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

Herlica's lips twitched a few times.

"nausea."

Meanwhile, on the other side of the battlefield...

"Koji! What were you talking about?! I didn't understand!" Yuuki Yuki, transformed into a night demon, wielded a warhammer in one hand and a runic greatsword in the other, repelling the two dark magical girls who had been pulled back up by Asahimi, and shouted loudly in Nishio Koji's direction.

"Xiaoyuan! What did you say?" Nishio Reki was also caught up in the battle and unable to break free. The halberd and the magical girl wielding the spear clashed several times, but they could not determine a winner in a short time.

Magical girls who lose their souls do not die, but rather enter a vegetative state. Although only a few usually operate in the city, their numbers become extremely terrifying when accumulated.

Furthermore, even so, there wouldn't normally be so many magical girls in Tsukimi City. However, within a year, Tsukimi City experienced two major purges led by Urouge Mashiro and Kuroba Reisei, during which many magical girls were born.

While most of them are of average strength, there are some who are exceptionally powerful.

The enemy standing before Nishio Reki was just like that; he was now skillfully using the power of divine liberation, and was locked in a fierce and evenly matched battle with Nishio Reki.

"I'm telling you! That black magic mark! The Holy Prayer's black magic mark! What do you know about it!" Yuuki Yui moved closer and called out loudly.

“That’s not a black magic mark! That’s a primordial imprint! It’s proof that primordial power exists within the body!” Nishio Reki replied.

"Then what!"

"Then! Saint Yuuyou can use the power of the primordial to suppress the power of the primordial darkness! In this way! They can keep that part of the power of the primordial darkness sealed and used indefinitely!"

"use?"

"That's right! They use it! From ancient times to the present! The Holy Age has never stopped using the power of the Primordial Darkness! This is the foundation of their survival!"

……

In the past, the church, the room of holy prayer.

"Mashiro, this is no joke! This is a very serious accusation!" Seiki jumped up from her chair and, without even putting on her slippers, began pacing back and forth on the soft carpet in the room.

After taking a few steps, Seiki would glance at Genjiro Mashiro out of the corner of her eye, then lower her head again, as if some words were stuck in her throat like a fishbone.

Genken Mashiro leaned against the wall with her arms crossed. Compared to her previous seriousness when she was with Seiki, she was much more casual now, but her perpetually stern face seemed to be beyond cure.

"Zhenbai, say something! Just... say it clearly!" Shengqi scratched her hair in frustration.

If people from other churches saw their saintess showing such a side of herself, they would probably feel like the sky was falling.

Even in front of Urouge Mashiro, the Holy Prayer Society would act more genuinely and freely, but this was something she had never done before. Even when she knew that the current bishop, who was also her mother, was planning to get rid of Urouge Mashiro for the sake of the church's so-called "honor" and "glory," she did not react this strongly.

Shengqi glanced at Xuyan Zhenbai again, and Xuyan Zhenbai slowly straightened up. Even on her wooden face, there were a few more furrowed creases between her brows.

"The Church has been secretly manipulating matters related to magical girls in Moonsea City, including post-disaster reconstruction, the handling of corrupted magical girls, and so on," said Genki Mashiro.

"Of course I know. Continue, repeat yourself, and go through every detail," Saint Prayer urged impatiently.

“Besides these things that everyone can see and touch, the Church has another special mission, which is to protect the primordial power and seal the existence called the Primordial Darkness. This Primordial Darkness is the source of all sins,” Genken Mashiro continued.

"Okay, you can continue." Seiki was still anxious, but she didn't interrupt Genki Mashiro anymore.

"What is a Dark Magical Girl, Xiaoqi? Do you still remember?" Genken Mashiro asked rhetorically.

"Of course." Even though she was a little reluctant, being asked by Genki Mashiro calmed Seiki's anxious heart a little, even if only a little.

"Although the Primordial Darkness is sealed by us, its power will continue to leak out. This leaked power can tempt ordinary magical girls. As long as a magical girl harbors evil intentions, she will be chosen by the power of the Primordial Darkness, summoned by her, and given the power of destruction, so that she can turn around and extend her evil claws to innocent people."

"So how did the church and the magical girls deal with them?"

"The primordial power protects us. As soon as it discovers that a magical girl has been tainted by the aura of the primordial darkness, a holy mark representing sin will be branded on her body. In this way, the magical girls will be able to find their aura and eradicate these parasites hidden among the people."

"What about the power of primordial darkness? What would happen if the power of primordial darkness were used?"

“This is absolutely unacceptable. Once that power is used, it will be tainted with evil. Only villains would covet that power, while good people would keep their distance. We cannot completely eradicate it from this world, so we can only have it sealed away.”

Seeing that Genki Mashiro had fallen silent, Seiki also stopped talking and looking away. After a while, Seiki could no longer bear the awkward silence in the room.

"Mashiro, you just said that the church has deviated from its original duties, it wouldn't be that..."

Today, Mashiro Gorgen has been mentioning the Primordial Darkness and what the Church has protected for thousands of years, so what she's going to say can't be unrelated to these things.

Genken Mashiro nodded slightly.

"That's right, that's what the church has been teaching us for thousands of years, and that's what everyone thinks."

Even though Seiki clearly understood that Genki Mashiro himself did not believe in these things.

Seiki had been taught this way since childhood, and it had become part of her underlying logic, deeply etched into her memory. Now that Genki Mashiro had suddenly said these words, Seiki found it hard to believe.

She didn't want to doubt either Mashiro Gorky or the church.

"Could it be Mother? Seiji? She betrayed the Church's principles all by herself? Think about it, she even planned to attack you in the past. I already know that she's an incompetent bishop." Seiji thought of something else and quickly poured out all her thoughts to Gen Ken Mashiro.

"No, that's not it." Genken Mashiro shook her head again, this time with even more force. She spoke with absolute certainty, leaving Seiki with no room for doubt.

“Xiao Qi, from your birth—the birth of your destiny to seal the primordial darkness in order to bear the primordial power, to those clones of the nun legion that are similar to you but do not have their own independent thinking and have weak combat power, and the candidates for the Holy Sisters who are blessed and truly become magical girls and become members of the Holy Sisters, these are not the blessings of the primordial, but the power of the primordial darkness.”

"Why? Mashiro, why are you so sure?" Seiki still didn't want to believe it.

“Because until now, no one has ever questioned the legitimacy of the church. What it teaches has been taken as truth by everyone, and no one has bothered to investigate the past. So, it has been passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.” Genken Mashiro said, then changed her mind on the spot: “Maybe some people have had doubts, but those people were probably dealt with for undermining the church’s worldview, right? Maybe I’m just lucky?”

What Genki Mashiro said makes sense.

The first thing to shake the worldviews of Seiki and Genki Mashiro was Lampa, a corrupted magical girl who remained unaffected—even though they didn't know her name at the time.

The second instance was when the Church, which claimed to be righteous, actually sent an organization specifically tasked with dealing with corrupted magical girls to eliminate a colleague who raised questions.

If the second attack on Mashiro Gorogen was not a spur-of-the-moment decision, but rather a routine, unwritten rule, then the problem within the Church would not be limited to the current Pope, but would affect the entire Church itself.

Genken Mashiro hadn't thought that much about it; she was simply following Seiki's instructions and using her own research to judge the current bishop's betrayal.

However, as he continued to consult materials and compare various ancient texts and histories of the church, Genken Mashiro discovered that there were too many contradictions. It was like a third-rate novel that introduced a new deus ex machina every time, making it difficult to find any coherent logic.

Therefore, these problems cannot simply be present in the present, but must lie in the much earlier past.

With this in mind, Mashiro Gorgen uttered those words on a whim, yet they were enough to change their future.

“Xiao Qi, you said you wanted to see the truth with your own eyes and touch the reality with your own hands. So let’s go and see for ourselves.”

Chapter 211 Breakthrough

In this world, what has already happened will not change.

But Mashiro would sometimes wonder if, had she not gone with Seiki to question those events that had become inevitable in history, the two of them would be living completely different lives in different places now.

However, in this world, what has already happened can never be changed, and even with the power of Yog-Sothoth, it is impossible to reverse time.

Perhaps it's because I'm about to succeed that I've started to have these long-lost wild thoughts?

Looking at the scene before him, which was more magnificent than any mission he had ever carried out, Genki Mashiro silently lowered his head and continuously poured his magic power into Seishin's body.

However, it must be admitted that Yuuki Yuki and her group moved even faster than Genki Mashiro had anticipated.

The magical girls reawakened by Asahi Miyabi were of varying quality, and most of them were not strong enough to compete with Yuuki Yuuki and her group on the front lines. They were defeated one after another under the fierce offensive of the magical girls.

Among them are some magical girls with considerable strength, but after all, they were defeated in the past, and have been lying in hospital beds or their own beds for too long. They have not fought for a while, so they have lost some control over their bodies.

These magical girls, who had not yet recovered to their best condition, could at most temporarily slow down Yuuki and her group, but could not completely stop them.

The defeat was just that—a defeat. The magical girls who came to disrupt their operations did not go on a killing spree because of their opponent's weakness. After a fierce battle, although Asahimi's reinforcements had been reduced considerably, most of them were only slightly injured and unable to fight.

If they give it their all, breaking through this encirclement will be much easier.

Even if they came here to stop themselves, couldn't they bear to kill those who stood in their way?

How naive!

However, compared to the harsh reality, Genken Mashiro does indeed prefer these naive ideas.

Magical girls can calm down and listen to different opinions, while corrupted magical girls can restrain their desires and stop wantonly destroying people's daily lives. Whether they are magical girls or corrupted magical girls, they can put aside their differences and fight side by side for the same goal.

How wonderful.

Yuuki Yukino is such an incredible girl.

If Yuuki and I had met Yuuki Yuuki first, maybe...

No, what has already happened can never be changed.

The fleeting beauty of today will vanish without a trace with the birth of new magical girls and the retirement of this generation. Only by eradicating magical girls completely can we ensure the future of this city.

Therefore, their naivety is beneficial and harmless to them.

While these undisciplined magical girls fought with all their might but were defeated one after another, the strongest group that Asahi Miya could rely on—the Sisters of the Holy Temple who once fought alongside Genken Mashiro but were forced to part ways for some reason—are now also caught in a fierce battle.

Most of them were stopped by Kuroba Reisei.

The twelve wings on Black Feather's back were like twelve sharp blades of different sizes. As she wielded her runic greatsword, they meticulously guarded every blind spot on Black Feather's body, forcibly withstanding the attacks of the Holy Sisters.

Even if Kuroba were stronger on his own in his next life, it would be unrealistic for him to fight multiple opponents at once against the well-coordinated Sanctuary nuns who specialize in dealing with corrupted magical girls.

A cannon, transformed from a cross carried on the shoulder of a nun, fired another grenade. The explosive, highly magically charged shell traced a tricky curve in the air before falling with a whooshing sound in the blind spot behind Black Feather's back.

As Black Feather Appears ahead, the Iron Maiden arrives with a thunderous roar, the sound of her wind-slicing attack perfectly masking the sound of the cannonballs. Behind her, a pair of fists arrive as expected, achieving perfect coordination with the Iron Maiden.

When Kuroba heard the sharp sound behind her head, the bomb was already at the top of her head.

"Oh no, there's no dodge now!"

Black Feather Reincarnation gritted his teeth and used his greatsword to block the Iron Maiden that crashed down in front of him. His wings were struck by the iron fist, and black feathers fell like rain.

Black Feather Reincarnation endured the pain in its wings, using its six pairs of wings to cover its body as much as possible, intending to withstand the explosion that was destined to be powerful.

The cold light of the blade flashed through the air, and the hissing bomb paused in mid-air. Then, like a sliced ​​melon, it shifted slightly to the left and right. Countless blades flashed by, shredding the bomb to pieces.

Hyakki Senyou landed lightly behind Kuroba Reisei. The hilt and scabbard closed tightly with a clang, and then the shattered explosives exploded in the air like a string of firecrackers.

Kuroba Reincarnation turned her head and glanced through the wings protecting her body at the figure that was falling again.

"Thank you."

"Don't be polite. You're the main course for Mori. She might forgive you, but no, Mori will never forgive you." Bai Gui Qianyou's cold voice came: "Before Mori cuts you into a thousand pieces, you can't fall at someone else's hands."

Hong Moli's shout came from the gap between the clashing blades beside her: "Don't be so violent! I'm not a murderer, and I don't want to tear people to pieces! But if I can't kill Kuroba Rei myself after everything is over, I will indeed be heartbroken."

The two spoke with absolute certainty, and Kuroba couldn't tell whether they truly harbored deep hatred for him or if it was just an excuse to help him.

Before Kuroba could say anything more, Hyakki Chiyou's figure vanished like a shadow once more, emerging from behind the Holy Sister holding a flute. The twin swords and the short blade hidden in the sister's flute clashed together.

If it were just Kuroba Reincarnation alone, he would surely be defeated again by the siege of the nuns, but the situation is different now.

The two figures, one red and one gray, moved through the battlefield like two sharp blades. Whenever the nuns were slightly off guard, they would launch extremely deadly surprise attacks on the nuns' vital points. Three against four, for a time the battle was evenly matched.

Not far from their battlefield, Helica's bloodied fist clashed fiercely with her longsword.