Regarding the fact that my best friend is a magical girl

When I got home, I went straight to my bedroom. Everyone else was already asleep, and I knew that even the slightest movement would wake them up...

Well, Barbara is already asleep in bed.

"You three slept together?" Miluno asked, unaware of the situation.

"To be precise, Barbara and I slept together, and you... the other you slept on the sofa?"

Miluno looked puzzled and squinted as she asked.

"You two had a fight?"

"No, it's simply that there are too many people living together and not enough rooms."

Today we practiced singing and dancing all day long. Ms. Halley's requirements are very strict, which made me more mentally exhausted than physically exhausted. Of course, I also worked up a sweat.

Sleeping like this is definitely not a good idea.

"Let's save some time and shower together."

As a result, Miluno followed them in...

Noticing my gaze, she unbuttoned her clothes and asked, "Do you still mind this kind of thing now?"

"Everything you and Michelle have done has a purpose. This time, you asked to stay by my side to restrain my actions, didn't you?"

"Having gone through so much, have you become more wary?"

Michelle is such a scheming girl.

Although I hate to admit it, there's no way I can beat her if I hold onto naive ideas...

"Alright, come in then."

I stepped into the shower room and waited for Miluno with the door open.

"So, I'm also planning to use even more methods, huh?"

Chapter 448 Off-Screen Debate

(Miluno)

"I said, why are you making me see these things?"

A mattress was laid on the floor inside the cage. Michelle, in her girlish pose, was lying down next to me, hugging her blanket, and playing "Serno and Milno.avi" on the big screen.

"You even broadcast your shower live? Isn't that a bit too much? Can't you have some respect for personal privacy? Let's leave Seruno aside for now, but the other one is still your mother, isn't she?"

"Even if you say that, I can't not know even if I don't want to. This isn't spying; everything that happened to them was calculated and realized through my side."

Michelle is the supercomputer that controls everything in the new world.

She knows everything and can do everything, but...

"But you don't have to show it to me!"

When I slammed my hand on the table, Michelle looked shocked and asked, "Huh? Auntie, don't you want to see?"

Why does she think I want to see Serino taking a bath...?

It's not that I don't want to see it, but I certainly won't admit it publicly!

But in this respect, this deity is not omniscient or omnipotent; at least she doesn't know what people are thinking...

Michelle hugged my arm, rested her head on my shoulder, and asked in a coquettish tone, "Auntie~ you think it's better to find the answer as you go than to keep simulating it, right?"

"Of course, simulation is like standing still. You won't lose anything, but you won't gain anything either. It's just an escape."

"Then after Michelle disappears, you can do as you wish~"

Is this an arrangement for his funeral?

"Don't act rashly, you might not necessarily die."

"Hmph, do you think Aunt Seruno still has a chance of winning?"

"For someone like you who only believes in simulation results, there's probably no chance of winning, right?"

"Of course, so far, the simulation results are correct."

I poked her forehead with my finger and pushed her head off my shoulder.

"Since simulation can predict anything, why bother having another version of myself keep an eye on her?"

Just in case.

"Since you firmly believe that the simulation still has such a 'what if,' why don't you believe that you and the agent can both survive? What if there's a way to deal with that 'what if'?"

"...People's thoughts and actions are uncontrollable variables, but in the matter of reviving Dad, there is no such variable. Only Michelle can make the choice, and Michelle is the only variable that determines the outcome."

This girl is young, but she has no hope at all.

"Think what you want, but as long as I'm with Seruno, I won't give up."

"But you're with me now, aren't you? Whether in this new world or in reality, you're with Michelle..."

"Ok?"

I realized something from her words and immediately closed my eyes.

------

The ocean of consciousness remains radiant.

Although this place is beautiful, you get a bit tired of seeing it after a while.

"Fragments of consciousness, we're in trouble."

But I didn't rush to surface and return to reality.

I need someone to discuss a solution. Although I spoke confidently to Michelle, I actually don't have any good ideas.

Michelle has blocked all the roads right now.

It must be said that simulations are reliable most of the time; for example, we're completely helpless against her right now...

"You can't save Michelle either?"

The voice of the fragment of consciousness emerged, and I replied, "It's not certain yet... Our secret weapon was easily destroyed by Michelle."

"To deal with that girl, you have to use methods you can't even imagine, because she has already simulated all the possibilities you can think of."

I twitched the corner of my mouth.

"Hey, isn't what you're saying contradictory?"

If there's no way to say it, you don't have to. There's no need to play these riddles with me.

"I'm just giving you a suggestion. Only by doing this can we have a chance of winning. The concert is tomorrow, and we don't have much time..."

I started to rise.

"Remember, you are gradually moving closer to the divine."

The fragments of consciousness were still saying something...

"Broaden your horizons, break free from your established mindset, and look at things from a higher perspective. You might just discover that tiny possibility you've never noticed before."

Are they still speaking in riddles at this point?!

"Specifically, what do I need to do?"

"What I mean is, why don't you shift your gaze away from Michelle and look around—"

As her five senses gradually returned, her voice grew more and more distant.

here it is……

It's a cage again.

However, it's not the cage inside the Moon Palace.

To stop me from wandering around, my thoughtful niece prepared a cage for me in the real world, where teleportation magic is obviously no longer an option.

At least there's a bed here.

Directly beneath the cage lies a colossal pit of the Great Will, which is also the mainframe of the new world, the very heart of Michelle's being, a churning, swirling darkness...

Yet within that darkness, there were specks of starlight.

"Auntie, you can't run out here instead of sleeping properly!"

This is the first time I've heard Michelle's voice in real life since entering this new world.

"However, since we're here, why don't we help Michelle out a little?"

The intense darkness here is suffocating me.

"If you feel uncomfortable, you can turn darkness into light, right? Auntie, you have that ability, don't you? Back in the old world, didn't we work together perfectly?"

The current balance between light and darkness is the result of my continuous transformation of darkness in the old world.

But right now, if the transformation into darkness continues and disrupts this balance, the world's capacity will decrease, and the gap between Michelle and me will narrow further...

"Would you rather suffer than transform the darkness?"

Shift your gaze away from Michelle...

I sat cross-legged in the cage.

Behind the wall of the third room, numerous pipes connect to Michelle's interior from around the tunnel, thus interacting with the consciousness within the Earth Crystal...

If we use the online games that Seruno likes as an analogy, then the Earth Crystal is like a personal computer with a client installed, where everyone's consciousness goes online; the Great Will is like the game operator's ear server, where all the game's content is generated.

"Auntie, are you hungry? Would you like some noodles?"

Michelle was still chattering away...

This girl's goal is for me to replace her as the new "operator," and once she achieves this, she will immediately implement her plan to sacrifice herself.

After I become the new operator, our positions will be switched, but the Morning Star Crystal can reverse time in an instant, and I may not have a chance to stop her...

No, this is exactly what "even I could think of"—she must have thought of it and has some means to ensure her plan will succeed.

So, how can one come up with things that even they couldn't have imagined?

I looked down at the cables and pipes below, and then weighed my current abilities.