Alicia Just Wants to Live Relaxedly As a Human Being
Karin the Witch Girl 1
KARIN POV
My name is Kurosaki Karin. My family is an ordinary family, when viewed from an outsider's point of view.
Both my parents, they work as usual. My father worked as a local cop, my mother worked as an office worker at a certain company. They also have three children, one daughter and two twin sons. I am the one who became his daughter and the oldest, the difference is far from my two sisters who are currently both nine years old.
Since I was the eldest child, I was the one who had to take care of them and be a good role model for them as long as both of my parents worked.
Or so at least that looks from the outside. From the inside, it turns out that this family can be said to have secrets. Certainly not for all family members. Only me and my mom have secrets. Male family members are excluded.
True, this is what is called witch girl or the term is referred to as ‘Magical Girl’. My mom and I are part of that.
I only found out about five years ago, too. All matters of common sense crumble after knowing this.
His reason?
It was the moment when I saw something really scary the first time. When I was walking home from school with Aki as usual. I saw a dark vortex, like a black hole in movies, appear in the sky as I was idly raising my head.
I was shocked, not believing what I saw.
‘What black hole is it?’ And as I was thinking about it, from the black hole came something terrifying. It was something strange but frightening. It has four black wings, one tail, and four legs in the burly body of a male lion. He was about five meters tall and three meters tall. He came out of the black hole and roared into the empty air space in front of him, until then after staring around with his ferocious eyes, he flew with his four wings until it came out of the black hole.
I bowed with my legs trembling with fear.
“Karin-chan, what's wrong? Is there something above?” Aki who saw the strangeness in me wondered at the confusion with her index finger pointing upwards and her head tilted as she looked at me.
Aki who was with me was a little aware of this fear. But the thought of anxiety still enveloped me at that moment.
‘How is this?I feel something bad about this. It was fortunate that Aki still hadn't seen him, or that it would only make her very frightened, given her own character. I have to get out of here.’
‘E, uh....I-I can't, stand up....Why?’
When I was determined to get up, I couldn't stand up. The problem was that my legs were still trembling, and I could not feel their presence. It felt like I lost my leg.
I looked up once more, and screamed in fear as the beast began to look down at me. It was fortunate that I managed to hold my voice, but my hysterical face was still clearly engraved.
“Is there really anything above? Your face is strange so.”
When Aki was about to raise her head up as well, Karin who was anxious with Aki, started to feel intense nausea. He was dizzy, as if the surrounding space was twisting or bending.
But it soon healed when he felt normal again.
And he looked up again.
‘Hahhhh......? Missing?....???’
Right, after the intense dizziness hit me, the black hole and the monstrous creature had disappeared, replaced by a normal atmosphere.
I don't know what's going on. But I want it to be just my nightmare.
“So, karin, you're okay, are you feverish? You suddenly vomited. Is it necessary to call the doctor?”
Aki who I was previously worried about me. When looking down again, there was a trace of vomit on the road.
I turned out to be vomiting. And this proves that the previous thing wasn't a dream or maybe I was hallucinating.
“Maybe, slightly.... I don't know why it's getting a little better now. Thank you for worrying about me.”
“Is that so....? If you feel unwell contact me?”
“No. Its alright. Come home soon.”
I'd better go home and forget it or it'll be my nightmare tonight.
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The next day after the incident, my mother called me to her room.
I don't know why, even though I had some unpleasant premonitions, I immediately brushed it off. Because it's my mom. He just wanted to talk as usual.
When I came in there was only my mother sitting up on her bed.
“So sorry, but you will be ‘Magical Girl’, replacing your mother.”
“Eh,eeehh..............?” Instead of being an ordinary chatter, it became a complete reversal of my peaceful life.
Magic and the whereabouts of a magical girl called ‘Magical Girl’, everything I explained in this two-person room.
And I can only be surprised by this.
Of course, because I believe all of those things used to be so-called fiction commonly written in novels. But somehow, now mom managed to ruin it.
And so, despite taking several days to receive and swallow everything, I ended up being part of what my mother called a magical girl.
Since then I have been secretly learning magic from my mother every hour at night without being noticed by my father or twin sister. Since only the two of us in this family knew the existence of magic, at least that was what mother said.
My mother was born with the blood of a witch. And witch girls are only for girls, so I'm the only princess who inherits her blood, while my twin brothers can't inherit it. Or so my mother said.
All the magical girls unite and work behind the surface of the world.
An organization called ‘Magical Girls Corp’ is at its center. They keep the peace from the so-called monsters.
Monsters themselves are a world-destroying existence and only girls who inherit the blood of witches can or are tasked with defeating them.
Because I am a girl and the son of a witch, I inherit it.
“Buktinya, you saw something terrible yesterday, didn't you?”
“Eh, how do you know?”
“Surely, because taking care of such a thing is our duty the witch girls and mom saw you were there at that time, so mom decided to tell you this afterwards only.”
So that time mom was there and was assigned to exterminate the monster earlier when I was struck with fear.
And since Aki does not have the blood of a witch or in other words is not a magical girl, my worries when thinking about Aki would be frightened too if seeing her turned out to be futile.
Even so I'm grateful that mom was there to save us. I don't know what would have happened if we hadn't been saved.
I was so afraid to think about it.
Then, the mother told me about the existence of monsters. A destructive existence that was extremely troublesome. Because they cannot be seen with the naked eye of humans and they appear suddenly randomly throughout the world.
So they can be the cause of strange, mysterious, and sudden disasters.
For this reason, one of the mysterious people who are said to be the strongest witch girls made a company called ‘Magical Girls Corp’.
A fellowship that gathers all the girls in the world who have magical talent in their bodies. The company itself works on two sides, namely on the surface and behind shadows.
On the surface, the company works as an entertainment agency that recruits and selects female idol groups in various countries. Behind the shadows, as expected, the company is working to recruit and hire magical girls as ‘Magical Girl’ who are tasked with exterminating monsters without involving the surface world or being secretive. This was because they simply did not want the peaceful activity on the surface to falter as the existence of monsters and society became worried about it.
Because monsters can only be seen by girls who have witch blood or called witch girls. So only the witch girls were chosen to fight them.
Of course not coercion, it is not uncommon for girls to be afraid after knowing this. So only the brave ones are chosen to be registered with the witch girl's corporate system. Of course also being a witch girl there is a payment and the division depends on the level of the monster being fought or according to the rank of the witch girl at that time. So that the witch girl who works here will get extra money from their hard work.
After registering, they were required to fight the monsters that appeared nearby. The notification of the monster appears to be notified via its smartphone from the central system. Naturally, both of them were adjusted to the level of monsters and the level of the magical girl and when one had already been told, the other was not required to fight, either, but will be notified of the notice also to help the magical girl who was fighting the monster at that time, if things get bad.
The place against monsters was also adjusted so as not to disturb the surface world. Through special devices provided on their smartphones. They can fight monsters freely in the empty temporary world or so-called mirror world without any worries of property damage in the real world.
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“Then, let's practice dark magic once again. If successful, next year I will register you as ‘Magical Girl’. You're willing, right, Karin?”
Right now I'm practicing dark magic or elemental darkness.
As for mother's question, I don't mind or fear being a witch girl.
I have many reasons, but the main thing is that I don't want the peaceful days of my family, and my friend, Aki, to be disturbed. I don't want if something like yesterday comes up again, I can only curl up in fear. Mother also said, although ordinary humans cannot see, monsters can see them, so they can make humans suddenly disappear or die for unclear reasons. I don't want that.
That's why I'm willing to be a witch girl, and keep the peace of the world. Besides, I feel like I have to fight them to eliminate my trauma yesterday. As a witch girl, as the daughter of a witch girl, and who inherited her. I have to be in charge of saving the world from monsters.
What's more, I crave things like magic and fantasy. I read those books often. Become a hero and defeat an evil spirit at the end of the story.
Even so, I am still weak and have not enough experience in fighting.
Therefore, mother will secretly train me at night after her work time. Therefore, before the training time began, I took the initiative to train the physical and the body first or form stamina. That's the basic thing about exercising, isn't it?
It was only after mom said I was worthy of being a magical girl that I would take her there, plunge into the underworld, and become a magical girl to fight monsters.
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