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

Amidst the incoming white light, the wounds inflicted on Helica's body by the recent attack were rapidly healing.

Aside from the laceration on the magic armor that ran straight from the shoulder to the thigh.

Herlica grabbed the magical armor on her shoulder with one hand, crumpled the torn fabric into a ball, and then, with a tearing sound, ripped off the entire tattered magical armor.

Without the constraints of clothing, Helica's movements became more expansive and unrestrained.

In the blink of an eye, the warhammer had already struck the blade of Hong Moli, forcing Hong Moli, who was in her divine liberation state, to retreat slightly, and the sole of her shoe dug a half-meter-long trench in the ground.

The powerful attack caused Hong Moli's tiger's mouth to feel as if it were about to split open, and her entire forearm holding the knife was numb as a result.

Through several encounters, Hong Moli has developed her own assessment of Helica's abilities.

Helica shouldn't have such power, let alone such speed.

She shouldn't have been so lightly injured after delivering that decisive blow.

There can only be one reason: the radiance bestowed upon Koumori by Sakura Hanako.

Koumori's assessment of the situation has never been wrong; Sakura Hanako's God Release combat power is indeed very weak.

But this doesn't mean that Sakura Hanako has to get involved in the battle.

They are magical girls, not war machines born for battle. The abilities of magical girls do not necessarily mean they must be deployed to the battlefield.

Even if it's only temporary, even if there might be some aftereffects, it's enough that Helica temporarily possesses enough power to contend with him.

Wait a minute. Even Helica can temporarily possess the power to resist her own divine release, so what about Mizuno Yu, who has already achieved divine release...?

What was being withheld, and what drove them to the brink of despair?

The ones facing a desperate situation are myself and Qianyou!

This battle has completely led to the situation that Hong Moli least wanted to face.

But she had no other choice but to fight.

……

It is a mistake to think that Sakura Hanako has no fighting ability at all.

"Dopamine!"

The needles pierced by Sakura Hanako kept approaching Hyakki Chiyuu's back, but ultimately failed to penetrate the girl's already battered body.

Someone shielded her from the spear-like impact.

Hong Moli released the long-bladed katana in her hand, and with her body still somewhat sluggish, she endured Helica's thunderous impact, reaching out to embrace Hyakki Chiyu, who was about to be struck.

The needle pierced deeply into Hong Moli's shoulder, almost penetrating her entire body. With the powerful thrust, the girls were thrown out and rolled several times on the gravel-strewn ground.

The jolted girls crashed into a large, fallen tree, ending their haphazard tumbling.

"reaping what you sow" was the first phrase that came to Hong Moli's mind.

She, who had always used her attacks to bring constant abnormal harassment to her enemies, finally experienced the same feeling once again.

The heat and confusion felt like an inextinguishable fire was burning within her, giving her an intense urge that was several times stronger than the side effects of her divine liberation.

When Yuuki told her about the mist released by Miyashita Miya that could arouse strong desires in humans, Koumori had been dismissive.

"I know what kind of side effects my divine liberation will produce, and that kind of external catalysis is nothing to me."

At the time, she wasn't that familiar with Yuuki Yuki, so this was her answer to Yuuki Yuki.

But when that feeling actually came over her, she realized she was wrong, terribly wrong.

Even though she was still on the battlefield, and even though the Hundred Ghosts Thousand Phantoms in her arms were already covered in wounds, she still couldn't control her strange impulse.

It is precisely because we are still on the battlefield that this impulse is fatal.

"Shouldn't this end?"

Even if the body can be healed, the fatigue accumulated from consecutive battles will not be easily eliminated, and the depleted magic power will not be replenished for no reason.

But Mizuno Yu knew that tonight's farce had come to an end.

"Nonsense! Why would we keep those two around?"

Herlica, whose magical armor had been torn to shreds, dragged her warhammer and weary body to the two fallen dark magic girls, gritting her teeth.

"Then let's give them an ending quickly, we still have..."

The biggest contributor to the entire battle, Sakura Hanako, also sounded incredibly tired. Not directly participating in the battle didn't mean her energy expenditure was minimal.

She was probably the one who expended the most energy today, as she used all her divine powers to help her two seniors.

“I know without you saying it!” Helica, who had already walked up to the two of them, raised her warhammer again: “Don’t worry, after I knock you out, the next one will be that bastard who ordered you to come and die.”

Hong Moli felt Qian You tremble in her arms.

But she had no strength left to do anything else, except to hold Qianyou even tighter.

Aside from watching helplessly as that warhammer fell.

Besides seeing the scene in front of him become even more unreal.

The thunderous warhammer fell with unstoppable force, and as the dust settled, it seemed to mark the final end of this Halloween night.

Herlika's expression suddenly changed as she gripped the warhammer.

Just moments ago, she witnessed once again the sharp claws she had seen in Rainbow Leaf City, claws capable of tearing through space, flashing past her.

Herika suddenly raised her head and looked at the full moon, which had returned to its original state.

Bathed in moonlight, the pink-haired girl lowered her eyes, looking at herself with the kind of gaze she found most unacceptable—the gaze that came as she pushed cups of coffee toward her.

Behind the girl, amidst blooming purple flower buds, lay the girls, barely alive, their transformations broken but still tightly embracing each other.

At the top of the flower stem, the silver-haired wolf king sharpened her claws, his vertical pupils reflecting a chill that was more restrained and profound than the blood moon.

All the magical girls sensed the undisguised power of the girl named Yuuki Yukino, a power unlike anything they had encountered before.

It was as if it were freezing the hot blood flowing through their veins, making their hands, which wanted to raise their wands, pause in their tracks.

Under the moon where their gazes converge, the drifting tentacles sway as the spider lily slowly closes.

Everything returned to silence, as if nothing had ever happened.

The desolate wilderness that lay before us bore witness to the story that had just unfolded.

The magical costumes turned into specks of light, and the girls' attire returned to normal, just as it had been when they first stepped into the coffee shop where it all began.

No one spoke, and no one knew what to say in this situation.

Helica returned at the most critical moment, and the enemies who had invaded Moonsea City were successfully defeated. Sakura Hanako gained the power she had always dreamed of, the power to fight alongside her seniors, and no one was injured in the process.

This seems like the best possible outcome, right?

Everyone should be happy about this, right?

"that……"

Sakura Hanako started the conversation, but after uttering only a few syllables, she fell silent again.

Even she, who organized all of this, the true hero of the night, didn't know what to say.

While she was struggling with her decision, Helica suddenly pursed her lips and squatted down.

"Senior Tianlei? What happened to you? Are you injured? Is there something I didn't do well?"

Sakura Hanako quickly went over and reached out to help Helica up.

"Don't touch me!"

Helica shouted it out loud.

That loud shout was like a sheer cliff, leaving Sakura Hanako, who was relieved that everything had ended there, stunned in place. Her outstretched hand froze in mid-air, wanting to retract it but not knowing where to put it.

After all that I've done and gone through so many twists and turns, have I still failed to achieve the result I wanted?

Sakura Hanako's nose started to sting again.

"I...I understand..."

When she spoke again, her voice was trembling with barely suppressed sobs.

"Don't get me wrong!"

Helica raised her head and tried to stand up, but after swaying a few times, she was unable to get up.

But by the moonlight filtering through the huge, flattened hole in the center of the forest during the recent turmoil, Sakura Hanako could see Herika's face, which looked as if it had ripened.

It doesn't look like someone who's about to reject themselves and retreat back into their own world.

On the contrary, it was an expression that Sakura Hanako was very familiar with, an expression that she saw every day in Nijisanji's daily routine, an expression that Tenrai-senpai would only show when he felt embarrassed.

"That……"

Sakura Hanako looked at Tenrai Helika, who was squatting on the ground, with a hesitant and drawn-out expression.

“This is…” Helica stammered, “Before I arrived, some awful guy poured me several cups of coffee…”

"Hmm?" Sakura Hanako wiped away her tears with her sleeve and let out a soft "hmm".

"Exactly! I drank a bit too much water! I just did some good exercise, and now that I'm idle... well..."

Herlica's face turned even redder, as if she wanted nothing more than to give the two people in front of her a good beating.

However, she simply couldn't do it; just squatting on the ground was almost unbearable for her.

"puff……"

"laugh……"

Not only Sakura Hanako, but even Mizuno Yu, who is usually very serious, couldn't help but chuckle and let out a sound that they would never normally hear.

"Stop! Stop laughing! Don't laugh anymore! Forget it all, forget it!"

Mizuno Yu pouted, reverting to her usual expression, and extended her hand to Helica.

Welcome back.

I figured you guys didn't like waiting for updates to see the battles, so I finished this all at once.

I was too lazy to divide it into chapters, so I'll just call it the "Super Big Bucket".

The title? The title is blatantly making a meme!