If I was going to speak honestly…
"I don't want to
kill them, but I have to fight them," I declared with a sigh, slumping into the couch. "I mean so far it feels like I'm fighting a bunch of nerds. Feels bad mom."
"Mmm, that's good," she said, "Listen to your mother: You should never forget that the enemy you're fighting are people too. That's especially hard to remember nowadays, when demons and monsters are our greatest foe, but from the sounds of it these Guildys are just like you and me."
"...Should I feel offended?"
Mom cracked a smile, "Now now, you've only met three Guildys right? You can't judge all Guildys just by what you've seen, that'd be speciesist."
"The day I meet a relatively normal guildy is the day Tail Red moonlights as a maid."
"You realize I'll be holding you to that right?" She chuckled, "I'm sure there's some relatively normal people even among the ranks of the demons. Heck, I wonder if I could create one right now."
"Mom what are you even talking about?" I sighed, "You can't just…
create a demon like that."
"I promise that when I tell you I know a civilised demon it's the complete truth."
Silence descended upon the room as I slowly reached for the remote, turned off the TV, and just
stared at my mother.
"Hm?" The red haired woman tilted her head, "What?"
"Did you just intentionally make a promise just to break it so that you create a demon."
"It's just a little promise, it probably only made a class 0."
"If that's the attitude people have towards making promises then one day we're all gonna be swarmed by imps!"
"Relax Hong, if I did create a demon then maybe it'll do something good someday. Like, create a cure for cancer." I think it'd be more likely to cause mischief than do something productive, "I'd like to think that there's at least some part of the United Darkness has some good, though I'm sure Lan would tell me that I'm just an idealist who watches too many kid's shows."
"I don't think she'd be that harsh…" I muttered only for my mom to pat me on the shoulder.
"She was at Hope Hong, the worst battlefield in recent memory. A frontline soldier to be exact. She probably doesn't have anything good to say about the demons, so you shouldn't bring the subject up if you can." Mom sighed, "For people like us, who live their lives away from the conflict, we will never truly understand what it's like for those who fight for our safety."
"But… I am a magical girl now." I paused for a moment as that began to really sink into me, "Hey mom, you worked with the government during World War 3 right? What… should I do?"
"Those times huh…" Mom's voice drifted off, "You know I don't like thinking back to those days. After the accident I decided to just put it all behind me. All I can tell you is to focus on the now, eventually tomorrow will come."
I nodded as my mother's eyes seemed to stare off into the distance. With a sigh I stood up from the couch and left her to go reminisce on the past.
The chaos of World War 3 and the Unification Crusade that it later became huh? I wonder what those days were really like...
After all, by the time they were over I had already lost all of my memories.
"Geh!" I exclaimed as I was walking to school the next morning.
"What?" Lan turned to me, "You only make that sound when you're about to say something really stupid."
"That is not true!" I raised up a finger, "I just realized that I spent so much time talking to my mom last night that I forgot to actually take in and enjoy the latest episode of
Bijin Sentai Manaranger!"
My blue haired childhood friend looked at me like she was staring at something rotten, "...Is
that the latest one?"
"They're trying to appeal to the magical girl fans that have been cropping up." I waved my hands, "Can't say it's working but they're trying."
"Do… people even realize you can't just shove magical girls into everything?" Lan groaned, "As an actual magical girl, trust me when I say this Hong, it's nothing like they show on TV." Than she paused, "Except when you're around, I guess."
"Hey, I may not look like it but even I'm not so culturally out of touch as to not have watched one or two modern magical girl shows!" I exclaimed, "Of course some like the classics such as Sailor Moon follow a lot like the superhero-era tokusatsu format but most monsters that appear are bland! Quirkless! Some shows don't even have them!"
"Well it's not like magical girls have to copy sentai one to one!" Lan shouted, "Besides, most magical girl shows these days have grown past that phase!"
"Yeah! To lose all sense of identity they once had! Tell me that the higher up guys don't think they can just slap magical girl on the cover and it'll sell! That's right,
you can't!"
It was only after school had ended did we finally resolve this argument, and even than all we did was just agree to shelve this conversation for later. Truly, the business practices of the entertainment industry was the most taboo of taboo topics.
You have (2) Actions
[] Social
-[] Hang out with Lan
-[] Hang out with Twirl
-[] Hang out with your Mom (Loser)
[] Martial
-[] Have Lan kick your ass in Magical Girl Boot Camp
-[] 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
AN: Tiniest update yet, barley even a thousand words. Maybe I should just keep making the updates tinier and tinier until all that you get is a single letter for an update, I'm sure my beta would appreciate not having to deal with my grammar.