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

Yuuki Yukino seemed to be able to hear the subtle sound of raindrops falling on the girl's long dress, and smell the unique fragrance of the earth in the rain.

The image continued to flash, jumping to the next one, where Yuuki Yuki saw the girl in the previous picture waving an umbrella and colliding it with a baseball bat.

The umbrella, which seemed like it would break at any moment, was like a short spear in the girl's hand. After several collisions and intersections, it finally struck the abdomen of the girl holding a baseball bat, whom Yuuki Yukina hadn't quite seen clearly.

Then, the girl holding the baseball bat fell down, the umbrella disappeared from the protagonist's hand, and the hand that had held the umbrella rested on the waist of the girl who had fallen to the ground.

From the hem of her clothes that had been lifted, Yuuki Yuen could clearly see the black magic markings engraved on the other person's side waist.

But the girl did not hesitate at all. Her fingers moved down her clothes and, amidst the other person's curses, she unbuttoned his lower body.

The curses gradually turned into groans, then into pleas for mercy, and finally into pitiful yet embarrassing moans.

The screen flickered, and this time, her opponent became a girl carrying a long staff.

But the result remained unchanged; this time, the enemy also convulsed and collapsed under the girl's superb skills.

The next time, it was the girl who was defeated. Under the enemy's fierce offensive, she could not help but succumb to defeat and suffer all kinds of humiliation from the enemy.

She escaped successfully when the enemy lowered their guard. A few scenes later, the enemy who had groped her became just like the girls before.

Different enemies, different battles, same result.

The girl grew stronger and stronger, then weaker and weaker, until finally, she patted the shoulder of a girl following behind her and said something to her.

Finally, the image froze at a moment before the transformation was undone, and then abruptly came to an end.

Yuuki Yukino removed her hand from the bubble as if she had been electrocuted.

From the moment I touched the bubble to the magic flowing into my body, and then to watching the entire performance inside the normal bubble, which was like a stop-motion animation, it all seemed to happen in less than a breath.

Yuuki Yui realized she had been too careless. Fortunately, the bubble didn't have any negative effects on her; otherwise, if it had been dangerous, she wouldn't have had time to dodge and would have been hit.

The blue bubble moved due to the reaction force from Yuuki Yukino's sudden withdrawal of her hand, and rolled in the opposite direction like a glass marble being played with by a child.

The rolling bubble crashed straight into other bubbles along the path, like the first shot of a billiard ball, scattering the other bubbles and making the whole street ring and clang.

This unusual noise also drew Yuuki Yuki's attention back to the bubble.

So what exactly were those things I just saw?

Is it a memory?

It should be correct, and it is the memory of the protagonist in the stop-motion painting.

It is a girl's entire life as a magical girl.

But why are there only memories from her magical girl days here?

At least Yuuki Yuuki did not see the girl holding the umbrella before or after her transformation in those fragments of memory.

Also, why would a magical girl's memories appear in the gap between reality and dream that Sumireko Yumehara pulled herself into?

What does Sumireko Yumehara call this place? Dreamland?

In short, it was a dream, right?

Could it be that this magical girl is imprisoned here, and some of her memories have been extracted by Sumireko Yumehara in some way?

Yuuki Yukino couldn't be sure; the information she could get from just a bubble of memories was far too limited.

If the other bubbles are the same thing, Yuuki Yuuki might be able to gain more information from them.

Before Yumehara Sumireko turns back or does anything to me, I should investigate the anomalies here as quickly as possible. Maybe I can find the key to defeating Yumehara Sumireko.

Alternatively, we could find clues about Sumireko Yumehara's abilities; it would be even better if we could discover her weaknesses.

Yuuki Yui took a deep breath, encouraged herself, and prepared to move on to her next target.

Next, Yuuki reached out to another blue bubble—choosing a bubble of a similar color was just for comparison, and had no other purpose.

The owner of the memories sealed within this bubble possesses a magic wand that can draw various cyan runes in the air to launch attacks.

Like the previous bubble that Yuuki Yuki encountered, there was fighting, moving, winning or losing, and finally, the memories within this bubble also came to an abrupt end.

After encountering the second bubble, Yuuki Yuuki gained some entirely new insights.

The color of the bubbles is the color of magic; both the girl with the blue umbrella at the beginning and the girl with the talisman now are like this.

Furthermore, the memories within this bubble are even more incomplete; they are not without beginning or end, but rather lack many details.

If the Umbrella Girl's memory bubbles were like comic strips, then the Talisman Girl's are like screenshots from TV series explanation posts on some forums.

Moreover, the screenshots were taken randomly and are not aesthetically pleasing at all.

But it is indeed a genuine memory.

As Yuuki Yukina thought about it, she touched the third one.

Similar to the previous two, it only covers the magical girl transformation part. Apart from the characters and wands being different, everything else is largely the same.

This memory bubble is more specific than the previous one, but it's not much better.

Of course, they also have something in common: you can tell from those familiar buildings and streets that this is Moonsea City.

However, this is not really a discovery. Magical girls are a specialty of Moonsea City. Without Moonsea City and without the guidance of the original magical girl's magic, it is impossible to create new magical girls.

Yuuki Yukino began to try to communicate with these bubbles on a deeper level, attempting to infuse her magic into them in the hope of triggering some different changes.

Perhaps when it has enough magic, those pieced-together fragments can become more complete?

However, reality was not as rosy as Yuuki Yukino had imagined. After she injected magic power into the bubbles, they did not change at all.

When Yuuki Yuuki thought she hadn't injected enough magic and tried to inject more, the bubble finally reacted slightly, but negatively.

The bubble filled with memories expanded rapidly, like a balloon being inflated with air, and looked like it was about to burst.

Seeing this, Yuuki Yui had no choice but to use up the magic she had poured into it, and the bubble gradually stabilized, but the soft marks left after the expansion were still visible.

After repeating this a few times, or really only five or six times, Yuuki Yuki had to stop.

At first, Yuuki Yuuki didn't feel anything unusual, but after meeting a few people, those memories accumulated in Yuuki Yuuki's brain like toxins, turning his brain upside down.

A jumble of chaotic memories swirled through Yuuki Yukino's mind, making it impossible for her to discern whether they were her own or derived from the bubbles.

The more she thought about it, the more her head ached. Finally, the pain became so bad that Yuuki Yuki had no choice but to stop her investigation and sat down on the ground, panting heavily.

I don't know where Yumehara Sumireko is right now. If I continue like this, I'll drive myself crazy before I even meet her.

Yuuki Yui sat on the warm, soft road for a long time, though she didn't know why the road felt like a blanket in the darkness.

She only managed to get up clumsily from the ground when she felt she could stand up again.

By this point, Yuuki Yukino was already able to make some deductions.

There are many theories about why this is the case.

Perhaps this is a graveyard, burying the memories of those who were once magical girls. Perhaps those are their last traces, the only proof that they ever existed.

If Yuuki Yukino weren't careful, she might erase all traces of their existence. Thinking this, Yuuki Yukino had to start treating the bubbles with caution and dared not touch them easily.

Or perhaps these bubbles of memories belong to other magical girls who were captured by Sumireko Yumehara.

Sumireko Yumehara said many strange things. She said she wanted to make friends with others, and even said in Mizuno Yu's dream that she would kidnap her friends. Just a few minutes ago, she said something about the dream world not welcoming her, which made Yuuki Yui completely baffled.

While it may not be entirely accurate, Yuuki Yukino speculates that it is highly likely that Sumireko Yumehara captured the magical girls in this bizarre dream world.

Then, Sumireko Yumehara could extract the memories of other magical girls through some means—such as collapsing in a nightmare—so that they could forget everything here.

The magical girls whose memories have been extracted may forget their original identities and stay here as Sumireko Yumehara's "friends".

Even so, it's more like a toy created by Sumireko Yumehara.

This may also be the truth behind the slumber.

Otherwise, it would seem quite illogical that Yuuki Yukino herself, having entered this so-called dream realm, could not only move freely but also allow Yumehara Sumireko to escape.

However, this idea is not necessarily correct, as Yuuki Yuki herself can find a point to refute it.

There are so many bubbles here that Sumireko Yumehara alone probably couldn't handle such a huge workload.

But nothing is absolute. Gen Ken Mashiro once did the feat of judging a group of magical girls all by himself, so no one can say that Sumireko Yumehara can't do it too.

This conjecture is full of flaws, but Yuuki Yu learned a completely new way of thinking from Mizuno Yu—using various realities to refute the most outrageous answers, and then constantly piecing together a convincing possibility.

What Yuuki Yukino needs to do now is to race against time to determine how many of her guesses are correct and how many are wrong.

First, let's feel the magic around us. Maybe those kidnapped magical girls exist in this dream world?

When Yuuki Yuuki rediscovered the unsettling magic that existed in this space, she made a completely new discovery.

She did indeed sense the presence of a magical girl.

The aura she was deliberately tracking was very faint, mixed in with the vast array of magical energy, so Yuuki Yuuki did not notice its existence until she actually came into contact with it.

Yuuki Yukino would rather not have sensed that aura at all; perhaps that would make her feel a little better.

But that was impossible; Yuuki Yui knew perfectly well that the magic was right beside her.

It's still the same person—the magical girl holding an umbrella.

Yuuki Yui patiently searched through the dazzling array of bubbles and found the one she had touched first.

This is only a part; the same magic emanates from all directions around Yuuki Yuki.

It's everywhere: underfoot, beside the walls, on the clouds, and in the distance.

Although nothing is absolute and I can do it myself with Nyaruko's power, theoretically, it is impossible for the aura of a magical girl to coexist in many places at the same time.

unless……

Yuuki Yui seemed to understand why this place felt so ominous to her and Baqi, whom she had met once before, and why the magic here was so chaotic, making it difficult for Yuuki Yui to determine who it belonged to.

The magic here belongs to no one.

The magic here could belong to anyone.

This dreamlike realm shouldn't even be called a "dream".

Previously, Yuuki Yuuki thought this place might be the graveyard of magical girls' memories, but that might have been too conservative.

Cemeteries are places where the deceased can rest in peace.

In Yuuki Enishi's view, the entire Dreamland is a morbidly humorous amusement park built from the bones of the deceased, disguised as a dream.

Chapter 172 What did the pink-haired girl do to deserve this?

Even after Yuuki Yuuki discovered that the entire Dreamland was built from the missing memories of magical girls, she did not stop moving forward.