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

"Your favorite characters are Hitachi Mako and Ayachi Nene. Tsk, you have good taste."

"You got three of the four featured characters in the last mobile game collaboration pool, but you didn't get the one you wanted. You complained about it in the group and got banned for half a month."

"Your favorite place is a small wonton shop next to the morning market. You even skipped class to eat there once."

"Your card game ID is: The browser history of the loser will be automatically published on their phone."

"What is your favorite notebook?"

Yuuki Yui interrupted the other person loudly: "Stop!! Don't say anything!"

If left to continue, Yuuki Yukino doesn't know how much more of her past embarrassing history she will hear.

Knowing these things doesn't prove anything. If the other party has the ability to read minds, then they could know all of these things as well.

But the fact that they always manage to pick their own embarrassing past is something that can't be done simply by reading memories.

"You believe me?" The pink-haired girl crossed her arms.

"I'll just believe you for now," Yuuki Yui said ambiguously. The gloomy mood she felt during her battle with Tsukimi Rie was actually eased quite a bit by this interruption.

"Never mind, I didn't expect you to completely trust me anyway. As long as we can solve the problem at hand, that's fine. I'm here to help you, and I don't mean you any harm." The girl clapped her hands a few times, as if to end the previous topic.

Even if you know that this person might indeed be yourself, there are many possibilities, such as parallel worlds, or consciousness emerging from the depths of your heart, etc. It cannot be explained simply by saying "I am you".

Even if she says she has no ill intentions towards me, who can guarantee that they won't harm me?

After all, there's still a white-haired, tight-fitting, black-skinned archer on the neighboring moon who wants to kill his past self.

Yuuki Yuki, still somewhat skeptical, looked herself up and down: "Before you help me, shouldn't you explain this to me clearly? What exactly is going on?"

"This is the Star Sea, a space that belongs only to your consciousness. Because you were in danger, I pulled you in." The pink-haired girl said frankly, "Oh, of course, only your consciousness can be pulled in. Your body is still outside. The moment you regain consciousness, you will be hit by the crystal meteorite."

"and then?"

"And then? What then? If you take this meteor impact, you're done for! It's... over! Waaaaah, so pitiful." The pink-haired girl pretended to cry, wiping away tears.

Seeing the other person with the same face as her doing the things she would definitely do, Yuuki Yuki inexplicably became furious.

"Alright, I know you have a lot of questions, but there are many things I can't answer. If I'm vague, I'll get called a riddle-maker again, so I choose not to say anything." The pink-haired girl seemed to know that Yuuki Yui had reached her limit, and she toned down her playful attitude. "Just know that I'm here to help you."

"So how are you going to help me? By using someone else's account to play for you? And while you're at it, by possessing my body?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? There's no such thing as possession in the world of magical girls. Do you think this is some kind of fantasy? Besides, don't you never watch fantasy?"

"You still haven't given me a straight answer about the account boosting service?"

"I've been deliberately not answering, and you still don't understand what I mean? We're the same person! Okay, okay, I'll give you my formal answer: no one can use a substitute. No one can use a substitute with real name release. The difference in combat power is too great."

"I've been entangled with her for so long, and I don't have a single chance of winning?"

"When you tried to take your cat to get vaccinated, you had quite a few struggles with it. Did it really manage to kill you?"

What the pink-haired girl said was indeed crude but reasonable, making it easy to understand, but also easy to make people angry.

"So you're telling me to cultivate in this consciousness space?" Yuuki Yuen thought of a similar scene from a manga.

"What can you possibly train to become stronger? Do you really think you can get stronger by staying in a place where time flows differently from the outside world for a while? Don't really think of yourself as the protagonist of a shonen manga. Besides, if shonen manga does this, isn't it just deus ex machina? You don't believe that, do you?"

"Can't you speak properly!" The other person's aura was completely at odds with her appearance as a pink-haired beauty. Seeing her face like this, Yuuki Yukino felt a surge of anger.

"Why hide it from me? Isn't that tiring?" The girl crossed her legs without caring about her image.

Yuuki Yui completely gave up on trash-talking this guy. Her body was still in danger, just as she had said. Even though the matter had faded a bit, it was still a major obstacle in her path. Just thinking about it made Yuuki Yui not want to waste any more time with him.

"Then what do you suggest? Do I have to go through some kind of trial with you, fight you, and then I can awaken new power?" Yuuki asked bluntly.

"Ah, that's not necessary. You can fight me if you want, but unfortunately I'm not interested in those classic shonen manga. I'm not the dark side of your heart either, so defeating me won't do you any good."

"Then tell me what you plan to do?!"

“I will give you the ability to liberate your real name. Actually, you have been able to liberate your real name for a long time, but because I never intended to let you liberate your real name, you can’t use it.”

"why?"

"Because when you encounter danger, you suddenly learn the True Name Release, and then use that power to defeat a powerful enemy and win the victory, isn't that cool? That's how it's always portrayed, right?"

"what?"

"And this is good for you. Combat is the best way to increase your experience. Don't you feel like you've gotten a little stronger when you fight Ms. Hui?"

"Are you out of your mind? Are you crazy? If it weren't for you, would I have been beaten up like this? Would I be about to be killed by a meteorite?"

Yuuki grabbed the pink-haired girl's hand amidst her surprised gaze and kicked her hard in the stomach.

"Are you crazy? I'm here to help you, not to get kicked!"

The pink-haired girl kicked back defiantly.

It feels like we haven't fought for such a childish reason since graduating from elementary school. Many years later, Yuuki Yukina finally got to relive the feeling of fighting as a child.

Although you've been beaten black and blue, your opponent is in about the same condition, which is what we call an evenly matched opponent.

"Explain yourself again. What exactly happened to you? How did you pull me into the Sea of ​​Consciousness?" Yuuki Yui sat cross-legged on the ground, rubbing her slightly sore cheek and pointing with her fingers.

"What sea of ​​consciousness? Are you suffering from chuunibyou? That's called the space of consciousness."

"Almost there! Let's go with the consciousness space then."

"Alright, that's about right. Now I'll have to tell you all about it."

"Stop talking nonsense, I'm about to die! Won't you die if I die?"

"Yes, although I don't really have the concept of death."

Yuuki Yukino frowned; it seemed that the other person's words were deliberately trying to reveal some information to her.

There is no concept of death?

In Yuuki Yuuki's mind, everything can die.

"I know what you're thinking. Let me explain it to you in the simplest terms. Right now, to use a fantasy term, I'm a wisp of divine consciousness."

Yuuki Yukino knew that the pink-haired girl was using this kind of joke to lighten the mood, but she didn't find it funny. This was already a kind of unconventional riddle-maker.

"You just said I don't read fantasy novels."

"Yes, that's right, then I am the system in the system novel."

"I don't read system texts either."

"Okay, in terms you can understand, I'm like an AI, an AI trained with your data, understand? So I don't have the concept of death. And I will always exist, right here."

The girl leaned closer, raised her finger, and gently poked Yuuki Yukino's stomach.

"In my stomach?"

"Black Demon Mark! You idiot!" The girl turned her fingers into a fist and punched Yuuki Yuuki hard in the stomach.

The punch was so painful that Yuuki Yukina clutched her stomach and rolled on the ground in agony.

"There's something very important I need to tell you beforehand." The girl squatted down in front of Yuuki Yuuki, who was rolling around in pain, and gently rubbed the spot where she had been hit.

"Is there anything else you want to say?" Yuuki Yui curled up and glared at her fiercely.

"Three times. The consciousness space can only be opened three times, so I can only help you three times. It's not time for you to know anything else. Even if I explained quantum mechanics to you when you were in elementary school, you wouldn't understand, right? Although you still don't understand now. Anyway, this is the first time, so cherish the time we spend together."

Before Yuuki Yukino could understand why she was being told these things, the pink-haired girl, with her hands on her hips, laughed exaggeratedly and dramatically: "Alright, my punch has unlocked your True Name Release! Girl! Go and defeat the enemy!"

Perhaps it was her self-understanding, or perhaps it was some kind of intuition, but Yuuki Yuuki always felt that this girl who claimed to be herself was very strange.

It's a strange feeling that's hard to explain. Everything she does and says is essentially what she would do and say, but there's just something off about it.

It's not what she calls AI; it's more like an excited state when she's experiencing neurasthenia or mental stress to its limit.

The shifts in emotions, the change of topics, and the use of memes often feel forced, as if trying to prove that the other person is themselves, or as if they are afraid of finding out that the other person is not the real them.

This situation is somewhat similar to when I was unable to make progress recently and was ignored by Helica and her group.

"I say, aren't you getting a little excited?"

Yuki asked casually.

"Ugh, really." The girl stomped her foot in annoyance, took a few deep breaths, and let out a long sigh that Yuuki Yuen could hear from a distance.

"That's so true to me."

The pink-haired girl lifted her foot, which was wearing indoor shoes, and stomped it hard on the ground. A crack started from her foot and spread out in a spider web pattern, all the way to Yuuki Yukari's body.

With a crisp shattering sound, Yuuki Yuki felt the ground disappear again, like a shattered glass walkway with glittering fragments, causing her to fall once more into a darkness deeper than the starry sky.

The pink-haired girl stood in the air, looking down at her with a complicated gaze. The face that resembled hers grew farther and farther away until it disappeared from sight.

Yuuki Yukino was still falling, but she could feel the wind—the cold night wind, the strong wind brought by the meteorite, which blew up the broken pages of the book beside her.

This is no longer a virtual space, but reality. I just fought with that pink-haired girl and got punched twice. My body is still sore.

No, the pain in her body wasn't caused by the fight. The real culprit was the meteorite that had already hit her and was about to hit the top of the tower.

But at this moment, something seemed to have entered Yuuki Yukino's heart.

That was a name, the name of her wand.

She murmured it in her heart, she murmured it aloud, murmuring that name that even she herself knew nothing about.

But that was the name of her wand, or so she thought.

"Those without appearance."

All the lines that tried to block the meteorite melted away. The lines swirled and twisted, returning to Yuuki Yuki's side, merging and separating like fluids, like a pool of constantly writhing liquid.

A hand emerged from the muddy pool made of lines. It should be called a hand, composed of countless tentacles, with only four fingers. It had a shape and joints that differed from those of humans, but it was essentially empty, not fundamentally different from the phantom weapon that Yuuki Yuki created with her wand.

But it was too big, big enough to hold the meteorite in its grasp, and the powerful grip forcefully changed the meteorite's trajectory.

To Tsukimi Rie's astonishment, the attack she unleashed—a meteorite that would have captured the attention of the entire Moonsea City—was crushed to pieces by the tentacle hand created by the purple phantom.

Chapter 115 Come at me head-on!

There is an unwritten rule for magical girls to unleash their true names: their wands must be named after a deity. This rule is followed by deities such as the goddess of marriage, Tohru, and Aphrodite, as mentioned by Miya Miya.

The wands of corrupted magical girls also follow the same rule; their wands must be named after a monster or an evil character, such as Lilith and Leviathan.

What Yuuki En found strange was that the true name of her wand was neither a monster nor a god, but rather something that reminded people of a mysterious organization's code name or a black, faceless man.

Those without features sound weak.

But the power she displayed after her true name was released was by no means weak. She crushed the meteorite that almost killed her. Even she herself couldn't believe it.