Not a Magical Girl Who Will Definitely Save the World

What is a surprise?

Usually, a surprise refers to things that are beyond someone's expectations and make that person feel joyful.

However, in some unusual situations, "surprise" can also be used in a completely opposite sense after adding double quotes.

For example, right now.

"You damned old geezer—!!"

About a thousand meters above Fuyuki City, Naoki dragging a suitcase, roared with all his might, while beside him, Gray looked bewildered and hadn't yet realized what was happening.

About one subjective minute ago, the two of them had accepted Zelretch's offer to go to a parallel world, but after they regained consciousness, they were immediately greeted by the current scene.

That damned Zelretch had directly sent them to a thousand-meter altitude to play freefall!

[Ahahaha! This is truly an extraordinary and surprising event! It's been so thrilling from the start!]

Add, who was hanging under Gray's cloak, still cheerfully uttered cold words.

However, the next moment, a rather strong gust of wind suddenly blew, directly catching Gray, who was falling at high speed in the air.

Grasping Gray's hand and pulling her into his arms, Naoki, who had somehow already completed possession with a wind spirit, let out a sigh of relief: "Huuuh~ Are you alright? Gray? Are you hurt anywhere?"

"N-no, just a little..."

Gray could feel her heart pounding violently. Although she was used to Naoki taking her to play urban parkour in high places, suddenly freefalling from a thousand meters was something Naoki might be fine with, but a 12-year-old child like herself really couldn't handle it.

Her heart felt like it was about to jump out of her throat.

Naoki hugged Gray tightly: "Thank goodness you're okay. Seriously, that damned old geezer, why didn't he give me a better landing position during teleportation? If I couldn't use Summoning Magecraft, I would have definitely fallen to my death!"

[In that case, wasn't the old geezer confident that you wouldn't fall to your death, which is why he set the landing point here?]

"That kind of confidence is better off not having."

Resignedly sighing, Naoki tightly grasped Gray's hand: "Anyway, let's go down first, just floating around isn't a good idea either. Gray, hold on for a moment, I'll accelerate."

"Um."

Changing the direction of the wind beneath them, Naoki carried Gray straight down. Although simply dropping and using the wind to cushion their bodies just before hitting the ground wouldn't be a problem either, Gray would probably really not be able to handle it then.

Falling from a thousand meters didn't take much time, especially with Naoki deliberately accelerating. It was estimated that it would only take about ten seconds to land.

And after breaking through the thick clouds, their eyes could clearly see the scenery below. Naoki's eyes almost instantly caught a very iconic building.

Below was a city divided in two by a long river, and between the two parts of the city, a striking red bridge stretched across.

Naoki recognized that bridge, and also the city structure below.

"Fuyuki City!?"

There was no mistake, below was Fuyuki City, where Naoki had lived for the previous two years.

Did Zelretch directly send them to Fuyuki City in a parallel world?

'Truly a standard story location.'

Naoki unconsciously smiled bitterly. This Fuyuki City, how to put it... it surprised him a little but also didn't surprise him at all.

However, at that very moment—

*BOOOOOOOOOOM!*

A deafening explosion suddenly sounded from behind Naoki. Then, an extremely strong gust of wind mixed with a shockwave of mana directly hit him. Extremely bright light also radiated in the sky!

After rolling several times in the air and stabilizing his body, Naoki hurriedly looked back: "Damn it! Who's the bastard attacking me!"

*BOOOOOOOOOOM!*

No one answered Naoki. All that followed was another violent explosion and a magic bullet flying towards him at high speed.

*CLANG!*

A long sword made of wind appeared in his hand. Naoki instantly slashed the magic bullet into pieces with one swing, his eyebrows slightly furrowed: "What's the situation? In Fuyuki City, there's still someone having a huge aerial battle in the middle of the night like this?"

"Big Brother, it looks like two women?"

[Eh? Women fighting? Awesome! I like watching women fight the most!]

Ignoring Add, who was strangely excited, Naoki was actually a little curious. Who were these crazy women who weren't sleeping beautifully at home in the middle of the night, but instead came out to throw magic bullets at each other?

*BANG!*

Another explosion sounded, a storm of Mana swept over again, and then a figure, as if thrown, flew straight towards Naoki.

Without thinking much, Naoki directly raised his hand and blew a gust of wind, sending the person flying towards him back.

"Ara, there's still someone else?"

Along with a voice, another figure who had caused the successive Mana storms also arrived before Naoki.

Just as Gray had said, the one who came was a woman, with a very charming appearance, eyes like amber gems, long curly golden hair adorned with a sky-blue ribbon, as if a work of the gods.

Undoubtedly a beautiful woman.

And it wasn't that Naoki didn't know her, but compared to that, what surprised him a little and made him unable to restrain himself was that she was wearing a blue dress that looked like a magical girl outfit for children.

As Naoki observed the "acquaintance" in front of him, the other party was also observing Naoki and Gray in his arms.

"Carrying a little girl and a suitcase, and flying in the air... as far as I know, such stable flying Magecraft hasn't been discovered yet. At first, I thought it was just an ordinary person being dragged along, but it seems—"

"Just consider me a half-baked Magus. Nice to meet you, Luviagelita Edelfelt."

"You know me?"

"The young lady from the Finnish noble family. Although I don't follow the news of the magic world very closely, the Edelfelt family name is quite famous." Naoki smiled, "But it really surprises me. I didn't expect the young lady from the hound-hunting family to appear in a place like this, and be fighting in the air with someone else in the middle of the night like this. Your nightlife is really quite thrilling."

"Regarding dragging you into this trouble, I really must apologize, but—"

Before Luvia finished speaking, a magic cannon flying from the side directly blasted her!

Naoki: "..."

Alright, it seemed that before they could talk, it would be better to let the other young lady calm down first.