Transform as a Magical Girl: I Finally Became a Magical Girl, But I’m Stuck in an R-Rated Fantasy World Where Tentacles Won’t Stop Attacking Me - Chapter 104

“Hey. It’s not even five steps to the bathroom, you know?”

Heesu snorted and headed to the bathroom. Being worried about like this made her feel valued, which made her feel good to some extent, but she also thought Violen was being a little too excessive.

Heesu, who arrived at the bathroom in exactly five steps, quickly finished her business and came out. Humming a tune, she stood in front of the sink and meticulously washed her hands under the running water. As she shook her hands dry and raised her head, her eyes met her own reflection in the mirror.

At that moment, her humming stopped. Heesu pursed her lips tightly and stared blankly at her face. The photo she had seen earlier was superimposed over her face.

The girl with the round glasses who was smiling brightly. Same university, same major. The girl who was probably in the same places as her countless times, yet she couldn’t remember her, and yet the girl remembered her, a girl her own age.

Soon, the face of the woman who had cried while holding her hand also came to mind again.

Someone’s mother, someone’s daughter.

She realized that even though it had weighed so heavily on her mind, she had quickly forgotten about it for a single hotteok and was even humming a tune. A heavy sense of guilt dully crushed her chest. She felt suffocated. Heesu sighed with a pained expression.

“Phew…….”

“Ugh!”

At that moment, a groan overlapped with her sigh.

Heesu was startled and looked around. But both of the two bathroom stalls had their doors wide open, and there was no one inside. Feeling like her nerves were on edge and she had misheard, Heesu shrugged and was about to leave the bathroom.

However,

“Grr……”

This time, she heard a bestial sound. Heesu flinched and froze. She heard strange noises in succession. There was no way she had misheard. And besides…….

This wasn’t a sound you could hear often. It was definitely not the kind of sound a common domesticated animal would make. But it was a sound that Heesu was familiar with. Because it was a sound similar to what Rufus had made when he rampaged in his werewolf state.

The moment she realized that fact, a shiver ran down Heesu’s spine and she got goosebumps.

‘If it’s a typical missing person case, they’ll come back on their own, and if she’s involved with a criminal, even Master could be in danger.’

Violen had said that.

‘Leave human affairs to humans. Even a magical girl can’t take responsibility for everything like that.’

He had said that, too.

……But what if a demon was involved in the case?

Come to think of it, there was no guarantee that a demon wasn’t involved.

Izzen had said that the gate to the Demon World was already open and demons were coming over. So, the possibility of those demons harming humans couldn’t be ruled out either. Hadn’t she herself been attacked countless times by demons rampaging in heat? There was no way a normal person would be an exception to that.

And yet, Violen had spoken as if completely ruling out that possibility. By speaking in a way that excluded it, he had prevented Heesu from even considering the possibility.

‘It wasn’t for no reason that the demons decided not to touch humans anymore.’

Thinking about it again, that phrase was a bit strange. The phrase itself, that the demons had decided not to touch humans anymore, seemed peaceful at a glance, but the ending was in the past tense.

If so, what about now?

“H-Heck…… Ugh! Ahh…….”

“Grrr…… Ugh! Kraang…….!”

Sounds continued to reach Heesu’s ears as she was lost in thought. This time, groans and bestial sounds were mixed together. The sounds kept coming, making it impossible to dismiss them as a mistake.

Heesu hurriedly turned her head in the direction of the sounds. It was the bathroom area, as she’d suspected. However, it seemed to be echoing from beyond the bathroom itself.

Heesu poked her head out of the bathroom and looked toward the demons. It seemed to be taking a while for the hotteok to cook, as they were all still mesmerized and watching the griddle with curious eyes.

Heesu swallowed as she watched them. Then she went out of the bathroom and headed toward the end of the building.

Next to the bathroom building was an empty building with a large sign that said ‘For Rent’. The space between the two buildings was very narrow. However, it was a width that wasn’t impossible to enter if one was determined.

Heesu hesitated for a moment, looking at the space between the buildings, but then she took a step. She turned her body sideways and cautiously took about three steps forward when,

“Meow!”

She heard a cat’s shriek from her feet.

“Gasp……!”

A startled Heesu swallowed her scream. She lowered her gaze and saw a cat standing resolutely in front of her.

It was a pitch-black cat. Because it was standing in the shadows, it almost seemed to have a purplish hue. There was no such thing as a purple cat, so Heesu just assumed it was a trick of the light. Its pupils also looked a faint purple, but she assumed that was a trick of the light too.

“Meeeow!”

The cat’s fur stood on end as if threatening Heesu, and it let out another sharp cry. Its demeanor was as if it would absolutely not let Heesu pass.