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

Mizuno Yuu gradually descended into despair, and Yuuki Yuki's instigation played a significant role in this.

But if Yuuki Enishi didn't do those things, then who else could it be?

In other words, if Yuuki Yuki didn't enter the dream with him, then why should he fall into despair?

“I know you have many questions, and so do I, but I can tell you what we’ve done since we got here…”

Yuuki Yukino let out another breath, but this time it sounded more like a sigh.

Then, Yuuki Yukino began her narration.

When Yuuki Yuuki realized that she was in someone else's dream, she discovered that she might have taken the place of a character in the dream, and had merged with the character in the dream to a certain extent in her own identity.

But that doesn't matter. You are still yourself, and that's enough.

Subsequently, Yuuki successfully found Nishio Reki, Inuyama Tomoe, and Helica. Although there were some twists and turns, Yuuki successfully made them realize that they were in a dream.

Through conversations with Yuuki Yuki and the others, it is discovered that none of them are the owners of this dream.

If you were the master of your dream, you would more or less discover something about it, but once you are awake, you have no idea what it is.

Although everything here is intricately connected to everyone, it's only somewhat connected and has no real impact on oneself.

From this, we can deduce that the owner of this dream should be Mizuno Yu.

However, Yuuki Yui searched the entire Monarch City, even using her identity as the head of intelligence, but she couldn't find a trace of Mizuno Yu.

"When we enter someone else's dream, we are still ourselves, with our own appearance and our own name, but we all have a vessel that should originally exist in the dream, or rather, that vessel is the identity we play in this dream."

Yuki Yui paused briefly at this point, emphasizing to Mizuno Yu.

"Last time, because the stage was Moonsea City, everyone could put themselves into their original identities. There were only slight differences, so no one noticed anything unusual. But this time it's different, which is why I can make this deduction."

“Speaking of the vessel… Remember, I said that there is a foreign object mixed in with the magic of Moonsea City, and that foreign object in the dream should not exist out of thin air either; it also needs an identity as its vessel.”

“In your dream, we found a character who was exceptionally active, even more so than us who entered the dream with you. It seems that she was the one who was driving the plot forward. So I suspect that she is the alien.”

"You should know without me saying that that person is the monarch."

"So, I have a bold guess: if we get rid of that foreign object, that is, kill its carrier, this nightmare may end."

After Yuuki Yuki and her group discovered the unusual presence, their first thought was to eliminate the monarch.

But if they guess wrong, the course of the dream will be changed by Dafu.

By then, they will have become the culprits who ruined the dream.

Because the deep sleep is initiated by nightmares, what appears to be calm now is actually a turbulent undercurrent, and in the end it will surely be a tragedy.

But Ke Jieyuan wouldn't sit idly by and wait for her doom. She made good use of her identity to investigate the complex relationships within the monarch's city.

She is confident that no matter what problems arise, she can respond promptly.

Subsequently, the prime minister who had no connection with Yuuki Eri and the others and had only met them once encountered an accident, and the monarch began to prepare to appoint a new prime minister.

Apart from Nishio Reki, who needed to stay in the monarch's castle to investigate the situation due to her status as Minister of Home Affairs, the rest of them followed the monarch to the next stage in order to keep an eye on the monarch and to find Mizuno Yu.

Here, they also discovered an NPC who was just as active as the monarch, namely General Yumimoto, whom Mizuno Yu followed.

Then there's a possibility that the foreign object could be a second candidate.

If the object is indeed General Yumimoto, who is Mizuno Yu's superior and thus of great significance to her, then Yuuki Yui is in a difficult position.

"So Baqi and I took advantage of the monarch's banquet to discuss it briefly, but Sakura Hanako overheard us. However, I did not lay a hand on Sakura Hanako, but instead told her part of the truth."

Yuuki Yukino deliberately concealed the fact that she and Baqi almost ended up sleeping together while chatting, but that kind of thing isn't really important anyway.

"Even though Sakura Hanako is fake, I still think that the junior from Nijisanji who appeared in your dream is trustworthy. We can't fight this battle alone. Then, something happened to her."

Next, Yuuki Yukari and the others returned to the monarch's city with the monarch and the prime minister. As soon as they returned to the monarch's city, Yuuki Yukari contacted Mizuno Yu.

Yuuki Yui wasn't the only one who contacted Mizuno Yui. Apart from Inuyama Tomoe, who couldn't really talk to Mizuno Yui, the others tried to wake her up.

At first, they were all giving hints cautiously, after all, this was a dream, and no one could go too far right from the start. But gradually they found that it was useless and instead made Mizuno Yui more doubtful of herself.

Later, the monarch summoned all of them directly, and only summoned this group of magical girls who had broken in, which was tantamount to laying all the cards on Yuuki Yukino's side.

At first, everyone was acting with the monarch, but the monarch went too far, which made Yuuki Yuki certain that the monarch was definitely not an ordinary NPC in the dream.

Before the monarch summoned her, Yuki had told Tomoe that if anything unexpected happened, they should just deal with the monarch first and then make further plans.

The meeting in the main hall forced Yuuki Kenshin to take the initiative before he was pushed to the opposite side of Mizuno Yu, who already had some suspicions about him.

But the dream did not end after the monarch was killed.

What's more troublesome is that Mizuno Yu witnessed the entire process of her killing the monarch.

Yuuki Yui had no choice but to temporarily change her plans, continuing along with the plot while trying to explain things to Mizuno Yu.

As General Yumimoto is another vessel for the strange object suspected by Yuki En, he naturally deserves extra attention, so Helica volunteered to investigate.

Later, Helica, who arrived too late, witnessed the general's death and was mistaken by Mizuno Yu as the murderer of the general.

Herica first punched the crying Mizuno Yu a few times, and then Mizuno Yu acted extremely submissive, making Herica mistakenly believe that Mizuno Yu had really been woken up by her punches.

When Helica returned and told everyone about it, they were all filled with lingering fear, and they all praised Helica for waking up Mizuno Yu with a punch when she was in despair.

The greatest despair has passed, and things became much simpler afterward.

The magical girls took turns reminding Mizuno Yu while waiting for the dream to end, but Mizuno Yu kept hiding her true intentions and slowly evolved into the familiar figure everyone knew.

Seeing that Mizuno Yu had returned to normal, everyone was even happier, practically ready to wait for her to wake up, completely unguarded around their companions.

At that time, they truly believed that everything was over and that even if Mizuno Yu didn't realize she was a magical girl, she would eventually wake up.

While it was Yuuki Yui's fault for not thinking too much about Mizuno Yu, who would suspect that their companion was actually plotting against them?

Mizuno Yu may have doubts, but she will also be the first to find evidence to prove her companion's innocence.

As everyone knows, Mizuno Yu led a large army to purge the court of corrupt officials, but was stopped. Feeling deeply ashamed of his rudeness, he fell into despair and then accidentally changed back to his original personality after being hit by Helica's personality-correcting punch.

"So, although we don't know how those strange things happened, things were resolved satisfactorily in the end, right?"

“Indeed.” Mizuno Yu nodded in agreement.

"Indeed, it's been resolved perfectly. It's truly a cause for celebration." The monarch nodded along with the others.

The unexpected appearance of this uninvited guest startled all the magical girls present, and almost everyone transformed immediately, pointing their wands at the monarch at the same time.

Yes, that was the monarch. The large hole blasted by Bachi's spear was still in her chest, and through that hole, one could still see the scenery behind her.

The world behind the monarch was collapsing continuously, as if being sucked into a black hole, leaving only nothingness.

"No, don't look at me like that," the monarch lowered her head, using a tone she would never use and making actions she would never do: "I sensed something was wrong and came here specifically to see you, and this is how you treat me... It's really, really too much..."

Yuuki Yui took a half step forward, shielding the others behind her: "You're that strange thing?"

Although Yuuki Yukino asked that question, the current monarch is definitely not just an illusion created by a wisp of magic.

That was a real magical girl.

"What foreign object? What foreign object? That sounds awful... I'm not like that... I... I have a name!"

As the monarch spoke, his body gradually became ethereal, like a firework exploding into magical specks of light on the spot.

Magical light fell like snowflakes, forming an incredibly dreamlike archway.

Behind the arched doorway, a girl who looked incredibly thin timidly peeked out from behind her long bangs, glaring fiercely at Yuuki Yuki and her group.

Herika was simply a little short, but the girl was so frail that she seemed as if a gust of wind could blow her away.

"My name is Yumehara Sumireko!"

The girl swung her fist without any intimidation, and her unpretentious manner actually looked rather cute.

But no one would find this girl cute.

From the thumbnail of the girl's waving fist, Yuuki and her companions saw something that seemed logical yet was extremely dangerous.

Even though the shape carved onto the nail like a manicure is incredibly cute, any magical girl can immediately recognize it as a black magic mark.

"As revenge! I'm going to kidnap your friend!"

Chapter 117 The Fall

In interactions between people, first impressions are often extremely accurate.

For example, there's the overly friendly Inuyama Tomoe, the arrogant Kuroba Erei, the obsessive Tsukimi Rie, or the completely incomprehensible yet unapproachable Gon Mashiro.

But the girl before him, in a world that was gradually collapsing, was so thin that she seemed unable to withstand a gust of wind, as if she might fall with this world that had already reached its end at any moment. Yuuki Yuuki couldn't describe her feelings for her.

Her long, light brown hair, reaching to her ankles and resembling weathered tree branches, her pale skin as if she had just recovered from a serious illness, and her incredibly thin and frail body made it impossible for Yuuki Yui to believe that she was the culprit behind this series of events.

From the other person's expression, Yuuki Yukino could read mostly fear.

But she not only appeared through the corpse of the monarch in Mizuno Yu's dream with a large hole in it, but also confessed her crimes herself.

"As revenge! I'm going to kidnap your friend!"

Even though there are four people on Yuuki Yuki's side, they don't know the other party's abilities or identity. This is still in the realm of dreams, so taking action rashly could result in a great loss.

Even if a fight really breaks out, it's still unknown whether a winner will emerge first or whether Mizuno Yu's dream will collapse first.

Yuuki Yukino's only clue is that the girl has already revealed her own name.

Sumireko Yumehara, as expected, is a name Yuuki Yukino has never heard of.

But it doesn't seem quite right that a magical girl whose name I've never even heard of suddenly appears here and says she wants to take revenge on me.

But since the other party has appeared in front of her, even though the personalities of fallen magical girls are all strange, Yuuki Yuki felt that there was still a possibility of negotiation.

The dream hasn't completely collapsed yet; it's just that the surrounding scenery is constantly crumbling and converging towards Mizuno Yu.

They didn't have much time left, and it was uncertain whether things would go so smoothly next time. Yuuki Yuki didn't want to waste a single second.

"What did we do to you? Why are you retaliating against us?"

"You barged into someone else's dream and even affected its direction! So I'm going to take revenge on you!" Sumire clenched her fists and swung them several times in the empty space.

"What is the direction of the dream?" Helica asked on behalf of everyone else, a question that everyone wanted to ask.

"Everyone is dead!" Sumire's answer left everyone bewildered.

"They're all dead?" Even Mizuno Yu, the owner of the dream, was completely bewildered.

"Yes! They're all dead!" Sumireko repeated, like a child who hadn't learned to imitate others: "Generals, monarchs, soldiers, and civilians—they're all dead!"

Yuuki Yuen understood some of it. Regardless of whether she had intervened or not, those who were destined to die were destined to die. So those bad things were actually things that were going to happen in the dream anyway. It was just that she had accelerated the process to some extent and had also taken the blame for it.