Pochi-chan, I used to be a princess.

According to legend, every year between April 30th and May 1st, devils and witches hold a carnival, Walpurgis Night, on the top of Brocken Mountain.

Walpurgis was the sister of the British missionary Saint Willibald. After her death, she was revered as one of the most popular saints in Germany, the Netherlands, Britain and other countries.

May 5st was originally an ancient festival of the indigenous Druids in Britain, but was later changed to the feast day of St. Walpurgis.

Dusk murmured to himself: "Saints, witches, feast days, carnivals..."

Huanghun felt that he had a clue, but he couldn't sort out a complete context.

He just vaguely felt that being a magical girl didn't seem to be a serious profession from the beginning.

[When encountering the demon, Taichung Ritsu, Hirasawa Yui, and Kyubey, the two men and one beast, continued to track down the witch. Hirasawa Yui couldn't help but say to Taichung Ritsu, "If we continue to fight the witch like this, won't we end up in the same situation as yesterday?"]

[Tai Nakagura replied: "Well, of course you would become like that."]

Hirasawa Yui said, "In that case, shouldn't we meet with that girl again and have a proper discussion? Otherwise, the fight will suddenly start again."

Tianzhong Ritsu looked at Hirasawa Yui and said in a low voice, "A fight? Did you think yesterday's incident was just a fight? It was a real fight. Holding each other back was just the beginning. From the beginning, that guy and I really wanted to kill each other."

Hirasawa Yui said excitedly, "That's even worse."

Tian Zhongli said dissatisfiedly, "So we're talking about negotiating? Don't be silly. They're using humans as bait for the Seed of Sorrow. How can we compromise?"

Hirasawa Yui asked, "Ritsu-chan, you became a magical girl to destroy witches, right? That girl isn't a witch, she's also a magical girl! I think if we find a way to coexist peacefully, there must be a way. Even if the methods are different, the desire to destroy witches is the same, right? The girl from yesterday felt the same, and so did Mio."

[Taizhong Ritsu gritted his teeth and lowered his head.]

Hirasawa Yui persuades: "Tsumugi too, if she hadn't quarreled with Mio..."

Taichu Ritsu angrily interrupted Hirasawa Yui, "That's not the case! Didn't you see it too, Yui? That guy waited until Tsumugi was dead before coming out to defeat the witch. He didn't save Tsumugi because he wanted the Seed of Sorrow!"

Hirasawa Yui said with tears in her eyes: "It's not like that..."

Tainaka Ritsu said angrily, "Akiyama Mio is the same guy as yesterday! He only cares about his own convenience. Now I know that only Tsumugi is special. All the other magical girls are like that."

Hirasawa Yui said: "How could it be..."

Tianzhong Ritsu spoke passionately, "The familiar we let go last night was just a minor character, but it was still capable of killing people! Next time, that guy might target Xiaowei's father and mother, or even Xiaoyou. Will Xiaowei be okay with that? Will she forgive someone who wants to do that? As for me, I don't just want to fight witches. I crave this power to protect those who are important to me. So if there's someone worse than a witch, I will fight, even if it's a magical girl!"

Hirasawa Yui yelled in panic, "Lü-chan."

[Taizhong Ritsu ignored Hirasawa Yui's voice and turned away angrily.]

Late at night, on an overpass, Ritsu Tainaka and Azusa Nakano confront each other. Azusa Nakano transforms into a magical girl first. Just as Ritsu Tainaka is about to transform, Yui Hirasawa finally catches up and stops Ritsu Tainaka: "No! That would be absolutely weird!"

Nakano Azusa raised his spear and said unhappily, "Annoying people have annoying companions."

Akiyama Mio suddenly appeared beside Nakano Azusa: "What about your companions? This is different from what we agreed on. I should have said that we couldn't attack Taichu Ritsu."

Nakano Azusa said dissatisfiedly, "Your approach is too gentle. The other party already wants to fight anyway."

Akiyama Mio walked past Nakano Azusa and said calmly, "Then I'll be your opponent. Don't attack me."

Nakano Azusa turned back to look at Akiyama Mio and said in a compromising tone, "Then I'll wait a while."

[Taizhong Ritsu said angrily: "Don't underestimate me!"]

[Taizhong Ritsu takes out his Soul Gem and is about to transform when Hirasawa Yui rushes over, snatches the Soul Gem from him, and throws it under the overpass.]

A truck happened to pass under the overpass, and the Soul Gem landed on it and was quickly taken away.

Akiyama Mio was startled and instantly disappeared from the overpass.

[Taizhong Ritsu angrily runs towards Hirasawa Yui: "Xiaowei, what have you done..."]

Hirasawa Yui said: "But if we don't do this..."

Before Hirasawa Yui could finish her words, Tianzhong Ritsu suddenly fell forward. Hirasawa Yui hugged Tianzhong Ritsu and called out in confusion, "Xiao Li?"

[Taizhong Ritsu's eyes were empty, his hands dropped, and he fell on Hirasawa Yui.]

Kyubey jumped over and said to Hirasawa Yui, "That was not good, Xiaowei. You actually threw your friend out. You're crazy."

Hirasawa Yui looks at Kyubey in confusion.

Nakano Azusa ran over, grabbed Tianzhong Ritsu's neck, and lifted her up. Her pupils suddenly dilated. "What's going on? Hey! Isn't this guy dead?"

[Nakano Azusa shook Tianzhong Ritsu's body, and Tianzhong Ritsu hung in Nakano Azusa's hand like a corpse.]

In an instant, the whole world was shocked.

Seeing Tianzhong Ritsu turned into a corpse, a chill ran down the backs of countless people.

"Was he ambushed? Did he die suddenly?"

Most people still don’t know what is going on. Hirasawa Yui in the picture doesn’t understand, and Hirasawa Yui outside the picture doesn’t understand either. The deceased, Taichung Ritsu, is even more confused.

Yamanaka Sawako, Akiyama Mio, Nakano Azusa, and Kotobuki Tsumugi looked at each other with intense fear in their eyes.

Nakano Azusa clutched her chest, feeling like her heart was about to burst out of her mouth. "She actually threw her friend away. Ritsu's death. Mio's reaction... Turns out, the Soul Gem isn't just any old term..."

Kotobuki Tsumugi's pupils widened as she exclaimed in astonishment, "The Soul Gem... turns out to be the soul of a magical girl? What the hell is going on? Is this what a magical girl is like?"

Kotobuki Tsumugi, who is usually relaxed and at ease, is unable to calm down now.

Although it was only a dozen seconds of footage, the information it revealed was extremely terrifying.

After hearing Kotobuki Tsumugi's explanation, Hirasawa Yui opened her mouth with a look of shock and confusion.

Chapter 119 The Perfect Soldier

Akiyama Mio ran along the road, chasing the truck that had taken the Soul Gem. Her figure flickered constantly, and each time she disappeared, she would reappear further ahead.

On the overpass, Ritsu Tainaka collapsed to the ground. Hirasawa Yui pushed Ritsu Tainaka's body and shouted in panic, "Ritsu-chan? Hey! Ritsu-chan! Wake up! Hey! I don't want this!"

Nakano Azusa gnashed his teeth as he stared at the corpse on the ground, angrily asking, "What the hell just happened? Hey!"

Kyubey wagged his tail and said calmly, "You magical girls can only control your bodies up to 100 meters."

Nakano Azusa angrily asked, "100 meters? What did you say? What do you mean?"

Kyubey continued, "Of course, I always carry it with me. Accidents like this only happen occasionally."

Hirasawa Yui panicked and shouted, "What are you talking about? Kyubey, save her! Don't let Xiaolu die!"

Kyubey said calmly, "Xiao Wei, that's not Xiao Lu over there, it's just an empty shell. Didn't you just throw Xiao Lu away? I can't let you fight the witch with your fragile bodies like ordinary humans. For you magical girls, your original bodies are just peripherals. Your souls, your true selves, have been given a safer form that allows you to more efficiently utilize your magic power. My mission, having signed a magical girl contract with you, is to extract your souls and transform them into soul gems."

Kyubey's explanation proved many people's guesses, and people started cursing on the spot, including Kousaka Kirino and others who aspired to become magical girls.

"How can this be some magical girl?! This is simply, simply... a corpse controlled by a necromancer!"

Qiansha Shouye finally found a suitable description from her knowledge.

The soul is extracted and the body becomes a walking corpse. This way of fighting can be said to be a puppet of the necromancer.

"What kind of magical girl is this? This isn't a magical girl at all! Which magical girl is like this!?"

Kousaka Kirino held her head in her hands and screamed in unbearable pain.

The rigid Daisuke Kosaka did not scold Kirino Kosaka for her misconduct. He frowned and stared at the TV with a devilish look on his face.

In the bedroom on the second floor of Tianzhong's house, Tianzhong Satoshi looked at his sister worriedly and asked, "Sister, are you okay?"

Tian Zhongli leaned on the pillow, staring blankly at his phone.

The truth revealed by Kyubey almost made her faint, but she managed to hold on in the end.

Hearing her brother's concern, Tian Zhongli's cheek twitched, and she forced a smile, saying as she usually did: "No, it's okay! It's just a small matter. I'm living a good life now, and I won't be frightened by a documentary. Don't underestimate your sister."

"Are you really not afraid?"

Taino Satoshi's eyes were filled with suspicion. He was very worried because every character that appeared in Akashic Record had awakened the power of the previous round. A magical girl like his sister might also encounter the same situation.

After Akiyama Mio retrieved Ritsu Tainaka's soul gem and resurrected him, Ritsu Tainaka learned everything.

Tian Zhongli returned home in a daze and said to Kyubey who had followed him, "You lied to us."

Kyubey said, "I think I did ask you to become a magical girl, but I omitted the actual details."

[Taizhong Ritsu put his hands on Kyubey's sides and asked angrily, "Why didn't you tell me?"]

Kyubey said innocently, "Because you didn't ask. If you don't know, then you don't know. It's not inconvenient. In fact, even Tsumugi didn't find it until the end. Besides, you humans have never been able to recognize the existence of the soul from the beginning, right? It's just a collection of nerve cells, and there are only the cores of the circulatory system. Therefore, if you can't maintain life, you will lose consciousness. To prevent that, I have materialized your souls into a form that can be held in your hands and well protected."

Kyubey then jumped off the table, ran to the other side, and continued, "It's to make the battle against the witch as safe as possible."

[Taizhong Ritsu said dissatisfiedly: "How nosy, such unnecessary things."]

Kyubey said, "You're too naive about combat. For example, if you were stabbed in the stomach, how much pain would your body experience?"

Kyubey jumps onto the desk and places his foot on Ritsu Tainaka's Soul Gem, causing it to glow blue.

Suddenly, Tianzhong Ritsu felt a sharp pain in her abdomen. Unable to bear it, she clutched her stomach and fell to the ground, crying out in pain.

Kyubey said calmly, "This is the natural feeling of pain. It only took a moment to render you unable to move, right?"

[Taizhong Ritsu recalls his battle with Nakano Azusa, feeling unbearable pain in his body and twitching on the ground.]

Kyubey's face still had that unchanging smile: "You were able to hold on until the end in the battle with Xiaozi because the intense pain was stored. Your consciousness and body were not directly connected. Thanks to this, you were able to survive that battle."

[After saying this, Kyubey lifted his foot off the Soul Gem.]

[Without continuing to feel pain, Tianzhong Ritsu recovered instantly.]

Kyubey said, "If you get used to it, you can completely block out the pain, but that will make your movements slower, so I don't recommend it."

As a dirty adult, Toru Amuro doesn't think there is anything wrong with Kyubey's behavior.

"Isn't that wonderful? An immortal being who can't feel pain. What country wouldn't want such a soldier? For a violent agency, this is the perfect soldier."

He is still a child after all.

The dirty adults sighed from the bottom of their hearts.

The soul turns into a gem and is extracted from the body. The only drawback is that the connection will be broken if it is 100 meters away from the body. The advantage is that the soul will not feel pain and the injured part can be restored with magic power.

The only people who think this kind of thing is scary are probably these little girls, right?

Who among the adults would care about this? In their view, the invention of the Soul Stone clearly has only advantages and no disadvantages.

Akai Shuichi pondered doubtfully, "Why would Kyubey sign a contract with a little girl? The real world isn't a comic book. The structure of a little girl and an adult shouldn't be that different. If we want to eliminate the witch, wouldn't it make more sense to cooperate with the military? No country would refuse such a cooperation."

Chapter 120: An ominous premonition

[The next day at noon, on the school rooftop.]

Hirasawa Yui asked Akiyama Mio, "Mio, did you know this a long time ago?"

[Akiyama Mio nodded. 】

Hirasawa Yui asked: "Why didn't you tell us?"

Akiyama Mio said, "Even if I told you in advance, no one has believed me so far."

Hirasawa Yui asked: "Why would Kyubey do such an extreme thing?"

Akiyama Mio said, "That creature has no idea what excessive means. Human values don't apply to that creature. It only believes in the equivalent of miracles."

Hirasawa Yui said excitedly, "It doesn't fit at all! He's been transformed into a body like that! Ritsu-chan only wanted to protect everyone, only wanted to enter Mio's world, and only wanted to get along well with his friends!"

Akiyama Mio said calmly, "That's indeed a miracle, because he made the impossible possible. It was that guy who was selling this stuff everywhere."

Hirasawa Yui asked, "Is it impossible for Xiaolu to return to her original life?"

Akiyama Mio said, "I've already told you this before, right? Let's give up on Tainaka Ritsu."

Hiratase Yui excitedly said, "Ritsu-chan saved me. If she hadn't become a magical girl, Kazuka and I would have been dead!"

Mio Akiyama said, "You shouldn't confuse gratitude with responsibility. You don't have any way to save her, and you're just trying to repay her for not feeling guilty. That's a rash idea you should just abandon."

Hirasawa Yui asked sadly, "Why is Mio always so cold?"

Akiyama Mio said calmly, "Yes, it must be because I'm no longer human..."

[While Akiyama Mio and Hirasawa Yui were communicating, Nakano Azusa also approached Taichu Ritsu.]