CHAPTER 57: SHE WENT CRAZY

I began living a relatively strange life with Azuli, I’ve been living with her for almost a month and there are several things I can say were simply not normal.

First was in the first week, obviously I never left the house so my routine was to study tasks she did in a notebook, read children’s books, and do some light physical exercises.

And it was in this first week that things were already not normal, first Flora... she didn’t show up, I was waiting for her to come train me, but she never appeared.

And along with all this, the house is very closed off, I noticed that I am isolated from the outside world, whether it’s the windows, doors, etc. I can’t see outside at all.

Azuli also goes out very little, usually just to go buy things and then come back and take care of me.

And Azuli also discovered my problem with touches, she discovered it on the 3rd day after having touched me to compliment me, and I ended up moaning and trembling all over, she is very perceptive and continued to caress me until she noticed why I reacted that way.

However, even after discovering that I feel a lot of pleasure from head caresses, she simply didn’t ask, didn’t question, and didn’t try to do anything.

She just acted normally, although she maintained the caress as a compliment whenever I did an activity well, so almost climaxing every time I received affection became almost a routine that occurred when I did the activities well.

And from the 6th day on, everything seemed to start falling apart, she changed her way of acting and became stranger, as if she wasn’t acting as she should, I don’t know her perfectly, but I know a lot of what I have in my memories and her actions were strange for her normal self.

Strange to the point that I noticed and questioned myself, although it was strange, there was nothing wrong, they are small things like the way of acting and speaking, and she takes good care of me.

She cooks, talks to me, gives me educational tasks, she treats me like a child, but has her own care, a level of care that I didn’t expect given that I "killed" Angelica.

But I decided to take advantage of it, she takes good care of me and Flora is not showing up.

Then the second week arrived, 11 days later, when I finally noticed what really seemed so strange, and what seemed strange was simply the fact that Azuli acts exactly like Angelica.

Everything in her reminds me of Angelica, her way of walking even though she doesn’t have big breasts yet reminds me of Angelica, her way of speaking that reminds me of Angelica’s teacher-like tone.

Her way of acting that stopped being cold, and became responsible and a little excited like Angelica.

When I mentioned that she seemed like Angelica, she looked at me in a somewhat frightening way, making me shut up instantly, it seemed like she was ready to kill me right there as if the name was an unforgivable taboo to pronounce.

I could only apologize and urgently change the subject, and the moment I did that, she went back to acting "normally" as if nothing had happened.

And so time passed until it was 1 month, and by then Azuli was almost indistinguishable from Angelica, except for her appearance... they became so similar that even the obsessive gaze was replicated.

I don’t know if Azuli loves me, but she has the same Yandere gaze as Angelica, and her way of acting has remained practically the same as Angelica’s.

And if that weren’t enough strangeness with Azuli, there’s Flora who never shows up, and that’s what bothers me the most, she doesn’t seem like the type to leave me alone since she wanted to train me.

But even being stupid, I can still think and remember, so I started trying to connect the dots and find the answer.

And there was a strange point, at no time did I feel the need for Flora as she had said. So I deduce that Flora lied to me and she wasn’t really needed and that medicine only had the effect of 1 day.

"Shizune, why are you looking out the window?" Azuli asks, at the moment we are having dinner and I became curious about something.

"Because everything is locked up?" I ask with doubt, I still don’t understand why everything is so closed, I understand that she wants to keep me safe and prevent me from causing problems, but she didn’t need to cover even the windows.

The window glass is so opaque that you can’t see anything outside, I don’t understand why limit me so much.

"It was a security measure to overcome a troublesome being previously..." She speaks while eating pasta and then falls silent.

"..." All our meals are strange like this.

"Can I...open the window?" I question with conviction of something.

"..."

"No" She was silent for a moment and then denied.

"...Can we go for a walk? I’m pale, I need to get a little sunlight" I give a small excuse.

"No" She denies coldly.

"..." I think I figured it out, but it’s too shocking to comprehend, with everything I’ve seen in the last month and me racking my brain to try to find the answer, I may finally have reached the answer.

"...You...replaced Angelica and defeated Flora..." I say in disbelief at what I’m saying, all the clues are in my face, the only reason Flora doesn’t show up can only be that she can’t.

Crack!

"!!!" Azuli drops the plates from the table and looks at me with anger, even though I haven’t said anything too serious.

"Shizune, don’t lie...Angelica doesn’t exist, I didn’t replace anyone" She seems a bit crazy when she says this.

"...What?" I ask without understanding.

"Azuli, what are you talking about? How does Angelica not exist?" This part seems confusing, I don’t understand why she’s saying that.

"Kyaa" She quickly advances towards me, knocking me to the ground and suffocating me, her gaze is very crazy as I scratch her hands trying to save myself.

"P-Please s-stop A-Azuli, A-Azuli d-don’t do this" I say with extreme difficulty because I’m being suffocated, as if having a brief epiphany, she releases me and takes a deep breath, soon having a smile on her face as if nothing had happened.

"Sorry Shizune, it’s just that you were talking so much nonsense, hahaha, I ask that you don’t make these jokes, they’re not funny."

"..."

’Did she go crazy? Why? This doesn’t even make sense.’ Azuli is obviously trying her best to replace Angelica in every way, but there’s something wrong with all this.

Why does she react this way if I mention Angelica? Why did she say Angelica doesn’t exist?

"A-Azuli, d-did you defeat Flora?" I try to change the subject to calm the situation, she gets up from on top of me and starts cleaning up the broken glass on the floor while speaking.

"Yes, I defeated her... Actually, it wasn’t that difficult, I already suspected that she was stopping time, but there were holes in her story of when you tried to kill me."

"You took the blame, but obviously something didn’t add up."

’I...tried to kill her? M-My God, she’s completely crazy...’ I never thought someone could get so insane, she literally put herself 100% in Angelica’s place.

But Angelica is dead, so her mind fabricated some story in its place.

’I-Is this my destiny? Is it my fault?’ I think this because of the way she acts like a Yandere, if we escalate in level, Angelica was a good Yandere, Flora was a crazy Yandere, but she wouldn’t try to kill me.

And Azuli... is a complete lunatic who is clearly a threat to my life, that is, it’s like a response from destiny, I will always have a reason to be killed, and right now the most suitable one to kill me is a Yandere who kills me directly.

Since as a magical girl, if I transform, I become powerful.

But Angelica is dead and Flora wouldn’t kill me, so a new Yandere has emerged, one who is really a threat.

"H-Hey A-Azuli, h-how did you defeat Flora?" This is what I can’t understand the most, but if I have to guess, she must have defeated Flora a while ago.

"It was almost 2 weeks ago, after really being sure that she was stopping time, it was easy to devise a plan to kill her," Azuli says as if she’s boasting.

"C-Could you explain" I touch my neck and look at my palm, there’s blood and I feel pain, when I run my hand over it, I notice irregularities, she almost stuck her nails in my throat, but a little more and I would have died for real.

My body trembles with fear at this discovery, but I try to remain calm.

She sits at the table while moving her hand to call me as if nothing had happened.

"Every magical girl has a weakness and a strength in her magic, and this weak point is always obvious."

"For example, Rose can’t generate fire without pre-existing fire, fuel, or oxygen in the environment, that’s why she secretly carries a lighter with her, just like her outfit has a hidden built-in lighter."

"That is, it’s quite obvious, the weakness of my magic is also obvious, I am unable to generate ice without water nearby, that’s why I need to innovate to overcome this weakness."

"And a mistake that novice magical girls make is not noticing their own weaknesses, if Flora stops time, then there must be logic involved because all magic works on the basis of some logic."

"If she completely stopped time, oxygen, photons, electrons, atmosphere, light, sound, atoms, etc. would all stop too, that is, she would die in the stopped time."

"So her magic, if it really was to stop time, would only stop what she considers necessary to keep stopped and that is not useful for keeping her alive."

"And that’s where my positive point comes in, I froze the entire house in an ice dome, so she couldn’t easily enter here."

"And to not take any risks, I used the specialty of my magic, my ice is capable of ’contaminating’ other things, if it touches you it can completely affect you, I normally don’t use this because it would kill normal people or cause terrible damage."

"So I set a trap, the entire space inside the dome that covers this house is covered in ice crystals, when Flora invaded this area, she was almost completely frozen."

"The ice crystals are in the ambient humidity, something that is obviously necessary, so these crystals are not visible and she could be frozen without even seeing them."

"Because she was frozen, it made her magic stop working, she tried to invade at night, and on previous nights she tried to break the ice from the outside, I noticed that the ice was breaking, which gave room for this trap."

"That’s why in the morning I found her frozen and unable to get out of the place, she promised that if I released her, she would do what I wanted."

"But I’m not stupid, I had her tell me everything she did and knew... and she told me what she did to you while trying to manipulate me..., but then she mentioned a person who didn’t exist, and that irritated me and I killed her for lying to me."

"See? It was easy, she didn’t even know her own weakness, if she knew, she wouldn’t have fallen into this trap, in the end having a powerful magic makes you arrogant and vulnerable to enemies who use strategies."

"And now we’re here, I have you all to myself, and you’re safe..."

"B-But what about Rose? You hardly ever leave the house" Rose doesn’t find Azuli’s bizarre and unhealthy behavior strange?

"...I had to eliminate her, unfortunately she confronted me about the ice dome and about keeping you here... can you believe it? How dare she try to teach me? I know what’s best for you, I don’t need meddlers interfering in my decisions."

"..."

"H-Hahaha" I laugh nervously.

"T-Thank you for saving me from Flora" I just thank her, she’s crazy, she’s so crazy that she scares me more than Flora, I always thought Flora was the biggest problem, how did things get so messed up?

If this was the work of some god, he must be completely crazy, everything in this world of magical girls was confusing, disconnected, and illogical.

"Now you don’t have to fear anything, Shizune, I’ll take good care of you," she says with a smile as she serves the food again, since she had thrown the previous food on the floor.

’S-Shit, someone save me!!’ I can only think this as I force myself to eat with a smile, fearing to make this lunatic even crazier.