My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

So Airwen's tone once again became indifferent.

"How many times have you slain those deceptive monsters? Was it unwillingness to dig deeper, or had you long since sensed the truth but still chose to look the other way?"

Lin Guang's pupils contracted.

In that instant.

A certain thought that had vaguely surfaced in his mind since the last trial now surged forth uncontrollably.

Airwen gazed at the crimson magical girl before her and continued speaking.

"That's right, it's exactly what you're thinking."

"Those Witches, those humanoid Nightmare Seeds that we, that you, personally killed."

Her voice dropped to an almost impossibly gentle level, yet the truth she revealed was like a thunderbolt from a clear sky.

"Are the true Previous Magical Girls."

"......!!"

Lin Guang said nothing.

But the hand with which Airwen gripped her phantom sword seemed to bulge with veins, as if emotions she had suppressed for too long could no longer be contained. Her tone surged with passion once more.

"Those people in Kazenari Town who appear to be alive, those previous generations of magical girls from the past, those harmonious tea parties..."

"The so-called seniors are nothing but illusions. They died long ago, and never truly existed!"

Staring at Lin Guang, the silver-haired girl's face, usually described as that of an ice beauty, twisted almost beyond recognition, her voice no longer suppressible: "Don't you understand? There is no such thing as 'growing up'!"

"They've already become the Abyss!!"

"All that's left are those remains outside the realm-the dregs devoured, swallowed, and digested by this damned, endlessly repeating world!!"

"Those magical girls who seem normal are merely phantoms forcibly preserved by the Sacred Tree's disturbances and authority. Only inside the Sacred Tree Barrier can those false illusions maintain themselves!"

"So once they enter the Abyss's domain, they melt away and disappear!"

"It's not that they grew up and could no longer explore the Outer Realm! It's that they had already burned themselves out completely from those expeditions!!"

"The lucky ones leave behind remnants for the Sacred Tree to project; the unlucky ones won't even have a phantom, a false beautiful future!!"

Amidst the roar-like cries, a cascade of phantom sword light poured forth like a waterfall.

Yet its target was not Lin Guang.

Instead, it was the blue-white silhouette slowly approaching them from the side, seemingly preparing to ambush.

Ball-and-socket joints. A featureless face.

Lower-ranked dangerous species.

[Maid Head].

The blue-white maid puppet was instantly shredded by the sword energy, leaving only a single head rolling to a stop beside the girl's red leather boot.

At this very moment.

Even Lin Guang's eyes revealed an indescribable daze.

The face of the Fourth Generation Magical Girl Moon Timekeeper, who had smiled gently at him during the last cycle, seemed to overlap with that head for a fleeting instant.

"........."

And at that moment.

The memories from the past in his mind finally found an answer.

In Lin Guang's recollection, Airwen had never spoken with those senior magical girls.

Whether it was the support that always came, or the last celebration feast-whether she was approached or met by chance-Airwen had never exchanged any words with magical girls outside their group.

-Not even once.

Airwen never looked into their eyes.

Perhaps, in her heart, those girls were just puppets manipulated by strings, or remains destined to wander in the black fog.

And the true corpses, or rather their remnants, had always remained in the Outer Realm.

Remained... in this cruel, infinitely cycling eternal night.

"You... all the magical girls think it's real: that city called Kazenari Town, carrying everyone's memories and identities."

Airwen's voice sounded again, hoarse from the exhausting roar, as the phantom sword light once more clashed with Lin Guang's staff.

Clang!!

The two were again engulfed in raging magic power.

But Airwen's voice, carried by the spreading magic, pierced through all barriers.

"All the citizens, all the history, memories, pasts, identities, the futures of those previous magical girls as they grew up, their families, their lives after retirement..."

She said coldly, "It's all fake. It never existed."

"It's the lie fabricated and implanted into everyone by this world before each cycle."

Airwen's sword shadows rose from the forest like a full moon.

[Super New Moon Slash] activated.

Lin Guang silently met this strike with his crimson flames.

"Everything is nothing more than phantoms hastily constructed before each cycle-meaningless things."

"There is no such thing as a hundred years of history. Each cycle is no more than a short two-month period, give or take."

"What you experienced only exists because you believe it does."

The white skin on Airwen's right hand, gripping the sword, showed raised veins. She clenched her silver teeth as if she wanted to grind them to dust, forcing out syllables through the gaps:

"This world is nothing but a complete trap."

"A fake world that cycles endlessly, a project from the so-called 'L Corp,' called 'Utopia'!"

In that instant, memories from the distant past flashed through her mind.

It was the words between the project director named Su Jingyan and the three of them.

…………

"This project will surely become the greatest game of my life, giving those unfortunate people a second chance at survival."

"That sounds a bit naive, Mr. Su. The company doesn't do charity for free."

"Of course I'm not that idealistic. I can't save everyone. But... as long as the returns far outweigh the investment, I doubt the company will care about our little private arrangement."

"Private arrangement... Ha, that's a good way to put it. But you'd better hurry up. Otherwise, before the project's finished, this young lady will be dead out here."

………

Flame light and phantoms continuously clashed, now seeming like mere venting.

Watching the silent Lin Guang in their exchange, Airwen let out a soft laugh, tinged with pity and sorrow: "...Ha. Can't understand?"

She sighed, "Right... because you've lost your memory."

"Not to mention the memories of the outside world; even the false memories this world should have implanted into you, you never received."

"Then at least this much, can you understand?"

Lin Guang could detect a suppressed anger in Airwen's voice, but it seemed also to hide boundless desolation.

"Su Jingyan is Su Fang's father."

"At the same time... he is this world's creator, the 'Creator' who personally built this stage, and the puppet devoured by this world's malice."

She said flatly, "He is what you call the 'Abyss King.'"

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