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

In this situation, she could only try to grasp any clues that might have disappeared from her mind, throw them all out at once, and then put them out in the open for others to remember.

Yuuki Yui took a breath: "First of all, the most obvious issue, although we have mentioned this before, is that this city is named after that girl, and that girl's name is Tsukimi, not Hayashi Mustard."

“Mmm.” Baqi nodded in agreement. This matter had been mentioned before when Yuuki Yui mentioned wanting to learn about the past of Yuehai City. It wasn’t exactly a new discovery, but it completely confirmed that her previous statements and ideas were correct.

"But this situation conflicts with my belief that the girl in this story is the original magical girl. I'm not talking about the name, but the ending of the story. The girl leaves Moonsea City, but did that girl really leave?"

This is a very thought-provoking question. Everyone has seen the original magical girl.

The strength she displayed, such as defeating enemies like Mashiro Urouge without any chance to fight back, and enveloping the entire Moonsea City with magic, are things that ordinary magical girls cannot do.

For example, an athlete can jump more than 2 meters after training. No matter how hard they try, it's only a breakthrough in centimeters or even millimeters. But if someone suddenly appears who can jump five or six meters high with ease, people will start to wonder if she is an ordinary human being.

This is the power that Lin Jiezi has demonstrated, which is why everyone equates her with the original magical girl. Since Lin Jiezi is here, it means that the original magical girl has not left Moonsea City.

Everyone thought of this possibility at the same time, which is also the simplest scenario.

"I can't give a precise answer to this question, nor can I verify it, but we can make an assumption," Yuuki Yui continued after seeing the knowing expressions on the other people's faces.

"Assuming she didn't leave, she must have existed to this day through some means. This is too complicated and more likely, and there's too much to analyze, so let's leave it here for now."

That girl was the original magical girl, Yuuki Yui always believed that either her power was still there, or she herself was still there; in short, it could be said that the girl had not left Tsukimi City.

If we were to analyze it, as she said, the workload is excessive and cannot be explained in a short time.

Therefore, Yuuki Yu needed to learn the method used by Mizuno Yu: first analyze some unlikely possibilities, and then eliminate them.

Even on the wrong path, you might discover something correct if you keep going.

Besides, Yuuki Yukari didn't know if her assumption was actually wrong; it would be even better if she accidentally hit the mark.

Besides, there are some things that if she doesn't say them now, she might really forget them later. That's why Yuuki Yukino first considered another possibility:

"What if I assume that everything in the book that Mashiro Gorogen gave me is true?"

Everyone else nodded in agreement, waiting for Yuuki Yukino to continue.

Yuuki Yukino didn't keep them in suspense and immediately began her discussion:

"That original magical girl—well, let's just call her a girl, since the book doesn't explicitly say she was the original magical girl. Where did she go after she left?"

Baqi shook her head and thought for a moment: "Based on Xiaoyuan's hypothesis and the contents of the book, the girl should have gone to find her compatriots, those gods who initially refused to help the early inhabitants of Yuehai City and refused to accept their offerings, right?"

“That’s right.” Yuuki Yukino snapped her fingers, quickly transforming them into a thumbs up. “If there are so many gods, are they all magical girls?”

"Huh?" Baqi's mouth dropped open; she really hadn't thought of this approach.

In fact, this question does not strictly fall within the scope of Yuuki Yuki's hypothesis, but since it has been brought up, Yuuki Yuki will just say it directly.

The reason was that Yuuki Yukino remembered that the final boss in a certain manga she had read had an extremely outrageous setting.

As a result, in the sequel featuring the son of the original comic's protagonist as the new generation of protagonist, members of the final boss's clan began to appear one after another.

It would be quite interesting if that so-called original magical girl wasn't the only magical girl, but simply the only magical girl everyone could come into contact with.

Seeing Baqi's stunned expression, Yuuki Yuen explained further until everyone else looked enlightened.

Having said that, Yuuki Yuki couldn't come up with anything more. It was enough to tell others the information before she forgot it herself.

After recounting this incident, Yuuki Yukino used it as a starting point to steer the conversation back to the sacred text that Urobuchi Mashiro had given her.

"While there's nothing wrong with the fact that those gods are actually magical girls, and there's nothing wrong with writing it that way in the holy book if you trace it back to its origins, this is a religion, and this book is also the holy book of a certain religion."

"It's not a personality cult, nor is it a mythological system; it's a religion. Why bring up the fact that the girl has other companions under these circumstances?"

Perhaps it's due to cultural differences, or perhaps Yuuki Yuuki is being overly nitpicky, but no matter how Yuuki Yuuki looks at the beginning of the Holy Scripture, it just doesn't feel right.

In her original world, it was normal to believe in a god. For example, the god of her original wand had a shrine dedicated to her, and Mizuno Yu's Aphrodite and the gods who were associated with her wand also had temples.

Moreover, it is quite normal to elevate a person to the status of a deity. For example, Guan Yu is also worshipped as the God of War and Wealth by various business people, as are Qin Shubao and Yuchi Jingde, who are pasted on doors during the Chinese New Year.

But there is one crucial difference: whether they worship at temples, paste door gods on their doors, or enshrine statues of gods, they all have one thing in common: they believe in God, not a religion.

In religions, the supreme deity is usually inviolable, and the content reflected in this holy book makes it seem as if these strange nuns are worshipping the one true God.

However, the fact that there are many gods under these circumstances made Yuuki Eri feel extremely awkward.

To prevent her sudden whims from leading everyone astray and delaying the overall progress, Yuuki Yukina denied what she had just said.

"Forget it, I might have been overthinking what I just said. Regardless of why it mentions so many gods, or whether those gods are magical girls or not, the point is that the girl is gone. Where she went is irrelevant, and there's nothing more to do with her after that."

"But at the end of the story, people begged the girl to leave something for them, so the girl left her name, which became the foundation of Moonsea City."

Yuuki Yukino flipped through the pages of the book, showing the final contents to her phone, which she had propped up on a screen.

"But did the girl really only leave behind a name?"

"If that's the case, then where did all the magical girls who were born in Moonsea City come from?"

I have to admire the power of technology; I felt so much better after the injection!

I didn't have any restlessness while writing today!

Don't worry! All the bowls will be replaced!

Chapter 89 Orphanage

After finishing the entire book, Yuuki Yuuki had a question.

Why would Mashiro Gorgen give something like this to him?

The idea of ​​someone trying to preach to you by handing you a book is so stupid that even if Yuuki Yuki were an atheist, she wouldn't agree to it, let alone Mashiro Utsugi doing it.

Yuuki En has encountered people who suddenly rush out of the street, grab her hand, and then, holding a religious book, say, "I'd like to take a moment of your time. I want you to learn about our Heavenly Father and Savior," trying to forcibly proselytize her.

Yuki Yuki is extremely reluctant to engage in such forceful proselytizing, let alone the kind of people who send her pamphlets with alarmist content or bombard her with phone calls.

Even in such a troublesome situation, Yuuki Yukino wouldn't join the cult, let alone Utsuki Mashiro, who only left behind a book for herself.

Why is that? Is there some secret hidden in this book?

Since it contained no magic, Yuuki Yuuki could not obtain any help from the content outside the book.

If that's the case, then the only possibility is certain content within this book...

That was what Yuuki Yukino originally thought.

But amidst her jumbled thoughts, a voice suddenly appeared, reminding her not to fall into a vicious cycle.

To understand the purpose of Genki Mashiro, we need to consider more and more broadly.

Amidst the chaos, she seemed to have figured out a bit of the other party's purpose.

"Since that original magical girl has left Moonsea City and left nothing behind except her name, where did all these magical girls in Moonsea City come from?"

Now, the conversation has shifted from Yuuki Yuki raising one question after another to her reasoning, which will eventually lead to the answer that suddenly came to her mind.

Everyone could tell that Yuuki Yuen already had her own ideas, so they shook their heads to urge her to continue.

"If Moonsea City didn't have a 'core' that could sustain the existence of magical girls, then magical girls wouldn't have been able to exist until now. So, can we assume that the girl never actually left Moonsea City?"

"To conclude that the girl didn't leave, it's a bit far-fetched to deduce that she didn't leave based solely on this." Hong Moli pondered for a moment, disagreeing with Yuuki Yukino's logic. After thinking for a while, she stroked her chin and finally retorted:

"If that girl did indeed leave, leaving behind the 'core' you mentioned in Moonsea City, then as long as this core exists in Moonsea City, the girls of Moonsea City could potentially become magical girls. Isn't that also a possibility?"

Hong Moli's rebuttal went unanswered for a long time.

“It is indeed possible.” After a moment, Yuuki Yui agreed without any hesitation: “Did you notice? Most of the story involves a girl granting wishes to others, which means that the girl has the ability to grant other people’s wishes.”

"Every magical girl in Moonsea City is inextricably linked to a wish, whether it is insignificant or immense, selfless or selfish. Every magical girl is a product of a wish being fulfilled."

"It is because of this that I have concluded that the girl in the story is inextricably linked to the entity that maintains the magical girl system in Tsukimi City, namely the original magical girl."

"So what I just said, and what Hong said, are just one possibility among many. I could also say that the 'names' left behind are related to the liberation of true names and the liberation of gods. But these speculations won't help us for now."

Yuuki Yukino raised several fingers, then lowered them one by one, until only one remained.

"Before we discuss these things, there is another obvious and huge flaw. I wonder if you have noticed it?"

The people on the other end of the video call shook their heads again.

"This story seems to have come to an end, but it's actually a rushed ending that starts strong but ends weakly. It doesn't tell us anything about what happened next, and it doesn't mention many things we want to know."

"For example, the book doesn't describe the Dark Magical Girl at all. It doesn't explain how she came to be or what the original Dark Magical Girl was all about. I searched the whole book but couldn't find a single place that might be a metaphor."

"For example, Saint Shion and the others definitely know more than us ordinary magical girls, but these are not mentioned in this holy book. Black magic marks are the marks placed on unclean people, and the will of that supreme being is not mentioned at all."

"So what did we learn? We learned a story? We learned how this religion describes the original magical girls? We learned the history of Moonsea City?"

“None of those.” Yuuki Yui shook her finger, denying all the possibilities she had just mentioned: “We know that this church not only concealed this part of history from ordinary citizens, but also from believers who had joined the religion.”

Instead of trying to figure out what can be discovered in this story, let's break out of this vicious cycle and think about it from the other side: why did the church go to such lengths to hide this, and what exactly were they hiding?

Baqi was the first to voice her objections, which included many points of confusion.

"But hey, Xiaoyuan! Haven't we just come full circle?"

“No, that’s not it.” Yuuki Yuen shook her finger in denial: “The focus of our investigation has shifted now. What we need to understand is no longer the vague truth built up through ancient texts.”

"What we need to know is the truth that the church is hiding."

Hong Moli first expressed her approval, then poured cold water on Yuuki Yukino's enthusiasm.

“That’s right, I’ve thought about this from the beginning, but as far as I know, the people associated with the church are, one is Mashiro Urokin, who once joined the Sisters of the Holy Church and is extremely dangerous just to have contact with, and the other is Seishion, whose whereabouts are currently unknown.”

Indeed, neither of them seemed like they could honestly reveal everything that Yuuki and her group wanted to know.

“Yes, whether she’s an adopted daughter or someone who was originally from the Holy Family, she definitely knows more, and she certainly won’t tell us the information she has,” Yuuki Yuen agreed.

“Oh! And then there are the nuns who follow Saint Shion around and help carry her luggage during the school trip,” Baki added. “And if possible, there are those nuns who aren’t even human, who just appear out of thin air.”

Not to mention these, they seem unable to even have the most basic conversations, they are completely like robots, and may not even be as good as robots.

“That’s right.” Yuuki Yuen agreed, this time without even needing to explain: “However, there are other answers as well.”

These weren't the only angles that Yuuki Yukino could think of.

Yuuki Yuuki hadn't gone out with the other members of Nijisanji for a while, and such opportunities might not come often in the future. However, her time with Nijisanji did provide Yuuki Yuuki with a lot of inspiration and made her aware of many gaps in her knowledge.

For example, the story of the festival was something that Yuuki Yu mentioned, which made Yuuki Yu wonder if the establishment of Tsukimi City was related to magical girls, and that's how she was able to get this book today.

For example, if it weren't for the crisis of Nijisanji's dissolution, everyone would not have gone to an orphanage called Kindergarten to do community service, and they would not have known that the children there were orphans who had lost their parents because of magical girls.

It was an orphanage, nothing special in itself, but it happened to be the only orphanage in Yuehai City, and it was cleverly disguised as a kindergarten.

Although everyone in Moonsea City knows exactly what kind of place it is, disguising it as a kindergarten just to cater to the children's wishes seems a bit unnecessary.

Yes, this unnecessary action is just like how Yuuki heard the legend of the festival, but the entire church erased that history. It makes it hard for Yuuki not to suspect that this is the work of the same person, or someone with the same thoughts.