Do venue top floor.
Having just finished the concert and finally getting to rest, only to hear explosion sounds from the seaside direction, Elsa gritted her teeth: "Really won't give people peace. Those guys started fighting among themselves—we don't even need to control crowds to storm the laboratory."
Worse yet, after the battle with Dandelion, her magic still hadn't stabilized. Damn it!
She had actually wanted to prostrate herself in apology and beg forgiveness, but her goodwill toward the Church turned into hateful words under magic operation, driving away potential allies.
Hatred again.
Hurting the other with hate when feeling love, always missing chances to nd relationships, becoming increasingly lonely and detestable. Elsa hated this causal magic—the more she hated it, the stronger it beca, then tearing apart all interpersonal relationships at crucial monts, leading to an ending of helpless isolation.
The girl surveyed her companions and forced herself to declare with spirit: "Now we must stop it from expanding further."
"Sorry, I can't help this ti." Fuuka raised her hand and shook her head. "The infectious disease reaction in has gotten stronger and might cause problems. I must use all my magical power to suppress it."
Elsa nodded: "Don't worry, leave it to . Just rest well. Once the infection magic perating here dissipates, you'll definitely break through to Triple Awakening."
Everyone understood her companion's situation. Magical Girl Violet, aka Fuuka, could actually manifest partial Regalia but had suffered from infectious diseases since childhood, leaving lesions difficult to remove. As a magical being, she was very sensitive to the free energy often drifting from laboratories. As she awakened, her condition paradoxically worsened. Too bad—mythology-type Behemoth was very useful against legion battles, but for safety she had to stay in the rear.
The remaining Tsuki would protect Fuuka, since summoning magic products had just suffered losses and were in poor condition. Might as well let the two cooperate.
Even at the cost of severe injury, she still operated Love and Hate magic at maximum power.
"Just run at full power. Even if it costs my life, even if I'm forever alone, my resolve isn't to die with enemies but to perish together with you."
Boom!
Elsa had a violent coughing fit accompanied by magical power expansion.
At the sa ti, with the do venue as center, people within a 3-kiloter radius evacuated in orderly, rapid fashion. Though the queues were very rational, the participants all wore fanatical expressions, as if so pilgrimage activity in the city center made them quickly flee the seaside infection outbreak point.
At this mont she was drenched in sweat but persisted in magic operation. Dandelion's critical words echoed in her ears—it was her fault, truly a disgraceful display that needed compensation.
At least she had to transfer people out as much as possible. Otherwise, she couldn't forgive herself first, much less deserve that prophetic Magical Girl's regard.
Elsa understood she needed to ta her heart. Beautiful or painful emotions would all transform into power. She constantly recalled the past to strengthen magical effects. Rolling magical power rose around her, distorting vision. Her inner determination made her one of today's few Seedling Stage achievers, while Love and Hate's effects further expanded.
"Leave quickly!"
"Whether rcenaries or military, they're all bastards."
"Everyone pay attention to order."
Though surrounding crowds repeated normal words, the fanatical atmosphere on their faces was discordantly eerie. This performance spread like a virus—in the blink of an eye, thousands began going mad. They seed to head toward safe zones but were actually accumulating so violent emotion that could explode at any mont.
Witnessing this scene, several Magical Girls cast worried glances at Chrysanthemum. With family repeatedly endangered recently, she already had considerable pressure. This wretched world was truly hard on people.
"Don't worry. When I transform, I'll enhance magical control and should be able to make them behave."
Before finishing, Elsa took a deep breath. Originally wearing gorgeous idol-style clothing, her graceful figure was wrapped in magical light flow. First condensing a heart-shaped hair accessory from her head, her swan-like neck wore a red ribbon tie, dressed in a bright yellow dress like a blooming alpine chrysanthemum. Her smooth, slender thighs were wrapped in black and white stockings of different lengths, feet in similarly yellow thick high heels that made crisp sounds with each light step. Compared to performance costus, her Regalia was relatively simple but more clearly displayed the girl's tall, well-proportioned figure. A cascade of golden wavy hair rippled like the sea, fragrance refreshing the heart.
Magical Girl Chrysanthemum, full transformation form. Pressure unique to today's top tier leaked out, surging and sweeping through the venue.
"Roar!"
Suddenly the entire city's infected entities roared in unison as if resonating with this energy, charging straight toward the do building. They completely rembered their hatred for the magic's master.
"Be careful, you might lose control," Miyuki grabbed the girl's arm in warning. "You just said your control decreased recently. Be on guard and don't force it, or you'll be in mortal danger."
"I should be responsible to the end."
Seeing the situation turning bad, Elsa walked to the rooftop edge, overlooking the mass of infected entities and pointing at them, declaring loudly:
"You called not for world peace. I ca not to bring you peace, but to set a sword against the earth."
Before finishing, the infected entities killed each other, trampled and roared. However, the overwhelming numbers provided equally intense emotional feedback, making Elsa's face contort in unbearable pain. She could no longer control her magic, causing a rampage backlash. But I did it—civilians are evacuating, infected entities are fighting among themselves.
The girl's first reaction was to blow away her companions with magical power. In her ntal confusion, a silver-haired figure appeared from nowhere. In an instant, pressure shook her limbs and bones—her soul was wailing.
"Sorry..."
"Elsa, if you feel guilty, then grit your teeth and suppress your magic. Next, I will forgive your immature actions."
Before finishing, Hibiscus delivered a whip kick to her chest along with massive Origin power pouring into her body. The latter predictably flew out of the venue, smashing through several walls. Even in a rampant state, she couldn't suppress the pain, coughing up blood continuously. The Origin gap between them was too great—no ti to wrap internal organs with magical power. Fortunately, this strike forcibly contained the previously surging, uncontrolled magic.
This kick carried so elent of standing up for her juniors.
However, it was indeed difficult to hold back, as every strike from the opponent carried true damage. A mont's carelessness would result in severe injury. Under such premises, helping Elsa exhaust magical functions wasn't easy—only Hyacinth's strength was qualified.
Elsa's entire body shrouded in pitch-black magical power lunged forward, just like Jin Ruochu that night. For Hibiscus, this was already familiar territory—going all out to defeat the enemy in one move.
Ti Acceleration!
The silver-haired girl was surrounded by a temporal acceleration field, while the edge accumulated massive energy like a super high-speed rotating grinding wheel that struck the target. In an instant, Elsa was covered in wounds but the leaked magical power was finally suppressed.
She was seen panting and kneeling on the ground, her pretty face full of shock. That move just now was truly between life and death—looking back at the broken walls and ruins behind her.
Ti magic excelled in clean efficiency. Any tiny difference in strength would be amplified several tis, ultimately ending in crushing victory.
The strongest among contemporary Magical Girls truly lived up to her reputation, with dominance above even Dandelion.
At the sa ti, Anri Sakagami, Minase Kaori, Jin Ruochu, and Nan Zhiyi also arrived at the do venue, especially the last one whose unmistakable pressure made people dare not look directly.
"A bunch of idiots, still being stubborn? Now you know you were wrong? You wild ones really lack tempering."
"I'm very sorry, everyone." Elsa bowed deeply with her head down. "It was our carelessness that kept making things worse, nearly causing irreparable damage. Especially Miss Kaori, I will compensate you individually. Please feel free to state conditions."
"Your father asked for a favor. Consider this a transaction," Hibiscus said honestly.
"Even if it's a transaction, the fact that you all saved us remains. I will provide compensation for the previous conflict and am willing to listen to the Church's arrangents."
"You're straightforward, and your talent is strong. What's important is what you can bring in the future?"
"...Though in your eyes I've done many stupid things like an idiot, I guarantee I'll live up to everyone's trust hereafter. This is the Miller family's promise."
The two looked at each other and smiled brilliantly. For Elsa, this was the first ti having peers more excellent than herself who could discuss magical topics together. The other party was also a benefactor—having soone to confide in felt wonderful. Her anxious heart finally relaxed a bit. No matter what, as fellow Magical Girls, that sense of resonance and intimacy upon eting wasn't fake. This atmosphere dispelled loneliness.
Hibiscus wasn't in a hurry. People needed ti to grow. The future Director Chrysanthemum wasn't achieved overnight—she needed proper leveling.
In the original tiline, Elsa's rapid growth perhaps confird the saying: a person might grow up in just an instant. But the cost was family. This kind of maturity was better forgotten—the new world had new handling thods.
The Church needed Magical Girl Chrysanthemum, not a perfect person who never made mistakes.
"My goal is to relocate the biological laboratory and prevent infectious disease pathogen leaks from happening again. I hope you'll help, and please have the Church take in us newcors."
"With pleasure."
"I also need to apologize for the previous battle. It's our fault for being too tense and causing misunderstandings."
Elsa gave her companions a aningful look. Seeing this, Miyuki, Maho, Tsuki, and Fuuka each apologized solemnly. Seeing this, Anri Sakagami and Minase Kaori also expressed regret. Actually, from their perspective, their scouting behavior did easily cause conflicts. Anyway, let it end here.
Hibiscus only felt her own children indeed had tolerant and well-behaved personalities—in the original work, they went to their deaths without revealing their feelings to the Ti Priestess, and didn't even retaliate against the incompetent bodyguard Winter Company.
There were no irreconcilable contradictions within the Magical Girl ethnic group, especially since the other party had already been convinced and recruited.
Since Hibiscus and Elsa had decided to cooperate, Jin Ruochu and Nan Zhiyi had no objections either. After all, the more Magical Girls grew in strength, the better. Moreover, in their eyes, each mber of the Clover team was capable and worthy of great responsibility. Whether or not they decided to join the Church, at least having a stellar Magical Girl Organization gave more confidence.
Boom!
Distant seaside laboratory base explosions continued. The infected entities that just suffered mutual hatred magic effects beca even more frenzied. Though the user was trying her best to suppress the power, they exploded at the slightest touch and rampaged endlessly. Seeing them about to spread to surrounding city areas, continuing this way would definitely cause massive infection.
"Senior, what do you plan to do?" Elsa asked.
"I brought a relic that can handle it. Just cover later—don't worry, it'll be quick."
The girl wasn't surprised by this seemingly prescient attitude. Everyone knew Planet Gaia only prophet never made mistakes. Seeing was believing—indeed so.
"But depending on the situation, we need to help the garrison. After all, this is many people's hotown."
Woo!
While speaking, alarm sounds echoed over the entire city—piercing, penetrating shrieks announcing crisis arrival. For land that had once experienced large-scale Disaster Beast attacks, this wasn't unfamiliar. Unlike before, this ti many infected entities including Disaster Beasts poured out from the laboratory—equivalent to several tis the spread of Okinawa Island military base, like a tide threatening to break the city's defensive dikes.
At the sa ti, howling fighter groups rapidly approached from the horizon—the first batch of support forces finally arrived, with all available nearby military strength being urgently transferred to the front lines.
At this point, military and rcenary conflicts had to be set aside. Since they were already fighting like dogs anyway, might as well clean up the scene.
Fire coverage drowned the coast.
Though they usually looked down on each other, when they really got moving, they weren't pushovers. If fighting Disaster Beasts required truly elite forces, then cleaning up infected entities relied on equipnt advantages alone.
Infected entities with intelligence inferior even to ordinary Disaster Beasts could only take beatings.
Artillery drove them to scatter and flee, leaving countless monster corpses along the way—devastation everywhere, burning in flas along with the city's edges.
Unfortunately, everyone underestimated infection efficiency. Monsters escaping from the laboratory quickly flooded streets and alleys in indiscriminate attacks. Everything ca too suddenly—even with alarms, so people couldn't react in ti. Within a few breaths, cries, curses, and screams rged into one.
"Quickly get away from here—"
"We can't escape."
"Everyone evacuate toward the city center."
"Aim and shoot!"
Chaos filled every corner of the city, especially for Katrin who was responsible for the local defense zone—this was torture. At this mont, Winter Company headquarters building's command room was full of chaotic reports but couldn't form coordinated attacks.
As Commander, she understood the battlefield situation best. Hastily responding rcenaries and military fought separately, actually letting infected entities escape. This logic was different from dealing with Disaster Beasts.
She angrily pounded the table in front of multiple electronic screens: "Stop expanding the fighting—you'll harm civilian areas."
"Report, Commander. Infected entities have now scattered throughout the urban area, and laboratory viruses are still observed spreading. Look at that mist in the 3 o'clock direction—we have no way to eliminate it..."
"Shut up, I know. Contract and establish Isolation Zones in two areas—beachhead and city."
Katrin decisively made the choice.
Since the laboratory side was confird completely leaked with no other options, first separate different battlefields then break them individually.
As Pasha's assistant, she understood various non-combat application relics well, knowing how many dangerous items could cause mass casualties—like Black Jar could save lives and heal injuries when used with Holy dicine, but could also destroy a country. Bluntly speaking, creating Black Death-level disasters in modern tis wasn't difficult. So she prepared for the worst—complete evacuation of the city, letting it beco a dead city, though the military would need severe retaliation.
Whoosh!
Suddenly monitoring screens showed a black mist dragon heading toward the do venue—clearly infectious disease magical power actively responding to so voice and allowing deploynt. Who could that be?
Blurry footage couldn't capture specific figures on the venue rooftop, but Katrin guessed. Perhaps only Hyacinth in the world could control those violent relics.
Definitely more old folks would be on edge.
On the terrace.
Holding Black Jar, Hibiscus absorbed infectious disease magical power floating in the air. Before her was a deep darkness seemingly roaring, flowing, and condensing, mixed with countless negative emotions—no wonder it attracted Disaster Beasts. If they spread out, consequences would indeed be unimaginable, but this had to end here.
Actually, people still didn't understand that infectious diseases created by Black Jar could be recovered because no true users existed.
Even Holy Relics might die on contact, much less careful study?
Universal relic compatibility qualification allowed Hibiscus to recover infectious diseases it created without harming herself. Moreover, netizens had long said the true usage was as dicine—no matter poison or cure, it depended on one's heart.
Her urgent task was absorbing as much leaked magical power as possible to prevent infection expansion—that would be terrible.
Other Magical Girls stayed away.
The relatively weak Tsuki, Fuuka, and Maho had gone to the Church's teleportation anchor point in Edo, transferring to Hermit Island together with local Magical Girls of insufficient strength. This was also a new temporary spatial coordinate array Nan Zhiyi had built upon arrival.
Among Magical Girls still capable of fighting, unstable Elsa stayed in place, responsible for keeping infected entities' hatred focused on the laboratory to reduce spread speed.
"...Seems your ability's value lies in affecting aggro values. Should count as a taunting chanism," Jin Ruochu murmured.
"You understand quickly—seems you often play gas."
"Of course. I hold world records in several fighting ga scores."
"Miss Jin Ruochu, I heard you also have causal magic related to luck, and your developnt level seems higher than mine. Daily life must be very inconvenient, right?" Elsa asked carefully. "I want to understand senior's perspective—like how do you deal with misfortune brought by magic? Any experiences I could learn from?"
The pink-haired girl was slightly stunned, then turned to glance deeply at Hibiscus, who was entering the final stages of magical power recovery and would personally act—montum at its peak, heroic and dashing.
"Can't call it experience. Though I have plenty of insights, if I had to speak briefly now, the answer that cos to mind would definitely be Doctor Mu's help. Back then I even wanted to die, but she pulled up. So people always need so spiritual sustenance, right?"
Talking about that not-so-distant past made Jin Ruochu smile radiantly.
For her, new life had already begun. Every step forward counted as fresh excitent—this enthusiasm was infectious.
Seeing this, Elsa's heart stirred. Once again she admired Magical Girl Hyacinth's transformation of companions—she was the savior of this era's compatriots.
Thinking carefully, it was probably because she was usually too lonely and communicated less and less with family... Now was the opportunity to gain more friends, and after the assassination case, her father valued family affection more—a blessing in disguise. With the resolve to be disliked, she would understand and communicate, not be scared by re magic.
She pointed at infected entities on a neighboring street: "Want to try together?"
"I'd be delighted."
The two nodded and leaped down from the terrace, flying toward the battlefield in the blink of an eye. Even without using magic, they were Seedling Stage Magical Girls who easily broke through infected entity armies with devastating force. They cooperated—one attracting hatred, one guiding routes to lead hundreds of monsters toward the empty do venue area. This was the combat zone Hibiscus had planned.
At the sa ti, other Magical Girls acted similarly.
Minase Kaori controlled demon legions in the night, pursuing and intercepting to gradually force infected entities to gather in one place.
At this mont, Hundred Demons Night Parade magic operated at overload but fought more courageously. Demons roared while driving monsters, even tearing apart disobedient ones.
"Finally caught the timing."
Thinking about it, since debut she hadn't faced many environnts suitable for Hundred Demons Night Parade. This ti she finally killed in all directions. re ordinary mindless infected entities encountering demons equivalent to small Disaster Beasts imdiately collapsed, visibly retreating in defeat.
But they couldn't spread to other places—they had to enter the Magical Girls' pocket.
Anri Sakagami's spatial barriers blocked traffic arteries, forcibly obstructing monsters' advance while cooperating with Winter Company rcenary defense lines to begin dividing combat zones.
Such defensive power wasn't the first ti appearing before soldiers—after all, it was displayed during the catastrophe war. Impregnable rainbow cities divided battle lines with the montum of one man holding the pass against ten thousand, forcing even violent monsters to detour. But this was exactly what the Magical Girls wanted.
Boom!
Monster roars fell into hearts like drumbeats, stimulating hot blood and making Miyuki's magical output climb steadily. Always hiding herself, always being careful, always having endless observation to avoid—enough. Whether celebrity or Magical Girl identity both made her tied hand and foot. At this mont, Magical Girl Orchid vented herself without reservation.
The girl weaved through formations like a giant dragon repeatedly rolling and tearing, making charging monsters completely routed.
Hmm—
Rising massive magical power made even ordinary people's hearts tremble as they looked toward the seaside.
Suddenly the blazing laboratory was surrounded by a huge starry sphere, enormous enough to rival the do venue and span the horizon like a giant's figure.
Domain magic was already renowned, but once deployed at such magnitude was truly incredible. Even many who had heard of the famous Magical Girl Dandelion were stunned witnessing it firsthand. Against the backdrop of night and twilight sea, the expanding miniature galaxy scroll was deep and mysterious, attracting all thoughts. At this mont, Elsa and others understood that previous lesson battle was far from the limit.
Nan Zhiyi completely ignored those gazes and only asked Hibiscus beside her: "Can the domain completely seal infection's magical power?"
"Don't worry, only that side remains."
The silver-haired girl cupped the relic in her hands, seeing it lying quietly in her palm, restraining all energy. The weapon that was about to create doomsday now appeared docile, never resisting her commands.
Seeing this, Nan Zhiyi had no more doubts. Actually, she didn't trust the relic's performance but trusted Hibiscus could subdue a re weapon. Then she could go all out.
"Next I'll thoroughly clean up high-concentration infection targets—not one left."
Domain Seal!
Small Universe expanded to maximum range, completely covering a one-kiloter area around the laboratory. This was unprecedented super-large scope, with internal gravitational tearing and celestial storms even stronger. Even high-level Disaster Beasts might be injured.
Nan Zhiyi wouldn't disappoint Hibiscus's expectations, so the strongest domain magic responded to its master's determination to strangle all targets within range.
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