My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

Standing in that room, their silence lasted for a very, very long time.

In the end, it was Phoenix who finally spoke.

Her tone lightened as she patted Lin Guang on the shoulder with her wing, “Alright, that’s basically everything.”

“This is this world, our past and present.”

“As for you, Mengmengxiang… you can do whatever you want now.”

“Go and do what you think is right.”

“……”

Lin Guang came back to herself.

Past, present.

And for some reason, what Phoenix and Amber had been showing all along was a faint pessimism.

—As if… they had already seen the ending a long time ago.

Sensing Lin Guang’s puzzlement, Phoenix sighed again, “Yeah, I guess there isn’t much future left.”

“Or rather… maybe there was never a future from the very beginning.”

“……”

Phoenix sighed helplessly, “Hey, why does your brain only start working so slowly at a moment like this?”

“The preconditions mentioned in Su Jingyan’s final message… collect all the Fragments of Hope, have the Strongest magical girl appear, kill him who has become the Abyss King, temporarily kick him out of this cycle so the Abyss is leaderless… yeah, that could make the Sacred Tree extremely powerful and leave the Abyss at its weakest.”

“But…”

She finally spoke the truth behind that subtle unease Lin Guang had vaguely felt, in a flat tone: “Who said that doing those things would guarantee the Sacred Tree wins, or that the gate would open?”

Yet beneath that calm was a kind of unspeakable weariness and sorrow.

“In other words, who can promise this world will have a so-called ‘Good Ending’ like in novels, games, or movies?”

“This world may be a Game, but it’s not a joke. For those of us inside, it’s brutal reality.”

“Wasn’t the Abyss originally shattered when the Sacred Tree was at its most complete, when Su Jingyan acted as the creator-god?”

“It was nothing more than… starting over again.”

“We have indeed done our best to assist Airwen, but that was only doing what humans could do.”

“………”

“The evidence is… you all already did basically the best you could last time.”

Phoenix sighed on Lin Guang’s shoulder, “Su Fang’s aptitude is even better than the previous Prophecy Maiden’s; you could say she’s the strongest Prophecy Maiden in Kazenari Town’s history.”

“The Sacred Tree had already almost completely restored itself, its power nearly indistinguishable from its prime.”

“Even if there was some minuscule piece, so tiny Su Fang couldn’t even notice it falling to the outside world, whether or not it was collected wouldn’t matter in the slightest.”

“And honestly, with you not there to dilute others’ Sacred Tree blessings, with one fewer person collecting fragments, letting Su Fang and the others grow a little more, become a bit more independent… that’s just like water poured into a cart—utterly negligible. Could it really cause any qualitative change?”

“Airwen must understand this truth, but she doesn’t want to believe it; she refuses to give up.”

“Maybe… there was never any real chance to get out.”

Phoenix spoke softly, “Because only stories need logic.”

“Reality… no, this birdsong-and-flowers world doesn’t need logic at all.”

Lin Guang fell silent.

She had seen this creature cry at those B-grade cheesy films many times before, moved by those mechanistic, deus-ex-machine happy endings.

Only now did she understand why Phoenix loved those things.

A world where every dilemma and despair has a solution exists only in those beautiful fantasies.

Phoenix continued, “And I actually seriously suspect that the Utopia project’s loss of control wasn’t just Su Jingyan’s negligence that turned him into a puppet of the Abyss.”

“…!”

Lin Guang turned her head slightly, surprise showing in her eyes.

Amber shook her head too, “The decision to launch this project and start it came from the L Corp board of directors, and even this Soul Gem used as the vessel came from one of the directors’ hands.”

“It was the board who thought it foolproof, which is why they authorized it and poured top-tier resources and attention into it.”

“Three thousand cycles. Even with extreme time acceleration, several years must have passed outside.”

“Did they truly find no accidents, or…”

Even Lin Guang couldn’t help but take a quiet breath before continuing, “Someone deliberately covered things up?”

“Yes. If I had to say, it feels less like an accident and more like a man-made disaster.”

“Whatever the board’s mastermind’s motives were, they would never let those of us in the know leave.”

“The one who designed this scheme would never leave such a huge loophole.”

Phoenix replied calmly, “If I were them, I would have reinforced the cage from the outside, making sure nobody inside could possibly escape.”

“So logically speaking, the ending of this project was actually decided from the start.”

“The cycle has been shortening all along, from the earliest two months down to the current span of just over ten days… I’m afraid this world, and us… truly don’t have much time left.”

Finally.

Everything had been laid bare before them.

“………”

Lin Guang lowered her head.

Those cherry-red, soft strands of hair fell lightly over the girl’s forehead, gently hiding her gaze.

She stood there motionless, silent, showing no expression or reaction.

To Phoenix and Amber, it looked as if this delicate doll-like girl—who had been so strong to the extreme—had finally, after learning the whole truth, begun to falter.

Sudden grief appeared in their eyes.

After all, none of this should be borne by any magical girl in this world, and certainly not piled on the shoulders of this girl who had already endured so much suffering, who had burned everything and yet still kept moving forward.

But…

The misfortune of this world was something none of them could escape.

They were merely two comparatively large gears in this sorrowful cycle.

Phoenix’s golden-bean eyes could no longer hold back tears.

“Try to be at peace with it. At least we can still—”

“………”

Lin Guang suddenly looked up. There was no trace of confusion or sorrow in her eyes: “You said earlier I could do whatever I wanted, right?”

“…Ah? Uh, yes. I guess so.”

The next moment, in their eyes, the cherry-haired girl took a step forward without hesitation.

Not down the stairs, but—

Up the stairs.

…………

Sixth floor.

The cherry-haired girl raised her slender hand and, expressionless, pointed at the room before them.

“Open the door.”

The nameplate on the door was clearly visible—

[Silver of Judgment].

In other words, it was Airwen’s room.

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