>You are Byakuren Hijiri, 18 years old, resident of the city of Mayoiga, caretaker (owner) of Rin Kaenbyou, resident of the Moonside apartments, and third year student of Mayoiga High. A few days ago, you were the most popular girl in school, one of the most well-known and liked girls around town. And then you touched a strange doll, and saw a world not your own. That was the day that everything changed, and you became Magical Lotus, the Hero of the Heart.
>After checking up on Satori and judging her to be on her way towards forgiveness and normalcy, and seeing her transfer leadership of the Tiger Shrine to Kiku, you and Rin paid a visit to the Center for the Recently Ascended. Not only was this a chance to see Marigold and introduce her to Rin, but you also wanted to check up on the remains of that tar creature you and Kiku destroyed several days ago, just to make sure it really was gone. And it was. But in the process of confirming that, you were visited by an animated corpse. As if you hadn't encountered enough inhuman things. This rather ominous entity, though, was helpful, informing you that there were two splinters in the city still within the city of Mayoiga. One to be found with a man named Tobias Scatterclaw, but you were warned in no uncertain terms that trying to destroy that splinter would result in the death of you and whomever you brought with you. The other one, the one you chose to seek out and destroy, was within the body of the biker called Motormaster, someone whom you've met and weren't entirely fond of, and someone whom your new slave, Reisen, feared and despised.
>You and you fellow four magical girls tracked down Motormaster and his gang at the cemetary called the Mana Tombs, discovering in the process that Motormaster's associates were not simply mundane mortals, but beings called Blackbloods, who wore Jewels of power and claimed to be descended from demons and devils. You managed to ambush and disable five of the six Blackbloods, but the last one, and the strongest, gave you some resistance. You did overcome the Grey Jewelled Blackblood named Breakdown, and none too soon, for Motormaster came on the scene very shortly after.
>What followed then was one of the most brutal battles you have had to date, and none of your group escaped without injury, some serious-looking. But in the end you were victorious, destorying completely the black splinter of evil that had so thoroughly corrupted Motormaster, and then imprisoning the biker until you figured out exactly what to do with him. Which left you pondering what to do with the Blackbloods. You felt a great sympathy for them, knowing that they had been born into evil. You resolved to do something about it, and after some thought, you and your friends combined your powers and unleashed your magic upon the Jewels the bikers wore, seeking to change them from something incurably evil to something that would, at least, give these people a chance at life that they had never before been given. After a terrific investment of energy, you did succeed, but with an extremely unexpected side effect. The three male bikers had been transformed into females. Your best guess at this point is that this was a side effect of being purified by five women, but that's more a guess than fact. But it did seem to have the desired effect, at least in the three you spoke to. Reisen, who knew these people, noted major changes in their behavoir. She was less sure about it being universal or that it was wise to simply leave them to their own devices, but for right now, you simply didn't have the energy to do anything else with them. Despite how pretty Breakdown is now.
>"I am fairly comfortable... for a high-school student."
>Kiku nods an acknowledgement. "How
are you handling that part of your life?" she asks.
