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

Two of the five giant monsters were killed by Yuuki Yuuki's all-out attack on Yuuki's God of Love, one had half its head cut off, and another had three legs severed.

This battle situation is already quite astonishing. Even in his current state, Baqi cannot confidently say that he will unleash the same power as Yuuki Eri, who is already exhausted.

Even having achieved this much, it was already the limit for Yuuki Eri.

What happened next was something Nishio Reki wouldn't tell her, something she couldn't say aloud; she had to remember it carefully with her own eyes.

Both Baki and Herika were thinking the same thing, their eyes fixed on Nishio Reki.

"Xiao...Xiao Yuan, I've thought of a way...I don't know if it will work."

Nishio Reki, leaning on his magic wand, struggled to his feet.

"What?" Yuuki Yui lay flat on the ground, feeling the rumbling of the ground as the huge monsters approached.

"That thing came out of that strange coffin... which means... that coffin... must... have its purpose... right?"

Nishio Reki's voice trembled, and a dimmed golden orb shot out from the tip of the wand, slicing away at the flesh of the approaching giant monsters—the nuns hanging on their bodies.

Following Nishio Reki's gaze, Yuuki looked over and saw that in the huge void they had just escaped from, which was also the ruins of the sanctuary, the pure white coffin lay there quietly, mostly covered by earth and stones.

It was hit twice in a row, yet it remained unharmed; the magic it contained proved its extraordinary nature.

"That's true, but we're all too weak to stand up, aren't we?" Yuuki Yui let out a long breath, looking as if she didn't even have the strength to get up.

"Yes, that's right. So, in the end, it still has to be left to Yuuki." Nishio Reki repeated what Yuuki Yuuki had said, his eyes crinkling into a slight smile:

"I'm so happy to have fallen in love with Xiaoyuan and to be able to date her."

Yuuki Yukina didn't realize what Nishio Reki was going to do, and neither did Baqi and Herika.

Nishio Reki's kick was incredibly fast, striking Yuuki Yuuki directly in the side waist, sending her flying like a cannonball.

Yuuki Yuuki's body flew backward, even making a sound of wind breaking, passing between the two hooves of the giant monster, passing over countless tentacles, and crashing into the underground cavern that was about to collapse.

At the same time, it also crashed into the white coffin.

In the distance, Nishio Reki watched Yuuki Yuuki's receding figure with a faint smile, then slowly closed his eyes.

Yuuki Yukari's body rolled several times, yet landed precisely in front of the white coffin.

On the other side, above Nishio Reki's head, a giant beast hoof composed of countless twisted nuns crashed down on the girl.

Then, everything seemed to freeze in time, stopping right in front of Bachi and Herika.

Yuuki Eri flew backwards, the beast's hooves fell, Nishio Reki closed his eyes, and the nun in the distance was shrouded in darkness.

Then, all the scenes collapsed.

There was nothing left but darkness.

"This... is over?" Helica's eyes widened as she looked at Baki, who was equally dumbfounded.

Baqi opened her mouth, feeling her chin go numb: "No, don't speak, I'm thinking."

too weird.

This is different from what I heard.

If this is Nishio Reki's memory, then why did it turn out like this?

Has Nishio Reki... lost? Defeated? Is it over? Has his entire army been wiped out?

No, no, this is too strange, it's completely different.

"No...no, that's not right, it shouldn't be like this at all!"

The voice of a third person.

The voice came from behind Baki and Herika.

The two turned around simultaneously, looking at the black-haired girl behind them who was greatly shocked. She slowly raised her hands, but then lowered them back down as if she didn't know where to put them.

"How could this be? How could this happen? No! This shouldn't be! It absolutely shouldn't be!"

In the darkness, Nishio Reki gritted his teeth and collapsed to his knees, utterly powerless.

"This is completely different from what I know, from the scene I remember!"

Chapter 212 Waving Goodbye to the Past

"Fine! Then tell me! Where were you when Genken Mashiro cornered me? Where were you when Yumehara Sumireko captured me? Where were you when Yumehara Sumireko was cornered as well?"

Yuuki Yui stretched out her fingers and poked at the air repeatedly, pointing at the girl opposite her and venting her anger.

Then, she pulled her fingers back, clenched them into a fist again, swung that fist a few times in the air, and finally sighed.

"Never mind, never mind, never mind! I shouldn't have lost my temper with you. It's my fault, yes, it's my fault, it's my fault."

Yuuki Yui muttered to herself angrily, but these words were not meant for the other person to hear; they were just words she used to soothe her own emotions.

"Yes, it's my fault. I shouldn't have gotten so agitated. It's all my fault."

As Yuuki Yui kept repeating the same sentence, her voice grew weaker and weaker until it was so weak that even she couldn't hear it anymore.

She felt like crying, but couldn't. She was a little angry, but shouldn't have taken it out on others. She felt helpless, like a child who had accidentally wandered into a desert.

Yuuki Yukino really doesn't know what to do.

But she did know one thing.

Yuuki Yukino slowly raised her head and looked at the girl standing opposite her, who had been watching her embarrassing situation without saying a word.

She now knew exactly what kind of person the expressionless girl standing in front of her was.

Then, Yuuki Yukina slightly opened her lips, and then clenched them tightly.

"Give me everything you know, everything you can give me, without reservation."

The girl's eyes curved slightly.

"Okay."

……

A few minutes ago.

Everything happened so fast, everything happened so suddenly, Yuuki Yuki hadn't even had time to react, as if a drama that could bring a lifetime of nightmares was unfolding right before her eyes.

First came panic, then anxiety, then bewilderment, until finally, Yuuki Yukino realized the cold, hard truth.

Sumireko Yumehara disappeared. Regardless of what she had done before, and regardless of whether Sumireko Yumehara was a good person in the literal sense, she simply vanished without leaving a trace.

No, it's not that nothing was left behind; she left behind fragments of memories scattered all over the place.

And that hoarse apology, as if squeezed from her very core.

"sorry."

This was the first time Yuuki Enishi had ever so vividly felt a life vanish before her very eyes.

Even though her disappearance was so dreamlike, as unreal as her name, as unreal as this dream world itself.

But it is the reality that is happening right before Yuuki Enishi's eyes.

Death, a seemingly light word, carries a profound meaning that Yuuki Yukino only understood for the first time today.

In the world where Yuuki Yuuki once existed, the word itself is not mentioned directly; instead, a more euphemistic term is used.

Gone.

Everything I had before, all my wishes, all my thoughts, all my things, whether heavy as a mountain or insignificant, all lost their meaning because of the absence of that one thing.

Then, with the passing of a life, nothing else matters; everything is gone.

This is death. Yuuki Yuuki has brushed past it countless times, and resisted countless times the possibility that it would not befall herself or anyone else, but in the end, it is something that cannot be avoided.

Disgust? Fear? Escape? Yuuki Yukino couldn't think of anything else. She just felt that she seemed to understand a little bit more.

But there was only a tiny bit.

and then?

So what should I do next?

Then all the emotions swept over her like a storm after a brief calm, almost destroying her mind completely.

Yuuki Yuki froze on the spot, her vision filled only with her trembling hands as she tried to catch the falling girl.

Clang.

The wing blades scraped against the ground with a sharp, teeth-grinding sound, but even that couldn't break Yuuki Enishi's current state of mental blankness.

Until Hanzawa Kuriko swung her battle axe in her other hand and slashed at Yuuki Yukino's face.

The axe blade added another wound to Yuuki Enishi's shoulder.

This was only when Yuuki Yuki truly felt the approach of death and instinctively tried to avoid it.

The pain made Yuuki Yukino belatedly realize her current predicament.

At the end of the road.

Whether it was her spirit, physical strength, or magic, it had all been completely exhausted by Yumehara Sumireko long ago. The surprise attack launched against Yumehara Sumireko was Yuuki Enishi's last bit of strength.

If it were to be Hanazawa Kuriko, there would be no need to even think about the outcome.

I'm not some protagonist from a shonen manga who can suddenly unleash his full power. In this kind of place, there's no one who can save me in a crisis, and there's no such thing as a magical deus ex machina that can save me from all danger.

If I were to fight Hanzawa Kuriko, I would be doomed.

So, you gave up?

How could that be!

This is the guy, this guy gave Yumehara Sumireko...

But, does giving up or not make any difference to the outcome for oneself?

It seems not.

Ah! Never mind! What's the point of thinking so much!

Hanzawa Kuriko can only discipline herself!

Anyone who attacks their prey or their own comrades, no matter who they are, should die!

Yuuki Yukino clenched her fist, leaped towards Hanzawa Kuriko, and slammed her fist, which was wrapped in red thread, down on her head.