My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

However, at that moment.

She heard an unexpected voice.

"Zihan."

The voice was calm and cool, yet it couldn't hide its sweet, soft timbre.

Zihan blinked that one eye and looked at the cherry-haired girl, "Mengmengxiang…? What's wrong?"

Lin Guang swept his gaze across the girls before him, "You all trust me, right?"

"Th-that's obvious!"

Zihan froze for a moment, violet radiance flickering in her eyes from excitement, and blurted out, "How could I not trust Mengmengxiang!"

After all, Mengmengxiang had saved her time and time again…

Counting carefully, it seemed it had only been twice.

But that didn't matter.

Zihan believed in her nonetheless, from the bottom of her heart—no matter the situation, no matter how desperate, she was willing to trust this dear friend and partner in crime.

Tang Keren couldn't help but complain, "What kind of weird question is that, testing our trust? If you've got something to say, spit it out already."

Su Fang blinked too, curious as she looked at Lin Guang.

Senior Mengmengxiang was usually a closed book, yet this time she was the one to bring up the topic.

What was she going to say?

"All right."

Lin Guang nodded. "I only have one request to ask of you."

"Before I die, none of you—no matter if you already possess that ability—must ever full bloom."

"……"

Those words were soft, but to the others they sounded like thunder.

Zihan, Su Fang, and Tang Keren all went still at once.

…Die?

Although after stepping out of the Sacred Tree's domain the girls had steeled themselves, hearing such words from a friend carried a different weight.

Not to mention Mengmengxiang never spoke without purpose.

Since she lost her memories, she had been like an arrow that once loosed would fly straight toward its target; nothing else could make her deviate.

If she said this, had she sensed something?

Even Airwen raised her head, her black eyes rippling slightly, as if she too realized what Mengmengxiang intended to do.

"Are you worried about the side effects of full blooming?"

Tang Keren swallowed her emotions, took a step forward, and raised her voice a little, "Idiot! It's just a side effect. If you don't use it when you should, full blooming is meaningless!"

"It's better than watching you die, right?"

"If you trust me, then do this."

Lin Guang looked at Tang Keren, serious in those cherry-red eyes, which made Tang Keren's momentum falter.

"Why?"

Lin Guang glanced around at the four puzzled girls, set down the milk cup in her hand, and spoke with an expression that brooked no argument.

Of course, because this had to be done.

That being who stood at the pinnacle of the entire Trial World, the Abyss King, was very likely the Abyss's immune mechanism—a manifestation of part of its will.

From past experience, if one was to face it directly to stop it from breaching the Sacred Tree Barrier…

Then along the way and in subsequent fights against Nightmare Seeds, no one could afford to full bloom.

On the subject of stacked combat power, Lin Guang—who had stood face-to-face with that world-shattering sword that had severed the Sacred Tree, who had even seen Wind Capital's main body struck—had absolute say.

That thing was beyond Nightmare Seeds; it was true purgatory and despair.

Don't even talk about fighting while weakened after a lucky survival from full blooming; even if they retained full combat strength and leveled up through the Sacred Tree's blessings all the way, the five of them in their normal states would still absolutely not be able to defeat the Abyss King.

As a top-level player among top players, Lin Guang naturally had no thought of giving up—if a health bar showed up, he'd even dare to kill a god, not to mention saying helpless things like "I can't do anything"—but basic self-assessment was necessary.

If your gear score is too low, some dungeons just can't be beaten.

What needed to be done then was to farm gear and level up, not to reckless-charge in.

Admittedly, the only possible path to victory Lin Guang could currently see was one.

—the magical girls' bloom, the ability called "Full Bloom."

Zihan's full bloom—the eye that could see and cut death lines—was likewise an almost conceptual, overpowered skill, but if she alone used it, it likely wouldn't be enough.

In Lin Guang's calculation, at least three people needed to be able to full bloom for there to be a chance of success.

In other words, given that not everyone might qualify to full bloom, if someone full-bloomed early and lost combat capability, this trial would probably be a failure.

But…those words could not be said bluntly.

Looking at the girls, especially at Zihan's stubborn, unyielding eyes, Lin Guang thought for a few seconds before speaking again.

"I most likely can't full bloom, even if I gather more Fragments of Hope."

Everyone was stunned again.

Feeling their astonished gazes, she pulled out a pendant hanging from her collar.

The gem was a dull red overall, with speckled impurities inside and crisscrossing cracks across its surface.

Seeing those obvious fissures, everyone's expressions stiffened a little.

As the outward manifestation of a magical girl's soul state, the cherry-haired girl's Soul Gem was already cracked and muddied.

Exactly as the Phoenix had said.

Although no one knew how Lin Guang could still transform when her Soul Gem was on the verge of shattering—basically like a dead person's—and still keep such formidable fighting ability, even surpassing before, one thing was certain.

Her state was far from good.

Memory loss, the absence of fear, altered pain tolerance, and other abnormalities probably all stemmed from this.

So saying she couldn't full bloom…was likely true.

Ignoring the complex, worried looks of the others, Lin Guang shoved the pendant back into her collar.

Whether she could full bloom in the end she herself didn't know, but that didn't stop her from using the issue to persuade them.

"If I can't full bloom, and the enemies ahead will grow ever stronger—even to the point of despair—then opportunities to exceed limits like full blooming become all the more precious."

Lin Guang's tone was flat, yet sounded utterly self-evident.

"The appearance of the Prophecy Maiden is the most critical turning point in a hundred years of human history."

"Collecting the Fragments of Hope and reviving the Sacred Tree is our mission; we cannot let personal feelings wreck that."

"So, avoid full blooming as much as possible and defeat enemies in normal state. I'll take on all the pressure at the front."

"That's probably the most useful thing I can do."

Su Fang instinctively said, "But if something happens to Senior Mengmengxiang…"

"Full blooming is also a sacrifice, so why can't I be the first to sacrifice?"

The cherry-haired girl said calmly.

"And besides, I want to become a true magical girl."

"……"

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