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

But Helica is really feeling incredibly happy right now.

Such power, such speed, and the magic that has been replenished.

Is this the power that divine liberation should possess?

"what--"

Yuuki Yukina let out a mocking sigh with her numb tongue and stood up from the ground.

She didn't get up on her own; countless lines suspended Yuuki Eri's body, lifting her up like a marionette.

Otherwise, given that her body had directly withstood the most powerful attack from the divine release, it certainly wouldn't have been so easy for her to recover.

"So, Lan Li, you want to mock me too?" Yuuki Yuen mumbled, tilting her head to the side as she touched the side of her neck.

"What is that?" Helica was taken aback, trying to recall what Yuuki Yuki had meant by those words.

"I'm saying, even you want to mock me?"

Dark tentacles rose from the ground, like a legendary demon pillar descending to earth, and swallowed the girl whole while Helica was stunned.

A flash of white lightning streaked across the center of the enormous, towering tentacle, making Yuuki Yuki wonder if she was seeing things.

The ensuing roar was impossible for even the slowest person to ignore.

The tentacle, which was several meters in diameter, was blasted open with a large hole. Only a few threads connected it, preventing it from breaking in the middle. Even so, the upper part of the tentacle, which was half blown off, still looked like it was about to fall.

boom.

Amidst the smoke and dust of the explosion, a long boot wrapped in animal hide stepped onto the severed end of a shattered tentacle.

Helica, unharmed, slowly emerged from the thick fog, tilting her head to catch a fleeting look of surprise on Yuuki Yuuki's face.

"Again?"

Helica beckoned to Yuuki Yuuki with her finger, just as Yuuki Yuuki had done when she provoked her before.

"As you wish."

Yuuki Yuuki's body slowly rose into the air, and behind her, strangely shaped creatures, some familiar and some unfamiliar to Herika, were slowly taking shape.

Among the monsters behind Yuuki Yuuki, Herika also saw the Night Howler who had ended the entire battlefield with just one roar in Mizuno Yuuki's dream.

And then there's Yuuki Yuuki, who always transforms into its shape. Now, seeing the real thing only gives Helica goosebumps—a giant bat-man with burning three-lobed eyes.

Armored warriors, writhing worms, half-human, half-goat monsters, a colossal sphinx...

That wretched Yuuki Yukino seems to be serious.

Seriously, I've created a huge problem for myself.

Herlica clenched her fists so tightly they cracked, and with a stomp of her foot, she destroyed the tentacle that had been blown off. The tentacle finally gave way and collapsed with a crash in the city.

Meanwhile, Helica the Thunder God transformed into a high-speed bolt of lightning, charging alone towards the enormous horde of monsters that resembled fortresses.

……

"Fate, fate, ah... I've become... so shy..."

Yuuki Yui heard Tenrai Herika, who was straddling her waist, let out a sweet, panting breath, and the body that was pressed tightly against hers seemed to become even hotter.

"No...no, I didn't..."

Yuuki turned her face away, and as if that wasn't enough, she raised her hand to protect her face, trying to hide her shy expression.

But this action provoked Helica's dissatisfaction.

Herlica gave a half-annoying, coquettish laugh, cupped Yuuki Yuki's cheeks in her hands, and forced Yuuki Yuki's gaze to fall on her.

"Yuan, look at me, don't look away, okay?"

Herika's white weapon, still bearing the bite marks of her own, now with those marks yet feigning seriousness, her slightly angry yet blushing cheeks—all these were devastating blows to Yuuki Yukino.

Just thinking about the fact that Tenrai Herika only showed this expression to him made Yuuki's heart feel like it was going to stop beating.

Yuuki Yukino was so engrossed in watching that she even forgot how she should respond to Helica.

Finally, he simply nodded lightly and blankly.

"Yuan, look at me carefully, and then listen to what I have to say, okay?"

Herlica's face drew even closer, and Yuuki Yuuki could almost feel Herlica's warm breath.

But the warmth of their skin touching when Helica leaned down was real.

Yuuki nodded again, her heart beating even faster.

"Fate...I..."

Yuuki Yukino bit her lip, swallowing hard.

"I……"

Yuuki Yukino looked at the lips that were about to touch hers and instinctively closed her eyes.

"Eora!"

Herlica's fist arrived before Herlica's lips.

The punch landed squarely on Yuuki Yuuki's cheek, causing a cracking sound to come from her neck.

what?

What's the matter?

What is that?

What are you going to do?

"Eora!"

Before Yuuki could even voice her question, Herlica's considerate fist landed on her other cheek.

Is this...is this Helica's hobby?

I don't think there was such a setting in the original work, right?

Helica seems to be just a little fierce, but when she's being affectionate, she's actually a very soft character, which is quite a contrast.

This should be Mizuno Yu... No, Mizuno Yu is also the character who actively wants to be beaten, right?

This is completely wrong!!!

When the atmosphere is just right, someone suddenly punches themselves in the head—no, I mean two punches.

Regardless of what happens, stop Helica's habit of sticking things in before it gets any weirder.

"Wait, Helica..."

"Eora!"

The punch landed squarely on Yuuki's chin, the lower and upper teeth colliding, shocking Yuuki's brain as if a bomb had exploded inside.

Yuuki Yukino was still reeling from the dizziness of her concussion when Herlica's little fists rained down on her head.

"Ora! Ora! Ora Ora Ora Ora!"

As if simply punching Helica wasn't enough, Helica stepped off Yuuki and kicked him into the scalding hot spring.

Then I happily rode it again...

"Ora ora ora ora ora!"

The fist splashed water on the surface, accurately hitting Yuuki Yukina's head as she kept trying to lift her head out of the water.

Yuuki Yukino's head was repeatedly punched into the bottom of the hot spring, making even more intimate contact with it than she had with Herika earlier.

And so, Yuuki Yuki was brutally beaten until she lost consciousness.

……

Then, as if waking up, she suddenly regained consciousness.

There was no hot spring, no suffocation, and I was properly dressed.

Was it all a dream?

But Helica actually straddled him, swinging her fists crackling with electricity, shouting "Ora Ora!" as she relentlessly beat him.

"Stop! Stop! Stop right now!"

Yuuki Yukino raised her hands and shouted to stop Herika from continuing this inhumane act against her.

The pain from the swelling in her cheeks when she spoke was enough for Yuuki Yui to know that she had been beaten for quite some time.

"Oh? Yuuki Yukino, you're awake?"

Herlica clapped her hands with a big smile, clearly relieved by the beating she had just received.

"I told you a beating would have worked."

"What? You're awake? What happened?" Yuuki Yu was dizzy from being punched, but thankfully Herica had stopped, so she could lie flat on the ground and relax.

“Just now, you must have been controlled by the Black Magic Mark, and then you caused a lot of trouble.” Helica then climbed off Yuuki and briefly explained what had happened to her.

Although he didn't mention a single word about his complicated inner journey, he ultimately simplified it to the process of never defeating Yuuki Eri and then mastering the liberation of the gods.

"Hmm... Oh..." Listening to Helica's explanation, Yuuki Yuuki gradually recalled what had happened before she lost consciousness, and told Helica about it as well.

Although he never mentioned that he and Nishio Reki had been intimate in Helica's dream, or even that they had been intimate passionately in a dream within a dream, he ultimately simplified it to Nishio Reki accidentally letting it slip and attracting Hayashi Mustard's attention.

The sabotage done by Sumireko Yumehara and how she falsely accused Enishi Yuuki of being the culprit are no longer so important.

"Wait, a divine release?"

After she finished speaking, Yuuki Yukino suddenly realized the key point.

Isn't Helica's current magical armor the same one worn by the god she knows best after his liberation?

Although this outfit was criticized at the time, and some online comments even said that it looked like a Viking, Yuuki Yuuki quite liked it.

Helica's temper and her wild yet understated attire seem to go well together, don't they?

“Oh yeah, you just realized that about Godly Liberation?” Helica chuckled. “I can use Godly Liberation now too.”

"Oh!" Yuuki Yuuki immediately perked up.

“It’s a real shame, though. I’ve only just mastered the liberation of the gods, and now I have to say goodbye.” Helica sighed and sat down cross-legged to the side.