Regarding the fact that my best friend is a magical girl

"Hmm? What do you mean 'not necessarily'?"

"It's nothing, let's create the world first~"

Michelle kept her words half-said, and it was unclear what advantage she had discovered.

In a field of empty space, Michelle, as the creator, began to paint the world.

Perhaps it was due to familiarity, or perhaps the dungeon had been prepared long ago.

The world was being created at a speed that the naked eye couldn't keep up with. In the blink of an eye, that vibrant blue planet slammed into my face—simply put, I crashed into the sea.

"Holy crap!!"

Unable to distinguish east from west in the pitch-black water, he had no choice but to surface by instinct. Before even breaking the surface, he swallowed a mouthful of salt water. It's hard not to suspect that Michelle was deliberately seeking revenge.

However, thanks to this, I was able to escape the Moon Palace.

The entire world has been generated and looks exactly the same as before.

This is the fourteenth round.

However, the only thing that remains the same is the world itself. Since people's memories from the previous cycle were not erased, and time has returned to the day the new world began, then the people who rearranged things will surely...

Uh, they're all lying on the ground.

When I returned to Changkong City, I saw a group of magical girls lying motionless on the ground.

"Hey, Michelle, is this what happened?"

Especially those who were marching until the very end of the old world, now they were all piled up like a human pyramid, making one worry that the person at the bottom might be crushed to death.

Michelle's explanation came to my ears.

“The created data entities also need real consciousness to control them. The door to Earth’s crystal is tightly closed. Without consciousness entering these bodies, what difference is there between them and death?”

If consciousness is not restored, it's like a player not logging in.

Is Seruno's plan to make Michelle's server deserted?

Without people, there would be no emotions, and Michelle would be unable to achieve her plan no matter what. In doing so, it would be equivalent to freezing human history.

"It seems that Seruno will only release them if you continue with Genesis."

Players cannot change the game's operation, but they can choose not to play.

Michelle replied, "Then the plan you proposed, Auntie, can't be tested either?"

"Okay, let's get right to it then."

"...Isn't that the irresponsible thing to do?"

It seems Michelle doesn't agree.

But then, magical girls on the street started getting up one after another.

"As expected..." Michelle started her riddle again.

"Oh? It seems Seruno is starting to release people?"

Just as I was about to go up and talk to them, Michelle forcibly sent me into the Moon Palace.

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It's still that big birdcage.

The palace itself remains unchanged from the previous simulation, even the unmade quilts on the bed are the same.

"Are you still going to lock me up?"

Michelle's incarnation also appeared in the palace.

"Yes, I need to know the details."

"I'd like to know too."

That's why I brought you here.

Michelle clapped her hands, and two more people were brought into the cage.

One of them was the Black Rabbit, but the other was the unexpected Miss Terra.

"Ok?"

Seemingly foreseeing my future, Michelle wrapped her arms around Miss Terra's waist from behind.

"I was the one who helped her evolve from a pseudo-personality into true consciousness, so she chose to assist me in the new world and act as my inside man."

"...Miss Terra is Michelle's mole, you know?"

"It was Michelle who sent her to the Moon Palace! She wanted the fake aunt to use her beauty to persuade you to give up opposing me... Otherwise, do you think it would have been so easy to find this place?"

The underground lunar palace is extremely well hidden. Finding it on the vast moon would be impossible without a guide.

Tsk, has this girl been plotting against me since back then?

Miss Terra looked guilty; she did indeed crash for a while the moment she entered the new world, and at the time I just assumed she had some zero-day vulnerability in her "program".

"I'm sorry, Miluno, I've been wanting to talk to you about this for a while."

After traveling with her to the Moon Palace, she stayed at the exploration center, assisting the exploration team as a human radar in developing the buried lunar city.

I haven't been to the survey center since then.

“Miss Terra, I understand your gratitude towards Michelle, but if you are truly grateful to Michelle, you shouldn’t have cooperated with her… assisting your benefactor in committing suicide. I don’t consider that a way to repay a debt of gratitude.”

"This is not suicide, but a self-sacrifice chosen for the sake of loved ones."

What's the difference?

It's just a nicer way of saying it.

I sat down on the bed, and Michelle climbed up to me and acted like a child. She's clearly a grown woman in every way, but she still acts like a little kid...

"Okay, Auntie, stop being so temperamental!"

"So, what's the current situation in the new world?"

"Serno let everyone decide for themselves."

Black Rabbit sat down next to me and took Michelle off me.

Then he continued, "Only those who want to stay in the virtual world will wake up; the rest will choose to continue protesting until Michelle truly completes Genesis..."

"Ha~ I knew this would happen."

Michelle clapped her hands in her arms and asked, "About how many people will choose to come back?"

"Not many people have chosen to come back yet. They all trust Seruno, but as long as we continue to hold back, others will eventually be unable to resist coming out."

The black rabbit spoke with such certainty that I countered, "Are you really that sure?"

"An absolutely realistic virtual world is also attractive to many people. The development and progress of civilization is a distant concept for individuals. If one can live happily, it doesn't matter if current technology regresses by several decades... Human nature is sometimes quite easy to understand."

I frowned, thinking of how to refute him.

Michelle clapped her hands, and the scene outside the cage changed once again.

It is still Changkong City.

The magical girls who gradually got up, some knelt on the ground in frustration, others hugged their motionless loved ones by the roadside and wept. Very few showed any positive emotions; this "empty" new world filled them with despair…

Judging from the observed numbers, there are still more people who are not aware of the need to return.

"If the population is too small, society cannot exist. In the next step, these returning consciousnesses will probably gather together to form even smaller communities, right?"

With her emotions also significantly reduced, it's easy to imagine that even with just a little bit of progress left, it will become even more difficult for Michelle to achieve her plan.

The protests led by Serono were actually effective for Michelle.

"Hmph, don't try to see all of Michelle! Even without those consciousnesses, Michelle can still bring this world to life!"

The little girl hummed, and the data entities that had been motionless began to move one after another.

"What did you do? A pseudo-personality?"

"No, it's just that it connected with another consciousness. Compared to all life in the world, humans are just a minority."

The magical girls who got up started biting, screaming, or...

Mutual licking?

"What did you put in there?!"

Chapter 464 is Wild

(Cerunno)

"Perhaps it was thanks to Miluno that the consciousness of all life was finally contained before the virtual world was eliminated."

I was startled when I saw Miss Water Committee suddenly collapse, and then I realized that it was the collective consciousness of Earth Crystal that was severing the connection between consciousness and the virtual world one by one.

This makes it much more difficult for Michelle to erase everyone's memories. If all consciousness refuses to enter, that world becomes empty.

The contained consciousnesses cannot feel themselves, yet they are aware of their own existence. They have become another massive cluster of consciousnesses, which should theoretically be frozen until the arrival of the new world and then released...

But this time is different.

I need to use faith to stop Michelle's plan, and for that I must explain it to people.

"I hope everyone will listen to me."

In the midst of the turmoil in their consciousness, I tried to calm them down, but it was impossible to get everyone into my thoughts at the same time; I might actually faint.

Therefore, I can only convey my meaning by "shouting".

"Don't panic about the disappearance of the world. As I said before, the new world was originally virtual. The reason it's disappearing is that our creator is preparing to restart this world..."

Using a game analogy, it's like deleting a save file.

Michelle also mischievously slowed down the data deletion process, and it was this mischievousness that gave us room to maneuver. Otherwise, if the reboot had been completed in an instant, we wouldn't have had time to recover everyone's consciousness.

"Originally, everyone's memories from this round of simulation would have been erased, but the Earth Crystal protected everyone's consciousness beforehand, so their memories were not wiped."

The debate was quite heated, and not everyone agreed with or trusted what I said.

the most important is……