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

"Rize Tsukimi?"

"No, that's not it." Lin Jiezi gently shook her head, gently raised her hand, and gently took off her glasses. Using the same voice as Lin Jiezi, but with a completely different tone, she said, "Tsukimi Rize no longer exists."

“But,” Lin Jiezi smiled, “Yuki Yuki, I have finally met you.”

Yuuki Yukina's eyes widened: "Finally, I've seen...me?"

“That’s right, Yuuki Yukino, that child has worked very hard. She has already conveyed my voice to you.”

"Darkness is the thought that springs from people's hearts, the sin that is inherent in people. But I firmly believe that humanity is not a monster dominated by sin. For hundreds and thousands of years, although human society has experienced turmoil, those sinful and dark things have never completely defeated the light in the human heart."

"The gentle will not fear rage; the chaste will not be lustful; the diligent will ignore laziness; the generous will not be greedy... and also humility, tolerance, temperance, kindness, compassion, sincerity, perseverance, goodness..."

Even if you stray from the right path, even if you fall into evil, after endless darkness, dawn will eventually come. And the key to dawn is already in your hand.

……

It should be about time, right?

The pink-haired girl lowered her eyelids and counted the girls' breaths.

There's no need for me to drag this out any longer.

It's just one world. In the future, I will burn down more worlds and destroy more possibilities so that I can return there, return to the world that belongs to me, and reclaim the happiness that belongs to me.

It's time to end all of this.

The girl casually waved her hand, and black mud gushed out from the crack in the ground, surging forward like a tide.

However, the scene she had envisioned, the scene she had hoped to see, did not occur.

The mud, symbolizing the power of Azathoth, was cut off.

And what cut them off was just a single thread.

A tiny red line, so thin it was completely disproportionate to the tumultuous mud, lay there, yet the invisible power it exuded could even stop the primordial gods.

Faint pink light rose from Yuuki Yuuki's body. Yuuki Yuuki, who had fallen to the ground, propped herself up on her knees and slowly got up from the ground.

A small ring floated out of Yuuki Yuuki's chest pocket and hovered in front of her.

For a moment, it seemed as if everyone was seeing things.

They saw countless threads, from every corner of the city to their fingertips, all converging at a single point on Yuuki Eri's chest.

hum.

The red thread hummed, seemingly stirring someone's heartstrings.

Then, nothing was left—the dazzling red curtains, the black waves, nothing remained.

There was nothing there, not even a magic suit or a magic wand. Yuuki Yuki just stood there, with only the red thread ring on her ring finger.

"Bound by love."

An ending does not simply mean the end.

It's also possible that the girl who loves everything will tie all the red threads she has scattered into a knot called fate.

Chapter 319 A Noisy Encounter: Our Story

"Gods are things that no longer exist. Eden and Azathoth are not things that humans should touch. They are things that should be left to the dust of history as time goes by."

Through Lin Jiezi's words, Yuki En heard that last sound.

The red thread connecting everyone was tightly held in Yuuki Yukino's hand. The seed she had planted at the beginning had finally become a giant tree that could protect all the people and things she cherished.

Yuuki Yuuki took a step forward, protecting everyone and the city behind her.

Nervous? Excited? None of those emotions that would make her heart beat faster.

She was simply doing something she had to do, something only she could do.

At this point, shouldn't the protagonist of a comic say something inspiring?

But all Yuuki Yukino wanted to say was this one sentence.

"Come on, my other self."

"Ha... Ahaha, come on? Then come on."

The girl lifted her forehead, gathering a few strands of pink hair that had fallen across her forehead and smoothing them down her head. Through her fingers, her familiar eyes reflected a coolness unlike the bright sunlight overhead.

But then, the bright sun was obscured by dark clouds, casting the entire city into shadow.

……

In the almost pitch-black room, which seemed out of place for the time of day, Minato Nana looked up at the dark clouds that had suddenly descended, and unconsciously clenched her fingers.

Not just Minato Nana, almost everyone in the entire Moonsea City looked up at the sky, at the darkness that seemed to be swallowing everything.

"Teacher! Teacher! The building! It's the building!"

The children who were playing in the yard ran over, grabbed the hem of Mr. Murakami's clothes, and pointed their round fingers at the dark sky.

"What building?" Murakami-sensei still had a faint smile on her face, but the rush of blood to her brain from her increasingly rapid heartbeat had already made her vision involuntarily blur.

She rubbed her eyes and finally saw clearly what the child was saying.

What was looming over everyone's heads wasn't a dark cloud at all, but an entire city.

The upside-down city, like another moonlit city reflected in a mirror, was slowly approaching their city.

Inside a room somewhere.

"Mashiro, was this also within your expectations? What will become of Moonsea City?"

"Of course not, how could I possibly have foreseen all of this?" Genken Mashiro shook his head, looking at the now empty sealed bag on the table. Not long ago, the thin red thread that had been there seemed to have vanished into thin air as if ignited by a flame.

"But it would be abnormal if someone who can stop us couldn't do it, wouldn't it?"

……

Another Yuuki Yuki clenched her fists, as if she too held a wisp of fire that could burn away the future she hated, and floated between the gradually approaching upside-down city.

"Ah, Azathoth, created god, hear my final request, grant my only wish. Chew on this pain, swallow this despair, and then take me back. Back to that sea of ​​stars, back to those happy times."

The ground was as cold as ice, the sky was far away, and the gale swept up the girl's petite figure. The distorted mark rose silently from behind the girl, magnified, until it covered the entire sky.

The upside-down city, like sharp spikes, pierced the dark magic runes belonging to Azathoth, riddling the mark that symbolized the beginning and the end with countless holes.

The tattered brand quietly shattered, and specks of light fell like rain, bathing the pink-haired girl in them.

The girl's magical costume faded in the downpour, revealing her new look.

"My name is Yuuki Eri, the one who holds the truth in her hands. For the sake of my dream's ideal world, I will reclaim the world."

That was the first and the last liberation of the gods.

pat.

Yuuki Yukino took a small step.

Like a gentle breeze, it dispelled all the unease.

"I am named Yuuki Yuuki. I am not destined to grasp reality, not destined to touch time, not destined to change the world. I am not the original priestess of origin and end, nor the god who responds to love."

The hand wearing the red thread ring quietly landed on her heart.

"I am just myself, carrying everyone's expectations and wishes, and wanting to make a final connection with myself who is immersed in the beautiful dream of the starry sea. So I stand here, nothing more."

Red threads scatter, and a pure white long dress sways in the invisible embrace.

In that vast and ethereal sea of ​​stars, the girl slowly lowered her eyelashes.

"Then let's go, and the history of the victors will continue."

The girl, standing on solid ground, slowly raised her head.

"Then let's go, all the stories will continue to be woven."

The next instant, the two figures converged at the same spot.

An invisible wave of air erupted and spread to every corner.

Immediately, the two figures separated.

Cthulhu!

Black and purple silk threads intertwined, weaving into the shape of a longbow. The girl drew the bowstring, and a dark vortex extended from her fingertips, like flowing water, like tentacles, like an arrow about to pierce through Yuuki Eri.

"What kind of ability is this? Why have I never seen her use it before?!" Heavenly Thunder Herika exclaimed in surprise.

“Azathoth is the creator of everything, He is the source of everything, everything in the world exists because of His existence, and He holds everything that He can control.” Sumireko Yumehara’s weak voice rang in the girls’ ears.

"Doesn't that mean?!" Baqi's words stopped there; she couldn't continue, much less utter that cruel reality.

Hanzawa Kuriko nodded slowly but forcefully.

"Ah."

Yuuki Yukino, who was pointed at by that arrow with destructive power, did not panic. All she did was open her palms, as if she was trying to grasp something.

The blue-haired girl suddenly seemed to understand something and raised her hand towards Yuuki Yuki in the distance.

A blue light slowly rose up and landed in Yuuki Yuuki's hand.

Their stories began to intersect in this way: a strange chase, a strange encounter, which opened the first page of their future, where they walked side by side and then parted ways, ultimately standing together here.

"Yuki!"

As Mizuno Yu called out, blue light began to solidify in Yuuki Yuuki's hand, and the girl drew her ice-blue longbow.

Yuuki nocked the bowstring, and the azure magic transformed into a transparent arrow that everyone was all too familiar with.

This time, what she held in her hand was no longer a fictional magic wand, but their real bond.

Artemis!

The bowstring cuts through the wind, and blue and black shatter at the moment they meet.

Only a small amount of bright red blood slowly seeped from the cheek of the girl holding the black bow and arrow.

Both bows disappeared at the same time, but this was only the beginning.

“Nagor! Jeb!”

The two blasphemous blades fell together, tearing everything apart with a sound.