My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

Lin Guang's instincts suddenly jolted, vaguely sensing some crucial thread.

Yet for the moment, even she found it difficult to grasp the key point from the countless fragments of information she had just received, all tangled into a chaotic mess of thoughts.

Her vision still faithfully relayed the anomaly unfolding in the outside world.

The terrifying sight she had witnessed in the previous cycle reappeared.

The entire world began shattering like glass starting from the distant edge of the horizon, revealing the dark backdrop behind.

It was as if an invisible giant hand was holding an eraser large enough to blot out the entire sky, casually wiping away at the [Illusion] called the world.

Everything was breaking apart, then swallowed into nothingness, leaving only that endless black.

But just as this building was about to be devoured by that pitch-black void, Lin Guang's frozen peripheral vision suddenly caught a faint layer of golden radiance.

Weak yet bright.

In the frozen space, light struggled outward from a corner of the first floor.

A tiny sapling, planted in a flowerpot like a bonsai.

Golden light gently covered the unmoving body of the cherry-haired girl, covered Phoenix and Amber who had also turned into frozen statues, and covered the entire Happiness Peace Committee.

The boundary of the pitch-black void silently touched the outer wall of the Association Building.

And then...

In that moment of intersection, the darkness showed a barely perceptible delay, as if this faint golden light was exhausting everything to postpone that inevitable end.

But the void was too deep and vast; the stalemate lasted only an infinitesimal span of time before it ended.

The void still consumed the girl's slender and graceful body.

In an instant, Lin Guang's consciousness fell into nothingness again.

No pain, no tearing sensation, the five senses gone, leaving only the awareness of self.

The whole world sank into a dead, silent void, leaving only the tiny, scattered specks representing the lights of the outside world in the pure darkness.

Other than that... nothing else?

Or so it seemed.

No.

Deep within the void, there was still a single, extremely faint spark of light.

—It was a murky, dim Soul Gem.

Already on the verge of shattering, yet the flame burning deep within it stubbornly continued to blaze, even in this void where neither space nor time existed.

Under the crushing pressure of the boundless darkness, the flame kept flickering and shrinking, its radiance compressed to the limit, like a candle flickering in the wind. Yet at the very center of that nearly invisible fire, something tiny was shining brightly, exuding a belief that seemed impossible to break, an unwillingness to admit defeat.

In this endless darkness and dim light, it was gradually being worn away and suppressed, as if it might go out at any moment.

Yet its tenacity was beyond imagination.

In the void, this flame persisted far longer than the previous time.

Until...

The reconstruction of the world was complete.

... ...

Senses flooded back into consciousness like a tidal wave.

Light and the world poured into her eyes; the sounds of blood and magic flowing through her body were clearly audible in her ears.

The girl blinked her cherry-colored eyes sharply.

"...!"

Chaotic thoughts were reorganized under the influence of her two A-Rank talents, allowing her to regain normal thinking ability in an instant.

Plain interior, a bed, a computer, and a desk...

Wait.

Lin Guang's eyes widened in an instant.

This place was—

Kazenari Town, the sixth floor of the Association headquarters, Airwen's room?

It wasn't in the Misty Forest?!

In shock, the girl suddenly felt someone touch her shoulder and instinctively turned around.

And then...

A fragrant, massive softness pressed directly against the girl's flat chest, delivering an indescribable sensation of tenderness through their clothes.

Lin Guang: "..."

Perhaps the nothingness had affected her brain, because a random thought inexplicably popped into her mind.

—Could the gap between people really be this big?

Amber's face wasn't fat at all, and her arms and legs were similarly slender and long...

The black-haired girl didn't seem to mind; her amber eyes looked at the cherry-haired girl with some surprise, even leaning her pretty face closer: "Mengmengxiang, you... are you okay?"

Phoenix, meanwhile, stretched her fiery red feathers and circled lightly in midair, her eyes also showing surprise.

They had all maintained their positions from before the reset, as if everything that had just happened was merely a dream.

Lin Guang immediately reacted: "...Is it you two?"

Phoenix blinked her small, golden bean-like eyes, as if she hadn't fully processed things herself, and only snapped out of it upon hearing this: "Huh?"

"Eh, right!"

She suddenly became excited: "Come to think of it, this seems to be the first time this has worked!"

The bird proudly puffed out her fiery red chest and patted it forcefully with her wing: "This is, of course, all thanks to me and Amber!"

"Normally, only the three of us—me, Amber, and Airwen—can freely choose where we appear within Kazenari Town at the start of each cycle, thanks to our permissions."

"Just now, me and Amber subconsciously used our permissions to preserve the entire headquarters, planning to reconstruct it first, just like before... and we ended up reconstructing your body, Mengmengxiang, along with it! That means your consciousness should have appeared directly in this body. That's probably it!"

"We've tried this with other magical girls before, but it always failed..."

"I don't know what your deal is, Mengmengxiang, but you're like us—you remember the cycles too, so it probably worked for you... Now that I think about it, it does make sense."

"So, how does the mechanism work? Can we replicate it later..."

She was getting more and more excited.

Then...

She suddenly sensed something.

Neither Amber nor Lin Guang were looking at her or listening to her. They were both staring out the window.

Both of their expressions were off.

Lin Guang's sweet yet indifferent face had once again taken on a visible seriousness.

And Amber, who had always appeared gentle and calm, showed a hint of panic on her face for the first time.

"Hey! What are you two looking at..."

Phoenix flapped her wings in confusion, flew to the windowsill, and cast her gaze outside.

"..."

In an instant, Phoenix also fell silent.

Through the clean, spotless glass, the world that had just been reconstructed lay quietly before them.

What greeted their eyes was a clear blue sky, so pure it had no trace of impurities, and the busiest commercial district in the center of Kazenari Town.

Citizens strolled along the well-arranged streets. The morning sunlight spilled onto the buildings and the flowers and trees lining the roads, coating everything in a faint golden edge.

A gentle breeze blew, and everything was so vibrant, full of new life, peace, and tranquility. It was incredibly familiar.

But there seemed to be something a little off.

—Because it was morning.

In Lin Guang's memory, throughout the past cycles, whenever she returned from the Outer Realm with Airwen and Su Fang and stepped inside the Sacred Tree Barrier, every single time she had seen the setting sun dyeing the clouds blood red.

In other words, it was around six in the evening.

And every time they returned to the Sacred Tree, according to the infallible calculations of Lin Guang's [Precision Operation Engine], it never took more than half an hour.

"..."

At that moment, looking at the silent black-haired girl and the red bird beside her, who seemed equally speechless, a wave of intense chill suddenly surged through Lin Guang's heart.

According to what they had said, [Utopia] was a virtual world programmed to cycle continuously, with almost the same setup every time.

Then the time should be fixed as well.

Of course, if one assumed that Lin Guang woke up later than them in each cycle and was only awake earlier this time due to some special reason, that might explain why she was seeing a morning scene now. This wasn't baseless speculation—Airwen had to travel from Kazenari Town to the Outer Realm every time she reset, which suggested that the Permission-Holders did indeed wake up earlier than herself.

But...

Looking at their expressions, the answer seemed clear without words.

If Phoenix and Amber, as the earliest-waking Permission-Holders, had never seen this scene in any past cycle, then that meant...

The anomaly wasn't Lin Guang herself, but this world before her.

—The 3333rd cycle.

From the very beginning, something was already very, very wrong.

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