[♡][XP] Plan Sense Evil, Smash Evil
[♡] Go home and chill with your family
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You focus on the magic-induced AR display in front of you to take your mind off of ending up street pizza. You bump your Physical Enhancement to A, feeling a little put out that Melody Kumatora and her freaky ass bear put up that much of a fight. Given detecting magic played an important role in that little clusterfuck, you slap a Distinction in Assensing, too. Being aware of your surroundings got you far in the material world; now that you're a Magical Girl in a whole-ass magical world, you don't wanna be flying blind.
There's a jingle you're starting to get used to as another screen pops up within your vision. You think about asking Alice what's up with the whole techno-magic vibe as you go over the options offered.
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Ready?
Run!
TENCO MAGICAL GIRL RAISING SYSTEM
Ver. Delta
Congratulations BANCHO LILY for further expenditures on your Magical Girl transformation! Continue to hone your power and advance your career as a warrior of love and/or justice!
You have reached RANK A in PHYSICSL ENHANCEMENT! Your body is a temple, now renovate it with a new technique!
[Choose one:]
[ ] SWEET SUPER GIRL: Your flesh has been tempered in the forge of your magical Will. Untransformed, you can run faster, lift more, and stay up later. You gain a lesser version of your Unbreakable Diamond Heart, and can perform superhuman feats to a level one grade lower than your current Rank in Physical Enhancement without transforming. Without this, you're a normal human untransformed. A badass one, but a human nonetheless.
[ ] HEART-THROBBING HOTSTEPPER: You can leap tall buildings in a single bound, as well as stand and balance on things that defy the laws of gravity. Running on water, balancing on the tip of a blade of grass, clinging on a sheer building like some kind of hyphenated spider person: all this and more is possible!
[ ] BEAUTIFUL BODY WONDERLAND: Your body immediately shapes itself to your desired form, as if God himself Photoshopped you. Anything you want bigger gets bigger, anything you want smaller gets smaller, acne is a thing of the past, you can eat as much as you want and never get fat. You gain immunity to mundane disease or poison while transformed, and can shrug off magical diseases and poisons of a lower grade than your current Physical Enhancement.
Choose carefully, and NEVER LOSE MAIDEN'S HEART!
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Once you've made your choices and made peace with Madokami, you remind Chiaki to drop you off at your family's house. Since you're still getting used to Las Brujas, you have to punch your address into Moogle Maps, then yell directions over the wind whistling and the Vespa engine's humming.
Your urban scooter rally gets you home safely. Yeah, your stomach's doing gymnastics and Alice just stumbled behind a bush to puke rainbows again, but you got home safe. Less sound than you liked, but safe.
Chiaki pulls up her pilot goggles and checks to see if you're okay. You give her a thumbs up, inwardly thanking various deities that your feet are on solid ground. She gives you a thumbs up back, snaps on her goggles, and screams past your house on her Vespa.
+She drives like a kamikaze pilot...+ Alice pings you as she emerges from her puking bush.
She's got a little trail of rainbows running down her chin again. You motion to it and she cleans it up.
+Hey, can normal people see you?+ You ping to her. +Chiaki didn't say anything about you upchucking, but Iron Dickhead was able to argue with you back at the shrine.+
Alice pings back. +Majokko Corps cadets have Active Mundane Camouflage that hides us from those not magically attuned. Iron Beetle must have the gift of Assensing to detect me...or I dropped my camo during the bit of bother.+
You think a bit, accidentally leaving your mind open to ping Alice. +Thugboy must have the sight too, if he was able to see you and stick those firecrackers up your ass.+
Alice pouts deeply at you. +I didn't need to be reminded of that, love.+
You put your hands up. +My bad.+
Alice watches you for a while before being convinced of your sincerity. She doesn't look at you like some kind of monster, but you still feel a weird distance from her.
You don't let it bug you as you walk up to your house. With a flick of the wrist, you fish your keys out of your pocket, twirl them around your finger, then slip your house key into the burnished keyhole.
With a click and a whisper, you open the heavy teak wood door and slip inside. Bracing A/C greets you like Mother Russia, your little brother greets you soon after with a tackle-glomp.
"Nasty Nee-san~!" Your brother says, rubbing cheeks with you.
You ruffle his butter-blonde hair and smell your shampoo on him. "Sup, Ill." Your ruffle turns into a noogie. "Used my shampoo again without asking, didn't ya?"
He laughs and winces. "I ran outta mine," he says, "And yours makes my hair so glossy!"
You bring him into a hug of your own. "Buy your own then, you lil' shit," you tease.
He beams at you, all rosy cheeks and freckles; a dirty little angel. It's hard to stay mad at the little bastard, and almost impossible when he turns that smile on. It gets him into and out of all sorts of trouble.
"Why would I do that when my wonderful sister has some?" he asks, fluttering his eyelashes.
"Because, my ill lil' Ilya, your sister needs to keep her baddie up." You pinch your brother Ilya's dimpled cheek and give it a twist, drawing a cute "Ouchies" from him.
He wiggles out of your grip in a playful pirouette. You see he's wearing one of your old pink camisoles and some spats, riding the femme-y side of androgyny like a pro skater.
You laugh. "Did you raid my closet again, too?"
"Nah," he says, rolling his arm like a wave. "You gave this to me when you decided to dress all delinquent-y." He lets the wave roll through his body in a perfect pop and lock; once you got barred from ballet, he picked up the slack. Ballet led to breakdancing, now he's an all purpose dancing machine.
"Damn, must've slipped my mind."
"You looked really cute in it, so I wanna look super duper
extra cute in it!"
You stroke your chin and sagely close your eyes. "You're cute, but not
quite on my level yet."
He laughs, half-twirls his back to you, and sticks his tongue out at you from over his shoulder. "That's just cope, Nasty Nee-san."
You flick your silky smooth twintails back. "Cope nothing, I'm bad as fuck. Where are the folks?"
"Papa's grilling outside, Mama's in the garden. I'm gonna go grind Street Overlord 6 until dinner's ready."
As expected, you think. Your Boomer Bear of a dad loved to grill almost as much as he loved his family. Every day he could, he'd have some slab of meat sizzling, sometimes joined by onions, corn, or pineapple on the mesquite hot seat. Your mom would watch him in the garden, with mature grace and hard-won serenity. Sometimes she'd say the smell of meat was overpowering her flowers' fragrance, only for dad to laugh it off and say flowers were for viewing, and that the most beautiful flower was chiding him.
Your brother, however, trains in vain to beat you at Street Overlord. No matter how many hours he puts in, you'll still be the alpha.
Your little brother Ilya waves and heads off to their room. "Feel free to do whatever~"
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[What do you do?]
[ ] Go grill with your dad
[ ] Go garden with your mom
[ ] Go humble your brother in Street Overlord 6