I Was Transported To Another World and Became a Yuri Heroine
Three
"But... I have a Smartphone!" the young man dressed in the white pimp coat said. "Girls LOVE the Smartphone!"
"GET AWAY FROM MY GIRLFRIEND!" Devas yelled.
"Hey!" Elze yelled, her sister Linze beside her as they shielded Touya.
Yae, the swords woman, was fighting Gabrielle, but was having real trouble, her normal katana not managing well against a magic sword.
The Scribe QUICKLY suggested, "Maybe we should just... go our seperate ways?"
"Devas, we don't need to fight them," Gabrielle agreed, backing off from Yae cautiously.
Devas scowled, but accepted that. Though she kept herself between the guy and her party... he really was frighteningly powerful in magic.
"You have NO taste," Elze added as the group hurried off.
"Well, that was a thing..." Sinon noted.
(They had heard rumours that Smartphone-guy was one of the escaped demons they were chasing. Apparently not.)
"Sorry," Scribe apologized, "he SOUNDED demonic."
"Not your fault," Gabrielle waved it off.
Devas looked less happy, but she let it go. Despite being a former Demon Lord she had no reliable way to track down her former subjects. So they were stuck chasing down possible sightings.
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"Pay the toll and I'll let you cross," the huge female minotaur ordered from her shed beside the bridge, sounding somewhat bored.
"Taura?" Devas blinked in surprise at her former minion.
"Hey, boss!" the nearly ten foot tall woman waved. "What's shaking?"
"What are you doing charging tolls?" Devas asked.
"It's traditional!" Taura protested. "Besides, the bridge was a wreck when I arrived."
Indeed, the stone bridge was in fine shape, and looked nearly brand new.
Scribe checked the report they got from the local lord, "Is it true you're killing people who try to cross without paying?"
"WHAT." Taura blinked. "Are you kidding? Doing that gets over-eager heroes sent after you to kill you."
Gabrielle kind of hid her sword behind her.
"So what does happen?" Scribe had to ask.
"I refuse them passage. If they get really pushy, I chuck them in the river," Taura shrugged.
"Oh," Scribe realized what was up.
"What's going on?" Sinon frowned.
Scribe frowned, "I think the local lord is not happy about this legal toll bridge, and hoped we'd solve the problem for him."
"Bastard," Gabrielle scowled.
"Agreed," Sinon nodded. "Is there anything we can do?" she asked.
"As the 'Chosen Hero' I met the king once. We could send a letter saying what his minion tried to pull," Gabrielle suggested.
"I'll help you write it," Scribe agreed.
"So is anyone going to stab, kill or banish me?" Taura asked wryly. "I hate the suspense."
"No, I think you're okay," Gabrielle said sheepishly.
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Later, in another part of the kingdom...
"Wait a minute. You're TEN YEARS OLD?" Scribe asked.
"Well, yes," Negi admitted.
"And ALL THESE TEENAGERS are chasing you?" Scribe clarified.
"Uhm, yes?" Negi conceded.
Even Devas looked appalled. The band of teen aged harem-ettes looked sheepish, apparently not having considered the unfortunate implications.
The girl with wings raised a hand as she said, "I'm not involved in that, I'm just here guarding my lady, Konoka."
"Setsuna!" Konoka sighed, clutching her arm.
Ayaka Yukihiro sniffed as the blond said, "There's nothing WRONG with liking young boys."
There was a LONG beat of silence.
"I am summoning child protective services...," Gabrielle said flatly, Devas nodding.
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The 'giant snake' they were looking for ended up being a lamia. A very annoyed lamia at that.
"YOUUUU..." he glared at Devas in pure loathing.
"I take it you know him?" Scribe asked.
"DIE!" he roared, slithering across the ground quickly as he raced at Devas.
"Yes, she knows him," Sinon agreed as she fired arrows into his body. Annoyingly, she shafts just snapped, breaking against his scales.
Gabrielle swung her magic sword, but barely put a dent into it. "Ooof!" she grunted.
Devas took the blow on her crossed arms, sliding backwards. "Well, Shinmai, as angry as ever," she noted calmly.
Shinmai hissed angrily, "You locked me underground a thousand years!"
"Because you kept killing everything you met!" Devas shot back.
The two demons fought furiously, raining blows down on each otner. The lamia's clawed hands would have torn a human to ribbons, but Devas stood up to him well. At the same time his scales were effective armor, too.
"I will kill you and never be bound again!" Shinmai yelled.
Sinon was watching the scales flex. "A gap," she exclaimed and fired off arrows, plunging them into a break in the scales on his lower back.
"Argh!" he yelped in pain.
Devas seized the opening, hammering him repeatedly. "He's weakened!" she yelled.
"Banishing Blade!" Gabrielle cried, slasing as the sword blade glowed.
With a anguished cry the lamia disappeared, banished back to the demon realm.
"Is everyone okay?" Scribe demanded, readying the medicine bag.
"Just banged up a bit," Devas admitted, but everyone was checked over.
"You locked him up a thousand years?" Sinon asked curiously.
"He killed anything he met, human or demon," Devas admitted, "and I didn't want to just kill him so..."
"You spared him out of kindness?" Gabrielle asked.
"No, he'd be a useful weapon if there was a human/demon war," Devas noted dryly.
"I keep forgetting you were a villain," Scribe said.
Devas just grinned at that.
"All right, let's let the nearby villages know the monster is gone," Gabrielle said briskly.
"And I'll put in my latest reports to the guild," Scribe added.
"Are your reports why everyone knows who we are?" Sinon asked, looking at Scribe warmly.
Scribe blushed faintly. "That and songs spread by bards," she agreed, "I understand songs about Devas and Gabrielle are very popular."
"I'd rather read what you create," Sinon purred.
Scribe blushed even brighter...
To be continued...
Notes: This is sort of a 'magical crossover universe' basically. Don't think about the canon too hard, or you'll give yourself a headache.
Just finished 'In Another World with My Smartphone.' Not bad actually, though it's very generic. This is set early on in that series.
I actually liked Negima, but yes there's some REALLY unfortunate implications there.
Didn't realize the chapter was THAT short. Next bit should be longer.
