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Before the three could figure out just how far this situation had deviated from normal circumstances.

At this moment, when the cycle had barely just begun…

Another anomaly occurred.

“…!!”

In an instant, Lin Guang’s cherry-red eyes reflected an unbelievable trail of light.

It was a dazzling stream of radiance coming from the edge of the sky.

It tore through the morning heavens within the Sacred Tree’s domain without warning, carrying a brilliance like a meteor, flying closer and closer from infinite distance.

Even though it was daytime, with sunlight shining everywhere, the warm, sacred glow it emitted still shimmered brilliantly, impossible to ignore.

Under their slightly stunned gazes, the stream of light flew closer and closer.

The light traced a long tail across the sky, then plunged straight into the Magical Girl Association Building, ignoring the walls, and entered the first-floor lobby directly.

And the end point of that trajectory—all three could easily judge it.

—In front of the Happiness Peace Committee, at the spot where a certain potted plant that had always been watered with boiling water sat.

And that warm, familiar glow that brought hope…

It was far too recognizable.

“……”*3

Phoenix spoke with a dry voice: “A… Fragment of Hope?”

The moment those five words left her mouth, the fiery red bird’s eyes had already widened, as if she had realized something horrifyingly inconsistent, and she suddenly shrieked: “How is that possible, what a joke!”

There was no joy in her at all from the Sacred Tree’s power recovering; her crisp girlish voice cracked:

“How did it come back?”

“There was no response from the Prophecy Maiden at all! Who could possibly lock onto the Fragment of Hope’s position?!”

“And the timing is wrong… How could it be this fast?! Even if it was the Fragment of Hope held by an upper-rank dangerous species, it should have taken several hours just to reach the barrier’s edge!”

Phoenix fired off a barrage of things that could never have happened in past cycles.

In a flash, Lin Guang had already exchanged a glance with Amber, their cherry-red and amber-colored eyes confirming the shared confusion in each other’s gaze.

—That’s right, all questions.

Who was it, and how did they collect the Fragment of Hope?

Why at this time, when the cycle had just begun and none of the fixed [plot] had happened yet?

And also, what Phoenix said…

No response from the Prophecy Maiden?

Amber sensed her confusion and spoke to explain:

“Phoenix is the [Sacred Tree Spirit]. You can think of it as her authority being different from mine and Airwen’s.”

“Although this means she has no freedom of movement and can only act within a fifty-meter radius of headquarters.”

“But this restriction also gives her stronger control abilities.”

“So her perception of Kazenari Town and the Sacred Tree is the strongest among the three of us.”

So in other words, what Phoenix felt was…

The cherry-haired girl took a deep breath, immediately looked at Phoenix, and asked: “Where is Su Fang?”

Phoenix forced herself to calm down, then revealed a shocking truth.

“That’s exactly the problem!”

“Zihan and Tang Keren’s coordinates are no different from usual cycles—they’re both at home.”

“But, Su Fang is not outside this time!”

Phoenix took a deep breath, her voice spreading through the silent sixth floor.

“Logically, every generation’s Prophecy Maiden, chosen by the Sacred Tree after entering this world, should, at the start of each cycle, due to the Abyss’s influence, be directly respawned outside the Sacred Tree in the Misty Forest…”

“But this time I can sense… she’s actually in her own home!”

Lin Guang was startled, then looked out the window.

The central district of Kazenari Town remained calm and peaceful.

Although it was early morning, it was a workday, and many people had already gone out, walking along the roads to work or school.

The crowd was bustling, their expressions vivid, just like any ordinary, normal day.

But this was only the surface.

According to Amber, Phoenix, and Airwen’s accounts… [Utopia] was a virtual world set with a program, endlessly cycling.

If the headquarters’ existence was excluded, there was no true past here.

Everything within Kazenari Town was just an illusion reconstructed mere minutes ago by the entire world.

All claims about the past, memories, evidence—they were all brand-new falsehoods freshly created in this reconstruction.

This meant…

In the beginning of every previous cycle, there was simply no such thing as a realistic, logical process of “Su Fang being corrupted by the Abyss, then step by step walking from school to the Outer Realm.”

It existed in the setting, but it didn’t actually happen.

Su Fang, and all past Prophecy Maidens, just like Lin Guang, were [respawning] directly to the Outer Realm via the system at the start of each cycle.

This was an inevitable [routine] that even Phoenix and Amber, as Permission-Holders, couldn’t understand the specific mechanism of—just like how the time at the start of each cycle was always fixed to late afternoon.

All along, everyone, including Lin Guang, had relied on empiricism to deal with each cycle.

But over time, because they had gone through it so many times, they had all taken it for granted as something that was supposed to happen.

Like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, or people needing to eat.

But…

When this “established custom,” this “taken-for-granted” thing, was broken, the shock and impact it brought were unparalleled.

Without a Prophecy Maiden, how could they find those five special Fragments of Hope that reset and randomize their positions along with the cycle?

Why had one Fragment of Hope already flown back at the start of the cycle?

Who had purified it?

At this moment, Phoenix’s golden bead-like eyes were filled with the anxiety and panic of a headless fly.

This was different from the two Nightmare Seeds’ invasion that occurred every cycle—at those times, her fluster was faked, used to temper Su Fang’s resolve.

Three hundred years, over three thousand cycles, and she seemed never to have encountered such a bizarre, strange situation.

She flapped her wings in the air, floundering as if she wanted to do something but didn’t know what.

But the next moment, a pair of slender hands with orange-red nail polish had grasped the red bird.

Phoenix subconsciously thought she was about to be squeezed like a screaming chicken again and directly let out a habitual weird cry: “Coo-coo-gah…”

But the owner of those hands only gently lifted her to eye level.

In the next instant, the girl’s sweet yet indifferent face filled her vision, her cherry-red eyes showing no confusion or hesitation, simply gazing at Phoenix.

The hot, pure magic power emanating from her hands, and the faint scent from her body, somehow made Phoenix’s heart suddenly calm down in a strange way.

Lin Guang held the bird in her hands and asked in a deep voice: “What about Airwen?”

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