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

Has Helica ever acted impulsively in the past?

Yes, she has done it, and more than once. If you were to count them, she herself would lose count of the countless things she has done that she now regrets.

The most memorable time was when the Rainbow Club members went to the beach and watched helplessly as the golden chainsaw vampire drove off. On a whim, I went to Yuuki Yukino's house and asked her if she needed to replenish her mana.

Up to this point, it was all just a moment of impulsiveness. She had said similar things three times: twice at Yuuki Yuki's house and the last time in the school corridor. The only time she actually replenished Yuuki Yuki's mana was the very first one.

What truly impressed Helica was yet to come.

Before she and Yuuki Yuki could even exchange sweet nothings, they were interrupted by Yuuki Tamaki, who had rushed home.

Then Helica learned that the band she admired when she was little was the older sister of the person she liked.

To be more precise, she is the older sister of the person she doesn't yet realize she likes.

That night, Yuki Tamaki, who suddenly offered to take her home, talked to her about Yuki Yuki, and she also asked Yuki Tamaki about the band's disbandment at that time.

The series of conversations that followed were all things that Tamaki Yuuki had planned long ago.

That's right, Helica realized at the time that Yuuki Tamaki had deliberately left a clue, leading her to listen to the past of the Rose Garden Band, a past so fantastical that it was impossible for her to tell anyone.

"Something did happen at the Rose Garden back then. I'm afraid it's not convenient for me to talk about the specifics. But if you're curious, Tianlei, as a treat for my fans, I'll tell you."

Under the dim streetlights that day, Tamaki Yuuki began her story by following the thread that Helica had started, which now seems like a warning.

Do you remember the members of the Rose Garden?

"Of course, that was my idol's band, how could I forget? The cool Tamaki, the gentle Kuriko, the hardworking Nana, and the incredibly talented Rei and Aika, that was the Rose Garden band back then. Everyone had their own unique characteristics. I loved the Rose Garden back then the most."

The band Rose Garden consists of five members.

Guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, drummer, plus lead singer—it's a very standard setup.

Even the most indestructible band, like a galactic battleship, still has its own interpersonal relationships among its members. The drummer and keyboardist are, in the end, just ordinary members of the band.

However, there are absolutely no reasons such as internal discord or a break in the team.

On the contrary, the two of them maintained a good distance from the others without affecting their normal business operations at all—although it might sound like they lacked team spirit, the band was never everything to them.

When they weren't training or celebrating, the two of them preferred to go home together and play video games.

According to Tamaki Yuuki, the reason for the disbandment of Rose Garden had nothing to do with keyboardist Shirogane Rei and drummer Sakuragawa Aika.

This sense of distance may be a shield that allows the two of them to remain uninvolved, or it may be a catalyst that causes the crisis to escalate further.

The main characters of the story are the remaining three people, or rather, the two people other than Tamaki Yuuki.

Bassist Hanzawa Kuriko and rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist Minato Nana were the real culprits behind the disbandment of Rose Garden.

To tell this story, we need to go back even further.

Hanzawa Kuriko is a magical girl.

Because of the various affairs of the magical girl, Kuriko often missed practice, causing the band's progress to stall and resulting in the scheduled performances being changed again and again.

Chestnut's actions were seen as irresponsible by the other band members. Because of Chestnut, the Rose Garden band was on the verge of disbanding, which made Nana, who only wanted the band to thrive, very dissatisfied with Chestnut.

Finally, after a series of conflicts, arguments, reconciliations, and mutual understanding and tolerance, the Rose Garden reached a new level.

It was only after everyone knew and accepted the identity of the magical girl group, Kuriko, that the group became more cohesive and became a wildly popular girl band.

With dreams, struggles, misunderstandings, reconciliations, and successes, if the story of everyone in the Rose Garden were adapted into an anime about a girl band, it would definitely be a huge hit.

But to sum it up, that's all. The girl band, consisting of a magical girl and four ordinary people, became a legend of that era, a legend that only existed in that era, and is now forgotten.

Yuki Tamaki actually talked a lot about this part, and Helica listened very attentively.

No one would refuse to have their idol personally explain the secrets of their former band.

As fellow guitarists, Nana's ambition to take responsibility for music and the band makes her very close to Tamaki Yuuki. Tamaki Yuuki, who is so dedicated to music that he even ran away from home, is also happy to teach this like-minded companion on the path of pursuing art more.

Even Nana's love life was told to Tamaki Yuuki in detail.

"After experiencing all that, Kuriko and Nana realized their feelings for each other and naturally got together. However, it was a secret relationship. If people found out that their idol was dating other members in the band, it would definitely be bad for the band, right?"

Yuuki gazed into the distance of the almost deserted street, perhaps even further away, having traversed several years, looking at himself who had reached his peak and was about to begin his decline.

"Indeed, Nana and Kuriko have always acted a little too intimately, so we just take it as a friendship between girls."

That night, Helica didn't think too much about it; all she knew was that Tamaki Yuuki was telling her those special stories as fan service.

Helica had no idea that the story would take a sharp turn for the worse.

To make a long story short, one day, Kuriko, a magical girl, fell into darkness.

The other band members who weren't magical girls had no way of knowing about her corruption, but everyone who spent every day with her could see that Kuriko was gradually starting to show abnormal behavior.

His personality gradually became irritable, and he began to disagree with other members over trivial matters. During normal practice, he would also stubbornly insist on his own way and not listen to the advice of others.

The most obvious change was that she began to forbid anyone from having any close contact with Nana, which was clearly demonstrated during one of the band's live performances.

Keyboardist Rei, who was interacting normally with Nana on stage, said a few extra words, so Kuriko directly retorted. With Tamaki and Aika's crazy rescue efforts, the audience thought it was just for the sake of the show.

However, Rei and Nana are the type who don't even share common topics, let alone the food they eat at the celebration party.

However, that was also the last performance at the Rose Garden.

At that time, it was the second time that Rose Garden was on the verge of disbanding. In order to pursue his dream, he ran away from home and moved out of his own place. It took a lot of effort from Yuuki Tamaki to stabilize all parties and keep Rose Garden alive.

“Perhaps disbanding the Rose Garden and slinking back home would have been the best choice,” Yuuki Tamaki suddenly blurted out, her voice filled with emotion.

It's already quite rare for a young working woman to say something like that to a current high school girl.

Herlica sensed Yuuki Tamaki's unusual emotions at the time, but she couldn't sense that Yuuki Tamaki had been subtly admonishing her since then.

"The problem started from that time and has only gotten worse."

Chestnut's desire to control Nana grows stronger, and more conflicts arise during their cohabitation.

At first, Kuriko was just curious about what Nana was doing and who she was in contact with. But later, Kuriko started checking every phone call and every message Nana made.

This kind of life is very wrong, and anyone can realize that except for Chestnut herself.

Nana, who had nothing but the band, had no one to confide in except for Tamaki Yuuki, who walked alongside her on the path of pursuing art.

Nana, who had secretly run away, went into Yuuki Tamaki's rented room and tearfully told him everything that had happened between her and Kuriko.

Tamaki Yuuki didn't say anything, just listened to Nana talk all night.

Tamaki Yuuki understood Nana's certain hints about "making me forget everything," but pretended not to.

And so, nothing happened that night.

What was an uneventful night became the spark that ignited a raging fire that burned everything to ashes.

"I only heard about it later. Nana and Kuriko had a big fight. Kuriko felt that Nana had betrayed her, so she wanted to take revenge on me. However, all I heard was Nana talking about her all night."

"No matter how Nana cried, how she begged Kuriko, how she repeatedly said that nothing had happened between her and me, or how she repeatedly assured that my relationship with them had nothing to do with her, Kuriko wouldn't listen."

"Later... Nana still couldn't stop Kuriko, and Kuriko still went... Her destination was my house, my original house... Then, when I rushed back, my house was gone, and Kuriko was shot down by a group of magical girls dressed as nuns."

"She just lay there, right in front of me, staring at me with a fierce look I'll never forget, cursing me, and then, surrounded by the nuns, her eyes gradually lost their light."

"I watched with my own eyes as her eyes gradually became empty, and I also witnessed Chestnut's demise."

"After that, there were no reports about Chestnut going missing. Nana met with me specifically and apologized to me frantically before leaving. There has been no news of her since."

"A band with only three members couldn't continue—it wasn't that it couldn't be sustained, Rei and the others tried to persuade me to stay, but I couldn't give up on Yui."

“Before, I found it hard not to take responsibility for this tragedy, but if I went back to that night and saw Nana standing at my door in the pouring rain, completely unaware of what was happening, I might still have made the choice to agree.”

Helica heard these things from Nishio Reki again.

Therefore, Helica was not surprised when Nishio Reki said that Yuuki Yuuki's house was destroyed because of the magical girls' conflict.

Helica knew more about this matter than Nishio Reki did.

"There is no way to communicate normally with corrupted magical girls. Every magical girl is actually a potential bomb, and you never know when she will explode."

Up until this point, Herica thought that Yuuki Tamaki was just talking about her future, reminding herself not to let Yuuki Eri's corruption affect her.

But Helica overlooked some important issues.

Why did Tamaki Yuuki tell him about her past as a magical girl?

Why did she mention that the relationship between a magical girl and an ordinary person could lead to tragedy?

And most importantly, how did she find out she was a magical girl?

Any ordinary person, after hearing what Yuuki Tamaki said, would come to the same conclusion—Yuuki Yuki is a magical girl, and very likely a corrupted magical girl.

But that person was Helica, a magical girl who had identified herself with the wrong role.

Now all the misunderstandings have been cleared up on North Street.

Throughout, Tamaki Yuuki always treated himself as an ordinary person.

The one with the real problem is Yuuki Eri.

"Does Yuuki know about these things?" Herica, who was unaware of the situation at the time, asked in a hoarse voice.

"I don't know." Yuuki Tamaki remained as relaxed as ever, as if it were none of his business, after recounting so many things: "But there is one thing I want to say to Tenrai: some feelings are better left unsaid."

"Because the two of you may also encounter similar situations."

Tamaki Yuuki, still looking ahead, replied in this manner.

It's like looking at Yuki Yuki right now.

I was arguing with my family when I was writing the plot of the last time.

Maybe the ring is a cyber curse? Whenever there's a storyline involving the ring, I end up arguing with my family.

By the way, the story was originally intended to be more detailed, but if it were detailed, it would be too long, requiring at least two chapters, which would make it feel padded.

So the bowl was overturned and rewritten, becoming much more concise.

However, I can only update once during this time. I apologize! I'm so sorry!!!

Since this is a single update, let's briefly discuss the design of the names of the characters in this chapter!

Next comes Bondori's missionary work.

First, the Rose Garden! It's the first space battleship in Bondori, Roselia.

The lead singer is Minato Nana, Minato is a woman's surname, and Nana is the voice actress Aiba Aina, which also has some elements of the character Banana-nii. Although Aiba Aina voices someone else in Revue Starlight.

Similarly, the drummer Sakuragawa Aika's name is a transliteration of the surname of the person in Ako.