You call this a love game?

Despite her seemingly strong and assertive nature, she actually longs for someone to love her, embrace her, and understand her vulnerability, so that she can let go of the heavy burden of being a senior and be able to rely on someone.

Ugh……

Watching the two still whispering sweet nothings to each other, Mami Tomoe sighed, shook her head, and banished those jumbled thoughts from her mind.

Hopefully, she will meet her true love someday.

But that opportunity is probably gone.

……

"Then I'm going to get on."

Bai Yu's voice was heavy as he looked at a figure high in the distance.

"Why... even Mami-senpai is dead..." Homura Akemi said in disbelief, her voice trembling and choked with sobs.

In the distance, dark clouds surged and spread like spilled ink, and at the center of the vortex, a huge black shadow emerged.

It resembles an upside-down ballerina, its skirt composed of countless gears that make a sickening metallic scraping sound when it turns.

This culprit killed their beloved senior, Mami, and even left Madoka severely injured and on the verge of death, her Soul Gem tainted with filth.

Homura Akemi couldn't imagine how to defeat such a being. With just a casual strike, she broke the restraints that Mami had painstakingly set up. Her relentless attacks kept them on the edge of their seats, leaving them unable to even retaliate.

When all her Sorrow Seeds were used up and her magic power was completely depleted, Mami Tomoe desperately launched a final attack, attempting to knock it down from the sky.

But this final blow had no effect whatsoever. Instead, Mami Tomoe, having exhausted her magic, was powerless to put up any resistance and was killed instantly when her Soul Gem was shattered.

"That's why I have to go, because I'm the only one who can stop the Witch's Night."

Bai Yu was also in bad shape at this time. His whole body was covered in blood, which stained his white shirt. Although most of his wounds had been healed with healing methods, the pain caused by the injuries could not be eliminated.

Like being torn apart by a thousand cuts, the phantom pain lingers even after the wound has healed.

"No, one person can't defeat that thing. Even Bai Yujun will die..."

Homura Akemi gripped Shiraha's hand tightly, fearing that he would leave her and end up like Mami, with only a cold corpse in the end.

Shiraha's palm gently covered Homura Akemi's trembling hand, and blood mingled stickily between their clasped fingers.

"I'm so happy to be with Xiaoyan, but I have to break my promise this time. I can't grow old with you."

"No...no! I don't want Shiraha-kun to die!" Homura Akemi's pupils contracted violently as she sobbed uncontrollably, her voice hoarse as she said, "Let's...let's run away...because...there's no other way...no one will hate Shiraha-kun, no one will blame Shiraha-kun."

"I'm sorry, Homura."

Without lingering, Shiraha picked up the unconscious Kaname Madoka and carried them to a more distant part of the battlefield. He then picked up a bomb he had borrowed from the armory and resolutely walked towards the witch in the distance.

On Witch's Night, the spinning gears shredded the buildings into dust, the metallic scraping sound like the wails of millions of dead souls.

"Baiyu-kun!"

Homura Akemi's cries were swallowed by the sound of the explosion, and a blinding white light lit up the world.

In an instant, the world seemed to return to its calm state, but the shadow cast by the Witch's Night still shrouded the entire city, and the ground cracked like fragile biscuits wherever the gear-shaped skirt swept across.

"Liar...you promised...you'd braid my hair every day..."

"Why... knowing I would die, I... I would have preferred you to live rather than save someone like me..."

Homura Akemi knelt on the ground, her tears splashing into tiny dust particles on the cracked floor. Her grief had reached its peak, leaving only despair.

"Were those words sincere? Homura Akemi, are you willing to risk your soul for that wish? If you have a wish that you would want to fulfill even if it means accepting the fate of battle, I can lend you a hand."

The being named Kyubey gazed at the sorrowful girl before him, his red pupils filled with the girl's yearning for hope.

"...If I make a contract with you, can any wish really be granted?"

As if she had grasped a glimmer of light in the darkness, Homura Akemi stopped crying and asked in a choked voice.

“I think so. You seem to be qualified too. Tell me, what kind of prayer will you use to make the Soul Gem shine?”

"I want……"

—Let Bai Yujun be resurrected and reappear before me.

The girl hesitated for a moment, her mind filled with the brief but beautiful memories of the two of them.

Taking off her glasses and wiping away her tears, Homura Akemi regained her composure and stared firmly at the small white beast in front of her.

"I want to meet Bai Yujun again, not as someone he protects, but as someone who protects him! That is... my wish..."

She trembled as she raised her arms, letting the light flow from her fingertips. It felt as if something was being peeled away from her body. A burst of purple light shone, and the world seemed to distort for a moment in the intense light before her vision was plunged into darkness.

Chapter Fifty-Five: Magnetic Field Rotation!

[This simulation ends]

[Score for this simulation: 59 point]

[Mock Comments: The taste of love is sweet, but the feeling of losing it is equally heart-wrenching. Love is inherently heavy; a light body cannot bear a heart full of love. She will silently wait for the next time they meet, until the very end.]

[Simulated Settlement: Mastery of Explosives Configuration, Time Stop Upgrade]

[Explosives Preparation: You will be more adept at preparing explosives, able to use simpler materials to complete explosives manufacturing in a shorter time.]

[Time Stop (Upgrade): Allows you to control objects touched by you within the last minute to enter a time-stopped state, even if the object is currently in physical contact with you; it also prevents objects touched within the last minute from becoming time-stopped objects if they are in time stop mode but not in contact with you.]

After the rewards were settled and he returned to the real world, Bai Yu lay on the bed, staring blankly at the ceiling through the light blue screen in front of him.

He died once again, mercilessly crushed and killed by Witch Night.

Although he spoke very boldly at the end, he was actually heading towards death, since the situation was beyond his current ability to resolve.

The reason he didn't choose to stay and elope with Homura Akemi was also because he simply couldn't leave that place.

As the countdown to Witch's Night began, the entire Mitakihara seemed to be enveloped by a giant barrier in his field of vision, and he was unable to break through the barrier and leave.

According to the system, the battle of Witch's Night is the final storyline. Regardless of whether you win or lose, the simulation will end immediately after the opponent disappears from Mitakihara.

So even if he let Xiaoyan run first, it was all in vain in the end; he just felt a little better.

Seeing a young girl in the prime of her life die so suddenly in front of him would be extremely painful even for someone with a heart of stone, let alone an ordinary person like him.