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

This wasn't the first encounter. Back on that campus, when despair was creeping in, his wand failed to protect him.

But this is the last time.

"Xiao Yuan! Go!"

This is Nishio Reki's voice; this is the voice that guided Yuuki Eri to this place.

"Yes, I know, Koki." Yuuki Yuuki stroked the spear in her hand, as if stroking her past: "Let's attack together."

She raised her head, looked at the endless tentacles descending upon her, and called out the name in her hand and in her heart.

Bahamut!

A fleeting streak of light pierced through the dark clouds, allowing a ray of sunlight to shine once more upon the vast earth.

The tentacles were disappearing, turning into ashes under the rays of sunlight.

The girl, surrounded by tentacles, trembled as she uncontrollably touched the bleeding hole on her side.

"Gah." The girl gritted her teeth, blood vessels running through the whites of her eyes, making them appear as red as if soaked in blood.

"Yog-Sothoth!"

Countless rays of light flowed, outlining a star map behind the girl. After that roar, it seemed as if the entire starry sky had fallen at that moment.

The leaping lightning bloomed on Yuuki Yuki's forehead, like gold, like a serpent, like the proud smile of that golden-haired girl.

It was as if a hand had gently pushed Yuuki Yukino from behind, making the falling stars before her eyes resemble a deathly silent starry sky, and turning the whistling in her ears into a girl's high-pitched song.

My encounter with her was like a farce; I had ulterior motives, but in the end, it all turned out to be so pure.

Because of a single fan? Because of a hidden identity? Because of past ties?

No, it's not that at all. It's just that I feel both troubled and comfortable when I'm with her.

I stand here, and even though I am just as imperfect as she is now, I still stand here stubbornly.

"Yuki Yuki! Blast her away!" Exhausted, Tenrai Herika flung her blonde hair aside and raised her fist high into the sky.

“Herika. Isn’t that obvious?”

Yuuki Yukino spread her five fingers, and the golden warhammer forged from lightning struck open the dazzling starlight.

The sound of bones breaking rang out, and one of the girls from the Star Sea's arms fell limply to its side.

"No, no, no! Something's not right! Why! Why! Why!"

The girl roared, shouting out the name she knew best and could rely on most.

"Nyarlathotep!"

Wands, thousands, tens of thousands of wands, were lined up in the air.

Every magical girl present had seen such a scene. If we were to talk about Yuuki Yuuki's most proficient fighting style, or her most representative ability, it would undoubtedly be this.

But this time was different from every other time. There had never been such a large scene before, and never had it made people feel so desperate.

But does anyone feel despair?

not at all.

Because Yuuki Yuki exists, because Yuuki Yuki is the burning hope.

boom.

A gunshot rang out, ending everything.

The story of the girl named Yuuki Yukino continues like this: a coffee-flavored kiss, a hot drink after gym class, a Halloween prank, a delicious liqueur candy, a long embrace, and a ray of bright silver that entered her life and will never fade away.

For some reason, Yuuki Yukina remembered what the girl had told her about the gathering.

"Let me see what kind of terrible thing Yuuki Yuki will become."

"Pfft." Yuuki Yukino couldn't help but laugh out loud: "I'm not bad at all right now, am I?"

The single-shot matchlock gun disappeared into the wind along with the softly chanted true name.

"Thank you for always being there for me, Baqi."

Yuuki Yuuki watched as the girl, who shared the same name, the same past, and the same feelings as her, yet embarked on a different future, clutched her pierced chest. Her swaying figure fell like a feather, her demonic armor dissipating in the wind, before she slowly closed her eyes.

"You too, Xiaoyuan."

The silver-haired girl, gazing up at the sky, unconsciously smiled knowingly.

"I like you the most."

Chapter 320 I Like Everyone!

Yuuki Yukino felt herself falling.

It feels like a piece of my heart is missing; it hurts so much.

The wind was so strong it felt like it was tearing my eardrums apart; it hurt so much.

The world seems to be getting further and further away from me, it hurts so much.

Yuuki Yukino raised her hand, wanting to touch the dazzling sunlight above her head, but her body was moving further and further away from the sunlight, yet she did not become warm again as the sunlight shone down.

Can a body with only a soul feel pain?

Oh, I knew how to do that.

I failed to find my own world; I am destined to remain in this time that does not belong to me, forever and ever.

As Yuuki Yuki thought, her drooping eyelids obscured the last light before her eyes.

Yuuki Yukina thought about the moment when she would be unable to think anymore.

It's really cold.

However, it wasn't actually that cold.

I can still feel a touch of warmth around me, and I can still feel that warm embrace.

"Why?" Yuuki asked the person embracing her, "Why did I lose to someone who has nothing?"

The girl with the same voice as her replied, "You have never questioned that you are the only one, which is why you cannot make choices, cannot choose the path of coexisting with others, and cannot choose the self that is woven from strong desires."

"What do you know about me?" Yuuki Yuen retorted.

"I know, I know everything about you, just as you know everything about me, just as I know everything about myself," the voice said.

“People entrust their wishes to me, and I am responding to their wishes in order to create and protect our future, and to enable each of us to live in this world according to our own will. That is why I stand here.”

After that, Yuuki Yuuki felt the embrace tighten even more.

I'm doing something unnecessary again, another version of myself.

After that, Yuuki Yuuki felt that embrace became even more distant.

Gradually, gradually, Yuuki Yukina stopped feeling anything.

She opened her eyes in a world where she had nothing, and saw pink petals falling in the spring breeze and dazzling sunlight.

She saw the girls waving to her in a rain of petals.

"Yuki Yuen!"

"Yuki".

"<Grip-?, I'm getting the idea, Senior Yuuki!"

She watched as the girl who had run up to her took her hand.

"Xiao Yuan, what are you standing there for? Everyone's waiting for you!"

Yuuki Yukino raised her sleeve, wiped her eyes which had become wet without her noticing, and nodded vigorously.

"Yes! I'm here!"

The girl took a step and ran into the beam of light that awaited her.

……

Yuuki Yukino held the small ball of light in her palm and placed it in front of the girls.

No one spoke, and no one knew what to say.

A story always needs someone to put a period to it, but no one knows who should be the one to add that final stroke.

Inuyama Tomoe wiped the sweat from her forehead and asked in a casual yet extremely cautious tone, "Is it over?"

"Hmm." Yuuki Yukino clasped her hands together. "I guess so?"

“I suppose that means something?” Nishio Reki keenly noticed the other meaning in Yuuki Yukino’s words.

Yuuki Yukino did not directly answer Nishio Reki's question, but instead looked at everyone with an equal gaze.

What do you all think a magical girl is?

A murmur arose among the crowd.

"She can transform... After transforming, her clothes are like an idol's outfit, and she's a girl who fights evil?"

"She is a miracle girl who has been given magical powers, the right to have her wishes fulfilled, and the corresponding responsibilities."

"It is the source of the calamity that has brought disaster to this city."

"They are nothing, just a group of ordinary girls who have been given a mission to fight that is not their own."

The discussion gradually grew louder, then gradually subsided.

All eyes turned to Yuuki Yukino, and to the person who had raised the question.

Presumably, Yuuki Yukino already has an answer to her question in her heart.

"I don't know, a magical girl is just a magical girl."

They heard Yuuki Yukino say that.

"So, do you think it's right for magical girls to continue existing?"

But this time, not a single sound came from the girls who had gathered together.

Should magical girls continue to exist?

Everyone probably has their own answer, and everyone has their own reasons for this answer.