A shadow dropped down from the ceiling as Shima walked down the corridor. The shadow flashed in static, taking the form of a girl. Nakazawa stood up right and grabbed two folders from under her suit. She opened the folders, checking the contents quickly before walking forward and opening the room to the meeting room of the magical girl council.
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Shima pocketed her phone and ran off the building, she dashed through the road until she arrived at the nearest train station. She took a ticket and sat down in the train which headed to a very familiar place.
Taking a deep breath, she hopped off the train and began walking up the rocky path. Familiar trees and flowers filled her eyes as the massive gate grew in size the closer she arrived. She placed her hand on the gate, feeling the cold metallic texture.
She raised her foot and kicked forward, bending the gate in half from the force of her foot. She then swung her arm and knocked the gate to the ground, stepping over it and dashing towards the mansion. She summoned a glaive on her hand and threw it at the window, breaking it and jumping in one smooth leap.
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“Hmm?”
A girl turned her head over to the sound of breaking glass in the other room. She stood up from the altar in the middle of the room and transformed her black clothes into a flashy magical girl outfit. She gently opened the door and…
“COSETTE!!!” was sliced in half by a glaive.
“Shima?” Cosette teleported away and regenerated her body, sticking the two halves back together. “I'm disappointed.” She called forth her wand and clenched it tightly. “You turned into such an uncute Magical Girl.”
“Shut up! You will pay for killing Ayaka!”
“Oh that brute? Hmph! Are you really just pinning the blame at me? To let you know she attacked first and she even killed our beloved aunty maid.” She said slightly weeping as she pointed to the altar in the room.
“Vannesa?” The altar was covered in white flowers and candles, a singular yet big picture of the one and only maid of house Reine.
“Yes dear Miss Vennesa… Don't you remember my memories? Our memories of her raising us and loving us so deeply. Doing whatever we want because of her deep devotion to our family and her love for us.”
“Maybe…” Shima lowered her glaive slowly.
“Yes she was a beacon of joy and happiness, putting us above her own needs, providing whatever we needed. Shouldn't we spend this day to mourn her demise?”
“But those are your memories? Why the hell should I care.” She lifted her glaive and began walking forward. “Do you think I'll care anymore for those delusional memories of yours.”
“Why yes of course I do. Don't you miss that little dance of ours Shima? Didn't you agree to be Magical Girls together? You break my heart! But sadly as the Magical Girl of Cuteness I must purged everything uncute thing in the world.”
Shima dashed forward, stabbing the glaive in a straight line. Cosette flung her body to the side and grabbed onto Shima’s arm. Shima twisted her body and swung her first to Cosette’s head. Without expecting it, her face was launched quickly to the side alongside her body.
Cosette pushed herself off the ground and grinned wildly. “Wow I didn't expect you to have that much strength. How cute! How many? How many have you killed?”
Shima stabbed her glaive down at the ground where Cosette laid. The glaive passed through the flesh and into the carpeted floor of the mansion. Cosette raised her wand and “Sparkle Sparkle!” blasted Shima in the face with a beam of cuteness and glitter.
Shima grabbed onto Cosette's head, her body melting from the ray of cuteness, and ran forward. She dragged Cosette on the ground, the glaive ripping into her before she was slammed onto the wall. “Bwarggh!” She collided and broke past the wall, her body falling down to the floor next to the scattered rubble. Shima summoned a glaive and stabbed it down, slicing Cosette into hundreds of pieces.
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Cosette disappeared and reappeared next to the altar, her body mangled and regenerating rapidly. Her blood splattered everywhere as her tissue grew back, slamming into each other while reconstructing her body.
“Still primitive and brutish. Let me show you something really cute!” Her wand spun towards her and she grabbed it, posing cutely with a wink. “Spectacle of Cuteness!” She teleported around the room, appearing and disappearing in quick succession, doing cute poses with her eyes and hands.
Shima remained steady, preparing her body to jump and dodge any attack coming towards her. Cosette continued to dance around the room, leaving sparkles and outlines of her dubiously cute poses. After a gruesome amount of time she reappeared in the middle of the room, spinning rapidly before stopping and sticking a pose by making a heart using her hands.
“Excuse me?”
“What? Didn't I tell you I was gonna show you something really cute?”
“Seriously?! Take this seriously!” Shima dashed forward and slashed her weapon in the air where Cosette stood. Cosette swung her wand and smacked the glaive down. “Gosh~ I have so many words to tell you right now. So much preaching I want to do but I need you to understand, I'm simply too busy mourning my dear maid… so…”
She raised her hands to the air, imitating cat paws. “Arms of Softness!” Two massive pink fluffy cat paws were constructed in the air which followed the movement of her nimble hands. She jabbed her hands forward and the paws slashed down at Shima. She deflected the claws, quickly slashing the glaive in the air, to push the paws away.
“Arms of Softness!” Another pair of cat paws appeared at her side which flew at weird angles slashing and stabbing onto Shima. She called forth on another glaive and with two weapons she deflected the paws, working her hardest to push forward with slow but steady steps.
“Meow-tastic!” A cartoon mask of a cat materialized on her face, the mouth of the cat opening slowly as music played from the mask. Shima turned to the side, taking the full blow of the paws from her right and swinging with all her might, decapitating the floating paws to her left.
“Hairball!” The mouth fully opened and a wide and powerful beam of energy escaped its maw. Shima shot a magic pillar out of her hands, pushing her to the side as the beam dug a hole on the ground. Shima stabbed forward, impaling Cosette on her side. Cosette responded by opening the cat’s maw even wider before locking down onto Shima’s head and biting it off.
Shima, despite headless, grabbed onto the glaive and swung her arms up, splitting Cosette vertically. The two then fell to the ground at the same time, their bodies renegating extremely fast at the same pace. Cosette jumped up and leaped forward, digging her arms onto Shima. Shima swung her arms at Cosette, ripping into her body.
Blood splattered everywhere as their flesh was dragged out of their bodies. Cosette grabbed onto Shima’s throat and gripped her hand strong enough to crush it into mush. Shima kicked Cosette in the stomach and slammed her hand onto her arm, knocking the limb to the ground. She lunged forward and dug her teeth into Cosette’s ear, biting it off.
“Untouchable Idol!” A cane grabbed onto Shima’s body pulling her far away from Cosette. “A cute girl like me shouldn't be touched by commoners such as you!” She raised her arm to the sky and a pink lance plastered with hearts sparkled out of existence.
Shima responded by calling on forth her glaive, taking a fighting pose with resolve in her eyes. “Commoners? Tch!” She charged forward, swinging her glaive and clashing it onto the lance. “You never change!”
“What's there to change? I'm perfectly cute the way I am!” She stabbed her lance to the ground and grabbed onto it, spinning and kicking towards Shima. Shima took a step back and grabbed onto the foot, stomping her heel and spinning to toss Cosette to the wall.
Cosette pulled her lance and spun in the air, landing her feet to the wall and kicking off, launching herself back at Shima. She swiftly dodge the lance and swung her glaive slicing the lance in half. Cosette dropped onto the floor, rolling across the room before stopping in front of the wall. “Magic Magical Cuteness!”
Feathers fell around Cosette as magic channeled onto her, spewing extremely strong force onto the air in front of her. “With this attack I will show you the Cuteness in all of the magical girls!” She closed her eyes and inhaled deeply. Shima summoned another glaive and crossed them together forming a defensive shield in front of her.
“Evil, disappear in the face of Cuteness!” A white light exploded from Cosette, shooting a trail of sparkling light which slammed onto Shima. “Raagghhhh!” Shima stood her ground, the light pushing her legs deep to the ground as her hair flew in the air by the immense pressure and wind created by the beam.
“Disappear for good you demon!” She slashed her glaives down sending a cut across the room, shattering the beam and the weapons in one strong swing. “Huh?! That's so cute, you're pu-
“AAAAHHHH!” Shima ran across the room, clenching her fists and slamming it into Cosette’s stomach, stopping her mouth from spewing any more words. “Blargh!” Shima pulled back her other hand and covered it in a shining light, swinging with full fury onto Cosette's head. She rocketed towards the ground, her body spewing out sparkles and rainbows, scattering into bright ribbons and stars.
“Damn it!” The mixed bundle of cuteness bounced across the room, reappearing at the other side of the room. Cosette leaned on the wall, her face covered in cracks with small gleams of light escaping. “How preposterous of me! I'll stop holding back and end this now.”
“One!” A string pulled Shima’s whole body to the side, launching her to the sofa in the room.
“TwoThreeFourFiveSixSevenEightNine!” Multiple strings of yarn appeared all over her body, falling to the ground before being rapidly pulled in multiple directions. Her body exploded all over the room, her limbs flinging everywhere.
“Tangled Beauty!” Multiple strands of light exploded from her, bouncing around the room and wrapping around the scattered flesh. The strands of light slammed into the middle of the room, soaked in blood and carrying every single piece of regenerating corpse that was Shima.
“Goodbye Shima Ayami.” She flicked her hair, regenerating her injured body and summoning her wand on her other hand. She pushed the wand towards the ball of light and channeled pure magical Cuteness into the wand. A rainbow colored light began to slowly escape the wand’s before dissipating suddenly. “Actually I just had the most splendid idea! I think I'm gonna devour this bundle of power right in front of me instead.”
Her mouth sprang open monstrously, her flesh ripping apart brutally. Her bloodied hands clamped onto the ball of light and flesh, crushing it and lifting it near the gaping hole on her face. She clamped down, squeezing half of the bundle of flesh down into her throat and into her little cute stomach.
She opened her mouth once again, tossing the bundle of flesh around her hands. As she eyed it hungrily. “Shima~” The door creaked and her eyes jumped onto the person who entered the room. A shining knight entered the room, carrying a long sharp spear and a hard shivering shield.
“It was true…” Chiaka raised her spear and stabbed forward, her body lunging towards Cosette in a blink of an eye, piercing her body and lifting it into the air. “You brute! This time I will purge you and make you cute!”
“Takes one to know one.” Chiaka flung Shima to the side and erupted the ground in a pillar of fire, incinerating both herself and Cosette.