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

"I have nothing more to ask." Yuuki Yui closed her eyes and mentally reviewed what she had learned that day.

To be honest, the information I received was more than I expected, and even more explosive than I had guessed.

Having completed her mission, Yuuki Yukino relaxed. "Oh, right, I have one last question. Is it really okay for you to tell me all this?"

"Is there anything wrong with it?" Lava Mountain Lantern stood up and stretched.

Yuuki Yui didn't move, but raised her eyes to look at Lava Mountain Lantern.

"Phew, I get it. Well then, I'll be honest. To be honest, I have a lot of feelings for you." Lava Mountain Lantern was still stretching, and her casual clothes were pulled up by her raised hand, revealing her smooth side profile. She pursed her lips and lowered her eyes to meet Yuuki Yuki's gaze.

The incomprehensible gaze of the magnum opus sent a chill down Yuuki Yuen's spine. It was even more chilling than seeing the magnum opus transform and chase after her.

What kind of terrifying statement is this? Have I been confessed to?

Because of a fight, I unexpectedly gained the favor of the hidden boss, and then I was confessed to?

Then, she shifted from the difficult survival mode to the domineering CEO's pampered wife route, embarking on a life of smooth sailing by relying on this top-tier combat power to bully others, no, to climb the social ladder and marry into wealth.

To be honest, the Lava Lantern is still pretty cool, and if the other side comes at me head-on, I wouldn't mind...

Just thinking about it made Yuuki Yuki feel her face burning.

"What are you thinking about?" With Yuuki Yuki's face flushed and her breathing quickening, even a hair's breadth could tell what Yuuki Yuki was thinking about. He grabbed Yuuki Yuki's shoulders and shook her a few times.

Yuuki Yui felt that with her transformed physical abilities, being hit by Lava Lantern, who hadn't even transformed yet, was like having her brains shaken to pieces.

"Huh?" Yuuki Yuuki shook her head a few times before she came to her senses and slapped her cheeks to shake off the jumbled thoughts.

Loomaki Lantern released Yuuki Yukino's shoulder, stood in front of the bench and crossed her arms: "How you found me, and how you knew about me, I don't care about those things, but I can be sure that you came prepared, am I right?"

"Yes." Yuuki Yui nodded affirmatively.

“You can call me arrogant, but my arrogance is backed by power,” said Lava Mountain Lantern. “What was that person’s name again? Anyway, it was her. She fought me because she didn’t know how strong I was. But you knew how strong I was and still came after me. I admire that spirit of daring to challenge the strong.”

So that's what you were talking about?

Then don't use such an ambiguous way of speaking!

"Besides, it doesn't matter if I tell you those things, even if I can recreate the scene from that day in front of you completely, it doesn't matter. Even if you know all that, you're still weaker than her. If you really go up against that kid, you'll definitely lose. Daring to challenge the strong is indeed a good thing, but blindly challenging will only harm yourself. Go back and practice more."

Suddenly, Rongshan Deng adopted a lecturing tone, then seemed to realize that his lecturing was too heavy-handed, and let out a long sigh.

"Never mind, it's nothing. Just focus on getting stronger and come please me soon."

Having witnessed Yuuki Yukino blushing from being criticized before, and fearing she might misunderstand, he added, "It's the kind of pleasure you get from fighting. Don't overthink it. Honestly, what are people thinking these days?"

Having finished her business with Yuuki Yuki, and having nothing more to say to Lava Mountain Lantern, she exchanged a few polite words before summoning her grimoire and floating away on it.

"Never mind, I'll just buy some late-night snacks and go back to watch the show."

Lava Mountain Lantern stretched his body, took two steps, then stopped in place, looking at this unfamiliar place he had arrived at after chasing Yuuki Eri across half the city.

"But where is this place?"

Chapter Ninety-Five: The Reason for the Battle

"Huh? That Kuroba Reincarnation, she got beaten up and cried? Really?"

After Yuuki told Baqi the whole story, Baqi's reaction was exactly the same as Yuuki's at the time: her eyes widened in astonishment and she couldn't close her mouth.

"That's what the magma lamp said." Yuuki Yui lay limply on the bed, her pajamas rolled around on the bed and wrinkled, her stomach and black magic patterns completely exposed. However, Yuuki Yui was too tired to care about such things. She lay there like a salted fish with an ice pop in her mouth and her feet dangling off the edge of the bed.

"Hearing what Xiaoyuan said, it seems that Heiyu's reincarnation isn't that powerful after all." Baqi pouted, pulled out the corner of Yuuki Yu's clothes that she had pressed down, covered Yuuki Yu's stomach again, and poked at the popsicle stick in Yuuki Yu's mouth with boredom.

What Yuuki Yuen feared most was that Tomoe would have such thoughts. Before meeting Kuroba Reisei, Yuuki Yuen already knew almost all of Kuroba Reisei's abilities and knew that although the final boss in this game sounded unimpressive, he still had the strength to be the final boss.

To borrow a phrase from an elderly man who loves playing with vector graphics while leaning on a cane: "I may have become weaker, but that doesn't mean you've become stronger."

Discussing combat power in the idealistic magical girl world of Cyber ​​Cricket isn't very meaningful. The main characters are theoretically all capable of defeating Lava Lantern at the end of the game, but the game's progression still offers some reference value.

In such situations, underestimating the enemy is a major taboo.

"No matter what, Kuroba Reincarnation is stronger than both Koumori and Hyakki Senyou combined. Koumori herself admitted it. If you're careless, you'll suffer a great loss," Yuuki Yukino kindly reminded her.

"I know, I know, Xiaoyuan is so talkative." Baqi poked the popsicle stick a few more times: "I also know that Heiyu Laisheng is very strong, but I didn't expect her to be like this outside. She seems quite normal at school."

"Who knows?" Yuuki Yui said noncommittally, slurping her popsicle.

She didn't know what kind of image Kuroba Laisei had at school. Based only on Kuroba Laisei's performance in the game and what she had heard, she had absolutely no liking for this guy.

Baqi thought for a while longer, pinching the soft flesh on Yuuki Yukina's stomach as she pondered: "But Lava Lantern—is her word believable? So many of Kuroba Reisei's subordinates, if it wasn't Lava Lantern or the mysterious person who did it, then who else could it be? Other magical girls? No way, it couldn't have been Kuroba Reisei herself who did it, could it?"

"I don't know, I've been thinking about that too, it's so strange." Yuuki Yuen slapped away Baqi's restless hand, licked the melting sugar syrup off the popsicle, took a crunchy bite, and tilted her head back to chew it.

Suddenly, Yuuki stopped chewing. The ice cube in her mouth gradually melted in the warmth of her oral cavity, but as she thought of something, Yuuki felt that her back was colder than the popsicle in her mouth.

"Judging from the results, it really was Kuroba Reisei who did it."

As Yuuki Yukina spoke, she bit down hard on the popsicle in her mouth.

"Huh? Why? Is she crazy? Why would she leave so many subordinates unattended and kill them one by one herself? Is she insane?" Baqi immediately assumed that Yuuki Yuen was right. More than disbelief, Baqi felt incomprehension.

"Her..." Yuuki Yui's answer was stuck on the tip of her tongue, unable to come out.

She had her own guess, but it was a bit of an exaggeration.

Then, she cleared her throat, as if only in this way could she get the words stuck in her throat out, and a look of disgust appeared on her face: "Besides her, who else could bring these corrupted magical girls together?"

Baqi still didn't understand what Yuuki Yukino meant, and pressed, "And then? And then?"

"This is just my deduction, but I can't think of any other possibility. Let me think about how to put it." Yuuki Yu took a few more deep breaths, the wrinkles between her tightly furrowed brows deepening: "Kuroba Reincarnation, in order to prevent more people from knowing her shameful state, she gathered these subordinates together, and then..."

Baqi also gasped. Although Yuuki hadn't finished speaking, it was as if the answer was written all over her face. Baqi was quick to react and immediately thought of what Yuuki wanted to say: "Yuuki, are you serious?"

Yuuki nodded and continued crunching on the popsicle in her mouth, making an even louder sound than before.

Baqi's lips opened and closed several times, but she couldn't make a sound for a long time. Then she clenched her teeth and finally said only one sentence: "It's disgusting."

Yuki Yuki herself didn't want to believe that Kuroba Reincarnation was willing to sacrifice all his subordinates to cover up his shameful appearance.

This is true indifference to life, and truly disgusting evil.

While not quite at the level of a final boss on paper, Kuroba Rebirth absolutely deserves the title in terms of sheer awfulness.

The corrupted magical girl, controlled by the black magic runes, could be described as evil, and even if she were punished, it would be well deserved. However, the fact that Kuroba Rei went on to exterminate others because of such childish things shows how disgusting it is. Only by experiencing this firsthand can one truly understand how disgusting it is.

No wonder Tanaka Tae hid in the hospital, and no wonder Kuroba Kisei killed her immediately after she spread false information.

Most of what Tanaka Tae said was true, but she cleverly connected the two things together, and her feigned mental instability prevented Yuuki Eri and the others from suspecting anything.

It's true that Kuroba Reisei fought against a certain powerful magical girl.

It is true that Tanaka Tae escaped, but she was not escaping the attack of Lava Lantern, but rather trying to escape from the clutches of Kuroba Reisei.

Furthermore, judging from what Lava Lamp said, all the previous actions were personally led by Kuroba Reisei.

After Kuroba Reincarnation was defeated by Lava Lantern, she went so far as to use Koumori and Hyakki Senyou, using such self-righteous and foolish methods to deceive them in order to expand her power, all while remaining in seclusion behind the scenes.

Even if the plan was to ambush Hong Moli, the vice president, Seishion, would be dispatched while he himself remained inactive, and this was probably the reason.

It seems that all the clues have connected.

Although these clues served no purpose other than drastically lowering Kuroba's prestige in the afterlife.

After all that work, this is the kind of information I get. It feels like I spent a lot of time and money in a game to get a shiny but useless weapon.

While shiny weapons are pleasing to the eye, knowing about such sordid matters only brings unpleasantness.

"Alright, alright, why are you thinking so much, Xiaoyuan! No matter what Hei Yu is like in her next life, she is still a target we must defeat! Isn't that enough?"

As always, Baqi used her little sun servant to dispel the surrounding gloom, reached out and pushed Yuuki Eri's shoulder, pressed herself against Yuuki Eri, and rubbed her face against Yuuki Eri's while acting coquettishly.

“That’s true. She did such an inhumane thing. We have to defeat her as soon as possible.” Yuuki Yui casually put her arm around Baqi and stuffed the last bit of popsicle into her mouth, but her tone was quite perfunctory.

Yuuki Yukino's face was still gloomy. Whenever she thought about Kuroba's reincarnation, she would feel very bad.

If he's this cruel to his own subordinates, just thinking about how much damage Kuroba would cause if, as the mysterious man said, he were to wreak havoc in his next life on the day of the festival is enough to send chills down your spine.

"Yuan, is it because Kuroba did a lot of annoying things in her next life that you want to defeat her?" Baqi cupped Yuuki Yuuki's face, who was chewing on an ice pop, and pulled the stick out of her mouth.

"Yes, of course," Yuuki Yui mumbled. "If we leave her alone, won't there be big problems?"

"Kuroba Reise is the student council president of St. Yuu Academy. Xiaoyuan knows what St. Yuu Academy means. Let's not even talk about whether we can get rid of this problematic figure, Kuroba Reise. Even if we do, how much chaos will St. Yuu Academy face? Have you thought about that?" Baqi moved her face even closer.

“But if we don’t deal with Kuroba Rebirth, what will happen to Kurenai and the others…” Yuuki Yuki stammered, not understanding why Tomoe was saying such a thing.

"Of course, getting rid of Kuroba Reisei is a good thing for some corrupted magical girls, but it might not be for St. Yuu Academy." Seeing that Yuuki Yuu remained silent, Baqi continued. "I'm not trying to excuse Kuroba Reisei, I'm just giving Yuu an example. The harm Kuroba Reisei caused by dealing with so many corrupted magical girls is probably less than the harm they would cause by letting them run rampant in the city. It's too complicated to calculate that kind of thing!"

Yuki Yuki became more and more confused the more she listened.

"Punishing evil and promoting good is not something we fallen magical girls should do. Xiaoyuan's initial goal was just to protect the two children, Kurenai and Hyakki, right? If we don't solve the big problem of Kuroba Reisei, Kurenai and Hyakki won't be able to continue going to school in peace. Isn't that what we're after? Our goal isn't that complicated at all. We want to take action against Kuroba Reisei simply because we want to take action against her! It has nothing to do with how much harm we will cause her."

"Xiaoyuan is putting too much pressure on herself. We are not corrupted magical girls, nor do we have the responsibility to maintain the peace of this city. I can feel that Xiaoyuan is dissatisfied with what Kuroba Laisheng has done, but this is not a reason for us to defeat Kuroba Laisheng. It is just an excuse. It is very tiring to carry such an excuse as a responsibility."

"Shouldn't we, the fallen magical girls, do whatever we want? There's no need to make so many excuses for ourselves, and there's no need to be so anxious about this kind of thing. Many things are not equal in the first place! Of course, of course, I won't do anything that Xiaoyuan doesn't allow me to do. Hurting others is not fun at all."

"So, just do what you love, and if what we do can help others, that's even better. Isn't that the lifestyle we should have?"

Baqi's words were indeed correct. When Yuuki Yukino deduced the truth of the matter, the focus of her thinking had already shifted to how to deal with Kuroba Rebirth in order to minimize the damage.

But this kind of thing is really not the responsibility of the corrupted magical girl—if she doesn't intend to clear her name.

Even if you successfully clear your name and get rid of the Black Demon Mark, do you really have to take it upon yourself to protect world peace?

It seems unlikely. World peace and magical girls are not inherently linked. What love and justice, what a dreamlike embodiment? The magical girls in this world are not like those children's anime characters. Just look at Helica giving the middle finger on TV to know that.

Besides, the magical girls in this world can be incredibly shrewish without batting an eye.

Therefore, it is indeed meaningless to think about the evil deeds Kuroba committed in his next life.

However, using the solution to the afterlife of Kuroba as an excuse to clear one's name is indeed a good way.

Well, in order to stop greater evil, I, this little villain, will team up with magical girls, and then show them my stance and determination, and then be recognized!

It makes perfect sense. No matter how strong Kuroba is in his next life, he'll still have the ability to create clones when facing the forces of justice!

Thanks to Baqi, Yuuki Yuuki's thoughts are much clearer now, and her expression is much brighter.

Her primary goal was to resolve the potential problems that might arise during the festival. Although her plan to solve these problems wasn't foolproof, she had already come up with one.

"Speaking of which, Baqi, let's put that aside for now. I've already thought of the next plan." Yuuki Yukina composed herself and explained her next step to Baqi in a simple and clear manner.

"Hmm, hmm, it definitely seems feasible!" Baqi nodded. "But, Yuan, there's one more thing we need to do before we put the plan into action, right?"

"Huh? Something that absolutely has to be done?"

"According to Xiaoyuan's method, magic is essential, right? Xiaoyuan was chased by the Lava Lantern all the way, so she must have used up a lot of magic, right?"