Chapter 315: Then, the Contract Is Established

In this instant, countless things suddenly flashed through her eyes.

The expensive magic-powered hover car that had roared past, extravagant to an appalling degree.

The lofty rich people, the powerful superhumans.

And the classmates sitting together in the classroom, chatting and laughing, with their exquisite makeup and those ugly, superior faces flaunting the expensive chips and magic potions they had bought.

An impossible-to-suppress thought suddenly appeared in her mind.

- They really are... so enviable, those people born with good luck and wealth, those who occupy positions of power.

- But I do not even have a mother.

The blonde magical girl she had seen on the airship's holographic screen that morning flashed through her eyes one last time.

That vibrant smile, that dazzling and beautiful spirit outfit, was so radiant and glorious.

- I just...

- want to become a magical girl who shines like that...

The light in Vivi's eyes grew increasingly dim.

It was as if something were burning in her chest, or perhaps beginning to sprout.

It was a despairing flame of jealousy, so intense that it had reached its absolute extreme.

And at this moment.

As though it had triggered some unseen force, black fog seemed to inexplicably appear in the air. Like tentacles, it began silently approaching Vivi.

It passed over the five oblivious women and was almost about to touch Vivi's body.

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Only one step away.

Yet at that very instant.

Everything suddenly fell into stillness. The movements of the five women and the spreading black fog all came to an abrupt halt within Vivi's consciousness.

It was only one step away, yet it seemed like a distance that could never be crossed.

“Do you want to become a magical girl?”

Faintly, a voice appeared, like an illusion. It was gentle and calm, as though it had come from above the clouds, yet it seemed to ring right beside her ear.

Vivi suddenly froze.

The other party repeated herself. This time, Vivi heard the voice clearly. It was a gentle and tranquil woman's voice.

“Do you want to become a magical girl?”

What was it?

A demon? A demon-person? An illegal contract beast? Or merely an illusion born from desperation?

Then Vivi suddenly realized that this was a fluctuation of magic power.

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It was coming from the spot against her chest, which she was clutching tightly.

That casting unit.

She did not speak. Instead, she instinctively gave a firm response in her mind.

“I do!!”

The next moment, Vivi seemed to see someone embracing her from the front.

The other person had long pink hair and wore a snow-white dress. Her face was unclear, but Vivi instinctively felt that she was an extraordinarily beautiful girl.

Her embrace shut out the omnipresent ominous black fog, bringing Vivi a warmth she had never experienced in her entire life. It tugged at her soul and pulled her back from the Abyss of jealousy to where she had originally been.

At that instant, Vivi's eyes closed, and the gentle female voice responded:

“Then, the contract is established.”

A feeling followed, as if something had connected itself to her.

It was as though the other end of her soul was no longer empty. It was very warm.

The next moment.

Before the leading woman's foot had even landed.

Vivi, who had been curled up, opened her eyes once more. The orange-yellow eyes now held a clear, profound radiance like that of precious gems.

At some point, the one-shoulder bag in her arms had opened by itself, and the sphere floated up. The gemstone embedded in it shone just as brilliantly.

A strange golden roulette wheel phantom appeared at the top of the sphere.

At the same time, Vivi saw the phantom of a slender, graceful arm lift before her eyes and point at the five women charging toward her.

They showed no reaction at all, as though they could not see the hand.

The roulette wheel turned imperceptibly once.

Clang!

A fluctuation of magic power suddenly flashed past, and Vivi felt the little magic power remaining within her drop again.

Then...

Thud *5

In an instant, all five of them collapsed at the same time, like appliances whose power had been cut off. The only one left was Vivi, still curled up in the corner of the carriage and yet to recover her senses.

She panted heavily and remained silent for a full half-minute. Only then did she lower her head and look at the “casting unit” that had fallen back into her bag. Her eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets.

“Huh?!”

What had happened?

Vivi stared blankly at the sphere that had fallen back into the bag, then looked at the five scavengers sprawled before her, her face filled with confusion.

And the warmth brought by the sudden phantom embracing her just now seemed to still be flowing through her body.

The shadow that had raised its hand and knocked these people down... should also have been the one that embraced her.

All of this strange behavior had come from the sphere before her eyes.

Vivi suddenly realized something.

Had this “casting unit” just spoken?!

The contract was established?!

She instinctively stared at the sphere and spoke, her tone wary and confused. “You...”

“...”

At that moment, a wisp of pink hair suddenly appeared at the edge of Vivi's vision.

It was as if someone had silently drawn close to her.

“!!”

Her pupils contracted. She sprang up in alarm as though she had seen a ghost, only to discover that the figure had vanished again.

But the figure immediately appeared once more on a seat inside the abandoned carriage, quietly watching her from several meters away.

Only then did Vivi recognize who it was.

The extraordinarily beautiful girl who had just embraced her, dressed in a pale white dress.

She looked about seventeen or eighteen years old. Her pink hair fell to her waist like a waterfall, her lovely features resembling an angel descended into the mortal world. Her figure was slender and graceful, while the curves of her chest stretched the white dress taut.

The girl's orange-yellow eyes were like pure amber. With a calm expression, she watched Vivi, her hands folded over her knees as she sat there quietly.

Even under these bizarre circumstances, Vivi could not help staring blankly for a moment because of the girl's beauty.

An inappropriate thought instinctively flashed through her mind.

- We have the same eye color.

Yet in the next moment, she suddenly thought of something, lowered her head, and looked at the orange-yellow gemstone embedded in the sphere.

As the other party's lips opened and closed, Vivi heard a gentle voice that seemed to resound directly in her heart.

“That is right. That is my true body.”

“You, you, you... you are this sphere?!”

Vivi came to her senses and incoherently lifted the sphere in her hands.

The golden roulette wheel on the sphere had already vanished, but the connection on the levels of magic power and the soul still remained.

She had never experienced anything like this before.

If she had to describe it, it was as though there were another self that was not herself.

Vivi blinked, her gaze shifting back and forth between the sphere less than twenty centimeters in diameter and the girl seated on the chair, beautiful to an unreal degree.

- Was she the one who saved me just now?

Then she suddenly discovered that the other party had appeared before her without warning.

The pink-haired girl was about ten centimeters taller than Vivi. She bent slightly and leaned her face very close.

From this angle, the girl seemed to be glowing, while the enormous pair of treasures on her chest seemed almost about to press against Vivi's collarbones.

What an amazing face!

What an amazing figure!