Mentioned Characters: Alice

This Alice Margatroid is from a world where magical girls are real. And yes, she's one of them. She fights alongside her dolls, which she infused with magic. But not just any magic―star magic.

One day, Alice dreamed that something terrible happened. In her dream, every star had vanished. The night sky felt hollow and dull. No more constellations. No more stargazing. Everyone was at a loss.

There was a knock on Alice's door. She opened it to find a group of fairies. They looked up at the empty sky before hanging their heads. "Please. Bring the stars back." It was time for Alice to fulfill her duty as a magical girl. She promised them she'd restore the stars. No matter what. Together with her dolls, she set off toward the sky.

Monsters filled the sky, plucking stars from the heavens and eating them like candy. Apparently, the stars were irresistibly sweet and delicious. But no matter how tasty they were, they were never meant to be eaten. The stars belonged to everyone. Alice and her dolls soared toward the monsters and defeated every last one of them. The monsters were gone, but so were the stars they'd devoured. Alice stopped to think... If the sky had lost its stars, then she and her dolls would become them.

Alice and her dolls began to shine in the sky. Their light spread through the cosmos and transformed into countless glittering points. The stars had returned. The fairies cheered. They reached up, trying to grab the reborn starlight. Alice and her dolls smiled―then she woke up. She stepped outside just before dawn and looked up. The sky was awash with twinkling stars. Phew. They hadn't been eaten. Even if this entire world were reduced to ashes, starlight would remain. Just like the fairies in her dream, Alice stretched her hand toward the sky.