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

The beast with scarlet eyes bristled, its fur standing on end, and it pawed at the crows high above it with its claws, letting out a menacing roar.

"And greed and gluttony."

A large swarm of bats flew by, devouring the crow that was trying to escape, nibbling away its claws, beak, feathers, and flesh, leaving nothing behind. Then they hung upside down on the branch where the crow was and closed their eyes.

"However, it's not just original sin that corrupts magical girls; the concept of all kinds of sin is acceptable. For example, the power that corrupted me doesn't exist in the so-called seven deadly sins."

"My source of power is deception."

As Xu Yan Zhenbai wielded his brush, those wondrous scenes vanished in an instant.

"If I were to inject the power of my lies into that magical girl's body, and use my power to deceive all magical girls, perhaps the entire world, all magical girls, would be deceived by me."

That black magic mark? Yuuki Yukino immediately thought of what Urobuchi Mashiro was talking about.

Mashiro Gonno's lies are like poison; if used properly, they might actually corrupt the rules of magical girls.

But why would Mashiro Gorgen say these things to herself?

“Coincidentally, I can determine what this sin is.” Genken Mashiro clapped her hands lightly. “Then, Yuuki Yukino, where does your power come from? And what sin have you committed?”

This question stumped Yuuki Yukino.

Upon closer examination, the corrupted magical girls all exhibited their desires to varying degrees.

But what are my own desires?

Can I break free from corruption? Will I stop being a crybaby?

To be honest, Yuuki Yuuki herself has always been pushed along. She started from being completely ignorant of her fall into darkness, then began to design a plan to redeem herself by getting along with magical girls. She gave up at one point, but after being attacked by something that looked like Hayashi Mustard, she picked up this wish again.

In truth, Yuuki Yukino is confused; she herself has no idea what she wants.

“Your very existence is intolerable,” Mashiro Gorky gave her answer. “Your sin is that you are always doing things you don’t even know how you should do, without ever realizing it.”

"You have committed the sin of ignorance."

"It is blindness and folly."

From the character's perspective, the bowl wasn't explained clearly, so let's add some explanation.

The blond-haired dwarf wanted to make a move to open it up.

However, the blue-haired, expressionless man's stance is: fighting now will consume magic power, and Shion can't just sit and wait to die. There is an even bigger enemy over there. In the end, whether it's Eri or Mashiro who wins, they might join forces with Shion or Baqi to attack their side. It's too unwise to waste magic power here, and Li doesn't seem to have any intention of making a move, so they have to stop the blond dwarf.

Ms. Li has her own ideas, and she doesn't want to make any changes now.

The cute little dog isn't here right now.

That's roughly it. Because the situation isn't a black-and-white confrontation between two opposing sides, and neither side is weak, it wouldn't be wise to start a fight casually.

Chapter 124 My Wish is to Defeate the Magical Girl

"And the power that responds to you is ignorance, blind folly."

Genken Mashiro stared quietly at Yuuki Yuuki, her eyes devoid of any emotion, as if she were examining an experimental subject.

Genji Mashiro's voice was calm and indifferent, as if he were proclaiming a fact that had already been established.

"What is ignorance? It is a kind of mental inertia. Because of this inertia, people give up independent thinking, give up learning, lack basic common sense, and thus lead to the spread of evil."

Genken Mashiro raised her brush and began to draw in the air, and the silhouette of a girl appeared beneath her brush.

The paintbrush kept moving, and the background behind the girl's silhouette kept changing: a room, a square, a classroom, an office. The only thing that remained unchanged was the girl standing in it.

"The most terrifying thing is not that the ignorant give up thinking, but that they go with the flow and passively accept the arrangements of others and the arrangements of fate."

The girl in Mashiro Gakuen's drawing swayed her head from side to side and blended into the background.

Each time the background changes color, the girl is stained with that color.

“Ignorance itself is not a sin, but when faced with evil commands, it loses the ability to resist and may even actively cooperate, ultimately making itself an evil person.”

The background changes faster and faster, and the colors on the girl increase. The various colors are piled up together, but instead of making the girl more colorful, they completely darken her.

"Why are you telling me all this?" Yuuki asked.

"It's nothing, just to help you understand your own uniqueness." Genken Mashiro waved her hand, erasing the painting in front of her. "So, you think ignorance is a sin?"

Yuuki Yukino is not good at answering this question.

She could think of many examples: falling ill and not believing in medicine but seeking help from gods and Buddhas; serving poisonous mushrooms to the table because they didn't recognize them; claiming that one shouldn't be picky about food and forcing others to eat foods they couldn't eat because they didn't understand food allergies...

These are all crimes committed out of ignorance.

But Yuuki Yuki always felt that Genken Mashiro was deceiving her.

Seeing that Yuuki Yuki did not answer, Genki Mashiro did not press the matter and moved on to the next question.

"Then tell me, how can we eliminate so many kinds of evil?"

“Execution, trial, to ensure that the fallen magical girl cannot rise again,” Yuuki Yui replied.

Genken Mashiro shook his head, and the paintbrush he was holding shook as well, denying Yuuki Yukino's statement.

"That's how magical girls should deal with corrupted magical girls, not how to eliminate evil."

As she spoke, Mashiro Gorgen brandished her paintbrush again:

“Give peace to the angry, humility to the arrogant, generosity to the greedy, tolerance to the envious, diligence to the lazy, moderation to the gluttonous, and detachment from desire to the lustful.”

The scenes depicted by Genki Masashiro all seem to have lost their inherent malevolence in a beautiful way, returning to a state of peaceful nature.

"Give truth to the deluded." With a stroke of his brush, Genki Shinpaku caused all the paintings to spin, as if they were being swept into a massive ocean current, transforming into a deep, ever-swirling vortex.

The vortex shrank at the tip of the brush, eventually merging into a clump, or rather a drop of paint, which adhered to the brush.

"And, to give wisdom to the ignorant."

"This is the proper way to eliminate evil, but what did that magical girl who controls our destiny do? She did exactly the same thing you said: execution, trial, punishment, using the same method to deal with all evil in one fell swoop."

"Therefore, He treats all evil equally. Above all, there is a word that can explain all evil, which actually fits my idea of ​​healing evil by the opposite method."

tick.

"Then what kind of evil is so powerful that it can encompass everything?" Mashiro Urokin asked rhetorically as the paint hit the ground.

The drop of paint fell to the ground, and from there it spread like an open page of a book, transforming into a vibrant world.

Cities with towering buildings, villages with crisscrossing paths, boundless oceans, and ancient forests with towering trees.

"There is another kind of evil, called life."

"Original sin is the evil that we are born with; wherever there is life, there will be evil."

"But, as I have said, if we are to judge this evil of life, then what should be given to the living?"

As Genken Mashiro spoke, the lives born from her pen withered rapidly, and the once vibrant worlds turned into lifeless wastelands.

"The answer is simple: death."

"By this standard, the so-called trial of a magical girl against a corrupted magical girl is simply a matter of taking her life, no matter what sins she has committed."

"However, the way of trial is not death, on the contrary, it is intimacy, physical touch, fusion of souls, intercourse, the way of giving birth to life."

"Coincidentally, magical girls use the same method to replenish their magic power. Don't you find that strange?"

"If we extrapolate from this conclusion, then is death the only evil? Is eternal life the only right thing? Is everyone born to die, therefore everyone is sinful?"

"No, that's not true, that's absurd."

"But it is precisely because this absurd reason is the guiding principle for all magical girls' actions that magical girls keep repeating this method to judge sinners."

"He, that original magical girl, was so kind that even when dealing with magical girls who had gone astray, he was unwilling to take their lives, but instead allowed them to enter the state between life and death in a gentle manner."

"But in His mercy, He also gave all magical girls the mission to hunt down corrupted magical girls. In order to accomplish this mission, how many innocent lives have been taken away by the magical girls in their battles?"

"Therefore, the truly absurd and truly evil thing is not life or death, nor the seven deadly sins, but the magical girl system itself, which arbitrarily defines evil and arbitrarily decides the life and death of others."

"So, Yuuki Yukino, what do you think my purpose is?"

Genken Mashiro has already made his intentions clear.

"This madman." That was the only feeling Yuuki Yukino had in her mind right now.

She felt that everything Genken Mashiro said was fallacious. Although Yuuki Yui did not agree that it was right for magical girls to harm innocent people in the process of carrying out justice, and she had tried to avoid such a situation in every battle, there were some things that she could not refute.

Ultimately, what Mashiro Gorky wants to do is to undermine the magical girl genre itself.

But this is still unreasonable; it cannot explain why Mashiro Goraku sees herself as a target.

"As I just said, corrupted magical girls gain new power because some of their own characteristics conform to the rules of corruption that coexist with the rules of magical girls."

Genki Mashiro continued speaking.

"However, there are some exceptions. They did not fall into darkness because they received a response, but were foreign entities produced independently of the system of darkness. They were considered evil only because they had come into contact with His true self and had a portion of His power taken from Him."

"They are simply identified as evil by this magical girl system, but they are not necessarily on the path to evil."

"Lies can be used to deceive others and induce evil, or they can be woven into colorful stories."

"Ignorance can lead to irreparable mistakes, or it can build an unknown future."

"Life may grow sinful tendrils before it withers away, but it may also bloom with vibrant flowers."

"Such corruption is simply incomprehensible, but it also holds infinite possibilities—the possibility of changing everything."

Genji Masashiro said, sighing.

"But He cannot tolerate the existence of such power. He, clinging to the old and the new, only wants to maintain the status quo. Therefore, dissonant voices like us will be targeted and eliminated by Him."

"Where our power exists, there is Him."

"Therefore, for my own safety, I cannot go back to Moonsea City and face that guy again."

Is Mashiro Gorgen being targeted by that so-called "He"?

To go against the entire system? That's a bit of an exaggeration, isn't it?

No, it's not an exaggeration; I'm facing the same situation myself.

Nishio Reki seems to have mentioned something similar, saying that there are four known singularities, and the existence of these four is not allowed.

I am one of them.

Therefore, those things that resemble Lin Jiezi will target themselves.

After coming into contact with that thing, a part of my body was "corrected," which caused the black magic runes to go berserk, and now I have to find a way to solve this problem.