It was that bottle of drink Lin Guang had given her.

"…"

Before the world reset, Airwen shouldn't have had any free time to record this.

Then there was only one possibility.

While making the decision to kick Lin Guang out of the team amidst the endless darkness of the world reset, yet at that very moment of the world restart, just like Phoenix and Amber had protected this building, she had written Lin Guang's existence into her computer.

She chose to abandon herself.

She chose to remember herself.

"…"

Lin Guang's cherry-pink pupils flickered, and she said softly:

"I see."

——The magical girl named Airwen hated this fake world, these fake memories, everything fake.

The very existence of past magical girls had already been devoured and erased by this world.

Apart from the current generation of magical girls still alive, everything and everyone were nothing more than phantoms reconstructed during the cycle of resets, ripples and echoes rebounding like water crashing against a reef.

Therefore, she no longer felt there was anything worth cherishing in this world, and there were no traces of other magical girls in her room.

But contradictory and ridiculous as it was...

Since all of this was fake.

Memories were fake, the world was fake, daily life was fake, the past was fake...

Then why had she desperately preserved all of this, wanting to bring it all out into the outer world and recreate it?

——Actually, my dream is the same as yours... to become a real magical girl.

——I made a promise with them! I want to become... a real magical girl!!!

Suddenly, Airwen's voice echoed in Lin Guang's ears.

This sentence was truly so childish it didn't sound like something as mature as Airwen would say, but she had later shouted it with such hoarse desperation, as if declaring something.

And now Lin Guang finally seemed to understand the meaning of those words.

Because only by going to that real world and becoming a true magical girl would someone remember that they had once existed, had left traces in this world.

Only then would all those past fake phantoms be given meaning in existence.

So... no matter how ruthless the means, how vicious, it didn't matter.

The cherry-haired girl's eyelids drooped slightly, and she whispered softly: "...I see."

The next moment, Phoenix, already tear-streaked, and Amber, who also wore a look of sorrow, suddenly saw the girl before them lift her head.

She stood up from the computer, her delicate face as expressionless as ever.

Yet, in those eyes, a flame-like brilliance had once again ignited.

It was as if some extremely important goal was driving her to do something.

Phoenix wiped her tears: "You... what are you going to do?"

Lin Guang took a deep breath, and the fiery light in her eyes grew fiercer, vaguely coalescing into something like the shape of chains.

At this moment, the countless pieces of information she had received earlier were all churning in her mind.

Including... the one thing Phoenix and Amber knew nothing about, known only to Lin Guang herself.

Those two System Warnings before entering the trial.

[Your previous attempt has triggered a "Special Plot."]

[If the result of this trial restart is still unsatisfactory, the system cannot guarantee another "restart" of the trial...]

——Phoenix and Amber had indeed detected something through reasoning and subtle clues, pessimistically believing that this cyclical world might not have much time left.

But in their hearts, this "not much time" was still measured on the scale of 3,332 cycles, so there might still be a few, or even dozens, or hundreds of cycles left.

Yet Lin Guang had the exact System prompt.

According to the system, it might be the next time, or rather this very cycle, that [Utopia] would be unable to restart, and this trial would soon end.

This meant...

Something that had never happened in three thousand three hundred and thirty-two cycles was happening... or rather, had already happened.

In this world of infinite loops, the only thing capable of causing such a massive "change" could only be that Outer Realm exploration team.

Su Fang, Tang Keren, Zihan, and...

Airwen!

The fire in Lin Guang's eyes blazed fiercely.

For some reason, the turbid Soul Gem on her chest emitted an indescribable heat, and it felt like an echo coming through the [Soul Link].

This was some kind of premonition, overwhelmingly intense and vast, like an omen.

She took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "No time to explain to you."

"Huh?! What do you mean?!"

"...What's wrong?"

Phoenix and Amber were a bit surprised by the girl's attitude before them, yet didn't know why she was so unusually serious—serious enough to be noticeable even through that poker face.

Phoenix asked cautiously: "What's going on exactly? What are you going to do?"

The cherry-haired girl's gaze was fixed on the void, as if looking at something Amber and Phoenix couldn't see.

It was the mission objective on the system panel.

Perhaps from beginning to end... this was the only and most important hint.

Lin Guang took a deep breath, then forcefully exhaled.

Those firm words to the extreme spread through this quiet room, and even throughout the sixth-floor corridor.

"I want... to become a real magical girl!"

Amber: "………?"

Phoenix couldn't hold it in anymore either: "You and Airwen really are sisters from different mothers!!"

Lin Guang ignored them, already moving to the window. Her slender hand was already gripping Airwen's window frame, her little black leather shoes stepping onto the sill, seemingly about to jump out—

But at that very moment.

Without any warning, Lin Guang felt some indescribable ripple brush through the air.

It was impossible to describe that feeling with words; she could only be certain it was definitely not a gentle breeze blowing by.

Lin Guang, already at the window, instinctively raised her eyes.

The moment her gaze touched the sky, the entire world came to a halt.

The logic governing the operation of all things was forcibly cut off by some supreme rule at this moment.

No more wind's trajectory, no more play of light and shadow, not even a single sound. Lin Guang once again lost control of this young girl's body she had already mastered to perfection.

Unable to move even half an inch, unable to turn her neck, even the most basic blinking and breathing, and even the flow of magic power were all put on pause.

No sound came from behind; presumably Amber and Phoenix were in the same situation.

How similar was this to last time?

Lin Guang's consciousness was still running clearly in her mind.

Had the reset of this cycle already begun?

Was it the Abyss King?

Thinking about it, it was about time... had Su Fang and the others failed to defeat the Abyss King, and it had already descended outside the Sacred Tree Barrier?

But the last time the Abyss King destroyed the world, there hadn't been a world-stopping event like this.

...No.

Something was wrong.

Something must be wrong.

There must, must be something she had overlooked!

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