it difficult for her to enter the kitchen, otherwise she would be at risk of gas explosion at any time.
For the sake of the family, after finishing her work of unifying the oddballs in Miracle City, Little Bear immediately sought out Mayumi Haga to learn the basics of cooking.
Actually, being the Unifying Monster isn't a very prestigious job. Although it sounds impressive, Little Bear is really just informing everyone that her older brother, Abyss Gentleman, is not in Miracle City recently, and that they can come to her if they need anything.
Little Bear's experience is naturally incomparable to that of other monsters. Although his strength level is higher, he is still just a child in the eyes of the other monsters.
However, none of them are weirdos who would make things difficult for children, at least not in Miracle City.
"They said we could talk to them if we had any problems," Little Bear whispered to Mayumi Haga, explaining the unexpected result of his attempt to calm the strange people down, only to be soothed by them instead.
Although the child in the eyes of these strange people actually possessed greater strength than they did, the strange people, who were used to associating with the Gentlemen of the Abyss, would subconsciously regard the little bear as a boastful junior.
The little bear had mixed feelings when it realized this.
"My brother's friends are all very good." She nervously clutched the hem of her clothes with the hand that wasn't holding the spatula.
Mr. Dream Clown even helped her apply for a leave of absence from school.
The Abyss Gentleman has always been the pillar of his family, responsible for many things that are quite deep. Although he intends to cultivate his younger siblings' abilities, his excessive pampering prevents him from teaching them much.
Then, in this awkward situation, he disappeared.
Many heavy burdens suddenly fell on her shoulders. At first, Little Bear was confused. After trying to adjust her mindset, she decided to accept everything positively, but the sudden increase in pressure was still a bit too much for her.
Moreover, she didn't have any close friends—except for Mayumi Haga.
Little Bear's social circle has always been pitifully small.
Since she only regained her senses a few months ago, she doesn't know much about the Abyss Gentlemen's social circle. Apart from going to school and engaging in eccentric activities, she hasn't had time to expand her own network of relationships.
So whenever something happens, she always subconsciously turns to her older brother or Mayumi Haga for help.
With the Abyss Gentleman absent and Mayumi Haga quite busy, Little Bear has gone through a busy period where no one is helping him and things are rather stagnant.
When Mayumi Haga finally had some free time, Kuma couldn't help but pour out her feelings about the stress and worries she had been experiencing lately.
Fortunately, Mayumi Haga is a very good listener. No matter what you are doing, as long as you talk to her seriously, she will listen carefully and tilt her head slightly to hear what others say.
Mayumi Haga could actually understand the little bear's feelings.
The strange people in this world are not strictly speaking villains, nor do they have a necessary opposing stance to humans. Moreover, apart from the fact that their bodies are made of magic, they are not much different from humans.
Even eccentrics have their own emotions, though they can be more extreme depending on their personality traits.
However, on the other hand...
The little bear seems to be becoming more and more like a normal person.
The strange person, who originally represented sadness, has been crying less and less lately, and his appearance is no different from that of an ordinary human.
It looks exactly like a human being, not a monster.
The Abyss Gentleman gives Mayumi Haga a similar feeling. This fearsome monster retains some of the cowardly characteristics of being afraid of the dark, but he is not so cowardly that he will be startled by everything he sees.
Oddballs inevitably fall into extreme emotions brought about by their own attributes. For example, An's temper is easily triggered, the little bear used to cry like a child at the drop of a hat, the orange juice freak has a special obsession with orange juice, the prankster freak feels uncomfortable if he doesn't play pranks, and the dream-eating clown really is a clown.
The last one doesn't count.
Okay, according to Little Bear, Dream Clown actually needs to sleep for 15 hours every day before getting up, and he has a terrible temper when he wakes up.
The attributes of eccentrics generally correspond to their main personality traits. Many eccentrics give people a very pure feeling because their personality is very simple.
But humans are still quite different.
Humans are more complex and changeable, and have learned to conceal and buffer, as well as to express emotions more indirectly.
Mayumi Haga noticed that the little bear was exhibiting this trend.
The little bear gradually reduced the number of times it cried in front of people without a care in the world. The originally pure white paper slowly learned to be stained with other colors.
What Mayumi Haga didn't know was that the process of a monster transforming into a human was actually very dangerous.
Because they lack many things, these freaks who are evolving towards humanity will frantically absorb all emotions from everything they come into contact with in their lives, like a sponge.
This process requires careful and patient guidance to help the childlike oddball grow into a healthy new human being.
While it's not easy to make mistakes under the protection of the rules of the surface world, since everyone is a good person, a mischievous person can easily lead someone astray and exploit a loophole, which can easily cause big problems.
Finally, under Mayumi Haga's guidance, a simple meal was prepared. Little Bear breathed a sigh of relief, only to realize that his forehead was covered in sweat.
She went to the bathroom to wash her face, and when she looked up, she saw herself in the mirror above the sink.
In that instant, she saw a woman standing behind her whom she had never seen before, yet who looked somewhat familiar.
The little bear turned pale with fright and instinctively tried to scream, but the image in the mirror disappeared in the blink of an eye.
But her reflection was no longer in the mirror.
Main text: Chapter 221 Vanishing into Thin Air and Discovery
……what?
The little bear didn't react in time.
Why can't I see myself in the mirror?
"S-Shin-Yumi, waaaaah—" The scene, straight out of a horror movie, made Little Bear instinctively cry for help. She was completely clueless about this kind of thing. "Help—"
She rushed out of the bathroom, terrified that some unknown, filthy thing would catch up with her at any moment.
But once outside, the outside was even stranger than the bathroom.
Mayumi Haga, who was supposed to be standing in the kitchen, is nowhere to be seen.
Sister An, who was sleeping in the living room, is also gone.
Without her realizing it, she was left alone in the entire room.
No, that's not right.
If you look closely, you can actually detect that someone is there.
No smooth surface could reflect the bear's image, but the bear could clearly see the figures of Mayumi Haga and the angry monster Ann in the reflection, even though they were not actually there.
Mayumi was cleaning the kitchen countertop, while An was still asleep.
The kitchen sink, the hanging pots and pans, the neatly arranged knives, the glasses on the coffee table, even the water droplets on the glass... all reflect the presence of the other two people. Their every move can be deduced from their shadows.
The little bear was the only one who couldn't hear, see, or touch them, and in their minds, the little bear didn't even exist in this space.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, you've just come to another world." A woman's voice came from behind, comforting the frightened little bear.
The little bear suddenly turned around and realized that the strange woman who had just appeared in the mirror was now standing behind him.
When the bear no longer observed the other person through a mirror but instead met them face to face, it finally felt the magical aura emanating from them.
"Who are you?" Despite being rather naive, Little Bear still had the necessary vigilance, especially since the person in front of him looked like the culprit who had dragged him into this mess.
Having missed a glimpse earlier, but now standing face to face with the other person so close, Little Bear could finally see their face clearly under the light.
She bears at least 75% resemblance to Sugiyama Rika, and it's immediately obvious that they are related by blood.
But why did he appear as if he were a villain...?
No, that's not right, what's more important is...
"What do you mean by another world? Am I dead?!" Little Bear exclaimed in surprise.
The death of a freak comes suddenly?!
Strange people rarely die, and even ordinary humans in this world rarely die from accidents; most die of old age.
So being suddenly told that "you are already in another world" was really beyond Little Bear's imagination.
"...No, you're not dead yet, and this isn't some underworld." Yoko Sugiyama was momentarily speechless at the bear's words, then sighed and explained, "This is the other side of the world, the Despair Monster."
Because she didn't know the bear's name, Yoko Sugiyama—who is also known as the Phantom Thief—directly referred to the bear in front of her as the Desperate Monster.
She didn't miss the look of surprise and panic that flashed across the other person's face when she called him the Desperate Monster.
It seems I didn't choose the wrong person.
Yoko Sugiyama was very satisfied with the bear's reaction.
What she didn't know was that Little Bear was actually acting this way because her information was so outdated.
Huh?
How does this person know about the Despair Monster?
But even knowing that, they still went to the wrong person?
Could it be that he really doesn't know that the current Despairing Monster is Mayumi?
Little Bear realized that Yoko Sugiyama in front of him was probably out of touch with the news and didn't know that the current Despair Monster was being played by Mayumi Haga, which was why she chose to kidnap him.
However, Mayumi cannot generate the magic of despair on her own, so even if she directly told the kidnapper in front of her, who didn't look like a good person, that Mayumi was the Despair Monster, the other party would not believe her.
Little Bear, being a high-level weirdo, was quite aware of his own limitations. Even if he couldn't defeat the kidnapper in front of him, he wouldn't suffer too much loss.
Moreover, things have come to this point, so we can't very well ask the other party to go back, kidnap Mayumi, and let us go.
Let's take it one step at a time.
The little bear thought.
In order not to arouse Yoko Sugiyama's suspicion, Koma tried his best to maintain the lie, pretending to be very wary of the person in front of him who had exposed his identity: "What do you want?"
"I just want your help." Yoko Sugiyama's expression was so sincere that it almost made one forget how forcefully she had brought him here. "Desperate Monster, don't you want to know?"
"Know what?" Little Bear asked, puzzled.
"The truth of this world, and where your mysteriously disappeared family members are."
Before Yoko Sugiyama could finish speaking, the strange man in front of her, who was no different from a human, suddenly became anxious.
Even eccentric people know the importance of family.
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Mayumi Haga heard the water running continuously in the bathroom.
She realized something and suddenly turned her head away.
The bathroom door was closed, so she could only hear the sounds but couldn't see if the teddy bear was still inside.
But the sound is enough to make a judgment.
The sound of running water is distinctly different under different circumstances. Just a moment ago it was the sound of washing hands, but now all that's left is the sound of the faucet being turned on halfway and water being wasted in the sink.
The trajectory of the water flow was not interfered with, so all that remained was the sound of it hitting the sink directly.