Starting with magical girls, I'll reign supreme for eternity.

"Dinner's ready."

A long time has passed here. Of course, Shion has an absolute sense of time, and she is certain that only a few hours have passed in the outside world.

But here, almost half a year has passed just like that.

She saw the magical girls who were interacting with Lu Ya, but time was frozen here and somewhat blurred, so even she couldn't make out their faces.

Most of them came and went. Although they had a good relationship with Lu Ya and planned to build Chongxu together, they were not really close friends who could talk about anything.

More like colleagues.

The village is becoming increasingly sparsely populated.

The spirit of the bullying village is still quite good. Even though they have been taught a lesson by themselves many times, and even though bullying them and Lu Ya might lead to their deaths, these villagers are still brave and persistent in their bullying.

It can only be said that they deserve recognition. If they weren't already dead, Shion would have given them the utmost respect and sent them on their way.

As she walked into the tower, the cries of the surrounding villagers and the mournful clothes hanging around her made her glance sideways.

People are dying more and more lately; it won't be long before they're all gone.

When they entered the tower, Lu Ya was still chatting with several other colleagues. They seemed quite excited about what they were talking about.

However, once Shion entered, she quickly stopped.

It won't be long before all the accomplices who have gathered here leave.

"Oh~ is this your new friend? How cute."

One of the girls, dressed entirely in a black robe, smiled ambiguously at Lu Ya before leaving, saying, "But you're not allowed to be nicer to her than to me, okay?"

"Don't talk nonsense, you idiot!"

In the end, Lu Ya jokingly pushed him out of the tower.

When he returned a while later, he said again, "Don't take it to heart, that guy just likes to joke around."

What kind of organization is she trying to establish?

Lu Ya thought for a while before saying, "It seems to be some kind of witch's gathering?"

Ziyuan frowned slightly.

The founder of the Witch's Guild?

"In short, it's really strange that she wants to find power outside of magical girl status, even though she's a magical girl."

After cooking for Ziyuan, Lu Ya picked up the things the magical girl had left her earlier. "Ta-da! Look what this is!"

It was a tree branch, incredibly fresh, with dewdrops still dripping from it.

However, upon closer inspection, it was discovered that they were not dewdrops, but rather water droplets formed by the condensation of time, and the branches were hollow.

A gentle stream flows above, resembling the image of a river—

That was time.

"The treasure they found on the World Tree was a branch related to time, but after it was taken off the World Tree, the branch seemed to freeze and could not be used no matter what."

Lu Ya waved the branch cutely, and her originally weak body finally seemed to have regained some strength: "However, there is no doubt that this contains the Dao Fruit of Time. The rest is how to guide this power out."

As she spoke, the girl's gaze became somewhat dreamy. "Then, I'll be able to meet him."

"It's about time to give up."

Shion, who was eating, interrupted her daydream, "You can't become a magical girl."

"Yeah, I've given up."

A personal reality that doesn't belong to her, coupled with Lu Ya's personality.

Fundamentally, they have no connection to magical girls.

Ultimately, those incubators only coveted the personal reality within their own hearts, but no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't turn Lu Ya into a magical girl.

"However, there's never just one way to achieve your dreams, right?"

Lu Ya smiled at her with a very innocent and cute expression.

She always smiled so pure and innocently, so kind that you felt she was naturally your childhood sweetheart who lived next door.

When a girl is too beautiful, she often exudes a sharp and distant aura.

Whether it's rock candy or aster, they generally make people feel unapproachable.

Even someone as charming and sociable as Bing Tang can still make others feel distant.

But Lu Ya is different; with every smile and frown, it feels as if it wouldn't matter if I confessed to her.

No matter what you say, you won't be disliked.

They can easily become close friends who can talk about anything. Their approachability and trustworthy charm are something that most girls, no matter how beautiful, can't match.

Therefore, many villagers gradually accepted Lu Ya and became close to her.

Even if they are invited to visit the high-rise building, they will not refuse at all.

At night, if you go outside the basement of the high-rise building, you can see Lu Ya in the laboratory, trying out various potions with great seriousness. Occasionally, the founder of the Witch Society will stand next to her.

The discussion was casual, focusing on the potion's effects, the villagers' reactions, and the properties of the raw materials...

Ziyuan watched quietly from outside the window.

The frozen time can be stirred up with force, but it will eventually return to the moment it was frozen.

She watched as the experiment improved step by step, until it began to resemble the witch surgery she had participated in at the Witch Society.

Once, after watching for a long time, Lu Ya, who was concentrating on preparing medicine for the villagers, suddenly looked up and turned to look at her.

Her face was splattered with blood, and she held the dissection and injection tools in her hands, yet she still wore that endearing, innocent smile, as if it could conceal the blood on her face.

"Oh, do you want to try it too?"

In the end, Ziyuan ignored her and simply turned and left.

Holding the tools, Lu Ya scratched her head and could only snort in frustration.

"If you're not coming, that's fine too."

Chongxu was expanding day by day as planned, but most of the experiments were not going smoothly, and the number of villagers was decreasing day by day.

The village has also been gradually modernized, becoming larger, more luxurious, and more orderly.

More and more magical girls are coming and going, and so are more and more monsters.

Lu Ya is surrounded by more and more companions.

Lu Ya was also conducting experiments on herself, with some successes and some failures.

He grew weaker day by day, his body began to break down, he stopped making videos for himself, stopped going out, and hardly ever spoke to Ziyuan.

But the experiment continues.

Her companions also began to discover the problem, and people started to check her basement, trying to find out some issues from the sidelines.

The disappearance of the calamity beast, the deaths and decrease in the number of villagers, and the strange phenomena and bloody smell in the high-rise building.

Until one day, everything was exposed, all the magical girls showed disgust, and even the president of the Witch Guild disappeared.

"You're so disappointing, Lu Ya!"

"Why would you do something like this... when we trusted you so much?"

"We clearly agreed to use branches from the World Tree to build a new kingdom for magical girls..."

The weakened Lu Ya remained silent, only bowing her head and offering a gentle apology.

The magical girls initially intended to drag her down to the basement, but seeing that Lu Ya was unwell, some of them couldn't bear it and carried her on their backs.

When the door below was opened and everyone entered the laboratory, a deathly silence fell over them.

There were many remains of monstrous beasts, and of course, many human remains, along with soaking entrails and all sorts of organs...

A scene that resembles hell.

However, Shion wasn't too surprised.

When I saw Lu Ya holding the organs preserved in formaldehyde, I already had a pretty good idea of ​​what was going on.

Sooner or later, they will lose their reverence, sooner or later they will begin to indulge, sooner or later they will become distorted and dark.

Some things, once opened up, have endless possibilities, and ultimately depend on the guidance of the environment.

Of course, the most important thing is your own choice.

Because nothing can be entirely blamed on one's living environment or one's family of origin.

The magical girls were both angry and furious, but looking at the weak Lu Ya, everyone could tell that she was on the verge of death.

She would only live for a day or two.

No one made a move, yet no one dared to leave her there unattended.

I didn't want to kill a girl who was already going to die, but I also didn't want to give her any chance to escape and go out to do bad things.

Until Shion walked in.

As he walked in, the girl tilted her head slightly and glanced at him.

Even as she lay weakly in bed, her bright eyes still radiated a captivating warmth and vitality.

Then he began to speak.

"Shion, I left behind an AI. The complete witch experiment is almost finished..."

"I don't think I look bad right now... Will he dislike me if I see him like this?"

"Time, time, if it were him..."

"Everything can be taken except the heart, except the heart..."

The magical girls' multicolored pupils were fixed on the two of them.

Ziyuan ignored everyone, simply collecting all the tools Lu Ya had used before, walking up to her, and interrupting her murmurs, "Do you know what you're doing?"

Even as she faced death, the girl still wore a sweet smile, saying, "Love is the chaos outside of order."

It was as if it were an answer to Shion, or as if it were being addressed to those magical girls.