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 23 - 4. Magical Girl and Mascot

1. 1. 1. Magical Girl and Mascot

The morning after returning from mountain climbing, Heesu screamed from extreme muscle pain the moment she opened her eyes. From her neck down to her arms and legs, even to each fingertip and toe, there wasn’t a single part of her body that didn’t hurt. As she lay in bed unable to move and groaning, Izzen and Violen, who had rushed over startled by her screams, helped support and lift Heesu up.

Having barely managed to sit up, Heesu looked at the caterpillar clinging to her shoulder and screamed again. The caterpillar that had stuck to her chest and come home with her last night truly hadn’t separated from its new master for even a moment. When Heesu ate, when she leaned against the living room sofa watching TV, even when she showered and poured water over her body, it persistently clung to some part of her body.

Of course, it was the same when she lay down in bed. Since it burrowed into her embrace while she was sleeping, she seemed to have hugged it like a doll and slept with it, but when Heesu sat up and it fell away from her, it apparently crawled up her back and clung to her shoulder. It truly didn’t try to separate for even a moment.

Heesu groaned and whimpered. With her body already aching terribly from muscle pain, having a caterpillar clinging to her on top of that made her feel utterly pitiful.

Supported by the two men, Heesu barely managed to come to the living room and eat. Violen’s cooking, which had become a little more abundant than yesterday, was still delicious. Thanks to that, Heesu was also quiet while focusing on her meal.

But after that, every time Heesu moved,

“Ow ow, ow ow, I’m dying!”

she would scream as if possessed by a grandmother on a rainy day. Every time she moved, it felt like all her joints were screaming.

Eventually, Heesu gave up on moving and just sprawled out on the living room sofa. Of course, with the caterpillar still clinging to her back. Izzen and Violen looked down at such a Heesu with serious expressions.

“Why did you push yourself so hard?”

“I didn’t push myself. It was just two hours of round-trip mountain hiking.”

“Don’t tell me…… a human becomes like this from just two hours of mountain hiking?”

“Hard to believe, but yes.”

“Could it be that humans are much weaker beings than I thought?”

“Absolutely not. It’s just that Miss Heesu’s stamina is seriously below the human average.”

“For someone like this to be a magical girl……”

After having a serious conversation with serious expressions, the two men’s expressions toward Heesu changed respectively. One looked like he was dying from pity, the other like he was dying from pathetic disappointment.

“Miss Heesu. The fact that your muscles get this tight from just a short period of exercise is proof that your usual amount of exercise is that insufficient. As I told you yesterday, stamina is essential if you want to live a long and healthy life. Try doing regular exercise.”

“Mmph mmph…….”

“And rather than lying here doing nothing just because your muscles hurt, it would be better to do some light stretching to loosen them up. Please get up.”

“I-I don’t want to…….”

“Come on.”

“Ow ow……. Even moving just a little bit feels like I’m going to die from pain!”

“Miss Heesu…….”

Violen stopped the struggle between Izzen trying to forcibly lift Heesu up and Heesu trying to stick firmly to the sofa.

“Izzen. Since she’s in too much pain right now, let’s let her rest for now.”

“Sigh…….”

Eventually Izzen shook his head with a long sigh and turned away with a displeased expression. Violen, who remained by her side, looked at Heesu with a worried face.

“Master. Shall I give you a massage?”

“N-no! It’s fine…… Ow……!”

At those words, Heesu was startled and shook her head vigorously. Thanks to that, intense muscle pain struck again and she had to grab her neck and scream.

Heesu was still too embarrassed about that day’s events to even make eye contact with Violen. Just imagining him touching her body made her face burn hot, gave her goosebumps, and made her lower abdomen tingle for some unknown reason. She was too ashamed to lift her head.

Violen looked at Heesu, who was fretting with her face buried in the cushion, with a sad expression, then turned away.

Only after Violen’s presence disappeared far away did Heesu lift her face from the cushion and lie down properly. After that, she stared blankly at the ceiling for a while. Since she wasn’t doing anything, she quickly became bored.

Since things turned out this way, maybe I should return to my roots today…….

With that thought, Heesu went to her room and rummaged through the luggage she had brought from her studio apartment to pull out several DVDs. Of course, every time she got up and moved, she made endless “ow ow, ow ow” sounds, but she moved well enough when it came to this.

The TV in the living room was large enough to fill that huge wall, and it even had a DVD player attached. To be able to watch magical girl shows on that big TV instead of her studio apartment’s small monitor—just thinking about it was exciting for a magical girl otaku.

Since she had decided to return to her roots, Heesu brought the magical girl classic “Pretty Soldier Sailor Peach” with the intention of going back completely. It was the magical girl introductory work that Heesu had first watched as a child and the originator of the fighting magical girls that Heesu wanted to become, so it seemed perfect for returning to her roots.

Of course, even if Heesu herself returned to her roots, there was no way she could handle the magical girl work given to her with those roots.

Excitedly turning on the DVD, Heesu went to the sofa and began watching while lying down. When the magical girl animation appeared on the big screen, an exclamation of admiration burst out without her realizing it. As she was focusing intently, Violen brought a plate containing neatly sliced bananas, shelled walnuts, and peanuts.

“They say it’s good food for muscle pain. Eat while you watch.”

“Oh, thank you.”

Placing the plate she received on her stomach, Heesu nibbled while focusing on the screen.

Violen, curious about what Heesu was concentrating on so intently, stood still staring at the screen, then eventually settled down and sat under the sofa. After a while, for some reason Izzen also came and sat beside them, starting to watch together.

“I’m jealous…… I’m jealous of magical girls…….”

Pushing a bite-sized piece of banana into her mouth, Heesu whined.

“You are also a magical girl, Miss Heesu.”

Izzen replied while cracking peanuts and tossing them into his mouth. They were the peanuts left over after Violen had given some to Heesu.

“That’s right. I’m also a magical girl…… I’ve become a magical girl now…… but I’m still jealous…… Why is that…….”

When Heesu muttered in a sad voice, Izzen turned his head to look in that direction and asked.

“What exactly are you so jealous of? If you tell me, I’ll try to correct it once.”

Heesu, chewing banana in her mouth, looked sad even in her expression.

“First of all, they don’t have to go mountain climbing…….”

At those words, Izzen made an expression of disbelief again.

“Didn’t I tell you that mountain climbing is absolutely necessary due to Korea’s characteristic of mountains occupying more than seventy percent of the land area? And they probably wouldn’t collapse from muscle pain like you, Miss Heesu, from just doing a two-hour round-trip hike.”

Hearing Izzen’s answer, even deeper shadows fell across Heesu’s face.

“Then mountain climbing…… we’re going again……?”

“Honestly, I can’t say there won’t be more work to do in the future.”

“Then in the end, you can’t correct it…….”

“Tell me something possible that I can do, not something impossible that’s beyond my power.”

Heesu, who had been lost in thought while watching the animation, opened her mouth again.

“They transform more prettily…….”

“You mean loudly chanting spells and spinning around while striking all sorts of poses as lights flash and stars flutter and ribbons swirl, and finally even having gorgeous backgrounds appear? Honestly, it looks extremely inefficient……. If you want it, I’ll try my best to help with magic from the side. But you’ll have to handle the poses yourself, Miss Heesu.”

Heesu quickly refused.

“No. It would be embarrassing…….”

Violen, who had been listening from the side, chimed in.

“I think the current transformation is better too. The outfit is also prettier on Master.”

“Still, they have less exposure so they look nice…….”

Heesu looked at Sailor Peach’s transformation outfit with wistful eyes. In the past, she had thought the skirt was unnecessarily too short, but compared to her own outfit, that looked completely wholesome and modest.

“Shall I add some fabric?”

“No, it’s fine…….”

Heesu refused Izzen’s suggestion again. It was obvious how that science major nerd sensibility man would try to add fabric to those clothes. Even so, sexy was better than ugly.