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This chemical sweetness!

I love it!

Don't eat too much of that stuff, Mia.

"Enjoy the little day-to-day happinesses while you can."

My dad told me that before he died.

Want some, Julia?

No.

You know I'm on a low-carb diet.

Anyway,

Rapture's back on the front lines.

Huh...

Tamara is still with the Spetsnaz, right?

Yes.

Rapture,

War Nurse,

Phoenix...

Four of the Magical Five have returned to the battlefield.

So now it's just Peipei, huh?

I kind of want to see her,

and I kind of don't.

You may get your chance to see Rapture and War Nurse.

I see.

Your next mission is probably going to take you to Japan.

I can't wait.

Wish Upon a Star

Excuse me,

um...

I can't speak English.

What?

Um...

Do you need help?

Thank you!

I want to go to this hotel.

It's just down that road.

Okay?

Okay!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Bye-bye!

Oh no!

Thanks for coming to my study group today!

Kurumi says she'll be late.

Nozo-chan said the same thing.

Okay,

let's start without them.

Okay.

This place has a ton of books, huh?

Lots of plays and books about drama.

I can tell you're in the literature club.

You know,

when you've read enough books, you start to want to write one.

I'm hoping I can be a scriptwriter when I grow up.

Is that your dream?

Um...

What's your dream, Asuka-san?

My dream...

I don't really like myself that much...

So I don't really have a dream.

You're wonderful, Asuka-san!

So don't say you don't like yourself.

Nozo-chan, knock it off!

H-Hi!

Kurumi?

Asuka-san!

Are you okay?

Did anything weird happen between you and her?

Anything... weird?

Um...

I think this is...

You use this formula to solve that one.

Oh, I see.

I can't do this! It's exhausting!

It hasn't even been 30 minutes, Nozo-chan.

But I'm tired!

I know!

Once this is over,

want to go to the Tanabata festival?

Tanabata festival?

They're doing it at the shopping district in front of the station.

There're lots of little stalls,

and I guess it might be fun.

I haven't been to a thing like that in ages.

Then let's go!

We can study better when we've got something to look forward to!

I'm fine,

but I think Kurumi had something to do.

My schedule just opened up!

I'm prioritizing seeing you in a yukata...

I mean, making memories with my friends.

I-I see.

Okay, I guess we can.

Hooray! Festival time!

Leonid Greenburg...

A Jewish-American mathematician.

He was killed in Mexico,

and his brother's in Japan.

Leonid's younger brother, Jerome,

is a millionaire who runs an IT company.

Or, well, he's retired now and living a comfortable life.

He was.

Now nobody can get a hold of him.

The CIA's Japanese branch sent up a micro drone to look into his room,

and found him embedded in a cube.

So a fairly powerful, illegal Magical Girl is involved in this matter, then?

Or a magical mercenary.

Those Babel Brigade guys?

Good, this'll be fun.

What will you do if you run into Rapture and War Nurse during your investigation?

I won't let them get in the way of my work.

That's all.

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Asuka and Kurumi-chan are late.

I think they should be here soon.

S-Sorry.

I told her I didn't need a fancy yukata, but...

Kurumi insisted...

I think it suits you best!

I agree!

Let's go, then!

It's really close!

It's so exciting, going to a festival with everybody!

Huh?

Where's Nozomi?

I can't eat anymore...

You eat too fast!

When did she eat all that?

I'll watch Nozomi-san.

We'll catch up with you later.

Thanks.

Sorry to ask.

Your lap feels so good.

It feels like you're used to taking care of people.

Maybe I am.

Ever since you two transferred here,

every day has been such fun.

You're right.

You know,

Asuka and Sayako kind of look like a couple, don't they?

As her childhood friend, it's kind of a good thing,

but it also makes me kind of sad.

Let's get going.

But my stomach still hurts.

I don't care!

Are you okay?

Yes...

Excuse me.

Yoshino-san?

Hi there.

You guys?

Why is M Squad here?

I said I was off today.

So are we.

Iizuka-san gave us the rest of the day off.

He told us to go enjoy the festival with you.

Part of the job when you work for the JSDF is taking breaks when you can.

Hey,

Asuka!

Introduce us!

You know them?

Are they relatives of yours or something?

No, we're...

That was a really hard punch.

We go to the same training gym as Asuka and Kurumi.

Oh, I see!

I know!

Why don't we all go around together?

We'll use our grown-up powers to pay!

Hooray!

She never learns.

When did it get so late?

Where did that weird group of people go?

They're in line to get beer and yakitori.

Oh...

They look like normal teenagers when they're like that.

We don't look like soldiers right now ourselves.

Soldiers, huh?

We enlisted voluntarily and we're paid for by tax dollars.

We're not like them.

What will happen on our next mission?

I don't know,

but it won't be easier than what we've dealt with up until now.

I hope this isn't our last summer vacation.

Don't even say stuff like that!

There's been so much violence in the news lately.

What's gotten into you?

When I'm in big crowds,

I start having flashbacks...

To when the Magical Girl saved me.

There was a big fight in Ookubo a while back, too.

I hope the peace lasts forever.

But I think it won't.

What do you think the end of the world feels like?

I remember how scared I was when the Distonian War happened.

Yeah...

All the schools shut down.

We went to be with our families in the countryside.

There were urban conflicts happening all over the world then.

I saw on TV that the Disas wanted to use humanity as an energy source.

If the Disas Beast, their leader, had fully manifested itself,

every army on Earth would've been wiped out in 36 hours.

Don't worry!

They say that every army in the world is learning how to deal with magical combat.

And there are more Magical Girls now, too.

I'm going to walk around by myself for a bit.

A peace protected by Magical Girls, huh?

Oh, you're the girl from earlier...

Thanks for your help!

Your kimono is very beautiful!

Thank you.

By the way, what is this?

Oh,

that's a Tanabata decoration.

It's a Japanese tradition.

It's said that if you write your wish on one, it will come true.

What did you wish for?

Oh, no,

I don't have any wishes.

That's wrong!

A kid needs to have wishes!

But I don't know what to wish for.

Then you need to find something!

Listen.

A kid's duty is to be happy.

Got it?

Yeah.

If you don't have a wish,

then wish to be happy.

Then you'll find something for sure.

Yeah.

Um, why did you come to Japan?

Tourism?

I'm looking for someone.

Looking for someone?

A child I was separated from a long time ago.

Asuka-san!

Tanabata decorations, huh?

I'll write one, too!

Hey!

Stop spacing out and pay attention to us!

Don't jump on Asuka-san!

Let go of her!

Nozo-chan!

The dog's bitten down on the decoy.

It will arrive in Yokota tomorrow morning.

Roger.

So this building is where Jerome's penthouse is located?

There's nobody here, right?

We had the CIA seal it off.

Well done.

Anyway, nobody's concerned that Jerome went radio silent?

His secretary was cleaning the place and paying the rent.

This is her?

The Japanese police haven't figured out what's going on here yet.

We should be the first ones to look at the scene.

Just Cause, let's go.

What's it look like inside?

I won't know too much until I'm in there,

but if nothing else, it looks like there's nobody alive in there.

Okay.

Entry.

That's...

A cube.

The same as we saw in Mexico.

The corpse is almost mummified.

It's been a minimum of three months since he died, huh?

I'll get a DNA sample.

You two continue your search.

Hey...

Why do you think they didn't try to hide the body?

They wanted us to find it, right?

That's been my impression ever since Mexico.

It's so damn hot in here.

Did he turn the heater on?

What's this?

"He who laughs last, laughs best."

It's our motto as Magical Girls.

What's this?

A biological weapon?

The heat and Ayahuasca smoke

will be empowered by my desire for revenge,

and become a jaguar that burns you to ash.

A magical mercenary?

That's right.

At point-blank range, I can break through shields.

I learned that in the last war.

Stop talking!

Gotcha!

Even my bullets can't break her shield?

It's so strong!

I remember.

You're Crescent Moon Sandino, aren't you?

A Colombian terrorist.

I remember now.

She gets high off a combination of drugs and heat to better absorb magical power.

It's a tactic commonly used by Colombian shamans.

So this heat and fog are your barrier?

I'm surprised you figured that out so fast.

You've done your homework.

My family died during a US bombing raid on the Disas.

And I'm getting revenge.

That doesn't make it okay for you to be a terrorist!

A Voorhees-class?

Swap for magical rounds.

Roger!

Your bombs killed 300 US soldiers in the Sudan!

And you're going to join them!

And if you hate the Disas, why kill Magical Girls?

My daughter died.

The humans were the ones who killed her in that war.

The Colombian front was a horror show.

The military was out of control.

People died needlessly.

Don't try to write it off with just a few words!

My war isn't over!

My war continues until my despair has swallowed up the whole world!

You're a grown-up!

Don't whine to a kid about your problems!

Julia!

Roger.

I guess we can't question you with those wounds.

I'm glad...

I didn't have to kill a kid.

Don't even try for a deathbed redemption.

You're just a terrorist.

Just like the one who killed my mom and dad with a bomb.

You're right.

So maybe the Babel Brigade hired Sandino and she did it?

No, that's not right.

Only one of the Magical Five would've known about that phrase.

Is something wrong?

About my dream...

I'm afraid I don't know what it means for me to be happy,

or to have dreams.

But...

I can protect someone,

and support someone else's dreams.

Maybe that's my dream right now.

Asuka-san...

Asuka-san!

Good morning!

Morning!

Maybe I can find my happiness through that.

Why does a JSDF special forces unit use a maid café as their base, chu?

They couldn't come up with anything better than that, chu?

Next time: "Magical Girl Operations Development Unit."

Magical Girl Operations Development Unit

Shady goings-on to the north and south!

It's getting busy around here, chu!