The Magical Holy Woman Seraphina - Chapter 26

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Magic Saint Seraphina
Chapter 26
Boing!
“Someone asks you a question and you don’t answer?!”
Are you some kind of impossible customer?!
I must’ve repeated myself three, four times—”You did order the red one, didn’t you?”—only for him to come back with “Excuse me, but I ordered the blue one over there!”
Boing!
“I asked you! Who are you?!”
Boing!
“How did you find this place?!”
Boing!
“When someone asks, you answer!”
“Ugh!”
It was meant to be “boing,” but really
Crack!—
more of a sickening impact sound.
The man staggered backward as the relentless Boing Hammer connected hard against the side of his head.
His neatly swept black hair fell into disarray.
When would someone like him—built like a black panther—ever take a beating from a Boing Hammer on a rainy day? Well, today he was going to get his fill.
Have at it!
“You’ll only wise up if you get hit! If you get hit!”
As he retreated, I pressed forward. We circled the cramped room, trading blows back and forth.
Squeak-squeak-squeak-squeak!
The hammer no longer went “boing” or even “squeak”—now it was sharp cracks. The man, who’d been defending with his raised arms, cursed under his breath, then dipped his body and rushed at me.
“Yeah, come on—”
“Urgh!”
Crack! I seized his throat, using his own weight against him as he tried to bulldoze me down.
“That’s right.”
I drove forward, aiming to slam his back against the wall.
The man was just a hair faster.
He slid his feet deliberately beneath him, rolled smoothly once, and slipped free from my grip.
While I recovered my balance after sliding too,
“Yelp!”
Tofu, who’d been cheering from the corner with a letter in his mouth, was snatched up by the man’s hand.
The letter envelope scattered from Tofu’s surprised mouth.
“Yip!”
Let him go, you coward! The man lifted Tofu by the scruff, his hind legs thrashing, and smiled viciously.
“Stay right there. Unless you want this dog’s life to end.”
“…”
A man a full head taller than me, shoulders nearly twice as broad, threatening me with a dog the size of his palm… Was this real?
“From what I heard earlier, this dog seems to be a Divine Beast. I wonder if his neck would break if I twisted it?”
It was real.
“…”
I glared at him.
The absurdity of it was making my cheeks puff out with air. I wanted to laugh—a hollow, bitter laugh.
Wow.
I was genuinely angry for the first time in a while.
Touch the dog?
That’s the move villains pull, isn’t it? One guy gets a Golden Retriever stuffed and mounted, another uses a Maltese as a shield!
“Give up.”
The man smirked, watching me glare while I couldn’t quite bring myself to act.
“You can’t let go of this dog, can you? That’s why you so-called righteous types are so pathetic. You’re always trying to do things the right way, so you’ve got way too many constraints.”
Damn it.
“You’re the one who should give up. If you hurt that dog, I’m not letting you walk out of here. Just put him down quietly.”
“Maybe. If I’m dead either way, I’d at least like to take the dog with me.”
“It’s not a dog, you—”
“If you let the dog go right now, I’ll let him escape.”
“Heh.”
The man laughed at my words, grinding them out between clenched teeth.
“That’s exactly why it won’t work. People like you.”
In the man’s teasing grip, Tofu squeaked and thrashed about.
Usually so round and bloated he looked like a pig, but in moments like these, he fit in the palm of a hand.
The man handled the tiny creature without care.
I was absolutely furious.
Was there any way out? I took a deep breath.
If the Magic Saint from 950 Years Ago could pick locks with magic and defeat enemies, she’d solve this situation easily.
Why am I not a real magic user, and why can’t I do anything against this bastard…!
Oh, God!
Let me use magic! Anything at all!
Even just once!
That’s when it happened.
The Transformation Mirror hanging around my neck began to glow on its own.
Through the window, moonlight spilled in, and the heart-shaped mirror sparkled brilliantly in answer, dazzling and bright.
“Seraphina! Use the hand mirror!”
Tofu realized what was happening before I did, squeaking frantically.
“This?!”
I grabbed it without thinking.
But what am I supposed to do with it?!
“Is it saying to block bullets with the mirror again? Wait—”
Understanding flooded through me.
Smack!
I ripped the Transformation Mirror from my neck and hurled it.
“Ugh!”
The red heart’s edge caught the man square in the forehead, and he dropped Tofu, stumbling backward.
“That’s it!”
I clenched my fists.
“Smash a skull with a ranged attack!”
“I was telling you to concentrate the moonlight with the mirror…!”
“This works better!”
Who has time to sit around collecting light with a mirror? This isn’t a science class!
“Red-Eyed Man! You’re done for!”
No matter how handsome you are, I won’t forgive you!
I rushed at him as he lay sprawled on the ground.
Smack!
“Torturing animals! Women! The elderly! Children! Those who prey on the weak are the worst!”
And you’ve already won two championships—animals and women?!
“Today I’m going to break your wrists so you never do this again!”
When we hit Pepper’s Father, black stuff came out of his mouth—I wonder what comes out when I hit someone like you!
Smack!
With each swing of the hammer, Star Candies and heart-shaped sweets bounced and sprang everywhere.
“Don’t bully the weak!”
Smack!
“Don’t dredge up other people’s painful memories!”
Smack!
“Right to know?! You just wanted to have fun at someone else’s expense!”
Smack!
“Rosena is a brilliant actress! Don’t make her want to retire!”
Smack!
“No one—no one has the right to profit from another’s misfortune!”
To people who only understand when you spell it out for them!
★★★★★
So that everyone can have money, fame, and health!
Magic Saint Seraphina!
Evil-vanquishing hammer justice!
★★★★★
Boom!
The hand mirror lodged in the man’s forehead and the jewel embedded in my Boing Hammer blazed with brilliant light.
The radiance grew stronger, flooding the entire room.
Red, yellow, and green Star Candies cascaded down, bouncing and pelting the man.
“Ugh! What—what is this!”
“I have no idea!”
As star candies rained down on me unexpectedly, I stamped on the man’s foot with full force.
“Ugh!”
Still disoriented, the man suddenly pulled something from his pocket and triggered it.
Clang!
While I was busy securing Tofu first—worried it might be something strange again—the man smashed through the window and fled.
“Where do you think you’re going, you bastard!”
I hurled a million star candies at the fleeing man’s head, but—
“Hey! You come back here! Apologize to the dog first!”
“Seraphina. He’s already gone.”
“Tofu!”
Are you okay?! I scooped up the whimpering Tofu into my arms.
“Are you hurt?! Did that bastard grip you too hard?! God, look at your fur all matted… you need a bath.”
“A bath is fine. But Seraphina—”
Look over there. Tofu pointed with a paw at something.
“…What? The hand mirror and the Boing Hammer are…”
Fused together.
The transformation mirror that had been a pendant necklace and the Boing Hammer that had been a weapon had merged into one.
A heart-shaped gem blazed brilliantly in the center of the Boing Hammer.
As I watched, the Boing Hammer’s form melted away smoothly and reformed into the hand mirror.
This mirror too looked different from before.
More ornate now.
…Did it absorb my School Brooch?
“What’s going on here?”
“It responded to Seraphina’s fierce desire for justice! Now this is Seraphina’s Personal Magic Tool that only Seraphina can use!”
Now Seraphina will be able to use a variety of different spells and functions with this! Tofu clapped his little paws together.
“Congratulations on becoming a true Magic Saint!”
“I mean…”
All I wanted was to beat that villainous bastard to death…
Thank you for seeing it that way…?
Anyway, a “true” Magic Saint.
My Personal Magic Tool.
Why are you only telling me about this now?
At a loss for words, I looked at Tofu, but he was too busy using his nose to crack open star candy shells and eat them.
He didn’t seem to hear a word I was saying.
“Scatterbrained mutt…”
His only talent is being cute.
Anyway, if the sacred artifact and my brooch have fused together.
If that’s how I got this Personal Magic Tool.
‘I can finally stop wearing my School Brooch two years after graduation.’
So now I can pick locks by magic without leaving a trace when I’m infiltrating places, instead of using brute force.
…An evolved thief?
“Tofu, what other functions can we use with this thing?”
“Try it out! Press the gem in the center!”
“…Okay.”
I pressed it with anticipation.
A glimmer. Light flared.
☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★
Sparkle-sparkle-sparkle. It glowed for about ten seconds, then faded.
Tofu, with a candy stuck to his nose, let out a cheer.
“The Light of Justice!”
“So we use this to defeat villains? If I shoot this light, the villains vanish?”
“No! It just seems to glow!”
“…”
“What?”
“…”
I stared in exasperation at this scatterbrained mutt who went too far no matter what.
Wee-woo-wee-woo-wee-woo. Why-y-y-y-y.
The sirens of the Capital Guard echoed from far away in the distance.
“Oh no. Someone must have called them in.”
“Of course! We smashed everything in sight and made a terrible racket!”
“Let’s get out of here!”
I tucked Tofu under my arm again.
I gathered the scattered letter envelopes from the floor and checked that the film canister was still intact. Then I threw myself through the window the Red-Eyed Man had shattered.
I made it to the roof.
“Magic Saint!”
“?!”
That voice—!
I spun around.
My eyes met Arden’s, who stood there dressed in some kind of noble finery.
His eyes widened the moment he saw my face clearly.
“You…!”
No!
I’m supposed to have Face Recognition Disorder Magic cast on my combat outfit!
How did he recognize me!

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