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

Compared to Mia's unpredictable attacks, Helica's previous claim of catching the enemy off guard seemed like a joke.

Only now did Helica realize, as if waking from a dream, just how powerful Miyashita Mia truly was.

Did I really manage to gain the upper hand miraculously in the face of such an existence?

It is precisely because it is impossible to achieve or replicate that it is called a miracle.

From now on, I'll have to rely entirely on myself.

But what can this body, already riddled with holes and almost completely consumed by desire, possibly do?

Miyashita Miya's fangs were right in front of him. If he were to be hit twice more, or even just once, he would completely lose the ability to resist due to his boiling desire.

I long to be embraced, to succumb to it all, to unleash my desires to the fullest.

Did your predecessors also experience this powerlessness? Being crushed by overwhelming power, forced to obey?

Obey? The senior would never obey. This period of false peace must have been won by the senior.

I would rather submit to the enemy than give myself time to become stronger. If I were to fall like this, I would surely disappoint my predecessors.

Miyashita Miya's pink whip, wielding its swirling blade, fell towards the thunderous Herika.

But Helica did not dodge; she released her warhammer and offered her body to meet the attack.

"For the sake of my senior, I cannot succumb to my own desires!"

Whether it was Helica's imagination or not, Miyashita Mia hesitated for a moment in her attack.

But the swift whip still struck Helica's body squarely, tearing a shocking gash in her magical armor.

At the same time, Helica's hand also grasped the wand that Miya Miyashita had not yet put away.

Herlica suddenly yanked her whip, seizing the opportunity before Miya Miya could dissipate the force of her attack, and used the momentum to pull her in front of her.

"Hey." Helica hugged Miyashita Mia tightly with both hands, and although it looked a little forced, she still showed a smug smile.

"Got you."

"Gulp." Miyashita Miya gritted her teeth and struggled violently to break free from this unsettling embrace.

"Sanctions of the Heat Thunder!"

The instant their not-so-intimate embrace ended, thousands of bolts of lightning converged and bombarded the girls' bodies. A violent, intense current flowed through every muscle, burning every nerve as if to make their blood boil.

The thunderclap illuminated Helica's eyes, which were like they were cast in gold, and then dimmed them again, but Helica held the struggling girl in her arms tightly.

The two, embracing each other, plummeted amidst the seemingly real thunderstorm, crashing together onto the playground behind the teaching building.

As the terrifying thunderstorm, which seemed to want to shatter everything, slowly dissipated, Helica the Thunder could no longer maintain this deadly embrace. Her charred arms fell limply to her sides, her teeth, which had been clenched until they were numb and were still trembling, loosened, and she opened her mouth wide to draw in fresh air.

Helica no longer had the strength to even move a finger.

But Miya Miya still had the strength. She slowly got up, supporting herself on the ground. The little magic armor she had left completed its final mission in the thunderstorm, turning into fragments that could no longer protect her body.

"Is this your last stand?" Mia's chest heaved a few times as she looked down at the dying Helica, her voice hoarse from the shock.

"You... came too? You're too slow..." Helica stared blankly at the sky. Her magical costume turned into specks of light and disappeared. Her clothes changed back into her school uniform. She could no longer even maintain her transformation.

Miyashita Mia realized that the person she was talking to was clearly not herself.

A chilling aura emanated from behind Miyashita Mia; something sharp was pointed at her.

"Don't move." Mizuno Yu's voice rang out from behind her.

It was that blue-haired magical girl I had initially controlled; I should have delivered the final blow sooner.

Having withstood so many attacks from Lilith, it's truly commendable that it regained its mobility in such a short time.

From the very beginning, Helica knew she was facing two magical girls, which is why she was so confident in launching a suicidal attack.

But so what?

They're just two magical girls.

Miyashita Mia released her wand, and pink mist flowed from the black magic markings on her chest, climbing all over her body.

Sensing something amiss, Mizuno Yui released the taut bowstring without hesitation. Facing an enemy of this caliber, she dared not relax in the slightest.

The arrow was stopped before it could hit Miya Miya.

A tail made of pink mist, with a heart-shaped tip, extended from Miyashita Miya's coccyx and shattered the arrow.

As the mist began to condense into a new form around Miyashita Mia, Mizuno Yu's ominous feeling intensified. She retreated rapidly to create distance while simultaneously unleashing even more arrows.

Miyashita Mia smoothed her hair, revealing a pair of sharp horns protruding from her strands. At her lower back, a pair of translucent wings, each a meter long and covered with a membrane, made of mist, unfurled.

Miyashita Mia's newly sprouted wings flapped, creating a howling wind that deflected the attack aimed at her. The arrow, having lost its target, fell to the ground erratically.

She turned to Mizuno Yu, pink magic accumulating in her palm, compressing into a dense, almost tangible sphere of light.

Then, that chilling hand was aimed at Mizuno Yu.

Chapter Ninety-Eight! Clang! The Pink-Haired Girl Makes a Dazzling Appearance!

The halo in Miyashita's palm continued to solidify, rippling with a bright pink color like flowing liquid.

To others, it was a dreamy pink crystal ball, shimmering with captivating colors; but to Mizuno Yu, it was like an energy ball that compressed ethereal magic into a tangible form, more like a period at the end of her life.

Even if she were given enough time to recover her magic and made all the necessary preparations, she wouldn't be confident of escaping unscathed from such an attack.

Moreover, Miyashita Mia, who has taken on a completely new form and is both more alluring and more dangerous, cannot give her any time to prepare.

In the face of absolute power, trickery is meaningless.

Mizuno Yu could only try to weaken the impending attack as much as possible by unleashing her true name and using all her strength.

Just before she was about to call out the name of her wand, to her surprise, the dangerous crystal ball in Miyashita's hand shattered without warning, like a soap bubble being popped.

The solid, fluid-like halo became ethereal and dissipated into the air, along with Miyashita Miya's not-so-solid wings and wings.

Miyashita Mia still held her hand up to Mizuno Yu, but no magic could be felt in her body at all, as if nothing had happened. Her naked body was once again covered by the school uniform.

The neat uniform contrasted sharply with Miya Miyashita's body, which was covered in charred wounds of varying sizes, creating an odd effect as if two completely unrelated worlds had been mixed together.

Miyashita Mia's heart-shaped pupils returned to normal as the light shattered, and were now constricting and trembling due to the shaking.

The transformation has been dispelled.

At such a critical juncture, Miya Miyashita had no reason to voluntarily deactivate her transformation.

So there's only one reason why the transformation was canceled—Miya Miya's magic power was completely depleted.

The first person to react was Miyashita herself; she immediately turned around and pounced on Herika, who was lying on the ground.

As long as you can reach that place, you can replenish your missing magic power by plundering magic power.

Mizuno Yu was a beat too slow to react. The physical abilities of a magical girl after transformation were far superior to those of Miyashita Mia after she de-transformed. A series of ice arrows, launched after Miyashita Mia, struck her like a fence.

Before Miya Miya could change direction, another row of ice arrows blocked her way. Realizing that her intentions could not be achieved, she turned to try to escape, but the ice arrows that followed blocked her retreat as well, trapping her in the center like a cage.

Mizuno Yuu couldn't directly attack Miyashita Mia when she wasn't transformed, otherwise it would inevitably cause her irreversible damage.

The way to punish a corrupted magical girl should be through a just trial, not through heinous vigilante justice.

But restricting her movements before she transforms is more than enough for Mizuno Yu.

"That's it." Mizuno Yu raised her hand and snapped her fingers. All the ice arrows turned into icy mist, enveloping Miyashita Mia and robbing her of her body temperature.

The icy mist lasted only a few seconds before Mizuno Yu waved it away, revealing Miyashita Mia kneeling on the ground, trembling.

Her body temperature dropped suddenly, and Miyashita Miya's skin turned an unnatural pale. Her stiff limbs, beyond her control, struggled to support her body, and she swayed and crawled on the ground, her back arched.

Herika struggled to get up, but the relaxation after the battle aggravated the pain in her body, and she ultimately failed to get up.

Helica let herself lie back down, not hesitating to praise herself.

"You did a great job! You did a great job! Now both the seniors and the crisis are completely resolved."

"Execute her, and that will be the end of it, right?" Mizuno Yu's tone wasn't a rhetorical question, but rather a repetition of a settled fact, a final pronouncement on Miyashita Mia's fate.

Miyashita Mia couldn't lift her head. The damp, icy vapor soaked through her uniform, freezing it solid in the cold mist, making it look like a suit of armor that clung to her body. But instead of providing protection, it continuously stole her body heat.

She could feel her heart pounding rapidly, desperately pumping blood throughout her body, her bodily functions trying to regulate themselves and help her recover from this abnormal state as quickly as possible.

His body, numb from the cold, could barely move a finger. An inexplicable nausea surged through his stomach, and the scenery before him was unnaturally distorted, everything he saw mixed with black and pure white.

In a daze, she saw the shadow of the girl from thirteen years ago in the black and white scenery. She came to her and nervously took her hand.

The girl's shadow walked alongside the equally young Miyashita Mia, growing a little with each step they took, witnessing spring dew and autumn frost, winter snow and summer flowers along the way.

They walked, growing from tiny figures into graceful young women, until they reached the entrance of the graduation ceremony hall.

Miyashita Mia released the girl's hand and gently pushed her into the quiet hall.

She watched as the auditorium doors slowly closed, separating the two of them into two different worlds.

She thought, "This is all I can do to accompany you this far."

She smiled, and for a moment the restless voice in her mind quieted down.

She waited, waiting for Mizuno Yu to come to her and bring a less-than-perfect end to her life so far.

She heard it: the low hum of the trumpet and the powerful beat of the drums combined to create a noisy, gothic waltz.

A waltz? What the heck?

"Greetings, magical girls. I'm sorry to bother you, but my dear companion can't fall here, so, so, could you please move aside for a moment?"

The girl's lighthearted voice suddenly appeared in the waltz.

All eyes turned to the sky, where two girls stood in the sunset at the top of the three flagpoles erected on the playground, striking strange poses that they could not comprehend.

Long pink hair fluttered in the breeze, the hem of their red military uniforms rustled in the wind, and a series of arquebuses, some real and some fake, hung in mid-air, arranged in a neat array behind them, their muzzles all pointed at Mizuno Yu, who was about to approach below. A large speaker held aloft by two semi-transparent tentacles was playing an inappropriate background sound.

The sudden appearance of these two uninvited guests froze Helica's joyful expression on her face.

Mizuno Yu's steps faltered as she rapidly considered how to deal with these two enemies.

Neither Herica nor Mizuno Yu were able to react immediately, but the pink-haired, corrupted magical girl who always appeared inexplicably moved.

The pink-haired girl stepped on the spine of the unfolded grimoire and swiftly flew past Mizuno Yu at low speed, like a osprey hunting its prey. She controlled the tentacles following closely beside her to wrap around the immobile Miyashita Mia's waist, drawing a purple arc in the air before landing back on the flagpole.

As they passed each other, the speakers, which were practically pressed against Mizuno Yu's face, made her eardrums ache.

With their intentions so obvious, it's impossible that Mizuno Yu couldn't have realized what they were planning to do.

"Don't even think about leaving."