The Guardians of Rumors Part 4

Chapter 4
Part 4: The Wings of Magius

Iroha: She's coming back, isn't she? ...Felicia-chan...
Yachiyo: It's about the time she should be back but
Iroha: Only 2 hours left...
Yachiyo: At this rate, we can only wait for you to become miserable...
Iroha: ...Maybe she's not coming?

[you're given the choice between MokyuMokyu (Let's go on ahead) or MokyuMokyu (Let's wait a bit more)]
q: MokyuMokyu
Iroha: Yeah, I also want to wait just a bit longer for Felicia-chan.
Yachiyo: No, it doesn't seem like that will be necessary.
Iroha: Did Felicia-chan come back!?
Tsuruno: Heeey, sorry to keep you waiting!
Iroha: Tsuruno-chan! You've been gone for all this time, but where were you?
Tsuruno: Ahah, I went after Felicia. I thought that it'd be pretty scary to put that much faith in her with that kind of reputation. Besides, Yachiyo told me to too.
Iroha: So, what happened to Felicia-chan?
Tsuruno: Who knows... I followed after them for most of the way but then I lost sight of them...
Iroha: Tsuruno-chan came back but Felicia-chan hasn't. Does this mean...
Yachiyo: I wonder if their offer was a particularly good one...
Iroha: She still hasn't switched over to their side. It's possible that she could've been captured by them...
Yachiyo: I don't think she's that kind of person but
Tsuruno: Anyway, let's hurry up and go! We don't have much time left, right!?
Yachiyo: True. Tsuruno, I don't mind if it's only part of the way. Please guide us there.
Tsuruno: Aye-ye sir-!

Felicia: That reward...You're telling the truth, right...?
???: Of course...Tsukiyo-sama and Tsukasa-sama have both approved as well...Those problems that you've been having will likely be solved. You can hunt Witches as you please and you won't need to incur anyone's hatred anymore...
Felicia: ....Yeah.

Iroha: Tsuruno-chan. Is this really the right way1? I feel like we've been zigzagging this entire time but
Tsuruno: I quietly chased after them while moving from rooftop to rooftop. That's why the only thing I don't know is the direct distance. Oh, hey! Maybe the three of us could move from rooftop to rooftop!?
Yachiyo: If we did something like that, do you realize how many odd looks we'd get...?
Iroha: Besides, um... they'll see our panties...
Tsuruno: Huh... that thought never even crossed my mind! Ahahaha!
Yachiyo: Please try not to get your disgraceful behavior spread across the Internet as the girl who shows off her panties while she jumps around.
Iroha: But if you think about the time, it might help us move faster...!
Yachiyo: Tamaki-san! I understand how you feel, but we've still barely got some time left. It should barely be enough so that you won't have to throw away your shame.
Tsuruno: Man, the three of us together could become stars on the Internet--

Tsuruno: Oh, we're coming up to the spot where I lost sight of them! The direction is right!

Tsuruno: Now, from here on I don't know for sure, but I think I've narrowed it down to the right place!
Yachiyo: Yes, let's hurry and determine where the Rumor is located.
Felicia: I won't let you.
Iroha: Felicia-chan! What were you doing!? We waited for you for all this time!
Felicia: Sorry about that.
Iroha: C'mon, you can drop the act and come over here. Show us where those people from earlier are, where the Rumor is.
Felicia: I can't do that
Iroha: Why...?
Felicia: 'Cause it's not an act anymore.
Yachiyo: ...Just as I thought. Does this mean you were offered a much better deal?
Felicia: Well, something like that. It was a rea-lly good offer to the point where it'll be more than enough to let me keep living by myself after all. Besides...If I get this much, then I won't need to betray anyone too.
Yachiyo: In the end, you're just a mercenary that's all about the reward and lacks pride or anything like it. I thought that I could get a better opinion of you if we worked together, but I guess I overestimated you.
Felicia: Say whatever you want. No matter what the enemy says to me, it doesn't hurt or itch me at all.
Iroha: ...Are you really blinded by a reward...?

[you're given the choice between Mogyuuuuu! (I'm sure that's what it is!) or Mo, Mokyu... (No, I don't think that's right)]

q: Mogyuuuuuu!
Iroha: No. (For some reason, I don't think that's all...)


Iroha: (For some reason, I don't think that's all...)
(She's not just blinded by the reward...Besides...)
Tsuruno: Something feels off.
Iroha: Tsuruno-chan?
Tsuruno: Felicia, I don't think you understand the situation you're in?
Iroha: ....You think so too?
Tsuruno: Yeah, I can't speak for others but it seems like she's just playing it by ear and she didn't really think it through at all.
Iroha: Yeah, and I don't think she understands this rumor either.
Felicia: What are you mumbling about over there? If you're not gonna come at me, then I'm gonna come at you guys with a zukannn!?
Yachiyo: But your opponent's saying things like this?
Iroha: Felicia-chan! We only have 2 hours left, but you're going to really become miserable you know!? Are you still okay with this?
Felicia: Again with that crap--Even if I become miserable, it doesn't bother me at all. Like there's anything more miserable than having your dad and your mom die!
Iroha: ....You see, my sister's also gone.
Felicia: Again, so what?
Iroha: That's misery to me. But you see, that's not the only miserable thing. I think there's many ways you can be miserable. Like something could happen to that missing younger sister or something could happen to Yachiyo-san or Tsuruno-chan...
Felicia: Ha. I don't have family and I don't have friends either. What you're talking about has nothing to do with me.
Iroha: But that's not all! I think what I consider important to me will keep changing. Felicia-chan, don't you have something...? Something important to you now... Hey, please, think about it....try thinking carefully about it...
Felicia: Aaah? ..... ....Like, a stuffed animal. The cow one...that my dad and mom bought for me at a ranch...
Iroha: ...If that disappeared, what'll you do...?
Felicia: Haaaaaah!? N, No! That's my treasure, you know!?
Iroha: That's why, that's what misery means!
Felicia: ---!?
Iroha: Please, don't try to make yourself miserable! If something were to hurt that Cow-san, then Felicia-chan will get hurt again...I don't want to see something like Felicia-chan becoming even more miserable...
Felicia: Iroha...
Iroha: Hey, that's why, let's go together!
Felicia: Yeah....I don't want to lose my treasure...I don't want to become friends with the kind of guys who do things like stealing. I don't want to cause anymore trouble-! That's why I'll follow you, Iroha!
Iroha: Felicia-chan!
Felicia: Heheh
Yachiyo: ... You don't have parents?
Felicia: What about it?
Yachiyo: Nothing...
Tsuruno: U,Uwaaaaaaaan...
Felicia: Whoa, what's with you? Why are you crying!?
Tsuruno: 'Cause! I thought how hard it must be for you, and that that's why you're a mercenary and....ueeeu....
Felicia: You're making a big fuss over nothing. It's a story that even I'm so comfortable telling that it just rolls off my tongue...Not a big deal...

Iroha: Anyway, Felicia-chan, I'm counting on you to lead the way!
Felicia: Yeah, leave it to me! Let's beat 'em up with a crack and a bash! ....Thanks, Iroha
Iroha: Huh?
Felicia: Since it ended without me getting myself hurt and I didn't have to become an even more despicable person.

Iroha: This is the Sankyouin Kyouiku Gakuen but is their base the school?
Felicia: Actually, it's a bit further in. Today there's no classes and no students so it should be easy to get in.

Felicia: Just past the school grounds here there's an entrance that leads to the underground sewers and that's where those guys are hiding out.
Tsuruno: This just came to me, but couldn't we just erase the water supplier with the owl sign?
Felicia: Even if you ask me, I don't know anything about rumors.
Yachiyo: If we did, the enemy Rumor would probably come out but in the end, that's just a small Rumor. If the base of the people telling us not to eradicate any more Rumors is here then it's likely that a greater Rumor that is materializing other rumors is also here too.
Felicia: Who cares about the theory or whatever. We should just beat it up, right? Let's hurry up and go!
Iroha: (There's only a little over an hour left... We need to hurry...)

Bat: Kiiiii Kiiiiii!
Iroha: Whahyaaa, b, bat!? Kyaaaah! Don't come this way!
Felicia: Whoa, hey, don't get this loud over a bat!
Tsuruno: Waaaaaaah!! It hit me on the heaｄ! Grossss!
Yachiyo: Calm down Tsuruno! It's like your restaurant.
Tsuruno: Y, Yachiyo, you're mean!
Iroha: Kyaaaaaaaaaaah!
Yachiyo: Tamaki-san, calm down!

Iroha: Haaa...Haaa...Haaa....I'm sorry, it freaked me out...
Felicia: Geez, don't raise a fuss like that. We don't have much time left as is.
Iroha: I know, but...
???: Who's there...
Yachiyo: ...It'd be more bizarre if they didn't find us after causing that much noise.

???: Mitsuki Felicia...I didn't think that you would turn down the offer by your own accord....
Felicia: Heeeeeehn! After all, even I don't want to become the kind of guy who'd do things like steal other people's treasures from 'em!
???: It seems that you don't intend to withdraw no matter what...
Yachiyo: Yes, isn't it obvious? We have no intention of conceding either. It's absurd to think that we would concede without knowing who you are or what you're planning, don't you think? Something that convenient wouldn't happen.
???: ... I'm told to refrain from speaking about this with people other than those directly involved but if I am to avoid pointless battles, I have no choice but to tell you...
Yachiyo: Oh? You're going to tell us?
???: Yes... .... We are "the Wings of Magius".
Yachiyo: Wings of...Magius?
???: In order for "Magius", the ones ranking above us, to succeed, we are an organization that acts as its wings. Within that organization, we are called the "Black Feathers".
Yachiyo: What is that objective?
Black Feather: ..."To save Magical Girls"
Yachiyo: ---!?
Black Feather: "Magius" will "free magical girls from their curse" in Kamihama City. We work in order to assist them.
Iroha: (.....That's....)

Ui's Illusion: If you want to change fate, then come to Kamihama City, because magical girls can be saved in this city.

Iroha: (These people...are saying the same things as that Ui...?)
Black Feather: In order to free the magical girls, the rumors must not be eradicated.
Iroha: What do you mean by freeing the magical girls...?
Yachiyo: Besides, I don't understand how protecting the rumors will allow you to succeed.
Black Feather: That's...
Yachiyo: You don't understand why and yet you're helping them...? Your faithfulness amazes me.
Kyouko: What are you wasting your time here for!
Black Feather: Gu...
Kyouko: Do you really have the time to waste listening to the enemy's oh so valuable views? There's only... oh...exactly an hour left...Seems like they wrote it neatly on there like a timer for us. I don't know about freeing or anything but isn't there something you need to do first?
Yachiyo: You're...Sakura-san!

Kyouko: Sorry, but I'll be going now.

Felicia: You're!
Iroha: From back then!

Kyouko: Hey, is this really water? I can drink this stuff like it's juice!

Kyouko: After that, I finally understood what happened to me. Looks like I made the right choice by seeing you guys in the street and following after you.
Black Feather: Ku... You're...
Kyouko: Sorry, but I don't plan on wasting time like these guys. If you want to talk, leave it until after we take care of the Rumor or whatever.
Black Feather: So we have no choice but to fight...
Kyouko: I like guys that catch on fast. Now, you don't need to hold back. Come at me!

Yachiyo: Sakura-san, let's work together here.
Kyouko: Normally, I want to say no but in a situation like this I guess I have no choice. I'll leave one of 'em to you!

Black Feather: Ku, Uuu....
Yachiyo: Freeing magical girls. I don't know how attractive that must be to you girls. But you know, I don't know how you can cooperate with the so-called Magius when you know so little about them that you get stuck when I asked about their reasoning.
Black Feather: ...... A magical girl of your caliber should know...Nanami Yachiyo... what it means to free magical girls...and the feelings attached to that...
Yachiyo: Yes, I can understand...However, I don't feel like saving them to the point where I'd be willing to use things like rumors that involve innocent people...
Kyouko: How long do you plan on talking with them? If you're going to keep wasting our time here, I'll go ahead!
Iroha: Yachiyo-san, let's hurry!
Yachiyo: Yes.
Black Feather: ....