My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

Phoenix was stunned.

—Airwen?

Theoretically, since they were both Permission-Holders, querying each other would be more troublesome, like in a game where a GM's permissions generally didn't extend to covering another GM.

But with the current timing and the vague sense of dissonance in her heart, she wasted no words. Instead, she closed her eyes and attempted to search for that familiar fluctuation.

Ding—

In an instant, invisible ripples spread outward, racing out from the Happiness Peace Committee building at incredible speed, stretching toward the edge of the horizon.

"..."

However.

A dozen or so seconds later, Phoenix suddenly opened her eyes while perched on Lin Guang's hand.

"She's not inside the Sacred Tree's domain... Could she have already gone out to find Su Fang?"

Lin Guang and Amber both sharpened their gazes. "...!"

Airwen wasn't there?

While it would make sense to say she'd gone out to find Su Fang like at the start of every cycle... something was off.

Could it be—

But before the words could finish, before the discussion could even begin.

The trio's expressions shifted again, and they instantly lowered their heads, staring at the floor...

Or rather, the area even farther below.

"!!"

Boom.

Rumble, rumble, rumble—

A dull, rumbling noise abruptly came from deep, deep underground, booming upward.

The sound grew from faint to loud.

Then...

The ground beneath Lin Guang and Amber's feet began to tremble violently, with Airwen's hard bed and desk in the room rattling as well.

Amber immediately raised her hand, golden light spilling from her fingertips, while Phoenix broke free from Lin Guang's grasp, flapping her wings to scatter golden specks of light.

The trembling of the entire headquarters suddenly stopped.

Yet the solemnity on the faces of the two girls and Phoenix showed no sign of easing.

Lin Guang turned her head to look out the window.

The Happiness Peace Committee was situated right in the heart of Kazenari Town's commercial district.

At that very moment, across the bustling boulevard not far away, the once-smooth asphalt road tore apart under violent shaking, a deep crack like a winding serpent rapidly spreading toward both ends.

"Ahh!!"

A housewife picking out goods on the roadside was thrown heavily to the ground by the shaking. She completely ignored the fruits and vegetables rolling everywhere, only desperately hugging her young child tightly against her chest as the two huddled together amidst the violent tremors.

The owner of the corner coffee shop stumbled out of his store in a panic, watching helplessly as his beautifully decorated interior, along with the entire glass storefront, collapsed into a mess of shattered debris.

Similar scenes were unfolding simultaneously across every corner of Kazenari Town.

The cries of the crowd intertwined with the cracking sounds of building walls, and rising dust gradually filled what had been a fresh, clean street.

The entire town was like a small boat violently rocking in a fierce storm, on the verge of capsizing at any moment.

Phoenix murmured, "It's not a Nightmare Seed invasion..."

Lin Guang's gaze sharpened.

This kind of earth-shaking tremor felt extremely familiar to her as well—just like the massive dragon-type dangerous species that burrowed from underground to invade the Sacred Tree Barrier in every cycle.

But the range was far larger.

The entire Kazenari Town, from the seaside to the city center, the suburbs, and the outer highways and bridges, was all within the tremor's spread at this moment.

Phoenix didn't hesitate for a second.

Golden light flared up across her entire body, far more intense than before, as if she had transformed into a magnificent creature straight out of myth. She flapped her wings and soared in a spiral.

Then she let out a crisp bird call.

Tweet—

In an instant, a golden halo radiated outward from the headquarters, spreading in all directions.

She was trying to suppress this tremor!

Meanwhile, Amber on the other side was also moving swiftly.

She pulled a minimalist-style phone from her pocket, her eyes lighting up as golden light flickered from her fingertips, pressing down on the device as if transmitting some data.

Seconds later.

Air raid sirens blared across every corner of Kazenari Town simultaneously, their piercing sounds intertwining in the sky above the city.

That was the highest-level invasion alarm, signaling all residents to immediately find the nearest shelter.

Phoenix seemed to struggle to maintain the fluctuations suppressing the earthquake, her eyes filled with deep unease. "What exactly is going on?"

Amber frowned, her beautiful face marked with utmost seriousness. "It's like the whole world, including everything outside the barrier, is..."

The next moment, Lin Guang lifted her head again, her beautiful eyes wide as she stared at the far edge of the sky outside the window.

Phoenix cried out in shock, "Again?!"

At the edge of her sight, beneath the azure sky, a second sparkling star had already traced a blinding trajectory.

Closely following the path of the first one, it once again descended with pinpoint accuracy onto the first floor of the building.

Another Fragment of Hope!

Without any warning, without any logic, it simply flew over on its own.

"What the hell..."

The fragments of hope were being collected smoothly, and the Sacred Tree's power and authority were recovering together. By all logic, this should have been a cause for celebration—even her efforts to use her authority to suppress the earthquake felt smoother.

But right now...

Relying on their sharp instincts as Permission-Holders and the string of never-before-encountered anomalies, Phoenix and Amber both felt a chill rising from the very depths of their hearts.

And in Lin Guang's eyes, a blazing red light flickered.

She reached out and grasped the Soul Gem hanging on her chest, which for some reason had grown increasingly hot.

In some unseen realm, accompanied by a scalding torrent, a powerful premonition surged once more from the other end of the Soul Link.

—This was only the beginning.

This series of anomalies seemed to be merely the prelude to some grand change about to occur in this cycle.

After this, there was definitely something even more astonishing waiting for them.

And that might very well be the end and the truth hidden behind this trial, this infinitely repeating world called Utopia.

....

Outer Realm, Red Desert.

Winds howled, and the sky was filled with red sand and black fog, fiercely intertwined. A storm carrying violent magic power swept through the area, as if capable of melting everything within it, turning this place into a dead zone where even dangerous species did not exist.

Yet at this moment.

At a position and time that no one could observe or detect.

Like a phantom, a silver figure abruptly appeared in the desert.

There was no process—only the result of sudden arrival. The silver-haired girl had already appeared at this spot, in the center of this violent storm.

She held her silver phantom sword, her body clad in spirit outfit shimmering with silver light, just like the countless Outer Realm explorations she had repeated in the past.

But at this moment, her steps no longer seemed as flawless as before. Instead, she walked like a sleepwalker, aimless and chaotic, with even her eyes showing deep bewilderment.

As if she herself didn't know why she had appeared here.

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