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They are able to make their own decisions and take on the corresponding responsibilities.

Urzana guessed that the reason Lania developed such a personality was probably closely related to her wizard bloodline.

Wizards recorded in history are all unique individuals, not to mention Lania, who carries the blood of a dragon slayer.

To be honest, although wizards are born with the obligation to assist their guardians, they are basically all madmen.

Haga Mayumi: "..."

Really? I didn't notice at all.

Among the people she knew, Rania seemed to be in a relatively stable mental state.

Needless to say, in the world of children, aside from magical girls whose personal qualities are so outstanding that they seem a bit abnormal, you can't find another Abyss Gentleman among the weirdos.

But it is said that the Abyss Gentleman in his early years was a pleasure-seeker who would set off fireworks using spiritual veins.

In Mayumi Haga's view, people with negative emotions are incomplete individuals, lacking something in their mental well-being.

Who would consider a particular negative emotion as their primary state?

Then there are the people you knew in the original world.

Leaving aside Megarane, the water sprite whose appetite and lust are intertwined, and setting aside the scumbag senior who throws away her girlfriend every day, even senior Urzana once did something like taking a bath in lava and then enthusiastically inviting me to go down with her.

In comparison, Lania only occasionally called him to study the Guardians' physical structure, but those slightly excessive actions did not actually cause him any real harm.

So the most normal one should be Lania.

"No, it's all just fluff, isn't it?! Even if you add me, it's still just fluff!" Urzana said helplessly. "If you think Rania is okay, you're a little out of your mind."

"But that's witchcraft research..."

"Did she tell you she wanted to explore the mysteries of the human body, and then call you over to dissect it?"

“…No, I didn’t take off my clothes.” Mayumi Haga recalled seriously, “And it didn’t hurt.”

“It’s not about taking off your clothes, it’s about you having to learn to say ‘no’ to your friends sometimes.” Ulzana remembered the time when Mayumi Haga and Rania were playing together, when the little feather’s pain tolerance wasn’t as strong as it is now.

It's likely that witchcraft was used to shield Mayumi Haga from pain.

Urzana could even picture the child foolishly running off to play dissection games.

She sometimes felt that Mayumi should find a more normal friend, because dissection games are definitely not something children should play.

Mayumi Haga said "Oh," and was about to say something in rebuttal.

After all, Lania was also concerned about not using her self-destruct skill carelessly; she still felt that the other party's dissection game was just an ordinary game.

However, she subconsciously overlooked the fact that she might have used self-destruction so often that she didn't have any complete material, which was why Lania had to dissect her alive.

As Mayumi Haga pondered how to organize her thoughts, she suddenly felt others casting their gazes at her.

She calmly observed her surroundings, when a pair of eerie green eyes hidden in the shadows caught her eye.

Caught off guard by Mayumi Haga, the strange man hiding in the shadows panicked for a moment and tried to leave.

Just then, a car drove by, its shadow briefly intersecting with the location of the strange man before he disappeared from Mayumi Haga's perception range.

Mayumi Haga:.

Do I look that scary?

She had clearly concealed her eccentricity.

However, the oddballs in this city seem to be a bit more idle than those in Miracle City.

When Mayumi Haga was in Miracle City, she would often encounter strange people working in unexpected places.

Needless to say, there's the Abyss Gentleman who works at a convenience store, ramen shop, and small restaurant. Sometimes when passing by a maid café, you might see an angry monster inside spewing caramel pudding with fire, a little bear handing out flyers on the street, and a Dream-Eating Clown that children avoid at the amusement park...

When not engaging in their eccentric activities, these oddballs live peacefully and work diligently to support their daily lives.

But in Strange City, I didn't see any strange people working. Although it's a bit rude to say that, most of the strange people looked rather idle.

Perhaps this is part of urban culture.

Mayumi Haga shook her head, preparing to continue down this path.

The shadowy figure that seemed to have left has returned. Using the shadows cast by the traffic, it has now swum to the vicinity of Mayumi Haga and, as she takes a step, quietly extends a leg from under the streetlight.

—That will definitely trip her up, hehehehehehehehe...

Mayumi Haga didn't even blink, seemingly unaware of the other person's prank.

The shadowy figure held his breath, eagerly anticipating the moment his prank would come to fruition.

Then, Mayumi Haga landed a perfectly precise foot on his calf.

"Click".

There was a sickening cracking sound as something was being broken by foot.

"Aa ...

A sudden, agonizing scream.

Text: 264. What did you say?

Despite the bright and sunny weather, the shadowy figure's back was already soaked with cold sweat.

Oh no, looks like we've run into a tough opponent.

The Shadow Monster thought this as Mayumi Haga pulled him out of the shadows by his collar.

It was drenched in cold sweat, and the instant it was exposed to the sunlight, it instinctively closed its eyes and covered its face with its arms.

The shadow monster looks like a criminal suspect from a detective anime. Even when you pull him into a brightly lit place, he still looks like a bald man covered in black.

Although it is the size of an adult, because its true form is a shadow, its weight is only about half that of a normal person, and it can be easily lifted by Mayumi Haga.

Even if it falls into the water, it should be able to float very easily.

However, because of this, her body density is quite low, so even if she trips over someone other than Mayumi Haga but just an ordinary person on the street, there is still a risk of fracture.

Mayumi Haga remained silent for a moment.

She truly didn't expect that some strange person would try to trip her up without using magic to enhance their physical abilities.

She had never encountered anything like this on the streets of Miracle City before. On the contrary, on her very first day in Strange City, she accidentally broke the poor monster's leg.

Seeing the unlucky girl in front of her, who had chosen the wrong target for her prank, crying her eyes out from the pain, Mayumi Haga said coldly, "Shut up."

She didn't want to attract attention, but because this guy was crying so loudly, Mayumi Haga had noticed that people were turning their gaze in their direction.

It took her quite some time to stuff Megraine into her backpack instead of carrying her, and she also awkwardly used what's called aura concealment, trying not to attract attention.

Stepping on the shadow monster and wailing was to her akin to stepping on a tree branch while stalking through a jungle—a delicate experience.

But the branch just kept growing towards her feet; what could she do?

She had tried her best to avoid it before stepping on it, but this guy still insisted on coming closer.

Not wanting to attract any more attention, Mayumi Haga immediately led the Shadow Monster into a nearby alley.

The dark corners kept the curious gazes of passersby at bay, but the scene now clearly carried a different meaning.

To others, it seemed that Mayumi Haga had captured a lone, unaffiliated oddball on the street and then taken him to an alley to beat him up.

Look at that poor guy's broken leg, and listen to his pitiful wails. Now he's been dragged into the alley, and who knows what will become of him.

The pedestrians on the street felt a little sorry for him. Some of the strangers recognized the strange figure and went to the secondhand bookstore on the street, where they found the owner who was dozing off.

"Was that the Shadow Monster who was screaming just now?" a regular customer asked, a hint of worry in his eyes. "It sounded like it was in a lot of pain..."

"Shadow? That idiot who dreams of joining the prankster group every day has stepped on a hot plate more than once or twice." The boss was a middle-aged man with a stubble beard. He leaned against the counter and looked up. He wasn't actually very worried about the Shadow Stranger's situation.

Although the city is often chaotic due to the large number of eccentric individuals, and there are two eccentric organizations—the Prankster and the Orange Juice Oddballs—that were established as a joke, actual crimes are still rare.

Leaving aside the fact that the latter's joining condition was to work at the Ultimate Orange Juice factory, the former's joining condition was simply to master the ability to play pranks.

The Shadow Monster is a monster that was born a few months ago and is still quite young. It is unknown where it heard about the Prankster Group, but it is determined to join.

About a month ago, the Shadow Monster started lurking on the street looking for prank targets.

The Shadow Monster is actually not very good at playing pranks because it is a monster that was only recently created. It has little magic power, is extremely weak, and is also very unlucky.

At first, people were wary of this strange man who often lingered on the streets, looking to trip them up.

But as time went on, it became clear that this guy had never actually succeeded.

So they just let it do as it pleased.

Unexpectedly, the Shadow Monster is in trouble today.

"Are you really alright? I think the person who grabbed the shadow is from out of town. Maybe he's some weirdo who's hostile to tourists from the city..." the messenger said.

The messenger worked at the nearby lunchbox shop, so he was quite familiar with the Shadow Man.

The boss was actually a little unsure: "Are there still guys who discriminate against weirdos these days?"

"I'm not entirely sure, but the girl had a cold expression," the messenger said. "Although people like that are rare these days, it's better to inform Kazuna just in case."

Kazuna, the freak from the future, is currently the most influential freak in this neighborhood.

Kazuna was sent to Miracle City as cannon fodder to compete for the Fire Seed, but with the help of the magical girls there, he not only returned early, but his abilities also seem to have improved by leaps and bounds.

He's a quirky guy who's very popular with kids, and he can get along well with newborn young quirky kids too, making him practically the king of the neighborhood kids.

It would be better to call the future monster Kazuna at a time like this, lest the Shadow Monster really get bullied by outsiders.

Yumi Haga was unaware that she had already been labeled an unwelcome guest by the locals. She had just taken out a magic replenishment potion from her backpack.

Even though the other party had tried to stage an accident first, Mayumi Haga, who had something to ask, clearly couldn't ignore the other party's injuries.

So she decided to heal the other person's leg that she had broken first.

Mayumi Haga doesn't possess any healing magic, so she can only provide mana replenishment potions, allowing the shadow monster to heal itself after replenishing its mana.

This potion was obtained from Terasaki Ayasa. When she made it, she didn't know the Guardian's true identity, so she didn't design the potion's flavor in much detail.

One dose of the medicine made the Shadow Monster roll his eyes back.

It's not that it tastes bad... it's just very subtle.

The taste was so subtle it was almost nauseating, and what's more, Mayumi Haga had taken out a 2L bottle of concentrated liquor. He poured it all in, and the Shadow Monster, who had just finished lunch, almost choked and vomited.

But as expected of a product by Ayasa Terasaki, the mana replenishment effect is truly immediate.

The Shadow Monster received such abundant magic power for the first time, and not only did its calves recover rapidly, but its appearance, which had been stagnant due to a lack of magic power, also began to change.

The Shadow Monster, as the name suggests, is a monster who can use shadow magic and whose physical essence is "shadow".

Its appearance is not fixed; it changes with the scene, but such changes require a certain amount of magic power.

Previously, due to a lack of magic, it could only maintain its default appearance.

The default appearance is genderless, looking like a pure black shadow with a pair of blank eyes.

Now that it has magic, it has become the shadow of the person closest to it.

That is, the appearance of Haga Mayumi, who is entirely black.

Although the only difference in appearance was the color, the Shadow Monster stood there blankly and somewhat awkwardly, afraid that the other party would dislike his appearance and beat him up.

The shadowy figure cowered: "Th-thank you..."

Mayumi Haga found the expression on her face quite strange.

Is it really that strange for my face to make such an expression?

"So, why did you target me just now?" Mayumi Haga originally wanted to ask this strange man directly "what his purpose was," but she felt that this guy probably didn't think too much about it.

Mayumi Haga intended to ask a couple of casual questions and move on, but she heard an unexpectedly interesting answer.

"I want to join the prankster group. Their rule is that you have to be really good at pranks..."

In Mayumi Haga's original world, violent societies also existed. Before the destruction of civilization, she often went to human cities to rest and would encounter gangs and other organizations.

In this world, it seems that such a thing is called ●society.

I never thought a weirdo would have something like this...

However, the eccentric gangs aimed at the children's world don't seem to be that brutal after all.

At most, it will be a comical competition, like the Krusty Krab and the Sea King in the Yellow Squares cartoon.

The prank group that uses "pranks" as a condition for joining is clearly not very professional.