The collapse started when Kiana came to the door

"I heard from Sirin that you seemed to have used a forbidden spell that all magical girls can only use once in their lifetime in order to suppress the power of the 'Demon King' at the cost of your soul." Kiana nodded, then frowned slightly, "Could it be that at that time..."

"Ah, the moment the forbidden spell was used, that guy's soul also dissipated."

This incident obviously made the magical girl Freya feel a little frustrated. She lowered her head and her tone of voice lost its previous sharpness:

"In fact, under normal circumstances, casting forbidden spells would not cause the souls of magical girls like us to dissipate. But because that idiot never had a body, the price she paid when using forbidden spells was somewhat different from mine and Buluo's. Our souls were only imprisoned in a forbidden space and time with the Demon King... or what you call the 'ether singularity'. However, the idiot in my body consumed all the power to support the survival of the soul in order to protect Buluo and me."

"But if that's the case, her soul should be able to condense back into itself after I reversed your time."

Kiana looked puzzled.

To be fair, although she did not look down on the residents living in the world bubble, from an objective point of view, the world bubble, which is inherently unstable, does have an objective gap in specifications from the original world they previously lived in.

If it was in the intrinsic world, then even with the power of the "cocoon", Kiana would not be able to use the power of time to forcibly reverse the death of life.

Even if time is reversed to restore the physical state of a dead person to that of before death, there will be no "consciousness" in the restored body.

But in the world bubble, even without the assistance of the "cocoon", her time power can still bring dead life back to life, because the formation principle of the world bubble itself is based on a "projection" of the intrinsic world. If Kiana has such an idea, she can even freeze the time of this world bubble on the same day forever, but in the intrinsic world, she obviously can't do this.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, at the moment she liberated the "ether singularity" of this world, even if she overpaid the cost of using the "forbidden spell" and ended up with her soul dissipating, those dissipated souls should have returned to this space in the reversed time.

"So I said, she ran away." Magical girl Fule showed a frustrated expression, "At the moment when her soul was about to condense into shape, she suddenly said to me, 'I'm sorry, the other me, the captain helped me find you, so this time, it's my turn to help the captain's people'... and then she ran away."

"..."

Silence fell silently.

An extremely thick silence quietly lingered in the air nearby.

"Wait, my mind is a little confused." Kiana rubbed her headache forehead, "Go to help the captain's people...what does this sentence mean?"

"How should I know?" Magical Girl Fule glared at Kiana. Obviously, she was quite upset by the other Seele's behavior of leaving her here and running away. "Don't you know that there is a problem with the people on your ship?"

"But hasn't Hyperion had any accidents recently?" Kiana blinked, looking confused.

Although Kiana, who has already reached the position of "God of Earth", and the Hyperion are only working partners for the time being, her identity as a "crew member" is real. Kiana has the right to know about anything that happens on the Hyperion. Logically speaking, if something really happened, she should not be unaware of it.

Out of caution, she turned her gaze towards Raiden Mei and Bronya: "Mei, Bronya, has there been any problems with Hyperion recently?"

Mei Raiden and Bronya thought about it and shook their heads at the same time: "No."

"No?!" Magic girl Fuleai was stunned. She quickly asked, "Who did she go to see?!"

Raiden Mei pondered for a moment: "Kiana, can you feel the traces of the other Seele leaving this world?"

Kiana shook her head, the bewilderment on her face becoming more intense. "I'm not bragging, but I have used the Fire King Sword to defeat the squad leader Yu Duchen. If a conscious being escaped from the world bubble, I shouldn't be unable to detect any traces."

"Unless, this relatively special 'Xier' did not escape by normal means." Raiden Mei narrowed her eyes slightly and touched her chin.

"Abnormal means?" Kiana repeated Raiden Mei's words in a low voice, and an idea suddenly occurred to her mind. "You mean... the same as the 'Stigmata Plan' we experienced before?"

"Well, you should still remember that when the Stigmata Project was launched, we, the Herrschers, suddenly fell into the sea of ​​quantum." Raiden Mei said, "We all know the principles of the Stigmata Project. In essence, the ultimate goal of the Stigmata Project is to rearrange the real and imaginary spaces so that the rules on Earth are more compatible with the imaginary ones. Captain Shubai reorganized the core principles of the Stigmata Project and further hid the 'clone Earth' of 50,000 years ago in the imaginary space of the Earth's orbit."

"Although he chose the location of the 'Clone Earth' to be directly opposite the sun in order to prevent accidents, no matter what, whether it is the 'Stigmata Project' we encountered or the 'Stigmata Project' used by Captain Shu Bai when cloning the Earth, the principle of rearranging matter and the laws of the world is still the same."

"We, the Herrschers, were forcibly transferred out of the real world and into the Quantum Ocean the moment the Stigmata Project was successfully executed, because the rule on Earth no longer allowed Herrschers to exist. And if the child that Miss Freya mentioned also suddenly left for a similar reason—"

"If that's the case, why didn't she tell me?!" The magical girl Freya became furious.

Although she is arrogant and hot-tempered, her talent as a magical girl alone makes her the strongest among all the magical girls present.

With such strength, she could tell at a glance how outrageous the power of these three "outsiders" was.

Although on the surface they are just women of humble origin like the other magical girls, and none of them is even older than their headmaster Cecilia, any of these three "outsiders" possesses terrifying power that can easily destroy the entire world they are in.

If even the existence of these three outsiders could not resist the influence of the so-called "Stigmata Plan" - the magical girl Freya was a little afraid to think about it.

What on earth did Seele encounter? Why was she suddenly teleported away? Thinking that the other "self" might be facing something that even these three outsiders find difficult, the anxious magical girl Fuleai wanted to rush to the other "self" immediately and face the powerful enemy with her.

"Don't worry too much. Although we don't know the other consciousness in your body, we know that Seele must be a very strong girl." Kiana said while turning her gaze in the direction of Bronya. "Bronya, if I remember correctly, the power of reason that has completed 'Metamorphosis' should be the only power that can directly intervene in the Stigmata Project. Can you feel a power similar to the Stigmata Project around here?"

"..."

Bronya did not immediately respond to Kiana's words, and a high-speed stream of data flashed deep in her eyes.

"Come to think of it..." Just as Bronya used the power of truth to analyze everything around her, Mei Raiden suddenly frowned as if she remembered something. "Where did Vita, the one who brought us into this world, go? According to her, the bubble projected by the Clone Earth in the quantum ocean seems to be under the influence of some kind of force. However, first of all, this bubble is not a projection of the Clone Earth, and in this bubble, we did not see the kind of thing Vita described. Even this so-called Demon King is just an ether singularity that originally belonged to this bubble."

Most of the so-called world bubbles evolved from worlds destroyed by the "end". In the remnants of these civilizations, there will be projections left by the power of the Ruler, and the ether singularity is the "projection" transformed by the power of the "end" that destroyed that world. These "projections" sometimes bring many benefits to the world bubble, and sometimes backfire on the world bubble, but in most of the time, the ether singularity and the world bubble coexist. The world bubble will not perish because of the ether singularity. On the contrary, in some special cases, it even needs the power of the ether singularity to continue.

Although this bubble of a world with magical girls is magical, in the eyes of Mei Raiden, it is not special. Even the so-called "Demon King" is something that the magical girls of this world can deal with themselves - although the price to pay may be a bit heavy.

Compared to the "collapse" they have to face, the damage caused by this so-called "demon king" to this world bubble is almost negligible.

Did Vita lead us to the World Bubble specifically so that we can help these three magical girls whose souls were fixed to escape? Raiden Mei frowned deeply. Although Vita had always claimed that she had never seen "Su" and had always denied that she was the "female Su" that Su had met, since the "female Su" in Su's mouth was a person with great evil in his heart, Raiden Mei had reason to believe that Vita's words were just pure lies.

"found it."

Suddenly, Bronya, with data streams flashing in her eyes, broke the solemn atmosphere.

But for some reason, her face looked inexplicably ugly.

"Where is she now?" Magical girl Fuleai was the first to ask, and then immediately added: "That guy... Let me make it clear first, I'm not worried about her! I just think that idiot is too easy to be bullied by others!"

"..."

This textbook tsundere moment made Bronya, who had a strong sense of déjà vu, roll her eyes and say, "See for yourself."

After saying that, she gently shone her hand in the air, and the image on the other end appeared in the form of a virtual screen.

In the picture, there are two Xiers, one big and one small, of exactly the same color. The older Xier is bending gently, comforting the smaller one who is kneeling on the ground, her lips and tongue opening and closing slightly in a gentle arc.

After seeing the two Seeles in the picture, the magical girls present were stunned, including Kiana and Raiden Mei.

Kiana couldn't help but ask: "Bronya, who is Seele...?"

Bronya nodded without thinking and answered: "Well, it should be from our world... No, it may be Seele from a timeline that is closer to ours."

Chapter 4: Suo: The insidious and cunning earthlings!! (k)

A clear silver moon hung in the dark sky. The rugged rocks were being eroded by wind and sand in the cold silence. White stone steps floated in the air, like a ladder leading to the sky.

At the beginning of the stone steps, there were two girls with only a slight age difference. The younger girl was squatting not far from the steps, while the older girl stood beside her with her knees slightly bent.

"Okay, you don't have to worry too much."

The older girl gently stroked the younger girl's hair and spoke in a gentle voice like an older sister: "I will stay here with you until she finds you."

The young girl huddled on the ground with her limbs curled up. She buried her face in her arms, her shoulders trembling slightly. “Why, why… I can’t find it anywhere.”

"Maybe it's because she has temporarily gone to a very far place." The older girl raised her head slightly, her quiet face with a little baby fat, and after seeing what was at the end of the stone steps, she revealed a solemn expression, but also a slight sense of relief.

Although, considering the situation here, perhaps it would be safer for her not to find the child.

The sky was dim, with no trace of stars or the moon. The distorted colors looked like a palette with all the colors of paint mixed together, dirty and strange. Above the distorted sky, branches-like substances radiated from a strange eyeball-like sphere.

As the faint light flowed from the tips of the branches into the eyeball, the color of the sky became increasingly distorted.

That is, something entrenched in the quantum sea pierced into the tentacles of this world bubble. It was like a needle that kept sucking blood, unscrupulously absorbing the power that this world bubble relied on for survival in a slow but unstoppable way.

Below the stone steps was the earth immersed in the night. In the deep darkness, buildings lay on the ground in a mess like matchboxes buried in the sand. The strong wind spread layer upon layer of sand and dust on the lifeless earth.

Although for this world, the place where the two girls are taking them is already at the highest point in the world, but even so, in front of the stone steps leading to beyond everything, the so-called top of the world is just a level where they have not even stepped into the starting point.

Even if you look down upon the entire world from the top of the world, the insignificance of human beings has never changed.

——Perhaps, it was because she realized that "humans cannot fight against the world" that the young girl, who originally had little competitive spirit, was defeated before she set out on the road to surpassing everything.

Of course, for the girl who possessed the body of a young girl by coincidence, she witnessed the whole thing and knew it better than anyone else.

Young girls never lack the determination to overcome anything.

It’s just that, compared to transcending the world alone, in her eyes, the safety of another “her” is much more important.

Now, the young girl who remains in this world is just the afterimage left by the girl who sent her other "self" out of this world bubble with all her strength. She is the loneliness deep in the girl's heart and the girl's desire for the company of others.

Faced with this lonely girl who has lost everything, there is actually not much the girl who accompanies her can do.

All she could do was to preserve the girl's memory as much as possible.

The world bubble is a projection of the real world.

Although there is no such thing as surnames in the bubble of her world, the name Freya is given as a "name" to another "her" born in the bubble of her world. But even so, the girl, as a living being in the bubble of her world, still understands better than anyone what kind of person "Xier Freya" is.

Da...da...da.

The crisp sound of footsteps slowly echoed from above the stone steps.

[Haven't you given up yet?]

The indifferent voice without any emotion slowly echoed in the depths of the girl's mind.

[Ninety percent of her self has completely turned into nothingness. Even if you are left alone with your only 'loneliness', what can you do with your incomplete and weak personality?]

"...You still like to peek into other people's brains as always." The girl's face was calm, and she responded to the voice that sounded directly in the depths of her mind in a nonchalant tone, "Are you Venusians all so tyrannical and unreasonable?"

"If all Venusians are like this, it makes perfect sense that they can't cross the so-called 'abyss'."

It was hard to imagine that the girl, with her gentle and soft personality, would actually say something that was close to a "curse". But only she knew that facing this being who imitated the operation of the "cocoon" and unscrupulously plundered the life of the world bubble in the quantum sea, such thorny words were actually just a kind of resistance that was close to futile.

Weak and ignorant birds and beasts will also show a look similar to their fur standing on end before a natural disaster is about to strike. That is the fear unique to the weak, and it is also the last stubbornness that life can show in the face of something it cannot resist.

[You are a consciousness from another world bubble. I should have used the rules of this world bubble to completely erase you.]

"..." The girl sighed softly. She raised her eyes and looked at the "human-like existence" who walked down from the top of the stone steps to this mortal world with as calm a gaze as possible. "So, God, who has transcended the world, do you want me, whose consciousness can be erased by you at any time, to beg for mercy?"

The indifferent voice without any emotion suddenly fell silent.

The girl and the "humanoid being" that had completely lost its human aura silently confronted each other in a silent environment.

I don’t know how long it had been, but the girl, who was tense all over, suddenly heard the inorganic voice again.

[…The gods are blind.]

That lifeless voice, almost like a mechanical device, echoed faintly in the girl's mind.

[Mortals are blind.]

"Can you express your thoughts in human language?" The girl stared at the expressionless "humanoid being". "Or has the great God completely lost the human way of thinking?"

[…I sense a familiar aura from you.]

"..."

The girl's heart skipped a beat.

[That unsinkable ship that transcends time and space—You are from that side, right?]

"..."

[It is useless to not speak. I am the "reality" of this world. Even if you don't want to, I can suppress even thinking.]

[“Reality” will still fully display everything about you before my eyes.]

[so--]

"So what?"

[?]

The voice that suddenly sounded behind him stunned the "humanoid being" who was looking down on everything with a condescending attitude.

No one knows when the Herrscher of the End, Kiana Kaslana, suddenly appeared in this world, emitting a Houkai energy that was almost becoming a reality.

She pressed down on one shoulder of the "humanoid being" with a force that seemed gentle but could actually crush an ordinary person's bones in an instant. Veins popped out one after another on the back of her flawless white hand, and the smile on her face was extremely kind.

"You, were just bullying our Xier, right?"

This Kaslana tribe member, who was already known for protecting his own shortcomings, spoke in a gentle tone like a hymn, gritting his teeth:

"—Do you want to die?"

On the other side of [Herrser of the End] Kiana Kaslana.

[Hersher of the Origin] Raiden Mei pressed the other shoulder of the "humanoid being" with a slightly smiling look in her eyes, as if she was looking at a dead person:

"From your appearance, even if you are not a Herrscher, you should be some kind of fusion warrior. What's the big deal about bullying two kids? If you really think you are very capable, why not come and fight with the three of us?"

The cold gun barrel was pressed tightly against the back of the "humanoid being".

Compared to [Hersher of the End] Kiana and [Hersher of Origin] Mei Raiden, who were barely managing to put on a smiling face, [Hersher of Truth] Bronya, who had always regarded Seele as an important person, blushed.