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

Helica, who was striding with her hands behind her back, softened her tone and chimed in, "Yes."

"So many things have happened in this past year." Inuyama Tomoe kicked a pebble away from the roadside, and the clattering sound of it rolling around finally stopped after a while.

Nishio Reki also sighed with a hint of sadness.

"Yes."

No one spoke. On the moonlit path, the five people left behind a trail of mottled footprints.

What? Why are there five people?

Lin Jiezi lived next door to Yu Chengyuan's house. Where else could she go if she didn't go with Yu Chengyuan?

Moreover, with Lin Jiezi along, the three of them, apart from Yuki En, were like they had signed some kind of non-aggression pact, and none of them could do anything outrageous.

For example, he took Yuki Yuuki to a love hotel, took Yuki Yuuki to his own house, and took Yuki Yuuki into the woods.

It seems that this kind of life has become an indispensable part of the girls' daily lives and will continue for a long time.

Of course, people should still live in the present.

At least for now, the girls are facing a problem, and it's not insignificant.

Beside the road, a girl with medium-length hair and blue hair sat on a bench, her swirling eyes casually watching the group of girls who were constantly approaching her.

Her hair was longer than when we last met, and the ends were still a bit lifeless gray, but she was no longer in a wheelchair.

Just by seeing her shadow, three streams of magic erupted simultaneously around Yuuki Yukino, and the three fully armed individuals instantly transformed.

Helica the Thunderer took the lead, raising her warhammer.

"Genki Mashiro, what are you doing here!"

Genken Mashiro, supporting herself on the chair, calmly stood up from her seat: "I'd like to ask, why are you so hostile towards me?"

"What do you think?" Nishio Reki raised the spear in his hand.

Genken Mashiro's eyes lingered for a moment, then she sighed: "Never mind, even if we don't talk about this, when will you ever realize your predicament?"

"Situation?" Inuyama Tomoe's eyes narrowed slightly. She wasn't good at reading the emotions of people other than Yuuki Yuuki, especially Urobuchi Mashiro.

"Of course, haven't you all still not realized it?" Genken Mashiro raised his hands to his chest, making a gesture that indicated he didn't intend to fight: "You, us, all of us, failed in the catastrophe after Yuuki Yuki returned. No one survived at Yuuki Yuki's hands."

"What nonsense are you talking about! The Primordial Darkness has been defeated! I defeated it with my own hands!" Nishio Reki immediately pressed the tip of his spear against Genki Mashiro's throat. If she moved her wrist even slightly, the spear would pierce a hole in Genki Mashiro's body.

But Mashiro Gorgen remained calm and simply shrugged and laughed.

"The Primordial Darkness? Who's talking to you about the Primordial Darkness?"

In the height of summer, a chill slowly crept up from the girls' feet, accompanied by the words spoken slowly and deliberately by Gen Ken Mashiro.

"What I'm saying is that everyone is in Yuuki Yui's hands, and no one has escaped."

No updates tonight! Happy Labor Day everyone!

As for the plot, it will be finished in about a week. Thank you all for supporting me to the end, love you all!

Also, the final boss of this game is about to appear! *cheek cheek cheek cheek* The battle that follows is truly the final battle!

One more time! Happy Labor Day!

Chapter 311 Reality and the Future Are Out of Reach

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Upon hearing Mashiro's words, the girls' hearts skipped a beat as if struck by a heavy blow, as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over their heads, leaving them frozen in place.

Then, apart from Mashiro Gorgen, all four pairs of eyes turned to Yuuki Yukino, who was standing behind them.

At that moment, Yuuki Yukino might have had many different expressions: the gloom of having her trick exposed, the anger of being framed, the smugness of having successfully deceived everyone... many, but those are just possibilities.

In fact, Yuuki Yuuki's astonishment was no less than that of the others. On the contrary, she was the most bewildered one, being solemnly accused of being the culprit of everything.

After seeing Yuuki Yukino's expression, the group instantly deduced something based on their understanding of her.

Yuuki Yukino was genuinely unaware of the situation.

It's quite strange, though. Such an absurd accusation should have been dismissed as nonsense at first glance, but for a few seconds they actually wavered and even considered verifying it.

This may be because the accusation was made against Makoto Shinki.

Helica swung her warhammer, the lightning crackling around it almost touching Shinjiro's nose. A few strands of her flowing blue-green hair were also charred at the ends in the lightning, emitting a burnt smell.

"Stop trying to sow discord! How could we possibly believe your nonsense?"

Although the other two were not as direct as Helica, they were also extremely cautious about Mashiro.

This is Mashiro Goraku; who knows what kind of wicked scheme she's plotting?

But because the other party is Mashiro Goraku, everyone knows that she would never use such childish tricks that even Seishion would never use to fool them.

"Whether you believe it or not is your business. I'm just here to remind you." Genken Mashiro didn't seem to intend to say anything more to the girls. She shrugged at them and then turned to leave.

What girls hate about Gyoken Mashiro is this: Gyoken Mashiro doesn't usually tell riddles; she just says what she thinks. But because she's so hard to believe, her words, or even a simple glance, can be over-interpreted.

"Wait a moment."

A voice called out from behind to Genki Mashiro, and Genki Mashiro did indeed stop in her tracks.

Yuuki Yukino pushed aside the girls blocking her way and walked straight toward Genki Mashiro, stopping just a few meters away.

"Gen Mashiro, explain yourself clearly."

Faced with Yuuki Yuki's questioning, Gen Ken Mashiro slowly turned around again, her lowered eyelids obscuring most of her vision, with only a slit revealing an interested gaze.

"So what do you want to know?"

"How did we fail? Why do you say I'm the ultimate beneficiary?" Yuuki asked, enunciating each word clearly.

“Okay.” Genken Mashiro agreed readily: “Do you remember our conversation in Rainbow Leaf City? I tested you repeatedly, and it turned out you really didn’t know what kind of power your wand had, let alone what the Primordial Darkness was.”

Yuuki Yui was deeply impressed by what Urobuchi Mashiro said during the confrontation between herself, who failed to understand her true abilities, and Urobuchi Mashiro, who was hiding her abilities, in Nijiha City.

Every fallen magical girl carries sins: anger, jealousy, arrogance, gluttony... This is true, because this is the reason for the birth of the primordial darkness. It is the twisted desires of those believers that have corrupted the original girls, who were like blank sheets of paper.

Humans are born with original sin, like life itself—this undoubtedly refers to Shubnigs, Asahi Miyabi's magic wand.

She claimed to possess a wand named Loki, a very subtle hint she gave, but the lie was also a facet of omniscience and omnipotence, referring to Yog-Sothoth.

At that time, Mashiro Urokin said that the sin of the wand on Yuuki Yuuki's body was blindness and folly, but Yuuki Yuuki never understood what it meant.

Regarding this matter, Sumireko Yumehara has always referred to herself as a blind and foolish shrine maiden, but that was before she became familiar with herself.

Yes, that's it. This is what Mashiro Gorgen wants to say right now.

From that time on, Mashiro Urobuchi knew exactly what the power of the Primordial Darkness was.

"I remember," Yuuki Yui finally replied, but her long silence had also conveyed some other information to Genki Mashiro.

"But in fact, blindness and folly are not the primordial darkness, which is the power of Azathoth. He has no power, but he is the foundation of the existence of all things. In the myths about him, it was Azathoth who first fell into eternal slumber, so that all things could continue to exist."

Genken Mashiro continued her explanation, using very concise language, but enough for Yuuki Yuuki to guess what she wanted to say.

Then Yuuki asked, "Because the universe appeared after Azathoth's dream, and the Primordial Darkness and the Primordial One were originally one, their existence is the underlying logic of the existence of magical girls. So only when they die will the magical girl system collapse?"

“That’s right.” It wasn’t until several months after Mashiro’s plan was thwarted that she openly stated for the first time why she was so certain that killing the Primal would end everything.

"So, you can be so sure that the reason we can still use the power of magical girls is that the Primordial Darkness has not yet been destroyed?"

“That’s right,” Genken Mashiro replied calmly.

However, this is not comprehensive. Mashiro Urouge's explanation is very logical, and it is definitely not something that can be fully deduced simply because everyone can still use the power of magical girls.

Under Yuuki Yuki's urging gaze to continue, Urobuchi Mashiro continued.

"You only know a small part of it. Think again, what else is there in that pitifully short myth about Azathoth?"

Creation, the foundation of magical girls' existence, the birth of offspring, the origin of the three pillar gods...

In that case, the answer was actually right from the beginning.

"Entering a dream? You mean we're all in the dream of the Primordial Darkness?" Nishio Reki preemptively uttered the answer he had in mind.

Her response was a noncommittal shrug from Mashiro Gorgen.

That's not something to be ambiguous; it means it's a definite statement.

Seeing this action, Tenrai Herika also began to think. Having experienced the entire battle with Yumehara Sumireko, she had vivid memories of this series of events.

"So, she can pull each of us into a dream like Sumireko Yumehara? Are we dreaming now? No, then how do you know? How did you enter our dream...?"

"Dream? This is undeniably reality. You, me, and Yuuki Yukino are all undeniably real. If you die here, you truly die. If you don't believe me, you can try and see if you really die, or wake up in some place that you think is the real world."

Genken Mashiro interrupted Tenrai Helika with a teasing expression.

"what do you want to say in the end?"

Genken Mashiro sighed softly, then took a wallet out of her pocket and took something out of the wallet.

It was a small, transparent plastic bag, seemingly used to hold some valuables.

And within that was a red silk thread.

"That's what I wanted to say."

……

It's bizarre; there's simply no other word to describe it.

After summarizing and organizing the bizarre events recounted by Gorky Mashiro, they are actually quite simple and easy to understand.

First, let's state a fundamental logic of this world: the future is full of countless possibilities.

For example, if Helica's hammer hadn't stopped but instead smashed the opponent's head, then everything could have turned out very differently because of this disagreement.

Countless divergences create countless possibilities, making the future virtually limitless. The girls are currently living on just one of those almost limitless possibilities.

According to Nishio Reki's theory of time travel, in reality, there is only one continuous timeline in the Qiqi world, while all others are merely "possibilities".

There is only one anchor point for determining which timeline alcohol is flowing through: the primordial force that can traverse time.

The primordial is unique. No matter how many timelines there are, the power of the primordial is one and only, and it will not be copied into an infinite number of copies as timelines change.

Aside from the timeline where the original power resides, all other timelines will stagnate.

Next, and this is the important part.

The timeline in which the girls are currently located contains almost no power related to the primordial era.