Mr. Magical Girl

Chapter: 191. Otherworld (4)

Chop. Chop.

The sound hitting the flesh echoed in my ears.

“Wake up. Lord Haram. Poyo.”

“Hmm. Shouldn’t we hit a bit harder? There’s a chance you might’ve lost yourself.”

Though my consciousness was clear enough to hear the two talking, strangely, I couldn’t open my eyes. It felt as if I was trapped in the core attack.

“Wouldn’t that hurt?”

“I believe it can’t be helped in this emergency.”

Thwack.

“What are those two idiots trying to do?!”

“Well, if it can’t be helped…!”

I felt a slight flow of power.

“Wake up!”

Fwoosh!

I could sense a chill around me.

“Get up!”

Thud!

Something cold felt like it was embedded into my forehead.

At that moment…

“Hey, you bastardsssss!”

As if freed from a curse, I was finally able to move my body.

My eyes opened, and with an ice pillar dominating my field of vision, I immediately shot up, letting out a shout.

“Wow! You actually woke up! Poyo.”

Criminal 1.

White trash.

“What did I say? The best way to fix what’s broken is to hit it!”

Criminal 2.

Bald trash.

Criminals 1 and 2 looked at me, nonchalantly saying this with the ice pillar stuck in their heads, surrounded by a quite large white sphere, floating around.

“Was this the only way to wake me up, you bastards?”

Showing my anger at the criminals, I pulled out the ice pillar stuck in my head. Fortunately, it hadn’t penetrated, and it felt a bit tight from the cold sticking to my head, but the ice pulled out easily.

“I didn’t want to waste mana in the otherworld. Besides, if I used magic without the power of the otherworld, there’s a chance I might be detected by some nasty beings.”

Saying that, Criminal 2 turned their gaze outside the sphere.

“I tried! I slapped you hundreds of times!”

Looking proud of their actions, Criminal 1 confessed his sins.

“Fuck you, bastard.”

I delivered my verdict to the two.

The verdict was death.

The execution method was the throwing of the ice pillar in my hand. You bastards.

Due to the cold of the ice pillar, my palm was peeling in pain, but the ice shot off quickly with my immense power.

Just when those two fools about to be randomly hit by the ice pillar.

“Isn’t it dangerous, Lord Haram? I hoped the usual stupid ones would hit the ice pillar and shatter.”

With the flow of mana, a black magic circle appeared, and the ice pillar was caught by the black magic circle in midair and shattered to pieces.

Enraged by this, I stood up and opened my mouth.

“Hey, you bastards. Good job on stopping that.”

“Poyo? What happened?”

Our great ferret looked confused, not knowing what had occurred.

“Have you forgotten, Lord Haram?”

The atmosphere changed as Al’sel looked at me and lowered her tone.

“We are in the otherworld. If that had hit us and we flew outside the range of the reality stabilizer, we might never meet again.”

Hearing that, I realized my complacency.

I had momentarily forgotten the ruckus just moments ago. This is the otherworld—a place where anything could happen. What if Ice Pillar just hit Unho or Al’sel?

With immense power pushing them away, they would get bounced out and drift across the endless otherworld beyond the white curtain.

“Right. I’m sorry about that. I just got a bit heated in the moment.”

“If you acknowledge that, then it’s fine.”

“But, you know.”

I clenched my fist and moved close to the octopus.

“Do you have something you want to say?”

The dull Al’sel seemed to not expect what I was about to do and only slightly tilted her head.

“You guys didn’t take it seriously, and look what happened! You claim you can’t use magic, but you’re using it just fine!”

Releasing my anger, I smashed my controlled fist into Al’sel.

Of course, I held onto the octopus’s body with my other hand to prevent being bounced back.

Thwack.

With a scream from the octopus, a disgusting texture transmitted through my hand.

Sticky, slimy, and clinging.

Though it felt quite unpleasant, my mind felt refreshed.

After the judgment and cleanup of all that commotion was over…

“Situation report.”

“There’s nothing to explain, but.”

“What do you mean there’s nothing to say? You should at least tell me how you joined, and what happened while I was out cold!”

Do you know what I went through while waiting for you? A strange woman appeared, light flashed around, and it was chaos! But now it seems there’s no light mass!

With that thought, I demanded the two to explain the situation.

Cue silence…

“Well, we have nothing to say, Poyo?”

Al’sel and Unho exchanged glances and said that.

“Still, please do share!”

Something felt off about this.

I pondered with a cross-legged pose and resting my chin on my hand, meaning it should be settled.

Thanks to that, my gaze swayed as I floated in the air, but so what?

“Since you ask, I’ll let you know, but nothing major happened. Luckily, right after passing through the hole, we all found ourselves in the same place and immediately turned on the reality stabilizer.”

Al’sel, who spoke, took out a water bottle from her waist and swallowed some water before continuing her narration.

“Unho seemed to lose his senses for about a minute, but he woke up. Oh, by the way, according to the internal clock in my body, it’s quite strange outside. I’ve told you multiple times. Lord Haram, you suddenly collapsed and I tried to wake you for about 30 minutes.”

Weird.

“I didn’t go anywhere, right?”

This feels familiar somehow.

“Didn’t I say something about ‘finding you’ or some nonsense?”

“No, you just seemed to be dead asleep.”

So that’s how it is.

As I continued speaking, it became a bit boring, so I dug my hand into the pouch tied to my waist.

“Any signs of illusions or mental manipulation?”

“None. If such things had opened up, I would’ve noticed much sooner.”

I see. I was wondering if those bastards had sent me to some strange world or used mental manipulation.

While thinking that, I continued rummaging through the pouch, but nothing was caught.

The only thing my hand could feel was the smooth textile of polyester.

“Is there something strange?”

“What about the date palm?”

“Why are you suddenly asking about the date palm? It must be in the pouch.”

Then one culprit was clear.

“Oh no?”

Raising my voice toward the obvious Criminal 1.

“Uh oh. I sense something ominous in your voice.”

Seemingly sensing the bad energy, Unho looked around, munching on Date Palm evidence #1, proving his guilt.

In such a situation, his insatiable appetite for food was truly impressive, but it wasn’t a normal reaction!

“Does it make sense to steal all those date palms in the middle of this chaos, you damn white rag?”

“Gwaaah!”

I grabbed Unho and twisted him like he was a rag.

Throwing or striking might lead to being knocked away, as Al’sel mentioned, so I continued squeezing Unho’s body.

“Hmm… Lord Haram, may I say something?”

“What now? I’m busy torturing this bum.”

Next, I needed to twist him the other way to balance everything out.

I thought about how it would become something like handmade noodles after a few repetitions.

“To be honest, seeing another race being tortured is quite enjoyable, but since it’s a waste of time, let me tell you this. That date palm was given to me.”

What?

Shocked by the absurd words, I dropped Unho.

As soon as Unho, in a pretzel-like state, fell from my hands, he quickly scurried like a cockroach, hiding behind Al’sel.

Of course, grabbing the floating date palm in the process was a bonus.

“Then who took my date palm?”

“I wouldn’t know. It probably got whisked off into the otherworld for a brief moment while using the reality stabilizer.”

No way. That can’t be.

Rather, Al’sel’s words confirmed something for me. What I experienced was definitely not a dream.

No matter how vague it was, and even though it seemed impossible, it was all real.

That shadowy entity too.

The warning she gave me as well.

All of it. Wasn’t a lie.

Which means…

“Why do you call me by name all of a sudden? Did you become wise overnight?”

This bastard is joking around amid all this.

But I didn’t care.

“We need to escape from here fast.”

I quickly turned to grab Unho, now a pretzel, and placed him on my neck while quickly opening my mouth.

“Could you clarify what you mean? I’m a fool who’s clueless here!”

With no time to waste on punishing the sarcastic one or explaining, I decided to keep it brief.

“Believe it or not, but during the short time I lost consciousness, I met and talked to an abnormal being.”

What kind of appearance was it?

It was unlikely that Al’sel would believe my words, but the moment she heard them, she quietly lowered her voice and began to listen closely.

“It was made of shadow, humanoid but… oh, it had a geometric being accompanying it.”

“A shadow entity, huh? I have to admit, I’m curious how you returned, but that’s not the main point, is it?”

Why does it have a name like that? But whatever.

“Before I forget, I gave that being a date palm as a gift?”

“Wait a sec. You didn’t run away? You talked? Did it get ready to eat you or something?”

What? So it was a being that couldn’t communicate? It intended to eat me, but I didn’t feel it was all that dangerous.

In any case, that wasn’t the important part.

“That being said… it warned me to escape from here. Apparently, the magic train will be coming soon.”

I have no idea what that magic train is, but Al’sel probably knows.

To be completely honest, I didn’t feel any danger just from hearing that word, so the thought of escaping wasn’t crossing my mind.

But just meeting her was enough to carry forward the anxiety that the otherworld inflicts.

Let’s just say if that magic train had beings equivalent to 0-rank buzzing around, I’d believe it.

“Did you just say magic train?”

“Yeah. I don’t know what it is, but that being told me to run away.”

There was an oddly genuine tone and emotion in that statement.

So we had to hurry and get out of here.

Looking nervously at Al’sel, she suddenly looked incredibly happy, spreading her arms wide as she gazed up.

“Rejoice, Lord Haram!”

Al’sel appeared extremely overjoyed, laughing manically, raising her arms toward the sky.

“Our journey has finally started to look plausible!

Hahaha! How could I be so lucky! I won’t die in the depths of the otherworld with a champion of suicide here! A magic train! A magic train!”

Like a madman. She laughed.

And criticized me on the side.

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