Yamamoto Midori's POV:
My name is Yamamoto Midori, the proud leader and founder of the green alchemy sect.
We are a relatively new sect that mainly focuses on alchemy that I created after becoming a master alchemist. I have been working day and night to grow my sect's influence and power but compared to the more famous sects with a solid reputation, vast knowledge and fortune built on generations of talented alchemists, it became difficult to even stay afloat, let alone compete for a spot amongst the stars.
With barely any change after a century of hard work I began to lose hope, but then it happened.
"THIS CONTINENT NOW BELONGS TO THE DARK EMPIRE!"
With the emergence of the dark empire, the entire continent flipped on its head as it raged across the continent. In less than two decades, countless countries and sects were erased from the face of the earth, allowing for new blood like us to grow in their place. I swiftly took advantage of the opportunity to make as many connections as I could in this new age, growing my sect's influence and status as much as possible. If I can somehow win the Kaguya alchemist tournament this year or at least score a high enough place, my sect would become famous overnight, while letting us rise above our peers as one of the new big alchemy sects that will replace the ones of the past.
I then began my preparations. With how much material, skill, knowledge and experience are required to grow as an alchemist, most who reach the master rank are connected to some organization, like a sect, or a guild. So, I used the influence and connections I had gained to pressure any nearby master alchemist to stay out of this year's preliminaries, essentially guaranteeing my spot in the tournament. I even bribed some of the guild staff to gain an unfair advantage just to be safe.
With my goal set, and preparation done, I entered the preliminaries for the Kaguya alchemist tournament. The rules are much like the tournament itself. You have to create a pill using only the materials provided within a certain timeframe. If you fail, run out of time, or your pill isn't of high enough quality, then you are disqualified. Each round the difficulty increases as you either have to create a higher-grade pill or have less time to make it. There is also the matter of figuring out the recipe if you're not already familiar with the pill, as the only information you get is the name and the materials needed to make it, everything else is up to the individual's knowledge and experience to figure out. It's allowed to bring your own equipment, but only after a thorough inspection by the staff.
Unlike most of the riffraff, I passed the first round with ease, while also scouting some talents I planned to recruit to my sect later. However, my good mood was suddenly ruined.
"Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo! Here are some drugs for you!"
Never did I imagine I would find such a shameless fraud participating in this event. She just sat there humming a merry tune while dressed in a shamelessly short and flashy skirt for the first round before suddenly throwing all the material into the old cooking pot she had brought instead of an actual alchemy furnace, waved her purple wand and threw out a bunch of high-quality pills. She didn't do anything to prepare the materials before throwing them in, whether it was washing the dirt off, measuring the portions, cutting of the roots or leaves, she didn't do any of it. Everything I know about alchemy tells me what she did shouldn't give any meaningful results. At best, nothing happens, at worst, her pot explodes, but in defiance of common sense, she somehow managed to pass the first round. They even inspected her equipment and searched her body for contraband, before asking her to do it again just so they could figure out how she did it, but nobody could figure out how she cheated.
What angers me the most however is that unserious attitude of hers. The moment she left the stage she began doing weird poses while peppering every man or woman she saw with glitter, especially those who got eliminated. It's like she is mocking every alchemist here today as she pranced around in a frilly multi-colored dress. So, I told her off, and it seems like she finally learned some modesty as I cannot spot her anywhere.
"Has anyone seen candidate Su?" One of the staff members asked.
"AHA! TIS I! THE EVIL DRUGMAN! I'M HERE TO STEAL ALL YOUR DRUGS AND DREAMS AWAY!" A green faced man in a dark-purple top hat, suit and cape said as he suddenly fell from the roof.
Before anyone could react, his hand suddenly detached from his arm as it came flying towards me, swiping all my materials for this round, before retracting it via the rope that was the only thing still connecting his arm to his hand.
"NOT SO FAST DRUGMAN!" I heard that shameless girl said as we watched her suddenly fall from the roof, while doing a weird pose.
"OH, SOMEONE DARES TO STOP I, THE GREAT DRUGMAN! WELL, YOU'LL HAVE TO GET PAST MY GOONS FIRST! HAHA!" The Drugman said as a bunch of people wearing black and white striped shirts and sporting drugman-masks fell from the sealing as well.
"OKAY THAT IS ENOUGH! THIS IS A-!"
*BANG*
*SWOOSH*
*CRASH*
Just as one of the staff members tried to intervene one of the 'goons' moved at a blinding speed before sending him flying out of the building with a single strike.
"HOW DARE YOU HARM AN INNOCENT DRUG DEALER! I SWEAR THAT WILL BE YOUR LAST ACT OF EVIL OR MY NAME ISN'T SU, THE MAGICAL ALCHEMIST GIRL!" She said as she arched her head back while pointing at the Drugman.
"What in the hell am I watching?" I muttered as I was so confused at what was happening.
"HAYA! TAKE THIS! AND THAT! AND HAVE ONE OF THESE!" She said as she chopped, kicked and punched the goons. Each strike resulted in one of them exploding into black smoke.
"NO! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! HOW DID YOU DEFEAT MY GOONS, SO EASILY?!" The Drugman said, as he backed away from Su.
"THE FORCES OF EVIL IS NO MATCH FOR THE POWER OF A CUTE MAGICAL GIRL IN A FRILLY OUTFIT, NOW HAND OVER THE WEED BEFORE I SEND YOU TO REHAB!"
"NEVER!" The Drugman screamed before suddenly ripping off his shirt and cape to reveal his weirdly green sculpted abs.
"YOUR SCULPTED ABS HAVE NO EFFECT ON MY FRILLY JUSTICE DRUGMAN! NOW TAKE THIS!" She shouted before throwing a punch.
*Clang*
*Bang*
Unlike with the goons, her attack seemed to have no effect. The drugman responded by throwing a punch of his own that Su barely blocked before being sent tumbling backwards.
"YOUR MAGICAL GIRL POWERS ARE GREAT, BUT THEY ARE NO MATCH FOR MY STONER FISTS OF EVIL!"
That was when I noticed he wasn't a flesh and blood creature as his body was made from some kind of green elastic metal.
"A golem?"
"OH? IT SEEMS THIS JUNKY HAS SEEN THROUGH MY DISGUISE! SAY, YOU WOULD MAKE AN EXCELENT GOON! WHY DO-?"
"YOU LEAVE THE SAD JUNKY ALONE! YOU HAVE ALREADY TAKEN HER DRUGS! I WON'T LET YOU TAKE HER SENSE OF JUSTICE TO!" She said before doing a flying kick.
*clang*
"FOOLISH GIRL! YOUR MAGICAL GIRL POWERS HAVE NO EFFECT ON ME FOR I, DRUGMAN, IS IN FACT NOT A MAN AT ALL! I AM A ROBOT SENT FROM THE FUTURE TO RID THE WORLD OF GOOD TIMES!" The Drugman said as he transformed into a giant metal plated robot with glowing red eyes.
"WHAT IS GOING ON?!" I shouted as I was so lost.
However, the two just ignored me as they continued.
"UGH! HE'S TOO STRONG! I HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE!" Su said before doing a weird series of poses.
"HAHA! WAIT! NO! YOU COULDN'T BE! THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE!"
"TIME TO TAKE YOU TO REHAB! MAGICAL GIRL CANNON!" She said as she pulled out a small handheld cannon.
"N-!"
*Bang*
*thud*
"Oops! That was not what I meant to do! I forgot this thing was still loaded!"
The miniature cannon had fired a small metal cannonball through the forehead of the Drugman which seems to have broken something important as it shut down before falling over with a loud thud.
"THAT'S ANOTHER EVIL TAKEN OFF THE STREETS! NOW DO YOU STILL WANT TO QUIT MISS JUNKY?!" She asked me.
I had only one thing to say.
"WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?!"