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

“Yes…” Yuuki Yuki drawled.

“Yes…” Baqi followed Reimu’s lead, drawing out her words as she waited expectantly for Yuuki Yuuki’s answer.

"Yes"

Chapter 123 That Day

"Xiao Yuan! Honestly! How could you forget who our enemy is? I thought you were the one who got attacked this time!"

Baqi stood at the corner of the school corridor, hands on her hips, and began to criticize Yuuki Emi.

"Well... I haven't completely remembered it yet..." Yuuki Yui rolled her eyes and looked away, avoiding eye contact with Tomoe.

With Baqi's careful reminder, Yuuki Yuuki finally realized that she was currently in someone's dream.

Because the dream hasn't started to collapse yet, it doesn't fit the pattern in Mizuno Yu's past experiences where, after realizing she was dreaming, the dream was about to end.

“Xiaoyuan is always the first to wake up! Ugh!” Baqi stomped her foot again, then sighed as if trying to comfort herself:

"Forget it, as long as Xiaoyuan wasn't attacked, that's fine. If this really is Xiaoyuan's dream, then it will be troublesome."

Yuuki Yukino had to admit that Tomoe was right.

If this is a dream, then it could very well be a great opportunity to wipe out all the magical girls, and their last chance to turn the tide.

Baqi couldn't say too much, risking so much to realize she was dreaming, but she also couldn't keep quiet and believe the dream world was the real world.

In short, it's already quite good that you can realize you're in someone else's dream.

Their conversation had to end there, as the pre-class bell urged them back to the classroom.

Even knowing that they are currently in someone's dream, it's best not to do anything too outrageous since they are still students in the dream.

After Yuuki Yuki and Tomoe Yuki returned to the classroom together, new gossip began to circulate among the students.

The eldest daughter of the Inuyama family transfers schools for love and eventually gets married to the gentle Yuuki.

Finally, for once, Yuuki Yukino didn't gossip about herself being a scumbag fangirl, and she was actually a little touched.

However, some people say that childhood friends are not as good as those who fall from the sky, and that Nishio Reki lost too much money. There are also conspiracy theories that say Tomoe gave Reki a large sum of money to make him disappear from Yuuki Yuuki's side.

But none of that matters. I've experienced far more outrageous gossip in real life, so why would I be afraid of being talked about in my dreams?

Besides, this level of gossip only circulates within a small circle of the class, which is much milder than the gossip that circulated on my first day of school after I actually transmigrated to this world.

"I only recently realized that I am in someone's dream. It is my first day of school with Xiaoyuan after transferring to Yuehai Middle School. I think today may be very important to Xiaoyuan, so I guessed that it might be Xiaoyuan's dream."

During lunch break, Baqi pulled Yuki out of the school gate in a very open and easy manner, found a small restaurant near the school, sat down and ate while talking.

School rules forbid sneaking out, but since it was just a dream, Baqi didn't care about those rules.

Although the dark magic markings didn't cause Baki too much trouble, some of her actions that disregarded the rules still showed her to be a corrupted magical girl.

Yuuki Yukino certainly wouldn't mind such a thing; she herself was also a member of the corrupted magical girls.

She wasn't thinking about trivial matters like whether Baqi had broken the rules.

"So that's why you were so cautious? But thankfully, I wasn't the one in the dream. If we're talking about a significant point in time for both of us, it should be the night I was corrupted."

Actually, it was on the very night that Yuuki Yukino transmigrated that her life underwent a dramatic change, but there was no need to tell Baqi about that.

"That seems to be true. The most important day for me should be the day Xiaoyuan saved me!" Baqi slurped up the noodles on the plate, biting them all off in one go, and then agreed.

"What's with all this talk about saving people? That's so childish." Yuuki Yuuki scratched her head.

"Are you embarrassed, Yuuki?" Baqi tilted her head and looked at Yuuki Yuuki, resting her chin on her hand.

"No!" Yuuki Yui's expression was hardly convincing.

Immediately afterwards, Yuuki Yukino changed the subject.

"Speaking of which, does today hold any special significance for anyone? Why did the dream begin today of all days?"

"Maybe it's just a matter of needing a beginning, and this just happens to be the time? Maybe there's nothing special about it." Baqi turned her little head and thought carefully, but she couldn't figure it out, so she gave an answer that wasn't really an answer.

However, Yuuki Yukino didn't quite agree with this answer.

"While it's not impossible, we all know this should be a nightmare. Maybe today is the beginning of some kind of nightmare?"

Baqi started thinking along Yuuki Yukino's lines of thought again, but didn't make any new discoveries.

"Never mind, if it's not me or Xiaoyuan who owns this dream, then it's either the blond dwarf's dream or Nishio Reki's dream. Why don't we just go and take a look?"

"Besides this, we also need to pay attention to one other thing: Sumireko Yumehara. We don't know how she has infiltrated this dream this time, or what kind of evil things she will manipulate the puppets in this dream to do."

"Oh! I get it, find that guy, and then destroy the puppet she's controlling, right!"

"However, she might appear directly in this dream like last time. We don't know what kind of abilities she has yet. Dreams are her domain, so be careful if you clash with her in a dream."

"Okay! Don't worry, Xiaoyuan! I'll protect you if anything goes wrong."

……

It is unknown where Nishio Reki is at this point in time, and it would be difficult to find him, but Tenrai Herika is different.

Before the lunch break ended, Yuuki Yuuki made a special trip to the class next to hers to check on Helica's situation.

But when she knocked on the open classroom door and entered the classroom, which had a similar layout but felt unfamiliar to her, she didn't find Herika in her seat, and even Lin Jiezi, who was always being held by Herika, was nowhere to be found.

As soon as Yuuki Yui entered the classroom, the other students' eyes immediately turned to her, all staring at her.

Although Yuuki En sensed mostly curiosity in those gazes, she couldn't detect any malice.

But no matter who it is, being stared at like that would make them feel a little awkward.

"Excuse me, is Helica Tianlei here?"

If you can't find Helica, it's perfectly reasonable to ask around.

The noise in the classroom subsided considerably as Yuki entered, and her words were clearly audible to every student in the classroom.

Upon hearing Yuki Yuki's purpose, many gazes shifted away, and the remaining gazes softened considerably.

"What do you need her for? She's not here right now, but I can pass on your message."

A classmate who looked somewhat familiar to Yuuki Yuuki but whom she didn't recognize stood up, walked straight to the classroom door, and stopped in front of Yuuki Yuuki.

He's not here?

Yuuki Yukino thought for a moment, composed herself, and politely asked:

"I have something I want to talk to her about in person. If she's not here, do you know where she is?"

In fact, Yuuki Yuki already had her own guesses. If Helica wasn't in the classroom, she was probably in the school's storage room. But it wouldn't hurt to ask Helica's classmates.

"I don't know about that." The student shook his head.

"I see, thank you." Yuuki Yui leaned forward slightly as a way of thanking the other person.

If I haven't heard anything about Helica's whereabouts, I can just look for her myself, or come back later after class.

Because there was a precedent in Hyakki Senyū's dream where the graduation ceremony was in the morning and the festival started in the evening, Yuuki Yukino didn't know how the plot of this dream would be arranged.

The way time passed in Mizuno Yu's dream, with one day after another, is not entirely worth referencing. Yuuki Yui also didn't want to waste time, and no one knew if something unexpected might suddenly happen.

"Excuse me, please wait a moment."

Yuuki Yuki had just turned around when she heard someone call out to her from behind.

Yuuki Yukina stopped and turned to face the girl who had called out to her earlier, the one she had just chatted with.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing that she had stopped Yuuki Yukino, the girl took a few steps closer, lowered her voice, and said somewhat hesitantly, "You know that Tenrai-kun has a rather unique personality, right?"

"I know, what's wrong?" This puzzled Yuuki Yui.

It's not a smart choice to mysteriously talk badly about the person you want to find.

But the other party doesn't seem to be the type to sow discord. If they were, they would definitely act more naturally and wouldn't be so evasive or use a neutral word like "especially" to describe them.

Besides, if Helica found out that someone was talking badly about her, she would be furious. Everyone would avoid her like the plague, and it's unlikely that anyone would willingly invite trouble.

"It's like this." The girl who was talking to Yuuki bit her lip, then leaned close to Yuuki's ear and whispered her advice with her warm breath that brushed against Yuuki's earlobe.

"If what you need to ask Tianlei isn't very important, or if it might upset her, it's better not to ask her."

Yuuki Yui doesn't understand. When she needs to find Helica, she has to carefully watch her expression.

Perhaps because he and Helica were so close, he had a slightly different view of Helica. In the eyes of Helica's classmates, one should never contact Helica unless it was something important.

Before Yuuki could even ask why, her questioning gaze betrayed her inner thoughts.

"Tianlei must be in a bad mood today, since you're a new face, so I advise you not to mess with him," the girl continued.

The girl was probably trying to kindly remind herself, but the other party's evasive answers really infuriated Yuuki Yuki.

Before, when I knew nothing, Xiao Li was telling me riddles. Now that I've entered someone else's dream, why are random NPCs telling me riddles too?

The phrase "unfamiliar face" in particular gave Yuuki Yuki a bad feeling.

If Helica really becomes Sumireko Yumehara's next target because she has used up too much magic power, and Sumireko Yumehara has been close to Helica, that would be terrible.

Slightly impatient, Yuuki asked one question after another, wanting to thoroughly understand the cause and effect of what the other party was saying.

"Why do you seem to be in a bad mood? Did something happen? A new face? Has anyone else contacted Tianlei? Is there any connection?"

The student's eyes flickered a few times, but in the end, he seemed to have made up his mind.

"Don't say I told you, okay? I'll tell you everything one by one. Where should I start? Well, I don't know if you know, but Tianlei formed a band at school."

“Yes, I know.” Yuuki Yui nodded.

"Yes, her band members sometimes come to Tianlei to rehearse together. It was very frequent at first, but then it gradually became less frequent. I haven't seen you before, so I said you're a new face."

“Oh…” Yuuki Yui nodded again.

It's no secret that Helica formed a band. The first time Nishio Reki, the protagonist of the game, met Helica was because Helica's band was on the verge of disbanding.

Hearing that the person who came looking for Herika was just a former bandmate, Yuuki Yukino felt a little relieved.

But the girl who was talking to Yuuki Yukino was not so at ease.

"Uh, wait a minute, let me confirm, is your meeting with Tianlei related to the band?"

The girl stammered a few times, then asked Yuuki Yukina more cautiously.

"No, what's wrong?" Yuuki Yuuki replied instantly.