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

The wavering was impossible to conceal; Baqi had long since noticed that Sheng Shiyin was now extremely embarrassed.

Yuki Yuki has been missing for a month. If there wasn't a really good way, Baqi wouldn't have wanted to make this trip.

However, during this month, regardless of her identity, Sheng Shiyin's freedom was not restricted in any way. During this month, Sheng Shiyin was completely unaware of even the major event of Yuki Yuki's disappearance.

Even when Seishion was still the headmistress of Seishi Yuu Academy, others could already see many clues. Her forced recruitment of Inuyama Tomoe, her betrayal of Kuroba Reisei, and all sorts of subsequent actions showed that Seishion was indeed not a smart person. They just didn't expect her to be so stupid.

No wonder Mashiro Urokin was so pessimistic about Seishion.

Baqi and her group didn't come here just to see Sheng Shiyin sitting here struggling alone, so they covered their mouths with their fists and coughed lightly.

Seishin sighed noticeably, burying herself back in her seat, her eyes darting around as if asking Inuyama Tomoe what was wrong.

"I want to know what's been going on here lately." Inuyama Tomoe was always straightforward, and this time was no exception.

"Me? What do you mean? Me? Or the church, or the academy?" Saint Shiyin asked in return.

With each word Seishion uttered, Inuyama Tomoe would nod slightly before finally replying, "All of them."

"Okay. Since you asked, I'll answer you. First of all, I had a lot of unpleasantness with Mashiro Konnoken before, which led to a lot of negative public opinion about me, but we didn't make any explanations. Later, those rumors gradually subsided, and my return to school is the best evidence, enough to shut them up."

As Sheng Shiyin spoke, she glanced at Kuroba Laisei out of the corner of her eye. Kuroba Laisei remained standing to the side with her eyelashes lowered, completely unmoved.

“She is too.” Sheng Shiyin blinked and looked away, clearly referring to Kuroba Laisheng: “The students of Sheng Youyu Academy are generally of good quality. No one would gossip about the former student council president and dean, so our return was actually very smooth.”

These were not things Inuyama Tomoe wanted to hear, nor did she care about them. However, it would be irrational to reveal everything about herself directly to Seishin, who was an enemy rather than a friend. Although Nishio Reki had already let it slip, Tomoe believed that Seishin might not be able to think of so much, and it wouldn't hurt to be a little more cautious.

Saint Shion's thoughts jumped to another matter that Baqi wasn't curious about: "The other magical girls who were awakened because of my sister, I don't know more than you do."

Baqi did know that there were some minor conflicts between magical girls and corrupted magical girls, but this did not include their group, and those conflicts could only be considered minor frictions.

Above those magical girls were the two core forces of that incident—let's call them the Sanctuary Sisters and the Rainbow Society. With neither side making a move, the other magical girls dared not and could not cause much trouble.

"As for me, I could be considered half a dean, but I have no real power. I'm just a figurehead who's been put on the front page. Hong Moli should also know that the power structure of the academy's higher-ups didn't actually change after that day."

Saint Shiyin pointed to herself and adjusted her posture a few times: "I know that my strength is not enough to be an excellent headmaster. It is not bad to let someone more suitable take charge of the relevant matters."

Hong Moli doesn't really know much about the higher-ups at St. Yuu Academy. She's a student too, and it's impossible for her to always focus on her current student council work. One of the reasons she took on the role of student council president before was to work for St. Shion and earn money, but later it became to learn more about Genki Mashiro. At that time, her hands-on approach to everything was partly for training and investigation.

Now that most things have come to an end, Hong Moli is focusing more on her studies. Most of the student council work has been assigned to the new members. However, the student council election has been postponed due to the recent turmoil at St. Yuu Academy, so she is continuing to serve part-time.

“By the way,” Saint Shiyin continued, “the nuns are also helping out at the academy. They have lost the leadership of the church, so the academy has given them a place to stay. Except for Jianchi… except for one of them, they are all at the academy now.”

Inuyama Tomoe didn't recognize the Sisters of the Holy Church, but she had witnessed their strength firsthand; they were all formidable fighters. Tomoe reasonably suspected that this seemingly unrelated information was Saint Shion putting pressure on her, telling her not to act rashly.

Inuyama Tomoe had no intention of making any rash moves, so she simply raised her eyebrows.

"Yes, as I just said, the Church has not been rebuilt, and we have lost Eden, that coffin. We have also lost the power of the Primordial, and the power of the Primordial Darkness has escaped. The Church can no longer create more magical girls, let alone maintain the peace of Moonsea City. Now all we can do is continue to use the huge flow of funds to maintain the expenses of the Moonsea City magical girl event, and a large part of it is the foundation established by Genki Mashiro in my name."

The St. Shion Foundation, it was proposed by Genki Mashiro on the day St. Shion caused trouble, which was Christmas Day. Now it has been fully implemented. After Genki Mashiro launched a full-scale attack, this foundation also took on a lot of responsibility. Without it, the reconstruction of Moonsea City would not have been as smooth as it is now.

“Oh, right, Gen Urouge Mashiro.” When Seishion mentioned this name, a strange light still flashed in her eyes: “She is still the de facto leader of Seishi Yuu Academy. Although I have no good feelings towards her at all now, I have to admit that I can’t do anything well on my own without Gen Urouge Mashiro.”

Mashiro Gakuen will not die; she had already discarded the impurities when Yuuki Yukino tore apart the primordial power.

Sumireko Yumehara, who was used to seal the primordial power, was considered an impurity to the primordial power, as were Asahi Ya and Genken Mashiro.

Inuyama Hatsuki had actually prepared herself mentally for this, but when Seishion said it herself, it still made her brows furrow.

"She's just focused on being the dean right now. Even though she caused such a commotion, nobody except us knows it was her. We don't have enough evidence to bring her down. As for using force... the Sisters of the Holy Temple are actually all her people. Black Feather and I can't handle that."

She was threatening me with the nuns just a moment ago, and now she's bringing up the nuns again. Saint Shion is really something else...

"Forget it. Anyway, Genki Mashiro didn't do anything, and it's a good thing for Seiyuu Academy, so it doesn't matter." Sei Shion shrugged as if she had convinced herself.

Nishio Reki interjected, "Why can you guarantee that Gen Urobuchi Mashiro didn't do anything? She's not the type to put everything out in the open."

"Is the reason that Mashiro Urouge is no longer a magical girl enough?" Shion asked rhetorically.

Hearing this, Inuyama Baqi couldn't keep her composure any longer: "Just forget everything, and then continue to hold a high position, living on as if nothing happened?"

Saint Shion shook her head: "No, no, her power didn't return with her soul, but her memories are still intact. Apart from losing her magical girl powers, nothing has changed for her. By the way, my sister is the same."

"Asahiya?"

"Yes, although I don't want to admit that she is my sister after she became like that, she is who she is. Now my sister and Mashiro are no longer magical girls, and they have no intention of rebuilding the church. They are really busy with St. Yuu Academy. Even if I have opinions, what can my opinions change? How could I possibly push my last refuge to an abyss because of my own opinions?"

The appearance of Mashiro Urouge resulted in the complete destruction of the entire church. She even caused chaos at St. Yuu Academy several times. The church's duties, which had been performed by generations of people, failed because of her appearance. It can be said that she completely destroyed the roots of the church, to the point of no return.

Even disregarding these factors, Seishion herself had suffered at the hands of Genki Mashiro, so she truly had no affection for him.

But even she couldn't act recklessly. Things were already chaotic enough, and she couldn't let her own willfulness make things worse.

Therefore, Seishion's mood was definitely not good, especially when she mentioned Gen Urouge Mashiro.

"Forget it, forget it, forget it." Sheng Shiyin said "forget it" several times in a row: "I've told you enough. You didn't come all the way to Sheng Youyou Academy just to listen to this, did you?"

“Ah, of course not,” Baqi replied. “We didn’t come here to find you.”

Chapter 250 The Madmen

For a moment, Inuyama Tomoe really couldn't connect the person in front of her with Urouge Mashiro.

Her short, blue-green hair had been stained gray at the ends, easily reminiscent of the colors of a hundred demons and a thousand ghosts. However, the condition on Gen Urobuchi Mashiro was not the result of a magical girl battle, but rather an inevitable consequence of the loss of her life force.

Genken Mashiro was sitting behind a large desk in his office. Apart from a glass of orange juice, the desk was covered with various office documents related to St. Yuu Academy.

Behind the mountain of documents, one could still vaguely see that what was sitting beneath Genji Mashiro was not an office chair, but a wheelchair, though that wheelchair was far more luxurious than a normal office chair.

Besides these, Mashiro's complexion wasn't exactly good either. Her delicate face lacked color, and if it weren't for her signature swirl eyes and shark teeth, it would be a little difficult to recognize her at first glance.

But what makes it hard to connect her with the past is that the black magic markings engraved on her cheeks have long since disappeared.

Although it was a fake made by Mashiro Gorky to hide the real black magic pattern under her clothes, it does look a bit strange.

That's right, the ultimate goal of Inuyama Tomoe and her group was not Seishin at all, but rather Urouge Mashiro or Asahi Miyabi.

However, the fate of Genjiro Mashiro is unknown, and Asahimi is also missing. Without the help of Seishin, there would be no way to find any trace of the two of them. That's why everyone went to visit Seishin as soon as possible.

Having gone through so much, Seishin had no intention of continuing the argument, so she directly told Tomoe Genken and Mashiro whereabouts.

It wasn't surprising that Mashiro Gorky was actually in the dean's office.

Upon seeing Mashiro, Koumari lowered her voice and whispered to Tomoe Inuyama without changing her expression, "She really doesn't have the aura of a corrupted magical girl anymore. Shion didn't lie to us."

As Hong Moli spoke, she glanced at the young woman standing next to Genki Mashiro, who was dressed in a sharp suit but was not very tall and was about the same age as Genki Mashiro.

There's no need to guess who this woman is; she's undoubtedly Mashiro Goraku's personal secretary, but that's just her outward appearance. Even though Inuyama Tomoe doesn't know her, she knows the woman must be a magical girl, and perhaps even one of the Sisters of the Sanctuary.

This means that Mashiro Gyoken is always protected by someone, and even if someone really intends to harm her, it might not be so easy.

The shift in Inuyama Baki and Koumori's gazes was noticed by Gyoken Mashiro, who then turned to her secretary and gave her instructions in a volume that everyone could hear.

"You go out first."

"Headmistress, those are all magical girls. Leaving you here alone is not in accordance with Her Majesty's orders." The secretary made no attempt to conceal her identity or purpose, and refused in front of everyone.

"It's alright, you can't stop them if they want to make a move." Genken Mashiro waved her hand again.

The secretary hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Should I inform Her Majesty the Holy Maiden?"

"Whatever you want. Anyway, you only listen to Mi's orders. Also, the church is no longer here, so it's better to call you Vice Dean." Genken Mashiro turned his head back.

The secretary nodded in agreement, then walked past the people standing directly opposite the desk and left the office.

"Sit down." Genken Mashiro shrugged and pointed to the chair next to him.

Inuyama Tomoe, Koumori, and Nishio Reki, who accompanied them, also took their seats on the sofa in a row without any hesitation.

After Baki sat down, she immediately said, "Having nuns from the Holy Church as your bodyguards is pretty impressive."

“I didn’t want to, but Mi insisted on doing it.” Genken Mashiro sighed helplessly, opened his desk, took out a few bottles of juice that he had previously used to entertain Yuuki Yukino, then got up and walked around the desk to place the juice in front of the three of them.

Noticing the way Nishio Reki was looking at her and the way he kept glancing at the wheelchair behind the desk, Gorgen Mashiro didn't try to hide anything.

"My legs are fine, but my soul has suffered irreversible damage. I'm not a magical girl anymore, so I don't have that kind of soul repair ability. Therefore, my body has also been affected to some extent, and it's not very convenient for me to move around."

Mashiro Gorgen wasn't limping yet, but it was clear that her movements were somewhat uncoordinated just now.

"Saint Shion told you to come directly here, and only notified you beforehand when you arrived. She probably wanted you to see my miserable state; what a childish revenge." At this moment, Genki Mashiro had already sat back in her wheelchair: "So, what brings you here?"

Unlike Shion, Mashiro Gyoken is still incredibly dangerous, even though she is no longer a magical girl. At least in terms of planning and reading people, she is not at a disadvantage just because she is no longer a magical girl.

Baqi also wanted to be straightforward, but showing weakness to the enemy was not a good choice.

Let's start by talking about unrelated things.

"The nuns in the sanctuary are actually working for you, that's really something."

Baqi wasn't just randomly bringing up a topic. Even if Genki Mashiro herself didn't have any power, as long as she controlled the Sisters of the Holy Church, she still had a chance to make a comeback. If necessary, Inuyama Baqi had to nip this in the bud.

Genken Mashiro replied calmly, "The nuns are children of the church, and they have to fight all their lives. If they leave the church, where can I send them?"

"Then they should thank you, right?" Baqi retorted, her tone already tinged with hostility.

Genken Mashiro picked up her juice and took a small sip: "If you're worried that I'll use them for something else, there's no need to worry. Things that Mi and I couldn't accomplish when we still had our powers, we simply can't continue now that we've lost them."

Hong Moli stared at the bottle of juice in front of her for a long time without touching it, then turned to look at Xu Yanmashiro: "Do you want us to believe that you have truly reformed?"

Genken Mashiro continued drinking her juice and replied, "I'm doing this job and maintaining stability in Yuehai City not because I feel guilty, nor can I feel guilty about what I've done, let alone repent. The reason I don't take action is because I absolutely cannot do it. I don't have the right to take risks for things I'm not confident about."

Inuyama Tomoe's eyes darkened: "So, if you're confident, you'll make another move?"

“Of course, I will start planning again if possible, but don’t worry, I was exhausted before, and I don’t have the energy to make new plans now. I won’t cause you any trouble.” Genken Mashiro raised his eyebrows.

This time, it was Nishio Reki who spoke: "You always say you want magical girls to disappear completely, but you've brought so many defeated magical girls who have lost their future back to this city. Is that what you wanted?"

"These are means and results, not ends. Moreover, these were done by Mi. I once tore Mi's soul into pieces and then pieced them back together. The current Mi is Mi, no longer Saint Prayer. Therefore, I can neither predict her actions nor am I willing to interfere." Genki Mashiro remained as calm as ever.

"That's sophistry," Nishio Reki angrily interrupted Genken Mashiro.

"Maybe so. Magical girls are all products of wishes. The only way to let go of a wish is to have it fulfilled or to die. Of course, it's also possible that you'll gradually forget about it over time. But do you think I'm the kind of person who would give up because of something like that?"

The answer is actually quite clear: both Genki Mashiro and Asahiya got caught up in the city because of that almost impossible wish, and they almost succeeded.

As Mashiro Konnosuke spoke, she turned directly to Tomoe Inuyama: "Tomoe Inuyama, let me ask you a question. If you were to do something drastic for Yuuki Eri, would you do something extreme?"

Inuyama Tomoe temporarily closed her lips, not directly answering Gorgen Mashiro's question, because she didn't know what Gorgen Mashiro was up to.

But her answer was: Yes.

"I know you will, because you are a corrupted magical girl, not because there is corruption within you, nor because you have been influenced by anything, but simply because you are a corrupted magical girl." Genken Mashiro sneered.

Baqi remained silent, and Xuyan Zhenbai did not wait for Baqi's reply.

"The identity of a corrupted magical girl is itself a mask, a shield. As long as you have this identity, it seems that you can abandon all moral principles and blame all your actions on the original sin of corruption. It seems that as long as you are corrupted, all your actions will be forgiven."

As Genken Mashiro spoke, she changed the subject: "But what about those corrupted magical girls who were summoned back by Mi? Did they cause a ruckus in Moonsea City? No, the reason is simple: they couldn't bear the consequences of causing a ruckus. Having already died once in a roundabout way, they realized that something more important than their desire to cause a ruckus was their own life."