Haruna's magic power began to surge throughout her body. Her small pink fists lashed out rapidly at Raize's chest—clearly, in her flustered state, she was trying to push him away.
"Y-y-you idiot, Raize! What are you even saying right now…!"
Shouting in a mix of embarrassment and anger, Haruna's face flushed bright red as she kept pounding her fists against Raize's chest, trying to shove him away. She knew how strong Raize was, which was why she was even using magic.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Dull impacts echoed against Raize's chest. To him, it felt like nothing in particular, while Haruna, burning with shame, desperately wanted to escape his encirclement.
But with a sharp smack, Raize seized Haruna's shoulders with both hands, locking her in place. After restraining the indignant little kitten, he went even further, pulling the trembling and bashful Haruna tightly into his arms.
Haruna struggled even more furiously, but against Raize's physical strength, her resistance was meaningless. Her face was red like boiling water, even the little cowlick on her head standing straight up as wisps of heat seemed to rise continuously from her scalp.
Raize held the trembling girl tightly in his arms, then leaned his mouth close to Haruna's ear and said in an unmistakably forceful tone:
"Although you've misunderstood my intentions a bit, don't even think about running away~ I need to leave my mark on you."
What do you mean I misunderstood your intentions? The things you're saying now are even more misleading, okay?!
At such close proximity to the scent of the opposite sex, Haruna's mind completely shut down. Her eyes spun like spirals, and she failed to notice the black-red tentacles, flickering with pink energy, rapidly spreading from behind Raize and from the hands holding her.
The tentacles slowly merged into Haruna's body. The flesh-and-blood symbiote known as "Raize" rudely invaded the girl's delicate form.
After copying Haruna's absurd resistance to curses, Raize also left part of his own flesh within her body. Pure vitality and Kirby's enchantment power surged inside, wildly remodeling the girl's physique.
"Ahh…!"
Held tightly in Raize's arms, the girl's body trembled violently. Sensing the abnormal changes, Haruna widened her eyes—she could see the tentacles extending from Raize's back, connected to her body.
Yet with her mouth agape, she couldn't utter a single word. Raize's vast life force and flesh were wantonly reshaping her essence, carving his mark into her body stroke by stroke.
Haruna could feel herself growing stronger. Even her magic power was continuously increasing. As a magical girl, her magic had stopped growing long ago—but now it was increasing once more.
She finally seemed to understand what Raize meant.
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Inside Raize's living room.
Laffey lay lazily with Raize's thigh as her pillow, watching television in a languid pose. A faint smile tugged at Raize's lips as he examined the magical weapon in his hands—a chainsaw-shaped weapon called Mystletainn, now in his possession.
This thing recorded when Megalos were killed and transmitted them back to Velliers. In other words, aside from being a weapon, it was also a tracker belonging to Velliers.
After he finished modifying Haruna, she had calmed down somewhat and reluctantly handed Mystletainn over to him. This also symbolized the severing of Haruna's connection with Velliers.
(Is everything okay on Haruna's side?)
Eu, peeling an orange she had opened herself, glanced at the magical in Raize's hands and asked in her small notebook.
Having lived closely with Haruna for so long, she had grown accustomed to her presence. Because of the magic transfer device, her impression of Haruna had also improved significantly compared to before.
She could roughly guess what Raize and Haruna had discussed. Judging by Raize's demeanor, things had gone smoothly, so she wanted to ask about the outcome.
"She's on my side now. From this point forward, she's just a member of this household—no longer Velliers magical girl."
After examining the internal structure of the weapon, Raize lost interest and incinerated the chainsaw into nothingness with a burst of flame.
Haruna was now firmly bound to his side. No matter what, he would not allow his enemies to exploit her again. Raize did not believe Ariel would truly give up on Haruna—when they met again, he intended to kill her completely.
"Idiot Raize, you have to take responsibility for me from now on!"
At that moment, Haruna, having fully regained her composure, came downstairs. With a sudden leap, she jumped onto Raize's neck. Wearing shorts, she revealed her slender, pale legs as she wrapped them around him.
Her face showed a spoiled, willful expression, utterly lacking the dejected look she'd had earlier.
(Responsibility?)
Eu put down the orange peel and stared seriously at Raize, then looked at Haruna. With just that glance, she became a little surprised.
The drastic changes in Haruna's body couldn't escape her eyes. Both inside and out, she had changed quite a bit.
First was Haruna's appearance. Though she was still as petite and cute as ever, her skin had become even fairer and smoother, and even her previously flat chest had grown a little.
Internally, her vitality and magic power had both become far greater than before. Knowing exactly how much capacity Haruna used to have, Eu was puzzled. Clearly, quite a lot had happened between these two that she didn't know about.
"Stop messing around. Get down and sit properly."
Feeling the slick touch against the back of his neck and beside his cheek, Raize spoke with a helpless expression. His hands suddenly settled on Haruna's exposed legs and began to rub them slowly.
"Eek! Pervert!!"
Haruna, who had been wearing a spoiled expression, instantly bristled again when she felt the warm touch of Raize's palms on her legs. Embarrassed and flustered, she reflexively sprang upward, deftly breaking free from his hands.
That instinctive jump also triggered a reflex in her newly modified body. Like a cross between a kitten and a spider, Haruna clung tightly to the ceiling with all four limbs, baring her teeth and glaring down at Raize in humiliation.
Eu, Raize, and Laffey all wore different expressions, their gazes subtly complex as they looked at Haruna hanging upside down from the ceiling. She really did look like a cat now.
Raize had given Haruna some of his own power—Spider-Man's abilities were among them—and he had also left a symbiote representing himself inside her body.
"Mmm… Haruna looks like a puffed-up kitty~"
Laffey shifted her position on the sofa, lazily watching Haruna on the ceiling. With her listless bunny-like demeanor, she looked soft and adorable.
"Get down here already. Hanging from the ceiling like that—what do you think you're doing?"
Raize said irritably. Through his mental link with the symbiote fragment he'd left inside Haruna, several pink tentacles formed from his symbiote extended from her back, releasing her from the ceiling's grip.
As for why they were pink, Raize had simply changed them to suit a girl's image. After all, when Haruna transformed into a magical girl, she was dressed entirely in pink.
Haruna couldn't control her body at the moment. Temporarily taken over by the symbiote within her, she was gently and steadily lowered onto the sofa, where she sat obediently.