My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

That really wasn't such a bad thing.

Infinite○ being bad was because, at its core, it was a conspiracy to harvest the entire world.

This was even recorded in The Legend of the Five Village Brawls and Eyes.

If everything was already hopeless beyond redemption, about to be harvested, then the illusory world serving as a final comfort before death really had nothing to be criticized for.

So, what Lin Guang had objected to from beginning to end was not the existence of this world.

She said calmly, "It's because from the very start, you blurred the concepts."

[...]

Lin Guang's words spread through the darkness: "You kept guiding everyone to equate you with that so-called Witch King."

"You wanted everyone to believe the one who would leave this world in the end was you, that the shadow of that once-powerful magical girl fell and was reborn as the true master of this world."

"You wanted everyone to think you had gone mad, because you were corroded by the Abyss, because you learned your true identity, so you became completely unreasonable."

Lin Guang said calmly, "So you could reasonably destroy the Sacred Tree, annihilate Kazenari Town, gather all the authority and origin, and finally become that Witch King."

"You wanted everyone to sink into despair, to lose faith in you, and then, at that point, present a world where everyone could be happy — so everyone would naturally agree without thinking it through."

[...Stop talking.]

"But that's a lie."

[This has nothing to do with you.]

Lin Guang said softly, "You are not the Witch King, you are not the Abyss's will itself."

"You may have a connection with It, but you are absolutely not It."

"At least now, you are not."

"You... just made a deal with It, didn't you?"

[.........]

"If I'm not mistaken... the Abyss wouldn't be so kind as to hand everyone a world without cycles, full of hope, for free."

"So if you want to give everyone long-lasting happiness, then in exchange..."

"There will be corresponding 'despair', right?"

Lin Guang stared toward that direction, an intense, blazing flame igniting in her eyes.

The flame condensed in her gaze, like chains connecting all inspiration, like an engine capable of driving all phenomena.

She spoke each word deliberately, pressing forward step by step: "Answer me, Airwen!"

"And you? What did you trade to It? What do you still have to trade?"

"Your wings?"

[.........]

Airwen's voice came only after a long pause.

Her tone contained an almost ultimate void and sorrow:

[That sort of thing... doesn't matter anymore.]

[From the start, those wings were only a borrowed fake.]

[The existence called Airwen was originally a shadow that does not exist and should not exist.]

She still refused to answer directly, but Lin Guang had already received the answer.

"......"

"Is that so."

She rose slowly, lifted her right hand, and gently stroked her barren chest: "Then..."

Within the blazing light, the gem pendant that had long since grown hot was held in the cherry-haired girl's hand.

—Unconsciously, one of the usual murkiness within it seemed to have been driven away considerably.

The girl clasped her fists one over the other, a confident smile already gracing her pretty face, her tone stern and cool:

"Smile, full marks—"

Across the void, suddenly an immense tide of magic power answered her call.

[...!!]

"Fighting spirit, one hundred percent!"

Her clothes instantly transformed into holy light, her eyes and hair instantly dyed with a layer of burning red.

[Mengmengxiang, are you going to abandon even their happiness?!]

Flames poured unceasingly from nothingness, obediently circling the girl like playful spirits, and faintly a grand symphony resounded from the void.

"Burn the heart-fire, shatter their bodies!"

[You alone, one magical girl who cannot Full Bloom, what can you do—]

"Not alone!"

The red-haired girl threw back her head, flames burning in her eyes: "We won't make the same mistake twice, magical girls."

"Do not underestimate them, Airwen."

Within the curling flames, Lin Guang's gaze seemed to cross the void and fall upon those three separate yet connected illusions, forming that standard opening stance.

"Are you ready?"

……

Beside the holographic stage.

Tang Keren stood in the shadows, her eyes not on the pink sea of glowsticks in the audience cheering for her, but fixed on the cherry-haired girl in the center of the stage who was adjusting the sound equipment for her.

Watching that sweet, focused profile for several tens of seconds, Tang Keren suddenly laughed.

—Others might not be sure... but if it were that person, she absolutely would be one hundred percent unwilling about such a fake arrangement.

—We are the brightest duo in the entire universe; how could we abandon her at a time like this?

[You're really going to—]

Airwen's voice sounded in her mind.

"Stop your gibberish!"

Tang Keren shouted into the void: "This girl is going out right now to beat you up, you self-pitying fool!"

She waved, suddenly pulling a phone out of the void, holding it horizontally in front of her, the pink gem on the back of the phone sparkling.

……

In the duplex apartment.

Su Fang still stood quietly by the apartment security door.

Outside, Tang Keren's complaints, Zihan's dramatic declarations, and Mengmengxiang's dry-humored teasing could be faintly heard.

Su Fang stood silently, listening to her companions' conversation through the door.

Suddenly...

Her expression softened, and a trace of relieved smile rippled at the corner of her mouth.

—Yes, Senior Mengmengxiang and the others really are waiting for me outside.

—So...

—I can't keep them waiting too long!

"Su Fang? Why are you standing at the door? Hurry and let them in."

Her parents called from behind.

Su Fang did not turn around; she replied cheerfully:

"Mm, okay!"

She lifted her head, the confusion washed away from her emerald-green eyes, leaving only a determined blue radiance shining.

The girl raised a hand to the blue gem that had appeared on her chest and glittered.

Then, the other hand pushed the door open.

…………

In the villa.

Zihan looked up; she turned and stared intently at Lu Ziyun, who was gripping her hand, as if imprinting every detail of her sister into her eyes.

"Ziyun."

Zihan called.

"…Sister, what's wrong?"

Lu Ziyun looked at her a bit oddly.

"If this world is false, and even you are an illusion."

Zihan's voice was very soft, "and right now, someone extremely important is waiting for me in the outside truth... what should I do?"

Lu Ziyun was momentarily stunned.

"Is this some new setting again?"

However, she quickly adopted a matter-of-fact expression, sticking out her right fist toward Zihan with a smile:

"Is that even a question?"

"Indulging in the illusion world might be fine... but that's the thinking of cowards!"

"So..."

"Sister, for me, use the Eye of Judgment and cut this all away!"

"...Ku hahahahahaha!"

Zihan suddenly laughed wildly, then without hesitation bumped fists with her sister.

"Truly my other half!"

The next instant, she ripped off the black eyepatch from her right eye, and brilliant golden light shone from that eye.

"I once made a vow."

"No matter how many times this cruel fate repeats — ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand times — I will never let her face the darkness alone again."

[Give up; you cannot defeat 'me'.]

Airwen's voice arrived, tinged with sorrow.

Zihan laughed loudly: "You simply cannot win; I don't understand you!"

"My accomplices said the same, right?"

[But...]

Airwen tried to speak again.

Suddenly, a beat interrupted her words.

Thud.

Zihan raised her right hand and struck her own chest where there was a rise.

Not a soft sound.

Thud. Thud. Thud.

In an instant, intense fluctuations of magic power erupted centered on her, the beating of her heart amplified infinitely.

Amid those beats, the surrounding villa, even the entire world, began to creak; cracks spread through the air.

"All your whining is so annoying!"

Zihan looked up and shouted: "It's reached this point — words are no longer necessary, right?"

She lifted her right hand forward, a purple gem pendant wrapped around the back of her hand, radiating genuine light.

"Full Bloom!"

Su Fang opened her eyes, tightly clutching the gem brooch in her right hand, her deep-blue gaze looking toward the world outside, full of resolve.

"Full Bloom!"

Tang Keren held the phone with the pink gem high overhead, lifting her chin.

"Full Bloom!"

And Lin Guang likewise raised her right hand.

Full—

Sorry, still can't do it yet!

(＜ゝω·）~☆