Gray-tan the Magical Girl!

Half an hour later.

In a large hotel in Fuyuki City.

"Another hotel, huh? Come to think of it, lately it feels like I've been staying in hotels a lot."

Although he said that, Naoki had actually only stayed in hotels in Misaki Town for less than three days. And if he counted, he had only been in Misaki Town for about a week.

Arriving in Misaki Town on the third day and fighting Nero. Fighting Nero again the next night, fighting Vlov the day after, and after finishing that fight, fighting Manaka a few minutes later.

Although basically all the fights were in his favor, the frequency of these fights was truly too fast. If it weren't for Ryougi Shiki, Naoki estimated that after defeating Manaka, he would still have had to fight the rampaging Arcueid.

"If you're not satisfied with this place, I can look for another one for you later, but before that—"

Luvia crossed her arms over her chest.

"Could you explain in more detail what you mean by assistant? Grand Master entrusted the task of collecting the Class Cards entirely to me, so why did you suddenly appear, an assistant of unclear origin?"

"Wait a minute! What do you mean by entrusting it entirely to you!" Rin immediately refuted the lie in Luvia's words, "Grand Master clearly entrusted it to me, you know! You're the one who shamelessly butted in!"

"No, it was entrusted to me. Besides, how could someone as lowly as you be trusted by Grand Master?"

"You nouveau riche snob!"

Seeing the two of them start arguing on their own, Gray asked: "Big Brother, these two people..."

"Ah, it's alright, this is their basic operation, just leave them there until they get tired of arguing." Naoki had seen this kind of scene countless times on the computer. It was impossible for Rin and Luvia not to attack each other when they met. Expecting them to make peace was like expecting Fou not to kick Merlin.

So, just ignore them. As for the noisy sound of their argument, just create a layer of vacuum to isolate the sound.

[Heh~ Master understands those old hags very well]

Just at that moment, a red magic wand suddenly floated towards Naoki and Gray.

[Nice to meet you, I'm Ruby. Although it's a bit sudden, may I ask this sweet little lady! Would you like to become a magical girl!]

"Eh?"

Gray, who was asked, was immediately stunned.

Magical girl?

"What is a magical girl?"

[Eh?]

This time it was Ruby's turn to be stunned.

[Magical girl is a magical girl, why don't young girls nowadays know about magical girls? They're the ones who swing magic wands to shoot lasers and magic bullets, wiping out all evil people and evil in an instant, magical girls who fight for love and justice!]

"Sorry, I... I don't really understand." Gray shook her head gently.

This was also natural, because she used to live in a remote village isolated from the outside world. Her knowledge was very limited, and her understanding of the outside world mostly came from books sold by traveling merchants who came periodically.

And after leaving the village with Naoki, Gray spent most of her time adapting to the environment and taking care of Naoki. In addition, the Clock Tower was a place that didn't even bother to run an electric wire, so Gray's life was almost unrelated to electrical appliances. Only Merlin, for the sake of entertainment, spent her own money to install a television in the apartment.

Nevertheless, Gray usually only watched news and scientific programs; she had never watched animation programs at all.

It would be strange if she knew about magical girls.

[Hah~ young girls nowadays actually don't have such dreams? Shouldn't becoming a magical girl be every little girl's dream?]

"Don't instill bad ideas in my little sister." Naoki directly grabbed Ruby, "I've already agreed to help with collecting the Class Cards, so you two magic wands can go back to rusting. Besides, dangerous jobs like magical girls are suitable for older mothers and aunts."

[What did you say! Why do magical girls have to look for older people! The point is in 'girl,' you know!]

Ruby suddenly retorted loudly as if her pride had been hurt!

[Besides, who said that Sapphire-chan and I are expanding the magical girl business to collect Class Cards? That's completely backwards! Compared to collecting Class Cards, the meaning of a magical girl's existence is to enchant me with cute movements while wearing light clothing!]

"..."

Hopeless, this magic wand.

[Nee-sama, calm down a little, your words just now might scare people]

Another blue magic wand somewhat similar to Ruby—Sapphire—floated closer and bumped Ruby hard, then faced Naoki and Gray.

[Please forgive us, Nee-sama has troubled you. I am Sapphire, just like Nee-sama, we are top-tier Mystic Codes created by the Second Magician, please help us in the future]

"Old Man Jewel's hobby is magical girls?"

[I suppose so, that person did set our personalities like this when creating us]

'That old man's hobby is really problematic...'

Next time I see him, I need to be careful.

[But it really surprises me that the old man suddenly looked for someone to help.]

Ruby floated in front of Naoki as if observing him from top to bottom.

[And the tone of your voice seems to understand a lot about Class Cards? Even though those are cards whose structure even now the Clock Tower hasn't been able to decipher, only known to be made with very complicated Magecraft theories]

"What are Class Cards?" Gray asked again, "It sounds... it seems related to the Holy Grail War that Big Brother participated in before?"

[Holy Grail War? Master has participated in such a magic ritual before?]

"Past matters, nothing to talk about. But Gray's guess is correct, Class Cards do have something to do with the Holy Grail War, it's just not related to the war I participated in. I'll explain it to you properly later, but for now—"

Naoki looked towards Rin and Luvia, who were still arguing over trivial matters, waved his hand, and removed the vacuum layer that stood between them: "You two over there, have you finished arguing? If so, come over here and talk about those Class Cards that are so interesting to you."

"Of course, personally, there are some things I want to ask you two."

"Considering that we might be working together for some time after this, how about we try to get along well first?"