Magical Girl with Demonic Time Magic-Chapter 93: Awakened Wings

"Ayane, Setsuna is in the medical wing." A girl speaks while I hurry with urgency, Setsuna has been missing for 3 days, she was taken by a monster and has finally been found.

Ophelia said they found a hidden base underground, most of the monsters were killed in that place, but the damage, blood, and things in some areas made it clear what was happening there.

Apparently, Setsuna and Rena fought the monsters and won, but Rena died and Setsuna was severely injured and found unconscious on a distant street, they didn’t find Rena’s body, only her head at her mother’s house as some kind of sick warning.

Ophelia said the place seemed to be an operations base for a monster known as the Pharmacist, and that probably some monster was the one who took Rena’s head to give a warning to the magical girls.

As for Setsuna, she was found unconscious somewhere abandoned above a roof a little far away, she didn’t have that many injuries, but she wasn’t conscious and hasn’t woken up yet.

She had signs of a fight and received a powerful blow to the head that slightly injured her face, but nothing too serious, and apparently, she wasn’t abused, so the damage was really limited.

I quickly arrive at her room, it’s the second time I’ve come to visit with so much concern, and it’s bad to see her getting hurt like this.

"..." The room is empty and I see Setsuna lying on the bed covered by the sheet, she’s breathing calmly as I approach.

I know she’s fine, they said her power has increased a lot, so a possibility is that she’s sleeping to adjust, which is not uncommon with considerable increases in power.

"Has it always been like this?" I look at Setsuna and feel a chill and something different, an uncomfortable cold of something bad in her magic, I can feel her magic and it’s cold.

I’ve recently learned how to feel the magic of the other girls, and the magic that Setsuna emanates is very cold, it’s not that bad, just strangely uncomfortable because it’s too cold.

Like a cold night without any coat or jacket to use during the cold to warm up.

But it soon passes completely and her magic seems to return, stopping from coming out of her body in high quantity, which reduces the sensation, and soon her magic becomes calmer and warmer, almost like a gentle hug.

This puts a smile on my face, Setsuna’s magic is really cold, but also warm.

"...I saw your eye opening." I speak enthusiastically, she sighs and opens her eyes completely, it seems she was pretending to sleep.

"You’ve become smarter and less restrained, that’s good," she says, looking at me.

"...Don’t look at me like I’m pretending, I woke up a few hours ago, I just pretended to sleep to rest, I have a headache and didn’t want people asking things."

"Hmph, of course I was... you should stop pretending to be asleep, you know, I was so worried, if you were awake and told someone, I wouldn’t have come so worried." I speak seriously.

"..." Setsuna raises her head and looks at her body and then at me.

"I’m still a virgin," she says with a little smile, leaving me embarrassed and breaking the serious mood.

"T-That’s not what I meant."

"I know, but with that you’ve already understood that nothing happened to me, right? The monsters fortunately didn’t have time to touch my body... haaa... I’ll have a long report to write." She just sighs tiredly.

"But on the bright side, Ayane, now we can go on missions together again, I think it’s better for both of us to go on simpler missions, don’t you agree?" She questions me.

"I agree, we need to go more calmly, and there’s also school that we shouldn’t neglect." I say seriously to her, who is risking too much.

"You know, I think I want a hamburger." She just says out of nowhere.

"Seriously? Now?" I ask as she looks at me with a soft smile.

"Yes, unless you want to see me without my clothes, since they got destroyed and my normal clothes are pretty torn..."

"I’m leaving." I practically run out, embarrassed, while I hear the sound of her getting up.

"How about we go to the diner after this?" I say, trying not to talk about what happened, she’s already made it clear in her own way that she doesn’t want to talk about it either.

This strange conversation we’re having is an attempt to get back to normalcy and leave the past in the past, she’s already said she’s fine, and I know she’s already put a period at the end of the subject.

"Sounds good, but could you go get me some clothes?" She speaks while I nod, but I realize she can’t see me from in there, so I say I’ll be right back as I start running there.

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I hear Ayane’s footsteps running quickly, I’m glad I was able to get her away, I didn’t want her to see this.

"Why the hell do I have wings?" I murmur, seeing the large pair of wings on my back, pure white wings that are quite large, and I could barely hide them under the sheet.

I feel their sensations, they’re real flesh and bone. I pull a feather and feel pain as I analyze the feather in front of me. I go to the mirror in the corner and lean back to see.

I can see them coming out of my back, they’re not just an ornament like the one on my head, they’re real wings. After having delivered Rena’s head to her mother and thinking a bit about why I did that, I decided to go back to the underground.

I was going to pretend to still be fighting, but as I followed the path, I just collapsed on the floor and felt everything go dark as I felt my magic leaking out, and suddenly I woke up here in the base a few hours ago.

I even tried to leave, but I felt these things on my back and tried as hard as I could to hide them, but it’s not as easy as hiding the magical girl outfit.

Plus, to have space, these wings tore my casual clothes, so I really don’t have a dress because of the huge tear in the back, well, the dress is here, but it’s not in good condition for use.

"Hexael, explain this." I call Hexael to have him explain why the hell I have this pair of wings.

"..." Nothing, no sound, no laughter, and no meow, normally he always appears when I call him.

"Hexael?" He doesn’t show up, leaving me with this huge problem, how do I explain the wings to the other girls in the base?

Even worse, what if they’ve already seen the wings? I don’t know when the wings appeared, and I don’t know how long I’ve been sleeping, but since I’m in the standard medical wing area, I think no one has seen the wings yet.

So I urgently need to hide them, or it will be complicated to explain this, at least I need to learn how to make them disappear and then I can lie that it’s a ramification of my magic.

"But white wings... and they seem to be 100% natural from the body... What did Hexael do to my body... to begin with, is this really my body?" Now I really don’t know what to say.

I just keep trying to hide them, moving them is not difficult, it’s almost like moving an arm, but hiding them has proven to be a challenge that I’m losing.

They don’t have magic, so I don’t have much control over them, when I close them I can almost cover my front, they’re quite large, but luckily I was able to hide by covering myself with the sheet up to my head.

If I can just hide them, I can keep the lie, but if they see me with them without being able to hide them, it might be hard to lie, because when the magic runs out, things like this disappear.

But the wings don’t have magic, so even with the magic depleted, the wings would still be here.

"Urgh..." I let out a painful groan as the wings fold, I fall to the floor holding the ground and breathing heavily while the wings slowly disappear into my back.

After what seemed like an eternity, they’re gone from my back.

’I-I seem to have managed it, it was difficult and a bit... strange.’

"..." But to my bad luck, Ayane showed up, and she saw everything, I try to get up to explain, but the huge tear in the casual clothes without the wings to support them make the clothes fall down.

The part of my torso is completely exposed while Ayane is so embarrassed that she tries to run, but I go to her, holding her hand and pulling her inside.

"Wait, I can explain, this is a ramification of my magic that I awakened and now I can create wings." I tell the lie, letting her go, and she turns her back to me.

"D-Dress!!" She speaks urgently, holding out a dress to me, there goes the element of surprise, I was going to tell them about the wings later.

"Thank you." I take the dress and start changing quickly.

"Y-You know, your wings reminded me of an angel from those stories..." She speaks nervously.

"I appreciate the compliment... could you not tell anyone? I’m still learning to control this new magic." I speak as I finish putting on the dress.

"S-Sure... the medical team said you were unconscious because of the magic, maybe it was this awakening of the new magic that made you pass out." Ayane speaks the same conclusion I drew.

It’s obvious I passed out because of this, this sudden increase in power and this physical change were the causes of my loss of consciousness.

"Yes... you... didn’t see, did you?" I ask as she looks at the ground.

"B-Black..." She murmurs, getting the exact color of my bra, which may be a bit too erotic for a common bra, lately I’ve been testing various different underwear, thinking about which one Ayane would like.

So it happened that just the bra from before I was kidnapped was one of the most "prominent" for any observer’s view.

"I-It looked great on you..." She just says that, looking at me now that I’m wearing a simple white dress.

"...Diner." I say.

"Absolutely." She just agrees to get out of the awkward situation, we should let the others know I’ve woken up so I can give reports, but honestly, we can leave that for later.

I just hope that the coming months are more peaceful.