Toko was in her chest, and she held Postarie on her side, Rain Pou ran atop the rainbow and returned to the hotel roof. Pukin was standing on the opposite handrail.

Was she going to jump off and escape again? She won’t let her escape this time.

She released rainbows into the sky to capture Pukin’s movements. Rain Pou created further rainbows, but then she felt a small pain in her chest and stopped moving. It was a tiny pain that pounded hard like being stabbed with a needle.

She looked down at her chest. Toko should be in there. Yet, there was a left hand instead.

...A left hand?

It wasn’t that someone’s left hand was stretching out, but a single left hand was there in her chest. It wasn’t cut off, there was no blood nor was it cold. It was warm with heat, and on the contrary, it was squirming around trying to move, so she grabbed it and hit it.

...Was it Frederica?

Toko told her about Frederica’s Magical Skill. Without delay, Rain Pou dispatched a rainbow and sliced the hand into two pieces. Blood splashed, and she stepped over the twitching left hand. She heard that if she entered her hand into her crystal ball, Frederica could intervene with whatever location was displayed on her crystal ball. Which means she probably stole Toko. It was as if she didn’t sense anything, and after that, Toko was gone and the left hand was there.

Trying to warn her, she looked towards Postarie’s direction, Rain Pou prepared, ready to launch a rainbow. There was no Postarie. The one standing there wasn’t Postarie, it was the sword wielding Pukin. She erected rainbow walls, then launched rainbows from all sides. They were in her sword’s distance, but why did Pukin keep standing, neither dodging nor avoiding the rainbows, and letting them hit her, she was slashed and torn into shreds and fell over.

A sense of confusion came before joy or exhilaration. Pukin was behind Rain Pou. Yet, when that came to mind, why didn’t she try to kill Rain Pou? Why didn’t she attack her? She just stood there and waited until Rain Pou noticed her, after she noticed her she didn’t even move, and she just died like that?

And where did Postarie disappear to? Rain Pou concentrated her senses on her surroundings. She placed her hands on the roof. Vibrations, humidity and temperature, movements in the air, sound, she sensed everything. Toko was snatched by Frederica, but Postarie didn’t move at all. Pukin did something. But then she had no reason to die here. Did someone other than Pukin or Frederica attack her?

“You wouldn’t be careless to a hostage that escaped of her own power, would you?”

Pukin’s voice reached her ears, when she turned around, she saw Pukin’s body not moving on the ground. She’d been sliced up by rainbows, her blood continued to flow.

“Your precious Fairy, when I caught her, I’ve already scratched her and she became my ally. When she yelled at you, when she bit my finger, she followed my instructions to the letter. In order to strike a blow to you, who wouldn’t let her guard down, I sent a spy inside your chest. I let the fairy hold a broken tip of my sword, and under my command, I had her stab you in the chest, and this time, I have you under my powers and confused your cognition.”

She heard the proud voice of Pukin. Yet, Pukin was on the ground. She was dead.

...She ordered Toko? Stab me? What’s she saying?

“I told you that I confused your cognition using my Magical Skill, didn’t I? I shall give you your correct viewpoint. Try and take a closer look to figure out what transpired and what happened.”

Something rang in Rain Pou’s ear. Rain Pou’s vision distorted, and returned. The sliced remains of Pukin became Tatsuko Sakaki. The blood and wounds haven’t changed. Frederica’s hand was a sliced in half Toko.

Rain Pou calmly recognized her surroundings, thinking “Ah, so that’s how I mistakenly saw this,” and right now, she felt strangely calm. She wiped her cheeks with her fingers filled with blood.

“I’ve redone my Magical Skill on you. Now, you are my servant.”

Magical Girl Raising Project: Limited, Chapter 11