Dropping a Tiny Self-Destruct Shock into a Kid-Friendly World

The last guardian of her world—Haga Mayumi—finally escaped the trap of immortality and embraced the eternal sleep she had longed for… after watching her world fall to ruin. But when she opened her eyes again, she had been reincarnated into another world. And this world… was bizarre. Here, the guardians never get hurt, never bleed. They don’t end up covered in dust and dirt after battle. Their sparkling magic keeps their clothes pristine, and somehow, no matter how much they fly around in frilly skirts, there’s never a wardrobe malfunction. The guardians of this world are called “magical girls,” with brightly colored hair and flashy outfits. No one knows their true identities. Or at least, that’s what people say. But for some reason, Mayumi keeps running into familiar faces—her childhood friend, her classmate, the new transfer student, the school nurse… even that idol she once saw on TV. All of them just so happen to have rare, vibrant hair colors that perfectly match those of the magical girls. And yet… no one notices anything strange. Ridiculous. But what Mayumi doesn’t know is this: in this cheerful, kid-friendly world, the most ridiculous thing of all… …is her. The girl who bleeds, who can sew her own severed arm back on and move it again in three minutes, who can blow herself up like a grenade and still regenerate from a puddle of gore— —is her.