Glass shards sprayed outward.

A crimson streak of light, like a cannonball fired from its barrel, shot out of the Association Building with unstoppable momentum, speeding toward the epicenter of the tremors.

Phoenix and Amber stood dumbfounded.

"Wait, Senior Mengmengxiang!"

Su Fang instinctively tried to chase after her, but Airwen suddenly pressed down on her shoulder.

"Su Fang."

Airwen spoke, her expression more serious than ever before, even carrying a hint of sternness: "Stay here. Don't go anywhere. This place has the protection of the Sacred Tree—it's the safest."

"Huh...?" Su Fang was clearly stunned.

"Remember this."

Airwen slowly reached out and grasped the hilt of her sword.

Magic power fluctuations spread, and a silver glow flickered from the gem embedded in the sword's guard.

"The Sacred Tree is a conceptual existence. With it here, the Association's interior is absolutely safe."

"In this game of chess, the Sacred Tree is the board, and you are the king who cannot afford a single misstep."

With that, she gave Su Fang no chance to argue. In an instant, she transformed into a streak of silver light and flashed out the window.

"...Huh?"

………………

The howling wind turned into sharp whistles by her ears, and her cherry blossom-colored hair trailed behind her like a long ribbon.

Lin Guang didn't have the ability to fly, but at this moment, her speed while running on the ground was almost fast enough to leave an afterimage in her wake.

The magic power within her body began to heat up, like fuel in a high-pressure pump, causing every push off the ground to unleash an inhuman burst of propulsion, growing faster and faster.

A tide of panicked, fleeing people surged toward her.

Screams, cries, and car horns wove together in a chaotic symphony.

Lin Guang had expected this.

No matter how well-trained people were in drills, when faced with the real thing, ordinary people couldn't completely suppress their terror.

But in her eyes, as she sprinted at full speed, all of this was just a slow-motion backdrop.

The slender crimson figure of the girl moved against the oppressive black tide of the crowd, leaping forward.

To the panicked pedestrians who had lost all sense of direction, they didn't even see what happened. They only felt a strong gust of wind brush past, leaving behind a fleeting crimson silhouette in their vision before the figure had vanished against the flow of people at the end of the street.

"Smile: perfect."

The girl's sweet but expressionless face finally broke into a smile that could make anyone's heart flutter.

"Fighting spirit: one hundred percent."

Her voice, half-chant and half-recitation, drifted through the chaotic city as her figure, like that of a spirit, danced gracefully through the concrete jungle.

"Blazing heart ablaze, shatter their frame—"

"Are you ready?"

(<ゝω·)~☆

Whoosh—!

Crimson radiance instantly swallowed Lin Guang's slender form.

Within the light, the casual clothes Su Fang had put on her vanished, and the gorgeous crimson spirit outfit instantly covered her entire body. The strange microphone-like staff materialized in her hand.

Her cherry blossom-colored hair and pupils completely transformed into a blazing, flame-like crimson.

—Magical Girl Mengmengxiang, reporting in!

Just one minute.

In the time it takes an ordinary person to wait for a traffic light, Lin Guang had already crossed several blocks and reached the center of the disaster.

The bustling central business district of Kazenari Town.

The tremors on the ground grew more intense. Standing at this intersection, it felt as if the entire world were shaking.

Lin Guang could clearly sense the massive clump of magic power raging wildly underground, constantly changing direction, as if encountering countless obstacles along the way—either detouring or spending time breaking through.

Was the Phoenix using the Sacred Tree's power to hold it back?

Suddenly, Lin Guang heard a female voice chanting with infused magic power ringing out beside her.

"Purer than silver, more dignified than moonlight—"

She looked up.

A figure covered in a silver holy light was rapidly approaching.

The black suit vanished as the spirit outfit rapidly solidified over her body.

"I hereby swear an oath to order."

"For all the falsehoods and injustices eroding this world, grant them an absolutely fair judgment!"

"Manifest! The Silver of Judgment!"

Whoosh—

A flash of light passed.

The tall, silver-haired girl was already standing beside Lin Guang, side by side.

She wore a set of silver light armor radiating a piercing, cold gleam. The silver metal flowed perfectly along her form, not feeling heavy at all but instead exuding an extreme sharpness and swiftness.

Her silver hair cascaded over her pauldrons, and the longsword in her hand was finally drawn from its sheath, carrying layers upon layers of phantoms that made the blade itself nearly impossible to see clearly.

"It's 'Mengmengxiang' and 'Silver of Judgment'!"

"They're here! That was fast!"

"I feel like 'Mengmengxiang' is a bit different from before..."

The delighted cheers of distant citizens rang out, as if they had seen their guardian deities.

It seemed there was still a sliver of time before that massive clump of magic power broke through to the surface.

Rumble—!

The silver magical girl stood with Lin Guang on the violently shaking road.

Under the influence of magic power, Airwen's black eyes also turned into a clear silver. She was now staring at the crimson magical girl beside her, her gaze filled with undisguised complexity and confusion.

"Why?"

The fiery-red girl slowly turned her head and looked at Airwen, as if she didn't understand the meaning behind her question.

After a full five seconds, she seemed to come to her senses and uttered a cryptic remark.

"Because I am a magical girl."

"..."

The complexity in Airwen's eyes deepened further, as if she wanted to say something.

But in the end, she didn't speak. She just silently stood shoulder to shoulder with the red-haired girl.

Lin Guang slowly raised the microphone staff in her hand, and wild music began to sound from it. A blazing flame surged in her eyes.

Airwen gripped her sword with both hands, raising the phantom blade, and used its layered, illusionary edge to cover half her face.

At the same time, inside the Magical Girl Association.

"Get ready."

Phoenix suddenly spoke. "I'm going to open a live projection."

"Huh?"

Su Fang was stunned.

The next moment—

Rumble—!!

The originally bustling intersection with its flowing traffic collapsed like a fragile cookie, forming a terrifying pit dozens of meters in diameter.

The surrounding asphalt pavement cracked in a radial pattern, with countless fissures spreading toward the nearby high-rises.

Amidst billowing dust and smoke, a massive claw, covered in mud and chunks of concrete, violently gripped the edge of the pit.

Boom!

Rocks and soil flew as a pitch-black monster, exuding a suffocating sense of oppression, crawled out from underground.

"ROAR—!!!"

It stood over ten meters tall, its form utterly ferocious. Its overall outline resembled some kind of giant lizard, covered in thick black carapace with only a pair of eyes filled with brutal savagery visible. Its front claws looked incredibly sharp, glinting with an ominous sheen.

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