Chapter 18: The City The Magical Girl Is Named After

The name of the city was called Black Stella in other words a combination of Black Kitty and Stella that is to say Sae who wore a face of resignation as she heard this and flying towards its direction. In record it was a city that rivaled the capital so much it could be said people thought of it as a second capital, and with similar beauty as well so yes Sae the person who it was named after had a mega headache like who wouldn’t?! A city built in your name with a beauty that made one wish they could stay there forever. Upon arriving it was just as stated, Sae had one phrase for this.

“FUCKING BEAUTIFUL KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!”

She fell to her knees in defeat as she saw the city which was fashioned in silvery white walls, towers which soared high in the sky it was a beautiful combination of medieval and futuristic modernness. Apparently it had no one who outside because everyone was afraid of the undead demon, so she began to walk towards the gate which apparently opened by itself asking her to verify herself and her reason for visiting Black Stella.

“Holy shit she really did go overboard in making this city huh?”

“Ara another of those nuns?”

“Not really, I am a magical girl (former) and I am going to take you down blah blah blah blah”

“You are unnecessarily callous for an opponent”

“Well I am interested in exploring this gem of a city”

“Oh?So it was curiosity that got you running?”

“More or less”

“They say-“

“Curiosity killed the cat I know, but it won’t kill this one”

An explosion of epic proportions occurs right in front of the fake who looks like Ilura who doesn’t expect this and ends up being sent flying up into the air. The fake Ilura flies up to the sky only to see a mass of magic spears that are aimed at her, she blocks all of these with the magic whip she had in her hand. Sae smiles as she clashes swords with her and pushes her back.

“You are a fake indeed, what a terrible mimic you are honestly”

“You are just too strong”

“Well that is true in all cases “

Sae leaps forth with a burning gaze in her eyes with the two clashing into each other with the result being a bright light being emitted from the sky. The mimic tries to escape from Sae who gets serious for the first time upon seeing that the mimic has taken her current form.

“A Doppelgänger huh?So a fight against myself begins”

Both Sae fire the same fireball with different ranges of explosive fire with the real Sae swallowing the fake’s easily as they move in at the same time with the clashes in their sword.

“C’mon you can do better than that!”

Sae’s voices overlaps with the doppelgänger’s as she begins to dance into a flurry of sword swings which ring out in the city as a song of blades. Sae starts off by breaking away from this fake by leaving a mass of shots filled with impactful magic to which the fake escapes by using Hermes. Sae grins as she uses Gungnir to chase her around at lightning speeds with Zeus impacted inside of each of the spears which explode upon contact making this fake Sae suffer quite much from having trying to dodge by not touching these bomb tipped spears. She moves out onto a stream that flows through the city and moves out of the way of the spears. But upon doing so she sees Sae who is right above her with her finger lighting up in brightness as a small ball of energy spirals from it.

“Lado”

The explosion causes the water to fly up into the air with both the Saes looking at each other as time slows down. Sae moves forward in this frozen time paradise with the water drops in the way as they both clash at the same time separating the water from themselves and drops towards the ground hitting each other’s swords with accuracy that would definitely ended the other’s life if landed well. Upon reaching the ground Sae strike the fake Sae with a punch to the face and moves about with a grab to the collar and throws her back up into the sky. Its so high that the fake Sae uses Seraphim to catch her balance in the air but Sae arrives too soon to be clear with a fist enveloped in flames punching her stomach with the sound of armor shattering around her fake self. Unable to move a moment the doppelgänger falls to the ground once more she moves her mouth and opens it with a flame based attack coming from within. Sae dodges and grabs it with her bare hands turning it into more than huge spear that crashes towards the owner.

“Phoenix Down”

The image of a phoenix crashing down towards this fake is pictured perfectly as she gets hit by it and crashes into the ground with both water and dust coming down on her.

“Wow I have to say that you are really strong, I tried to defeat you but I am unable to”

“Because I improve myself every day those are all attacks the witches did both on me and Rin. So shall we dance once more I am disabling all my magic and physical buffing spells”

“Uwah what a monster even the Demon King can’t defeat this”

“Now I am interested “

The fake Sae materializes the sword that Sae liked to use and ran towards her with Sae herself walking quite plainly. She swings her sword down with her best but to Sae who is at the peak of human physique just hits it away from her with the sword stabbing into the ground.

“Too strong”

The fake’s body begins to pixelate as it dissolves to a smaller body, it’s the body of a pale skinned girl with the same white hair as Sae and golden eyes with twisted horns wearing an oversized t-shirt with a black collar on her neck.

“Come…..swiftly…..kill me”

Her eyes are filled with determination as Sae looks at her and walks in her direction. The girl closes her eyes in fear of what is to come but then she hears the sound of the collar breaking and falling to the ground with what followed being a warm hand on top of her head.

“Eh?What…..aren’t…you…killing me?I…tried to….kill you”

“You’re too cute and I find no reason to”

Tears begin to well up in her eyes as they drop out profusely.

“Why…would….you be…so kind…to..a monster….like me?”

“Because I can and hey you are not a monster, all I see here is a beautiful little girl who just needs some guidance”

She cries some more before hugging Sae who is sympathetic about this little girl who’s doppelgänger skill is on maximum, she takes her up in her arms in princess carry form and begins to fly into the air.

“Eh?”

“Hey would you look at that I bet you never saw the scenery didn’t you?”

“….”

“Don’t worry I would definitely protect you from anything”

“But….white hair….means I….am cursed”

“I have white hair too don’t I?And here I am living the best I can”

“…..”

“You can call me whatever you want, as you might not know my name is Sae Hoshikawa. You can call me Onee-chan if you want to”

“Un”

“But first I need to wash you up and have you wear some pretty clothes little missy. Dang I missed hearing your name didn’t I?”

“I have no name, only a number which is 18”

“How harsh, right I will name you then!Let’s see hmmmm right I have the right Snow because of your beautiful hair color, face and skin”

“……un”

Snow nodded her head as she accepted this name with a small smile, it seemed she liked it very much. The sky was so much better when she was in it out of her own free will rather being forced to fly in it, the land was a jewel to gaze upon as it made Snow glad she could walk on her own as this scenery made her shed some tears.

“Awww what is it?I am sorry if you have gone through a lot of bad times because of your power and strength but I am here now.”

“…….”

Sae drops down to the town of Deileth which was near the capital as such she wore a smile and headed into the nearest bath house and took a nice bath with Snow washing her dirtied white hair which began to shine like pure snow under the light of the sun.

“Those rags need to go, alright Snow-chan time to go buy you some cute clothes”

Snow nodded as she heard this holding Sae’s hand tightly as she ran with her to merchant district to a store where usually nobles bought their clothes, because Sae was regarding Snow’s doll like appearance she decided to go for a fairy tale like look. Her clothes were blue and white frilly dress with blue ribbon on top to bring out that cuteness. The result was a living doll that made all wish they could take it and put it up on display.

“I must say Ojou-chan you certainly have a talent for this. This girl is fit to be put on the front of the store as the face of the brand honestly”

“I just randomly picked stuff, how much will it be for all of it?”

“3 gold and 5 silver”

Sae gave the shop owner 7 gold and told him to keep the change as she lifted off into the sky once more with Snow who was enjoying her time with her. She arrived at the castle in no time with Ilura, Rin, Stolas , Lilia and Shizu all stared at her sighing as they knew she would be back in a couple of minutes.

“Who is the girl?”

“Our doppelgänger, her name is Snow. She had no name because I think she was a slave of some kind “

“Oh? She is such a doll”

“Hello Snow-chan what do you think of Sae-oneechan?”

Snow shook her head to Rin’s question making her all confused.

“………not onee-chan…..Sae is Snow’s mama”

“”Eh?EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?!!””

They both screamed on the tops of their voices as that day Sae became a parent.