Under a dim moonlight outshone by artificial sources all over the city, a short figure could be seen strolling down the street.
It could be either he or she. No one would be able to make that out at first glance.
A short silver hair appeared from under a black baseball cap that covered the eyes and most of its wearer's face due to the person being short. Despite that, the jeans-clad legs were rather long and slim compared to the height. The chest, with a black leather jacket on top a white T-shirt, was burly and lacking any outstanding feminine figure and the body was also lean like an athlete's, almost too slim to be considered a boy.
"You over there!!"
A sudden voice stopped the short figure right in their track. It came from one of the 4 men who were all in their university uniform.
The next few seconds, the baseball cap was abruptly pulled above, revealing a long silver hair gathered into two tails that reach both shoulders. In addition, that fair-skinned face was feminine enough to wipe out any question on her gender.
"I know it. Come on, you shouldn't worry your mother by sneaking out of your bed and come to a place like this"
For the record, it was a few minutes past 2AM. The area the girl was lingering around was known to be abundant in night pubs and bars. In fact, she just walked out of one. Since it's that sort of place, it was inevitable to have drunken punks roaming here and there, and these 4 were not an exception.
"Shut up you idiot. Hey miss, if you won't *burp* mind, we can teach you about some funny thing people do at night"
"Cut this crap!!!"
Another one of them whose face and ears were still red spoke up, without bothering to cover any ill desire showed up in his eyes and voice. He, naturally, received a retort from his friend who possibly didn't want to involve himself with any action that could lead them all to jail.
Within such short duration where all the men were distracted by themselves, none of them realized that the girl's sharp gaze had finished analyzing all their clothes and visible belongings.
"
Eh, will you really... teach me?"
While what she said seemed to be too innocent coming from a girl walking in this time and place, the appropriate timing and degree of uncertainty and softness in the voice was giving all the men the single impression; this girl was weak, innocent and would listen to anything anyone say to her. Normally, one would instantly come to the fact that something was off, but since alcohol was in effect...
"Of course! Come on, we will teach you thoroughly in some more private place!!"
This time, when all his friends burst into laughter like a maniac, the man who suffered the least from liquors didn't stop them. Instead, he moved his finger slightly before a floating screen appeared. It only took a few seconds to finish booking a room in a cheap, worn-out hotel without any single surveillance camera in the building.
A room that would become a crime scene in the next few hours!!!
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It was another morning in the ManaCorp, a corporation of magical girl.
In the area assigned to group 13, everyone seemed to be doing their own things, but at the very least, they all seemed to be ready for breakfast.
Everyone, except for Ichigo who was sleeping like a log.
She normally tended to live up the reputation of "the best girl in the orphanage" and act like a honor student, waking up before everyone else, neatly tidying her bed, stuffs like that.
Although, last night was the first time since she moved in that Ichigo who was normally sweet and gentle announced in a cheerful voice about going out to have some fun and energetically left the dorm around 9PM. The time she came back was roughly 5AM, so it would be a miracle if she could wake up early as usual.
Currently, the girl was peacefully curling under her rabbit-themed blanket. It would take more than a sunlight or food's scent to pull her out of the bed...
