Chapter 111 : The Story I Started

Baaaang―

Every time fists cross, the inevitable explosion and pain.

Because if we give the opponent even a moment’s gap, they could heal or use a technique.

Animus and I didn’t back down, pounding each other with endlessly bursting starlight.

Rising fist

Falling face

Flickering vision

Baaaang―

We exchanged attacks once again, spraying blood into the air.

“Ugh!!”

“Kuhk!!”

Hair completely disheveled and fluttering, capes torn and tattered.

Bloody saliva dripping from our mouths, fists battered with bones rattling.

Still, we continued attacking each other.

I for tomorrow.

She for today.

We for humanity.

We continued a fight we absolutely couldn’t give up.

“Huup―!”

“Hoo!!”

Goooo―

An even deeper reddish-brown energy.

An ominous low sound like a lion threatening burst out.

Something ominous flashes between Animus’s punches.

‘This time is different!!’

I hurriedly tried to block it with cause and effect reversal in the gap of throwing a punch, but I couldn’t avoid Animus’s punch and we exchanged attacks just like that.

Exchanged attacks as they were.

Thud―

Animus didn’t even try to avoid the fist stuck in her face.

Thwack!

Her eye completely burst, taking my fist head-on.

Flowing blood, completely lost vision.

Animus didn’t care and put strength into it just like that.

“Haaaah!!”

Her fist pierced through all barriers and starlight, completely burying itself in my stomach.

Splurt

Blood flowed out like a bucket being poured, along with pain incomparable to anything so far.

“Kuhah…!!”

Pain that made it impossible to breathe came, and my flickering vision gradually darkened.

Thwack!

Animus withdrew her fist, pulled out with blood spurting like a fountain, and watched me.

I couldn’t control my body shaking from the impact and gradually darkening vision.

All the muscles in my body turned to stone and wouldn’t move, my hands and feet became icy cold.

Even my lungs wouldn’t listen to me, moving on their own and interfering with my breathing.

“Huk, huh…?!”

“Hoo… hoo…!”

Watching me falter for a moment, Animus finally cast her unique skill through the gap that had formed. The reddish-brown starlight gathering around her, the 4 stars risen behind her back emitted a brilliant halo.

[Conquest] Magical Girl’s Unique Skill

Divine Manifestation

Descent of Idols

“Descend upon my body!! Divinity!! Mother of the high mountains, Cybele!!!”

Whoosh!

With Animus’s shout, reddish-brown flames blazed and took the form of two lions.

“■■■■■!!!”

The two lions each had power that wouldn’t lose even compared to idols.

Reddish-brown starlight exploded amidst the lions’ roars.

The hundreds of meters wide cracks that opened every time idols were summoned didn’t open, but the energy surrounding Animus was emitting a more intense power than ever before.

Flutter―

Animus threw away her cape that had become tattered from the fight. Reddish-brown energy burst out like a storm behind her back, creating a shape like huge wings.

The 4 stars floating above her head now shone so brilliantly they looked like a crown rather than a halo.

The surroundings where Yuki’s group was fighting became a huge sea with reddish-brown waves surging.

“■■■■■!!!”

“■■■■■!!!”

The roars of the two lion forms.

Overwhelming energy of destruction.

Rising divinity.

“At this moment.”

Animus was burning her entire body like a goddess descended onto the battlefield.

The divinity faintly felt from the fake idols she had borrowed power from until now.

“I am equal to the ‘Three Goddesses’.”

Burning all of her power

Forcibly borrowing power from the will of the stars.

Gathering everything beyond herself.

The magical girl of [Conquest] had become a goddess and was brilliantly emitting that divinity.

“…”

I watched that while healing the hole pierced in my abdomen.

Animus was charging with the two lion forms wrapped around her arms.

“Here I come!! Successor of the goddess!! Stop!! Me!!”

Why does she want me to win rather than defeating me?

The huge divinity surrounding Animus.

Looking at the divinity that felt the same as what I felt from the red broadcast and poured curses, it finally seemed like everything was connecting.

This is the trial Animus is giving me.

The trial of evolution.

The true trial that surpasses <Magical Girl HAZARD>.

Goddess

Divinity

Power of stars

Will of stars

Daughter of the world

Will of the world

“The fourth star is… beyond the world.”

The gateway to becoming a god.

I took out the colorless Glass Star while pondering the realization dawning in my mind.

In the moment of realization.

Animus’s movements approaching from afar seemed to make time flow slowly.

“…”

The colorless Glass Star.

A gift from the goddess of [Beginning].

The thing that had supported me since the first day I came to this world.

The thing that made it possible for me to be who I am now.

The thing that allowed ordinary me to go further than the goddess of [Beginning].

From here on is what even the goddess of [Beginning] didn’t know.

What the magical girl of [War] discovered by burning herself and deceiving the will of the stars.

The realm I need to realize.

Crack

I started putting strength into my hand holding the colorless Glass Star.

Cracks extending from the corner of the Glass Star.

White lines appearing with precarious sounds.

Crack

“I am a magical girl.”

The gradually growing cracks slowly split the surface of the Glass Star, creating small facets. In them, my dreams shining in all colors were now reflected.

All the moments I had walked until now were reflected between the cracks of the small Glass Star.

“I am a magical girl who protects everyone.”

A Milky Way made of brilliant starlights beyond description, gradually starting to shine more and more as I advanced bit by bit, surpassing rainbows.

There are those who believed in me and entrusted their dreams to me.

There are those who entered my world.

Hana’s swiftness, Haruko’s fairy tale, Ichika’s freedom, Kyoko’s cheering, Sumire’s protection, Dorim’s cyberbrain, Saebyeok’s duty, Nayeon’s sea, Yeonseo’s dream, Yuki’s flame, Lihua’s lightning, Natasha’s navigation, Alisa’s death, Divine Maiden’s revelation, Iris’s wings…

Starlights that have become too numerous to even recall in my mind now.

My world that has expanded that much.

“I will save this world.”

The goddess of [Beginning] satisfied with today and [War] living today fiercely.

The possibility to go further than the dreams they had found.

“And return to my original world.”

Crack―!

Scattering colorful energy.

The colorless Glass Star completely shattered and disappeared.

What rose were 4 lights.

A huge world that had embraced everyone.

Inside me was a world embracing all magical girls.

A moment that felt like eternity.

Animus, who had become the goddess of [Conquest], charges with the energy emitted by the two lions wrapped around both arms.

“Whew.”

I watched that and threw away my now tattered cape behind me.

Flutter—

Now in front of the charging goddess of [Conquest] is just a girl in black and white clothes.

A girl who could accept all colors because she had no color.

“Haaaah!!!”

“Magical Girl of Swiftness Unique Skill… Flash Girl…!”

Colorful energy envelops my body.

Swoosh―!!

I felt like I had entered a world of swiftness, entering a time where even light had stopped.

“Magical Girl of Freedom Unique Skill… Free World!!”

Boooom!!

A huge colorful goddess’s arm appeared over my extended arm and shot towards the goddess of [Conquest].

“Magical Girl of Flame Unique Skill!! Red Flower!!”

Whoosh―!!

Gentle flames enveloping my whole body became a huge power supporting me.

In the time that started flowing again, the overlapping 3 unique skills and reddish-brown energy collided, making a huge sound.

Booooooooom—

In the midst of it, Animus flashed her reddish-brown eyes and prepared her next attack.

I was no longer afraid of that attack.

“Hup!!”

“Haah!!”

Because in the fist I was extending were contained the dreams of all the magical girls I had met until now.

“Magical Girl of Protection Unique Skill!! Thousand Spears, Ten Thousand Swords!!”

Tsutsutsutsu!!

Countless swords and spears wrapped in colorful rainbows were deployed from the sky above. They approached ignoring me and aiming only for Animus.

Tsutsutsutsu!!

Rain made only of starlight fell towards her.

“Ugh!!”

Animus’s breath faltered at the enormous amount of swords and spears, and she wrapped herself with her two wings for protection.

“Cyberbrain World!! Morale Surge!!”

Huge goddess avatars that had existed only in my imagination appeared and began attacking Animus while receiving colorful energy.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Countless goddess forms were pounding on Animus’s wings.

I leapt in between them and prepared my next attack.

“Haaaah!!”

At this moment.

I have become the world.