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

"You're blonde too."

"I'm different!"

“If your standard for judging whether someone is a good person is corruption, then I certainly shouldn’t be called a good person,” Hong Moli interjected at this moment.

The girl pulled down her collar, completely unconcerned about showing off the bright red black magic patterns below her collarbone.

Everyone's black magic markings are different, but among all the black magic markings, hers must be the easiest to identify.

The incomprehensible twisted patterns around it still felt eerie, but the main body of the black magic pattern was clearly the shape of a bat with its wings curled up.

"See, I told you so?"

Having witnessed the Black Magic Runes, Helica felt even more confident.

She would always find a chance to be stubborn and say something, which Mizuno Yu had long been used to.

"Hey, by the way, aren't you going to attack?" Mizuno Yuu couldn't get a response from Helica, so Helica could only turn her attention to Koumori, which only made things more awkward.

"No, our mission is not to defeat you. We will not attack unless you climb that tower or become a threat to us. You are still seeds that have not yet sprouted, and you should not be destroyed before you grow up."

Hong Moli propped the now-stopped chainsaw on the ground and, like a knight king, placed her hands on the handle.

"What is this? You're talking about seeds and growth, can't you just explain it clearly?"

“Okay, then I’ll be more blunt.” Hong Moli readily agreed: “Magical girls are all capable of falling into darkness, and we are not willing to eliminate those possibilities before they get in our way.”

"Only after you have fallen into darkness will we take you seriously and see if you have any value."

Chapter 112 Isn't head-on sword fighting a kind of romance?

Hong Moli's statement was too blunt.

If Yuuki Yuki and Inuyama Tomoe could hear such a straightforward explanation, they would be so happy they'd faint.

"In other words, there must be other magical girls at the top of the tower, right?"

Mizuno Yuu gleaned some new information from Koumori's remarks.

"Yes."

Hong Moli readily admitted it.

Who is up there?

Mizuno Yu continued to ask.

"One is our target, and the other, I don't know. Because our target may very well become one of us in the future, I can't tell you her specific identity."

"Your target is a magical girl who has already fallen into darkness?"

"Yes, that's right, but someone came to us first, so we need to wait a while. Consider it a little test for her."

Of all the fallen magical girls that Mizuno Yu had met, except for the last time they met, the cowgirl was practically a humanoid Rape machine; the pink-haired girl with the grimoire always seemed to have a different personality each time they met, making it impossible to figure out what she was thinking; the musketeer girl was a complete fangirl of the pink-haired girl, and although her fighting ability was not much worse than the pink-haired girl's, she always obeyed the pink-haired girl's every word.

Compared to the others, Koumori was so normal that Mizuno Yu felt she was abnormally normal.

Koumori stood purely on the opposite side of Mizuno Yu, considering things from the opposite perspective, and did what was most right for her.

"Neither humble nor arrogant" is a very apt description of Hong Moli.

Are they fighting?

Mizuno asked again.

"Probably? I'm not sure either. My only task is to determine what kind of flowers the targets will bloom. To put it bluntly, it's about what kind of power they will display and whether they will join us."

What would happen if I didn't join your magical girl group?

"Most people were unwilling to join, so we killed them ourselves. Some who did join were too weak, so the magical girls killed them too."

"If you want to have one less enemy in the future, the best option now is to go up and defeat your targets first, right?"

"That's true, but I would stop you if you did that, and I personally don't recommend that you do it. Because I'm stronger than you, and if you fight me, there's only one outcome for you."

This is the most composed statement; Hong Moli is not exaggerating, indicating that she genuinely believes this.

"How will you know if you don't try? You little brat!" Helica, who hadn't said a word until now, couldn't stand it anymore. Dragging her warhammer, she charged ahead of Mizuno Yu again and smashed it hard towards Koumori's head.

The chainsaw standing on the ground, like a clock, swept 180 degrees, welcoming the arrival of the warhammer.

The onlookers heard the piercing sound of metal being cut by a chainsaw again, this time accompanied by a deafening thunderous roar. The humming effect of the two sounds lingered in their ears for a long time.

This time, Helica changed her tactics. Although she was reckless, she was not a simpleton. Since a single attack could not break through Hong Moli's defense, she would use a barrage of attacks.

The warhammer made contact with the chainsaw, then was bounced off by the high-speed rotating chain, and fell at another tricky angle for a new round of collision.

The clanging sounds of collisions, mixed with the hum of motors, became the only noise under the Moonsea Tower.

Everyone held their breath, watching the massive warhammer and chainsaw clash at a speed disproportionate to their size, sending sparks flying.

“I mean… isn’t the one with the long hair faster?” A young woman pointed tremblingly at Helica, who was wielding her warhammer with a dance-like motion, then quickly withdrew her finger as if afraid of cutting it.

"It seems so," the middle-aged woman next to her echoed hoarsely, as if her saliva had been dried up by the dancing arc of electricity.

As a fellow magical girl, Mizuno Yu was more aware of the situation; the one currently suppressing Koumori like a raging storm was Helica.

There were still quite a few onlookers around. Herlica's wand was more suited to large-scale, indiscriminate destruction, making it unsuitable for releasing her true name in such a place.

Even though Komamori was suppressed, she did not unleash her true name, and Mizuno Yu guessed that she still had some energy left.

On the bench behind Koumori, the gray-haired girl in a kimono who hadn't made a move was still eating tricolor dumplings, which made Mizuno Yu wary of whether the other party would suddenly attack, so she didn't dare to easily join the battle.

"Am I seeing things? Did the chainsaw just split into two for a split second?"

In the midst of the noisy crowd, such a sentence acted as a fuse, igniting a new direction in the conversation.

They were right; Hong Moli proved it with her actions.

The saw blade, rotating in opposite directions, split in two in her hand. The main body of the chainsaw, along with the clockwise rotating blade, swung away from the hammer at a faster speed than before. The counterclockwise rotating blade, along with the saw blade, resembled a broadsword, with only a cylindrical handle held in Hong Moli's other hand, thrusting straight towards Helica's waist.

The sudden attack forced Helica to take a few steps back to create distance. The sharp teeth on the saw blade cut through the magic armor on Helica's side, leaving a shallow wound on her waist.

Hong Moli held two chainsaws, one large and one small, in her hands—although one of them, apart from having a rotating blade, didn't look like one at all. The chainsaws crossed in front of her chest, sparking a series of fires, and her arms hung down at an angle, the rotation of the saw blades coming to a stop.

"Well done! You little brat, you did a great job! Let's do it again!" Herica's competitive spirit was ignited.

"You're also gold..."

Mizuno Yu was unable to finish her sentence because Helica drowned her out with an even louder voice.

"Shut up! This joke's been over! It's not funny anymore!"

The clash between the warhammer and the chainsaw began once again. The wand, now split into two saws, moved faster and attacked more fiercely than before, instantly reversing the tide of battle.

Just as Helica and Red Jasmine were locked in a fierce battle, a red shadow suddenly burst out from the crowd, sped past them, and headed straight for the top of the tower.

The red figure that had taken off met a white figure in mid-air. The red figure, which had been hurtling wildly, slowed down abruptly, and then the two figures landed back on the ground.

This little incident interrupted Helica and Hong Moli's entanglement, and several pairs of eyes fell on that red figure.

In a place where no one was paying attention, the white figure—a girl in a white kimono, Hyakki Chiyu—sheathed her two katana of different lengths, the scabbards at her waist disappearing as well. She casually sat back down in her chair, took out a packet of vinegar kelp, and tore open the packaging.

"Tsk." The silver-haired girl in the red military uniform tossed aside the two matchlock guns that were now only half-barreled, flicked her wrist, and a new wand materialized in her hand. "Blue-haired pervert, didn't you know to stop that guy while he was fighting with the blond dwarf?"

"Why is it you? No, who's the blond dwarf?" Helica's forehead veins bulged.

"Whoever is shorter, that's who it is." Inuyama Baqi couldn't help but laugh out loud, but the expression only lingered on her face for a moment before being replaced by anxiety.

Ignoring the cursing Helica, Hong Moli pointed her short chainsaw at Inuyama Tomoe, who had just joined the fray: "Who are you?"

“As for me, you don’t need to know who I am, you…” Baqi inadvertently glanced at the corner of the black magic pattern peeking out from Hong Moli’s collar, her tone tinged with disbelief: “Hong?”

She had seen the same black demonic pattern when Yuuki dragged her back to school that day; it was the same crimson color and located on her collarbone.

Hong Moli's pupils flickered, but she remained silent, the chainsaw still spinning.

This action further confirmed Baqi's guess; she could guess who the girl who had just severed her gun with her twin swords was.

After all, these two people have always been inseparable.

"Ah." Baqi wanted to say something more, but couldn't think of a way to face this former junior who was blocking her way. "Really, it's been a long time."

"What? What does this mean? What does this mean? Are you all in cahoots? Did you accidentally start a fight?"

Mizuno Yuu also noticed the unusual changes in Baqi's emotions, but Helica herself is still unaware of the reason.

Baqi wouldn't mention the names of her juniors in front of that annoying blond dwarf, and Mori and Chiyu wouldn't answer her questions either. Helica was left out as always.

Hong Moli ignored Helica's question, as well as Baqi's greeting, and raised the broadsword-like chainsaw pointing at Baqi even higher.

"Despite the unexpected turn of events, my commitment to what I'm doing remains unchanged. If you also want to climb this tower, I will stop you just the same way."

Ba Qi was well aware that Hong Moli's actions were a provocation, but when dealing with her juniors, even if they didn't know her true identity, Ba Qi was unwilling to act too childishly, let alone get angry.

But one thing is one thing, the reason she came here was, of course, for Yuuki Yuki.

Because of Miyashita Mia's attack yesterday, although the school is not responsible for it—after all, a school has no means to fight against magical girls—it still had to give the school a day off to clean up the mess.

During that day, Inuyama Tomoe used a little of her financial power to check on Miyashita Mia's whereabouts.

After that, she found out that Miya Miya had entered the school with a large suitcase, and then Miya Miya disappeared. Rie Tsukimi, who may be related to this incident, also went missing.

Three magical girls disappeared together, and then strange magic appeared in the Moon Sea Tower. It was hard for Baqi not to connect these events together.

"You two want to climb up there too, right?"

Baqi raised the gun in her hand and aimed it at Hong Moli opposite her. The atmosphere was so tense that it seemed to freeze.

"So what if it is?" Herika rolled her eyes at Baki.

"How about we cooperate? Let's put aside everything else for now, and take these two down first. You won't lose out, will you?"

Baqi revealed her sharp little tiger teeth and pulled the trigger.

Chapter 113 It's just a meteorite, I... can't handle it!

The girls' battle was exceptionally fierce, but both sides on the battlefield unanimously limited the battlefield to the area inside the plaza. Unlike the road beneath the feet of the onlookers, the plaza at the foot of the Moonsea Tower had already become a scene of devastation.

Even though the attack wouldn't affect the onlookers, the crowd was much thinner than before, with everyone retreating dozens of meters away from the core area, fearing they might encounter some danger.

In reality, everyone held back in this seemingly life-or-death battle.

Herlica's confrontation with Kou Mori was much more restrained than before. Although she had Inuyama Baki's firepower support, Herlica dared not completely entrust her back to the other party. If Baki were to launch a sneak attack from behind, she would not be able to withstand it.

Mizuno Yu is also able to provide remote support to Helica. She is just as wary of whether Baki will suddenly cause trouble from the shadows, and she devotes even more attention to Baki than to Koumori.

Baqi could also sense that the two of them were always looking at her with strange eyes. Although she was the one who proposed the cooperation, who could guarantee that they wouldn't use this as a pretext to attack her? It would also take up a lot of her energy to keep an eye on Helika and the other two.