Chapter 148: Training Can Never Be Enough

I evaluated her once before, but setting aside my own bias, Mia's talent as a magical girl wasn't bad.

Compared to the first-generation magical girls who possessed the combat power of today's S-rank magical girls in their first or second year after awakening, a seventh-year magical girl reaching A-rank might look rather slow, but that had to be taken into account because the first-generation magical girls were truly outliers.

Indeed, the first-generation magical girls were said to be the top 0.0001% of talents selected immediately after the mascots came to Earth. Since the level of talent had fallen into the normal range with each successive generation, Mia's talent should be considered decent.

Most magical girls retire without ever reaching A-rank, so if she'd made it that far, she had talent.

...Probably.

"Eek!"

-Thud!

"You just made the same mistake as before. You should have retreated there instead of moving in."

"Ugh... Ordinary magical girls don't have any experience fighting other magical girls...!"

"Do you think I do? After meeting all kinds of Abyss Ones, all that happens is that I gain more experience fighting small enemies like humans."...