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

"Where is she?" Ba Qi suppressed her anger and asked patiently.

"Who knows?" Helica's tone sounded casual. "Maybe it's right under your feet?"

Baqi's eyes flickered, and she swung her wand down at the rubble beneath her feet. A heavy explosion rang out, and a new crater was blasted into the ruins. Debris rained down, landing on the heads of every magical girl present.

It is obviously empty.

Neither the hotel staff nor the guests dared to make any rash moves until they had all evacuated.

Bage took two steps, then swung her wand at the collapsed wall again, completely leveling that area.

As expected, the result was the same as before.

Before she could swing her wand again, she suddenly seemed to think of something extremely terrifying. Her hand stopped abruptly, her index finger on the gun blade twitched, and then her entire arm was lowered at an extremely slow speed.

Helica's statement about "under one's own feet" doesn't seem to be understood in that way.

What she meant was even more cruel and cruel.

Looking at the few remaining colors washed away by the rain, Baqi suddenly understood the answer.

Baqi raised her head in disbelief, her trembling eyes looking at Helica.

"Got it?"

Helica chuckled.

Although it was still unclear what had happened, Mizuno Yu had already understood what Helica meant.

But there was still one thing she didn't understand.

How could Helica possibly laugh under these circumstances?

Helica staggered back two steps, hot breaths escaping her nostrils, and the corners of her mouth turned up even higher.

Then, the blonde girl's legs went weak, and she knelt on the ruins, her upturned lips twitching slightly.

Another twitch, and another; Herika couldn't stop her lips from twitching and couldn't calm them down.

The cold air was drawn into her teeth along with her lips. Simply pursing her lips was not enough for Herlica to stop her body's involuntary reaction. She had to bite down on her lips and use her protruding little tiger teeth to hold them in place in order to control her expression.

Although Helica thought this way, her expression had already completely broken down.

Cold rain slid down my face, along with hot tears streaming from my eyes.

"Ugh-"

The girl kneeling on the ground raised her head and let out a heart-wrenching wail at the dark sky and the falling rain.

The rain is still falling.

It seems the rain isn't going to stop anytime soon.

"Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! What happened? What is that thing?"

Yuuki Yukino fell to the ground with a thud, and everything in sight was pitch black.

Is this the Starry Sea?

Oh! As expected! Although I still don't know what happened, I must have been ambushed by that guy, Mashiro Urouge.

As long as I encounter danger, I can enter the Star Sea and level up with cheat codes. I'm definitely getting the protagonist treatment with a cheat code.

After leaving the Star Sea, she used her new ability to beat up Utsugi Mashiro, and the crisis was briefly averted because of her interruption. It's true that there's always a way out.

Ah, that's great! I was just wondering how to escape from Helica's clutches.

I should also ask the Black Demon Pattern what exactly happened with its rampage.

"Xiao Yuan? Hmm? What are you grinning about?"

A voice came from beside Yuuki Yuuki.

"Ah? You're here? Come, come, what's new..." Yuuki Yuen immediately turned around, but before she could finish her sentence, she realized that something seemed a little off.

First of all, my own voice shouldn't sound like that.

Secondly, the voice sounds exactly like Nishio Reki's.

The Star Sea should be a space exclusively for oneself, right? How did Nishio Reki end up in the Star Sea?

And Xinghai doesn't look like this, does he?

What about the upside-down buildings? What about the Sky Box? And what about that other Yuuki Yuki who can see right through you?

"Rei?" Yuuki Yui frowned, temporarily setting aside the jumbled thoughts in her mind, and searched for the source of the sound in the darkness.

"it's me."

Wearing a tattered cheongsam, looking like he had just come out of a painter's studio and was covered in watercolors, Nishio Reki emerged from the darkness.

She really appeared out of nowhere. One second you couldn't see her, and the next she was right next to you, like a ghost, appearing and disappearing without a trace.

Upon seeing Yuuki Yukino, Nishio Reki frowned.

Before Yuuki Yukino could ask about the current situation, Nishio Reki spoke first.

"Xiao Yuan, what brings you here too?"

"Huh? Come here?" Yuuki Yu was bewildered by the question.

All she remembered was that her battle with Helica had reached a fever pitch, and then, a giant hand rose from beneath her feet...

Yes, a giant hand, a giant hand made of paint, held him in its palm. It matched his memories perfectly; he had indeed been ambushed by Mashiro Urouge.

Could it be that because of that slap, I've turned from Xiao Yuan into Xiao Yuan-chan?

Then he had a reunion with Nishio Koku on the road to the River Styx.

"I was ambushed by Mashiro Urobuchi," Yuuki Yuuki replied, then frowned slightly: "Wait a minute, Reki, why are you like that too?"

Chapter 113 The Boundary Between Lies and Reality

"No, Li, why do you look like me too?"

Yuuki Yukari's eyes widened, as if that wasn't enough for her to see clearly. She rubbed her eyes in disbelief, then stroked her chin thoughtfully and carefully examined the injured Nishio Reki for a long time before asking a question.

"Who looks like that!"

Even the usually composed Nishio Reki couldn't help but make a comment.

It turns out it wasn't as I thought, that I could just dive into the sea of ​​stars and gain new power whenever I encountered a problem. Looking at the sea from this perspective, I feel a little disappointed.

After such a big commotion earlier, Yuuki Yukari hadn't seen Nishio Reki, and thought that she had discovered that the world that Urobuchi Mashiro had interfered with was beyond saving, so she had escaped back into time travel and started over in another world line.

How should I put it? Seeing that she was still there, Yuuki Yukino felt quite touched.

With Nishio Reki's return and their time together, Yuuki Yuuki discovers that Nishio Reki is somewhat different from what she initially imagined.

The riddle-like person is still the same riddle-like person. Apart from the riddle-like person, Nishio Reki is doing his best to cooperate with him in every way he can.

If it's just to change a certain world line, then Nishio Reki is going a bit too far.

Moreover, Nishio Reki doesn't seem as scheming as before, and he actually gets along quite well with me, or rather, he's quite comfortable with me.

Upon seeing Nishio Reki, Yuuki Yuuki felt as if she had seen a savior, and the pent-up unhappiness in her heart could finally find a place to vent.

Yuuki Yukino has been suppressing her feelings for too long. The matter of Gen Urobuchi and Mashiro, the matter of Helica, and the worry about whether she would be exposed the day before, now she feels that she can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

But those troubles won't disappear with Yuuki Yuuki's sigh of relief; the reality she has to face will have to be faced sooner or later.

After a brief respite, Yuuki Yukino eventually had to get back to business.

"If we're not dead, where are we?"

"I can't explain it very clearly, but this is a space created by Mashiro Gorky." Nishio Reki tapped his finger, as if he had actually touched something.

“Created?” Yuuki Yuuki felt that this statement was rather dangerous.

Although Yuuki Yui doesn't have much experience with fantasy works, the ability to create space is usually something that only mid-to-late game bosses can do, right?

Although magical girls and that kind of work are completely different.

“Yes, I’ve pretty much figured out Mashiro’s abilities.” Nishio Reki sat down on the spot: “Her abilities are rather abstract, unlike those obvious lightning or water abilities. Her ability is ‘lies’.”

"A lie?" Yuuki Yuuki sat down cross-legged as well, her eyebrows furrowing.

The only thing she could think of related to lying was a group of con artists with mahjong tile heads.

"Lies blur the line between truth and falsehood, making the real appear fake and the false lie appear real," Nishio Reki explained further.

Indeed, it's more like the protagonist's abilities in a certain book with a unique art style.

"But it only sounds impressive. It's not actually that exaggerated. Making lies come true is just creating random things that didn't exist before and throwing them at you. Xiaoyuan's Nya or the God of Marriage can do something similar."

Nishio Reki said:

"Furthermore, it's also possible to turn something that already exists into a lie. When combined, it's just like what Xiaoyuan saw, and that's our current situation."

"Huh?" Yuuki Yuen rubbed her head, carefully pondering Nishio Reki's words: "Our current state means that our existence has been erased, doesn't that mean it's like this?"

Yuuki Yui clearly remembered the first time she fought against Urouge Mashiro, when Urouge Mashiro used this method to erase the Night Howler she had summoned.

To be able to erase even the existence of magical girls is a bit too exaggerated.

"It's not that exaggerated." Nishio Reki seemed to see right through what Yuuki Yuuki was thinking: "Never mind, I'll give Yuuki an example and she'll understand."

"For example, in the magic trick of making a person disappear, the audience watches the performance on stage, and the magician makes the person in the box disappear. But in reality, the person in the box escapes in another way."

"So?" Yuuki Yukina didn't quite understand what Nishio Reki was trying to express with this strange example.

"So it seems that our existence has been erased, but that's only what it seems. No matter how strong a magical girl's power is, she can't do something that overturns the world's view. Even the original magical girl couldn't do it."

Nishio Reki spoke with absolute certainty, as if she had actually seen the legendary being she spoke of. After denying it, Nishio Reki still had to explain to Yuuki Yukino:

"Our current situation is more like being stuffed into a box. After a while, this box will break, and then we can get out. By the way, this box was created by her using that creation ability, so it's only a matter of time before her magic runs out, and it won't be long."

Just as Yuuki Yui was about to breathe a sigh of relief, she tensed up again: "Wait, isn't the ability to forcibly stuff magical girls into a dark room also terrifying?"

There was one more thing Yuki Yuki didn't have time to say.

To give herself a hard time, Mashiro Urouge used her ability to erase her skills, which consumed a lot of magic power. After all, she was a magical girl, and the magic power required to throw herself in must have been an astronomical figure.

Moreover, not only did Mashiro Urouge put herself in the dark room, but Nishio Reki was also thrown in with her. Yuuki Yuuki couldn't even imagine how much magic power that would take.

Actually, there's no need for Yuki Yuki to explain; you can get the answer just by thinking about it.

The sudden appearance of the black magic pattern must be related to this matter.