I'm a Magical Girl of Love and Justice, You Know

Kitani Jounosuke is a magical girl, although he has no idea why he became one.

Yes, him. He's a guy, and his job is being a magical girl.

His mission is to fight grudge beasts born from all kinds of negative emotions.

What's more, only magical girls can see these so-called grudge beasts. If you leave them alone, they'll only make you more stressed and worsen your condition. Their harm to society is practically zero. At worst, you lose your drive and become a lazy couch potato who no longer wants to work hard or strive for anything.

Doesn't this sound like a mash-up of Jujutsu Kaisen and Shugo Chara? That grudge beast concept is totally plagiarized, isn't it?!

But his fairy partner insists that he do it. What can he do? The fairy can force him to transform, too. If he doesn't want to turn into a girl in front of a crowd, he'd better transform on his own in private.

When he was about to graduate middle school, his fairy partner said he could retire after finishing school. All he had to do was defeat the final boss. He was so excited. But then, during his very last mission, someone saw him! He was seen by a classmate named Hinata Shoyo, someone he'd barely interacted with in three years! Aaaaah!

With no other choice, he joined Hinata for their last middle school volleyball tournament. He'd never been in a sports club, but years of magical girl activities had made him physically fit, with superhuman control over his body.

So even though he'd only just learned the rules, he and Hinata worked together pretty well.

But the six of them were still too weak. For the first time, a grudge beast appeared inside Kitani himself. He lost a match he'd fought with all his strength.

He'd only joined in to make up the numbers for Hinata, but for some reason, he felt incredibly frustrated, frustrated enough to spawn a grudge beast.

Only now did Kitani realize how hateful grudge beasts really were. When you pour your heart into something and fail, those feelings become grudge beast nourishment. If they affect you for long enough, you can even forget why you wanted to strive in the first place.

Hinata's expression as he pursued his dream of playing volleyball flashed through Kitani's mind. He didn't want to see Hinata, who was like a little sun working desperately toward his goal, turn into a couch potato like him.

He'd better keep being a magical girl.

*Great, I'm impulsively starting another story! Don't hit me, everyone reading my work. Cough, cough.

*Kitani is a very unmotivated couch potato, but he gets swept up in other people's emotions easily and fired up!

*I haven't decided whether this will be friendship or romance, so for now let's make it about a sports boy striving to improve!

*Go, go, Little Volleyball! Fight, fight, Little Volleyball!

*As for whether Magical Girl Kitani-chan will be unmasked...hehe, you guess!

*Waaah, reading my favorite author's story has rekindled my passion for writing Haikyuu!!

Theme: Protect the desire to strive for something