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

I can't fall! I still have my sister, my sister Ling, and so many ordinary people behind me!

Sakuragawa Nana knows she's not a good girl, but even so, she's a magical girl and she has to fight for the people she should protect!

Sakuragawa Nana tried to pull her lance out of the ground again, but she no longer had the strength to do so. The wand she used to be able to swing with ease was now as heavy as the sword in the stone.

The nuns had already rushed to her side.

Sakuragawa Nana wanted to squeeze out all the strength in her body, so she concentrated her magic power into her fist, closed her eyes, and swung her fist at the nun who was leading the charge.

The nuns suddenly collapsed, like wheat that had been cut down; their bodies covered in black feathers fell down without warning.

Sakuragawa Nana cautiously opened her eyes, staring incredulously at the sudden turn of events before her.

She also saw the black-haired magical girl with wings slowly fluttering above her head.

She remembered this person: the corrupted magical girl who wreaked havoc at last year's summer festival, and who had also made a brief appearance around St. Yuu Academy at the end of last year.

This girl is definitely no match for me.

Sakuragawa Nana watched as Kuroba Laisei turned her head back, her wings slowly folding behind her as she landed in front of her.

The appearance of a corrupted magical girl before him was indeed a turning point, though it was a change that led to something worse, and could not be called a turning point at all.

"W-What are you going to do?"

Having already taken the opportunity to rest for a while, Sakuragawa Nana suddenly seemed to be injected with a stimulant, pulling the lance out of the ground again and pointing it at Kuroba Laisei in front of her.

"What about Yuuki Yuki?" Kuroba asked immediately.

"W-What do you want with Yuuki-neechan?!" Sakuragawa Nana's first thought wasn't why Yuuki Yuuki's name was here, but rather that she was worried that such a powerful corrupted magical girl might be a threat to Yuuki Yuuki.

Kuroba Laishi didn't want to waste any more words and gave an explanation that was hardly an explanation at all: "The current situation is inextricably linked to her. Where is she?"

"What does this have to do with Yuuki-neechan?" Sakuragawa Nana didn't understand at all. She only knew that the person in front of her was definitely the embodiment of evil, but she had absolutely no power to fight her.

Even if I have mastered the ability called True Name Liberation during this period, it is absolutely not enough.

Kuroba Laishi raised an eyebrow slightly, for the first time, "You don't know her identity?"

Sakuragawa Nana asked almost instinctively, "What... is her identity?"

Sakuragawa Nana knew that almost all the members of Nijisanji and that band called Ryouran Victory Road were related to magical girls, but at most she knew that Inuyama Tomoe was a corrupted magical girl who was with the pink devil, and she knew nothing about the identities of the others.

"Never mind, I'll go find someone else." Black Feather Reincarnation was silent for half a second, then fluttered its wings again, and its six wings slowly rose into the sky.

With a flick of its wings, a large swath of black feathers rained down, knocking down a group of nuns who had gathered again during their conversation.

"You're too weak. If you don't want to die, go find the others while I'm taking care of them."

Kuroba Laisei left with a cold look, and before Sakuragawa Nana could respond, he swept away like a black wind, leaving Sakuragawa Nana standing there in a daze.

……

Passersby in Moonsea City only saw a cloud of blood mist drift by. The nuns, stained with the blood mist, were cut into pieces like fish on a chopping board, leaving behind only a strong smell of blood and specks of crimson stains.

The stunned young man nudged the middle-aged woman next to him with his elbow and asked incredulously, "Are we...are we saved?"

The aunt next to me was stunned for a moment, then seemed to have made up her mind: "I don't know! Who cares! Let's run while we can! Let's get home!"

The aunt's words immediately garnered a large following, and the crowd that had been surrounded by the nuns finally began to move again.

"This is the end. I don't even know how many places we've been to tonight."

Hong Moli sighed. The crimson magic surrounding the girl was like a boiling pool of blood beneath her feet, fighting against the surrounding black silt and carving out a bright red road in the darkness for people to rest for a while.

She didn't have time to count exactly how many nuns she had eliminated, but she was happy to solve as many problems as possible.

No one has ever said that a corrupted magical girl must do bad things, nor has anyone ever said that a corrupted magical girl cannot protect this city.

Even wild beasts in the mountains know to drive away outsiders when their territory is threatened, let alone intelligent young women who deeply love this city.

Just as Hong Moli was about to head to the next place, an even bigger change occurred.

The first thing to happen was that the black silt began to boil again, and more nuns crawled out of it.

They are no longer the evil thoughts seeping out of humanity, but are being generated at an accelerated pace, as if someone has given them some kind of instruction.

"We have won!"

"We will conquer!"

"We! Become everything in this world!"

The nuns praised loudly, covered in black mud, and rushed toward the nearest target.

Some lunged at the running passersby, while others lunged at Hong Moli herself.

A scarlet blade emerged from the black mud, slicing the lunging nuns into pieces. Hong Moli moved again, cutting down every enemy within sight.

Hong Mako already knows that the person who wields this wand and these abilities is Asahimi, and there can only be one reason why this happened.

What is Asahi doing now in the dream world?

However, Koumori couldn't see what was happening in the Dreamland. All she could do now was to do what the remaining magical girls in the city had to do, and use her last bit of strength to protect the city.

Fortunately, she still had a lot of energy left.

……

In the dream world.

If Yuuki Yukino were to describe the scene she saw in the most vivid terms, it would be that the whole world was in an uproar.

Nuns, more and more nuns, an endless stream of nuns crawled out of the black mud, surging towards the magical girls like a swarm of insects.

They appeared incredibly fast, as if they had materialized out of thin air in the blink of an eye, densely packed and filling the girls' entire field of vision.

Twisted nuns crawled everywhere in the black mud, on the broken stairs, and even on the walls of the sanctuary, like a swarm of predators in a deep forest, staring at the girls with eyes that seemed capable of licking them clean.

"We will not let you hurt Mother!"

"We will defeat you! We will tear you apart! We will devour you!"

"The shackles our mother placed on us are no longer there!"

"Let us show you our power!"

The nuns, whom Yuuki Yui had always considered incredibly weak, seemed to finally reappear in the image of the things that Sacred Song carried with her in Yuuki Yui's memory, as well as the monsters created by Sacred Song's abilities.

Their aura has changed.

It has become more dangerous.

This was also the first time Yuuki Yuki had sensed danger from such a thing.

Wait a minute! Where's Asahi Miyabi?!

Yuuki Yui didn't have time to think for a moment. A rotating trioctahedron rapidly condensed in her hand, and a beam of light as thick as a stone pillar hummed as it shot out, pointing at the spot where Asahimi had just been.

Yuuki Yukino's sudden attack was like a signal flare; all the girls understood her intentions at the same moment and began to act.

A giant whale leaps from the black mud, its watery magic proving it is not Asahiya's work, but Sumireko Yumehara's creation.

The giant whale flipped over in the air, widening its massive jaws filled with sharp teeth, and crashed towards the entrance of the sanctuary.

The nuns cried out in alarm and leaped up, using their bodies to collide with the giant whale that was falling from the sky.

The first few were knocked away; such an attempt to stop them was futile.

However, when the quantity is large enough, quantitative change can also lead to qualitative change.

The whale's deep blue head was gradually replaced by the black that climbed up, like a drop of ink being poured into clear water, gradually staining it with the colors of the nuns, and its speed slowed down.

A thunderous roar rang out, blasting a large hole in the group of nuns who were using their bodies to block the giant whale's path.

What arrived was not just an ordinary lightning strike, but a massive thunderstorm, like fire falling on snow, blasting away the nuns in its path, leaving them nothing but dust and debris.

Herlica caught a bolt of lightning and used it as a handle to pull down the thundercloud that stretched across the sky. The thundercloud transformed into a silver-white lightning hammer, crashing down on the sanctuary where the nuns were gathered.

After a brief silence, the nuns were thrown into the air by the tremendous tremor, like grains of rice being tossed about. However, there was no trace of Asahi Mi, who was dressed completely differently from the nuns.

But the girls' attack did not end with Helica's wide-ranging bombardment; on the contrary, it was only the beginning of their counterattack.

Accompanying the thunderclouds was a jet-black three-clawed dragon circling among the clouds. Its scales, illuminated by lightning, shimmered with a watery light. After circling several times in the clouds, it let out a loud dragon roar, which swept over the nuns who were still climbing out and gathering amidst a piercing sonic boom.

Having come this far, there was no need to hold back any longer, and the magical girls were able to unleash their strongest attack as they all fell together.

In an instant, it was as if all sound in this space had been stripped away, leaving only colorful magical light flashing in and out. Any object that came into contact with the light would disappear in an instant, as if they had never existed in this world.

The strange light slowly faded away, as easily as a bubble bursting, leaving behind a shattered world.

Only in the dream world can the girls hold back.

The girls' ruthless actions had an obvious result: of the nuns who had poured out, very few remained, and the few who were left were all wounded and lying on the ground, barely clinging to life.

"Did we win?" Helica took a few deep breaths and wiped the sweat from her forehead with her wrist.

“I don’t know. I didn’t see Asahimi anywhere. But in my opinion, this counterattack will have limited effect.” Helica held her halberd behind her and landed beside her, her eyes constantly searching for Asahimi’s whereabouts.

“And that sanctuary wasn’t damaged at all…” Sumireko Yumehara added.

Just as she said, the girls' attacks were extremely powerful. Let alone a few walls, even if you took Kuroba Laisei over for a bath, it would be almost completely destroyed.

But the sanctuary still stands there, showing no signs of having just undergone a baptism, except for a few minor external wounds.

Yuuki Yukino knew it wouldn't be that easy.

But she never considered that she, a magical girl, would have to fight an enemy the size of a building.

To be clear, she had never considered that she would be fighting with the architecture.

Yes, the great cathedral before them had come to life.

Chapter 188 Mud and Flame

"If I'm not mistaken..."

Sumireko Yumehara paused briefly, swallowing hard, a moment that made the magical girls' hearts clench as if they were being squeezed, causing everyone else to tense up.

Then, Sumireko Yumehara used her trident instead of her finger to point at the huge sanctuary in the distance that still stood firm despite the girls' magical attacks.

“There must be some unusual power within this sanctuary, and that power is our real threat.”

Baqi slung the gun blade behind her back, cracking her knuckles. "Isn't this something you can tell at a glance? How could ordinary things withstand our attacks? Compared to magical creations, it feels more like..."

At this point, Baqi became somewhat hesitant, as if she were doubting whether what she said was correct. This seemingly unrelated sentence made the atmosphere among the girls even more strange.

"That coffin is more like my Enmusubi or the coffin that imprisoned the Holy Prayer than my Night Howler or Sumireko Yumehara's chariot. So I guess they are all the same in essence, they are all magic wands that can exist in physical form."