Chapter 166 – Awareness (1)

It’s still a few days until the weekend we’ve decided to dine with Rapid.
Rapid, who is usually much busier than other magical girls, doesn’t have much time unless it’s a set date.
However, if it’s only for a moment, Rapid can come to where I am.
Can come

[Mr. Rapid, are you okay now?}

After I sent a message to Rapid, I used the tracking feature to locate Rapid.
Ash and Rapid are located in Area 0, and they appear to be training together.
It’s not like you’re fighting a negative, so wait a while and you’ll get a reply.

{Yes, what are you doing?]

Come.
Seeing the reply that came back to me shortly after waiting, I immediately came up with a message that Rapid would come.
Rapid cares more about the people he saves than other people, and tends to check on their status.

[It’s nothing else, my condition is a bit strange, so I was wondering if you know anything as a magical girl.}
{Are you the head?]
[Yes, the hospital says there is no problem… I was a little anxious after something like that happened…}
{Where are you? It hurts a lot?]

As soon as I gave the keyword, “It hurts,” Rapid, a magical girl, had to solve it, Rapid reacted as I intended.
I’m sorry to call you this way, but if I don’t do this, Rapid won’t come to where I am.
I immediately explained to Rapid where I was.

{A convenience store? Wait a minute, I’ll be right there.]
“Mr. Anger?”

Immediately, the wind blew right next to me and I heard Rapid’s voice.
I turned my head in the direction of the voice, but Rapid was nowhere to be seen.
I sensed magical energy flowing out of nowhere.
I felt the sweet body odor stronger than usual, and my head momentarily turned white, then returned to normal.

“Uh… Mr. Rapid?”
“Oh, over there… Keep your voice as low as possible…”

I intuited her current state by seeing Rapid’s answer, the magic she felt around her, and the occasional shimmering, blurry appearance of Rapid.
She probably used a combination of invisibility magic and space teleportation magic.

“Is this invisibility magic?”
“Yes, transparent… Shall? It’s just twisting the space around so you can’t see it for a while… The calculation speed is still slow, can you see a little?”

This is awesome
Even the thought of combining space movement with invisibility brings to mind many application methods.
I’ve never heard of a rapid using magic like this.

“Were you able to use this kind of magic?”
“I’m training right now, because Ash taught me… More than that, this way for now…”

A transparent rapid pulls my shoulder.
I got up and moved around as Rapid led me.

“I don’t have time… I was told to go to the bathroom. Can I touch your forehead for a second?”

After entering a back alley where no one would come, behind a large trash can next to a convenience store building, I felt a foreign sensation touch my forehead.
I think I know what you mean when you say space is twisted around.
I feel the skin turn upside down on my forehead where Rapid’s hand touched.

“… There is nothing wrong with your brain.”
“It’s not that I’m sick, it’s because I keep feeling that something is wrong.”
“Feels strange? Hit?!”

I couldn’t stand the feeling of Rapid’s magic lightly scratching the inside of my forehead where the skin was turned upside down like a feather.
Then, the rapids holding my hand appeared in pieces and then disappeared again.

“Now what?! I’m very sensitive because I twist the space… !”
“Ah, yes.”

I let go of Rapid, thinking about what state he was in.
Wouldn’t it be similar to taking out the clip and being held tightly?
My body reacts to the slightly lewd voice, but now is not the time to play around.
I told Ash that I was going to the bathroom, so I had to do what I needed and let him go quickly.
After waiting for Rapid to calm down, I immediately asked a question.

“I… People around me look strange.”

At the same time as asking the question, I grabbed the vision phone from my pocket and turned on the hypnosis application.
If Rapid reacts strangely, I plan to hypnotize him.
If he knows something but seems to be hiding it, hypnotize him and ask him questions.

“People around you?”

Due to the invisibility magic, it is difficult to closely examine Rapid’s reaction.
But just from the voice, I can feel that you didn’t understand what I was saying at all.
It’s a voice full of questions, with no idea what he’s talking about.

“Yeah, that’s strange… Isn’t it?”
“Hmm… Exactly how strange are you?”
“… Don’t you know?”
“Just to see… Are you weird? Or are you afraid of people? Maybe it’s something like PTSD caused by a monster…”
“… Okay.”

When I heard Rapid’s worried voice, I stopped asking questions.
I do not know.
Rapid doesn’t know that people are weird.

Why don’t you know
Magical girls have more sensitive senses than normal people.
Can you still not know?

I shut my mouth and slowly took the hand holding the vision phone out of my pants pocket and entered, lost in thought.
Come to think of it, the question is not only that the people around you are strange.
What chip was the hypnosis application in, and how Rapid’s location was tracked…
I can control the hypnosis application… First of all, it didn’t harm me, so I’m trying not to think deeply, but there are a lot of things around me that I don’t know about.

Everything is weird
All I can say is that it’s weird.
I don’t know anything, so I can’t help but think it’s strange.

What is a hypnosis app?
What was the video about?
Why and how are Rapid and Ash’s locations not tracked?
Why are people like this?
Why can I perceive this as strange?

It just feels too ominous to let go.
There are too many unknowns.
When there is too much work, it is better to solve it one by one and then assemble it instead of doing it all at once.

First and foremost, what I’m curious about right now is… It’s a matter of why people are weird and why I’m okay.
What I’ve changed… Why did I suddenly change…
The tentacle of the left hand…

After meeting Esther, planting tentacles, and waking up unconscious, something about myself has changed.
A sensation that neither magical girls nor ordinary people can feel…
Was the thing that was stuck in me the magical girl Esther, or the Negative executive?

Rapid doesn’t know.
Magical girl… Can’t feel…
If it’s because of the tentacles in my hands…
Organize your thoughts.

“… Mr. Anger?”
“Ah.”

I was lost in my thoughts for a while, but I came to my senses when I heard Rapid’s voice.
I deliberately said it calmly, as if nothing really happened.

“It’s nothing, the voice made me dazed for a moment.”
“Yes?”
“Isn’t that how it is? If you have a good voice, you’ll be dumb like this…”
“So, I think I saw it in a novel…”
“They say that sometimes happens when you listen to the voice of the opposite sex who is attracted to you.”
“Ah… Yes… Yes…”

Once I calmed down with a light joke, I continued talking to Rapid with a smile on my face.
I made you anxious and brought you to me, so now I have to reassure you.

“It’s okay, it’s not PTSD, I think it’s like a temporary state of shock. With Mr. Rapid by his side, he calms down.”
“Are you calming down?”
“Hmm… What can I say, I think I was nervous that someone would suddenly attack me… When I see it suddenly appearing like this… Do you think you will save me and protect me if something goes wrong?”
“Ah…”
“Thank you for coming.”
“Yes, yes.”

After hearing my words, Rapid’s body was revealed again in pieces and then disappeared.
It’s hard to know Rapid’s reaction because he’s become invisible, but from just listening to his voice, he seems to be quite shy.

“I was just asking, so you didn’t have to come like this…”
“Even so, that’s what I’m worried about…”
“I’m sorry I must be busy, but it’s nice to hear your voice even for a short while like this.”
“Ah! I, that’s right, I’m busy… Excuse me… I have to go back now…”

Rapid was ashamed and raised his mana.
I really took a moment to visit during training, so I have to go back quickly.
I also didn’t want to get caught by Ash, so I didn’t intend to catch Rapid.

“Then, over there… I’m sure you’re okay, so if you still have any problems, please contact me… See you on the weekend?”
“Yes, I like it. I’m sorry for coming so suddenly.”
“No, because I came on my own… Then, I… Now…”

But once you get what you need, you have to send it.
I held out the hypnosis application to Rapid who greeted me.

“Oh, Mr. Rapid? Wait a minute here…”
“To? To…”

As soon as the invisible magic began to dissolve, Rapid appeared as if broken glass pieces were gathering.
His eyes are out of focus and he is completely dazed with his mouth slightly open.
After confirming Rapid’s appearance with my own two eyes, I was dazed for a moment, then came to my senses and moved his hand.

Thinking I was running out of time, I hurriedly started combing Rapid’s hair with my hand.
Gather Rapid’s hair by combing the long hair with your fingers.
Grabbing each strand with my hand and arranging them, I grabbed an appropriate amount of hair, hid it behind my back, and ordered Rapid.

“Now, once, cast an invisibility spell on yourself before being released from hypnosis.”

I closed the hypnosis application after making sure that Rapid was not aware of the fact that he was hypnotized.

“… Uh?! Me, me… What?”

After coming back from a dazed state, Rapid panicked for a moment and then stood still.
Although they cannot be seen, they can feel the magic and let them know that Rapid is still in front of their eyes.
I called the name of Rapid, who for some reason remained silent even after being released from hypnosis.

“Mr. Rapid… ?”
“Yes? Ah yes! I’ll go! See you later!”

I wondered if he felt a sense of incongruity when he was freed from hypnosis, but it seemed like he was just absent-mindedly.
As Rapid disappears, the vacant space is filled, and wind blows momentarily.

“After…”

I checked the tracking function of the hypnosis app to make sure that Rapid was back, then looked down at Rapid’s hair in his hand.
Part of trying to call Rapid, part of trying to ask questions, but also of getting his hair.
With this, I posted a question to Majinsa and earned points that I could use to investigate this and that.

It would be a waste of time if I continued to hold on to a problem for which no answer came out after worrying about it.
I plan to ask several people and seek more information.
I returned home, being careful not to sweat my hands.