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

"The power of a magical girl is bound to a person's soul. Let me give you an example. If my soul enters Inuyama Tomoe's body, then the wand I can use will not be Fenrir, but still my Nyarlathotep."

Of course, as Yuuki Yukino said, this was just an inappropriate example. Judging from the expressions of the others, Yuuki Yukino knew that her thoughts had been conveyed.

"So, I have a very bold guess: if our consciousness, or rather our soul, no longer has a body as a medium, can we still use the power of magical girls?"

"I think the answer is yes."

The reason she believes this is that there is another version of herself in the sea of ​​stars, who can not only give her the power of a magical girl, but also forcibly stabilize her when she goes berserk.

However, this power may require a medium, such as another version of oneself using one's own body, or, in the previous example, one's own soul entering Baqi's body.

Yuuki Yukino couldn't give a precise answer yet, but what she wanted to say now wasn't to dig into the details of this matter.

"Now let's get back to the main topic. Based on the various characteristics of slumber, I believe that what put Sakura Hanako and my companions into slumber was an attack specifically targeting magical girls, one that plunges them into nightmares."

Yuuki Yukino's statement about "being trapped in a nightmare" is indeed intriguing, but considering the characteristics of deep sleep, a little thought reveals that this statement is not unfounded.

After listening to Yuuki Yuki talk for so long without saying a word, Tenrai Herika finally couldn't hold back any longer. Yuuki Yuki's explanation had many overly complicated parts, and it took her so long to get to the point. She felt really bad if she didn't urge her a few times.

"So we have to sneak into other people's dreams like in Inception, transform into magical girls, defeat the bizarre monsters in the dreams, and then we can wake them up?"

Helica asked the same question that everyone else wanted to ask. Yuuki Yuuki spent a long time explaining that the power of magical girls is bound to their souls, and it must not be meaningless.

Considering what she's saying about nightmares, it's probably possible to use the powers of magical girls in dreams, which is likely why Yuuki Yukino gathered them here.

However, Yuuki Yuki's plan still lacked some crucial points that were not explained.

Why was Yuuki Yuki so certain that they could enter the same dream world?

Why did Yuuki Yuki say it was too late?

Under the expectant yet bewildered gazes of the crowd, Yuuki Yukino begins to reveal the answer to this perplexing mystery.

“Helica is right, but not entirely correct. We can’t wake them up directly, but we can prevent the next slumber from happening. We can also use this opportunity to catch that guy who targets magical girls by the tail. That’s why I called everyone here today.”

"Then tell me, how can we infiltrate the dream? And how can we catch that tail?" Helica didn't want to wait a second longer.

"Let me finish speaking. I've already grasped some patterns in how the Sleeping Assault attacks people," Yuuki Yukino continued.

"I thought about it carefully before, and the order in which we fell into slumber was not without pattern. Recently, Moonsea City has been very peaceful, and there has been no need for everyone to transform or even fight. So the last time everyone fought with all their might was on Halloween night."

Everyone nodded and listened attentively.

"The two people who expended the most energy on Halloween were Sakura Hanako, who broke through her limits and learned the Divine Release after being forced into a desperate situation."

As Yuuki Yukina finished speaking, she turned her gaze towards Hyakki Senyu, drawing everyone's attention to her as well:

"And my companions who took the brunt of the attack to protect her."

"What does this have to do with slumber?" This time, it was Baqi who asked.

Baqi had previously asked Yuki Yuki about her guess, but Yuki Yuki replied that she would tell everyone together when the time came, so she didn't know the specifics.

"Although magical energy can be quickly restored through mana replenishment, magical girls generally recover their magical energy slowly over time," Yuuki Yui continued.

"So what?" Helica asked, puzzled.

"Because the original magical girl existed in Tsukimi City, her magic permeated the entire city, which is why magical girls can use her magic to restore themselves," Yuuki Yui said, stating something that everyone already knew.

"This is a good thing for every magical girl, but it is also a kind of shackle, because we are in contact with magic all the time. So if we do something that violates the rules, it will be detected and we will be punished. This is what happened to Koya."

Nishio Reki, who had been singled out by Yuuki Yuki, hadn't considered that he was involved, but he still nodded to the others, agreeing with Yuuki Yuki's statement.

"Yes, there are some things I can't do, and some information I can't say, and that's the reason."

"I had a suspicion before that it was because the original magical girl's magic power was so immense that when I investigated that original magical girl, I was backfired by the power of the rules, which is why I fell into a deep sleep."

"But that's wrong. Investigating the original magical girl doesn't trigger slumber. But that doesn't mean the original magical girl and slumber are unrelated."

"I discovered that the magic of the original magical girls was mixed with something else. It is also a kind of magic, but it is different from the magic of the original magical girls. We can call it an alien substance."

"The magic of the original magical girl, mixed with foreign substances, began to spread throughout Moonsea City from a certain moment. However, this influence was subtle and gradual, which is why we were unaware of it."

"When the slumber occurs, I believe each of us tries to sense whether there are traces of magic around us, but we all find nothing, because that strange magic is actually around us at all times, which is what is called being confused by what you are doing."

"Those foreign objects exist in the body of every magical girl. The more magic power she consumes, the more magic power she acquires, and the more of that abnormal magic power she has in her body."

"This unusual concentration of magic is extremely low, so it is harmless in itself, but it has one function: marking."

"The magical girl who has consumed a lot of magic power is the next target of that unseen enemy."

Damn it, only one update a day! I'll try to catch up on the word count in the last few days of the month to achieve full attendance.

Did you make up Chapter 100 on the spot?

It was Yuuki Yuuki's good fortune that she was able to detect something unusual in the magic that permeated the entire city. You should know that even Koumori, who is extremely sensitive to magic, did not notice it.

However, it's understandable that Hong Moli didn't notice it. In this environment where one is being slowly boiled like a frog in water, the abnormalities that gradually appear around them are not so easy to detect.

If Yuuki Yukino hadn't thought of this and deliberately investigated, she herself would have continued to ignore this answer that she had ignored until now, yet which was now blatantly right in front of her.

For example, a village's only water source is a river, which has a slightly salty taste. People use this river water for everything from washing to cooking, and over time they come to believe that water should taste like that.

That faint salty taste is the strange magic mixed in with the magical girl's body, and doing laundry and cooking is the process by which each magical girl transforms the strange magic mixed in with her own magic.

Before anyone stood up to question whether the water was actually salty, everyone thought it was normal.

Fortunately, Yuuki Yuuki is a little genius who suspects that the original magical girls are not good people. Because her previous investigation into the original magical girls had made no progress, she is now better at finding her own blind spots.

Unable to find the external cause, Yuuki Eri went back to look for the internal cause and finally discovered the problem.

When Yuuki Yuuki suspected that she might also be affected by the slumber, and that's why her perception of magic started to be distorted, she tried to use Nyarlathotep to imitate the magic of various people in order to verify her hypothesis.

For example, she can imitate the magic of Inuyama Hatsuki, who is closest to her, and then compare it with Hatsuki's magic to determine if there is anything wrong with her perception.

However, the experiment did run into a problem. The magic she imitated was very slightly different from that of Baki herself. The real Baki had a little more magic than Yuuki Enishi could detect.

That's what Yuuki En and everyone else referred to as the foreign object.

The feeling of four people entering a room and five people coming out at the same time made Yuuki Yuki break out in a cold sweat, and she immediately began to investigate the source of this magic.

Then Yuuki Yui discovered this magic in the magic that permeated the city of Tsukimi, just like discovering the subtle saltiness in water.

It was through this serendipitous encounter that she discovered something had been growing around her all along.

This foreign object does not affect the use of magic, but it remains in the body like a toxin after magic has been used, even though it is not toxic in itself.

Yuuki Yuen made a special trip to the hospital to secretly check the magical power of the sleeping Koumori, and found that there was no such foreign object in Koumori's magical power.

To verify one of her conjectures, Yuuki Yukino went to see Sakura Hanako again and found that Sakura Hanako was the same.

This situation is somewhat similar to what Yuuki Yukino sought out today—sowing and reaping. The only difference is that this unseen enemy's target is only magical girls.

Having grasped part of the truth, Yuuki Yui immediately realized who might be the next target: either Mizuno Yu, who had consumed a large amount of magic power, or Tenrai Helica, who was in the same situation as Mizuno Yu.

With this happening for two days in a row, no one knows if everyone will get through tonight safely. It's very possible that the unseen enemy will detonate the time bomb buried in their bodies the moment they fall asleep, causing them to fall into a deep sleep as well.

“Therefore,” Yuuki Yui said solemnly after recounting her series of investigations in detail, “we cannot afford to waste a single day in this critical moment.”

"Xiaoyuan, I have a question." Baqi raised her hand like an eager student: "Even when we're sleeping in the same bed, we can't tell if the person next to us is being attacked. Is there some strategy behind keeping us all together?"

Baqi wasn't asking a question, but rather setting the stage for Yuki Yuki, much like a straight man in a crosstalk performance, with the aim of highlighting Yuki Yuki's absolutely central position at that moment.

This isn't just a superficial gesture to make Yuuki Yuuki feel good. If Mizuno Yu and Tenrai Helica don't trust Yuuki Yuuki, the subsequent cooperation will be very difficult.

"I haven't told you about the abilities of my wand yet, have I?" Yuuki asked.

Herica and Mizuno Yuu's ears immediately perked up. They had fought Yuuki Yuuki more than once, but they had never known what special abilities Yuuki Yuuki possessed.

Manipulating tentacles? Manipulating lines? Or does it have some strange and unusual shape?

Regardless of what abilities Yuuki Yukino possesses, she should not reveal them to her enemies.

Yuuki Yui also knew that revealing her trump card to a magical girl who might be an enemy was not a wise choice. Although she did not consider Mizuno Yui and the others to be enemies, that did not change the fact that this choice was unwise.

But this matter is of great importance, and it's no longer time for Yuuki Yukino to remain hidden.

"My attribute is chaos, therefore, theoretically I possess countless forms and infinite possibilities. For example..."

As Yuuki Yuen spoke, the magic she emitted gradually began to change, the dark purple magic visibly turning into golden yellow, and crackling electrical sounds rang out in the magic mist surrounding Yuuki Yuen's wrist.

This unusual sight caused both Herica and Mizuno Yu to frown simultaneously; it was obvious whose form of magic it was.

Yuuki Yuuki has become stronger again. Helica remembers that Yuuki Yuuki could only imitate other people's wands before, but now she can even perfectly replicate other people's magic.

This is not just the aura of magic; the attributes of magic are also being imitated.

If she can even do something like this, then if Yuuki Yuki becomes an enemy of our side in the future, she will only become more difficult to deal with.

However, Yuuki Yuen paid no attention to what the other person was thinking and continued to demonstrate to the others. The ever-changing magic power eventually turned back into purple mist and returned to Yuuki Yuen's body.

"That's why I can connect my magic with yours, and when someone is attacked, I can use this ability to enter your dreams."

Only after meeting Genki Mashiro today did Yuuki become so certain that she could do such a thing.

Because those unusual magical powers reminded Yuuki Yuki of Urouge Mashiro, it was only natural to think that Urouge Mashiro could pull people into another dimension.

If calling it a dream sounds incredibly fantastical, then understanding its essence as pulling the spirit or soul of a magical girl into another dimension seems to make it immediately clear.

However, dragging a soul into a dream is actually far less difficult than temporarily erasing a person from this world.

In such a difficult situation, Inuyama Tomoe was able to force her way in using her magic, so Yuuki Yuuki could naturally use her magic as a bridge to pull herself in as well.

She can do more than that; otherwise, there would be no need to gather everyone together, at least not for Nishio Reki, who is less likely to encounter danger.

"Not only that, I can also use my abilities to pull other people into the dream, so that everyone is not fighting alone."

As Yuuki Yui spoke, tentacles extending from her fingertips were swaying and presented to each of them, like obedient little snakes, their tips drooping as they waited for the other magical girls.

"I can connect everyone through my tentacles."

"Wait, how do I use this? How do I link it?" Looking at the strange shape in front of her, Helica was suddenly reminded of some unpleasant memories.

Being hit by tentacles, being tied up by tentacles, and being whipped by tentacles and spun around like a top—now, just seeing tentacles gives Helica PTSD.

"Don't you know? Just put it in your ○○." Baqi cheered from the side, and even grabbed the tentacle that Yuuki Yuki handed to her, looking like she was about to do as she was told.

"Huh? No! Huh?!" Herlica's cheeks flushed instantly upon hearing Baqi's words; she wasn't that bold.

Looking at Baki's current actions, Helica felt that her brain's processing speed could not keep up at all.

In that instant, Helica seemed to understand why Yuuki Yuki had specifically dragged everyone to the love hotel; this bizarre connection method certainly couldn't be done elsewhere.

But Helica couldn't get past the mental hurdle of doing it, especially since it was happening in public... well, not in public, but in front of five pairs of eyes!

No, if I don't do it, I'll be outdone by that wretched white-haired idiot!

"Perverted! Perverted! How could there be such a vulgar method! Really! So perverted! Just like you! Perverted!"