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

For a fleeting second, the raindrops on the ruins seemed to twist for a moment.

That tiny, insignificant distortion became increasingly clear. Even those who thought they were seeing things after watching the previous scene would believe it was reality when they saw the space constantly twisting like dough being kneaded.

Click, click, click.

The sound, like shattering glass, seemed to travel far in the torrential rain, reaching clearly the ears of the two people under the nun's umbrella.

The unsettling cracking sounds grew more frequent, and the rubble on the ruins of the collapsed hot spring inn began to tumble, as if something was about to burst forth.

After one sound, there was an even crisper one. On the empty ground, it was as if a mirror reflecting the rain scene had been shattered, with cracks spreading out of nowhere.

A faint, purplish-black light shone through the crack, appearing exceptionally clear against the backdrop of rain and night.

The light was not warm; it was not a glimmer of light that dispelled the darkness. Instead, it seemed to drag people into deeper darkness, exuding a chilling aura.

Immediately afterwards, the cracked mirror shattered.

Countless translucent tentacles surged out from the shattered space, like the limbs of some unknown creature, yet also like shadows without substance, like a violently shaken carbonated drink, bursting out of the cracks as if from another unknown world.

The tentacles moved slowly and rhythmically, parting the sand and broken tiles, weaving through the ruins, accompanied by muffled chuckles that seemed to be snickering, clearing a space at their landing points.

Hey.

A foot stepped out from the shattered space.

With the crisp sound of high heels hitting the ground, the rampaging debris vanished completely. If it weren't for the fact that the ruins had already been further shattered by their dance, one would surely doubt whether they had ever existed there.

"They're here." Gen Kenma whispered a reminder, stepping out of the umbrella's protective range and braving the torrential rain overhead, heading towards the shattered space.

The sound of shoes stepping on puddles was drowned out by the heavy rain, and the splashing water wet Xu Yanzhen's white trouser legs, leaving water stains that were then covered by the traces of the slanting raindrops.

The distorted space that Genki Mashiro was facing had completely disappeared, and a girl in a black cheongsam and black high heels was also walking towards her.

A black cheongsam?

Mashiro Gakuen remembered that it was Nishio Reki's demonic armor form.

However, Nishio Reki's demon outfit is more streamlined, with little decoration other than the five-clawed dragon encircling the cheongsam and the straps near the neck.

But the cheongsam worn by the girl in front of me was much more luxurious, like that of a wealthy lady I saw at a cocktail party, a completely different style.

A pure black folding fan was placed in front of the girl, and all that could be seen were those eyes, which met her gaze.

It wasn't anger, nor fear; his eyes were incredibly calm, even carrying a hint of... allure?

What's most eye-catching is the girl's long pink hair and single bun on one side.

Although both were wearing black cheongsams and black high heels, the person in front of her was not Nishio Reki, but Yuuki Yuki, whom she was looking for.

That unusual posture was not a sign of divine liberation.

Then it can only be skills.

Genken Mashiro had seen Yuuki Yukino use a similar skill; the Night Demon, which grows unusual wings and claws on its body, is based on the same principle.

However, this was the first time Mashiro Urouge had ever seen a magical girl undergo such a drastic change using a skill.

No matter what Yuuki Yuki does, what Urobuchi Mashiro wants to do will not change.

"Loki."

A straightforward liberation of real names.

Since Yuuki Yukino has already broken free from her own constraints, then Nishio Reki should be no exception.

Yuuki En was dragged into the hot spring inn by herself, so it makes perfect sense for Gorgen Mashiro to be waiting for her here.

The shrine where Nishio Reki is located is still some distance away, but time is running out, and Genki Mashiro has no reason to delay any longer.

The evidence is the magic that keeps drawing closer from afar to where they are now.

“Gungnir”.

The unerring spear was thrown straight towards Yuuki Yukino without any fancy moves. The colorful attack circled around Yuuki Yukino's head, trapping the girl holding the folding fan in the middle.

pat.

Yuuki Yukino closed the folding fan in her hand.

Yuuki Yuuki, who was standing still, disappeared.

Instead, there was a huge, swollen monster with hideous tentacles.

Compared to the originally frail Yuuki Yuuki, her enormous body had expanded many times over. Her gaping maw, spewing out tentacles, hissed out cold air, and her skirt, resembling a barbed scythe, left deep furrows in the ground as the behemoth moved.

The pile of tentacles that emerged from the broken crack was supposed to be this thing.

Bizarre and twisted, such a grotesque monster should not exist in any myth or legend.

Whether it was the divine spear or the colors splashed by Xu Yan Zhenbai, they all unsurprisingly hit that enormous body.

The monster let out a scream that seemed to make one want to peel off their scalp, lift their skull, and knead their brain like dough into little loaves of bread before collapsing to the ground.

Clang.

With another crisp sound, the fan rib struck the transparent defense set up beside Genki Mashiro. Although neither of them were metal, they produced a soul-shaking echo that only metal could produce when it clashed.

Yuuki Yukina, holding a fan, rested her fingers on the already open fan, the sickle-like hooks protruding from the fan ribs embedded in the distorted blocks of color.

How did she end up in my life?

When did that monster, which collapsed on the ruins after being hit and crushed bricks and cement into dust, disappear?

Genki Mashiro didn't have time for further thought.

As Yuuki Yuki tore at the defenses of Gen Urobuchi Mashiro, it was like the claws of a wild beast sweeping across, tearing a wound in the defenses of Gen Urobuchi Mashiro.

Yuuki Yuuki's momentum hasn't stopped. If her fan continues to sweep across, it won't just be the magical shield that gets torn apart.

Genjiro Mashiro stepped aside, causing Yuuki Eri's fan, which had lost its momentum, to only brush past her nose. The colors surrounding the paintbrush in her hand enveloped the tool used for painting, reshaping it into a short hammer.

The short hammer collided with the fan-shaped surface, which was as sharp as a blade, splattering paint all over the ground. The colors that flowed like liquid on the hammer made up for the spilled paint.

The clanging sounds of their clashes formed a continuous line; it wasn't a direct confrontation between wands, yet it was in no way inferior to the power of a wand.

In close combat, which is not something that Genji Mashiro is good at, she was in no way inferior to Yuuki Yukino.

In the back-and-forth between Yuuki Yuki and Mashiro Urouge, he did do something.

Yuuki Yukino, who was forced to take a half step back by the imposing aura of Genji Mashiro, clearly felt that she had stepped on something.

Following Yuuki Yuuki's ankles, the colorful paint, like a living slime, crawled up and swallowed half of Yuuki Yuuki's body in an instant.

Yuuki Yukino knew what she had stepped on.

Mashiro Urouge uses very simple things: restraint traps. These are skills that corrupted magical girls can hardly use in battle. Skills designed in games to give players a bonus are indeed very limited in use.

Magical girls who fall into a restraint trap usually enter a state that is indescribable and prohibited for minors to watch, and are then teased by corrupted magical girls.

For example, Kuroba's reincarnation has a cross, Baqi's has a strange chain, and her own has a tentacle trap; while Hong Moli's restraint trap is the Iron Maiden, although it is opened in some convenient locations; Bai Gui Qian You's is haunted by ghosts, and those little ghosts do all the things they are supposed to do.

Regardless of the specific form a restraint trap takes, its restraining effect remains unchanged.

To be able to secretly set up something like this during a high-intensity confrontation is something that even Yuuki Eri can't match.

Did they succeed? Genken Mashiro raised her eyelids, but her attacks didn't stop.

It doesn't matter if Yuuki Yukino suffers two more wounds; the priority is to take away her fighting power. Genken Mashiro's goal is very clear.

She clearly saw that Yuuki Yuki closed the folding fan by rubbing her thumb before she was completely caught in the restraint trap.

A massive, icy maw, spewing tentacles, suddenly appeared before Genki Mashiro. The enormous creature, which had vanished at some unknown time, descended without a struggle, opened its mouth wide, and swallowed Genki Mashiro whole.

"Mashiro-neechan?"

Saint Shiyin, watching from a distance, clenched her fists.

Having swallowed the enormous creature that had been devoured by the true white of the mortal, it raised its neck, swallowing with its swollen throat, and let out a howl towards the pitch-black sky, as if declaring its victory.

The triumphant roar turned into a wail, as something huge and sharp protruded from its belly, making the outline of the monster's dark flesh even more distinct, as if it were about to burst out of its belly at any moment.

The tentacles that emerged from the monster's mouth no longer writhed in a regular manner, but gradually turned into frantic slapping, stirring up a scene of flying sand and stones. The falling rocks left pits of varying depths on the hotel's undamaged walls.

Tearing open the monster's flesh revealed not its decaying soul, nor the pink-haired girl's body, but a gigantic sailboat, braving the wind and waves as it emerged from the monster's belly and sailed into a world drenched by rain.

On the bow of the ship, a new seriousness appeared in Xu Yanzhenbai's otherwise hazy eyes.

The monster, its belly ripped open, howled and fell backward. Just before it collapsed completely, its massive body vanished once more.

With a gloom that even the rain couldn't wash away, Yuuki Yukino, who had opened her fan, held it up to her and slowly overlapped the fan ribs.

It was as if Yuuki Yuuki was always holding that magic book, and always wearing that long, purplish-black dress with black magic patterns half-covering and half-concealing the translucent black fabric.

pat.

The grimoire, covered in tentacles and inlaid with strange crystals, was closed by Yuuki Yuki.

Chapter 118 Picture Book

"The swollen woman?! That sounds disgusting!" Yuuki Yuki's face scrunched up as she heard the name Nishio Reki say it.

This word makes Yuuki En think of some greasy content that's hard to describe.

“Isn’t that your own skill, Xiaoyuan? You even said that the cheongsam is beautiful! The way you fight with a fan is very unique. You even used this skill to look in the mirror and said something like, ‘As expected of me, so cute.’”

Nishio Reki looked at him with a puzzled expression, as if he couldn't believe that Yuuki Yuuki had said these words herself.

"Oh, right! Also! The black cheongsam and I are kind of matching outfits! No, never mind, never mind."

Nishio Reki quickly added a sentence afterward, but Yuuki Yukino, still immersed in the shock of the skill she didn't know about, didn't comment on it.

However, Nishio Reki also gave Yuuki Yuuki a heads-up.

It doesn't necessarily require divine liberation; there's still room for exploration in liberating one's own true name.

If I could hold out for so long against Tsukimi Rie when she had just mastered True Name Release, then if I wanted to deal with Utsuki Mashiro, I should force her into a situation where she had no choice but to use God Release first. That would give me a better chance of winning.

Mashiro can only fight alone, with Seishin as an option at most.

On the other hand, if Helica and Mizuno Yu were not in the way, then both Tomoe and Nishio Reki would be on his side.

Let's do it this way.

"That skill was activated by your fan, wasn't it?" The giant ship beneath Mashiro's feet shattered into colorful pieces like a popped bubblegum.

Yuuki En rubbed the spine of the book with her thumb, not intending to answer Genki Mashiro.

Genken Mashiro guessed correctly; Yuuki Yuuki's new "Swelling Woman" skill is exactly that.