Chapter 154 : The World of Stars and Humans (2)

-Successfully launched temporary warp anchor on the lunar surface!

“Then we’ll be coming now.”

“Yes, let’s all go to the deck.”

After confirming that Hikari had plunged onto the lunar surface through a small warp gate, Yuki headed to the deck where the dragon of destruction would soon come to interfere, along with all the magical girls. The timing was slightly different in repeating memories, but the dragon of destruction always prevented the ark from landing on the moon.

‘Probably they have no means to stop the ark except for the dragon.’

At first, they despaired at the method of the Magical Girl of [Stars], who led them too easily to the path of destruction by using her authority suddenly, but humanity also had a magical girl who could use enormous authority to overturn all situations.

“Hey Shikishima! Let’s go!”

“Yeah. Let’s go.”

Ichika patted her shoulder.

Magical girls gathered on the stairs going up to the deck.

“I’ll plunge in first and unfold a space of harmony for you all.”

“…Li Meilin, are you not scared anymore?”

“Huhu.”

Li Meilin, who had always followed Li Na’s lead while trembling in a corner, now took the lead more bravely than anyone.

“I’m still… scared, but now I can see it.”

Hope

The hope that we can protect this world.

Faith that the white magical girl will hold us firmly so we won’t be helplessly swept away by unreasonable fate.

Confidence that for the first time we’re completely resisting the outrage of gods and stars, preventing them from playing any tricks.

Excitement that we’re running towards a perfect ending beyond our best.

“Funnily enough, those feelings are now welling up more than the tension of battle.”

“Phew… you move me at the last moment! Meilin!”

“Whoa?! B-But I always came out to battle without complaint!”

“It was all written on your face that you didn’t want to and were scared!”

Li Na stroked Meilin’s head, moved by the cowardly Meilin’s articulate words. Seeing this, everyone didn’t laugh out loud, but surprisingly, they were smiling in the face of another huge battle. Even the most taciturn Hecate was quietly bowing her head and smiling.

Is it arrogance?

Is it carelessness?

Is it relief at the situation where we’ve finally become free from the outrage of fake gods and stars unreasonably throwing curses and authority at some point, and just need to defeat demons originating from the star’s pus as magical girls?

Smiling in battle was something Yuki couldn’t even imagine.

‘Hikari…!’

In the miracle created by the girl everyone loves, we advance towards a battle we can’t help but win. The tomorrow that was no longer visible, hidden in unreasonable darkness, was gradually becoming visible beyond.

Light.

Light was finally visible after passing through a dark, long tunnel.

“Everyone, do your best!!”

“I’ll deploy it.”

As they climbed onto the deck of the ark, Meilin and Laura deployed starlight in bamboo and wheat field colors, and the space of the universe instantly felt peaceful.

“We’ll win like meteors!”

“Doesn’t that mean we’ll fall?”

“Uuugh! That’s mean!”

Ichika and Hana advanced to the front with confident smiles.

“Somehow… I feel like we can’t help but win.”

“Hmm, I feel the same.”

Chen Lihua and Hecate each take out lightning and a bow, securing good positions for attack.

“…”

Sumire looked at all this scenery and recalled the day when the council was established long ago.

“We’re going to win.”

Yuki walks between them.

To fight at the very front.

So that girl who’s holding the magical girls from falling to fate can run faster than anyone. Now stars and fake gods will be caught by one girl and unable to do anything.

What passes over their heads is the universe watched by countless stars.

With the power of goddesses, stars, and miracles.

Towards the most perfect victory.

As magical girls who have escaped distorted fate, they face demons in an undetermined fate for the first time.

Yuki declares.

“In the name of love!! And hope!!”

The dragon of destruction that once faced them flying in the sky on the day they despaired, and destroyed the ark on the day it made them despair a second time, approaches.

[Return to the chaos of stars!!]

A dragon whose undulating tail is like mountain ranges pulled from stars and dancing, with chaotic eyes embedded in its wings and all over its scales spewing chilling malice.

The final trial that harvests all human souls with a curse that seems to make one lose starlight just by approaching.

Though they’ve faced it many times in accumulated memories, they ultimately failed due to interference from the Magical Girl of [Stars] without Hikari’s help.

Sometimes they arrived on the moon too late.

Sometimes an unreasonable miracle approached and ruined everything.

[Return to chaos!!]

Harvester of stars.

Agent of destruction.

Though it’s a more terrifying enemy than any trial demon, the magical girls who came up to the deck were smiling.

Because in a world stripped of all gods’ malice, demons are no match for magical girls.

[Face the predetermined destruction!!]

Because the fate of our world has now changed.

“Magical girls!! Definitely win!!”

Because

Magical girls are girls who perfectly protect everyone.

Because ‘we’ decided so.

Yuki, with love for the girl who saved this star’s humans from gods.

Made lotus flowers bloom on both palms.

Placing one memory in one petal.

Placing the memory of shining days spent with you in another petal.

Placing faith towards the great girl in yet another petal.

She made a flame flower bloom large enough to push back the dragon of destruction over the massive ark heading to the moon.

Faaaash!!

Black and white energies intertwine chaotically, slowly pushing back the beast of destruction.

Yuki’s story may start miserably and full of mistakes, continue cowardly and meanly, and finally end as deception that overcomes everything.

[■■■■■■!!!]

The massive dragon opens its mouth that devours everything and spews black energy towards the ark.

Chaotic starlight that devours everything.

Tens of thousands of pairs of eyes between its open mouth glared at the magical girls with ominous light, and the chaotic energy approached to destroy the ark stronger than ever before. That light was like a massive pillar crashing down on the magical girls.

As the pillar of chaos approached, Ichika and Hana blocked its front.

“Arahan Swordsman Fist!!”

“Let’s block it with starlight!!”

Thousands of fists filled with chivalry created by the green giant, and between them, the yellow Milky Way running faster than anyone spreads out and clashes with the pillar of chaos.

“I’ll support!!”

“I’ll help.”

Yellow lightning and silver-white arrows spread in hundreds of branches, filtering out the pillar of chaos. Like roots enveloping soil, they wrap the pillar of chaos with magical girls’ starlight.

“We’ll definitely win! I’m not scared at all!!”

“Yeah! That’s right!”

“I agree.”

“Haha! Of course!”

A refreshing bamboo-colored energy spreads out, gently wrapping the girls from the energy of chaos and space. The wheat field-colored energy seeps under the ark’s deck, helping the magical girls’ will not to waver and to listen to each other’s stories.

“Perhaps… we’ll really win.”

Countless violet irises bloom, becoming thousands and tens of thousands of blades fired towards the dragon of destruction.

Their fate spreading in chaos advances towards tomorrow.

It flows into unpredictable human time following the goddess’s guidance while diverging from the fate determined by the strongest fragment of the star.

From this moment, the era of gods and stars comes to an end.

[■■■■■――!!!]

The dragon of destruction, pushed back by numerous starlights, rushes in again from the dark space, spewing chaotic energy from countless eyes.

A demon without unreasonable fate,

Without cowardly deception,

Without filthy curses.

It was just one massive beast.

‘Hikari.’

For the first time, Yuki came to see demons not as unknown enemies, but as shadows of a fading era.

They were very unsightly and filthy dregs.

No longer the vanguard of gods wielding frightening and unknowable fate and power.

Everything was seen through by a dazzling beam of white light that came one day.

“Magical girls absolutely don’t lose.”

The magical girl who had fought for the longest time and dreamed of light for the longest time stretched both hands towards the dragon of destruction. What was contained in those hands was only certainty.

[It’s not over yet!! You can’t escape the fate of destruction!!]

Along with the desperate cry of the Magical Girl of [Stars].

Towards the slowly retreating dragon of destruction, an unidentifiable massive force approached from the throne of nothingness and transmitted power incomparable to anything so far.

The dragon of destruction, wrapped in massive power again, emitting energy as if to completely grind the ark.

The power that the magical girls and Yuki were barely pushing back slowly retreats again.

[■■■■■■!!!]

“…”

Originally, they should give up to the unreasonable fate that has come again.

But for some reason, Yuki wasn’t afraid of any of it at all.

“Yuki.”

Because there was a girl holding her outstretched hands from behind.

“Sorry, it struggled a bit at the end.”

“Struggled?”

“I opened the door towards the era of destruction.”

“Huhu. That’s a big deal.”

“It is.”

But the conversation between the two girls was utterly relaxed.

It’s really foolish, but.

Because now they could only see real hope.

Because it felt like they could overcome anything that happened.

Because they felt the world’s fate had changed, they stood before the dragon of destruction, laughing vigorously.

“Now, now it’s really the end.”

“It is.”

“We can win.”

“I believe it.”

True faith came with peace.