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

……

"Tsk, what is this thing? This guy is way too weak!"

Inuyama Tomoe kicked the clump of something on the ground that was once the reincarnation of Kuroba, but was now unrecognizable.

Baqi didn't even need to use her divine liberation technique; she simply fired a few shots at the black-feathered afterlife in the sky, and the arrogant girl collapsed like a lump of mud.

Although there were others who launched the attack alongside Baqi, their level of attack was simply not worthy of the power that Kuroba's ultimate form of divine liberation should possess.

"This shouldn't be the real reincarnation of Kuroba. No, this isn't the real reincarnation of Kuroba. It's just an illusion created in this dream. It's not even as good as the nuns of Saint Shion."

Yuuki Yukino poked at it with her tentacles and drew her own conclusion.

"Ha! You should have said so earlier! I thought I had killed someone!" Helica, who had been on edge, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After dealing with Kuroba Reisei, the first thing the group did was to confirm each other's identities.

It's not impossible that in a dream, there might be a sleeping Hong Mali and a completely defeated Kuroba Reisei, and that the others aren't real people either.

However, seeing the strength each other displayed, whether it was confirmed or not was no longer so important; this step was just to be on the safe side.

The final result was that everyone was indeed connected to Yuuki Yuki and entered the dream.

This explains why the timeline, relationships, and even logic of dreams become a mess.

There are many obvious fallacies, such as Yuuki Yuuki's family not dying, her sister not running away from home, her childhood friend and neighbor Nishio Reki, and her being in the same grade as Chiyu.

Mizuno Yu was even more able to pinpoint the crux of the matter: "We also know this is a dream, but whose dream is it?"

She actually had an answer in her heart. The only one who wasn't with them, the girl brought by Yuuki Enishi, whose name she only learned in her dream was Hyakki Senyou, was very likely the owner of the dream.

Yuki Yukino's explanation was also cautious, but it gave an answer that everyone could guess.

“Plum Garden, confession, festival, and the afterlife of Black Feather… that is, the phantom we killed. Before we realized we were in a dream, we were acting according to this rhythm. And there is only one person who is involved in all of these things.”

Upon learning that it was her junior's dream, Baqi became nervous: "Then shouldn't we go find it now?"

“Yes, but… there’s something strange that we should have noticed just now.” Yuuki Yui affirmed, then hesitated, “Although Kuroba Reisei showed the form of a magical girl, she didn’t have any magic power.”

“However, in places where there are no magical girls, there is still a magical power,” Nishio Reki continued.

"And that magic power is indeed the unusual magic power I found."

As Yuuki Yukina spoke, she turned to look behind everyone.

Amidst the still-scattering crowd, a blurry figure stood there.

Although she was hidden in the crowd, no one could see her clothes or appearance clearly.

But everyone knew, even though they didn't know how they knew, they just knew.

The shadow was laughing.

Then, everyone opened their eyes at the same time.

An unfamiliar ceiling, small toys placed on the table under the moonlight, and magical girls in magical costumes who got up at the same time when I woke up.

Without a doubt, this is the love hotel that Yuuki En booked.

But one person still lay quietly on the sofa, his peaceful sleeping face illuminated by the moonlight.

The tentacle that Yuuki had handed her was still wrapped around her wrist, but it seemed to be missing something.

Yuuki En controlled the tentacles to move, tightening their grip on Hyakki Senyou's wrist.

Suddenly, Yuuki Yukari's face turned deathly pale, and the tentacles wrapped around the others all retracted as if they had been electrocuted.

Yuuki Yukino's unusual behavior has undoubtedly become the only noise in the room and the focus of everyone's attention.

The other magical girls immediately surrounded Yuuki Yuuki.

"I...I'm fine."

Yuuki Yui was panting heavily, and at the same time, the demonic armor on her body turned into specks of light, deactivating her transformation.

"But,"

She raised her hand with trembling hands and pointed her finger towards the sofa, towards the girl who was still fast asleep on the sofa.

"We failed..."

Chapter 103 Subconscious

Not only Yuuki En, but even Mizuno Yu and Tenrai Herika, who were actually on the opposite side of Hyakki Senyu, felt somewhat heavy-hearted when they saw Hyakki Senyu in a deep sleep.

Should we be happy to see a fallen magical girl lose her ability to move? Not at all. The harm caused by slumber is far more serious than what this gray-haired girl has caused.

Even without considering these factors, Helica and Mizuno Yu could be the next targets of the Sleeping Ones.

No one can take such a dangerous situation lightly, especially when they could face it at any moment.

The end result was that on Monday night, the group of girls parted on bad terms and didn't sleep a wink all night.

……

"You are not only the headmistress of the Holy Ancient Academy, but also a former member of the nuns of the Holy Church and a bishop of that church. It shouldn't be difficult for you to handle this, right?"

Yuuki Yukino sat on the bed in the love hotel, speaking to Gen Ken Mashiro, who had arrived as promised just as dawn was breaking.

After leaving Genki Mashiro's office, although Yuuki Yukino was not very willing, she still exchanged contact information with Genki Mashiro just in case.

I didn't expect to need it so soon, especially since it was for dealing with the troublesome situation of the daughter of the Minister of a Hundred Demons and five other senior students from other schools going to a love hotel and ending up sleeping in there.

Yuuki En had considered the possibility of Hyakki Senyou being attacked, but she hadn't expected Hyakki Senyou to be in the order of things so soon, and she had underestimated the matter of entering the dream world.

Although Yuuki successfully confirmed her conjecture and obtained a lot of information based on the results alone, she felt it was still too much of a loss at the cost of one of her companions falling into a deep sleep.

This shouldn't be measured by profit or loss at all. I only went to investigate in order to wake up the people who had fallen into a deep sleep. Putting my companions in danger is putting the cart before the horse.

In this situation, Yuuki Yuuki couldn't think of anyone else besides Gakuen Mashiro.

To reiterate, Yuuki Yuuki is someone I absolutely do not want to deal with.

But Mashiro Gorgen was different. She seemed to be in a good mood after being contacted twice by Yuuki Yuki in one day, and there was even a hint of joking in her voice.

"It's not difficult at all. It's much easier to handle than the fact that the headmaster of St. Yuu Academy appeared at a love hotel late at night with students from other schools."

Yuuki Yukari couldn't manage a smile at all. At this moment, she was staring at Gen Ken Mashiro at the door with her cold eyes, almost showing all her displeasure on her face.

In the dim light, Genken Mashiro seemed to raise an eyebrow, her gaze sweeping over Yuuki Yuki, Nishio Reki, and Inuyama Tomoe beside her, before finally settling on Hyakki Chiyu, who remained lying on the sofa.

Genken Mashiro didn't ask any further questions. She had heard about Koumori's situation from Yuuki Yui, and now Hyakki Senyu was experiencing the same thing. Yuuki Yui needed her help to deal with it, that was all.

Why these people would appear at a love hotel was of no interest to Mashiro Gorgen. She would never have imagined that these magical girls were so lonely that they would engage in a group activity at this crucial moment.

"Alright, leave it to me. She'll be sent to the hospital first thing tomorrow morning, with a reasonable excuse, and nobody will know what she did or where she went."

Genki Mashiro lowered his head.

Is this all?

"That's fine."

Only after Genki Mashiro left did Nishio Reki, who had remained vigilant, relax, and Tomoe, who had been silent until now, finally spoke.

"When did that woman become so agreeable? How strange! This is so unusual, there must be something fishy going on."

“She’s always been easy to talk to.” Yuki Yuen corrected Baqi’s statement with little interest: “At least she thinks I’ll definitely be at odds with Hayashi Mustard, so she doesn’t mind helping us.”

“What good does this do for her? No, what good does this do for you? If Xiaoyuan really does kill Lin Jiezi with her, won’t this woman still target Xiaoyuan?” Ba Qi stroked her chin.

“Yes, I wouldn’t be surprised if she attacked me, or even if she took her own life.” Yuuki sighed softly.

"Then why?" Baqi could guess what Yuuki Yuen was thinking, but she still asked.

“Because Yuuki doesn’t have many choices, cooperating with that woman is undoubtedly like playing with fire, but it can indeed save us a lot of detours. It’s very likely that she knows things that even I don’t know.” Nishio Reki answered Tomoe’s question for Yuuki.

She and Baqi didn't stay with Yuuki Yuki with any intention of having anything happen between them. Even though this was a love hotel, and even if either of them were alone with Yuuki Yuki in this place, they had no interest in it now.

Even so, their reason for still being here is simple: to prevent any accidents from happening when Yuuki Yuki and Urobuchi Mashiro meet alone, and to keep Yuuki Yuki company now, who took the initiative to propose the plan but returned empty-handed.

Yuuki Yui knew what they were thinking and had no intention of refusing their kindness.

Yuuki Yukari herself knew that although she didn't show any signs of being dejected, if she were left alone, her condition would only be much worse than it is now.

Under these circumstances, no one was in the mood or had the courage to go to sleep.

Although the sleep phase is currently proceeding one person per night, no one dares to take the risk.

When you can't sleep, you can only chat about anything, and the most suitable topic right now is to summarize the information you currently know.

First of all, the time in the dream is not synchronized with the real time. In the dream, everyone played all day long from morning to night, but when they woke up, it was only around 2 a.m.

Secondly, without a doubt, they entered the dream of Hyakki Yako tonight, and Hyakki Yako was also the victim of the attack tonight.

That means that what Yuuki Yukino said about entering the dream world is real and reliable, and that everyone can indeed dream online like in the movie "Dream Space", without needing to tune any machine, as long as they have Yuuki Yukino's tentacles.

While it's possible to dream online, everyone who enters the dream will naturally be transformed into an NPC-like being within the dream.

Once you enter someone else's dream, you'll naturally assume that the dream is reality, and then you'll forget your original purpose, and even forget that you're a magical girl.

Not only that, they also accept some settings that were not originally their own.

For example, it's easy to see that they weren't students who graduated from Plum Garden, nor were they in the same grade as Hyakki Senyou, and it's impossible for a festival to be held on the night after the graduation ceremony.

In dreams, things are bizarre and anything can happen. Yuuki Yuki only remembers that the fake Kuroba in his next life will still unleash the colorful light blade of Utsugi Mashiro. This is the result of mixed memories.

However, each person is still themselves and will act according to their own thoughts, unlike the false phantoms that appear in dreams, such as Koumori who should be in a deep sleep, Yuuki Yuki's relatives who should no longer be there, and Kuroba Reise who was defeated.

Whether they shouldn't have appeared in the dream in the first place, or whether they had taken the place of an NPC, they had no idea.

However, as an NPC-like being, it will also be instilled with some memories that do not originally belong to it, that is, it will be influenced by the memories of the dream's owner.

Mizuno Yu and Herika, who shouldn't have known the name Hyakki Senyu, naturally uttered it. Even after they woke up, this memory began to become very blurry, and in the end, all they could recall were the final battles.

This is similar to having a dream. Once you wake up, you quickly forget the contents of the dream. After discovering that Hyakki Senyuu had fallen into a deep sleep, Yuuki Yuuki immediately wrote down her experiences, which now seems like the wisest choice.

……

"In conclusion, our biggest challenge now is how to stay awake in a dream, how to know that we have entered someone else's dream, and even how to realize that we are dreaming."

Yuuki Yukina tapped the notebook on the table and spoke to the other four people who had gathered together again.

This was the content she had spent another whole day compiling. In order to avoid falling asleep during class, Yuuki En drank three cans of energy drinks.

This feeling of being afraid to sleep reminded Yuuki Yuki of a series of horror movies she had watched before about fierce ghosts that would kill people in their dreams, but her current situation was not much better than being targeted by fierce ghosts in those movies.

In order to resolve the issue as quickly as possible and allow everyone to get a good night's sleep, Yuuki En once again gathered everyone together.