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 84

Her reason, which had told her to protect the last member of a clan that protected forests and flowers, also rapidly fizzled out. All she felt was an impulse to tear off all its wings and throw them away.

“Wait a minute.”

Just then, Violen, who was squatting and watching from the side, extended his hand.

That hand covered Heesu’s panties. Just as he had done with the slime before.

The butterfly then started poking Violen’s hand furiously instead of Heesu’s panties. Not knowing that it was a useless effort, it kept repeating the same action. Even after enough time passed for it to realize it was futile, it wouldn’t stop. Since it was an insect, its intelligence seemed lower than the other demons, and it likely couldn’t even recognize that there was an obstacle blocking the way it was trying to get in.

“Violen…….”

Heesu groaned, her face flushed with heat. She was grateful he was protecting her, but this was so incredibly embarrassing. Even if it was on top of her panties, she couldn’t help but feel mortified at the situation of someone holding her crotch with their hand. Although it wasn’t the first time this had happened, this time there were two other people watching.

“Would you like me to help?”

Despite this, Violen still calmly looked at Heesu and asked again.

“H-how are you going to help?”

Heesu asked, feeling suspicious but still grasping at straws. In her mind, she figured he was going to just endure it until the butterfly eventually gave up, just like with the slime. But the current situation was so mortifying that she asked, just in case there was another way.

But Violen just smiled brightly and said something with his pretty face that was beyond anything Heesu could have imagined.

“I could just kill it.”

“……Hey.”

“It just woke up and is weak from hunger, so we can kill it easily right now.”

“It’s the last member of a clan that protects forests and flowers, how can you do that?!”

“What about it? It has nothing to do with you, Master, does it?”

“B-but……!”

“Besides, even if we keep it alive, that clan will eventually become extinct anyway.”

“W-why? I went through all that trouble to save it!”

“There is only one of them. How can it reproduce when there is no partner for it to mate with and lay eggs? When this one dies of old age, the clan will naturally disappear.”

“……Huh?”

Heesu was left speechless by Violen’s logical explanation. When she thought about it, it was an obvious fact, but she was dumbfounded and bewildered that she hadn’t even recognized it until now.

“T-then why did Izzen……!”

“Even if it can’t reproduce, this clan has a lifespan of about five hundred years. If we just keep this one alive, the extinction of the clan is delayed by about five hundred years. That’s what Izzen put meaning into. But I think it’s all the same whether it becomes extinct now or five hundred years from now.”

“Five hundred years……”

Heesu muttered blankly. It was a truly ambiguous number. By human standards, it was a period that spanned five generations, but she didn’t know what it meant by the standards of the demon world.

“……No.”

But Heesu soon shook her head. She realized that the issue wasn’t about time. This was a problem that had nothing to do with whether it was one year, five hundred years, or a thousand years.

There were already many endangered species on Earth. That’s why she could empathize so well.

If someone were to hand her one of them, say, a panda, and tell her that this was the last remaining panda on Earth. That it could no longer reproduce, and that when this panda died, the species would be extinct. “Since it will become extinct anyway, you decide whether to kill it now or save it.” If someone said that, of course, the right thing to do was to save it. There was no room for hesitation.

From a cold, logical perspective, there might be no meaning in it. But the emotions Heesu felt argued otherwise.

“A panda…… a panda is so cute…… sniff sniff…… oh, panda…….”

Perhaps it was a mistake to think of a panda, but Heesu was so deeply empathetic that she began to sob.

“Master…… don’t go off on a tangent while you’re thinking.”

Violen, who read her mind, gave her a timely piece of advice. But Heesu had already made up her mind and shook her head.

“I still think there’s meaning in it. Even if there isn’t, I just can’t be the one to end it with my own hands…….”

At that answer, Violen briefly raised his eyebrows, and then asked again in a tone that sounded somehow more brusque than before.

“It’s a being with minimal intelligence. It wouldn’t feel any emotion even if you killed it. It wouldn’t even think it was unfair.”

“I still can’t do it. I just don’t want to…….”

“Even if you get past this time, if you keep living with it, we don’t know when it’ll pounce on you like this again.”

“W-well, then you’ll…….”

“What if I can’t protect you in time? You might really have to endure it all the way through, even then, is it okay?”

“……E-even then, I guess there’s nothing I can do…….”

“You just said you were burdened because you had too many mouths to feed. And now you’re adding one more. Are you really okay with that?”

“…….”

At that question, Heesu pressed her lips together. Her expression was more agonizing than it had been all day. But in the end, Heesu squeezed her eyes shut and answered.

“I-it’s okay…….”

“What a softie.”

Violen muttered irritably and let out a sigh. Heesu flinched, thinking she had heard a tone he only used in bed, but he quickly returned to his original expression and smiled brightly.

“Alright. Then, go ahead and try your best to endure.”