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

This was the first time Yuuki Yukino had ever seen Yumehara Sumireko so angry; it seemed she also harbored great hostility towards Urouge Mashiro.

But it's not surprising, since Sumireko Yumehara's true form was defeated by Mashiro Urokin, it's normal for Sumireko Yumehara to have such a strong resentment.

After Yumehara Sumireko had argued for several minutes and then fallen into a long silence, Yuuki Yukino cautiously asked:

"So...her wand."

"Yog-Sothoth, the power wielded by the pillar of gods behind this name is time and space, which is easy to understand and very powerful. However, the price to pay for using this power is also very high."

"Under normal circumstances, her fighting power should be about the same as that of an ordinary magical girl. But for magical girls, as long as they win in the end, that's enough. No one can guarantee that when fighting the Three Pillar Gods, the opponent will not fully utilize the power of that authority."

"In short, Ba San Leng Jiu Leng+ (Jiu Wu Xia, be careful of the power He activates, and so are yours. I'm also a little confused as to why you were defeated by me twice, without even using the God Liberation.

Is it because I don't want to use it? What powers, what divine liberation, I know nothing about them!

"Never mind, there's no point in saying all this." Sumireko Yumehara sighed. That's just how it is.

Is this true? After her initial outburst, Yuuki Yukina began to ponder the veracity of what Yumehara Sumireko had told her.

Mashiro's fighting style really seems like she's creating things that don't exist, but upon closer inspection, it's not that exaggerated. Although I haven't seen any time-related abilities, she has seen a lot of spatial abilities.

From this perspective, Sumireko Yumehara probably wasn't lying.

While in Rainbow Leaf City, Lin Jiezi, who had transformed into the original magical girl, was chasing after me and Xu Yan Mashiro. Xu Yan Mashiro fled from Moon Sea City under pressure, and I was also harassed many times by the empty shell of Lin Jiezi's appearance.

If what Sumireko Yumehara said is true, and the original magical girl has been hunting down the three pillar gods, then these encounters make sense.

But what about Nishio Reki?

The part of the story about Nishio Reki traveling through time also sounds like it was done by Yog Sothoth. How come that's going on?

Some mysteries have been solved, while others have begun to emerge.

But there's a mystery facing Yuuki Yukino that she might just ask directly.

"How do you know so many things that none of us know?"

"Me?" Sumireko Yumehara looked at herself. "Because these were told to me personally by the original magical girl."

Chapter 205 Ending This Nightmare

“These things were told to me by the original magical girl herself,” Sumireko Yumehara replied to Yuuki Yukino’s question.

what?

Is that true? Is it for real?

That Lin Jiezi? The primordial magical girl who flies around randomly in the sky, attacks anyone she sees, never speaks a word to anyone, and whose fragments she creates can't even talk? Did she tell Yumehara Sumireko herself?

I don't believe it. No matter what I say, I won't believe that guy can talk.

Hearing what Sumireko Yumehara said, Yuuki Yukina began to consider whether she should doubt the truthfulness of what Sumireko Yumehara had told her before.

"It's not entirely accurate to say that the original magical girl told me herself. In fact, I really came into contact with her, received her guidance, and felt her will."

Sumireko Yumehara then revised her statement, which made Yuuki Yui feel that it had gained some credibility.

"Didn't I say before that my story wasn't completely finished? Now is the time."

Sumireko Yumehara tapped her finger in front of her eyes, as if pressing a pause button. Everything stopped, and Sumireko Yumehara, defeated by Mashiro Urokin, lay there quietly.

"As I just mentioned, Alice's ability is to enter someone's dream. So, in the moments before I was defeated and about to be executed, I activated this ability without hesitation and slipped into someone's dream, but my body remained there."

Yumehara Sumireko pointed to the Yumehara Sumireko lying on the ground before continuing.

"The corrupted magical girl who defeated me didn't notice and proceeded to do those outrageous things to me, so I escaped a calamity and wasn't completely defeated by the execution."

"However, my transformation state was forcibly canceled because of her actions, and my soul could only return to my transformed body. A magical girl's soul is bound to her abilities, and I have never been able to cancel my transformation..."

"So, I can't go back. My body, devoid of a soul, is like someone who has truly been executed. I'm left there, and I guess after I'm discovered, I'll be sent back to the hospital to continue living the same life as before?"

As Yumehara Sumireko spoke, she sighed again.

"But it's no different from before, except that I'm back in a hospital bed, and my soul can only keep wandering in dreams."

"Later I discovered something, which I realized when I accidentally entered the body of a magical girl: dreams are an extension of memories, and I only need to hide in a corner of those memories to be safe and sound."

"However, memories are also part of the soul. In the magical girl I possessed, and after that person... yes, after she was also executed by Urouge Mashiro, my soul and hers, which were hiding in her memories, entered the whole cycle together."

"That was the first time I came into contact with the cycle itself. It is a collection of countless fragments of souls. It is disordered and chaotic, existing in an extremely distorted state, constantly being compressed and expanded. After completing these processes, those souls are transformed back into pure magic and flow back to the earth."

"And I, who was able to move freely, was the only foreign object. Of course, at that time, I was the very naive me that you know best. After all, I had been lying in a hospital bed for so long, and my mind was not mature at all, right?"

Yuki Yukino simply nodded, waiting for Yumehara Sumireko to continue.

"I was terrified at that time. Everything I had worked so hard to achieve had disappeared, and I was back to my old self. Although I could cry, shout, and throw things around, it was all useless."

"So, you've given up hope?" Yuuki asked.

"No, no, I'm used to it. It's just that I've returned to my original state."

"Later I discovered that magic is real, but the soul is not, so I tried to find it and finally found the gap between reality and the soul, which is the dream world you know."

"In the dream world, the soul cannot exist independently, which is why it needs magic. Those soul fragments are the raw materials for magic. I can easily use them to create my own body. If I want, I can even create a kingdom."

"The result is what you see: I went back into the loop, pulled out the fragments of souls that hadn't yet become magic before they were purified, and then used them to build my own kingdom."

"However, among those mixed souls, there are also the souls of corrupted magical girls, and within their souls, there is naturally magic power that has been tainted by the black magic runes."

“A part of their memories, experiences, and malice will flow into my brain the moment I come into contact with them. It is inevitable that I will be eroded by prolonged contact with these things.”

"The others were drawn to the gaze of the same god who exists in the cycle because of certain dark thoughts, and it was only after receiving the god's response that they fell into darkness."

"But I am different. I have been in that dark magic for too long. I have to constantly send it into my body to maintain my existence, and that is why I have been corrupted by it."

Yuuki Yukino had such an experience. When she first came into contact with the bubbles, many memories flowed into her mind, but she did not feel any pollution associated with them.

Perhaps it's because I possess some ability to purify impurities?

Although Yuuki Yukino doesn't know the source of her ability.

Yumehara Sumireko had no idea what Yuuki Yukino was thinking. She continued with her previous topic, explaining why she had become the way she was.

"When the corruption reached a certain level, I was completely corrupted. In order to prevent the corruption from affecting me and turning me into a mindless monster that would only wantonly destroy, I came up with a plan to concentrate all the filth in one place."

This method was mentioned by Hong Moli: if the body of a corrupted magical girl is a room, then pile all the trash together and never touch it until you die.

Although there may be some traces of trash and smells in the room, it can indeed mitigate the effects of the Corruption to the greatest extent possible.

Even if this method is a half-hearted approach, tantamount to a slow death, if it can truly last until the magical girl's power disappears, it can indeed solve a lot of problems due to the cyberbullying caused by the corruption.

However, it is impossible to verify whether there are any people working in the city.

Sumireko Yumehara probably didn't know this information, but the fact that she was able to come up with it on her own makes her a genius in a way.

Of course, it's possible that she read it from the memories of some corrupted magical girl.

Yumehara Sumireko had no idea what Yuuki Yukino was thinking, and was still explaining things to her in great detail:

"The specific principle is a bit complicated. In short, all my filth, as well as all the memories I have read and my own growth, are hidden in my divine liberation. As long as I do not activate divine liberation, the filth will never affect me."

"But I also have to maintain that childish appearance, and that's the price. Actually, I've also activated Godly Liberation before. When my magic power is almost used up, I'll return to normal. However, I'll definitely cause a huge scene."

No wonder……

After Yumehara Sumireko awakened her divine liberation, she seemed to have completely changed. Yuuki Enishi initially thought it was something like a split personality, but now it seems that it was just the way Yumehara Sumireko was supposed to become after she grew up.

"Of course, I gained not only filth, magic, and memories, but also the power and will of the original magical girl that filled the entire cycle space."

"They also appeared in my body as I continuously seized memories to replenish my magic."

"The only thing that will conveyed to me was to eliminate everything related to the corrupted magical girls, especially your knowledge of the Three Pillar Gods. That's when I learned about it."

"Also, my purpose after the liberation of the gods is to hunt you guys, but that's a story for another time."

Sumireko Yumehara paused for a moment, then continued the conversation back to the previous topic.

"Although I'm safe now, I'm so lonely, really so lonely, especially with that immature, immature version of myself. So I need friends, and that's why I thought of a way: could I become friends with the souls of those magical girls?"

"Yes, a complete soul, plus a body built with magic, just like I am now."

"Therefore, I tried to extract a complete soul to see if I could awaken her. But souls are all mixed together, so it was very difficult to do so."

"In the first one, I stripped away too many fragments mixed in with that soul, and even destroyed the soul itself, so I was unable to awaken it successfully."

"Later I tried to retain a part of it, because only in this way could the integrity of the soul not be destroyed, but this attempt also failed. Too many superfluous parts made it impossible for her to become an independent personality."

"Ah, but in the process, in order to find a way to awaken them one day, I carefully preserved the souls of the magical girls. What you see are all of them. Most of the buildings were made using the souls of corrupted magical girls who no longer have any chance of being revived."

No wonder.

Baqi had said before that the existence of the Dream Realm made her very uncomfortable, and she herself felt that the mixed magic was somewhat disgusting.

Almost all of them were created from the souls of corrupted magical girls, like chunks of meat that hadn't been blanched or had their blood removed. Although they had changed appearance, they still retained their original flavor.

"The third time, the one you know, I was more careful and stripped away less. It took a very long time, but even with all my care, there were still other things mixed in with her body, which meant that although she woke up, she couldn't be considered to have a complete personality."

Is this the truth behind that strange Hanzawa Kuriko?

Its soul was pulled out and preserved using memory bubbles—no, it should now be called soul bubbles—and then a new body was built for it using more souls, resulting in a map monster that Sumireko Yumehara couldn't handle.

"After that, I realized that most of the souls that appear in this cycle are those of corrupted magical girls, and even if I do it very carefully, I may not be able to get a good result."

"However, I also realized something else. What if I directly bring in the souls of the magical girls? Let them play with me to my heart's content, and when the magical girl part of their souls wears away over time, I can send their souls out. That way, they will never be defeated."

Yuuki Yukino frowned: "So you attacked my companions?"

"No, at least not at the time. But when I came up with this idea, I didn't rush to implement it. Instead, I used this method to imitate the way magical girls are executed, trying to see if I could accomplish something."

"That is—to drag the magical girl who turned me into this into hell."

Is Sumireko Yumehara eyeing Mashiro Gakuen?

Needless to say, the result was failure.

Sumireko Yumehara also said that Mashiro Urokin is one of the three pillar gods and has great power, and that she herself is weak, so she must have fought against Mashiro Urokin in a stronger state, or seen Mashiro Urokin fight.

"I tried to enter the memory gaps of the magical girl who defeated me, but I didn't expect that the original magic imprinted on her soul was too terrifying, and there was no way I could intervene."

As Sumireko Yumehara spoke, she pointed at Yuuki Yukino:

"You are the same. Your memories are bound by extremely strong shackles. I don't know what's locked inside, but it's something I absolutely cannot open, even stronger than the corrupted magic that defeated me."

Shackles? One's own memories?

My memory is perfectly intact.

Everything from her past life was somehow transported to this world, where she met Inuyama Tomoe, and nothing was missing after that.