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

This is... magic plundering?

And over such a large area?

Ordinary corrupted magical girls can plunder magic power by directly contacting their opponents, just like Miya Miyashita did, but directly extracting magic power is not a simple matter.

“I experimented with the method recorded in that mark. Although it’s impossible to create a new, similar mark, this level of magic plundering is still achievable.”

Seeing Helica's surprised expression, Yuuki Yuuki seemed to have misunderstood and whispered an explanation to Helica.

Helica was indeed amazed that Yuuki Yuki had done it in an instant, but she was more surprised by why Yuuki Yuki had done it.

"What...what are you doing...if someone finds out..."

Herlica wanted to point at the surveillance camera and loudly accuse Yuuki Yuki, but when her peripheral vision fell on the monitor, she found that it was already covered with dense tentacles, completely obscuring the images it could capture.

It seems that Yuuki Yui was prepared in advance and had decided to do this a long time ago.

"Even if you can't see it, you can't do something like this... It's a bit..."

Herlica really wanted to continue refuting Yuuki Yuki's simple, crude, and excessive behavior, but Yuuki Yuki's purpose in coming here was not for that insignificant amount of magic power, much less to do these evil deeds, so it was a bit inappropriate for her to keep saying things that contradicted her.

However, just thinking about how Yuuki En might also be tainted by the filth of the Black Demon Mark and actually do such a thing in the future made Tenrai Herika a little worried.

If, just if, Yuuki Eri were to one day truly fall into defilement and be unable to extricate herself, what she would exhibit might not be the rampage in the dream world, nor the direct and decisiveness of Hayashi Mustard.

She is more likely to become a terrifying enemy similar to Mashiro Gorakure now, speaking cute words while doing incredibly terrifying things, making it impossible to understand what she is thinking, yet always having her own plans.

Although it was just a fleeting inspiration, it already made Helica's hands and feet feel a little cold.

"Do you think I went a bit too far? Or do you think this is a bit scary?" Yuuki Yuuki put her packed schoolbag on the table and asked Tenrei Herika.

Helica didn't speak, but her expression betrayed her thoughts.

"Pfft." Yuuki Yukino chuckled softly, glancing around the entire classroom behind her. "Even after seeing this, you still think the same way?"

Helica paused for a moment.

What does this scene refer to? What exactly is Yuuki Yukino trying to say?

Aren't they just a group of girls who collapsed from exhaustion after being subjected to a large-scale magical drain? What's so interesting about that?

Herlica looked around with a bewildered expression, half-understanding, but the scene before her was completely different from what she had imagined and what she had just seen.

There were indeed many girls lying haphazardly around, but this was not all that Helica Tenrai saw.

What Yuuki Yukino wanted her to see—those bizarre changes—was happening to these girls who were falling into a daze.

Gurgle.

The sound of something wriggling rang in Helica's ears, echoing endlessly around her. These sounds seemed to transform the bodies of every fainting girl into a bubbling swamp.

Helica frowned and looked even more closely.

Helica saw a hand inexplicably reach out from behind the girl who had collapsed to the ground.

Pale and thin, like a doll's arm, it stretched out continuously amidst a sticky, gurgling sound that made people feel physically uncomfortable.

Immediately afterwards, the hand fell limply to the ground, as if it had lost all support.

But soon Herika could see the taut muscles on that arm, which slowly rose again, like a spider's leg supporting itself on the tiled floor.

This reminded her of an example that Yuuki Yukino had given before.

It's the kind of monster called the Inner Sparrow, which is said to grow inside humans and devour them.

They may manipulate the host's body, but one day they will break free from the host's body, spread their wings and fly to farther places, continuing to pass on this despair.

Then, one leg stretched out tentatively, almost touching the arm supporting it on the ground, like a newly hatched chick cautiously exploring the world.

The curled toes touched everything, gradually increasing their range of motion as the legs became more complete. The bent knees made it clear to Herika that the body that kept crawling out was completely naked.

After some tentative steps, her fair toes landed firmly on the ground.

Seeing an arm and a leg presented in such an unnatural, bent way from a person's body, Herika couldn't think of any other adjective besides "grotesque."

Supported by her arms and legs, half of her body slowly began to emerge from the body of the girl who was lying on the ground, like a human-shaped doll that had been forcibly folded into a small box being poured out.

This also reminded Herika of a crab molting. If she hadn't seen how that horrific thing crawled out of the girl's body, Herika would never have been able to imagine it.

*Splat*

The naked, twisted humanoid figure fell to the ground, then got up in an extremely bizarre posture.

Beneath her disheveled long hair, a venomous gaze pierced through her bangs, fixed intently on Yuuki Yukino, who stood by the table, pressing her schoolbag against it without any reaction.

These gazes weren't just in one place, but rather densely packed, filling every corner of the classroom.

Helica hadn't counted them, but there must have been a humanoid creature standing, lying, or curled up in an extremely contorted position next to every student in the cram school.

However, the girl who was the host seemed to be fine. At least Helica could still see the slight rise and fall of her chest, which proved that she still had basic physiological functions and was no different from when Yuuki Yuuki had just drained some of her magic power.

Then, the humanoid creature spoke, and its high-pitched voice wasn't unpleasant; in fact, it was rather pleasant to the ear.

"You've found us."

"That despicable guy, that vile guy, doesn't he want to let us weaklings go?"

"What did we do wrong? We just want to be loved, we just want to have more companions, we just want to continue living as human beings."

Just as Yuuki Yuki had said, Herika saw the worms she had mentioned for the first time and heard their words.

Moreover, seeing and hearing it so clearly is as disgusting as peeling open a crab's shell and watching its wriggling internal organs.

Those humanoid monsters had the same appearance, the same voice, and spoke the same words, just like a group of cloned dolls.

When these replica dolls spoke, it was as if dozens of copies of the same audio track had been played together, making Herika wonder if they had driven her brain crazy with all that noise.

They're so noisy, still babbling incoherently, complaining about how wronged they are and how annoying Yuuki Yuki is. It's so noisy that Herika just wants to grab one of them and tear her to pieces.

However, in a confined environment, Helica's abilities and wand are not easy to use, and she does not want to accidentally hurt these innocent ordinary people during the operation.

Moreover, Yuuki Yuki hasn't made a move yet.

Taking action without authorization will cause Yuuki Eri a lot of trouble.

Yuuki Yukino clapped her hands twice, as if to brush off the dust from her hands.

"It seems to be pretty much what I deduced."

"What...what's going on..."

What Herlica saw before her eyes almost confirmed their previous speculations, but Herlica still knew nothing about the details, such as why Yuuki Yukino did such a thing, and why they actually appeared because of it.

Before Yuuki Yuuki could answer, one of the girls who looked exactly the same stood up and took it upon herself to answer Helica's question.

"We are our mother's children, we are children who dream of the future, we are children who yearn for companionship and love."

Another person got up from the desk and continued speaking, picking up where the previous one left off.

"This world is not beautiful, this world is hopeless, this world is on the verge of extinction."

Then, another one followed seamlessly, taking over the conversation the moment the previous one had just closed their mouth.

"Come and become us, come and celebrate the grand opening of this end of the world, come and witness the arrival of a new era."

What kind of nonsense is this? Who asked you?

Herlica knew from the first sight of these grotesque things that she could never like them.

After listening to these guys' rambling remarks, she became even more convinced that she couldn't connect with these kinds of people at all; just hearing their voices made her feel a little uncomfortable.

“I said before that the condition for them to ‘incubate’ is corruption. But now it seems that I made a small mistake. Corruption is their end point, not their beginning point.”

After the annoying voices gradually subsided, Yuuki Yuuki slowly spoke up to help Helica understand the current situation.

A voice screamed, "We're not parasites! We're not!"

Another voice shouted, "We are human beings! We are human beings! Do you know what it means to be human?"

Yuuki Yui completely ignored these pointless remarks, shrugged helplessly at Helica, and continued talking.

"The parasites planted in the body grow by absorbing the master's essence. Their life's goal is to corrupt the master. Only in this way can they possess the master's body—otherwise, we wouldn't be seeing them naked now."

As if afraid that Tenrai Herika would misunderstand her, Yuuki Yuuki deliberately added, "I didn't mean not wearing clothes, but that I can't use the host's body."

Helica didn't like to overthink things, and Yuuki Yuki's explanation was clear and straightforward enough.

Yuuki knew that doing this would force them out, so she did it, and that's how they came out. It was that simple.

"It sounds confusing, but anyway, these bad guys are behind it, right?"

Helica only wanted to know what she should do; she didn't care about anything else.

"So, as long as we take care of them, there won't be any problems, right?"

"Ah, indeed."

Yuuki Yukino nodded.

“However, Helica, you seem to have misunderstood something. It’s not just about getting rid of them; I’ve already taken care of them all.”

Tentacles, like spikes in a trap, shot out from some unknown dark corner, piercing through all the girl-like monsters scattered throughout the room like iron maidens. What was originally a good tutoring class instantly turned into a hell of needles.

The tentacles slowly withdrew, and the screaming girls fell to the ground amidst even more piercing cries, shattering and turning into scattered fragments of light.

After that, all was silent.

Chapter 169 Insect Extermination

"No! No! No! We don't want to die! We want to live! We want to be human! We are human! We..."

The girl screamed, her pupils shrunken to mere tiny black dots as she watched the rapidly spinning chainsaw pierce her chest.

The roaring chainsaw and the corrupted magical girl wielding it showed no emotion; she simply churned the fragments of magic within the fallen girl's body, scattering them into the air until, in the end, even the girl herself was reduced to scattered magic.

"The ninth one, the efficiency is a bit low."

Hong Moli shook the chainsaw in her hand. Although it wasn't stained with blood or any other filth, she still did it out of habit.

Despite knowing that the other party was not human, Hong Moli still felt no pleasure from doing such a thing with her own hands. On the contrary, the extremely human-like feel made her feel a little disgusted.

Hyakki Senyou emerged from beside Koumori like a shadow, the hilt and scabbard fitting together with a crisp click.

Behind Hyakki Senyou, a naked girl was severed in two, disappearing as magical specks of light before she fell.

The hand that had moved away from the hilt of the sword quietly touched Hong Moli's trembling hand, offering her comfort in silence.

“Mari, it’s only morning, nine is already a lot.”