My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

Lin Guang was quietly eating a slice of strawberry cake. Upon hearing this, she lowered her head, rubbed the pendant on her chest, and slowly shook her head.

She wasn’t sure if it was because she was an outsider or if it was truly due to a congenital defect in her Soul Gem... but in any case, she really didn’t sense any signs of being able to touch that realm.

In fact, she couldn’t even imagine what that feeling would be like.

And now, the fourth Fragment of Hope had already returned to the Sacred Tree. The final goal of “collecting all the fragments” was only one step away.

It seemed she wouldn’t make it in time for this battle.

“Hmph, that doesn’t matter!”

Tang Keren raised an eyebrow. “I can feel that Full Bloom is incredibly powerful. Even if you can’t Full Bloom, even if you just watch from far away in the back, it doesn’t matter!”

“I don’t need your protection anymore! You’re not allowed to push yourself this time!”

After saying that, she shifted her gaze to Airwen, who was sitting on the other side.

Airwen was poking at the campfire with a branch, adjusting the heat for the soup she was cooking. After a moment of contemplation, she also slowly shook her head.

“That’s weird.” Tang Keren raised an eyebrow again. “You’re the one from our generation who awakened the earliest. Your magic power development should be more advanced. You’ve also received four blessings. By all logic, you should be able to Full Bloom.”

“Maybe I just don’t have the talent for it,” Airwen said calmly.

Tang Keren pouted, as if she couldn’t stand such self-pitying words, and skipped over the topic.

“Well then... three of us being able to Full Bloom is pretty good too! Even though it doesn’t compare to the First Generation’s five magical girls all Full Blooming...”

“But it’s enough!”

She flashed a perfect smile.

This meant they would face the final challenge in the most perfect state they had ever imagined.

“I wonder what kind of demon beast is guarding the last fragment,” Zihan said softly.

Hearing this, Su Fang closed her eyes. A sapphire-blue light emanated from her body, and her Soul Gem flickered.

A moment later, she opened her eyes, her expression serious.

“That fragment is still in its original place.”

“It’s the largest one. The other four combined aren’t as big as it.”

A hint of gravity crept into Su Fang’s voice. “So, the demon beast guarding it must be extremely powerful. It might even be something beyond the Nightmare Seeds.”

“What’s there to be afraid of!”

Tang Keren placed her hands on her hips, brimming with confidence. “We’ve got a full three magical girls who can Full Bloom, including the Prophecy Maiden, who, according to a century-old legend, is destined to save the world.”

“No matter what kind of powerful enemy comes, there’s no opponent in front of us!”

Listening to Tang Keren’s bold declarations, Lin Guang held a plate of cake, shoved a fork into her mouth, and quietly pondered.

【Abyss King】.

That earth-shattering black sword light flashed through Lin Guang’s mind once again.

He hadn’t appeared, just as she had calculated.

Lin Guang swallowed the cake in her mouth, her gaze falling on the dancing flames as she silently calculated.

In that one loop, they had only recovered three Fragments of Hope before the Abyss King descended and destroyed the Sacred Tree Barrier.

Later, they had also collected three fragments in a few other loops without alerting the enemy—at least, before Lin Guang died in battle each time, Su Fang had never sensed the enemy acting prematurely.

Then Lin Guang had made a bold hypothesis.

The key was time.

The first time, because Zihan’s body was extremely weakened after Full Bloom, their return to the Sacred Tree Barrier was very slow. It took a full thirty-six hours. Counting the time before that, it took about seven days in total before the enemy struck and destroyed the Sacred Tree.

But this time, under Lin Guang’s leadership, the battle time had been drastically shortened. No one was injured either. In less than five days, they had already recovered four fragments, causing much more commotion than last time.

Yet that terrifying monster had never shown itself. It hadn’t even moved.

This only proved that the 【Abyss King】’s actions had a strict time limit. Even if they collected four fragments ahead of schedule, the enemy wouldn’t act.

Pushing further...

Was that formidable posture the result of “charging up” and “building momentum”?

If this reasoning held true, it meant that as long as they could get there before that time point, they might be able to fight the Abyss King before it reached its peak state.

In the seventy-seven trials, there had never been such a perfect situation.

This S-Rank Trial, the future of this world... all the conditions for victory seemed to have gathered before them.

“Finally... just the last one left, huh.”

Zihan hugged her knees and suddenly said.

“Yeah.”

A complex emotion also flickered in Tang Keren’s eyes.

Recovering the final Fragment of Hope would be a historic moment for both humanity and Kazenari Town.

“I’m going to become the greatest virtual idol in human history, you know!”

Su Fang looked at the flickering campfire, a complex emotion welling up in her emerald-green eyes. “It’s only been five days, but it feels... like it’s been such a long, long time.”

“...Yeah.”

Airwen suddenly stood up and looked at the sky.

The dim stars still hung there, seemingly unchanged.

“Being trapped in this birdcage... for far, far too long.”

Airwen’s voice was incredibly soft, so soft it seemed like it might vanish at any moment. Yet the others felt an immense weight within it.

The three of them were slightly taken aback.

Airwen’s demeanor seemed to have changed.

This great senior of the tenth-generation magical girls, the magical girl with the code name 【Silver of Judgment】, usually had eyes as deep and unruffled as an ancient well.

But at this moment, there was an indescribable light in her eyes.

Countless emotions, countless joys and sorrows, countless hopes and despairs—all interwoven into a silvery, phantom-like radiance at the bottom of her gaze.

The three were stunned for a moment.

Was she referring to the history of humanity having its hope stolen by the Abyss, reduced to barely surviving within the Sacred Tree’s domain?

Tang Keren suddenly smiled. She stood up, patted the dust off her skirt, and declared with unshakable confidence: “Don’t worry! I’ll give it my all and bring victory and glory back to Kazenari Town!”

“Once I get back, I’m going to make everyone in Kazenari Town...”

In the next instant, a piece of strawberry cream cake was precisely stuffed into her mouth.

Lin Guang held the fork, staring at her with a blank expression.

Setting up a death flag like that, don’t you want to live?

I really need to keep you in check.

Tang Keren’s eyes widened. With cake stuffed in her mouth, she let out a muffled “Mmph.” Suddenly, she felt an irresistibly refreshing sweetness and aroma in her mouth.

Strangely, it wasn’t overpowered by the sweetness of the strawberries or the cake itself.

What is this taste...?

In the next moment, Tang Keren realized what was going on and looked at the Cherry-Haired Girl.

Wasn’t this the same fork she had just been holding in her mouth while she was thinking?!

Th-this is!!

Tang Keren instinctively swallowed a mouthful of saliva, feeling the cream in her mouth sickeningly sweet. Even her ears turned red.

Then she watched as this girl pulled the fork back out and continued eating her cake with it, completely unbothered.

“Wha-wha-wha-what are you doing?!”

Lin Guang: “?”

Zihan and Su Fang, who were sitting nearby, stared at her with bizarre expressions.

“Mengmengxiang... I-I want some too...”

“Senior Mengmengxiang, I want some too!”

The campfire continued to burn, emitting soft crackling sounds.

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