Lin Guang listened attentively.

"As long as the world reconstruction process involves Phoenix and me reproducing this newly inserted videotape."

"Then... this world would have no choice but to acknowledge that this event had occurred, even if it existed only in that fabricated history."

"Even the magical girls related to it, who have already become witches in the outside world, would reappear in Kazenari Town, even if... in the form of 'Echoes.'"

The corner of Amber's mouth curled up slightly, yet it seemed to carry a hint of melancholy: "The authority of the Sacred Tree is quite amazing, isn't it? Like a pen in the hands of an author."

"We don't know the exact principle behind it either. Perhaps you can simply understand it as making the world figure things out on its own, adapting to the memories of everyone that we have preserved."

"So every time the world is reconstructed and builds its 'history,' those who would no longer appear are reshaped by this reef."

"Although every magical girl forgets everything each time, making each cycle largely similar, not every cycle can carve out new memories."

"But because of their growth, a very, very small number of the most important changes can always be preserved."

"And the traces they leave at headquarters push this originally static world forward bit by bit, from ten years, to twenty years, to thirty years..."

"Until now, the tenth generation of magical girls, the hundredth year."

Phoenix said seriously, "We have always believed that everything everyone has experienced, the days they've lived through, and the efforts they've made—these are by no means meaningless."

"So we must remember them."

But at this moment.

Amber, who was walking in the lead, suddenly carried a faint sadness in her tone.

"It's just that... Airwen might not think the same way."

"The rift between us and Airwen didn't exist from the very beginning."

"The origin of our disagreement with her probably started right here."

"..."

Tap.

Before Lin Guang could say anything, Amber stopped walking.

The next moment, she pushed open the door to the room of the First Generation Magical Girl.

The decor and scenery that Lin Guang was already extremely familiar with unfolded before her eyes, resembling a somewhat messy school club activity room.

The midday sunlight streamed in through the window, illuminating the space brightly. Six vertical cabinets were lined up against the wall, with five of their doors bearing handwritten name tags. The handwriting exuded a uniquely feminine delicacy and cuteness.

In truth, Lin Guang was already quite familiar with everything here, because in every cycle, Airwen and she had to accompany Su Fang on a visit here.

But this time...

She had already guessed what she was about to see.

The black-haired girl walked up to the cabinets, her right hand gently stroking the sixth cabinet door, which had no name tag.

Golden specks of light rippled softly in her hand like water waves, as if peeling off some kind of disguise.

She let go of her hand, revealing what had appeared in her palm to the cherry-haired girl behind her, reflected in her eyes.

It was also a handwritten name tag, with bold and unrestrained handwriting.

—Airwen.

This was Airwen's cabinet.

She was...

One of the original First Generation Magical Girls.

Lin Guang stepped forward, reached out, and gently opened this cabinet.

Surprisingly ordinary.

Inside the cabinet were textbooks from middle school, some star-shaped and heart-shaped jewelry that girls would like, a few bottles of nail polish and hair clips, and a shiny satin bow that seemed to have been taken off some piece of clothing.

Amber didn't linger and continued walking further into the room.

She came to the group photo of Kazenari Town's First Generation Magical Girls and reached out her hand again.

The next moment.

The photo, which had a lot of empty space on the left, gained an extra figure, and the poses subtly shifted.

—It was Airwen, wearing a blue-and-white sailor-style school uniform.

Lin Guang stared intently at the group photo in front of her.

The Airwen in the photo was different from the one now.

Back then, her eyes weren't the deep black they were now; instead, they were closer to the bright silver of her transformed state, and her expression was far from the current mask of impassive calm.

In the photo, a red-haired short-haired girl, laughing carefreely, had her arm slung over Airwen's shoulder. Airwen had her arms crossed, her expression a little nervous, her smile a bit stiff—whether she was unused to the atmosphere or shy about squeezing into a group of middle schoolers in this uniform was unclear.

Amber's voice was calm yet low: "This was taken during the first cycle."

She pointed to the girl whose hair color was nearly identical to Lin Guang's transformed state: "She was the Prophecy Maiden of the first generation, and also Airwen's first friend she made in this world."

"At that time, the recovery of the Fragments of Hope hadn't started yet, and Kazenari Town wasn't as big as it is now—just a small town with a population of tens of thousands."

"Faced with the world's mutations, with the girls who had been sent in by the company, their memories altered by this world, given fabricated identities and recollections..."

"We could only adopt an attitude of knowing nothing, trying to act as 'Operations' to guide this sudden and hasty 'game.'"

"Honestly, we didn't come in much earlier than they did. We could only take it step by step, completely in the dark."

Amber's fingers brushed across the photo, and she said softly, "So... there was still quite a bit of optimism back then."

—Did that also include being completely unaware of the truth about witch transformation, Full Bloom, and Spirit Soul erosion?

Lin Guang's cherry-red eyes studied the six faces in the photo, her gaze lingering on Airwen's face, which was so much more vivid compared to the present.

What was she thinking back then? What kind of memories did they leave behind?

But regardless, the outcome was already predestined.

Only after Lin Guang finally withdrew her gaze did Amber turn and walk out, pushing open the door of the room opposite.

Like the start of every cycle, Lin Guang ascended step by step through this building.

But this time, it wasn't Su Fang and Airwen accompanying her, but Amber and Phoenix, who had been mere background figures in the past.

Hidden within the river of time, things that no one except the three of them remembered began to be unveiled before Lin Guang little by little.

—This was the activity room of the Second Generation Magical Girls.

Built into a musical stage due to their love of music, it radiated the energy of youth.

Amber slowly walked into the room, crouched down beside an old-fashioned television set, opened a drawer, and pulled out a videotape.

But still, a golden gleam flickered in her hand, altering something.

The next moment, she inserted the modified videotape into the player.

It appeared to be an outdoor performance venue.

Amidst cheers, magical girls with varied hair colors and styles, still in their transformation states, stood on the central stage, playing their instruments with abandon.

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