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Part Two

[Meanwhile with Karen-Chan]

"AHHHH!!!" Karen screamed from high above the world. "Let go of me, you stupid chicken ninja!" She was dangling from high above the sky. The only thing keeping her afloat was Emily's grasp on the collar of her teal, black-polka-dotted shirt. 

"Oh, I can't do that right now, Karen," Emily said to Karen. "I know who you are."

Karen looked up at Emily. Could she know. . . No. Karen had been keeping that safe. How could the secret slip?

"You're a secret magic ninja working for my enemy's league," Emily said to Karen. "You've been pretending to be a cute high school girl as your cover story. Secretly you've been destroying big businesses and ruining the economy for our country. If you fail to destroy a company, you illegally transfer confidential information to your big boss leader and let him destroy it."

She knew. How did she know exactly what she was doing as a magic ninja? Karen shuddered. She couldn't believe that a stupid person like Emily knew what she actually was. But then again. . . Emily was also a secret magic ninja. She transformed right out in the open. How did she not know that Emily was a ninja until Emily snatched her?

"You've corrupted enough of the government now as it is, Karen," Emily told her. "I won't let you get away with it. . . All the sweat, blood, and tears I put into my job to try to keep the lives of many stable will be worth it now."

This was the first time Karen looked down from where she was flying. She couldn't see the ground anymore. All there was in her field of vision was an endless white carpet of clouds. If Emily dropped her, she would die instantly once she hit the ground. Karen looked up at Emily. "You wouldn't," Karen said to Emily.

"I would," Emily told Karen. Then she let go of her.

[Meanwhile with Rat in his cute little high school]

"Rat, please marry me!" Senpie yelled. He had rendered conscious a few minutes after Emily had flown away, and he was now begging on his knees for Rat to marry him.

"No! I love Karen and only her!" Rat shouted back. He couldn't believe that despite all he'd done, Senpie still thought Rat would accept his proposal.

"What if I gave you some. . .," Senpie said, "peanut butter?" He pulled a jar of creamy peanut butter out of the tiny pocket on his magical girl uniform.

At the sound of those two words, Rat licked his rat lips. Peanut butter was one of his most favorite things in his life. No. He stopped himself. He couldn't accept this bribe. He needed to get Karen back, not marry another man while she went missing. "No! Never!" he screeched.

Senpie frowned. "Your loss." He hid the jar of peanut butter. Rat was sad, but not that sad. He knew he made the right choice rejecting the peanut butter.

Just then, Emily floated down. Rat frowned. He had connected the dots a while ago. It wasn't until Emily fought Senpie and flew away that Karen went missing. He knew Karen's secret identity, and he knew that Emily would've wanted to kidnap her. "You! Give Karen back!" he demanded.

"Ha! Ha! Ha!" Emily laughed. "I'm afraid you're too late, Rat-Kun. She's already dead."

Rat screamed in fury. He fell to his rat knees again and rat tears streamed from his rat eyes. He had just gotten Karen back after being crudely drugged by Senpie and he proposed to her. . . And now she was gone. . .

Suddenly, an idea came to him. He himself did not have any special powers or transformations, but he knew Senpie did. Senpie was a magical girl. Rat could use Senpie to his advantage. And so he did. He looked up at Senpie and said, "Senpie, I will marry you."

While rudely ignoring all the tension that was just there before him, Senpie clapped with joy. Nobody else did. "Thank you, Rat, darling!"

It worked. Now Senpie would do whatever Rat demanded him to do. Rat said, "Senpie. . . Kill Emily."

Senpie helped Rat to his rat feet first before aiming his sparkly wand directly at Emily. Emily gasped. "Not again! No! Frick you guys!"

She was blasted away and spun in the sky. "AHHHHHH!!" Emily screeched as she plummeted into an endless abyss. "NO!"

Rat applauded for Senpie. Then he said, "Okay I'm divorcing you." Senpie gasped. "Byeee."

Rat was about to turn around and straight-up leave the campus until Karen floated down from the sky in front of him while quickly de-transforming from her ninja self. Without hesitation, Rat and she hugged each other tightly. Rat was feeling a bundle of confusing emotions—but mostly good ones. 

They stopped hugging to talk to each other face-to-face. "Karen-Chan, what happened?" Rat asked.

"She figured it out and dropped me from the sky," Karen said. "But I managed to catch myself and immediately started flying back here. I couldn't imagine just how terrible you must've felt."

Then Rat and Karen made out while everyone except Senpie cheered. Senpie slumped away into the shadows and disappeared.