MGRP Limited Epilogue

Epilogue

She felt the bone-chilling cold the moment she reached the yard. Lifting her head, all she saw was the expanse of pure gray which was the sky, stretching out to infinity. It would be cold even in woolly socks, to say nothing of stockings. Christmas was drawing near, and a few days after that would be the period known as the New Year. It made one think, isn’t it foolish to drink tea in the yard during such cold weather? She thought that inside her, but she could not speak those words out loud. At least, not in this house.
一来到中庭，立刻感受到寒风刺骨。抬起头来，只见天空是清一色的灰，无边无际地延伸而去。别说是丝袜，就连穿上厚厚的裤袜也仍然觉得冷。圣诞节的脚步近了，再睡几场觉就是被称为新年的季节来临。让人忍不住心想，这么冷的天气在中庭喝下午茶也太愚蠢了吧。虽然内心这么想，但不能说出口。至少在这个家裡不行。

Totoyama Mamori walked through the mazy courtyard without hesitation. While calling a courtyard mazy might have sounded sinister, the truth was that the layout of this house’s courtyard was extremely complex. When the master of the house had abandoned his stewardship of the courtyard, his daughter had taken his place and grown trees and plants as she desired, allowing others to trim them to her desires, until the courtyard was in chaos. A gigantic teddy bear plush stood with its legs apart and its arms wide, a gigantic chess pawn blocked the passageway, a book stood up in an opened position, and a headless Nike of Samothrace statue haughtily overlooked everything. After passing through the garden maze filled with what could only be described as “a daughter’s interests”, one could see at its heart a round white table made out a single piece of wood.
鱼山护毫不迟疑地走在错综複杂的中庭裡。说中庭错综複杂听起来很诡异，但事实上这个宅邸的中庭确实极为複杂。当家主人放弃中庭的监督权，取而代之接手的女儿则是任意种植树木，让人修剪成她要的外形，其结果就是造成中庭陷入一片混吨。巨大的熊熊布偶以双腿站立展开双臂、巨型的西洋棋士兵堵住通道、一本书在摊开来的状态下伫立著、失去头部的萨摩特拉斯胜利女神像睥睨著一切。一旦穿越除了「女儿的兴趣」以外，毫无共通点可言的庭圈植树迷宫后，就能看到设置在其中、由一整片原木製作而成的白色圆桌。

There sat the mistress of the courtyard… Hitokouji Kanoe, who was typing on a keyboard connected to her Magical Phone.
而在那裡的中庭主人……人小路庚江正在操作连上魔法终端设备的面板。

“You’re slow, Mamori.”
「动作很慢耶，护。」

“Don’t look at me that way, I did my best to rush here.”
「别看我这样子，我已经尽我所能赶来了。」

She laid a plates, black tea and desserts around the keyboard, and after receiving permission to “have a seat”, she sat down on the opposite chair. The rattan chair -- which cost several years’ worth of Mamori’s allowance -- froze her buttocks mercilessly just by being placed in the chill wind.
将盘子、红茶、茶点依序摆在操作面板旁，在得到「坐下吧」的许可后，她才在对面的椅子坐下。价格等于护数年份零用钱的籐椅，光是摆在寒风中就能够毫不留情地冰冻坐的人的屁股。

Kanoe took up her cup and sipped, then pushed a brown envelope over on the table.
庚江拿起杯子啜饮一口，什么都没说就将一个咖啡色的信封从圆桌上推过去。

“What is this?”
「这是什么？」

“A payment. It was a while ago, but you helped me with something, right? The plans in question have come to fruition, so...
「报酬。虽然是好一阵子以前的事情，不过你曾经帮我做过事吧。由于相关计画案也终于告一段落了……」

“What did I do?”
「我做了什么事？」

Having to play along with her Lady’s pranks. Being the butt of pranks. Being ordered here and there. Being lied to. And on top of that, having to serve her Lady’s favorite black tea in this ridiculously cold courtyard. All of these things happened every day, or multiple times a day, but her Lady had never once paid her for them. According to Kanoe, “It would be too insensitive to repay Mamori’s kindness with mere cash.”
配合大小姐的恶作剧行为、当被恶整的对象、被使唤来使唤去、被唬得一愣一愣的、被骗得团团转，还得端大小姐最爱的红茶到冷得要死的中庭来，诸如此类的工作以每几天一次或每天数次的频率发生，但大小姐不曾为此拿出报酬犒赏她。根据庚江的说法是「用俗气的现金来回应护的善意，未免太不解风情了」。

While Mamori herself would not mind if she were insensitive, actually highlighting that would only anger her parents, who prioritized the Hitokouji family over everything else.
虽然护本身一点也不介意不解风情，然而高调主张这一点，只会引来将人小路家视为一切优先的双亲勃然大怒。

“My Lady, were you not opposed to rewarding my kindness with cash?”
「大小姐您不是反对以现金回报我的善意吗？」

“I see, the usual things are all expressions of your kindness, Mamori.”
「原来如此，平常的那些事情果然都是护你释出的善意呀。」

“Indeed, I am certain that must be how it appears to you, My Lady.”
「是的，想必在大小姐您的眼裡就是这么一回事吧。」

There was no way she could not have sensed the barbs in her words. However, Kanoe suddenly smiled, for an unknown reason.
明明不可能没察觉到她语带讽刺，然而庚江却彷彿浑然未知地露出微笑。

“That is not my payment to you. It is an official payment from the Land of Magic.”
「这不是我给你的报酬。是来自于『魔法王国』的正式报酬。」

“This money comes from the Land of Magic?”
「这是『魔法王国』出的钱？.」

“Strictly speaking, this is Mamori’s share, which I took from my own salary,”
「正确说起来，这是我自己从我自己的薪资中拿出护的部分。」

Perhaps emphasizing “my” and “I” was meant to make her feel indebted to Kanoe. Just the fact that her family was lodged with the Hitokouji family was a boon they could not hope to repay, so what would happen if she continued owing her more favors? After all, there were benefactors who sold others favors, and who ensured that those who owed them would never be able to recover. And Kanoe was one of those people, so there was no need to think about it at all.
强调了两次我自己，也许是想以此卖她人情吧。光是她一家人寄宿于人小路家工作-就已经是怎么样也偿还不清的恩惠，再继续欠下更多恩情还得了。毕竟，这个世界上存在著卖人恩情后，就会让欠恩情的人再也无法翻身的施恩对象。而庚江属于哪一种对象，根本完全不需要思考。

Mamori picked up the envelope Kanoe had handed her, cracked it open, and peeked inside.
护拿起庚江递过来的信封，稍微打开信封口，瞥了一眼内容物。

“...Forty thousand?”
「...四万？」

“No, forty-five thousand yen.”
「不，是四万五千圆。」

The thought, might as well not give anything if you’re only going to give this much arose in her mind. Perhaps it was because she was long since numbed to it.
脑袋裡会浮现这种程度的报酬倒不如不要给的念头，也许是因为自己早已麻痺的关系吧。

“Speaking of which, let’s go back to what I was saying earlier. What exactly did I do? It’s a little frightening to take money without knowing what I did.”
「话说回来，延续刚才的话题。我到底是做了什么事情？在完全不知道自己做了什么的情况下拿钱，实在有点恐怖耶。」

“I asked you to modify those goggles.”
「我请你改造过护目镜吧。」

“Ahh… that incident? Wasn’t that very long ago?”
「啊啊……那件事啊？那不是很久以前的事情吗？」

Communications ability aside, it could also delete login histories and broadcast a signal that could disrupt Magical Phones, and there was a strong scent of illegality around it. She even recalled her suspicions about what her Lady could be using it for, and it had made her feel very uneasy.
先不论通讯功能如何，但是能够删除登录的历史纪录，以及发出妨碍魔法终端设备电波的功能，总觉得有一股浓浓的犯罪气息。她还记得当时自己很疑惑大小姐的用途为何，为此感到非常不安。

“Mamori’s Magical Skill has improved, and thanks to that, many things could proceed smoothly.”
「护的魔法也有所长进，託你的福许多事情才能顺利进行。」

“You didn’t use them for bad things, did you?”
「您应该没有用在坏事上吧？」

“What do you take me for?”
「你把我想成什么人啊？J

“It is precisely because it’s you that I can’t help but worry, My Lady.”
「正因为是大小姐您，我才会忍不住担心。」

“As a Magical Girl of Justice, how could I possibly do bad things… Mm, these macarons are good. Try, some, Mamori.”
「身为正义魔法少女的我，怎么可能会做坏事……嗯，这个马卡龙还不错。护也吃吃看。」

She took a big bite of the macarons that her Lady offered her. They were so good that they annoyed her.
咬下一口大小姐推荐的马卡龙，好吃到让人不爽。

“My Lady, what are you reading?”
「大小姐，您在看什么？」

“A report from my subordinate.”
「部下传来的报告。」

“Speaking of which, you were promoted again this year, were you not, My Lady? Is it from your new subordinate?”
「这么说来，大小姐您上个月又升官了吧。是新的部下传来的？」

“No, this report is from my previous subordinate. Someone reporting directly to me.”
「不，这是以前部下的报告。直属于我的人。」

“I see~”
「是喔〜」

“Terminating a few people is unavoidable when it comes to work, and this person helped me take care of that side of things.”
「毕竟工作上难免得裁掉一些人，那个人就是帮我处理这方面的事情。」

“So even the Land of Magic is feeling the downturn, huh… that world’s quite hard to live in.”
「『魔法王国』也受到不景气的影响呀，这个世界还真是不好混耶。」

‘“While it does appear to be giving employees the axe on the surface, on the business side it is not so much downsizing as it is reorganizing and restructuring. While they were quite useful to Human Resources in the past, now that I am in charge, we no longer need to do work of that sort. A fairy retires over the rainbow… does it not have a poetic feel to it?”
「虽然表面上的确是在砍员工头(注8双关语，砍头与解雇的日文相同)，但在经营方面并非缩小组织，而是真正的重新组织、架构。即使以前确实对人事部很有用处，但如今既然是我当家，就不需要那种性质的工作了。妖精横渡彩虹而退场……不觉得有一种如诗般的意境吗？」

“It seems that way.”
「是这样子的啊。」

“My workload has exploded all of a sudden. It is truly taxing.”
「要做的事情突然一口气暴增，实在很辛苦呢。」

“You don’t seem to be having a hard time at all.”
「您看起来一点都不辛苦耶。」

“But it is hard. Now I also have to consider the balance of power with the other Divisions too.”
「当然辛苦啊。这次还得考虑到与其他部门之间的权力平衡。」

“Is that so.”
「是这样子的啊。」

“Consider the Foreign Affairs Division. Why is it that they are so indelicate? I do not know if it is a tradition or something, but sending out combat experts to apply pressure on other Divisions is an outdated practice, one that is better off eliminated.”
「就拿外交部来说吧。那个部门为什么会如此没神经啊？虽然我不知道那是传统还什么的，但是派出武力方面的专家对其他部门施压，这么落伍的做法还是尽早废除掉吧。」

“Is that so.”
「就是说啊。」

“More to the point, recently, they even forced their Division’s ace into a criminal search operation run by Inspection Division, but their ace ended up being killed instead… the people from Foreign Affairs really should not have tried a scheme to grab the other Divisions by their vulnerables. They even set up a barrier just to capture the criminal alive… what a terrible loss for them. While Foreign Affairs was apparently bamboozled by false information from their informants, they really were too foolish. That being the case, I believe they’ll quiet down for quite a while.”
「更何况，最近似乎还强势地把部门裡的王牌杀手锏硬塞到监察部的罪犯搜查行动中，结果反遭杀害……外交部的人实在不该动起歪脑筋，想抓住其他部门的小辫子。为了活捉犯人还大动作地张设结界，根本就是损失惨重。虽说外交部似乎是被密告的假情报耍得团团转，不过也实在太愚蠢了。如此一来，想必他们应该会安静好一阵子吧。」

“Is that so.”
「是这样子的啊。」

“Oh yes, come to think of it, there was also a major jailbreak recently. Thanks to that, a certain Division which used convicts to handle dirty work and do inhuman things is under investigation.”
「对了，说到事件，最近还发生过大规模的越狱事件喔。因为这次事件的关系，过去利用囚犯做些肮葬事，搞出不人道行径的部门也遭到举发。」

“Is that so…”
「是喔〜」

“In truth, that division was opposed to we in Human Resources. Thanks to that, doing things will be easier for us now.”
「其实那个部门也是与我们人事部处于对立关系的部门。多亏如此，现在做起事来更顺手了。」

“Isn’t that good? What happened to the fugitives? They’re all cruel criminals, right?”
「这不是很好吗？越狱犯后来怎么样了？那些人全是性情残暴的犯人吧？」

“Of the three fugitives, two of them were successfully suppressed by the activities of the investigation team from the Inspection Division. However, the truth is that they were eliminated. While they could not be recaptured, they were infamous criminals of great villainy, so one could say that this was a great accomplishment. The leader of that team should be receiving a public commendation for that.”
「三名越狱犯中有两人因为监察部的调查小组活跃的表现，顺利瘫痪其行动。不过，实际上是断气了。虽然无法活捉回来，但毕竟对方可是名留青史的超级凶残犯人，这次可以说是立下大功。过几天该小组的组长似乎会受到公开表扬。」

“How about the other one?”
「还有一个人呢？」

“I heard the last one got away. However, she seems to be the least significant of the lot.”
「听说最后一个逃掉了。不过，她似乎是三个人之中最微不足道的角色。」

“Is that so…”
「是这样子的啊。」

Kanoe should have noticed that she was deliberately answering in a very perfunctory way.
庚江应该有察觉，她刻意回答得很敷衍吧。

“Mamori, you weren’t listening to me at all!”
「护，你完全没在听我说话吧！」

It would seem she had noticed.
看来确实是察觉到了。

“My Lady’s words are too abstract and I cannot understand what you’re saying. It felt like it went in one ear and out the other. Nothing remained in my brain.”
「大小姐说的内容实在太过抽象，让人完全搞不懂您到底在说什么。有一种左耳进右耳出的感觉，脑袋裡什么都留不住。」

“I know that. That was why I told you.”
「我知道。正因为这样，我才会告诉你。」

“And why was there a need to specially tell me?”
「为何要特地告诉我这些事情？」

“Is that not obvious? Because I cannot speak to someone who can understand and remember this information.”
「不用想也知道，因为我不能跟能够理解并记得住内容的对象说啊。」

“Please tell this to someone who can understand and remember it.”
「请您对能够理解并记住内容的人说吧。」

“I hope I will encounter someone like that someday. If the Land of Magic pulls itself together, if I am able to put myself in a position where I’ll be able to institute reform, and if Magical Girls are no longer beings to be ordered here and there…”
「希望将来总有一天能够碰上这种对象。如果『魔法王国』振作一点的话、我又站在能够改革的立场的话，还有魔法少女不只是单纯被使唤来使唤去的存在的话……」

Mamori was about to reply by saying she was talking about unrealistic things again, but after seeing Kanoe’s expression, she unconsciously shut her mouth. Kanoe had a look on her face that would normally never appear there, a stern expression without a hint of playfulness.
护原本打算回说又在讲这种不切实际的话，但在看到庚江的表情后，她下意识地闭上嘴巴。庚江露出一副平常完全不会显现在脸上、没有任何一丝玩笑意味的严肃表情。

“...What’s the matter?”
「...您怎么了吗？」

“Nothing.”
「没事。」

Kanoe shook her head in the same aloof way she usually did.
庚江摇头的模样则是与平日毫无两样的超然。

"Good fortune cannot fall into the lap of those who do things half-heartedly. Even after you place the pieces in the right order, you still have to move them just right, tinker with them, match them up, blast them up, and prompt them to act by pretending to stop them. You have to make skillful adjustments to produce good results. And even after they have fulfilled your purpose, you have to put them away properly instead of carelessly throwing them away..."
「当然，世上没有免费的午餐，我也不能眼巴巴地望著天上掉下礼物。安排好能够成事的配置后，适度地调动、摆弄、迎合、引爆，以退为进地要对方放弃，实际上是在怂恿对方做出行动，为了让最后呈现出好的结果而调整一番。即使在达成目的后也不会撒手不管，能够好好收拾善后……」

Drip -- a drop of water struck the round table, and it splashed her nose and hand.
滴答——水珠在圆桌上弹跳，鼻子、手，都被雨滴到。

“Ahh, we should get inside. We’ll catch cold if we get drenched on such a cold day.”
「啊啊，赶快进屋子裡去吧。在这么冷的天气淋到雨，可是会感冒的。」

“That’s right ~nyan!”
「就这样做喵！」

“What’s with ending your sentences like that? It’s gross.”
「这个语尾的语气词是怎么一回事？真噁心。」

“To think you would call me gross, you really are “polite”. I simply felt it was adorable and specially added it on.”
「竟然敢说我噁心，你还真是有『礼貌』呀。我可是觉得这么说很可爱，才特地加上去的耶。」

***

The floor was concrete and the ceiling was marked with water stains. The interior dripped when the rain outside was heavy, so even on sunny days, the interior was very humid. While it was hard to say it was a good place to rest and recover, a wanted criminal had no right to complain.
地面是铺设水泥的地板、天花板则有漏水后留下的污渍。屋内会根据外头雨量多寡而滴雨，因此即使是放晴的日子，屋内的溼气仍然相当重。虽然很难说是符合病患养伤的环境，不过既然是遭通缉的身分，也没有什么资格抱怨。

The room’s interior was very austere, and the number of things inside could be counted on the fingers of one hand. A bed, a table, blinds, a cooking counter, a bookshelf and the inhabitants. The big drawer of the rusted table in the center of the room was pulled open, and inside it were numerous small bottles, each containing multicolored powders.
房间内部的陈设相当煞风景，只有五根手指头也数得出来的物品。床、桌子、百叶窗、流理台、书柜，以及居民。一拉开摆在房间中央的生鏽铁桌的大抽屉，裡面排满许多小瓶子，瓶子裡塞满许多五颜六色的粉末。

An old weighing balance came out from a small drawer on the second level and it went onto the table. Counterweights went onto one pan, and then medicinal powder was poured out until both sides were balanced. After checking the balance of the weights, the powder went into a bowl. This process repeated several times.
从第一二层的小抽屉拿出老旧的天秤，放置于桌上。以砝码夹夹起砝码，放在天抨的一端，接著从小瓶子裡倒出药粉，调整到平衡的状态，确认天枰平衡后再放入钵中。重複进行如此的动作数次。

An unmarked bottle came out of a small drawer on the third level, and its translucent contents were poured into the bowl. It was poured in carefully to keep anything from spilling out, and then ground with a pestle until there was no more rough granules could be felt.
从第三层的小抽屉取出没有标籤的宝特瓶，将裡面的半透明液体倒进钵裡。小心翼翼地慢慢倒进去避免东西洒出来，并用杵臼磨到没有任何粗糙的颗粒感为止。

After an hour’s time, the gluey, metallic green medicine was finished.
耗费约一小时的时间，便完成了带有金属绿光泽的黏稠药水。

“Come, time for your medicine.”
「好了，吃药的时间到喽。」

The voice called gently to the girl on the bed. The girl remained supine, but shook her head emotionlessly.
温柔地呼唤躺在床上的少女。少女维持著横躺的动作，面无表情地摇了摇头。

“I don’t like medicine.”
「我讨厌吃药。」

“You can’t say such selfish things. All this is so you get better.”
「不可以说这种任性的话，这都是为了你的身体好。」

Frederica narrowed her eyes and smiled, then sat by the bed. The girl on the bed was covered in bandages. Frederica undid some of the bandages to inspect the wounds, and she smiled to see that they were better than yesterday. Even if the environment was not clean and there were no proper medical facilities here, Magical Girls were tough. They had been made to be, after all.
菲列特莉嘉眯起眼微微一笑，坐在床边。床上的少女全身上下缠著绷带。菲列特莉嘉拆开绷带确认伤口，看到伤势状况比昨天好而露出微笑。即使环境不乾淨，也没有正规的医疗设备，但魔法少女相当顽强。毕竟她们原本就是被打造成如此。

The medicine Frederica made was a viscous fluid, and it was hard to swallow. Therefore, Frederica placed the tip of a dropper into the bowl to collect medicine, raised the girl’s jaw, positioned it above her mouth and then inserted it. She did not want the girl to choke, so she slowly dripped drop after drop of the medicine into her mouth. One mouthful followed another, followed by a third, until the bowl was dry of its fluid. The girl who had her mouth open, like a chick waiting to be fed, was just adorable.
菲列特莉嘉特製的药水，由于是稠状液体，难以吞嚥。因此，菲列特莉嘉将滴管前端放进钵中吸取药水，抬起少女下颚后，将滴管举在上方后再放入口中。为了怕少女噎到，一点一滴、一点一滴地用滴管送药水入口。第一口结束后接著第二口、第三口，直到钵裡的黏稠液体被抽乾为止。彷彿等饲料的雏鸟般张著嘴等待的少女，实在惹人怜爱。

“You can close your mouth now.”
「可以闭上嘴巴了。」

“Yes, master.”
「是，师父。」



Frederica helped the girl up by supporting her upper body, and she ran the girl’s hair through her fingers, helping her comb it. THe long black hair was glossy and lustrous, and it felt wonderful running through her fingers. The reflection of the fluorescent lamp in it was very beautiful.
菲列特莉嘉扶起少女的上半身，以指头拢了拢少女的头髮，帮她梳理。长长的黑髮充
满光泽又滑顺，抚过指缝的触感相当舒服，在日光灯的照射下，反射光线的模样好美。

Her right hand combed the girl’s hair, while the left hand caressed the girl’s left eye.
右手梳理著少女的头髮，左手则是抚上少女的左眼。

“It tickles.”
「好痒。」

“Of course, that’s because I did it on purpose.”
「当然喽，因为我是故意的。」

THe girl’s left eye was sealed by a long and large blade wound, while her left arm was missing below the elbow. These were the only two things which Frederica’s specially made medicine could not cure.
少女的左眼被一道又深又大的刀伤堵住，左手则是失去手肘以下的部位。唯独这两点，是菲列特莉嘉特製的药水也不可能治癒的。

--Still, that was not a bad thing.
——不过，这样也没有什么不好的。

Frederica wiped the traces of medicine from the girl's lips with a demisemihemidemisemiquaver-patterned handkerchief.
菲列特莉嘉以两百五十六分音符图案的手帕，帮少女擦掉沾上药水的嘴唇。

The girl… Ripple was very lucky. The enemy Magical Girl had not intended to kill her, so she had not aimed her attacks at her weak points. When she passed out and fell, it was thanks to returning to her human state that caused the collar of her coat to hook onto a spur of rock on the side of the hole. That had kept her from falling to the bottom where she would have been pulverized. In addition, Frederica had originally intended to flee the scene right away, but an impulse had driven her to watch until the end, which had allowed her to recover Ripple and give her emergency treatment.
少女……莉普儿很幸运。敌人的魔法并不是以杀伤为目的，因此没有瞄淮弱点进行攻击。当她失去意识而坠落时，也多亏她恢复成人类的模样，使得外套的后领勾到洞穴裡的突起处，才不至于坠落洞底、粉身碎骨。再加上，原本打算立刻逃离现场的菲列特莉嘉，因一时心血来潮而在一旁观战到最后，才能够尽早回收莉普儿并进行紧急处置。

One could say she was very fortunate. Without a single one of the abovementioned elements, she would have been dead for sure.
这种情形可以称之为有生命运吧。只要缺其中一项要素，她就必死无疑。

Frederica had arranged for Ripple, hovering at the edge of life and death, to receive care at a city hospital as an ordinary victim. She had also used Pukin’s sword which she had acquired to have her develop “extreme vitality and recuperative ability”, and after pulling Ripple back from death’s door, she sent her elsewhere through her crystal ball. From that day on, Frederica had been responsible for Ripple’s care.
菲列特莉嘉将徘徊于生死交界的莉普儿，以普通受害者的身分寄放于市内的医院裡，并把到手的谱金的剑使用在莉普儿身上，让她产生「自己拥有超极强韧的生命力与复原能力」，好不容易才从鬼门关前唤回莉普儿后，再用水晶球将她移动到别处。从那一天起，莉普儿就由菲列特莉嘉负责照料。

She had not seen Ripple in so long, and she had obviously grown. She had progressed far beyond the stage when Frederica had believed that she had not grown as much as Snow White, and she had become an amazing Magical Girl whom she could be proud of no matter where she went. As she was now, she was quite close to the ideal in Frederica’s heart.
许久不见的莉普儿，明显比从前有显著的成长。大大超出菲列特莉嘉原本认为莉普儿的成长不如白雪的预期，成为一名不管去到哪裡都能让人引以为傲的了不起魔法少女。如此的她也一定相当接近菲列特莉嘉心目中的理想形象。

The sword she had taken from Pukin, and Ripple who had lost her memory. By putting these two together, she could give birth to her ideal Magical Girl.
从谱金那裡夺来的剑，以及丧失记忆的莉普儿，只要将这两点组合起来，就能够孕育出理想的魔法少女。

Frederica smiled to the girl.
菲列特莉嘉朝少女微微一笑。

“Your wounds have healed nicely. If this keeps up, you’ll be able to get out of bed from tomorrow onwards.”
「伤口癒合不少，这样的话，你明天开始就能够下床了。」

“Really? That sounds wonderful.”
「真的吗？好开心。」

Her expression did not change, and her voice was a monotone. Perhaps it was because she was using someone else’s magic item, but she could not finetune it too well. However, Ripple’s joy did not seem faked. She had her cute points in this state.
表情仍然没有变化，声音也显得很单调。也许是使用他人魔法道具的关系，无法调节得很完美。不过，莉普儿的开心似乎不是骗人的，这样的她也有其可爱之处。

“You have to work hard to be a Magical Girl!”
「为了成为魔法少女，要好好用功喔！」

“What’s a Magical Girl?”
「魔法少女是什么？」

“Hmm~ Someone like me, I guess.”
「这个嘛〜就像是我这样的人吧。」

“I can become someone like master? How wonderful!”
「我可以变得像师父一样吗？好开心。」

“Just hearing those words from you makes me very happy. Let’s move towards becoming ideal Magical Girls!”
「光是有你这句话，我就很开心了。让我们一起朝著成为理想的魔法少女迈进吧！」