Even if you're a corrupted magical girl, you still have to try to redeem yourself.

Baqi nodded weakly, curled up, and buried her face in Yuuki Yuki's chest.

The pink-haired girl's magical armor had been completely destroyed in the attack. Against the backdrop of her enormous, obviously superhuman claws, bat-like wings, and the strange purplish-black markings on her abdomen, Sakura Hanako felt no lewdness at all. Instead, she felt a chill run down her spine as if she were staring at something unspeakable.

This oppressive magic was completely different from what Sakura Hanako had just experienced.

Even as she watched the pink-haired girl flap her wings and the princess carry another fallen magical girl away, she couldn't muster even the slightest thought of chasing after them.

Late at night on the same day.

Tanaka Tae, whom Yuuki Emi called "miscellaneous fish sauce," suddenly heard a few shouts of arguing coming from outside the ward door from the nurses on night duty.

"Visiting patients at this time is no longer advisable. We need to make sure the patient gets enough rest, you know... Waaah!"

The sound of something falling to the floor rang out, and then silence returned to the hallway.

Someone pushed open the ward door, and a beam of cold white light shone into the ward, only to be blocked by the sound of the door closing.

Tanaka Tae couldn't see clearly, nor did she dare to turn her head to look. She only felt that the footsteps coming from the door were getting closer and closer. The grating sound of a metal chair being dragged across the floor rang in her ears, less than a meter away, followed by the creaking sound of someone sitting on the leather cushion.

"She was so noisy, so I told her to shut up." The girl who walked into the ward said casually, with a hint of a smile. The sound of the fabric rubbing against each other when she crossed her legs was incredibly alluring.

Tanaka Tae didn't dare to move, her squinted eyes darting around as she stole glances at the girl sitting on the edge of the bed.

The moonlight streaming in through the window cast intermittent light on the girl's face, which was sufficient to determine her identity.

"Come... Lord of the next life!"

Tanaka Tae screamed and sprang up from the bed like a spring.

"Hmm." Kuroba Rise snorted a short syllable through her nose: "Has someone come looking for you?"

"I...I didn't say anything! I really didn't say anything!"

Tanaka Tae tumbled off the bed and fell to the floor, showing no sign of any difficulty in moving. She crawled at Kuroba Ryouse's feet, hugged her legs, and sobbed as she banged her head against the floor.

The heavy noise continued in the room for a long time, but no one came to stop it.

"It's noisy."

Unable to bear it any longer, Kuroba Rise raised her foot and stomped hard on Tanaka Tae's face.

Tanaka Tae's face was contorted from being pressed against the floor and the soles of her shoes, and she opened her mouth indistinctly to beg for mercy.

"Lord Lai Shi! I really didn't say anything! I did everything according to your instructions! They all believed me! They have no idea what's going on!"

"Oh, I see. You really are a good kid." Kuroba Laisei didn't even turn his head, propping his cheek up as he looked out the window at the broken bricks in the hospital garden: "It seems that finding you here as soon as I discovered you were hospitalized today was the right choice."

"Yes! Yes! That's it! It was wrong of me to deceive Lord Kuroba Reise! But I'm still useful, right! I did what Lord Reise said today! I didn't tell them the truth! I... I'm still useful!"

Tanaka Tae, as if grasping at a straw, humbly lay on the ground and looked up at that face, which was shifting between light and shadow in the moonlight.

The clock outside the ward ticked away, each tick like a heavy hammer blow to Tanaka Tae's heart. Although not much time had passed, it felt like centuries to her.

"Yes, you're very useful. This hospital is good; you can continue to stay here from now on. I won't be coming back."

Kuroba Laisei spoke again, removing his foot from Tanaka Tae's face, then pushing back the chair he was sitting on and standing up, uttering incomprehensible and ambiguous words.

"what……"

"Oh right, what's your name again... I can't quite remember." Kuroba Rise tossed her hair, her gaze never falling on Tanaka Tae, who was kneeling on the ground.

"Tanaka, Tanaka Tae." Tanaka Tae's voice trembled even more violently.

"Alright then, Tanaka Tae, could you please do me one last favor?" Kuroba Kisei sighed almost imperceptibly.

"Yes! I can do it! Not just one favor, I'll help you with any favor you could ask, no! No! No matter how many things there are, I'll do them willingly for you." Tanaka Tae crawled forward a few steps.

"No, no, no, I don't need you to do so many things. I just need you to do me one favor, and I'll never come back. Just one, okay?" Kuroba Reisei turned to the kneeling girl.

"Yes! Yes! I will! I will definitely do it!"

"Then, can you keep this secret for me forever?"

Six pairs of jet-black wings unfurled behind Kuroba Reisei, obscuring the last glimmer of light from the girl's eyes.

Chapter 74 Post-War Summary

"What that girl said basically matches what I know, and it also explains why Kuroba Reincarnation wanted to expand her power and why she came to us. But, elder sister, may I ask what happened to your injuries, elder sister and Yuuki Yukino?"

On the phone screen displaying the video call, Hong Moli had her face almost pressed against the camera. Her stern face, which occupied the entire screen, showed no emotion, yet her seriousness sent chills down even through Ba Qi, her senior.

Sitting on the edge of the bed, Baqi quickly moved her phone screen further away, revealing Yuuki Yuki lying peacefully behind her, her body wrapped in bandages after being hit by three arrows from Mizuno Yu.

A night had passed since the minor conflict at the hospital. After carrying Tomoe away from the scene, Princess Yuuki flew all the way to the vicinity of Tomoe's house before deactivating her transformation. She then collapsed onto Tomoe's back and was helped upstairs by Tomoe.

Having endured Mizuno Yu's direct attack and barely made it all the way to Tomoe's house, Yuuki Yui finally couldn't support her exhausted body any longer and collapsed to the ground with a thud.

There's still a long way to go before she can get back to sleep, but Yuuki Yuki definitely won't be able to get out of bed tonight.

Baqi was hardly injured, but in order to take care of the injured Yuuki Yuki, she ordered takeout and fed the lying Yuuki Yuki bite by bite, replenished Yuuki Yuki's mana and wiped his body, and finally wrapped Yuuki Yuki's body in bandages. She was exhausted after doing all this.

Replenishing mana and wiping her body were things that Baqi wanted to do herself, but Yuuki Yuki couldn't refuse in her current state. Fortunately, Baqi was still quite sensible and used the slowest and most primitive method: a kiss.

If things get a little more intense, Yuuki Eri might really fall apart.

Therefore, it was already the next day when Hong Moli reported the situation.

After hearing the whole story, Hong Moli moved her face even closer.

"Given that magical girl's combat prowess, my older sister, who has undergone special training, shouldn't have been completely helpless. What exactly has my older sister been training for all this time?"

It was precisely because Hong Moli was absolutely right that Yuki Yuki and Baqi couldn't refute her at all.

If Yuuki Yuki hadn't felt she had the upper hand and insisted on bullying Sakura Hanako, how could she have been shot like this by Mizuno Yui's arrows during the sneak attack?

Actually, Mizuno Yu didn't launch a sneak attack; it was simply that Yuuki Yui hadn't been paying attention to what was happening outside.

"Ah, well... well, I've been training hard too, haven't I? You can ask Hyakki if you don't believe me!" Baqi's eyes darted around, and she dodged the question by pushing it all onto Hyakki Chiyu.

"Big sister's special training has yielded considerable results. If she hadn't underestimated her opponent, things wouldn't have turned out this way," came Hyakki Chiyu's voice from outside the screen.

Hong Mori turned her head to the other side, and the camera angle on the other side of the video rotated to show the ceiling. The phone must have been placed on the bed by Hong Mori. Hong Mori herself asked Chiyu beside her, "Really? Chiyu, you can't favor my sister."

When it comes to words like serious, hard-working, and practice, Hong Moli always comes across as very assertive.

"Really, my sister has only been a magical girl for a short time, but she has already progressed faster than Mori did back then," Chiyu replied from outside the screen.

"Right, right? I just said I underestimated her. I found that blue-haired, expressionless girl spitting out rainbows disgusting, so I didn't even look at her. Who knew she would suddenly jump up and shoot several arrows at me? Those arrows were meant to freeze me so I couldn't help her?"

With Bai Gui Qian You's affirmation, Ba Qi immediately perked up and spoke with more confidence, arguing with Hong Mo Li through the screen.

"Big sister—" Hong Mori drawled, one hand entering the screen, then the camera panned to her face: "Don't you think losing because of underestimating your opponent is the most shameful thing? Losing points due to carelessness during an exam is more unforgivable than not knowing how to solve the problem, big sister, are you listening?"

"Yes, I admit it. It was my fault; I underestimated them." Inuyama Tomoe readily admitted her mistake with a good attitude.

She and Hong Moli have known each other for a long time, so she definitely knows how to say things to make Hong Moli shut up.

Baqi's scheme was indeed very effective.

Since Baqi, whom she always called "older sister," had said this, Hong Moli, who wasn't one to fuss over trivial matters, shifted her anger to Yuuki Yukina, who was wrapped in bandages: "Then what about Yuuki Yukina?"

"I was careless, I didn't dodge." Yuuki Yui, looking like a zombie crawling out of its grave in Plants vs. Zombies, hoarsely raised her hands and got up.

Yuuki Yukino wasn't just being silly; she took the attack from the magical girl after her True Name Release, and her injuries were much more severe than when she was electrocuted by Koumori.

Even after a night, the magic had not yet finished repairing her body, so Yuuki Yuuki could only crawl in the shadows on the bed like a mummy.

"Xiao Yuan, lie down first, talk while lying down." Yuki Yu struggled and twisted as she climbed halfway up the bed, but Ba Qi pressed her back down onto the bed. Ba Qi also thoughtfully held up her phone in front of Yuki Yu so that Yuki Yu and Hong Moli could communicate face to face through the screen.

Yuuki also saw that Tomoe breathed a sigh of relief after getting rid of Koumori's lecturing.

"Ah..." Yuuki Yukina slumped back down, facing the blonde girl on the other side of the screen, and began to recount the situation: "It was like this..."

Yuuki Yui briefly recounted what happened, deliberately concealing what she did to Sakura Hanako in the birdcage woven from tentacles, only saying that she did it to seize the wand.

How could she possibly bring herself to say something so shameful?

“I mean, that is to say.” Hong Moli clenched her hands, veins popping on her forehead. With a kind smile, she took a few deep breaths, raised her hand and patted her chest to let out the breath she had choked on from anger. She puffed out her cheeks and restored the stiff expression on her face to normal.

"Phew... In other words, you didn't leave after you found out about that defeated magical girl, Tanaka Rie."

Seeing Komori's series of actions sent a chill down Yuuki Yukino's spine.

“Tanaka Tae,” Yuuki Yuen corrected.

Yuuki Yuuki doesn't know if there is a person named Tanaka Rie in this world, but in her memory, the person named Tanaka Rie is not a magical girl.

“That’s not the point.” Koumori tried to make her tone sound calmer, but if Yuuki Yuki continued to evade the issue, it was uncertain whether she could maintain her composure.

"I was stopped by the blue-haired, expressionless guy," Yuuki said, sounding aggrieved. Since Hong Moli and the others didn't know Mizuno Yu, Yuuki just said what Tomoe always said.

"Okay, you've been stopped. She's already on the ground throwing up, why don't you leave?"

"Then another magical girl is coming, right? Reimu and the others are stopped again."

"No problem. Even if she stopped you two, why didn't you leave after you got her under control?"

"Isn't this just because I want to copy her wand?"

"Does replicating a magic wand require weaving an eggshell and putting yourself inside to replicate it?"

"Isn't this shyness... afraid of being disturbed? Also, that's a birdcage..."

"Oh, I see. I understand now." Hong Moli nodded, her tone softening slightly.

Yes! That's right.

Hong Mali seemed to have truly accepted her own words, and Yuuki Yuki frantically nodded at her head, which was wrapped in bandages.

"That would be strange! You'd be shy about kissing someone, but you wouldn't be shy about flying naked through the air, right?"

"Who knows what you did inside that eggshell? Did it really take that long just to steal a little magic with a kiss?"

"You think leaving a magical girl out in the open makes her harmless? We're all magical girls, why are you looking down on her!"

Hong Moli's words came out like a barrage of bullets, leaving Yuuki Yukino speechless.

"And! Most importantly! Do you know that by causing such a scene at the hospital, you've diverted Kuroba Reisei's attention to the hospital?"

As soon as Hong Moli finished speaking, her face turned extremely ugly.

"Transfer to the hospital."

Hong Mali repeated what she had just said in a daze, then her phone fell to the floor with a thud, and the screen in front of Yuuki Yukino instantly went black as the camera was blocked.

"What's wrong? Hello? What's wrong?"

Baqi, who had been listening the whole time, shouted a few times. When she looked at Yuuki Yuen's face again, she found that Yuuki Yuen's face had also turned ashen.