My Superpower Is Piloting Magical Girl Corpses?

The main course was fish soup and grilled fish.

Airwen handled it all like a professional chef.

With deft movements, she knocked out the live fish conjured by the Sacred Tree’s power, scraped off the scales with a knife, slit open the belly to remove the innards and black membrane, and rinsed the blood clean with water.

Then, she scored the fish with a crisscross pattern, carefully rubbed on sea salt and spices, skewered them on sharpened branches, and set them to slowly roast by the fire.

The remaining fish heads and bones were tossed into a pot, along with seasonings and water, to simmer.

Soon, a bubbling sound came from the pot as the milky-white fish soup roiled, and a rich, savory aroma spread across the desolate wilderness.

“Time to dig in!”

After over a dozen hours of nerve-racking Outer Realm exploration, a steaming bowl of this incredibly delicious fish soup was pure bliss.

The grilled fish was crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with a crackling skin and sweet, succulent flesh. Even with just simple seasonings, it tasted better than any high-end restaurant dish.

Tang Keren smugly pulled out a dozen small boxes from the pile of supplies transformed from leaves.

“This is…”

Su Fang was slightly stunned. She took the ice-cold box Tang Keren handed her, a look of surprise flashing across her face, and her voice even pitched up a few notches: “The Lost Child Limited Edition Matcha Parfait! It’s really that limited edition! Even the complimentary guitar pick is included!”

Zihan’s eyes lit up as she gracefully accepted the chocolate muffin box. Her eyes narrowed as she took a bite, and she wore an expression as blissful as a contented cat.

Tang Keren handed out several boxes to everyone, including Airwen, before plopping back down in her folding chair.

“Heh heh, the Sacred Tree’s power really comes in handy… Mm, this is what being alive feels like.”

She opened her box, eagerly scooped up a large spoonful of strawberry cake, and stuffed it into her mouth. Her eyes narrowed in bliss as she melted into her chair. “I’ve been craving this ever since we were fighting those monsters… It makes all that hard work feel worth it.”

Seeing Su Fang’s amazed look, Tang Keren puffed out her rather ample chest with pride: “If I can conjure this stuff, there’s no way I can’t make desserts.”

Airwen said flatly: “Processed food consumes far more power than raw ingredients, no doubt about it. It’s not like a tent, which is a necessity. Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t recommend it.”

Tang Keren retorted: “Conjuring a live fish uses less power than a parfait—how is that logical…”

The silver-haired girl immediately changed her tune: “But since we just replenished our strength with the Fragment of Hope, this Sacred Tree leaf can ignore that extra consumption.”

Lin Guang didn’t hesitate. She tore open her packaging and started eating.

What’s wrong with processed food?

Processed food was perfect for quickly restoring stamina. Getting fat wasn’t a concern for her anyway.

“Long live the senior!” Su Fang cheered joyfully.

…

Soon, after eating and drinking their fill, the girls gathered around the campfire fell into silence once more.

The exhaustion from the battle and the heavy consumption of magic power was finally beginning to creep up on them.

The boost from the Sacred Tree’s blessing earlier was an increase in potential, a power that felt perfectly natural and instinctive, no familiarity needed, but it didn’t dispel that bone-deep weariness.

Outside, the black fog grew even thicker, almost condensing into black droplets. The howling wind never ceased, like countless vengeful spirits wailing outside the barrier, pounding against the thin, golden light screen.

The light screen didn’t block everything out; those faint background noises only made the current peace feel all the more precious.

After a quick wash-up, everyone had already crawled into their tents.

Darkness enveloped the small tent.

Crackle.

The sound of sparks bursting from the campfire drifted softly in from outside.

“Um, Senior Mengmengxiang, are you okay?”

A cautious voice suddenly came from beside her.

Lin Guang, already lying in her sleeping bag, turned her head slightly to look at the girl’s clear, emerald-green eyes.

Su Fang was like a caterpillar, lying in her pale-yellow sleeping bag, pressed close to Lin Guang.

Their breaths were clearly audible to each other.

Even here, she still wanted to sleep together.

But out in the wild, someone inexperienced might indeed have trouble falling asleep, potentially affecting their performance in the next battle, so Lin Guang had grudgingly agreed.

Lin Guang nodded, her voice cool yet sweet: “I’m fine. I’ve gotten much stronger.”

“I didn’t mean that.”

“?”

Su Fang’s eyes showed a hint of inner conflict.

She had long since figured it out by now.

This amnesiac senior, while she had lost all fear in battle and become incredibly sharp, had become quite dense in other ways.

If she beat around the bush, the senior wouldn’t understand a thing. It was better to be straightforward.

Su Fang thought for a moment before speaking softly: “Before, in the video we watched, the senior said, before she lost her memory, that her original motivation for becoming an Outer Realm Investigator… was the firm belief that there were Fragments of Hope close to the barrier.”

“…The truth is, I’ve wanted to ask this for the past ten days.”

In this private space, she finally managed to whisper: “After hearing the results, the senior hasn’t felt… hurt, has she?”

Su Fang looked at Lin Guang, her emerald-green eyes filled with undisguised sympathy and sorrow.

“…”

Lin Guang stared back at her, expressionless, and remained silent for a long while.

This time, she understood what Su Fang meant.

“Mengmengxiang” had covered herself in wounds and charged into the Outer Realm time and again, all because she wanted to find the gaps that other magical girls might miss, to search for the Fragments of Hope that might be hidden on weak demon beasts.

That was her vision as a magical girl saving the world, the last bit of stubbornness of an ordinary girl.

But according to Su Fang’s perception, the remaining few fragments were all quite far from the barrier, and from the size of the fragments, the demon beasts guarding them were no weaker than the legion they had just faced.

With the timid Mengmengxiang of the past, even a hundred, even a thousand tries would be meaningless. Perhaps all her past efforts and hardships, the countless severe injuries, the burning of herself to the point where her very soul was shattered, were all for nothing.

All her hopes and dreams, when faced with the truth, were nothing but a fragile bubble that would burst at the slightest touch.

That was perhaps the cruelest thing in the world.

The “hope” and “meaning of existence” she had fought with all her might to prove simply didn’t exist from the very beginning.

“…”

Lin Guang lowered her head slightly, expressionless.

From a results-oriented perspective, the original Mengmengxiang had done useless work. Perhaps it truly was wasted.

But…

“I’ve never felt it was a waste.”

Lin Guang lifted her head, meeting her gaze as she said flatly: “Because today, I’ve already found it.”

The girl was slightly taken aback.

“A hundred tries, a thousand tries—they may seem pointless, but perhaps it’s precisely because of these attempts that today has come to pass.”

For a truly top-tier player, talent might indeed be extremely important, but having a heart that never gives up was the most crucial thing.

Without the effort of dying so many times before, Lin Guang herself couldn’t have even lasted long enough for Su Fang and Airwen to arrive.

So, it was the same for the past Mengmengxiang.

Persevering to the end was in itself a kind of meaning.

Perhaps if any single link was missing, things wouldn’t have turned out this way.

Lin Guang ended with a final line: “So, no matter how many times you try, it doesn’t matter.”

With that, she closed her eyes and fell silent, drifting into sleep.

In the tent next door.

Airwen, who had been quietly listening to their conversation, finally closed her black eyes as well.

No matter how many times you try, huh…

What a heavy conviction that is.

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