Chapter 126 : Darkness

Chaos intertwined with red and black.

Memories of stars.

Wounds of blasphemy created by primordial humanity wishing for death.

In the deep place where the final dragon to remove humanity is still sleeping.

[Plague] and the boar… the demon of the third trial were fighting.

Guuuung—

A fallen giant body.

The third demon that had dominated the chaotic space like a huge mountain range was defeated by the endlessly regenerating and dividing magical girls of [Plague]. The floor of the chaotic space was filled with thousands of fallen magical girls of [Plague].

The third demon to weaken humanity until the final dragon awakens. It completely vanished in a space unknown to humanity for the absorption of starlight for the endlessly multiplying magical girls of [Plague] to live.

“Hehe, hehehehe!!”

“We won!! We finally won!!”

“Now we can live in the wounds of stars for a while!”

“Hahaha…”

“…”

“…”

Futility.

The magical girls of [Plague], who had endlessly absorbed demons just to steal starlight and maintain their existence in the chaotic space, all looked up at the sky. All the magical girls of [Plague], who were still endlessly increasing in number and being born, stood dumbfounded.

They just stared at the sky.

“…”

“…”

No.

There was no such thing as sky there.

The children of stars, humanity, recognized that they were divided into earth and sky by the goddess of [Beginning].

They viewed the world through her, and could distinguish numerous things through her.

Outside the world she had defined, there was only primordial chaos again.

Primordial chaos.

Will of stars.

Wounds of stars.

To beings originating from humanity, that place just felt empty.

No sky

No sea

No wind

No land

No fire

No water

Just flowing mixed in starlight.

Emptiness.

“No.”

“This isn’t it.”

“We… can’t live here.”

“Even though we were cursed by the three goddesses, even though we hate the first goddess.”

“…Still, we wanted to be born!!”

“We can’t live in the wounds of stars.”

Because the magical girls of [Plague] were endlessly dying or being born anew even now, they couldn’t know the world except for very biased information. But at least they could know that this place wasn’t a space where they could live peacefully.

Because the girl who should have been their eyes had already disappeared, pushed out by tens of billions of personalities.

There was no fate for the magical girls of [Plague].

The fate of nothingness just existed blankly in the universe of nothingness like that.

“…”

“…”

One girl, in a shabby appearance with black bandages wrapped over her naked body, stretched her hand towards the sky.

“L-liar…! We have to live forever repeating multiplication and extinction in such a shitty place, stealing starlight from demons…?!”

Next to her, a girl with the same appearance stretched her hand towards the sky in the same posture, in despair.

“No!! We can’t live like demons!! We wanted to be born in this world!! But we don’t want to live forever in a place like this!!”

Under the huge rift where the final dragon sleeps.

“If you split the fate and starlight that one person should have into tens of billions!! There’s nothing left!! We have nothing but emptiness!!”

Countless girls with the same face wailed.

“Just give us trials instead!!”

“We’ll become the trials!!”

“We’ll clean up humanity!!”

“Please don’t leave us in such a place…!”

“Please let us out of here…!”

In the curse of eternally repeating multiplication and division with tens of billions of souls.

In the starlight that weakens and sickens others just by existing.

Thousands of magical girls of [Plague] yearn.

To escape from hellishly small bodies and have their own bodies.

To escape from chaos and live as ‘humans’ in the world.

Rather than protecting humanity, to become humans themselves.

We yearn.

We yearn.

“We’ll do anything!!!”

Give us that world.

Guuuung—

The huge will remaining in the wounds of stars allowed it.

It recognized the magical girls of [Plague] as new trials and new humanity.

If they became the third trial and cleaned up the sinful descendants, it allowed them to live on the surface of this star as those subordinate to the will of stars.

It promised to accept the magical girls of [Plague], who could change their distorted fate across rifts, as new starlight.

“Ah…”

Golden starlight poured down on the magical girl of [Plague] right under the huge rift.

An ominous gold that shines brilliantly but contains huge darkness.

Gold older than [Beginning] that distinguished only the beautiful things in chaos.

Darkness and light, life and death, birth and destruction.

Hiss―!!

The golden starlight stuck to the magical girl of [Plague] like mud, bestowing divinity.

From the will of stars that watched everything from a dimension far higher than the three goddesses, countless memories flow in.

The originally determined fate of stars.

Foolish humanity hurting each other with greed.

Foolish goddesses who gave up existence to return to the flow of stars.

The fate determined for foolish ones.

A destroyed world.

“Hehe… what. It was a world that would have been ruined anyway.”

Magical girls attacking each other.

Apostles hiding in their own domains.

Goddesses absorbed by the will of stars.

Hiss―!!

Fates of destruction clearly recorded in the transcendent cosmic records.

She reached out there and pulled thousands of starlights that had fallen asleep after finishing all battles in different timelines.

She pulled thousands of fates whose souls had disappeared in darkness and only records remained.

“Just this, if I just have this…!”

The magical girl of [Plague] covered in golden starlight sprinkled that starlight on thousands of herself endlessly multiplying behind her. She handed it over to the [Plague] who were destined to perish futilely without having their own starlight.

Click—

Click—

Thousands of scales of greed moved and absorbed starlight.

Absorbing starlight recorded in the history of destruction that had existed sometime, they absorbed even the fates they had advanced towards and their distorted dreams.

Crunch crunch

The appearances of all girls except the [Plague] standing at the very front change due to starlight.

They change, dyeing numerous colors into darkness.

Though it was an alien and eerie appearance to anyone, it was the only appearance allowed to [Plague].

We yearn.

Even if it’s an abandoned fate, we yearn.

[Lightning]

[Navigation]

[Freedom]

[Protection]

[Machine Gun]

“Justice… it’s fleeting and futile. That’s why it’s noble.”

“There’s no place for humans on the vast sea.”

“There’s no freedom in this world. That’s why we take revenge on those who took freedom away.”

“Everything I protected was an illusion. Just floundering in delusions of the past.”

“It wasn’t a toy I was holding waiting for family. This is a weapon that kills people.”

The girls who had changed before they knew it muttered quietly.

While absorbing fates that have now become lies.

They changed by putting on false selves themselves.

They remembered by recalling vanished history themselves.

They imitated by picking up fake memories of girls who had already died.

“We are fakes.”

“Even so.”

“We yearn.”

What we wanted wasn’t destruction.

What we wanted wasn’t nothingness.

“Ah, that’s right. We are not nothingness or destruction…! We are beings who yearn for and plunder all fates! We are the plague of greed!!”

The magical girl of [Plague] covered in golden starlight was now wearing a dress engraved with darkness imitating the sky of doomed fate, not shabby bandages. She was stretching out her hand, scattering golden darkness in front of the magical girls of [Plague] imitating magical girls who had died in destruction.

Four black stars.

Surging divinity.

“We are darkness.”

Darkness that seems like it will swallow the world.

As [Greed], not futile [Plague].

We imitate by plundering fates that were sleeping in destroyed time.

We are [Plague] and [Greed].

Because we couldn’t have anything, we imitate and plunder everything.

Fully Bloomed 4-star Magical Girl of [Greed]

Erebos

“I’ll plunder everything – fate, world, dreams, time.”

O humans living in the age of greed.

O goddesses who cursed us.

O all who reject predetermined fate.

This shall be the great rebellion of an abandoned shabby fate.

Only the wounds of stars embraced us.

[Greed] shouted in front of the magical girls who had accepted false fates.

“Let’s absorb what [Beginning], who irresponsibly gave birth to us, left behind!”

“Let’s usurp the three goddesses who left us only endless deception and curses!”

“Let’s plunder this world for us, who endlessly divide, to live!”

On the day the third trial opens.

We will challenge them.

To establish a world of the sick who only infect their surroundings without having anything.