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

However, Mizuno Yu's reaction was a beat too slow. Before she could even draw her bow, she was met with a hail of bullets.

"Let's go!" The silver-haired girl in military uniform leaped up and landed on another curled-up tentacle.

The pink-haired girl, riding on a magic book, dragged two other people along with a large speaker that had been turned up to the highest volume of music, and the three of them strode away.

The usually indifferent expression on Mizuno Yu's face finally crumbled, and the corners of her mouth twitched involuntarily.

"What is that?!"

Not long after, in a high-end hotel somewhere in the city center.

"Yay! A great victory!"

Having deactivated her transformation, Inuyama Tomoe jumped up and happily high-fived Yuuki Yuuki.

"yeah--"

The two had already changed into sportswear for easy movement. They happily held hands and spun around on the floor twice before lying down on the soft, fluffy bed.

"By the way, Xiaoyuan, what was the meaning behind that pose you made me strike today? It looked super cool!"

"Well, this is a pose that a big pink cat would strike, the kind that makes anything it touches explode."

"A big pink cat! That sounds cute, but I still prefer dogs!"

"Doggy, are there any dog ​​stand-ins... I mean, anyway! Thanks for your hard work!"

"Oh! You've worked hard!"

Miyashita Mia, who was lying on the bed next to them, sat up and interrupted their conversation with a hoarse voice:

"Yuki Yui, why did you help me?"

"Why?" Yuuki Yukino's eyes curved into a smile, revealing an expression that was somewhat playful, yet also contained much more genuine emotion:

"Didn't you say that when we first met, Miyashita-senpai—Yuki-kun has already become my comrade, hasn't he?"

"Uh." Miyashita Miya didn't expect Yuuki Yui to answer her question like that, and was speechless for a moment. Her gaze towards Yuuki Yui became even more complicated.

"So, isn't it only natural to help Miyashita-senpai, who is my comrade?"

Chapter Ninety-Nine: Let's strip her naked first.

Shortly before Miyashita Miya launched her attack.

In the club room where no one would come anymore, Yuuki Yukino spread out the piece of paper with Tsukimi Rie and Hayashi Mustard's names written on it on the table and pointed it out to Inuyama Tomoe with the tip of her pen.

"That's roughly the gist of it, so I have reasonable grounds to suspect the relationship between the two of them and the mysterious person, but at the moment, Tsukimi Rie is more of a suspect."

"What will Xiaoyuan do after she finds out her identity?" Ba Qi leaned on the table, running her finger over the two names one by one.

"do what……"

Yuuki Yukino really hadn't considered this matter.

We don't know the mysterious person's purpose or stance. There's no suitable starting point for communication, and if we start fighting directly without communicating, we might not be able to win.

Tomoe noticed the confusion on Yuuki Yuuki's face and pointed at the name on the table with her fingertip: "Anyway, Yuuki needs to figure out why the other party did this before she knows what she should do, right?"

“The reason she did this… I have a guess that may not be correct, let me start from the beginning—the coffin on her back is a wand, and she also used my wand, but one person cannot possess two wands.” Yuuki Yuuki said, drawing two vertical lines on the paper with a pen, and writing her name under one of them: “Either the coffin is not her wand, or the God of Bonds is not her wand. The answer is obvious, the God of Bonds is the wand I should be holding.”

Then, she crossed out her own name: "We made this assumption before—the mysterious person can steal other people's wands, but the prerequisite is that the magical girl must be corrupted."

"That's right! But what's the connection between these two things?"

“I now have a wand that is completely different from the one I had before, but I can’t be sure whether the change is because my wand was taken away or corrupted. So I have a guess: if the wand of a corrupted magical girl changes, then the previous wand will not be summoned. So the mysterious person can obtain and use the magical girl’s previous wand in some way.” Yuuki Yui drew a new vertical line next to her name.

"So that's why she needs to corrupt people?"

“Yes, if my assumption is correct, she will step in to help Mizuno and Tenrai, most likely because she wants them to fall into darkness as well, and then take away their wands.” Yuuki Yui wrote down their two names and crossed them out.

However, from this perspective, Lin Jiezi becomes even more suspicious. He precisely targeted the magical girl, lured her into corruption when she wasn't looking, and stole her wand—his plan succeeded.

If we think about it this way, could we interpret Lin Jiezi's knocking on our door as a cunning criminal committing a perfect crime and then returning to the crime scene to admire his masterpiece?

"Is the Miyashita Mia that Xiaoyuan mentioned also in this situation? Was she targeted by a mysterious person and thus fell into darkness?"

"Impossible, Miyashita Miya is..."

Yuuki Yukino blurted it out, but couldn't continue.

What she wanted to say was that Miyashita Mia was a villain who already existed in the game, so whether Miyashita Mia had fallen into darkness was irrelevant to the mysterious person; in any case, she had to be defeated.

However, this was something she saw from God's perspective, and God's perspective is something that Baqi cannot explain in any way.

"What happened to Miyashita Mia? I feel she could also be one of the victims. Why is Koyuki denying her?"

Hearing what Baqi said, Yuuki Yuen realized that if she put herself in Baqi's shoes and tried to see things from her perspective, the whole thing would feel different.

Putting aside her own omniscient perspective, if the mysterious person really is Tsukimi Rie, and in order to steal Miyashita Mia's wand and corrupt her, and then somehow push Miyashita Mia out as a shield, it seems more reasonable to Baqi.

However, this reasoning is absolutely wrong, because Yuuki Eri has more information than Inuyama Tomoe. Even if she cannot explain the specific reasons to Tomoe, she can assert this.

This is the "information gap".

“Miya Miya attacked me first, and she also attacked innocent students. Because of these two points, she cannot be a victim,” Yuuki Yuen explained.

Baqi definitely wouldn't accept Yuuki Yui's argument, and argued back: "I also attacked Yui once, when I ran out of magic power. And Yui usually helps me replenish my magic power. If no one replenishes Miyashita Mia's magic power, it's understandable that she couldn't control herself and attacked others because of the black magic mark, right? If I hadn't met Yui, I might have ended up like that too."

Yuuki Yukino did not answer, but continued to think.

Miyashita Mia is the antagonist in the game. According to his plan to redeem himself, he needs to defeat Miyashita Mia first by following the original storyline as closely as possible, and then get closer to the other magical girls...

No, something's not right. My own ideas are too preconceived. With the plot changing so drastically, I can't assume that this is the correct one.

Because Miyashita Mia is a corrupted magical girl who exists in the original work, she must be defeated and executed, turning her into a velvet ball that can no longer rise; because Baki did not appear in the original work and did not do anything bad, she is not needed.

What's the logic behind this?

Putting aside preconceived notions, Baki is quite normal in her daily life, and there's no sign of any dark, scheming, house-robbing magic. However, the Black Magic Mark transforms Baki into a berserk Rape Wolf, so it's entirely possible that other nominal villains will also be affected by the Black Magic Mark.

Magical girls must be inherently evil to be corrupted. This is explained in the game through character dialogue, but can what the characters say be equated with the established rules?

But the two exceptions are myself and Baqi. They shouldn't be considered evil, but they both possess black magic runes, which is almost proof that there is no necessary relationship between corruption and evil.

There is no doubt that Yuuki Eri was trying to clear her name to protect herself, but according to her original plan, clearing her name would require her to follow the original script and take down each of the corrupted magical girls one by one.

What is the logic behind this?

Moreover, Miyashita Mia's emotions were different each time she met with her, and she even took the initiative to ask to communicate. If this was not a trap, then it means that Miyashita Mia is different from the stereotypical pleasure-seeker she imagined.

Yuuki Yui felt her mind was a bit of a mess and needed to start thinking from the beginning.

After sorting out the whole incident, Yuuki Yukino realized that, for various reasons, she couldn't escape her contact with Miyashita Mia.

Furthermore, we cannot continue to view Miyashita Mia's interactions with prejudice, as we did in the original work.

"Come on, let's go find Miyashita Mia!"

Yuuki Yoriichi pushed the table in front of him and stood up.

Seeing Yuki Yuki fall silent and look thoughtful, Baqi didn't disturb her. But then Yuki Yuki suddenly blurted out something like that.

"Huh? Xiaoyuan's thoughts jump around so fast! It's true that Miyashita Mia might be a victim, but how did it suddenly jump to this point? And Xiaoyuan herself said not to rashly contact other corrupted magical girls, right?"

“Miya Miya is different, and the reasons are rather complicated—first of all, she showed an intention to communicate, and even said that only I can help her.”

Yuuki Yukino paused, then continued:

"Will the magic wand change after a magical girl falls into darkness? What caused her to fall? What happened between her and Tsukimi Rie? These questions will help us verify the identity of the mysterious person."

"Also, Miyashita Miya may have some information about the mysterious person that we don't know. Asking her directly is much better than the two of us making wild guesses here."

Back in the hotel, Yuuki Yui sat cross-legged on the bed: "Because I suspect that Miyashita-senpai was also corrupted by the mysterious person, we are companions in the same boat. Don't you want to find that guy, senpai?"

Yuuki Yui certainly knew that her guess was wrong, but revealing some of her information as a sign of her sincerity in cooperating, and then giving a wrong guess to gain Miyashita Mia's trust, seemed like a worthwhile deal.

"Oh, not bad, a very good guess, I really want to applaud. But, Yuuki Yuki, why should I cooperate with a coward like you?" Miyashita Miya clapped her hands symbolically, but had no intention of cooperating at all.

"How could you..." Ba Qi rolled up her non-existent sleeves, angrily wanting to punch someone.

"Calm down, Baqi." Yuuki Yui pulled Baqi, who was barking like a puppy, back: "Since Miyashita-senpai won't cooperate, let's just take off her clothes first."

Chapter 100 I Am Her Shackles

"Take off...take off your clothes! Xiaoyuan, what are you thinking! Is this the time to do this kind of thing?"

Baqi's face instantly turned red, but she still hurriedly and without hesitation pressed down on Miyashita Miya, who was lying on the bed, and directly tore open the other's front.

Since Baqi has gone to such lengths, Miyashita Miya naturally cannot sit idly by and wait for her doom.

Pink light gathered on Miyashita's body, reconstructing the magical costume that symbolizes a magical girl. However, this time the costume failed to cover her body completely; the parts that should have been covered were all exposed.

Even with such magical armor, it didn't last long on her body. She pushed Inuyama Tomoe away forcefully, and then the magical armor on her body shattered into points of light. The transformation lasted for a few seconds before it was canceled.

Seeing Miyashita Mia transform and become alert, Yuuki Yui breathed a sigh of relief and secretly lowered her hand that was halfway raised.

The transformation, which required drawing upon her own potential, was another significant blow to Miyashita Mia, who collapsed back onto the bed, utterly exhausted.

Miyashita Miya's current state is like a phone that has automatically shut down due to running out of power. After sitting for a long time, it finally managed to accumulate some battery power to turn on, but after turning it on, the screen starts displaying "low battery, ten seconds left before shutdown."

Having just experienced a major battle, Miyashita Mia's lost magical power was far from being able to recover to the point where she could fight back against two magically powerful magical girls.

Moreover, she had an inexplicable feeling that subconsciously she believed she shouldn't resist.

Although they weren't being judged by those magical girls, the outcome would be the same if things continued this way.

Miyashita Mia thought to herself, then closed her eyes as if resigned to her fate, feeling a sense of relief she had never felt before.

"Stop, stop, stop! I told you to undress her, not to take off her skirt! It's all showing! Put it on! Put it on for her now."

"Oh! Okay! You! Raise the drum!"

"Hmm, hmm, just as I expected, look here, did you see it?"

"Oh! I see! I knew it!"

Miyashita Mia didn't understand what the other person was saying at all, but with her body sinking into the soft bed, she had nothing left to care about. Her mind suddenly relaxed, and she felt the two voices getting further and further away before she quickly lost consciousness.

When she woke up again, it was as if she had had a good sleep. The complicated sounds and strange impulses in her mind were all taken away with the fatigue. Her mind was now unusually clear, and her clothes were intact.

"You're awake? The plan seems to be going very well. Is there anything that feels particularly special?"

Yuuki Yui and Baqi were snuggled together against the headboard of another bed, fiddling with their phones. When they saw Meiya wake up, Yuuki Yui turned her gaze toward her.

"What... happened to me?" Miyashita Miya was still not fully conscious, and gently rubbed her temples with the base of her thumb and forefinger.

"This is a little complicated to explain. Simply put, while you were asleep, I replenished your magic a little. Don't worry, I didn't take off your clothes, and I used the slowest method possible. Besides, you only slept for less than half an hour." Yuuki Yuen placed her phone face down on the bedside table.