My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

Actually, he had already figured something out a long time ago.

[This has nothing to do with the system. The Trial world itself exists in an infinite loop, but it’s a world that gradually advances and changes in certain places.]

Lin Guang had observed this himself long ago.

The clues had been right before his eyes the whole time.

Even excluding the first eighteen cycles where he couldn’t escape the Misty Forest, Lin Guang still spent a full fifty-nine cycles stuck inside there.

That was over two whole years.

Even the tiniest differences became glaringly obvious after so many repetitions.

In Lin Guang’s eyes, even the people and things that seemed to be reset by the cycle were actually constantly changing in some ways.

For example, every time Su Fang returned to Kazenari Town with him, on her first night sleeping at home, the words she said before bed would always be subtly different.

While some of that could be explained by slight shifts in his own attitude toward her, there was one thing he had never interfered with—and never had the ability to interfere with—that kept changing.

That was the things Su Fang talked about before sleeping, things that happened to her before she met him.

“I only took down six Claw-types today. That’s not even a fraction of Senior Mengmengxiang’s record.”

“I only took down ten Claw-types today… Senior Mengmengxiang, I really am still so weak.”

“I took down fifteen Claw-types today… Senior Mengmengxiang, you’re amazing.”

“…"

“Even though it’s my first time transforming, I managed to take down a full thirty Claw-types today~ Hehe, pretty impressive, right?”

“Senior Mengmengxiang, it’s okay if you don’t remember anything. From now on, I’ll protect you!”

Although it couldn’t match Lin Guang’s own rate of evolution, Su Fang kept advancing and improving with every single cycle.

Tang Keren and Zihan’s progress might have been more subtle, but in Lin Guang’s eyes, across the scale of dozens of cycles, their growth was still clearly visible.

Even though the world was reset time and time again, throwing Lin Guang back to the moment of “waking up in the Misty Forest while piloting Mengmengxiang’s body,” the others’ total magic power, combat skills, and—most importantly—the [Heart] within the Four Great Loves, their conviction, were all gradually chasing after Lin Guang’s footsteps, little by little.

And he had long since known about those people who, for unknown reasons, existed above the cycle alongside him.

Like Airwen’s consistently special attitude toward him, and that unspoken understanding between them—the kind where they could grasp each other’s intentions with just a glance.

Like the reason he had given to Amber.

Like how, at the start of every cycle, the Phoenix would be in the wardrobe watching a different bad movie or playing a different game.

None of them had ever tried to hide these things. Similarly, Lin Guang had never tried to conceal the fact that he not only retained his memories but also kept growing stronger through each cycle.

Everyone shared a tacit understanding that “some things are better left unsaid.”

After all, magical girls had extremely sharp emotional perception. Just by sensing each other’s magic power, their emotions would be partially laid bare, making it easy to tell friend from foe.

On one hand, Lin Guang could clearly feel that everyone was indeed working hard for a better future.

On the other hand, the system’s prompts strictly forbade being detected as an outsider.

So…

For the magical girls, a lot of things didn’t need to be spelled out. As long as everyone was giving their all, that was enough.

Perhaps Airwen’s behavior was worth paying attention to, but Lin Guang had long since guessed that her reluctance to show too much was to let Tang Keren, Zihan, and Su Fang grow as much as possible.

And judging from their attitudes, the purpose of all this was most likely to collect the Fragments of Hope, break through the cycle that kept resetting the world, and reach the true other side.

Lin Guang had read a lot of works like this in the past.

Whether sci-fi, fantasy, or fairy tale… there were countless works centered around the theme of reincarnation.

And from what he had witnessed at the end of this cycle—those scenes “outside the world”…

A brain in a vat? A game world? Eternal recurrence?

That is to say, “Kazenari Town” was very likely something existing inside a strange creation—like some super-advanced supercomputer—a virtual world made of 0s and 1s.

Perhaps, in that moment when the mystery was unveiled and he caught a fleeting glimpse of the outside world, Lin Guang had indeed been surprised.

But it only stirred up a lot of questions about the background in his mind.

As for being unable to accept the world’s premise itself… well, that wasn’t really the case.

After all, even something like this had been documented in Kamen Rider Zenless Zone○.

Face your fears, cut the loop… the so-called “good endings” in works like this generally followed that formula.

Ultimately, all the effort Lin Guang had put in along the way was for these simple eight words.

This time, Lin Guang felt like he had practically achieved the best he could. Everything—timing, location, and people—was on his side, and he looked forward to the arrival of a perfect ending.

What really made him lose his composure…

Wasn’t just the fact that the Sacred Tree’s awakening had been interrupted, plunging the entire world into nothingness—a scene that was utterly abnormal no matter how you looked at it.

It was also what was displayed on the system panel right now.

— Evaluation: B

“…”

Even with Lin Guang’s composure, he felt an illusion that all the magic power in his body was about to burst forth.

That was the surging emotions of a high-end player causing his magic power to involuntarily respond and become active.

For an S-Rank Trial, if the highest evaluation wasn’t the cliché hidden ending of SSS, it should at least be an S, right?

Giving a B-Rank evaluation only meant one thing: it was a bad ending.

So if Lin Guang actually thought this was the grand finale, then he would be an idiot.

What was missing?

What still hadn’t been done?

Since the system’s mission objective was to become a true magical girl… then what exactly did it mean to become a true magical girl?

What was the relationship between this mission objective and that horrifying image at the end of the loop—along with the entire world’s reincarnation?

“……”

Hoo.

Inhale.

Hoo.

Exhale.

Lin Guang took deep breaths for a full minute before the red light in his eyes finally subsided.

The next moment, he calmed his emotions and looked at the reward column he had ignored earlier.

“……”

The reward he had been thinking about day and night was already sitting there.

Claim.

First, a transparent crystal fell into his hand, refracting little specks of pure white light, extremely conspicuous in the dim room.

[Magic Aptitude (E+)]

[A small crystal formed from spirit and soul. After use, it slightly enhances magic control ability.]

Compared to the last Magic Aptitude crystal, this one was much larger.

After it fell into Lin Guang’s palm, it melted again, turning into a cool stream of air that seeped into his body, soaking into every corner of his being.

That feeling of fullness—caused by his body being overloaded with excess magic that he refused to release—vanished without a trace, replaced by a long-lost sense of ease.

In truth, Lin Guang, with his [Precision Operation Engine], had always been able to control his magic power. He just needed to allocate a sliver of attention to manage it. But now, he felt an unprecedented sense of freedom.

[Magic Aptitude (E-) → Magic Aptitude (E+)]

And then…

The main event of this time.

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