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

"I believe that in the future, without me, you will be able to overcome the darkness and find your own light."

"Oh, and also, believe me, you'll like the little gift I left for you."

Chapter 213 To My Distant Future Self

"Oh, right, I have another good news to tell you."

The pink-haired girl suddenly clapped her hands.

"Hmm, what?" Yuuki Yuen asked.

The girl smiled mysteriously and whispered in Yuuki Yukino's ear: "As long as you attack Baqi's ○○ while you're getting close to her, she'll [beep] faster than you."

"Huh?" Yuuki Yukina twitched the corner of her mouth.

Before Yuuki could react, chaotic magic surged from the girl's body and poured directly into Yuuki's body.

Yuuki Yuki couldn't describe the feelings it evoked in words, but she could deeply sense the profound power contained within it.

That was the complete power of Nyarlathotep, one of the three pillar gods.

When that magical power completely entered Yuuki Yukino's body, everything came to an end.

Xinghai City is the same, as is that smiling pink-haired girl.

Everything is gone.

It was as if they had never existed at all.

"This... what kind of farewell is this?! Are you out of your mind?!"

Yuuki Yukino gritted her teeth and kicked twice in the empty darkness.

After the silence and the lack of response, Yuuki Yukino lowered her head dejectedly and muttered to herself:

"But, that's so typical of you..."

At the same time, Yuuki Yuki felt something inside her body, a lock that Yumehara Sumireko had specifically mentioned, begin to loosen.

……

it hurts.

Every part of my body hurts.

My body felt like it was about to be crushed, and my bones felt like they were about to be smashed.

I felt as if I was about to die in the next second.

No, no, it's not just "as if," it's that I'm really about to die.

The lingering presence around me is the unmistakable aura of death.

This is the street where I grew up, and that's where my old home used to be.

But now, in the girl's blurred vision, they are no longer recognizable as they once were.

Everything was destroyed, like a castle made of building blocks that had been kicked over, leaving a mess on the ground.

And that shadow above my head, is it a magical girl?

That magical girl, isn't she the culprit behind all of this?

It hurts to move my body, it hurts to cry, and it even hurts to breathe.

It hurts so much, it really hurts.

So, you're going to die, right?

No, I don't want to die, I really don't want to die!

But it was getting darker and darker.

Soon... I won't be able to see anything at all.

What was I thinking just now?

What am I doing right now?

Consciousness seems to be fading away as well.

In the end, the little girl could only feel something buzzing in her head, but she couldn't hear it clearly.

The pain in every part of my body has lessened, and it seems that my sense of my body has become very weak.

One's own consciousness is like a pebble thrown into a pool of water, sinking deeper and deeper.

Gradually, the girl could no longer feel anything.

Except for one voice, very soft and very clear, which drowned out all the noise, as if it had been transmitted directly into her mind.

Are you scared?

Am I afraid?

I'm very scared.

But she couldn't give her an answer; she couldn't nod, she couldn't speak, and she didn't even know if she still had a body.

Do you want to live?

The voice asked another question.

I don't want to die.

I don't want to die no matter what.

As long as it allows me to survive, I'm willing to do anything, no matter what.

"Do you have a wish that you absolutely want to fulfill?"

desire?

Yes, of course!

My only wish is to live! To live desperately! To escape the shadow of death!

"I can grant your wish, in exchange, one day in the future, you must also grant me the wish that I desperately want to have."

The little girl didn't understand what the voice was saying; all she could do was scream wildly in her heart, hoping her voice could reach the other side.

The last remaining voice in my mind also disappeared.

Now the girl couldn't feel anything anymore.

After a very long time, as if she had waited for centuries, the girl finally touched something different from darkness from the bottomless abyss.

A whisper devoid of any emotion.

"I understand."

"You will remember who you used to be."

Who was I?

The girl didn't know.

But there seemed to be many, many more things in her mind.

As someone else's birth, as someone else's growth, as someone else's experiences, until suddenly encountering one's own ending at an age when one shouldn't be at the end.

That wasn't the girl's memory, but it was her past, the past before she became the girl she is now.

"You must remember who you want to become in the future."

The pebble was pushed out of the water by a gust of current and fell to the ground.

Pain, fear, surprise, relief—all the sensations and emotions rushed into the girl's mind like memories, and flowed back into her small body like a tide.

The girl strained to open her eyes, blinking away the blood and dust from her eyelashes.

She can see again.

She saw the face of the pink-haired girl, who was covered in dirt and tears.

She can feel things now.

She felt the girl's embrace getting tighter and tighter, so warm, so unfamiliar, yet so familiar.

She can hear sounds again.

She heard the girl wailing, calling her name again and again.

He called out the name "Yuki Yuki" again and again.

Yes.

I am Yuuki Yuki.

From the very beginning, I was Yuuki Yuki.

From now on, I am merely Yuuki En.

However, there seems to be a slight difference.

As a girl from Yuuki Yuuki, she recalled some things from a more distant past.

……

When Yuuki Yukino first recalled those memories from her mind, she was indeed confused for a while, but the information in those memories quickly put her at ease.

I am still myself, the same person who was born and raised here. I haven't suddenly become a completely different person because of some strange memories.

What? All those reincarnations in my memory were lies. How could my memories be completely changed just because I awakened?

All that talk about being mature beyond one's years and how technology can change the world is a lie. The memories in my mind only tell me how to manipulate those strange instruments that Yuuki Yuuki has never seen before.

But there are definitely changes, though only a few more things compared to before.

Or you could say he's matured a little bit?

After Yuuki Yuki calmed down, she was able to reflect on her current situation.

Is it reincarnation?

Yes, that should be it. Reincarnation with memories intact—this reincarnation theme, which is very common in various ACG works, actually happened to me.

Moreover, he knew exactly which world he had been reincarnated into.