God A Sword (CWMGQ Spin off #64)

Have you ever ridden on a bicycle in the middle of the night with the flesh, and more importantly, severed arm of some bizarre creature that you just killed in order to give it to the mad scientist genius who lives in your basement?

No. Of course you haven't. Because that would just be ridiculous now wouldn't it?

I heaved a sigh. This was my life now, apparently.

Honestly I just bought some chips from the nearest convenience store and shoved the arm in the plastic bag that came with it. Just looking at the thing made me… unnerved.

But, after some miracle in which I wasn't caught by anything that had decided to check out why some deadass corner of the city was suddenly turning into a light show or why a high schooler was carrying the severed limbs of his dead enemies, I made it home.

I plopped the chips down on the kitchen table before marching right into the elevator that led to the lab.

Now… Ah shit, how do I explain this to Twirl?

You know what, I'm tired let's just get this over with and hit the sack I've still got school tommorow.

"Hey Hong." Twirl waved, not bothering to face me as she looked at something on her monitor, "You made it back alive?"

"Yeah." I nodded, walking up to her desk before dropping the bag that still had the guildy flesh in it.

Slowly, the white haired scientist turned to the bag on her desk, looked inside, before facing me. "What."

"Some of Chameleo Guildy's flesh fell off in the fight, and I may have cut his arm off on… kind of an accident?" I scratched the back of my head nervously, "It was the only thing that remained of him after the fight and his commander, Drag Guildy, didn't take it away so I figured you might want to have a look at it."

"I-" She stammered looking back at the bag, "That's the arm of Chameleo Guildy."

"Yeah."

"The green scaly thing."

"I mean, he is- was a humanoid chameleon."

"Uh-huh…"

My eyebrows furled, "Do you… not want it?"

"NO! No! It's fine!" She exclaimed, "I appreciate you bringing this to me, I really do. I just… Didn't expect it, is all. I'll see what I can do for you, just tell me the full story of what happened later."

"Got it." I waved, turning around to head towards my room. "I'm going to crash, night."

"Night Hong."

With a yawn I stepped back into the elevator as it automatically went up the stairs and-

Crunch.

Crunch.

With totally innocent eyes my mom stood in the kitchen, the chips I just bought in her hands. She paused, and a silence passed between the two of us before she snuck another chip into her mouth.

"Mom!"

---

Tuesday, bright and early. Somehow managed to get enough sleep to not feel dead-on-my-feet tired when I woke up this morning.

"-And that was how my night went," I declared as I finished recapping to Lan during the walk to school.

"Wait wait wait, ignoring that last part, let me get this straight." Lan pinched the bridge of her nose, "So you're telling me that last night, you had a fight to the death with a humanoid lizard, who has a commander who's covered in ominous armor, while shouting moral lessons or something, and eventually made an enemy of some sort of organization that can send a monster to throw at you every week."

I blinked, "I mean, I don't know about that last part but, yes?"

The blue haired girl sighed before taking a deep breath, "If I hadn't seen you transformed and gotten attacked by one of these Guildys myself, I would've thought you'd have finally gone crazy."

"What?! Why?! It's not that crazy is it?!"

"Yes! Yes it is!" She exclaimed, her voice getting louder with each word. "It's crazy because that's not what magical girls do!"

By the end of that sentence she was shouting and the two of us froze as the other students around us started to stare in our direction.

I coughed and started moving again, trying to keep the volume of our conversation much lower. "How is that not what magical girls do?! Don't we, you know, fight evil and stuff?"

"Yeah, 'Evil'." She made air quotes at the word, "We fight the forces of the United Darkness. Demons, Nightmares, all kinds of creatures unleashing chaos on the world, and maybe we do some crime stopping here and there. We don't fight villains from a saturday morning kids show!"

"Hey!" I pointed a finger at her, "That's an insult to saturday morning-"

"I don't have time for your toku fanboyism right now Hong I'm ranting at reality." Rude, "This is, you're just, ridiculous. What, are the enemies also really specific with weird and quirky powers as well? No don't answer that, it's yes isn't it. God, it wasn't at all like this when I was a magical girl."

"Hey, it's not your fault." I tried to calm her down, "I mean, what are the chances of gaining an arch-enemy anyways?"

"Zero! They should be zero!"

And like that we continue our conversation all the way to the school gates.

---

It was about an hour after lunch as I was trying to understand what the hell my science teacher was saying that a notice came in calling me to the office.

Like, immediately.

So it was with a heart full of worry that I walked the halls of my academy before stepping into the office and walking straight to the room I was called for.

I hesitated. Why were the calling me? Had I done something wrong? Were my grades so abysmal I was being expelled?

My heart was full of worry an- "Come in." A familiar voice interrupted my thoughts and instantly put me in a state of ease.

Then I tensed up again as I remembered whose voice it was before opening the door, "L-Long time no see Mrs.Huan-"

I paused as I took in the room before me.

Fact one: At a desk at the end of the room sat Emu Huang, one of the chairmen of this school and the mother of my deceased friend Erina (who dressed in a japanese kimono for some reason) and had some of the strongest twintails I had ever seen.

Fact two: Lan was also there, nervously laughing while looking away from the door.

Fact three: There was a monitor with video footage on it. Specifically, video footage of a magical girl in red slicing down a door to the classroom where giant lizard thing was hanging around a teenage girl.

"Oh." I let out, stepping inside as what was happening dawned on me. "This is about yesterday isn't it."

"Hm," She said, folding her fan in front of her, "Yes, I indeed called you here to talk about what happened yesterday."

Ahahaha…

I glanced at Lan, "You told her about me?"

"Hey! I mean, she called me out here and she already knew that I was Tail Blue so…" Lan laughed nervously.

"Wait!" My finger pointed towards the chairman in a flash, "You knew about Lan being Tail Blue?!"

"Correct." She snapped her fan closed, "After all, my own daughter was a magical girl. I believe the only ones who didn't know the identity of Tail Blue and Yellow were those living in your household. Though I believe with your inclusion, the team that was supposed to form is now complete, am I correct?"

"I-I guess," I glanced towards the floor, "Erina…"

Snap.

"Hong Liang," Mrs. Huang began, taking a breath before continuing with a sigh, "I suppose the reason I called you here is to not just talk about yesterday's incident but to catch up a bit as well. I haven't seen you since… Was it when you entered the second year of our high school division?"

"A-Around there yeah." I nodded, "You've been busy after all."

"Yes, I suppose I have." Blue eyes looked me up and down, analyzing me. "You've grown from that quiet boy my daughter first met to who you are now, but I wonder if you're a real man yet. A word of advice," She gestured towards the screen, "Take caution, it is good to be bold but you careless mistakes like this might put you in danger. I've managed to suppress the fact that an attack happened here this time, but I can't always be here. Do you understand?"

I paused before eventually coming to a response.

[] Yes ma'am, I'll try to keep the destruction to a minimum
[] If something I care about is in danger then I'll do anything to protect it!

---

"Well." I said, looking at Lan.

"Well." She repeated.

"That happened."

"Yeah."

School had just let out but I couldn't even focus at all on my last class, thoughts of the meeting kept swimming in my mind. Apparently the whole attack had all been covered up as an act of vandalism or something but I hadn't seen the police around campus, maybe they were there yesterday after I got knocked out?

Well, anyways, I had the rest of the day free. Now, how to spend it?

You have (2) Actions

[] Social
-[] Hang out with Lan
-[] Hang out with Twirl
-[] Hang out with your Mom (Loser)
[] Martial
-[] Spar with Lan in her Dojo
-[] Go beat up the Twirl Bots
[] Information
-[] Waste time crawling through shitposts Read threads on ToHO
-[] Man the cafe and keep an ear out on what the customers have to say

+3 EXP Meet Emu

3 EXP Gained = 13 EXP

I couldn't really say much to Mrs. Huang, so I just nodded my head and looked away with a "Yes ma'am. I'll try to keep the destruction to a minimum."

There was a silence as the blonde woman stared at me, before she opened her fan and sighed. "Hm, I suppose this result is to be expected."

"Hm?" I glanced up, "Did you say something?"

"Nothing. nothing." The chairman shook her head, "It's time the two of you returned to class anyway, especially you Hong. With your condition, you can't afford to miss any amount of class time. My apologies for bringing you at this time, but I have a busy schedule for the next few days and this was the only time I was free."

"Oh it's fine, ahaha…" It's not like I wanted to be in class anyways.

"Speaking of," Her lips quirked up into a small smile, "I took a look at your latest test. While a 3% increase in average score wouldn't usually mean much, I suppose I must give you my congratulations this time."

It was like the world sent on pause for me as I took in what the woman just said, my jaw slowly dropping to the floor.

"Ah…." I squeaked out before throwing my fists up into the air, "Yess!!!"

"Does that even count as a barley passing grade?" Lan commented from her place off to the side.

"What'd you get on that History test anyways?"

"Wha- None of your business!"

"Hmh." Miss Haung paused for a moment, "Well if there's one thing I'm glad that hasn't changed... "

Huh, I wonder what that meant.

---

It was later that afternoon and I was currently in Lan's dojo ready to once again face off against her in a spar.

You know, getting my ass beat up by Lan in the dojo used to be more of a weekly thing, but circumstances seemed to keep dragging me back here way more often these days.

Which probably explained why I was sitting in a seiza position while Lan towered over me, the both of us dressed in our sparing outfits.

"Ahem," she began, a not-happy smile on her face. "Since someone managed to somehow score himself an archenemy and now has an unknown amount of monsters waiting to fight you, I've figured that it's about time I fill in the gaps in your knowledge on all MG related things because you were too busy gushing over Twintails and Tokusatsu shows rather than being a Magical Girl groupie like a normal teenage fans."

"How the hell is that a generalization of normal teenage fans."

"Hong, our school's magical girl appreciation and awareness club has at least over a hundred members and I still don't know how that club even got approved in the first place." She sighed, "Anyways, I don't know all the technical details so I'm just going to tell you what I overheard and know from my experience on the streets."

On the streets?

"Now the first thing you should know about magical girls is that we grow differently than normal humans, for example... " She looked at me, seemingly trying to search for something to continue with before she nodded, "Do twenty push ups."

"What."

"Do it."

"Alright alright!" I exclaimed, quickly getting into position and doing as she asked. My blue haired instructor began to walk around me all the while, and I could vaguely see the tips of her twintails as my arms worked themselves.

"Normal people gain strength gradually like this, working their muscles than resting before working them again. Slowly gaining strength in their muscles." Lan explained, "I think you know by now that our magical girl forms are not like this, or at least you should've noticed it."

"I did." My mind wandered back to the fight with the Bots yesterday, "I had trouble fighting Twirl's machines the first time I did it and then the next day it's like they were made of paper."

"Yeah, like that. You have trouble doing one thing and maybe only just a few days later you can do it like it's no problem." Lan's twintail's bobbed so I assume she nodded, "We get sudden bursts of power for what our magical girl forms can do, no need to gradually train any muscles. They're a bit random though, and become less and less frequent as time goes on. Which is why things like growth affinities are so important, apparently the higher your growth affinity is the stronger your magical girl form is or something so as these bursts go on the ones with the higher growth affinites get stronger bodies."

"Ah…" I let out, "Growth Affinities are one of a magical girl's three affinities right? That's what TV says at least."

"Basically. I believe practitioners can only have one?" Oi oi why do you sound so unsure about that? "I never really got how the magic stuff worked really, not my area of expertise. Erina new about it more than me but I suppose Twirl would tell you more if you went and asked her."

"Nah, she'd probably go and complain that it's too much of a bother to explain and super boring." I sighed, my push ups doen as I dropped to the ground and rolled on my back. 'By the way, what are your affinities?"

"Huh? Oh, uh… Let me try and remember... " Lan put a finger to her chin, "I think it was, Transience, Schema, and then Legend Maker, it's been years since I got it checked but I think that's what they were."

"...What does Schema mean?"

"Honestly? No clue." She paused before glaring at me, "Hey! No slacking off! You're not lying down again until this is over! Now, go into your MG form!"

I blinked. "Why?"

"I need to explain the basics to you and it's easier to show if you're in magical girl form."

Fair enough, "TAIL ON!"

...Is it wrong that I'm growing used to the sensation of becoming a little girl?

"Right right, let's talk about another growth thing, magic. More specifically, abilities." She looked down at me, staring before eventually letting out a sigh. "Welp, I can't explain this."

"Why did you try than?!"

"Hey! It's hard to explain! You just sort of know how to… do things!" She waved her hands around, "You fought one of those Guildy things right?! Did you feel like you can do something new?!"

"Something new?" I gave her a look and her face went red before she looked away from me.

"I-I dunno just try!"

"Alright…" Hm, an ability from Chameleo Guildy? Now that I think about it I got an ability after fighting Lizard Guildy so it only stands to reason… Yeah. Yeah I can feel it, sitting in my soul. The ability that Chameleo Guildy has granted me…! "Gear Shift!"

It was just like with that time against the bots. Knowledge flooded my brain as I instantly understood how to use my new ability.

"Huh." Lan said, "You can Gear Shift."

"Eh? You mean you can Gear Shift well?"

"Yeah, Erina and I can both Gear Shift, though it seems to work in different ways." She shrugged, "So, what'd you get?"

"Ah, I think I can make color invisible."

...Silence. Absolute silence, before Lan finally responded. "What."

"I can make it so that whenever someone looks at an object of a specific color it looks transparent to them."

"...That sounds useless."

Well, considering who it came from- Yeah enough of that.

"Moving on!" She declared, "The more you fight, the more the bursts come! Incidentally, if you get into a lot of dangerous situations, they come a lot faster."

Lan cracked her knuckles and I gulped, "So let's try and get you magically ready."

This is so going to hurt…

---

Ah, the evening. Truly night time was becoming my favorite time of day. as long as no one called me to any more midnight duels. It would've been perfect if it weren't for the fatal flaw that 90% of girls wearing twintails had gone off to bed.

I'm not saying this just because I could only with stand one blow from Lan at "Half of her power" in her base form even when I was a magical girl.

Really.

"Hey mom," I began, idly watching the tv, "Magical Girls sure are complicated."

Mom glanced at me, a faint smile on her face. "So it's evolved. huh?"

"Hm?"

"Back when we first moved here you said something similar." She said, "You came up to me one day and just went 'girls are confusing' and went back to watching tv."

"Huh." I mumbled, "I think I meant something different then."

"Of course."

A silent pause as we absorbed the television screen in front of us.

"...Have I changed?" I asked, "It doesn't sound like it."

"People don't change Hong, they grow." Mom said like it was the most obvious thing in the world, "The you from the past and the you now may seem like the same person but you've grown in many ways. For example, It was only after Erina made you watch Toku shows that you became the fan you are today, yet you're still Hong Liang. You don't have to change who you are fundamentally in order to grow."

"Mmm, I see." I paused before realizing something. "Should we be having conversations about growing up while watching Super Sentai shows?"

Mom shrugged, "Maybe not, yet here we are."

"Fair point." We continued to watch the screen in silence before I spoke up again, "So I guess I'm just like the guys on TV now."

"You should count yourself lucky, back when I was your age being a superhero was just a dream." She chuckled, "Even with the world in the state it's in now, at least we have magical girls now."

You know that does bring up a question… "Was it more peaceful back than?"

"Compared to these days I suppose you could say that." Mom sighed, "To me it's all the same though. For the last century or so it's just been war then a brief period of peace then back to war again, though I wasn't alive for most of it. World War One happened then soon after World War Two, then we're all left wondering if we're going to kill ourselves and once we finally get that over with, it doesn't take long for the germans to start another world war again. Then once that is done we're at war with half of the universe."

"...Talk about serious escalation."

"I know. If this was a tv show we'd be on that sequel series that tries to up the ante by taking things to space."

"Demons certainly make it more bloody than ever." I sighed, "Still have no idea where the Guildy's fit into all of this."

Mom was silent for a moment before she spoke again. "Hong, these Guildies, do you want to kill them?"

[] Yes, I can't let them live
[] I don't want to kill them but I have to fight them

(Tail Blue Sheet Updated)

+3 EXP Magical Girl Boot Camp
+5 EXP Ow…

8 EXP Gained = 21 EXP

AN: For you readers who are joining us for the first time, the thing Lan described here was how the Level Up system works. You gain EXP from doing things in-quest and then you go and upgrade the player MG, in this case Hong, by purchasing new levels or things from the shop. The cost of leveling up a thing is its current level times 10. So for instance, if you wanted to upgrade say Tail Assault, which is currently level 2, it would take 20 EXP. Items in the shop have their EXP cost set by me so there's no formula there. Well, good luck.