"Magical girls are the only beings in this world who can slightly transcend the cycle. A tiny portion of their growth can be inherited into the next cycle!"

"But Full Bloom is like a massive blossoming, it requires extremely intense emotion. Even if you gather Fragments of Hope to replenish them, their souls will still be worn down, and it will accelerate their witchification..."

"So I must watch them die without saving them to provoke them! And I must kill them before their meaningless Full Bloom!"

Boom boom boom boom!!

Silver light and crimson light collided like two meteors in the Misty Forest.

"If I struck with full force every time, they wouldn't get tempered, and before they could Full Bloom they'd be worn away bit by bit..."

"So I only watch... I can only watch!!"

"Can you understand that feeling?"

Airwen's silver eyes stared at the crimson girl in front of her, and she couldn't help but demand:

"You only experienced it less than a hundred and fifty-four times, yet you dare claim it wouldn't matter no matter how many times it happens?"

"Do you truly know how heavy those words are?!"

"No matter how many times you die, you wake up in the same place, facing repeating events, knowing this is a false world yet unable to escape the helplessness—"

"Three thousand three hundred and thirty-two times in total!"

"Phoenix and Amber have already given up. They've accepted the fate of never leaving. They can calmly converse with the phantoms of their past, play house, live through countless repeated days!"

"But I haven't given up!"

"How could I give up?"

"I made a promise to her!"

She lifted her sword again, her wings fanning as she shouted, "I want to... become a true magical girl!!!"

"So... you leave!"

Super·Thunder Sword activated.

"Go anywhere you want, return to Kazenari Town, find Phoenix, find Amber, do whatever you want—"

"Stop getting in the way of Su Fang's growth!"

Boom—

The earth was cleft by the phantom sword's light into an unfathomable chasm, the magical power explosion ripping up all dead trees tens of meters away, dirt and rocks scattering.

"Huff... huff..."

The battle stopped suddenly, both of them breathing heavily.

The silver magical girl and the crimson magical girl faced each other across the small canyon-like sword scar.

Such high-intensity offense and defense had taken an unimaginable toll.

Yet Airwen could clearly see that the crimson magical girl's eyes were aflame without the slightest dimming, and the music only grew stronger.

As if everything that had been said had not disoriented her, but instead made her faith, will, and wishes hotter and more exalted than ever.

This one...

"...Ha, even after all this, you still don't understand?"

At this point, Airwen's voice suddenly became strangely calm. "Do you really want me to tell you everything to an irretrievable degree?"

But her eyes were full of pity and sorrow, growing more intense.

At the same time.

Lin Guang froze for a moment.

Even though control over the background music was still securely in her hands, he felt a chill crawl up his spine.

"Then let me tell you the truth."

Airwen spoke the origin, word by word.

"One hundred and fifty-four cycles ago, a girl named Mengmengxiang entered this world."

"Her aptitude was poor; she barely met the threshold to enter Utopia, but she was very personable and quickly became best friends with Zihan and Tang Keren, who entered at the same time."

"Every cycle, their friendships were reestablished."

"But she had a small dream... to search the Misty Forest for Fragments of Hope on behalf of everyone."

"In truth, the forest's fragments had long ago been collected through the sensing of the Prophecy Maiden over generations. Her efforts were just self-deception, meaningless."

"Phoenix and Amber, Tang Keren and Zihan, even I persuaded her countless times, yet she still risked her life to go beyond the Outer Realm, searching the Misty Forest for Fragments of Hope."

"I watched with my own eyes as she slowly burned out through repeated meaningless searches."

"Finally, after one reset, her figure disappeared from the city."

"When a magical girl's soul approaches collapse and shatters, at the start of each cycle she will be refreshed to the Outer Realm, awaiting final witchification and total consumption by the Abyss."

"In the nineteenth cycle after she went missing, I personally saw her in this forest perish together with the Maid Head."

Lin Guang remained silent.

"I thought it was all over."

"Then..."

"The next time, she won, standing alive before me and the Prophecy Maiden."

She recounted the origin calmly: "On the 3,272nd cycle, Mengmengxiang was reborn. Although she returned as someone who knew nothing, she truly came back."

"Right before my eyes."

Past memories unfolded between the two of them.

"And after that, as if she had awakened, she grew at an incredible pace, even becoming the team's core, forging extraordinarily deep bonds."

"With repeated sacrifices, she gave endless motivation to the Prophecy Maiden and the other two magical girls."

"What originally required hundreds of cycles—Full Bloom that most magical girls could not achieve before their souls were exhausted—was compressed into just dozens of cycles."

"Their growth, even their friendships, were inherited more clearly than in previous cycles."

"I admit, it was the most miraculous thing I had seen in so many cycles."

"She even helped defeat the Abyss King together."

"That time, I truly believed we had succeeded... The Sacred Tree was fully restored, the Permission-Holder Abyss King was temporarily killed, the Abyss fell into its weakest state, and the greatest Prophecy Maiden of the ages had completed her first Full Bloom, at the height of her power."

Her tone was almost a sigh: "—But... in the end, it still failed."

The last cycle.

That shattered Sacred Tree, the erased barrier...

"So, I finally confirmed your identity."

In the next instant.

Airwen's figure closed in without any hint of theatrics.

Lin Guang instinctively raised his staff to block.

—Theoretically, Precision Operation Engine would never err.

Airwen and her current combat power were both almost at theoretical extremes, neck and neck, so a normal sneak attack should not work.

But...

There was one thing that could not be done.

Something without precedent; in Lin Guang's mind there was no awareness to do it, no instinctive defense to prepare for, it was impossible to suddenly surpass his own knowledge reserves and forcibly accomplish.

Unlike Airwen, Lin Guang had no experience fighting magical girls, and no experience killing one.

So he subconsciously overlooked one thing.

...That was the weak point of a magical girl.

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