You call this a love game?

"fine......"

Seeing the three people's concerned gazes, Bai Yu breathed a sigh of relief. The healing green light shone again, and the wounds on his body gradually disappeared.

"Thank you, Mami-nee, and Homura too. I almost didn't make it back."

Recalling what had just happened, Bai Yu was still shaken.

Without their timely artillery support, he might have really been stuck there.

"What about me? What about me?" Baijiang Zhu stood on tiptoe and poked his forehead with a bubble gun. "Do you need Zhu to blow you some sobering bubbles?"

"Xiaozhu is great too," Bai Yu smiled and turned to praise her.

Although her binding bubble burst in less than five seconds, it still restrained the witch to some extent.

"boom!"

The screams of Witch Night shattered everyone's brief respite.

"Tsk, what a tough nut to crack."

Walking to the window, Bai Yu gazed at the terrifying witch in the sky, who was still relentlessly destroying everything in sight.

The other party seemed to completely ignore them, passing through the ruins without even glancing at them, and continued to destroy the surface buildings.

“The plan has changed.” He spat out the blood foam in his mouth, and as he spoke, he tore open his tattered combat suit, revealing blue electric current patterns on his chest. “Hama will continue to harass from a distance. Mami will use ribbons to create footholds to conserve her magic power. We’ll use the Finale when the time is right. Nagisa will continue to control her familiars to prevent them from being harassed. I’ll go and act as bait.”

"Are you crazy?" Mami Tomoe grabbed his wrist, her nails digging almost into his flesh.

She suddenly froze, feeling the boy's skin temperature in her hand was frighteningly high, like a piece of red-hot iron.

"Since there are no objections, let's begin. Time waits for no one."

Although his body was still aching slightly, he felt the energy within him becoming more surging and powerful, like a rushing river.

He had a premonition that he was about to make a breakthrough.

Re-entering the battlefield.

Although Mami Tomoe was very reluctant, she did as Shiraha asked, and the ribbon connected to Witch Night, providing Shiraha with a way to get closer.

Homura Akemi continued to use the borrowed weapons to relentlessly unleash firepower at the upside-down witch.

She knew that the more output she took on, the easier it would be for Bai Yu, so she dared not stop for a moment, even though the hourglass in her shield was almost at its end.

A circular gap was torn open in the thunderstorm cloud, and a blue-white beam of light, larger than the height of Witch Night, descended from the sky.

That was a punch that came from Bai Yu falling from the sky.

"Ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine horses!"

Bai Yu spat out pieces of his internal organs, roaring as he unleashed this supreme strike containing all his power! Kill! Kill! Kill! This punch was incredibly powerful!!!

"Fist of Love, Justice, and Hope! Give me a good beating!"

As if the shackles had been completely broken, a fist with the force of ten thousand horses slammed into the gears of the upside-down witch. Like a nuclear explosion, an invisible shockwave rippled out from the point of contact between the fist and the witch, slicing a distant building in two.

Bai Yu's fist erupted with blinding white light, and a hundred thousand magnetic forces, carrying a tsunami-like energy, slammed into the body of Witch Night. The behemoth let out a deafening shriek and crashed to the ground like a mountain collapsing, raising dust dozens of meters high.

"Success!"

Bai Jiangzhu cheered, holding up her bubble gun, and stood on tiptoe to peer into the smoke and dust.

Mami Tomoe's previously tense shoulders suddenly relaxed, and the condensed finale in her hand returned to her hand as a ribbon.

Homura Akemi dug her fingertips into her palm until she saw Shiraha stagger out of the smoke and dust before letting go.

Before the cheers could even be uttered, the upside-down witch suddenly convulsed, and thirty-two black shadows split off from her body, shooting into the sky like broken chains.

Bai Yu suddenly looked up, his pupils contracting.

The shadowy figures were no longer hanging upside down, but rather upright, looking down upon the world like kings and gods.

Not good.

The moment this thought crossed Bai Yu's mind, he saw those dark figures rapidly disperse in all directions, leaving devastation in their wake.

"Grass!"

Seeing a dark figure rushing towards him, he roared and pounced. His power, which had broken through 100,000 horsepower, continued to rise. A magnetic field formed a barrier around him, and he punched to block the impact from the dark figure.

But in just one strike, his right arm exploded into a bloody mist. He groaned, continued to swing his left fist, and at the same time, his right leg lashed out, delivering a powerful sweeping blow to the shadowy figure.

But the moment of contact, his legs below the knee twisted into a bizarre angle, and his left arm was covered in bloody wounds.

Not only is Bai Yu's situation not optimistic, but the situation is the same for the three girls.

Baijiang Zhu tried her best to blow out a bubble barrier to block the attack of the dark figure, but it was obviously useless. The little girl was thrown into the ruins like a rag doll.

Homura Akemi rushed to help, but to no avail. Her shield made a 'crunching' sound as it blocked the shadow's attack, and she was easily knocked away.

Mami Tomoe was a little further away. When she arrived, Nagisa Momoe had already collapsed unconscious in the ruins. Her bubble gun was broken in two, but the Soul Gem was miraculously intact.

"Nagisa will be alright..."

Homura Akemi finally managed to crawl to Nagisa Hyakue's side. She wiped her face and found her hands were covered in blood. It turned out that her forehead had been cut at some point.

Bai Yu's side also quickly came to a conclusion. With his hands and feet almost completely shattered, he no longer had the strength to eliminate the black shadow.

Not only that, his chest was also pierced, leaving his heart empty. He knelt on the ground, blood foaming from his mouth, unable to make a sound.

The battlefield fell into a brief silence, as if no one had survived.

Mami Tomoe was still able to move. With trembling hands, she brushed aside the rubble and saw Shiraha lying peacefully in the debris, as if asleep.

"Wake up..."

"Hey... wake up..."

Mami pressed her cheek against his forehead, her voice involuntarily choking up.

"Don't leave me alone..."

Bai Yu's eyelashes trembled slightly. He saw that Mami Tomoe's mascara had smudged onto her lower eyelids, making her look like a disheveled raccoon.

He wanted to laugh, but the leaking air in his lungs only allowed him to make a 'hoarse' sound.

He struggled to raise his still-intact left hand, wanting to pat the girl's head to comfort her, but his body grew increasingly weak, and in the end, he could do nothing.

The rain was pouring down harder. Mami Tomoe placed Shiraha's head on her lap and whispered, "If... if reincarnation really exists..."

Her blonde hair, wet from the rain, clung to her cheeks like a withered sunflower.

"Next time, please, please, please... find me, don't leave me alone..."

[This simulation ends]

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Chapter 84 Thank you, Lord! I am grateful to you, Lord! May you have mercy on me!

[Score for this simulation: 69]

[Simulated Comment: Through the weaving of bonds, you, Mami Tomoe, Nagisa Momoe, and Homura Akemi have built a deep emotional fortress, yet you have never been able to break through the high wall of fate. True power comes from the resonance of souls. Even if reincarnation is an illusory prison, the will to protect will never fade. When the burning bonds turn into a torrent and sweep in, even time and space tremble. Embrace it, transcend it, and only then can you sever all the causes and effects of regret when you meet again.]

[Result: Ribbon (Trait: Binding), Mana Control Mastery]

[Ribbon: Summoning a ribbon grants the ability to bind others. Those bound are unable to use any power other than their physical body; all their abilities are temporarily sealed.]

[Mastery of Magic Control: Allows the user to manipulate their own magic or other energies, transforming them into weapons and tools of various shapes, significantly enhancing control over magic output.]

The echo of death still trembled in my nerve endings, making my forehead throb.

Bai Yu returned to his little house, his body still in the same position as before he entered the simulation.

Under the dim light of the pale blue screen, he stared at the crack in the ceiling, as if he could still see the giant shadow of Witch's Night tearing the sky apart.

Another failure...

Although it wasn't the first time, I still felt quite regretful about this failure.

The talent he acquired this time is extremely powerful. Given enough time, he could definitely reach an incredibly high level, but what he lacks is precisely time.

What surprised him most was that Witch's Night actually had a second stage?

It's like going through countless hardships to finally reach the boss's door, then spending a lot of energy and resetting, and with all your supplies completely depleted, you barely manage to defeat the opponent, only to find that the opponent is still chanting even after falling to the ground, and then the next second you see the boss fully resurrected.

This is so disheartening! We were already setting off fireworks to celebrate our victory, and now you're telling me it's not over yet? There's a second phase to fight?

In particular, the power of the second stage, Witch Night, far surpasses that of the first stage.

That kind of explosiveness and speed was something he simply couldn't resist at the time.

One hundred thousand horses are far from enough; at least two hundred thousand are needed.

Even so, he still had to consider how long it would take for those rapidly spreading Witch Night clones to destroy a city. He had to wipe them all out before that, otherwise even if he killed Witch Night, all civilizations on the surface would eventually cease to exist.

There are no cowards in Takihara, and the witch will not believe in tears. Only by giving his all can he protect everything he loves.

Mami Tomoe's tearful lament before her death, Homura Akemi's burning obsession as she retraced time, and Nagisa Momoe's desperate efforts to protect what she was meant to protect—one day he will achieve fulfillment, allowing them to stop crying, stop toiling, and live innocently like true, ordinary girls.

But he himself didn't know how long it would take; he might succeed next time, or he might never succeed in this lifetime.

His combat strength fluctuated greatly in each simulation.

The fact that we were able to defeat the first phase of Witch Night last time was already a very poor achievement, let alone the fact that we couldn't even hurt her before.

However, neither Mami Tomoe's finale, nor Madoka Kaname's arrows, nor Homura Akemi's time stop and barrage of weapons, nor Sayaka's healing, could effectively damage Witch Night.

Her power was so overwhelming that it inspired despair; she seemed to be an invincible being.

It's time. He needs to go find Sakura Kyoko and see what her abilities are.

If even with him, the six of them still can't kill the witch, then it will be very difficult. At that point, he'll only have one last option left.

Bai Yu took a deep breath and slowly exhaled, soothing his depressed mood and tired mind.

He looked out the window; the sky was already beginning to lighten, and the view outside was somewhat obscured by the thin gauze curtains.

But there's not much to see, just tall buildings everywhere.

The steel behemoth of the city operates continuously 24 hours a day, but in this early morning, it is exceptionally quiet. The chirping of birds is the only sound during this time, as soothing as music.

Exhaling another breath of stale air, Bai Yu quickly tidied himself up, casually put on a set of clothes, picked up the trash by the door, and left the cramped room.

Today is the perfect time to throw out the trash, so I can finally get rid of all the garbage that's been piling up at home for a week. Otherwise, the smell would have been really awful.

After living with Mami Tomoe for a long time, he began to have some demands for his quality of life, and at least he could no longer waste his time like before.

The family's remaining assets are enough for him to live a normal life, especially in Tokyo where land is incredibly expensive.

If he sold this house and moved to the countryside, living a comfortable life wouldn't be a problem. He could even hire a maid to help with cooking and cleaning.

Although the air in the countryside was indeed fresh and the natural scenery was exceptionally beautiful, it was just the right time for him to relax his tense nerves after the simulation.

But when I think about the environment in the countryside...

He still felt it would be better to die peacefully here.

It's not that I yearn for the glitz and glamour of big cities, but rather that I don't want to feel miserable because I lack a comfortable living experience.

First, there's the issue of winter versus summer. Both keeping warm and staying cool become problems. In winter, he can stay warm by wrapping himself in a blanket, but in summer, he really can't survive without air conditioning.

Tokyo summers are really hot.

Walking on the slightly chilly street, the cool morning air instantly refreshed him, and the fatigue from staying up all night seemed to dissipate.

As he passed a convenience store on the street, a thought struck him, and the time-stop function was activated instantly, turning the world gray and white.

Walking into the convenience store, the clerk stood frozen in place like a statue, his face still bearing the smile he had when he was about to enter.

Besides him and the shop assistant, there were only two elementary school students in the store, picking and choosing from the shelves. There was no one else in sight, probably because they hadn't gotten up yet.

After all, he lived in Seyada Ward, a famous wealthy area. People here don't seem to have a big deal about getting up a little later. After all, what working people fear most is being blamed by their bosses. They are their own bosses, so who will blame them?

He approached the cashier, but even when he was almost face-to-face with the clerk, the clerk still didn't react.

It seems that abilities don't only work in simulations; they can work in reality as well.

With his ability to stop time, he would be hard to kill in this world unless a sniper rifle shot into his brain from three kilometers away.

He can use his universal healing ability to quickly recover from other injuries, as long as he doesn't die instantly.

But he's just an ordinary civilian; he wouldn't be foolish enough to use that ability to rob a bank or anything like that, much less use a homemade bomb to self-destruct against a prime minister.

He exited the convenience store again, returned to the spot where he had activated the time-stop function, turned it off, and then walked in normally.