Since my Useless Working Sister and Other Troublemakers Became Magical Girls, I have no Choice but to Support Them.

Chapter 1-41: The Girl Named Hino Tiara

After being rejected by the magical girls she approached to request to become one herself, Hino Tiara returned home in despair.

Despite my heartfelt plea, they didn’t accept me. There were now three magical girls, yet I couldn’t become one.

What did I do wrong?

I’ve properly approached them and asked. I’ve kept their identities secret as promised.

A promise is a promise, after all. It must be kept.

She had a sense that monsters would appear near her living area. So, she decided to rush to any location where monsters were reported in hopes of meeting the magical girls. This decision was made the day after she was first attacked.

Her information source was the TV news. But she couldn’t watch TV all the time.

She couldn’t watch it while at school, and her mother would get angry if she watched it all the time at home.

So, she had to rely on rumors. She would go out to the city and wait for monsters to appear. Sometimes, this meant running into TV crews.

Today, she was lucky to meet the magical girls again. A monster happened to appear nearby. When she noticed the commotion outside, she saw a large shadow pass by the window.

Sensing the presence of a monster, she hurried after it.

But she couldn’t become a magical girl.

“I’m home…”

She unlocked the door and entered the house.

Tiara lived in an over-50-year-old wooden apartment without a bath, not fitting her name at all.

She disliked her name. It felt pretentious, and she didn’t understand why it was read as “Tiara” with those kanji characters, despite it being read as princess by most standards.

She had asked her mother once, but her mother only replied with annoyance.

Would the name suit her if she could transform into a magical girl?

Her mother didn’t respond to her greeting. She was lying in the living room, her obese body sprawled out.

Despite doing nothing, her mother would get angry if the TV was turned on.

A single mother, she was Tiara’s only family. Although her part-time job was the only source of income for the Hino family, she didn’t bother to take on more shifts.

So, they lived in this barely manageable situation.

Her mother wanted Tiara to work after middle school.

Sensing she would end up like her mother if she complied, Tiara begged to attend high school and was allowed to.

Her mother saw it as an unnecessary expense.

Even though she made it to high school, her days were far from happy.

She couldn’t watch TV because her mother was always home, and she had a cheap, second-hand prepaid phone.

She couldn’t keep up with the topics her classmates discussed and naturally had no friends.

Magical girls were the first topic she could share with others. They appeared on TV, and she got a bit of attention by talking about meeting them.

So, the existence of magical girls was a source of pride for her.

But the attention was short-lived.

She hated her mother, who had led her into this situation.

She was grateful for being raised alone by her mother, who didn’t even know who Tiara’s father was, but to Tiara, her life so far had been a living hell.

“I will become one. I will definitely become a magical girl.”

If she became the magical girl she admired, surely her life would improve. So, so…

“Do you want to become a magical girl?”

A voice interrupted her thoughts, and she turned around.

Thanks to her mother’s lack of interest in cleaning or tidying up, the room was littered with wrappers and snack bags.

Among the familiar clutter, there was something unfamiliar.

No, she recognized this figure. She had seen it in person.

A small, four-legged fairy sat on the cluttered dining table.

It was like that fairy who stayed with the magical girls. The fairy that had said unexpectedly that it was okay to talk about magical girls.

But unlike that fairy, this one had light pink fur. Its face also seemed a bit different.

If that fairy was a boy, this one seemed to be a girl. The voice she had just heard also seemed to be female.

So, it was a different fairy. But she also knew about the magical girls.

Tiara’s heart pounded.

What should I say? What’s this one’s name?

She had heard the name of the other fairy before. If she remembered correctly.

“Are you a friend of Rafio?”

The fairy laughed cheerfully.

“Yes, we are very close friends. I’m Kiera. Nice to meet you.”

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“Wow, the internet is divided on this.”

“Of course, some people are angry.”

“Given that there were fatalities, it’s understandable.”

“Why do we get blamed when people die because they meddle on their own?”

People had died, and it was understandable that some were angry.

My sister accepted these feelings, so she was nonchalant about it.

I couldn’t blame anyone either. I didn’t think it was our fault, and I didn’t like those who directed their anger at us.

It’s not a healthy state of mind.

After Haruka and the others went home, I managed to pacify Aina, who insisted on joining me in the bath. Rather, I firmly refused and somehow pushed her, who had started undressing, into the bathroom.

Why do I have to see my sister undressing? I tried hard to erase the memory of her nearly flat chest covered by a bra.

As a compromise, I talked to her while she was bathing. Of course, I wasn’t in the bath. I leaned against the wall outside the bathroom.

With just one door separating me from Aina’s nakedness. But we weren’t bathing together.

It felt wrong, but she was satisfied, so there was no helping it.

T/N: Regarding the Princess part, its really hella confusing. Now here’s the kanji, 姫, which is read as Hime or Princess, and it has no other counterparts, However, in creative contexts such as names in novels or manga, authors sometimes play with kanji readings to give unique or symbolic names to characters. This can include giving kanji an unconventional reading that aligns with a thematic or aesthetic choice, such as “姫” being read as “Tiara.”