Houki said adjusting himself, "Your mom is as scary as ever. I might just prefer the goblins."
"The bounty on kitsune gets bigger with every tail we grow, you have to be scary if you wanna live to old age. By the time we grow our eighth or ninth tail, most run of the mill bounty-hunters aren't stupid enough to try," Ziyu said.
"Well we better 'try try try' and hope enough desperate slash foolish mortals wanna come in here looking for a quick and easy solution to complex problems."
"OUT OF MY WAY, KYU!"
"OUT OF MINE FIRST, CHUI!"
Two adorable voices shouted.
The kitsune and tanuki looked up to see a purple and a golden portal open right in front of the store's entrance.
Out of the gold one popped out a little pink cat with three tails and a swirly emblem on his forehead. He had the kinda eyes Houki thought he'd never see outside of an anime or Ziyu's secret plushie collection.
Out of the purple portal jumped out a blue rabbit with four ears, the symbol on her forehead being a geometric pattern. The similar but conflicting power the two gave off reminded Ziyu what her father had taught her how angels and demons were in reality the same tribe, having simply sworn themselves to opposing masters.
The two pressed against each other, causing sparks to fly as they raced to the counter leapt up next to the register.
"I need a nine-pack of magic girl wands! I have Solar Guardians to awaken to their destiny in another timeline, kyu!"
"Well, I have Dark Garden magical girls to recruit so I need Dark magical girl wands FIRST, chui!"
Houki and Ziyu were struct with the vision of a title color in cute colorful letters with a cream colored background.
IT'S TIME FOR, 'LEARN ABOUT MAGICAL GIRLS WITH POKOYO AND MOKOMI' KIDS!
There was cheering from an unseen audience of children as confetti fell in the vision.
The pink cat and blue rabbits were now in front of a white board with a crude drawing of a stereotypical magical girl wand with a heart and feathery wings and a stereotypical dark magical girl wand with a skull and bat wings.
"Heya kids!" Pokoyo said. "Time to learn today about wands, kyu!"
"While magical girls and dark magical girls all have various different holy and dark magic weapons and instruments to be chosen or change into their magical forms, all of these begin 'life' as wands, chui."
"But! Once they come in contact with either a chosen girl, or a spirit guide, they'll shift to the form fitting with that magical girl squad, kyu! But it a scepter, crossbow, or teakettle, kyu!"
"Though once awakened wands only accept those worthy of them, chui."
"So when we say 'wands', don't go think all magical girls everywhere use wands themselves to transform or use magic, kyu! Do your homework, listen to your parents, and eat your veggies, kyu! And remember, no matter who you are, you are loved, kyu!"
The vision ended. And the good and evil magical messengers went back to shouting over each other.
"I was in line first, chui!"
"No I was, kyu!"
"YOU'RE SO ADORABLE! CAN I TAKE YOU HOME?!" Ziyu asked hearts in her eyes.
"Sorry, we can only bestow the mantle to humans, elves, halflings, and other Races of Man, kyu."
"Races of Beasts are a different department, tough luck, chui."
Houki called out, "HEY! Er, 'Boss'! Do second-hand magical girls count?"
Merlin called out from the backroom. "Yes yes, if we supplied the magic wands, those recruited into magical girls directly by said wands will count towards your total of one hundred humans."
"Oh thank goodness," Houki said.
"You get the wands for the scary cute one, I'll get the wands for the pretty cute one!" Ziyu said.
"Of course." Houki rolled his eyes.
"DO NOT LEAVE THE FRONT COUNTER UNATTENDED!" Merlin shouted from the back room. "That's just retail common sense!!!"
"I'll keep our customers entertained," Ziyu said.
Houki nodded. He was pretty sure the customers should have gotten their own products but he didn't want to rock the boat. He checked the shelves and found the display for magical girl wands was empty. He wonder who took the last one.
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In another universe Spells R Us had recently visited...
"BACK VEGGIE-ALIENS! MAGICAL GIRL STRAW-BERRY LOVE WILL LET NONE PASS!" A little girl in a strawberry themed dress shouted as she used lasers made of pure love to blast away alien invaders resembling Brussel sprouts. The Eggplant general feared how he was going to explain this to his superiors.
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Houki went into the back ground, and spotted the back stock.
"' Magical Girl Wands,' 'Dark Magical Girl Wands', warning, do not get these mixed up.' And 'Magical Girl Wands (Ironic)'?" The last set were covered in hazard tape with big bold letter 'NOT FOR SALE!'
Houki decided he didn't want to know and brought the wands to the front counter. "So will you be paying with cash, gold, or-"
"Oh my organization have an account here, kyu."
"And so does mine, chui."
"In any conflict, it's the one selling the weapons who profits," Houki grimly observed.
"The forces of goodness thank you, kyu."
"The forces of evilness still have use of you, chui."
The two cute creatures kicked and tripped each other all the way back to their portals (that quickly closed).
DING!
Humans remaining to transform 86.
"We... we might actually have a chance at this..." Houki whispered.