Chapter 4 — Sleep, until your life is over ? Episode 4–Rest — Miscalculation

Translated by KaiesV

Edited by KaiesV

Tyrant Sylph had two spells applied to him that intervened in his mind, guiding and forcing him to think in a way that suited his needs. Although such mental pollution is ineffective for Magical Girls, it is the Magical World that makes the protections in the first place, and with the highest ranking fairies, such obstacles were as good as non-existent.

The magic that was applied to Sylph was constantly monitored by Earth in the Magical World. To manage the increasing amount of precious fuel so that it is not irretrievably lost in a sudden accident.

It was of course understood that the increase in fuel was becoming stagnant due to the presence of the Magical Girl Elephant. That is why Earth went to the trouble of meeting Tyrant Sylph in person and performing the second magic spell on him. So that he would never be satisfied with the status quo, never be content with a life of contentment. The plan worked, and fuel was again produced successfully.

The negligence of the new fairy dispatched to Sakira Town caused some unexpected disruption, but it was to Earth’s advantage. After all, the influence of Magical Girl Elephant had reached a level that was very difficult to ignore and was overturning the magical thought compulsion placed on Tyrant Sylph.

Just as Earth was thinking that he couldn’t leave Elephant unattended for good, Tyrant Sylph, fascinated by Succubus, began to suffer greatly. Elephant’s influence over Tyrant Sylph remains the same, but because of this, the guilt of liking two people at the same time weighs heavily on Sylph, and fuel productivity has greatly improved.

So I miscalculated it.

I didn’t notice that Tyrant Sylph’s spirit was creaking because I saw it only as a tool.

We observed the Tyrant Sylph spitting out fuel steadily and decided to watch it a little longer.

Then, fed on plentiful and fresh fuel, Tyrant Sylph’s, or rather Mizukami Ryōichi’s?Gift, the?Negative Emotion Drive, went out of control.

The Negative Emotion Drive is a valuable technique that produces vast amounts of energy from the host’s negative emotions. Only a few people in the world possess this unique technique that transforms emotions into power. Hence the Emotive Drive.

Magic, sorcery, and all other techniques that are inherently unaffected by emotion can be easily powered up with this Negative Emotion Drive. It produces substandard results that completely ignore the original performance of the product. Hate, anger, sadness, anguish, such a single commonplace movement of the heart can push even a thirty-year-old man, who is not at all suited to the Magical Girl system, into becoming a Witch.

The Negative Emotion Drive’s rampage was unexpected, but still, it wasn’t a major problem on its own. The fuel stored in the body of Tyrant Sylph is so vast that it cannot be consumed to that extent. Rather, if this outburst hurts or takes the life of a fellow Magical Girls, we can expect to recover more fuel than she had consumed. Although it was necessary to be careful only to prevent Sylph’s spirit from completely collapsing, no matter how powerful the Negative Emotion Drive is, it is not as powerful compared to a Demigod. Earth was watching the battle between the Tyrant Sylph and the Magical Girls to make sure he did not misjudge the timing, as he could seize them at any time.

「What is the meaning of this.. hey..」

Sylph’s sudden return to sanity is not in itself surprising, considering that he successfully controlled the Negative Emotion Drive. It’s doubtful that Tyrant Sylph, who has wielded this power without awareness and without knowledge as a sorcerer, could control the Negative Emotion Drive so perfectly that it could stop a runaway so quickly, but it’s still not impossible.

The problem was that Sylph’s fuel reserves had decayed to the point where it was hard to believe that the runaway had consumed it.

Although not enough to interfere with the plan, Earth wanted to have some margin for fuel to ensure a safety margin. For this reason, he suppressed distortions and deliberately postponed the opening of the war, and originally it would have been possible to start the final battle when Tyrant Sylph opened the last gate.

「No one among them is capable of such a thing.. Is it Elephant? But she’s not here right now.」

As for Mizukami Ryōichi, everything was going according to Earth’s plan until he was made into Magical Girl Tyrant Sylph. But from there on, things never go according to plan, only the unexpected happens, and at the center of it all is always the Magical Girl Elephant. So I wondered what that ordinary Magical Girl had done this time as well, but if Earth used her magic and flew her gaze to Okinawa, I could see her sleeping peacefully.

「You don’t know anything about.., do I?」

It is an impossible feat not only for Magical Girls but also for fairies of the same rank not to be detected by Earth, the highest ranking fairy under the direct control of the Demigod of the Stars. If anyone could do it, it would be a sorcerer specializing in hidden forms, or a demigod. However, most sorcerers are under the influence of cognitive inhibition and cannot mess with Magical Girls. The other demigods shouldn’t know much about Tyrant Sylph in the first place, and it is hard to imagine that they would intervene.

The remaining possibilities are,

「Lazy Lady, huh? ..But, if that’s the case, why have she chosen to ignore it until now? What’s the reason to move now?」

There have been plenty of times in the past when she could have taken pity on Tyrant Sylph and tried to help him. Whether it was preventing Mizukami Ryōichi from changing his sex and rejuvenating himself, or preventing him from becoming a Magical Girl, or playing the magic of mental pollution, there were many ways to do it. If she didn’t do so and are now sidetracking us, there must be a reason why it is now or never, and if so, the only thing I can think of is.

「You’re really getting in the way of things, aren’t you? Should I have dealt with this sooner?」

Lazy Lady affected all demigods, but as a matter of fact, it was expedient for Earth that the Demigod of Reason went to sleep. He is a philanthropist in contrast to the Demigod of the Stars. If the Demigod of Reason and his direct successor, the Supreme Fairy, Law, were still alive and well, the plan to use Tyrant Sylph would have been exposed and thwarted at some stage.

The biggest irregularity for Earth and for the Negative Emotion Drive Project is not Lazy. It’s a Magical Girl who was disregarded as an ordinary existence with no great talent that could be found anywhere. It is now inconceivable that her being in Okinawa is irrelevant. Although there was no evidence of any kind, Earth understood intuitively that the phenomenon that had happened to Sylph had to do with Lazy Lady and Elephant.

「But then, now is the perfect time to do it without Elephant, right?」

We could cast another spell of mental pollution on Tyrant Sylph and wait for the fuel to build up again. But there is no guarantee that something similar will not happen again in the meantime. Magical Girl Elephant was a mass of the unexpected and unforeseen for Earth, who never know what she will do. However, that doesn’t mean that she can be simply eliminated. Doing so would probably break Tyrant Sylph. That’s not good enough.

Time may not be on Earth’s side any more. If we took it easy, we had a feeling that all of our plans would be fundamentally overturned.

Besides, it was hard to believe that Elephant would stay quiet in the final battle. She’s not strong enough, and since she hasn’t opened the Third Gate, let alone the Last Gate, there is no way she can interfere, but she still looks like she could do something if she was near Tyrant Sylph.

What means she used to quell the outbreak of the Negative Emotion Drive from the distant land of Okinawa was beyond anyone’s comprehension. But even so, the damage is minimal compared to the total amount of fuel Sylph has accumulated over a long period of time. That is the limit.

That is why Earth decided that we should start now, when Elephant couldn’t directly interfere with Sylph.

「Keep your spirits up,?Magical Girls. It’s time to use your lives.」

The final battle, begins.