While the planned shopping trip did happen after my little chat with Leo, and I found it surprisingly fun describing it would be boring, for you and me both. The only notable thing being that some shops (among which figure the ones we visited) open their back-doors at night so magical-girls can discretely come in their powered-up form and select clothes for eventual undercover needs. I think it's also used by magical-girls so powerful they can't revert back to their birth form, so they have something else to wear than their uniform when on a date. (Or even just doing their everyday shopping.)
I also confirmed something I suspected since I became aware of my magical-girl status: I'm a magical-tomboy. Don't get me wrong, I did get a few skirts and dresses, but it's mostly jeans and other pants. My ‘summer tops’ might be slightly more feminine, in the sense that half are crop-top and few boys wear them. I would have thought she would be against it, but instead nodded approvingly, saying "if you got it, flaunt it!" (That might explain why she added form-fitting pants and tops to my own selection.)
Then came the underwear, and mom insisted I took something else that sportbras. "Those are good for physical activity, our duties include, at least when you have boobs small enough for them. But trust me, for everyday activities, you'll prefer actual support over squishing your girls." I pointed out that, in uniform, she didn't hide her gravity-defying melons in any bra, but mom simply glared at me. In the end I choose comfort over sexiness, causing mom to roll her eyes, and had a few lacy bras and panties. (I'm starting to think our demonic ancestor was a succubus.)
The less said about my moms choice in clothes for herself, the better.
Since then, moms team-mates from before she lost her powers discovered some plans the government had for the magical-girls in my schools. They were worrying plans, but we already knew how to counter them. When I finally got back to school, I will turn my class into a stage.
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Without surprise, with my ‘awakening’ as a magical-girl they put me in a new class, one exclusively occupied by fellow battle magical-girls.
A member of the ‘Liaison Agency for Magical-Girls’, or LAM-G for short, itself a sub-branch of the ‘’National Agency for Prevention Against Magical Dangers’, or N.A.P.A.M.D., is present. Why such a person is here? To give us what look like one of those cameras liked by practitioners of extreme sports, but is in fact a very, very nasty thing.
The government agent say it simply fuse with our uniform, claiming it's ‘without risks for our health’. That's my cue. I instantly get up, not needing to fake my rage, and start by asking how they guaranty it was without risk for me since, being a boy who turn into a magical-girl, my magical flux is different to the others when in birth-form. To support my point, I give them Dr. Hall's report on this, which both the LAM-G & N.A.P.A.M.D. already have, along with the documentations of the camera, something I shouldn't have, with highlight of problematic characteristics and comment from the good doctor on how it either could endanger my life, or cause other problems.
Then I start listing said problems. Like the fact, once it fuse with a magical-girl's uniform, said magical girl can't dispel their uniform, which cause two problems. First, if a magical-girl with such an equipment ever need to go undercover, she can't do it while transformed anymore, increasing greatly the risks she take for such a mission. Second, if this magical-girl ever get so powerful she can't revert to her birth-form anymore, it would cause her hygiene problem, since she wouldn't be able to correctly clean herself anymore.
Not only that, but the way the camera work, on top of its own lens and mike, the thing also capture video and sound through the magical-girl's eyes and ears, and doesn't deactivate when reverting to birth-form. Meaning the government know everything you see and hear, taking away your privacy.
This, coupled with a conception flaw making the thing not only easily hackable, but a big unsecured gate to the LAM-G's central servers, not only make it a sure fire way to have every pervert watch every magical-girls washing themselves through their own eyes, but also guaranty to put magical-girls and their family at the mercy of every terrorist-organizations and other criminals.
I know that, just to prove the point, some unknown (to me) friend of mom pirated the cams the LAM-G agent brought with her, and she's not just recording everything I say, noooo. She also used them to put a virus in the LAM-G's servers and super-computers, making them pirate every TV channels of the nation, to diffuse the live feed of my rant.
What I never expected, and I suppose none of moms former team-mate did either, was to have the LAM-G agent be a woman. Irate, the agent accuse her male colleague to be huge perverts who specifically asked for the ability to see via the eyes of a magical-girl whatever her form. "I won't work a second more for an agency that so obviously don't care for the citizen's well-being!"
Seeing how she is writing her resignation on live TV, I decide a slight change of plan is in order. Instead of going out of class stomping, before slamming the door shut, I move next to her, sympathetically putting my hand on her shoulder and say "Just as I won't stay a second more in a school so willing to put me in more danger than being a battle magical-girl already do."
I'm not worried about people revealing I'm ‘Yuki's true form’ since, with how drained of power I was at the end of my fight with Icy Spear, my perception filter was pretty weak back then. Everyone already know the new Yuki is a boy, and what that boy look like.
After saying my piece, I calmly walk out of class, soon followed by all my classmates.
I know the country won't like what just happened, but with how public it was, if anything happen to any of my former classmates or myself, public-opinion would immediately suspect the government, making their now-shaky reputation even worse.
They'll probably try to claim it's the only way to guaranty magical-girls won't abuse their powers, but we can always rebuke them saying any ‘action cameras’ could do the trick. They don't go grafting unremovable camera to policemen after all, do they?