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Reshaping the Grand Finale: The Other Side of Deep Space (6,000 words, not free, please vote with monthly tickets)

What time is it now?

"Three years before the Heavenly Emperor's Calendar".

Why the first three years?

"Because there are still three years until the birth of the Heavenly Emperor."

A new calendar, with its reversed cause and effect, appeared in everyone's consciousness.

Although no one knew who the Heavenly Emperor was or why he was born three years later, everyone naturally accepted this new calendar.

Even in the void and chaos of the dead land.

Even souls that have long lost their consciousness will naturally develop such ideas.

However, here, no one can calculate the time.

In the midst of chaos, Shi Xin stared blankly at the pitch-black sky that resembled a vortex.

Although she suddenly knew about the Heavenly Emperor Calendar, she did not know what time of the Heavenly Emperor Calendar it was.

The surrounding area was filled with the remains of many magical girls.

The aimless wandering soul has long lost its sense of self here.

They didn't know who they were, where they came from, or what they should do.

But the timing is different.

Even though she had endured a long time here, she still refused to lose her mind.

She endured endless loneliness and pain, and in this maddening torment, she clung to her last shred of consciousness, unwilling to let it fade away.

Did that branch of time actually come in handy?

Has anything actually changed?

Are we still being dominated by a hopeless future?

Did the sacrifices of our predecessors and our own efforts have any value?

Perhaps it was because she was too greedy; she wanted to know the result.

Because I was truly unwilling to accept it, and I really didn't want everything to be in vain.

Even if it meant enduring millions of years of loneliness and torment, she was unwilling to lose her consciousness.

Day after day she gazed at the sky, that pitch-black vortex, an eternal darkness without a single ray of light.

There was no sign of light appearing.

Gradually, she began to wander around like the other wandering souls.

Lost and confused, I wandered until I finally merged into the darkness and could no longer feel anything.

In her hazy state, she seemed to see some familiar magical girls.

Those who told her of the inevitable destruction of the world, and who told her that she had to seize the branch of time and find a way to change the despair of her predecessors from the past.

They didn't know if it made any sense.

But as long as there is a possibility, all the magical girls will struggle to fight for that possibility.

One after another, generation after generation, until she came.

Because she possessed an ability similar to the Time Branch, Shi Xin stepped over the corpses of many magical girl predecessors and touched that only possibility.

Looking at the empty eyes and faint aura of those predecessors, Shi Xin's consciousness struggled slightly once again.

I couldn't help but cry.

This is a deadly place that no one can find.

This is the final resting place for all the magical girls who gave their lives.

This is the ruins of all miracles, the graveyard of hope.

No light can shine here.

When you are no longer surrounded by the desires of others, when all strength and warmth have left you, and you are alone in the cold darkness waiting for death.

Shi Xin couldn't help but reflect on the meaning of what happened back then.

I will start to feel resentful and heartbroken for the efforts of all the magical girls.

So she wanted to know if anything had changed, if anything had been successful, even if it was just a tiny change.

To prove that they existed, to prove the significance of their efforts.

However, this place is pitch black, a place forgotten by the world.

Time cannot reach this place, and even the existence of space is uncertain.

No matter how hard you try, no matter how many companions, friends, and relatives you have, you are alone when you die.

Especially magical girls.

The desolate wilderness after death will never offer them any warmth or noise.

As punishment for those who steal the essence of the world and abuse miracles.

They could only wander and drift on a dark, desolate land where no one could see today, until they completely disappeared.

The magical girl seniors in front of her disappeared one by one, and Shi Xin, her eyes blurred with tears, tried her best to reach out and grab them.

But all she could grasp was a patch of black dust.

She didn't want it all to be in vain.

If in the end everything is meaningless, then what was the point of them...?

Kneeling on the ground, Shi Xin's fingers gripped the hard soil beneath her repeatedly, almost tearing her hands to pieces.

"Who will help..."

The words she opened her mouth to speak did not come out, but they were desperately trying to be conveyed from the depths of her heart, as if they wanted to tear her body apart.

"Someone, please help them!"

Even just a little bit, please don't let their end be so tragic.

The magical girls who gave their all for everyone deserved a better ending.

If this is punishment for losers, then punish only one person.

Because Shi Xin didn't do better, because Shi Xin had no idea what happened to the Time Branch in the end, and because Shi Xin wasted everyone's efforts.

So, it's all my fault. Please, anyone, come and help them, give them the happy future they deserve. I'll do anything you ask. If there is a God, I beg you...

Perhaps it was truly the divine that heard the sinner's repentance and prayers; through her blurry, tearful eyes, Shi Xin saw glimmers of light.

In this dark wasteland, it was the first time she had seen light since she fell into this place, for who knows how long.

She crawled forward with her bloodied hands, then with all her might.

He stretched out his skeletal hand toward that tiny ray of light.

They clung tightly to the light, unwilling to let go.

"Do you need any help?"

That was the first time she had ever heard a sound in such a desolate place.

The clarity dried her tears, and her vision brightened in an instant.

The girl in purple, as exquisite as a carefully sculpted porcelain doll, stood before him. Her fair hand, which he had gripped so tightly it was now covered in blood, filled Shi Xin with an involuntary sense of guilt, as if he had defiled a work of art.

She kept opening her mouth, trying to speak, but couldn't utter a single word.

"I see."

But the other person only responded to her indifferently yet affirmatively.

Then, she saw the many magical girl souls that had begun to dissipate being recreated.

She was pulled up by the other person.

Shi Xin then heard the girl ask softly, "Can you walk?"

She nodded vigorously.

So the girl took her hand and slowly started walking outside.

All the wandering, lost souls behind her were drawn in, and the scattered magical girls were also reshaped in her purple flames. They all chased after this single ray of light, step by step, walking towards the outside.

Soon a long queue stretched out behind him.

As she walked, Shi Xin noticed that the surroundings were getting brighter and brighter, and the darkness behind her was getting farther and farther away, and her senses were becoming clearer and clearer.

The intense heat emanating from those hands almost set her ablaze.

"us……"

She discovered that she could actually speak.

I couldn't do it no matter how hard I tried before.

Where are we going?

The purple-clad girl did not turn around. Like a silver river, they walked from the unknown, desolate darkness all the way to the outside world.

All souls paused, staring blankly upwards.

Looking at the sun, moon, mountains, and rivers, and at the towering buildings and steel forests everywhere.

Silence.

"go home."

The purple-clad girl spoke softly, and the many souls behind her began to scatter in all directions.

Shi Xin saw someone travel back hundreds of years, and the purple-clad girl beside her gently fiddled with something.

And so, in the long river of time, waves were created, and something changed.

She saw the souls of the dead returning to their bodies, escaping their inevitable fate.