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

As Helica spoke, her voice grew softer and softer until it was almost a whisper to herself.

Her explanation was so convincing that even she herself couldn't convince herself, let alone Inuyama Tomoe.

But Inuyama Tomoe said nothing, only glancing at Helica before turning back to face the dark tentacles and the two magical girls fighting them in the sky.

The current situation is extremely unfavorable.

Magical girls have limited magical power; they can only achieve temporary victories against seemingly endless tentacles, and cannot sustain them for long.

Mizuno Yu and Sakura Hanako are now exhausted and can no longer defend against all the tentacles' attacks as easily as before. Several times they have been grazed by the tentacles, but they have managed to dodge them by the narrowest of times.

This is the case where you manage to avoid it, but if you fail to avoid it even once, you'll end up like Helica, who ended up in the group of nuns.

Baqi withdrew her gaze and exhaled a long, stale breath, but she couldn't exhale any air, as if she were truly isolated from the world.

"I think we're very close to that ending."

"Does that ending refer to us, or to this dream?" Helica asked.

“It’s Nishio Reki.” Tomoe closed her eyes and then stepped into the dark tentacles.

Baqi's body completely disappeared into the tentacles, leaving Helica with only the darkness writhing in the night.

"What are you waiting for? Hurry up and go." Baqi's voice came from the wall made of tentacles.

"Uh..." Helica let out another short cry, and she couldn't quite get over the hurdle in her mind before diving headfirst into these things.

"What are you still dawdling about? Is this the time for you to be worrying about this?" Baqi urged again, and this time she was even more impatient.

"But……"

"Could it be that Xiaoyuan spanked your butt with her tentacles and gave you psychological trauma? I remember it all. Every time, I was tied up tightly and then spun around like a top." Baqi's voice was a little teasing.

"Stop talking nonsense! I'm coming!" Helica roared fiercely, rubbing her hands together, ready to crawl inside.

It's still a bit disgusting.

But whether it was Nishio Reki or Yuuki Yuuki, they might be waiting for her there. Helica secretly encouraged herself and stepped into the tentacle wall with a stiff upper lip.

Helica is like a ghost now, unable to touch those tentacles at all, so stepping inside doesn't feel anything special.

The thing in front of me seemed to have clipped through into the interior of a game scene; only the outer shell was constantly wriggling, while the inside of the tentacles was an empty street.

"You're here? Let's go." Baki glanced at Helica and continued walking.

Walking inside the tentacle wall, Helica could hear unpleasant gurgling sounds, which made her feel a little nauseous.

But when she thought about the other version of herself who had actually been devoured by the nuns, and how the reincarnation of Kuroba was defeated in reality, Helica felt even more uneasy.

If I hadn't turned into this ghostly form and had actually followed the predetermined script, then these negative consequences might have befallen me.

Thinking this way made Helica feel even more uncomfortable.

Indeed, things are better as they are now.

"Hey, you idiot, what do you think of our situation right now?"

"Hmm, now." Baqi thought for a moment:

“Xiaoyuan likes to give examples, so I’ll give you one too. If we were just extras who wandered into the theater before, but had to act according to our script, then now we’ve been pulled off the stage and returned to the audience.”

"The audience seats?" Helica asked back.

“At first, we thought this was Nishio Reki’s dream, then we thought it was Nishio Reki’s memory. Actually, both are true, but neither is entirely true, so I just reconsidered it.”

Baqi stroked her chin as she walked and talked.

“Yumehara Sumireko always manages to find our weaknesses. Every nightmare we have is closely related to our own memories, so in fact, every nightmare unfolds based on our original memories.”

"Right now, we're experiencing something somewhere in between, gradually shifting from a dream where we can move freely into memories. Eventually, we're completely unable to interfere with the plot's progression."

“Uh…” Helica still looked puzzled: “So?”

"Forget it, there's no point in saying so much. Just know that there's nothing we can do right now. As for the reason why this is happening," Ba Qi touched her lips again, rubbing her fingers together in front of them.

"Either, this nightmare can no longer sustain us, for example, something so powerful has appeared that the magic in the nightmare cannot be replicated, so it has no time to care about our situation."

"Either the owner of this dream, Nishio Reki, is in danger, or something has happened to Yumehara Sumireko, who brought us here,"

"In short, something went wrong with one of them, causing this thing that is somewhere between memory and dream to undergo such a huge change."

“So,” Helica continued, picking up where Baki left off, “we need to go and see, don’t we?”

"Yes."

Baqi nodded.

In just a few words, the two of them passed through the gates of St. Eternal Academy and entered the campus.

Herika had the memories from her dream, and Baki was originally a student at St. Eternal Academy. The huge campus was no problem for the two of them. After passing through the layers of tentacles, the girls arrived at the playground where the tentacles were located.

They are tentacles too, and no fewer than those blocking the magical girls' way at the school gate.

But the tentacles on the playground were noticeably different.

They were more orderly, standing upright like seaweed, swaying neatly with the almost non-existent waves.

There were not only tentacles on the playground, but also white that stood out starkly against the black.

The white of the nun's habit.

Countless nuns remained there, the kind of nuns they had seen many times before, clearly detached from the realm of humanity.

The nuns emerged from the tentacles and crawled on their hands and feet onto the pile of nuns that had already formed a small mountain. More and more nuns joined together, and the pile grew higher and higher. Every now and then, a nun would roll off the top, knocking down a whole bunch of them like bowling balls.

"Gulp..." Helica covered her mouth and gagged a few times.

This inhumane scene was so disgusting that not only Helika, but even Baki, who was usually quite tolerant of such things, found it rather repulsive.

There is only one person who can do all of this.

Hymns!

So where is she?

Baqi searched everywhere.

But there were just too many nuns, and it was too dark, so it was really difficult to spot a particular figure among them.

Baki continued to delve deeper, looking around as she tried to find her target while manipulating the nun's true form.

"Eee-ah?!"

Herica's scream rang out behind Baqi, making Baqi even more irritated.

"You short, blond-haired rascal, what are you yelling about?"

Baqi turned around angrily and scolded the guy following behind her.

But Helica's gaze was fixed on one direction, her trembling fingers and the end of her vision both fixed on the same target.

Reminded by Helica, Bage noticed the faint moans mixed in with the chattering of the nuns.

The owner of that voice was the very person Baqi was searching for.

It is the sound of sacred hymns.

However, Saint Shiyin's current state is completely different from what Baqi had imagined.

The petite girl that Baqi recognized so well was hanging in mid-air.

Yes, it was suspended in mid-air.

The tentacles that have caused so much trouble for the magical girls are the culprits currently ravaging Seishin.

Yes, it is exactly the literal meaning of destruction.

Both Baki and Herika had considered it, but had never witnessed firsthand the inhumane cruelty.

This... it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it an execution, would it?

No, even in executions, there aren't cases this extreme, are there?

Even though they didn't like Sheng Shiyin and had even done many terrible things to her, they couldn't help but feel sorry for Sheng Shiyin, who was being ravaged by the rampaging tentacles.

"Waaah... Ee... Sister... I'm... I'm sorry..."

Painful groans and cries came from Shengshiyin's mouth, and even in the extremely noisy environment, Baqi found them exceptionally clear.

Standing next to Saint Shion, a tall woman who bears a resemblance to her and is dressed in nun's habit but is clearly more revealing, and whom Saint Shion calls her older sister, is undoubtedly the culprit behind this situation.

Who is she?

This was the first question that came to Baqi's mind.

This was also the first question Helica thought of.

No one has ever seen it, no one has ever heard of it, yet it possesses such terrifying destructive power.

Even though neither of them could sense the magic right now, the overwhelming sense of oppression from the vast array of tentacles before them made them think of the same person.

That's right.

That guy was the one Nishio Reki had asked for help from at the festival, the one who brought disaster to the entire Moonsea City, and the enemy that even a powerful magical girl like Nishio Reki couldn't overcome despite going through countless reincarnations.

That guy is Nishio Reki's "despair" itself.

Chapter 211 Leading to a Completely Different Ending

The woman's hand caressed Sheng Shiyin's smooth little chest, but this seemingly gentle action felt like the touch of a devil, causing Sheng Shiyin's eyes to widen even more, and her struggles and pleas for mercy to grow louder.

The strange black-clad nun seemed to ignore them, instead turning her head and slowly lowering her eyes to look in the direction where Herika and Baki were.

A single glance sent a chill down their spines.

Given Baki and Helika's current state, that woman shouldn't be able to see them. She should be like those tentacles, ignoring and deaf to the two of them.

Baqi stopped in her tracks, her gaze both complex and wary, maintaining her stride as she looked up at the strange nun.

Discovered?

Then, the nun slowly closed her eyes and looked into the distance.

No?

Baqi didn't know what the correct answer was.

But just a moment ago, her heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to jump out of her chest.