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

Herlica tilted her head and picked at her ear with her little finger, completely disregarding her image, as if she wanted to dig all that trash talk out of her ear.

"Ah, say less, say less. I'm in a hurry to beat up your so-called Mother. If you want to, come at me all at once."

After that, Helica lowered her little finger and beckoned to the group of nuns.

"Come on, if you can do it, give it a try."

Meanwhile, in another part of Moonsea City.

The glass curtain wall at the subway station exit shattered with a crash, and lush greenery, like that of early spring, burst forth from the cracks. A girl with short, purplish-pink hair, holding a serpent staff, slowly emerged from behind the broken wall. The sound of the staff's tip striking the ground irresistibly drew the attention of everyone in the subway station.

"Fly!"

Sakura Hanako spoke softly, and before she finished speaking, the blades of grass that flew out of the crack suddenly froze in mid-air, as if time had stopped.

The edges of the blades of grass gleamed with a cold, razor-sharp light. A gale swept up millions of blades of grass, swirling them into a verdant tornado that engulfed several nuns who were reveling around the imprisoned tourists.

The leaves sliced ​​through their mud-stained robes and their fair skin, and black viscous fluid gushed from the cuts. Before the nuns could react, they burst open like balloons filled with mud.

Sakura Hanako lightly touched down with her feet and landed steadily on the shattered turnstile. She pointed her serpent staff at the nuns, and the emerald tornado changed direction, flying towards the nuns who had witnessed their companion being cut to pieces and were fleeing.

"Damn it! Damn it! What are you doing! Why are you stopping us! Why are you bullying us! We just want our comrades! Our comrades!"

The nun screamed and retreated, but the tornado had already blocked their escape route. The leaves, like scalpels, precisely peeled away their outer shells, cutting them back into scattered black mud.

The fact that the nuns who had been troubling them were all broken brought a sense of relief to those who witnessed it.

"Be careful and try to stay away from public places. They crawl out of human bodies. As long as you don't come into contact with other people, it's okay."

Sakura Hanako directed the people trapped in the subway station to escape quickly.

On the central avenue of the commercial district of Moonsea City.

It was springtime, but the pervasive chill made everyone around shiver.

A pale, frosty aura spread through the streets. A girl with long, light blue hair slowly emerged from the icy mist, raising a translucent frost-covered longbow. The ice crystals condensed on the bowstring flickered and shimmered with the rhythm of her breathing.

With a blank expression, Mizuno Yu drew back the bowstring, and an ice arrow materialized out of thin air, its tip reflecting the distorted images of the nuns.

The nun, who was about to rush toward the crying child, suddenly stopped—her ankle had somehow been locked to the ground by frost.

Mizuno Yu loosened her grip, the arrow piercing the air with a soft crackling sound. An ice flower bloomed on the nun's chest, the extreme cold spreading rapidly along the veins of her filthy nun's robes, freezing her into an ice sculpture, yet her face still held the disbelief she had shown when she turned her head.

Amid the child's sobs, the ice sculpture shattered into dust with a cracking sound.

Mizuno Yu glanced at the nun trying to crawl out of the black mud, then fired three arrows in quick succession. The arrows exploded in mid-air into countless ice spikes, raining down and embedding themselves into the mud, freezing every drop of black mud on the ground into ice beads.

A distant rumble of thunder caused Mizuno Yu to turn her head and stop, briefly putting down her Ice Bow.

The nuns seemed to see the perfect opportunity to retaliate, and they charged towards Mizuno Yu with shouts.

Without even turning his head, Mizuno Yui flicked his fingertips, and three more spiral arrows condensed on the bow, tearing through the air and shooting out.

The temperature on the entire street plummeted.

Wherever the ice traces passed, the nuns who rushed forward seemed to be frozen in time, as if they were in a photograph. The ice sculptures, each with a different shape, reflected dazzling light under the neon lights, and then shattered into a shower of frost and snow in the next second.

The roaring matchlock guns, the booming chainsaws, the halberds whistling through the air, and the ever-silent chainsaws—wherever the wand passed, countless nuns fell, tumbling into the boiling black mud, returning to nothingness from the place of their birth.

Passersby were speeding away, seizing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to escape the pervasive fear.

But the magical girls are still fighting, still restless.

The reasons that will annoy them are already clear.

Their enemies arrived even faster than they did.

Chapter 183 Dividing the Troops

The solid ground at the crossroads suddenly began to tremble violently, and the whole earth rumbled, but the fervent nuns standing on the ground did not stop their steps and continued to dance joyfully.

The dark purple, semi-transparent, imaginary tentacles pierced the ground and penetrated the nuns' bodies, freezing their movements in that moment.

In an instant, the empty street transformed into a dark purple garden of thorns.

A pink-haired girl with long hair, standing on a magic book, slowly descended from the sky. She lowered her eyes and scrutinized the nuns pierced by tentacles below. Her eyes showed no emotion typical of those who treat living beings, only an undisguised disgust.

Translucent tentacles crawled out from under the grimoire, slowly circling Yuuki Yuuki's slender waist. In the dark purple light, they shimmered with an ethereal glow that seemed to exist outside this world, making Yuuki Yuuki resemble a beautiful, alluring, and highly venomous jellyfish with a pink umbrella-shaped cap that had just crawled out of an unknown abyss.

"It's, it's, it's the pink devil! We're doomed!"

A cry of anguish erupted from the crowd who were trying to escape but were being squeezed into space by the nuns.

"No, wait, that can't be right! The pink demon... she seems to be attacking those monsters! Are we... are we all alright?" someone asked incredulously, hardly believing their eyes.

The tentacles transformed into thorns that precisely pierced the bodies of each nun, yet cleverly bypassed the ordinary people trapped within. Although the surroundings resembled a maze of thorns, at a glance, it appeared that no one was injured.

"Don't trust her too much! She's a pink devil, she'll... *sobs*!"

The woman, who was loudly questioning, hadn't even finished speaking when her mouth was blocked by splattered mud.

The nuns, impaled on the tentacle thorns, exploded.

Like water-filled balloons exploding, they burst, scattering mud everywhere. A light drizzle of black mud immediately fell on the street, pattering onto the ground and creating ripples.

The tentacles slowly retreated and were retracted into the magic book at the feet of the pink demon floating in mid-air.

A commotion broke out in the crowd. New possibilities emerged from the sudden change. Driven by the hope in people's hearts, the people, no longer hindered by the nuns, gradually became active.

"That's right! She's clearing out those monsters! She... she doesn't intend to attack us!"

"Great, great! Never mind why! Let's get out of here first!"

The people, finally free, began to run wildly, heading away from Yuuki Eri and towards what they considered safe.

Yuuki En glanced at the fleeing crowd below, then glanced at Lin Jiezi, who was mixed in with the crowd, without saying a word.

"Bad guy! Bad guy! Bad guy! Bad guy!"

On a distant building, a young girl in a nun's habit had just climbed up. Without even wiping the black mud off her face, she pointed at Yuuki Yuki and began to curse.

"You're bullying us! All you ever do is bully us! You've been the one bullying us all along! We just want to be human! We just want more companions! We did nothing wrong!"

Another nun used her hands and feet, like a nimble monkey, to climb to the top of the traffic light and shouted loudly.

From the shadowy corners, more nuns emerged, their faces almost identical and their voices nearly the same. They screamed and began to gather at Yuuki Yuki's feet, more and more, until it was terrifying.

However, this chilling scene had almost no effect on Yuuki Eri.

"I seem to have some misunderstanding about you. You are not only born from young girls; you seem to be everywhere?"

Yuuki Yuki shook his head from side to side, stretching his slightly stiff neck, seemingly lost in thought.

However, the pensive expression vanished in an instant; Yuuki Yukino was actually not thinking about anything at all.

"Forget it, whatever. If they're going to try and stop me like this, it seems like your situation isn't looking too good either."

"We are optimistic! We are cheerful! We are happy! We are joyful! We have many partners! And they are still being born! You can't stop them!"

These guys are talking nonsense.

Even the worst AI dialogue software wouldn't produce such an absurdly nonsensical situation.

Who cares? I'll lose if I take them even a little bit seriously.

Yuuki Yui slowly squatted down, sat on her magic book, crossed her legs, and propped her cheek up with one hand.

The other hand made only a simple gesture.

Snapped.

With a snap of her fingers, tentacles shot out, like giant sea urchins, expanding violently outwards from Yuuki Enishi's center, while the nuns' screams were simultaneously silenced.

……

The ice bow in Mizuno Yu's hand was clicking, and in a few breaths it had transformed into a large hexagonal snowflake that resembled a shield.

Mizuno Yu raised her hand and held the hexagonal snowflake high above her head. With one hand, she conjured a giant ice arrow, as thick as an arm and emitting a cold mist, and placed it in the very center of the snowflake.

He drew the bowstring taut with one hand, then released it. The ice arrow, now significantly larger, pierced through the hexagonal snowflakes and split into rising blue specks of light.

The points of light strung together in the air, forming an even larger ice flower. Countless ice arrows rained down from the ice flower, sweeping across the nuns in the street and turning the fleeing nuns into pincushions.

Even if some nuns managed to escape through the gaps in the ice arrows, they were pierced by tentacles that suddenly shot out the next second, collapsing powerlessly and melting into the black mud covering the ground.

"That's right. I took care of some of the enemies on my way here, but nobody knows if they will regroup. But there's one thing I do know."

Yuuki Yui, carrying Hayashi Mustard on her tentacles, sat on her magic book, sweeping away the remaining enemies with her tentacles while talking to Mizuno Yu.

“My previous investigation has come close to uncovering the truth hidden by Mashiro and Asahiya. To prevent me from learning their full plans, they have no choice but to take action now. Whether it's moving the Sanctuary to the Dream Realm or sending these guys out now, it's all to get ahead of us.”

Mizuno Yu glanced at Yuuki Yui out of the corner of her eye, while the ice crystals floating in her palm kept combining and condensing into the next giant ice arrow in her hand.

“I think the same way as you, otherwise they wouldn’t have suddenly launched an attack, and even tried to drag the entire Yuehai City into it. Now they are forced to carry out their plan, and now is the best time to stop them.”

Yuuki Yukino continued, "But it's not that easy, is it?"

Mizuno Yu was silent for two seconds before shooting the ice arrow in her hand into the sky.

"really."

These nuns and Yuuki En saw in Nishio Reki's memories that were different from those led by Seishine. They inherited the characteristics of what Yuuki En previously called parasites, or rather, they and those parasites were the same thing.

They lurk within humans, absorbing their magical energy to grow—but Yuuki Yuuki is mistaken in one way. Instigating girls to become corrupted magical girls is not their true purpose, nor do they necessarily need to parasitize girls to grow.

As long as someone feels fear or despair, as long as they are overwhelmed by negative emotions, new nuns will be born from them, and the birth of new nuns will intensify this process, creating a vicious cycle.

All of this is misinformation designed to mislead the magical girls' investigation, in order to conceal the monsters that have infiltrated almost every resident of Moonsea City, and the true purpose of Genken Mashiro and Asahiya.

Of course, they are not as strong as the nuns sent by the Holy Prayer, and their numbers are also limited. No matter how many there are, they cannot exceed the total population of Moonsea City.

But how many people are there in Yuehai City? Hundreds of thousands? Millions? Yuuki Yuen had absolutely no idea about this.

Moreover, since they are hidden among the crowd, large-scale sweeping attacks are simply ineffective. Therefore, if the magical girls want to eliminate the threat, they must proceed slowly, like picking fish bones, which will definitely waste a lot of their time.

Are they expendable pawns, or do they have other motives?

Regardless of the type, the magical girls' movements were slowed down. Even though everyone was heading towards the agreed-upon location, they were already much later than the previously agreed-upon meeting time.

The magical girls' efforts to clean up the population were simply a drop in the ocean compared to the already enormous and ever-reproducing creatures.

Since Yuuki Yui brought up the topic, Mizuno Yui immediately understood what Yuuki Yui meant.

So, should I stay or go with you?

Yuuki Yukino opened her mouth, and a smile appeared on her lips.

It's so convenient to talk to smart people.