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

Anyone could see that the black magic runes on the back of Helica's hand were almost complete.

Then, Helica grabbed the back of her hand and grasped the wing-shaped black magic runes on it.

"Get out!"

Helica clenched her fists.

"Dark thoughts! Get out!"

"You despicable force! Get out!"

"An unpleasant future! Get out!"

Helica gripped tightly, watching as the black magic runes nearly completed on the back of her hand.

"I already said it! Get out of here!"

Helica flipped her wrist and slammed the back of her hand, which was covered in black magic runes, heavily onto a nearby rock.

Without the protection of magical armor, the back of his hand was quickly cut by the stones, leaving several shocking wounds.

Even so, it couldn't stop the Black Magic Rune from being further improved.

Before the fully formed black magic runes, everything Helica did was in vain.

“What a boring farce.” Yuuki Yuki, suspended in mid-air, looked at everything that was happening before her eyes and arrogantly raised her chin: “Helica Tenrai, you are truly disappointing.”

Under the control of Yuuki En's swaying fingers, a katana fell from the sky and struck Helica's foot squarely.

The excruciating pain caused Helica to suddenly curl up, a position that revealed the black magic runes that were about to form on the back of her hand.

Is it beyond saving?

Even the corrupted magical girl is mocking herself.

In that case...

Should we give up?

That voice came again.

"Becoming a corrupted magical girl and living a natural life with Yuuki Yuuki wouldn't be bad for you, would it?"

“Yeah, it’s pretty good.” Helica dragged her almost unusable legs as she sat up, pounding the protruding pebbles on the ground with the back of her hand while gritting her teeth and squeezing out a few words:

"But you know, I'm very greedy."

"I want to continue being a magical girl who brings justice!"

"I want that too! To be with Yuuki Yuuki forever!"

"Therefore! Therefore! I will not give in! I will not give up until the very last moment! I will not give up until I witness my own defeat!"

A tiny crack appeared at the edge of the black magic rune that Helica was holding tightly.

Helica was completely oblivious, still yelling at that non-existent version of herself and pounding her wrists hard.

"I am a magical girl!"

Herlica clenched her fist tighter and tighter, and the black magic runes in her palms groaned incessantly.

"Tsk." Yuuki Yuen closed her eyes and quietly raised her hand.

As the palm fell, all the stars in the sky fell together.

……

"My favorite magical girl? That would have to be Helica Tenrai, right? She's my absolute favorite."

Someone said this before they became a girl named Yuuki Yukino.

"I know this girl has a terrible personality. She not only acts on impulse but also always causes trouble for others. Although she often tries to help others, she always ends up messing things up."

"That's right, that's right. Whether it's a romantic partner or a friend, such a person wouldn't be a good choice in real life, right? Only a fictional character can push someone like Ao Chen to his limits."

"You like watching Ao Chen get humiliated? You want to see her defeated? And see her break down? That does sound tempting, and I don't deny that it's quite interesting."

"However, my reason for liking her is much purer. Even though she seems so terrible, she has qualities that no one else can match."

"She always believes in justice, practices justice, and will never be defeated. She truly deserves the title of the best magical girl!"

……

"The righteous magical girl! In the end, she will definitely win!"

Helica roared, twisting the black magic markings on the back of her hand, along with her skin, into a ball.

The magical mark, symbolizing darkness, was crushed in the golden-haired girl's clenched hands.

Immediately afterwards, the blonde girl was swallowed up by the falling stars.

Unnoticed by anyone, the dark clouds that had enveloped the entire block quietly dissipated.

"As expected of my favorite."

Even amidst the chaos of the dazzling black magic runes, Yuuki Yuki, whose body was wreathed in silver-white arcs of electricity, couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Then, Yuuki watched as Helica, now dressed in a brand new magical outfit, slowly withdrew her fist from the sky.

A clear, silvery-white thunderclap ripped through the sky.

Chapter 143 I told you a beating would have been effective!

Helica always liked to look up at the starry sky.

That starry sky in her memory is an invaluable memory that belongs to her alone.

With family, with friends, and with loved ones.

Calm, happy, noisy, bitter.

A sudden flutter of the heart, and a heartbreak.

Throughout Helica's life, starlight has always been a constant companion.

Although thunder always obscures the starlight, she still loves and cherishes it so much.

Although the starlight may be obscured, those memories will never disappear.

Before the vast, star-like wand, Helica remembered.

I remembered everything about myself.

A bittersweet past.

Qi Qiuba's father is now in a lonely yet warm state.

And the future that I must face, the future that only I can control.

“Yuki Yukino!” Helica looked up at the pink-haired girl who was exactly the same as the one in her memory, yet she couldn’t tell that they were the same person at all: “What happened? How did you end up like this?”

However, Yuuki Yukino clearly did not respond to her thoughts with words; her answer was much more direct.

The girl raised her slender arm to her chest, as if to drive something away, and then casually and swiftly lowered it.

Helica didn't need to understand what it meant; she already knew just by looking at the countless fictional wands that had sprung into action under Yuuki Yukino's instructions.

That was a signal of attack.

It was still an attack that showed no mercy.

Beneath the sky where wands rained down like a meteor shower, Helica the Thunder God slowly stood up, clenched her wrists, and moved her hands, which were numb with pain from trying to rub off the black magic runes.

"Forget it, you won't listen to me anyway, so I'll just use my method."

As if cleansed, the dark red arcs of electricity that once swirled around Helica like a storm caused the earth and rocks on the ground to be drawn up by this immense energy and slowly rise into the air.

As the electric arcs multiplied, Helica's figure was obscured by the dense array of arcs.

But her short but powerful chanting was clearly audible.

"Where thunder shines, that is the divine land."

"The storm that descends is divine punishment."

"Where I go, it is as if the gods have descended."

"I am the storm, I am the thunder!"

Attracted by the magic, the earth and rocks crashed to the ground like raindrops.

The blonde girl who had been standing on the ground just a moment ago vanished before Yuuki Yuuki's eyes.

The next second, Helica's fist struck Yuuki Yuuki squarely in the abdomen, knocking the high-flying Yuuki Yuuki down.

Helica, who was floating in the air on a silvery-white lightning bolt, blew on her fist as if nothing had happened.

The previously tightly wrapped magical armor was no longer on Helica's body; instead, rough bandages wrapped around her chest covered the parts of the girl that should not be shown.

The same bandages were also wrapped around Helica's arms, covering her forearms all the way to her wrists.

The tone suggested bandages, but it would be more accurate to describe them as similar to the breast wraps used by shrine maidens.

Apart from these, there wasn't a single thing that could be considered clothing on the upper body of Helica.

But behind the girl, a fur cloak adorned with silver-white mane and animal teeth covered her shoulders, its hem cascading down to her hips.

The cloak's connection at the chest also covered most of Helica's front skin; apart from her flat stomach, very little skin was actually exposed.

At least less exposed than when Yuuki Yuki removed the thin veil covering her stomach.

Herlica's lower body, on the other hand, was clad in a battle skirt and white animal skin boots that were more in line with the attire of Vikings or the supreme gods of Norse mythology.

However, there was no wand.

But no one will be puzzled.

Both Yuuki Eri, who, though unable to maintain her rationality, still possessed the information she should have, and Tenrai Herika, the master of this divine liberation, understood exactly what was going on.

She no longer needs any wand; the current Helica the Thunder is the storm itself.

The impact of the landing created a huge crater in the already dilapidated street.

More importantly, the electric currents that crawled all over her body like tiny silver snakes rendered Yuuki Enishi completely immobile.

The impact of being hit by Helica's fist and falling straight to the ground was no less than that of being hit by Helica's warhammer.

"Well, how are you? Are you more awake now? My dear jellyfish?" Helica pursed her lips, barely suppressing the laughter that threatened to burst from her mouth, as if she weren't the one who had been struggling and begging in agony not long ago.