The morning of a Silver Order executive is slow.
“Hwuaaam~”
Having slept in to her heart’s content, Amber crawled out from under the covers, still half asleep.
8:10 a.m. If she got ready quickly, she could somehow avoid being late.
“…Gotta brush my teeth.”
Recently, Lapis, her boss, had given her an order that was not quite an order: for the time being, she did not have to attend the Silver Order’s morning assembly.
Perhaps it meant that a student should act like a student and prioritize her studies. Amber arbitrarily guessed as much.
‘I could at least go to the morning assembly. Because of that order, the time I get to meet Senior has decreased too.’
Of course, getting enough sleep had improved her skin, made her hair more lustrous, and increased her focus in class, but even taking all that into account, not being able to see Jade was a serious matter for Amber.
Even after she somehow arrived at school without being late, her mind was nowhere to be found; she merely stared blankly at the red-haired girl visible in the distance.
The girl’s identity was none other than Ravi, her classmate.
On top of that, she was Ruby, the magical girl and champion of justice who had blocked the Silver Order, an organization that proclaimed world domination as its goal.
A week ago, Amber had thought Ravi had moved in next door to Jade, and then she had gone and entered his house as she pleased.
Just in case, Amber had secretly watched the two of them from outside the window, but fortunately, they had not done anything suspicious.
‘Does Ravi really like Senior in the first place?’
From what she had heard, Ravi and Jade had first met only about two months ago.
Falling in love in such a short time did not quite add up.
‘Well, he is an attractive person, I suppose…’
It was only because he had few encounters and thus inevitably had no opportunities to interact with women; normally, it would not have been strange for him to be more popular.
Someone who listened seriously to what others said and was enjoyable to be with. That was the human being called Jade, as Amber evaluated him.
Thus, while letting the math teacher’s desperate lesson go in one ear and out the other as she thought about Ravi—
‘Huh? Come to think of it, aside from that time, I’ve never met Ravi at the café.’
Amber might not look it, but she was a proper executive of the Silver Order. The café she had received from the Silver Order, Eclipse, was also registered under her name.
And yet, for all that, the fact that she had not run into Ravi inside the shop even once bothered her somehow.
Was it simply that their times at the café did not overlap? Or else—
“Amber, are you listening!”
“Uwaah! I wasn’t sleeping!”
At the math teacher’s thunderous roar, which came at the worst possible timing, her question ultimately vanished just like that.
And so, as usual, after school ended, Amber made her way to Café Eclipse, the Silver Order branch.
“Senior? What are you doing sitting there—”
There, she ended up witnessing a shocking scene.
“…Eh?”
It was a strangely picturesque sight: her senior, Jade, reading some book with an extremely serious expression.
Reading was a wonderful hobby. And reading a book while enjoying coffee at a café was something that carried a fair bit of romance.
If the book was normal, that is.
The name of the book in Jade’s hand was Let’s Finish It with One Book! 69 Correct Facts About Pregnancy and Childbirth.
Amber rubbed her eyes and checked the cover of the book again.
Let’s Finish It with One Book! 69 Correct Facts About Pregnancy and Childbirth.
“Eeeh…?”
Even after rubbing her eyes and looking again, it was a book about pregnancy and childbirth. And one with a title far too aggressive for a man in his twenties to be reading.
What on earth had gotten into that human for him to take an interest in such a book? No matter how Amber racked her not-so-brilliant brain, no proper answer came.
However, Jade’s eccentric behavior continued even after that day—
“Amber, you shouldn’t let your stomach get cold. You’ll regret it later.”
He would worry about the state of her stomach and cover her with a blanket.
“When you’re pregnant, you often get nausea called morning sickness, and this is a phenomenon that occurs due to sudden hormonal changes…”
He would tell her random trivia about pregnancy that she did not even know was correct.
“Were peaches in season around this time? Buy me some peaches. I need to buy peaches for…”
He would suddenly use a strange way of speaking and obsess over peaches that were not even in season.
“In any case, you have to watch your nutrition. Even if you don’t have an appetite, you need to eat to have strength, right?”
“Though if you just eat whatever you see, that can be dangerous, so you have to check properly.”
“I see…”
He would become friendly with the neighborhood aunties and share vivid firsthand stories.
It was suspicious no matter how she looked at it. If this was not called suspicious, then what was?
‘If Senior hasn’t lost his mind, then he must have gotten some secret he can’t talk about.’
His suddenly increased interest in pregnancy, and on top of that, his attitude, which had suddenly become kind toward her.
The fact she derived from the above evidence was—
“Aaaaah!”
The puzzle pieces clicked into place in Amber’s head.
‘That human is planning to make me have a baby!’
Not that the puzzle had been assembled correctly.
***
It had already been a week since Magical Girl Ruby had robbed me of my dignity as a man.
I was desperately building up knowledge related to pregnancy while reading material about expectant mothers.
“Haa…”
Even if I let out a deep sigh, reality would not change.
Fine, let’s say I was confessed to by that girl. If I conceded about a hundred steps, it was not completely unbelievable.
But if I poured out my heart and said that Magical Girl Ruby had stolen my chastity, who in this world would believe me?
For now, since we were both adults, the act itself probably would not be a legal problem, but…
‘She did use contraception properly, right?’
Even if I thought she should at least have that much common sense, she was the crazy girl who had ignored me desperately shouting that she couldn’t come inside and kept moving her hips.
How was she planning to handle her magical girl activities in the first place? For ten months, her body would be in no condition to overdo it.
Recently, Ravi had not been coming home and had continued her magical girl activities.
‘She probably has a real family home where she actually lives, and only bought the apartment to threaten me.’
None of that mattered anymore. If, by some chance, that girl was carrying my child…
“Haaaaaa~”
When I let out a sigh even larger than before, the bookstore employee next to me got scared and fled far away.
‘I don’t even have anyone to consult. Aside from the neighborhood aunties I somehow ended up getting close to.’
For now, I had hidden this matter from Amber. I did not want to worry her unnecessarily.
Most importantly, if I mentioned the truth, she could end up being targeted as a hostage by the world’s strongest magical girl. For my junior’s safety as well, I had no choice but to maintain the lie here.
‘Ravi cast perception-inhibiting magic anyway, so she probably didn’t notice.’
In any case, I should do what I can right now. As long as there was even the slightest possibility, I needed to take the minimum amount of responsibility.
I stared holes into Expectant Mother Class with the World’s Best Medical Team and tried somehow to read the opening, but because Ravi would not leave my mind, I could not focus well.
‘Was it true that she likes me?’
At first, I thought it was just a ploy to dig up information about the Silver Order. It was not something a champion of justice should do, but if she used that method, she could easily reach the heart of the Silver Order.
But she had seen through my identity from the very beginning. What followed from there was what happened last time—
I clutched my head and agonized over it, but as expected, it was difficult to take things at face value.
In the end, I bought a few suitable books and left the bookstore with a suffocating feeling in my chest.
‘Who could’ve known the salary I’d saved up would end up being spent on pregnancy books?’
While waiting for the light at the crosswalk, I quietly lifted the bag containing the books.
What was going to happen to my life from now on? I hoped it was needless worry, but—
Thump, thump, thump…
“…?”
At the sudden intrusion of an out-of-place sound, I hurriedly raised my head.
It was a soccer ball. A soccer ball had bounced out into the middle of the crosswalk.
A little boy was about to cross the crosswalk on a red light to pick it up, and from the side, a large truck was speeding toward him…
“Don’t tell me.”
Could there be anything more cruel?
To impose the same trial yet again on a guy who had already been hit by a truck once and transmigrated.
There did not seem to be anyone else around who could help that kid. I was the only one who could save him.
There was no time to hesitate. Even an evil grunt would want to save a life right in front of him.
I hurriedly kicked off the ground and ran toward where the boy was.
‘Am I too late?!’
I flinched for a moment, startled by the truck charging in far faster than I had imagined, but it was already too late to turn back.
“Hup!”
Good. With this, at least the boy would live. I had somehow shoved him out of its path.
With this, the only one dying would be me. Wasn’t that a pretty stylish end?
The moment I fully accepted death and closed my eyes, it happened.
—Clang!
Something circular appeared along with a massive roar.
“A barrier?”
A huge barrier had suddenly appeared and stopped the truck’s movement.
I wondered if a magical girl had saved me, but the only ones around were still me and the kid from earlier. Then what on earth…
“…Did I use it?”
That special sensation one supposedly felt when releasing magical power. It was my first time experiencing it, but that sensation remained in my body.
Just now, I had definitely used magic. And powerful magic at that, strong enough to stop an oncoming truck.
What on earth had happened? The only recent thing I could remember was getting screwed by Ravi—
“Wait, don’t tell me?”
There was a meme that said if you remained a virgin until thirty, you would become a wizard, but I was the exact opposite right now.
The unprecedented situation had occurred where I, a magical impotent, became able to use magic after losing my virginity.