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

"I said, I can handle it myself, I don't need someone like you to tell me what to do!" Hong Moli dropped her pretense of politeness and retorted without any politeness.

"Forget it, there's no need for that," Hong Moli took a deep breath and quickened her pace.

"Oh, good."

The girl said this, but her feet didn't stop moving at all. On the contrary, she walked even faster to keep up with Hong Moli's increasingly fast pace, always staying two or three meters behind Hong Moli.

"Can you please stop following me? It's bothering me a lot. If you keep going, something else might happen that will bother you too."

Hong Moli walked silently for half a block, but the footsteps behind her continued. Finally, unable to bear it any longer, she took out her phone, typed in the emergency number on the screen, and flashed the phone in front of the girl.

"I see." The girl continued walking, unmoved.

"Are you ever going to shut up?! Just say what your purpose is!"

Hong Moli pressed down on the dial key, paused for a moment, and resisted the urge to press it.

"What is it about me that's so special that you've followed me all this time?"

"Your specialness? Let me think about it." The girl looked thoughtful. "Well, let me tell you, you're actually nothing special."

"Why follow me if there's nothing special about it?" Hong Moli continued to use deep breaths to calm the negative emotions surging in her brain.

"Well, is it because you're not special that I approached you? Actually, it doesn't matter who I approached. I just wanted to help you out, no, I wanted you to help yourself out."

The girl continued uttering incomprehensible words, nearly escalating Hong Moli's displeasure to another level.

Forget it, there's no point in getting angry with her.

Hong Moli breathed a sigh of relief, leaving the girl behind.

But the girl still had no intention of giving up.

"Haven't you realized it yet? Haven't you felt your ordinariness? Haven't you felt your powerlessness? Haven't you felt your desire to change?"

What? Why is this woman suddenly feeding herself toxic motivational quotes again?

How could I possibly be so upset because of a few words from this woman...

No, Hong Moli sensed that something was wrong.

I agree with what she said.

Indeed, I am very ordinary, unlike the hundred ghosts and a thousand demons, I was not born with everything.

An ordinary person like myself can only use the pale word "effort" as the meaning of my existence.

No! No! Why am I thinking such things? Shouldn't I be chasing this person away and stopping her from talking nonsense?

But Hong Moli couldn't stop thinking about it.

Think about the things you've thought about since the fireworks display.

I felt so insignificant and so inferior.

Thinking that if she became more outstanding and could have everything, she wouldn't be qualified to stand by Qianyou's side.

What about the anger? Why was I angry with her just now? And why did I suddenly feel that contempt for her?

Why can't I feel that kind of emotion anymore?

"Hmm, hmm, just as I thought. Whether it's 'lust,' 'anger,' or 'arrogance,' none of these things apply to you."

As the girl walked, she pinched her chin, pondered for a long time, her eyes filled with excitement, and then spread her arms and circled around Hong Moli.

"But you are 'desire', and your color should be desire."

"Come on, can you feel that feeling? Get a little closer, a little closer, it's okay, you can do it, after all, you have the scent of possibility on you."

Hong Moli wouldn't listen to a word the girl said.

Hong Moli has begun to notice the strange things happening to her.

No, no, absolutely not.

My emotions are so unusual tonight. I could understand the inferiority complex I felt when I was shopping with Qianyou before.

Ever since this girl approached him, his emotions have been like a rollercoaster, fluctuating rapidly and changing in a very short time.

Was it all her doing?

Hong Moli has lost count of how many times she has stopped in her tracks.

Even though she hadn't done anything, she felt as if something was blocking her chest, making her want to breathe deeply.

What exactly did you do to me?

"Hmm? You still can't see it? You still can't feel it? That shouldn't be the case." The girl stopped in front of Hong Moli, frowned slightly, and muttered to herself, "If I increase the pressure a little, it should be fine, right?"

"What are you saying!" Hong Moli wanted to yell at the other person, but she forced herself to suppress it by using her experience of enduring the pressure her family had put on her all along. She looked away, as if that would alleviate some of the unpleasant feeling.

"Are you looking somewhere else? Why? Look at me! Look at me! You should be able to see me, right?" the girl kept urging, constantly pushing her body into Hong Moli's field of vision.

What exactly do I need to see for myself?

Hong Moli shook her head vigorously, shifting her gaze to her toes.

Hong Moli finally understood what the other person meant.

What kind of device is that, Bahraini's Qi-attracting Reimu?

What exactly is that pale yellow fluid, like a dye spreading in the air, surrounding me?

Hong Moli bit her lip, using the slight stinging pain to stay awake and ensure that everything she was seeing was real.

When she looked up again, she saw that the girl in front of her seemed to have changed.

Actually, the girl hadn't changed; it's just that something had appeared on her face.

She also remembered what Hyakki Chiyou had once mentioned—the mark imprinted on the girl's cheek.

It represents the mark of a fallen magical girl.

Isn't that the Black Magic Pattern?

why?

This thought kept swirling in Hong Moli's mind, leaving her completely baffled.

Why can I see the black magic patterns?

Has she become a magical girl?

Why was I able to become a magical girl so easily?

Was this what the other person wanted to do? Did this person make her a magical girl?

But why would a fallen magical girl try to become a magical girl again?

This is all so unscientific... No, although magical girls aren't exactly a scientific concept, this is still too difficult to explain.

When Hong Moli looked at the other person, the other person was also looking at her, with an incredibly calm gaze that was completely different from before.

"You've already seen it, haven't you?"

Hong Moli didn't speak, but the place where her gaze lingered spoke volumes about her answer.

Then, the girl sighed heavily and spoke in a tone that Hong Moli had never heard before, a tone completely different from what she had shown that evening.

"Phew, let me check the results of my work tonight."

Chapter Twenty-Nine: The White Mouse

As Hong Moli recounted her story, Yuuki Yuuki's brows furrowed even more deeply.

Magical girls are the embodiment of wishes, and it can be said that having a strong wish is a necessary condition for becoming a magical girl.

However, according to Koumori's description, she didn't seem to go through such a step—she didn't have a strong desire to support her, but directly became a magical girl.

“Many people have said that becoming a magical girl is the manifestation of a wish.” Yuuki Yui carefully considered her words before finally asking this question: “But are you saying that you didn’t have such a strong wish, but you still successfully became a magical girl?”

"To be honest, I've thought about the same question, and I don't know what level of desire is considered strong, or how strong a desire has to be to become a magical girl."

Koumori stood up from the table and sat on the sofa opposite Yuuki Yuuki:

"But I think my strongest desire is to be by Chiyu's side, right? So I don't know if I became a magical girl because of her or because of my own desire."

Yuuki Yui's focus has never been on whether Koumori had a strong desire, but rather on the magical girl described by Koumori, and whether she really has the ability to transform others into magical girls as well.

Not long after she had met the other members of Nijisanji, Yuuki Yuuki asked this question: "Is it possible to turn someone into a magical girl?"

If it weren't for this problem, I wouldn't have had that tense, hidden contest with Miyashita Mia in that small classroom, and none of what followed would have happened.

Yuuki Yukino also remembers that everyone's answer to her at the time was that it was impossible.

This contradicts what Hong Moli described.

The unknown magical girl took action knowing that "doing this will definitely make Koumori a magical girl."

However, there are only so many corrupted magical girls with names and identities in the original work.

The initial boss, Miyashita Mia, the doubles boss, Koumori and Hyakki Senyu, the final student council president and vice president, Seishion and Kuroba Ryou, and the hidden boss, Lava Mountain Lantern, are only these five characters in total.

As for the other magical girls, although he and Nishio Reki deviated from the game, they all had names and identities. Tsukimi Rie was mentioned once in Tenrai Helica's backstory as an unknown senior, and that minor character Tanaka Tae was also considered a background character for Kuroba Reincarnation.

Apart from Inuyama Tomoe, everyone else's characters are more or less traceable to the original work.

However, Yuuki Yuuki is certain that the person Koumori mentioned does not exist.

And who is this person?

Because Li can travel back in time, has the plot changed drastically?

Still, that's not right. This should be a "background story" plot, something that happened before the game's main story began.

If that unknown magical girl was the reason why Koumori became a magical girl, it would be mentioned at least once in the game.

However, there is absolutely no information about Yuuki Yuki.

"By the way, I have a question. When is the exchange meeting between St. Yuu Academy and Moon Sea Middle School?" Yuuki suddenly shifted the topic to a field that Koumori had never thought of.

"Exchange meeting? What exchange meeting?" This time it was Hong Moli's turn to be puzzled.

Komari, who was supposed to be an exchange student at the academy exchange meeting in the original work, was unaware of this.

Yuuki Yukino had always had a vague feeling that her deductions were getting closer to the truth.

I didn't directly enter the game, but rather entered a world with the game as its background.