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

Chapter Ninety-Two: The Girl's...Final Chapter?

"Dean! That...that is...excuse me...that church..."

The reporter interviewing Mashiro was already incoherent, but out of professional spirit, he still shakily held up the microphone in front of Mashiro.

Even Mashiro Gyoken's usually calm and collected face showed a slight ripple of emotion when she faced the reporters.

The current developments have indeed caught her off guard.

Has Saint Shion really gone this far?

Would they rather expose the entire secrets of the Holy Age Academy, revealing that enormous, unknown sanctuary to everyone, than fail to stop themselves?

But Saint Hymn did indeed achieve it.

Surrounded by reporters, Mashiro Gorgen had no way to escape the crowded environment, let alone transform into a magical girl to stop Seishin.

Unless, of course, she wanted to use this method to prove that everything Saint Hymn said was true.

"For your safety, I suggest you leave now."

Genken Mashiro took a deep breath and shifted his gaze from the towering cathedral back to the reporter.

"Otherwise, if anything unexpected happens within the Holy Eternal Academy, please bear the consequences yourself."

……

The dome of the white church, which broke through the ground, rose higher and higher amidst constant and violent tremors. In just a few breaths, it had already surpassed the main building of the Holy Age Academy, which also had a church-style architecture, and became the tallest building in this area.

Some dirt and rubble still clung to the church's dome and walls, constantly being shaken off and falling to the ground as the building roared to life, creating a dangerous downpour that threatened to injure anyone who touched it.

But the danger only applies to ordinary people.

In the eyes of Yuuki Yukino and her magical girls, this level of physical damage, even if it hit them, would at most only cause a slight pain, and would not even cause any external injury.

But if the slowly rising cathedral is left unattended, the consequences will be far more serious than just a few painful moments for these magical girls to resolve.

The girls dared not pause for a moment, and their flight speed, propelled by magic, increased once again.

Suddenly, the church spire flashed like a signal lighthouse in a vast ocean.

"careful!"

As soon as Yuuki Yuki uttered those words, she heard a muffled sound of magic piercing through her body right next to her ear.

Sakura Hanako, who was at the back of the group, had her momentum completely halted, and she was sent flying backward like a badminton shuttlecock that had been hit.

The finger-sized hole that pierced Sakura Hanako's side was the culprit that caused her to become like this, and Sakura Hanako herself only realized that she had been attacked after being pierced.

The instant Sakura Hanako's pupils constricted, she fell onto solid ground, rolling several times in the snow before finally coming to a stop, the red stain slowly spreading from her face.

"Sakura!" Mizuno Yu called out softly, and was the first to fly towards the direction where Sakura Hanako had fallen.

The light on the spire flickered again, and a dangerous aura rushed toward Mizuno Yu.

"Don't go!" Yuuki Yui shouted.

Mizuno Yu reacted quickly, immediately turning around when she heard Yuuki Yu's call, trusting Yuuki Yu. However, she was still a step too slow compared to what was rapidly approaching her.

A beam of light pierced through Mizuno Yu's shoulder. Mizuno Yu, who had just braked in mid-air and had not yet regained her balance, completely lost her balance and fell straight down onto the playground of Seiyuu Academy.

In terms of magical girl experience, Mizuno Yu is much better than Sakura Hanako. Just before falling to the ground, she used her magic to create a large ball of water beneath her, cushioning the impact of the fall.

"cough……"

Mizuno Yu coughed twice and slowly got up from the cushion of pure water. The wound on her shoulder that had been pierced was now covered with a thin layer of ice.

Her injuries were much less severe than Sakura Hanako's, but judging from the arm that Mizuno Yu was hanging down, she would not be able to use that arm for a while.

Mizuno Yu gritted her teeth and lifted her face, which was covered in sweat from the pain.

The image reflected in her aquamarine pupils was even more despairing.

The magical light atop the spire flickered once more.

This means the next attack is imminent.

With Sakura Hanako already incapacitated, a group of magical girls who suffered almost no damage, and herself as a fixed target, it goes without saying who the enemy's target is.

With the speed of that attack, by the time Mizuno Yu saw it, it was too late to defend herself.

Immediately afterwards, her vision was filled with pure white magic.

However, this magic unexpectedly brings a sense of peace.

With a loud bang and a powerful surge of magical energy, a crater about one centimeter deep, resembling a bullet hole, appeared out of nowhere on the ground a few meters away from Mizuno Yu. It was so small that it was almost invisible unless you looked closely.

Then came the extremely displeased voice of Helica, the Thunder God.

"It hurts so much! How can this thing be so powerful?! I feel like my whole arm is going to be ruined!"

"Good job blocking that, Helica!" Yuuki Yuuki praised quickly, her brain working overtime.

From the moment Sakura Hanako was hit to Helica's decisive activation of Divine Release, shielding Mizuno Yu from the third attack by an unidentified enemy who couldn't dodge, it all happened within a few seconds.

However, everything happened too fast, so fast that the slightest mistake could drastically reverse the situation on the battlefield.

Three attacks were enough for Yuuki En to see the enemy's pattern clearly—a simple and unadorned magical attack, extremely fast, with highly concentrated magical energy and great destructive power.

It's a sniper shot!

"The enemy is sniping at us! Everyone scatter! Advance at full speed while dodging their attacks!"

Yuuki Yukino immediately made her discovery public.

Everyone could be a target of the other's attack, so advancing in a dispersed manner is the best solution.

But since everyone is in danger, the same goes for the fallen Sakura Hanako and the injured Mizuno Yu. Therefore, someone must stay behind to take care of them, otherwise being hit in a vital spot by such an attack would be no laughing matter.

"Herika, you stay and protect them!"

"understand!"

The other magical girls responded in unison and stepped back from Yuuki Yuuki's side, their formation immediately becoming more dispersed, but this greatly increased the space each person had to move around in.

The light at the top of the tower flickered again, but for the magical girls who already knew the secret, its threat was no longer so great.

Hong Moli immediately swung down with her greatsword, cleaving the oncoming magic bullet in two. However, this also slowed her down considerably. Judging from her trembling hands, blocking such an attack was extremely difficult for her.

However, the opponent can only attack one target. With Hong Moli under attack, the others can use this brief opening to close the distance with the unknown enemy.

While moving forward, Yuuki Yuki never stopped analyzing the current situation and thinking of countermeasures.

This is not an ability that Seishion should have. Judging from the remaining magic in the air, this magic has nothing to do with Utsuki Mashiro.

There are more than three magical girls hidden within St. Yuu Academy.

Yuuki Yukino suddenly felt fortunate that she had gone all out to subdue Kuroba Reisei from the very beginning, otherwise the situation would have been even worse.

Another sniper shot was completely neutralized by the explosion caused by Inuyama Tomoe's extremely destructive gun blade, and Tomoe only paused slightly in the air.

Yuuki Yuuki seemed to vaguely remember this wand.

……

not long ago.

"You're asking about the enemies who left a deep impression on me, and a few relatively weaker ones, besides the blonde woman I told you about, who else could be considered as such?"

With his arms crossed and legs crossed, Laughing Mountain spoke to Yuuki En, who had just grown stronger after her battle with Hanzawa Kuriko.

"Anyway, all those magical girls' wands have the names of angels, like judgment, punishment, or divine retribution, that's about it, right?"

"However, their attack methods are quite interesting. They're a bit different from how we magical girls fight. They're all aiming to kill, like sniping, setting traps, and ambushing. In short, they're not fair and square at all, and I quite dislike them."

"While magical girls generally won't die from taking one or two hits, they'll definitely lose their ability to fight. However, their attacks were useless against me, so I just dealt with them and chased them all away."

……

If the enemy is indeed as Lava Lamp described, then they should be a member of the Holy Sisters Order formed by St. Eternal Academy to deal with the corrupted magical girls.

But the Sisters of the Sanctuary should have been completely eliminated by Mashiro Urokin, so why are they still here?

Could it be that the falling out between Mashiro and Shion was just a pretense, and that they were just bait to lure me here?

While Yuuki Yukari was pondering, Hyakki Senyou nimbly dodged an attack of magic bullets aimed at them, buying them more time to advance.

The girls are now only one step away from the spire that is attacking the magical girls.

Whatever the correct answer may be, you can use your own eyes to determine it.

Just then, the magical light from the nearby spire flashed once more.

This time it wasn't just one, but three in total.

At the same time, the girls all clearly saw this unbelievable scene.

Yuuki Eri, who was flying at the very front of the group, had her left leg, ribs, and the back of her head all pierced directly by magic.

Yuuki Yuuki's body swayed a few times, and then, like a kite with a broken string, she accelerated her fall towards the ground.

Chapter Ninety-Three: Even the Nameless Will Cry Out

The spire at the top of the great cathedral, rising from the ground, inside the tower.

The long-haired nun pulled the bolt, filling the gun chamber with yet another crystal-clear magic bubble.

Although the first shot successfully hit the only magical girl in the enemy team with healing abilities, she was unable to inflict any effective damage from the second shot onwards.

At most, it would only cause a magical girl to lose the ability to move one arm.

Meanwhile, the blue aura flowing around the magical girl whose shoulder he had struck was gradually healing the wound, and her drooping arm could slowly be moved again.

This means one thing—even if the other person doesn't have the ability to heal others, their self-healing ability, gained through their desire, is terrifyingly strong.

This is truly the worst possible outcome.

If we don't take care of that blue-haired magical girl, she can simply provide cover fire from behind, so attacking her would be of little benefit.

The dispersed magical girls further deprived the nun, who was perched atop the tower pulling the bolt of her gun, of her target. No matter which one she attacked, the rest of the magical girls would continue to move closer to her.

Whether blocked or dodged, her bullets could no longer touch the bodies of the ever-approaching magical girls.

If a magical girl who can only use long-range sniping attacks were to be approached, the consequences would be predictable.

If things continue like this, my failure is only a matter of time.

Are you going to go all out and use that move?