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

Passengers were walking around, and Yuuki Yuki was slowly approaching, but none of the girls made a move, as if even their breathing had become cautious.

Everyone stared intently at Yuuki Yukino, watching her get closer and closer.

The process was incredibly long. The square was so vast, and Yuuki Yui was walking so slowly. Every step, every second, felt like a hand was gripping their hearts tightly, making it difficult for them to breathe normally and evenly. It was like a silent torture.

Although it was only a little over a hundred meters, it felt like several hours to the girls. The sound of their rapidly beating hearts and heavy breathing was almost the only sound in their ears.

But no matter how close Yuuki Enishi is to the girls in reality, and no matter how far the girls perceive the distance between them, this road always has an end.

Yuuki Yukino stopped in front of the girls, raised her long eyelashes, and curved her eyes into a beautiful arc. Her familiar voice, which no longer felt as reassuring as before, truly reached everyone's ears.

"Wow, everyone actually traveled such a long distance for me! You must have worked so hard."

No one moved, and no one spoke; Yuuki Enishi's greeting seemed to have sunk into the sea.

But beneath the seemingly calm surface, undercurrents are already surging.

Yuuki Yukino's smiling eyes became even more pronounced, as if the cherry blossoms that had already withered were blooming again in her eyes.

"What? That's a bit too cold. I came here specifically to welcome everyone..."

"Is that enough?"

Herika's sharp shout interrupted Yuuki Yuuki's gentle words, like a clap of thunder cutting through the clear sky. It caused the smile on Yuuki Yuuki's face to freeze for a moment, but it did not completely remove the mask-like smile from her face.

Tenrai Herikamai raised her arm further, shielding Sakura Hanako, who was standing near Yuuki Yuuki and somewhat stunned by the unexpected turn of events, behind her. She then stood in front of Yuuki Yuuki, confronting her directly.

"Enough! Take off that fake smile!"

Yuuki Yukino tilted her head to her shoulder, her long hair falling over her shoulder, but her smile became even brighter.

"Ok?"

“I told you, stop pretending to be stupid! Yuuki Yuuki would never talk like that.” Helica took another step forward, raising her head so high she almost pressed her face against Yuuki Yuuki’s smiling face.

At such close range, Helica could even clearly see how many eyelashes Yuuki Enishi had.

Yuuki Yukino slowly raised her eyelashes, revealing a pair of eyes with a slightly playful intent.

"What are you talking about? Aren't I Yuuki Yukino?"

“I’m not stupid enough not to recognize Yuuki Yukino,” Helica replied coldly.

"Pfft." Yuuki Yu couldn't help but laugh out loud, laughing exceptionally happily, as if Helica Tenryu had told a very funny joke. Helica frowned, wishing she could tear off the fake smile on Yuuki Yu's face.

Immediately afterwards, the girl's pupils shrank to the size of pinholes, and the slight upturn of her lips vanished without a trace.

Those lips parted slightly, and with an icy, out-of-season tone, she clicked her tongue, her sharp fangs seeming more dangerous than any weapon.

Danger!

Helica quickly raised her hand, and golden lightning coiled around her arm as she blocked the lightning bolt in front of her.

This action was entirely subconscious, but Helica had to thank the intuition she had developed in battle this time.

The moment she raised her hand, it was slammed down with tremendous force. The lightning surrounding her hand was torn apart as if a large gash had been ripped open, along with a piece of clothing from her arm, leaving a bruise on her exposed forearm.

At Helica's feet, the two overflowing forces left a dent several centimeters deep on the paving stones, as if chopped by a knife or axe, revealing the rubble and cement beneath the broken tiles.

The loud bang of the girls colliding inevitably attracted the attention of all the surrounding passengers and security personnel. People nearby were either looking around to find the source of the sound or looking over at the girls who were locked in a standoff.

Exposing one's magical girl identity in a foreign land is no fun, and besides, Yuuki Yuki has already made her move, so she absolutely cannot stand idly by.

Almost all the magical girls had thought of these two points. Several pillars of light rose from the ground, enveloping the girls' bodies. In the dissipating light, the group of fully armed magical girls stood on the square.

"It's a magical girl!"

A scream erupted from the crowd, and several tourists near the girls took off running, instantly clearing a large area around Yuuki Yuki and the magical girls opposite.

The fact that Hoshimi City has no magical girls doesn't mean that the people of this city are completely ignorant about magical girls.

The news of the magical girl in Moonsea City doesn't just circulate within Moonsea City. People in other cities mostly read about it when they have nothing to do, treating it as a little topic of conversation, never considering what it would be like if such a being descended upon them.

But now, when the magical girl actually arrived, the crowd was thrown into unprecedented chaos.

Meanwhile, Helica Tenrai and Yuuki Yuuki in the center seemed unmoved. One of them raised her hand again, and the other reached out to block her.

Yuuki Yukari and Tenrai Herika remained standing in their original positions without moving an inch. Their arms moved erratically in the air like phantoms, and the explosions of their colliding magic were like a string of firecrackers being set off between them, rumbling incessantly.

The girls exchanged glances.

The intention was quite clear: they couldn't let Helica take on Yuuki Yukina alone!

Without a single command, all the magical girls stepped back a few steps, spreading out around Yuuki Yuki as the center, forming two concentric circles of different sizes with the outer group of people who had left.

All the girls leaped up at the same time, magic gathering in their hands, and their target was only Yuuki Yuki.

Forget about being in the square, forget about being around other people—Yuki Yui was completely oblivious to all that. If she wasn't subdued quickly, who knew what else she might do?

If you're going to go for it, go all out and win in one fell swoop!

puff.

Herlica swayed, and her clothes ripped open at the shoulder, clearly struck directly by an attack that was difficult for Yuuki Ennin's eyesight to detect.

Yuuki took a half step forward, her shoes landing firmly on the ground, and the impact of magic suddenly erupted from Yuuki's foot.

Before Inuyama Tomoe could fully concentrate her magic power, she was forcibly pushed back by the wind pressure released by Yuuki Yuki's step, and the magic power gathered in her body dissipated like a punctured balloon.

Inuyama Tomoe's situation was not an isolated case; none of the girls around her were able to get close to Yuuki Yukino.

Herlica caught a glimpse of her companions' situation out of the corner of her eye, but when she turned her attention back to Yuuki Yuki, it was too late.

Puff, puff,

Herlica's clothes burst open at the same time on her left abdomen and right shoulder, and she fell backward due to the powerful force.

But Helica's legs had already left the ground before she fell.

Yuuki Yukina's hand gripped Herika's throat tightly, lifting her up.

Herlica grabbed Yuuki's arm with both hands and tried to tear it away with all her might, but Yuuki's hand was like it was made of steel, and no matter how hard Herlica tried, she couldn't move it an inch.

With her feet off the ground, Helica couldn't muster any strength and could only kick and thrash about like a small animal.

Despite Herica's lightning-infused feet possessing considerable combat power, it was as if she had kicked an invisible wall; aside from creating ripples in the air, she couldn't actually touch Yuuki Yuuki's body.

And all of this happened at the same time that the girls who rushed forward were forced back.

"Senior Tianlei!"

"Helica the Thunder!"

Sakura Hanako and Tsukimi Rie watched as Herika was instantly subdued by Yuuki Yuuki, and they immediately lost their composure.

At the same moment they exclaimed in surprise, the four corrupted magical girls had already drifted past like shadows.

　 (The release of the divine will is activated simultaneously!)

The spear, longsword, dagger, and trident were all stopped by an unseen force just as they were about to reach Yuuki Yuki.

Solid and stable, like an unbreakable city wall, it steadily withstood the attack of the four magical girls after the gods were released, sparking bursts of light.

“Yog-Sothoth?!” Sumireko Yumehara’s eyes turned cold; she was all too familiar with this aura.

Yuuki En glanced sideways at Yumehara Sumireko, a smile playing on her lips, as if praising Yumehara Sumireko for finding the correct answer so quickly.

But behind Yuuki Yuki, frost arrows swept in like a torrential rain.

This is not a one-person battle. While Yuuki Yukino is taking care of one side, the magical girl on the other side won't just stand there like an idiot.

Mizuno Yu plucked the bowstring, and a rain of arrows swept down from the sky.

With a flick of her wrist, Yuuki Yukina released seven-colored magical dots, each the size of a cherry, that danced in the girl's palm, drawing them toward the center as if drawn by some unseen force.

The various colored magic lights lit up one after another, then merged into one, becoming a pure black magic ball the size of a lead ball. The blackish-purple light around the magic ball seemed to become even more dazzling.

The moment the magic fusion was successful, it began to tremble violently, as if a ping-pong ball was falling and trying to escape from Yuuki Yuuki's palm, followed by a piercing buzzing sound.

The rain of arrows was about to reach Yuuki Yuki's head, while the magical girls around her, who were using their magic to contend with the transparent blocks of color released by Yuuki Yuki, had already added several arm-thick cracks to the seemingly empty air.

In a split second, the ball of light suddenly stabilized and then flew toward Yuuki Eri's head.

A dazzling electric current seemed to flash from the light sphere that took off, striking the air above Yuuki Yuki's head.

Immediately afterwards, the air began to melt.

From that point, it rapidly expanded into an even larger circle, with crackling electric currents flashing around its circumference, while its core resembled a bottomless black hole.

Some people have witnessed this scene before. When Sumireko Yumehara tried to forcibly drag Yuuki and her group into the dream, this was the connection between the shattered reality and the dream world.

Without a doubt, it was a door, and it was more stable and more volatile than the spatial rift created by Genki Shinpaku.

Mizuno Yu raised her ice bow, and a rain of arrows immediately scattered, preparing to bypass the small-to-medium-sized teleportation portal created by Yuuki Yui.

But then Mizuno Yu realized that her idea was too naive.

Beside that pitch-black portal, which resembled a black hole, another portal opened as easily as blinking.

The third and fourth portals seemed to multiply, blocking all the arrows' paths and preventing Mizuno Yu from manipulating them before swallowing them all at once.

Then, nothing remained—not the arrows, not the portals, only the black sphere shimmering in Yuuki Yukina's palm.

Immediately afterwards, the sphere was also silently crushed by Yuuki Yuki.

A small, fist-sized portal opened beside the girls—truly beside them, as if pressed against their skin—instantly enveloping the magical girls who were struggling against the barrier set up by Yuuki Enishi.

This time, not even a breath was needed; the arrow, like a crystal flower, burst through the door.

The muffled thuds of bodies being pierced rang out one after another, as the icy arrowheads tore through the magical costumes on the girls' bodies.

Amidst the chaotic and complex colors, a few more striking shades of bright red have emerged.

Chapter 172 The Arrogant Gods Overlook the Earth

Tick, tick, tick.

Crimson blood beads flowed down the icy arrowheads, blooming into blood flowers on the stone bricks.

"Gu..."

Inuyama Tomoe gritted her teeth, forcefully pulled out the arrow embedded in her body, and then crushed it into ice powder.

The girls were all in bad shape. Hong Moli had a large gash in her abdomen, Bai Gui Qianyou had an arrow piercing her calf, and Inuyama Baqi had a shoulder wound. These were just the more serious wounds; the abrasions, scrapes, and frostbite were not included.

Among them, Yumehara Sumireko was in the least bad condition. Her armor blocked most of the ice arrows, but one of them just happened to pass through her throat.

Fortunately, Sumireko Yumehara is fundamentally different from other magical girls; her body is entirely composed of magic, so a mere fatal wound is nothing to worry about.