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

"I really, really don't know."

"Liar, liar, liar! You really, really, really know!"

After Yuuki Yuki and Yumehara Sumireko added countless "really"s to that sentence, Yumehara Sumireko looked Yuuki Yuki up and down for a long time with some doubt before asking a question that made Yuuki Yuki's mind explode.

"Really?"

Help! Stop saying it's true!

Yuuki Yukino used the last of her patience to keep her facial expression from becoming too distorted.

"real."

"Alright then." Sumireko Yumehara pouted and shook her head, "It's okay if I tell you."

Yuki Yuki waited, eager to hear what Yumehara Sumireko had to say.

and then?

Don't suddenly fall silent after you finish speaking!

After a while, Yuuki Yukino could no longer hold back.

"So, where do their memories come from?"

“They came from the sky!” Sumireko Yumehara said solemnly.

Yuuki Yukino felt as if she could hear the sound of blood vessels bursting in her brain.

I shouldn't have trusted this guy!

He started by rambling on and on without any clear point.

What do you mean by "coming from the sky"? How is this any different from something like, "Mom is about to turn into a star in the sky. When you miss Mom, look up at the sky and you'll know Mom is with you"?

"Then...then, you who came from the sky, how did you..." Yuuki Yui began to feel her speech and consciousness becoming unclear.

"You're still pretending to be stupid!" Sumireko Yumehara waved her fist as if to hit Yuki Emi, but she only meant to scare her and didn't actually slap her round bear paw pajamas.

"I'm innocent! I didn't pretend to be stupid!" Yuuki Yui was truly on the verge of tears.

So many magical girls were completely fooled by this childish brat, is there no justice? Is there no law?

"Hmph, then I'll tell you all the bad things you've done!" Yumehara Sumireko clapped her hands, puffing out her cheeks like a little steamed bun.

"Fine, go ahead and tell me," Yuuki Yuki thought, having given up hope of hearing anything useful.

However, what Sumireko Yumehara said next actually made some sense.

"You bunch of bastards, you live by eating other people!"

"You instigate conflict and bring misfortune to others, then wait for someone to be defeated so you can capture them, lift them up to the sky, and eat them! Even if they are not defeated, when the time comes, you will still capture them and eat them!"

"So you're all bad people! I didn't want them to be eaten. They're all very, very good people, that's why I rescued them!"

"But... but some people have already been bitten by you! And others have been mixed up with you! I can only find them one by one and protect them!"

"I... I've learned it too! I'll take them away the same way you captured them! But I won't eat them! I'll protect them! I'll be their friend!"

"As for you! You're not allowed in! After you've finished doing all this for me, I'm going to beat you down! Throw you out! So you can't bring misfortune into this beautiful dream!"

"Do you understand?"

Eat it, protect it, be a good person, take it away...

Yuki En felt that there was something else behind what Yumehara Sumireko said, but with too much information coming at once, and Yumehara Sumireko's words being too vague, and after several days of poor rest and fighting several tough battles, Yuki En found it difficult to calm down and analyze it step by step.

The general idea is that Sumireko Yumehara retrieved the memories of the magical girls from some heaven and then used those memories to build this dream world.

She also stuffed the magical girl's memories into some kind of body, creating a corrupted magical girl that even she herself couldn't handle.

Wait a minute, wait a minute.

This is absolutely mind-blowing, isn't it?

Magical girl memories—this seemingly unremarkable term is not as simple as it appears.

Every magical girl has an expiration date. When a girl is no longer a magical girl, all the powers and memories she once possessed will disappear, and she will slowly turn back into an ordinary person, disappearing into the vast sea of ​​people and becoming just another face in the crowd.

It's understandable that the power would disappear, since the idea of ​​a magical office worker or a magical old lady doesn't sound very dreamy. Any work would avoid this situation, which is why magical girls have an expiration date of being "girls".

What about memories? Are memories that exist in people's minds so easily erased?

Yuuki Yukino had considered it, but she just regarded it as part of the "game setting," just like how max-level characters in other eroge would also be drugged by drugs in the beginner village.

However, it's not that simple at all.

The magical girls' memories and powers didn't disappear; they were simply taken away and returned to what Sumireko Yumehara called "heaven."

Those memories are all going to be "eaten up" by some "bad guy".

So who is the bad guy?

The ability to do this, which Yuuki Enishi considers part of the setting, is of course a rule that transcends the entire Moonsea City and can restrict all magical girls.

Speaking of the rules themselves, we can't help but mention someone whom Yuuki Yuki is very familiar with, but who has been unusually quiet since a certain day.

Mustard seed.

Or perhaps it is the original magical girl herself existing within Hayashi Mustard's body.

Her sister's former teammate was executed by the nuns of the sanctuary and disappeared after that, never to rise again.

So, did she return to "heaven" because she reached a certain age and lost her magical girl powers and memories, which is why she could no longer perform them?

Maybe not?

So what else is part of the game's very forced "setting"?

Defeat, execution, or to put it more bluntly, the bickering and mutual bickering between magical girls.

Once the character is bent into a ball of fluff and tattered, they are declared defeated, and then the character can never rise again and is completely removed from the story. This kind of setting has always been very forced.

But it did work, and was even regarded as a golden rule by magical girls. To this day, no one has ever doubted its correctness—no one has ever questioned why being bent over would really make it impossible to get up again.

This "setting" has always been a huge flaw, and Yuuki Yuuki has never considered its specific operating principle.

However, today, from Yukihara Sumireko's few words, Yuki En discovered some clues.

This is a clue that Nishio Reki is unaware of, or unable to articulate.

Sumireko Yumehara herself said that one must instigate conflict, return to the heavens, and then be "eaten".

From the very beginning, the magical girls who lost their powers, the defeated magical girls, or the fallen magical girls all met the same fate.

Chapter 185 Keep it up!

No matter how bizarre or how close to the truth Yuuki Yukari's guesses may be, they are still just Yuuki Yukari's guesses. No one will confirm whether Yuuki Yukari's thoughts are correct.

In fact, Yuuki Yukino really wanted to ask Yumehara Sumireko for confirmation, and she did indeed do so.

However, Sumireko Yumehara's troublesome childish nature suddenly started acting up again for no reason, and she began to say nonsense such as that Yuuki Enishi was a bad person and that's why she wanted to get close to her.

Tsk, what a troublesome kid.

Yuuki Yui was thinking to herself, but she had to spend more time calming down Yumehara Sumireko's emotions before she could convince Yuuki Yui that she had no other dark intentions.

Once Sumireko Yumehara finally calmed down and stopped saying that Yuuki Yukino was a bad person, Yuuki Yukino couldn't continue asking questions.

Yuki En deeply suspected that if she continued to ask, Yumehara Sumireko would not only refuse to answer her questions but would also continue to act childishly, so she had no choice but to give up.

The clues she gleaned from Sumireko Yumehara's fragmented language were, if not fewer, than the lengthy discourses Yumehara Yumehara had previously delivered.

However, what Sumireko Yumehara said, combined with Yuki Enishi's speculation, can roughly reconstruct an answer that is close to the truth, even if it is not.

Yuuki Enishi could understand why her sister's former bandmates would transcend time and appear here in the form of a young girl.

Sumireko Yumehara extracted the memories of a magical girl from what was called "heaven," a storage vault of magical girls' memories that no one had discovered until today, and then used those memories to recreate a magical girl.

If the memories remain, it doesn't seem impossible to recreate a magical girl using those memories.

That must be it. Sumireko Yumehara's so-called first and second friends were likely the failed attempts she made when creating magical girls using their memories.

In fact, the target they are dealing with now is also a failure. Not only did they fail to become friends with Yumehara Sumireko, but they also couldn't communicate with her, which gave Yumehara Sumireko quite a headache. That's why Yumehara Sumireko called her a bad person.

So in the end, Sumireko Yumehara gave up on using this method to recreate magical girls that existed in the past, and instead started bringing real-world magical girls here, both to make friends and to protect them?

It's so good that Sumireko Yumehara didn't continue.

"Let me ask you a question. How did you get that bad person we're going to deal with out of there?" Yuuki asked in a tone as if coaxing a child.

"I won't tell you! I won't tell you! I won't tell you! No, even if I told you, you wouldn't be able to do it!" Yumehara Sumireko shouted twice, but thankfully she didn't make too much of a scene.

Yuuki Eri's question wasn't asked for no reason.

She considered a terrifying possibility, and Sumireko Yumehara was the one who held that possibility in her hands.

Sumireko Yumehara has the ability to recreate a magical girl from her memories. The recreated magical girl seems to retain her past powers, and even Sumireko herself cannot control her. This is extremely dangerous.

If the same memory can be used indefinitely, then it would be possible to create a magical girl who would never have to worry about being defeated, and who would always reappear unharmed no matter what she was dealt with.

This is no ordinary magical girl; she's practically a weapon of war. Even the Impure World Reincarnation in the other manga doesn't involve this much repetition.

No, no, no, even a simple Edo Tensei is scary enough, isn't it?

As for whether the magical girl restored by Sumireko Yumehara through her memories can leave the dream world and come to reality, and to what extent her power and memories will be inherited, Yuuki Yuki has no idea.

But Yuuki Yui knew that this ability was extremely dangerous. If the truth was really not much different from what Yuuki Yui thought, this ability could overturn the entire magical girl system.

For example, a child has the ability to manipulate others with words, but she only uses this ability to get her mother not to put green peppers in her food.

What if one day, this child realizes his mistake and stops using only this ability to avoid eating green peppers?

What if one day, this child realizes that he no longer only uses this ability to create magical girls as friends?

At that point, it will most likely be a disaster.

To be honest, it's impossible for Yuuki Yukino not to know how the other party managed to achieve this level of skill.

Even if this was achieved because of Sumireko Yumehara's abilities, Yuuki Yukino also possesses Nyaruko's abilities and could easily replicate Sumireko Yumehara's magic to see if she could do the same thing.

Creating a magical girl to serve as one's subordinate sounds wonderful, but Yuuki Yukino isn't very interested.

Even if it's impossible to recreate the magical girl, just finding Yuuki Yuuki's memory bank, which is currently missing, would be significant enough for her.

If countless memories are pieced together, it is very likely that the entire history of magical girls could be reconstructed.

The original magical girl, the original corrupted magical girl, all the truths that Nisio Reki could not tell, can be revealed through this method.