Chapter 168 – Two Great Magical Girl Battle!

“Аlright, lеt’s gеt this mаtch started!!”

“Lеt’s dо this! Yeah!”

Sрice аnd Windу wеrе gеtting rеally рumped uр.

Тhe соmmеnt sесtion wаs buzzing toо.

※’It’s a battlе оf сutеness vs. cutеness!’ ‘Whо should I root fоr?!’ ‘Littlе Spice… no, Littlе Windу is also super cutе…’ ‘It’s а showdown between а Jаpanеse littlе girl аnd аn Аmerican little girl’ Rumр: ‘It’s hard to сhооse, but I’m roоting fоr Littlе Spicе!’ Maruсhou: ‘Has therе еver beеn а Witch bаttle this pеaceful аnd full of flаir bеfore?’

They’rе hyреd, thеy’rе hypеd.

Windу immеdiatelу startеd сhаnting а sрell.

It’s in Еnglish, but Flорpу is kindlу providing subtitles. Good job!

“Swirl, swirl, swirl! Make his head spin! Whirlwind!”

A fierce whirlwind erupted, spinning Spice around and around.

“Whoa! An attack right off the bat! And it’s fast! Levitation!”

He shortened the incantation and floated up lightly, escaping the whirlwind’s range.

“My turn! Duke of Hell, searing heat from the writhing depths, melt and scorch the earth! Fireball!”

He’s using a Fireball, but by combining listener-submitted, plausible-sounding spells, a new imagination takes hold.

It surges forward, raising waves of flame along the ground—it’s become a Magma Ball!

“Ow! Gotta block this! Ice Barrier!”

Several crackling, frozen walls appeared in front of Windy.

The Magma Ball melted through three of them before cooling and solidifying.

Hmm, it’s a good match.

Skill-wise, they’re about the same, aren’t they?

‘Master! Use a mental attack!’

“That’s it! Let’s go with an invisible attack! Hiyah! I throw a pebble—Drunk!”

He imbued a pebble with magic and threw it.

“I won’t get hit by something so obvious!”

It was deflected by wind!

Besides, Windy is jumping and leaping around, her movements are fast!

This makes it hard to even touch her.

The power of youth!

“Amazing.”

Guard Mask was engrossed in watching the fight.

When it’s not about you, you can watch calmly, huh.

I hope he takes notes.

The current Guard Mask fights like he’s still in the wild, you see.

Even when grabbing and punching an opponent, I want him to understand why he does it that way and refine it himself.

Spice sends rubble flying one after another!

Windy shoots them down with wind!

Windy rains down ice!

Spice blocks it with his new magic, Firewall!

‘Mm, I’m satisfied with how often I’m being used.’

‘Well, Ignite is easy to use, after all. It’s common for combat magic.’

‘That’s why I lack versatility, though.’

‘What are you being picky about?’

Even during the battle, Flota and Ignite were chattering away.

But, Spice had a secret weapon prepared!

“You get it, right Marinna?”

‘Yes! If there’s saltwater close to seawater’s composition, I can exert my power~!’

“Your voice is too loud! Your voice!”

‘Y-yes, I’ll exert my power quietly.’

At the moment Windy’s magical attacks stopped…

“Arise from the abyss! Power of the sea, mother of life! Now, create and summon forth a Retinue! Call Seamonster!”

※Fish: ‘Yay! Thank you for using my incantation!’ ‘A genuine Manma incantation!’ ‘This seems like it’ll be effective.’ ‘And it’s new magic, right?’

“Whoa! What’s filling my feet… saltwater!? A monster is coming out from there! What a… what a… cutie~!”

Yes!!

This is magic to create sea monsters as Retinues.

But with Spice’s current power, the best he can do is create chibi, big-headed mermen about ankle-high!

SD-style mermen appear, toddling along and plopping down.

Or they splash around in the water, their heads getting stuck as they flail.

“Aah~! Th-this makes it hard to focus on the battle!”

“Opening! Drunk!”

Here, Spice launches an SD merman imbued with Drunk!

Windy, catching it without thinking, goes limp and collapses.

“Aah~. The world is spinning… but it’s so cute~”

Even though she knows the Drunk effect is on her, Windy ends up cuddling the SD merman.

“Girls are weak to cute things… This is Spice’s trump card, exploiting that vulnerability.”

※’As expected of the old man, a cunning tactic!!’ Maruchou: ‘Nothing less than brilliant… To incapacitate her without a scratch…’ Prime Sirloin: ‘By the way, weren’t there other monsters here too?’

“There are monsters! Guard Mask! Go for it!!”

“Whoooa!!”

The monsters, seeing the balance of Spice and Windy’s battle break, started to move.

All this time, they were just hesitating in front of the magical exchange!

Trying to jump on the bandwagon, huh?

But, Guard Mask stands in their way!

With his overly sturdy-looking knuckle guard-equipped Air Gun and his left hand’s President Coral-crafted knuckles.

He faces them dual-wielding!

“Uwooooh!! This department store! Opened in Showa 47, operating until Heisei 27, one of this town’s symbolic buildings! This place, familiar and dear to the locals, a part of their childhood memories! I won’t let it become a Dungeon! Department store, thank you for everything until now!!”

While reminiscing about something, Guard Mask proceeds to take down the nostalgic vehicle-themed monsters charging at him with his knuckles.

So locally rooted~.

※’His local pride is as strong as ever.’ ‘A man who brings story into battle.’ ‘It’s like a tourism guide too, right?’

Guard Mask, watched by nearly ten thousand concurrent viewers of Spice’s stream!

Somehow, his whole body seems to be transforming to look more like a real Hero Suit?

This guy, when he receives cheers from the listeners, he visibly powers up.

“Ooh~, i-it’s coming~”

Windy, made limp by Drunk, points at the sky.

Coming, that guy?

It’s gotta be him!

※’Sorry for the spoiler! Hazuki-chan defeated the Great Fire Demon General!!’

Right after that comment from one listener, a corner of the sky glowed red.

It’s the sky above the area where the Otherworld and reality are precisely mixed, around this Dungeon—the department store under demolition.

The red color is swirling.

It spreads out with a whoosh.

Wings.

Here she comes, here she comes.

The revived Witch of Flame, Freya!

“Hey, wake up. Snap out of it.”

He takes the merman from Windy and gives her cheeks little pats.

“Oww.”

“Drunk is psychosomatic, you know! There’s actually no alcohol or anything in it, so it’s wholesome!”

“Now that you mention it, I kinda feel that way.”

Windy snaps out of it.

Alright, let’s go greet Freya!