LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 85
February 6, 2012
“AHAHAHA! This is hilarious!”
“What? What’s wrong with the teahouse I made!”
“It looks like an abandoned house with nothing but green plants everywhere.”
“I think it’s better than your building with those mismatched flowers all tangled together!”
“This is what gardening is! This is what happens when a country bumpkin comes from the countryside!”
“Hmph. You’ll see what true beauty of nature is when Dad and uncles bring the teahouse tools they made from home later.”
The two girls, who had been talking loudly in front of their respective buildings, wore airy white dresses made of the same fabric, with sparkling Glass Stars hanging from their belts.
Today, with diplomats from various countries and UN ambassadors invited, once the conference held in the giant chamber created by the Magical Girls beneath the immense lighthouse ended, a national founding ceremony was planned. Thus, every Magical Girl was asked by Sumire, the council leader, to wear white for the ceremony.
The founding ceremony of the Elysion state, which would become the geographical center for the Magical Girls.
For the past week, the Magical Girls had been decorating a small island capable of being freely adorned with the permission of the [Start] Magical Girl. Those with abilities to distort or create space received more attention and requests than ever and wandered all over the island.
“Amy! Can you enlarge the workshop storage a bit? Mom said she’s coming to visit today, but she thinks it’s too small!”
“Sure! Just wait a moment. And didn’t I tell you yesterday we should make it bigger?”
“Hehe, I’m sorry…”
Unlike the aerial garden, which was a completely isolated domain, this great island could feel the sea breeze.
Decorating a place accessible to the public was thrilling for the Magical Girls, and they were so dedicated that they even slept in tents for a week.
Excited at the chance to showcase their abilities and the spaces they created to families and friends who couldn’t come to the aerial gardens, their hearts felt like they might burst.
Amidst the buzzing excitement of the two girls, a hesitant voice came through.
Holding flower buds in both hands.
The flower buds growing on the tree that only thrived on this island contained pure water.
“I… brought water. Please drink.”
“Huh?”
“O-oh, thank you…”
Unlike the communication magic of [Harmony] or the device of [Cyber Brain], her voice pierced the ears with an otherworldly quality. The girl, a resident of the island with golden hair and eyes shining like the sun.
“…”
“…”
Both Amy and Leah had been chatting away since earlier, and since they were from Japan and France respectively, they paid little mind to their distinct races. However, the girl who lived on the vast island felt oddly alien.
“Would you like to visit my clock workshop…?”
“Clock?”
“Um… It’s a tool that tells time with a dial and a minute hand going tick-tock.”
The girls raised on this island since ancient times and had no concept of death found it hard to adapt to the explanation they received.
‘Aren’t they just some kind of angelic beings?’
Leah, from a devout Christian family, thought that the girls living on the island might actually be real angels, and she guided them to show off her clock workshop.
“Wow…”
tick-tock
Leah, who wanted to become a horologist after following her father who worked at a Swiss clock workshop, had continued to make various clocks even after awakening her Magical Girl abilities.
‘Mom and Dad just shrugged and gave me awkward smiles…’
Hundreds of clocks ticking away neatly on wooden shelves. While it was a sight Amy was bored of, it left the golden-haired girl in awe, and she couldn’t tear her eyes away.
“What’s your name?”
“…Here, they call me a bird living next to the purple flower.”
“……”
As a Magical Girl of [Wings] who received the command of [Revelation] and entered the Freedom Magical Girl Alliance to test the will of the successor, she had used the alias “Violet.” But wanting to reveal her real name to the two girls who approached her with pure goodwill.
“Hm… Purple. Purple, huh… Iris.”
“Iris?”
“Iris…?”
And with a big smile, she took the hand of the golden-eyed girl.
“From now on, I’ll call you Iris!”
“Iris…”
“How could you just change someone’s name without permission…”
“…I like it.”
“AHAHAHA! So shall we go check on Amy expanding the storage now?”
With Amy and Leah holding onto Iris’s hands from both sides, they led her toward the back of the clock workshop.
‘I wonder what fascinating things are in the storage?’
The Magical Girl of [Wings], Iris, had been sealed on this island for thousands of years.
And 17 years ago, awakened by the light granted by the Goddess of [Start], she felt for the first time she was truly alive in this world, rather than just passing time blankly or waiting for the Goddess’s commands.
She felt grateful to the Magical Girl of [Deception], who rose to protect the beautiful things that existed outside the island.
*
“Phew.”
The agreement from the UN and the countries that were either part of or were about to join the Magical Girl society had concluded a while ago. Thus, the emergency meeting that began just before the founding ceremony was wrapped up swiftly.
The [Start] Magical Girl agrees to establish a body equivalent to a country to ensure that the Magical Girls are effectively controlled and that other nations’ interests are not infringed upon.
The U.S. President, who had turned into a machine merely stamping documents while hiding in a corner since the nuclear war ordeal, focused more on establishing diplomatic ties with the Elysion state rather than persuading the Freedom Magical Girl Alliance individually.
Those scheming behind the scenes to make plans regarding the Magical Girls held their breath, merely observing the [Start]’s actions for now.
“I thought a lone figure could prevent even a nuclear war, so what couldn’t they do?”
“A flying colossal battleship and a country of magic created by girls.”
Hundreds of foreign reporters, present to record the historic moment of the day, spun their cameras this way and that, their eyes unable to believe the sight in front of them.
“So this incredible transformation happened in just a week?”
A miracle brought forth by the thousands of girls flitting about in white dresses with Glass Stars fluttering on their belts.
The island, which once had a somewhat desolate feel, was now bursting with vibrant colors and life, more than deserving to be called a magical city.
As if someone had sown flower seeds in a forgotten arboretum.
The strangely imposing desolate island was gradually transforming into a paradise bursting with a riot of colors.
WOWAAAH?! Move, move! Get out of the way or you’ll get squished!
Oh dear, excuse me. I have a lot to move, so pardon my intrusion.
Far off, a colossal robot and a giant clad in yellow armor were thudding as they transported supplies and refreshments for the ceremony. Floating above them was a massive silver airship, shuttling not just reporters and diplomats but also ferrying people through hundreds of silver gliders.
“There are only girls everywhere.”
One reporter commenting while photographing the island’s landscape made it sound like, just before the founding, the Elysion state was a cave occupied by a fierce group that was not afraid of nuclear missiles, instead of an all-girls school festival.
“Ha ha, actually, my daughter is here for this event too.”
“Really?”
“When I was watching the news from outside, I thought it was some kind of national-scale terrorist organization that was about to launch, but it’s just like a school festival for girls.”
“Right?”
Thousands of girls held hands, laughing as they joyfully welcomed family who came aboard the silver great ship. The miraculous city they crafted with their immense power glowed with every color, radiating the dreams they held.
“It resembles… a paradise.”
Click
The reporter murmured while shooting thousands of Magical Girls gathered in a square made of white stone and a massive fountain just before the founding celebration.
Then let us now begin the founding ceremony of the Elysion State.
The voice of the [Start] Magical Girl echoed across the entire island.
“Huh? Already? There’s nothing in the square yet?”
“What exactly are they planning to show…?”
“Are they thinking of having another debutante or something?”
Muttering, hundreds of journalists raised their cameras in unison and began live broadcasting.
Before long, the thousands of Magical Girls who had adorned themselves with flowers plucked from nearby were gathered in white dresses.
The Magical Girls gathered in the square alongside family and friends who arrived aboard the Sirius and diplomats and UN ambassadors who gathered after the conference.
All the people from around the world were holding their breath, awaiting the appearance of the [Start] Magical Girl, gazing at the paradise visible through the cameras being broadcasted.