Magical Kingdom Gates

Ostensibly, magical-girl departments wanted to focus functions in one place, which may have been why so many of them were located in the Tokyo area. They said you could find the entrances only through strange and mysterious triggers, like going back and forth between buildings forty-five times or doing a handstand for eleven and a half minutes in a back alley.

The Inspection Department was one such institution, but you didn’t need such troublesome ceremonies if you used their long-distance travel gate, which made it easy to go between divisions.

Though Filru worked in a prison in America, she was from Japan and still lived there. She used the gates frequently to come and go between the two nations, so this was less of a trip than going back to visit her parents—it didn’t even feel like a little outing to her. Guess I might as well buy some gifts for my coworkers at the prison before I go back, she would think whenever she was in Japan.

First, she set her palm on the biometric authentication, then input the password and typed in the number for the Inspection Department, which she’d made a note of, then passed through the magic gate in the prison. At a glance, this gate, developed from the concentration of the best of modern magic technology, appeared to be nothing more than an arch made of rough, ugly concrete, but it could instantly transport you to and from the important bases that dotted each region.

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