Raise Magical Girls and Leave Them With Eternal Regret

5. Let’s Get to Work!

“Phew… phew… We finally made it! I didn’t expect there to be such a long uphill road to your school; this is really… a challenging task.”

After escorting Wuyue to the entrance of her school, Yuyu, who had been pedaling vigorously, could no longer maintain that effortful appearance. It was as if he instantly deflated, leaning on the bicycle and gasping for breath.

“…Sorry, Yuyu. If I could have woken up earlier, I wouldn’t have troubled you so much.”

Seeing Yuyu in this state after getting off the back seat, Wuyue couldn’t help but feel filled with guilt and regret.

It was clearly her fault… yet she had to trouble him, trouble an injured person… who had made her breakfast and brought her to school.

There was an overwhelming sense of guilt surrounding her heart.

“Well… to be honest, you don’t have to feel so guilty. After all, this is purely my personal choice and has nothing to do with you.”

“On the contrary, I should say that I forced you into this… Sorry about the things I said before.”

“Eh?! No! You don’t have to apologize! I know that what you said, Yuyu… was for my sake… instead, it’s me who…”

Hearing Yu Yu’s apology, Wu Yue immediately shook her head in a panic, waving her hands frantically. The intensity of her movements caused her ponytail to sway wildly, looking just like an anxious little dog, which was quite endearing.

Seeing her like this, Yu Yu had no intention of teasing her any further. Instead, he smiled and said:

“Alright, alright, where did that confident and strong you from yesterday go? You shouldn’t be putting yourself down like this, right?”

“No, no, no! I didn’t…”

“If you didn’t, then hurry up and go to school!”

Before Wu Yue could finish her sentence, Yu Yu interrupted her.

“If you really feel sorry, then when you come back for lunch, just make the same dish as yesterday! After all… I love it!”

“Well then, goodbye!”

“Hey?! Wait…”

After dropping this line, before Wu Yue could react, Yu Yu got off his bicycle and quickly ran off in the direction he had just come from.

Leaving behind a bewildered Wu Yue.

“……”

Watching Yu Yu’s back as he ran, Wu Yue remained silent for a long time.

“Feels like… he’s a really strange person…”

She thought to herself.

And a seed of subtle feelings began to quietly sprout in the girl’s heart.

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“So, why didn’t you just fall off the bike and get run over by a car in front of her?”

“?? Are you really trying to get me killed?!”

Upon returning home, Yu Yu, who heard such a question from the Mamba inside him, couldn’t help but spit out the water he had just taken a sip of.

“My body hasn’t been strengthened to that level yet, right?? Even if I wanted to create such a scene, the premise has to be that I wouldn’t actually get run over!”

“? That’s impossible, right? You’ve survived being struck by lightning so many times? What can a car do to you?”

“……”

“Okay, fine, I misspoke just now. Um… what I mainly want to say is, it’s not the right time yet, not the right time, got it?”

“After all, besides her, I still have to deal with more magical girls in the future, right? If something unexpected happens and I get ambushed later, I might still need to draw negative emotions from her to boost my own power… But if I exhaust her negative emotions too early, that wouldn’t be good for long-term development.”

“And what about those ordinary people with no powers… their negative emotions are too few and have no value at all. I experimented with this when I just came back, and you saw the results.”

“So, unless you can help me boost my power, I won’t do such things when the time isn’t right, okay?”

“……Well, I can’t do that right now. My magic hasn’t fully recovered yet, but maybe in the future?”

“……Then just wait until later to talk to me about this issue.”

After making Mamba shut up, Yu Yu let out a sigh.

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Although this guy sometimes says shocking things, he’s actually pretty easy to fool.

To be honest, before he had a concrete understanding of Mamba, he was indeed quite anxious. After all, who knows what kind of big mess these non-human beings could create? So he had already prepared himself for the worst.

But given the current outcome… it turns out he was just overthinking it. After all, this Mamba doesn’t have the airs of those evil executives from the cartoons; rather, it seems to care about its subordinates??

In short, they could just continue to get along like this; there was no need to change this relationship in the short term.

“Ah… now that I’ve fooled this guy, I should focus on Wuyue first.”

“I was planning to take a break… but I really need to consider this matter.”

Shaking his head, Yuyu began to ponder.

After all, according to Mamba, the magical girl Firebird appeared around this time in the previous timelines it had traversed.

In other words, this period is the best opportunity to “build rapport.”

It’s also the best chance to acquire negative emotions like “guilt” and “regret.”

But first, he needed to understand one question.

That is, aside from the magical girls, what exactly are those “evil executives” who betrayed Mamba?

Only by understanding their information would it be more beneficial for his future actions.

Unfortunately… last night, he had already asked Mamba about this issue, and the answer he got was—forgotten, needs time to think.

The reason is simple: it was because Mamba had been ousted and couldn’t even find its base anymore, so information about its former colleagues had slowly faded from memory.

After all, it was from that moment on… it began its timeline traversals, resolutely swearing to defeat all magical girls and then return to make those traitors see it in a new light.

Then it traversed dozens of times, each time getting beaten half to death by the magical girls, and began timeline traversals, leading to a gradual decline in its own strength…

Perhaps it was also because of this that its memory started to fade.

Hmm… it clearly had the ability to traverse timelines, yet it could still end up in such a miserable state; Yuyu truly hadn’t expected that.

Moreover, currently, aside from Mamba changing its life form and enhancing its body… he hadn’t received any substantial help.

In other words, he would have to rely on himself from now on…

The road ahead is long…

“Well, since there’s no way to obtain information about those villains for now, I might as well focus on what I need to do…”

But first, he had to prepare everything before the “training.”

With that thought, Yuyu got up from the sofa, pushed open the door, and left the “home.”

Because now, he needed to do something for himself, and also for Wuyue.

That is—

To go to work.

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