Golden Darkness's Own Opinion

"..."

【She fulfilled her wish, and then I got the reward I wanted. This is a fair and just transaction between you and me. 】

"...The ending like this...you also expected it a long time ago?"

【It's just a matter of sooner or later, the ending is the same. 】

Cupid said leisurely, with a voice that was so cute that it was disgusting.

[Before becoming a magical girl, she was already so powerful, so powerful that even Witch Night was just a humble insect in front of her. After becoming a magical girl, this power became even more outrageous. 】

[Since she is the strongest magical girl, it is inevitable that she will become the worst witch in the future, right? 】

The karma of convergence evolves into eternal kalpa.

The thick fluid quietly spread around.

The pitch-black malice will burn down the world, humanity, everything on this planet.

【...Well, thanks to her, our family's long-cherished wish has almost been fulfilled, and the next thing is your own problems. 】

Leaving such a speech behind, Qiubi turned around and prepared to leave with the attitude of a winner.

【That being said, in fact, the history of your humanity will probably come to an end today, right? 】

Starting with the end of human beings on Earth, other species in the universe will usher in a new era.

A new era without the "heat death" plague.

"……Will not."

Xiao Meiyan pressed the small shield on her left arm.

"As long as I'm alive, we won't lose."

There are petal-shaped quasi-objects falling around, which are the withered rose of time.

"My battlefield is not here."

The fourth volume of pitch-black fairy tales: Who is crying at the end of Chapter 248?

Before Xiaomeiyan touched the shield, the witch floating in the sky suddenly moved.

Compared with a human being of normal stature after being enlarged in equal proportions, it can even be called a somewhat thin body trembling abruptly. The wings with a deep color like an abyss spread to the sides of the body to the extreme. From the shoulder blades to the feathers at the end of the wings are spasming painfully.

The ominous black feathers were scattered amidst the long chimes that came from nowhere, accompanied by shrill screams, as if the voice of the witch itself had the penetrating power to pierce the world, the orange color, showing the apocalypse The sky of the scene is covered with dense cracks like glass on the verge of breaking.

The sky and the earth are cracking.

【what. 】

Chubby, who was about to leave, looked up at the catastrophe and sighed in admiration.

【Are you going to do it already? 】

It stopped and watched the witch's death with great interest.

It doesn't matter even if it affects it, anyway, what is here is just one of its many clones, and it is quite a rare experience to be able to observe how a civilization is destroyed up close. If the scenery is included in the database of their family, it can also be called excellent value for money.

Time is running out.

Mitakihara on this world line can no longer be saved.

Xiao Meiyan, who was stunned by the sudden scream, finally woke up, and took two steps back in silence.

She has no plans to fight the witch in front of her. In this already undoubtedly Bad End situation, how to keep her life is the most important thing for her. As long as she is still alive, everything can be done again , Her existence itself means "future" and "possibility". If she dies, then all hope is lost.

In the cracks of the cracked sky, something deep and unknown is about to move, as if hidden under the boundless nothingness is the beast of apocalypse that denies everything in the world.

The black flame burned quietly, and the crack that was still spreading climbed onto the witch's body at some point.

【Um? 】

A look of confusion suddenly appeared on Chubby's face.

The abnormal noise in the sky has been brewing for too long, but it has not caused any substantial damage to the civilization on the surface. As the embodiment of the concept of "despair", the witch who has hated as an instinct since the beginning of her birth cannot It should be such an indecisive existence.

The huge body was tense, as if it was about to tear itself apart to the extreme, and then curled up into a ball tremblingly. No matter how you looked at it, this witch didn't look like she was invincible before she launched the attack. more like...

The slender neck stretched back, and then fell powerlessly, like a dying black swan, and it let out a long mournful cry.

——Instead, it was more like struggling in pain.

A barren and empty pale light suddenly came out from under the cracks all over the world, accompanied by a crisp sound——

The world is, literally, shattered.

The sky dyed with the final color of dusk turned into crystal fragments, reflecting Akami Homura's dazed pupils like a mirror.

In her field of vision, what appeared was the ordinary and unremarkable original scenery that belonged to Mitakihara itself.

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The sunshine after the storm, although not bright, is not gloomy either.

The cool breeze brought a little earthy smell, took a deep breath, and breathed in the fresh air that she had never smelled before, Xiao Meiyan raised her hand to block her forehead, the gentle sunshine Put a few light spots on the back of her hand.

After the disaster, Mitakihara, although not completely barren, is still a mess that needs to be rebuilt.Although it is no longer the bustling town it used to be, Homura feels more comfortable in this kind of Mitakihara than before.

This area has been thoroughly cleaned by "that one", and the eerie aura that lingers over the city all year round and cannot be seen by ordinary people's naked eyes has also dissipated. In the senses of a sensitive magical girl like her, seeing Takihara is the cleanest and clearest pure land.

Thinking about some trivial matters in her mind, Xiao Meiyan suddenly stood still.

This is a certain cemetery on the edge of Mitakihara, and there are few people on weekdays. If it wasn't for some reason, she would never come to this remote cemetery.

Akami Homura's attention was attracted by a girl in black and pink hair standing in front of an unnamed tomb.

Walking to her side silently, the girl who was also dressed in solemn black lowered her head and saw a few bunches of pale yellow flowers in front of the tomb that she couldn't name.

"Little round..."

"Yanjiang, you're here."

Without looking back at her, Kame Madoka spoke softly in a flat voice that was almost muttering.

"Ah."

Then there was silence.

"..."

"..."

Xiao Meiyan bent down and put down a few bouquets of white chrysanthemums in front of the grave.

The light wind surrounding her suddenly became strong, beating her robe like an invisible whip, Xiao Meiyan unconsciously covered her eyes with her hands, and the pure white and light yellow petals were carried by the raging airflow and scattered into the air. half empty.

"...She really, really died."

Lu Muyuan stared at the blank surface of the stele, and his voice was as soft as a dream.

"...Yeah, he died."

"I didn't expect that it would end up like this."

"Me too."

Xiao Meiyan stood up, took two steps back and stood shoulder to shoulder with Kamu Madoka.

"Self-destruction or something, before I actually saw it, I couldn't imagine it at all."

The witch has pure hatred for everything in this world, constantly denying the past and the existence of the world.Following the desire to hunt and kill, implementing one's own [nature], sadly repeating the monotonous cycle of reincarnation in his world (Witch's Barrier) until the end comes.

Akatsuki Homura doesn't believe that there will be a witch who will take the initiative to destroy herself before being attacked by a magical girl.

Until that day.

"But as for the reason, I probably can guess a little bit..."

Under the ground under her feet was buried the largest corpse of the [Reciprocating Witch Sisyphus] that they could find after that day.

Setting up a grave and mourning for the witch was something that Akami Homura, who is also a magical girl, could not have imagined before.

"She once said that it would be good to leave all the witches to her. The witches she transformed into are probably included in her promise..."

"Is that right?"

"That's the best guess I can find."

Xiao Meiyan smiled wryly.

"At the end of the day, we didn't do anything, we didn't help at all."

"..."

"Even her name was not known until the end."

"..."

"It sucks, us."

"...Yeah, the worst, us."

"..."

"..."

The wind gradually calmed down, and the scattered and withered petals were scattered lightly, reaching out to catch one of them, Kamu Madoka was silent and didn't know what he was thinking.

The depressive sense of depth spread quietly, if it wasn't for the occasional birdsong, Xiao Meiyan would have almost thought that this place was an exiled place abandoned and forgotten by the world.

"Flame sauce."

Madoka Kazuya spoke suddenly.

"Can you go back in time?"

"……Um."

For the first time since they met at this place, Madoka Kame met Homura's eyes.

From her pupils, Akami Homura saw a certain emotion that she had seen once during the night of fighting the mermaid witch.

"Can you... help her?"

"...is this really good?"

Without immediately agreeing to her request, Xiao Meiyan lowered her eyelids and asked in a low voice.

"Madoka, do you know? This is the third time I have gone back to the past. The first time you and Mami-senpai died in the battle against the witch's night, the second time Mami-senpai died in battle in the reincarnation, you I used up my magic power to become a witch and was killed by 'she' without hesitation, and the third time is this time."

"You're still alive, I'm still alive, Mami-senpai is still alive—although she's not really alive in that state after learning the truth, at least her body is still alive. This time, apart from Mei Except for Shu, only 'her' died."

Xiao Meiyan was already very satisfied with such an ending.

"And at the last moment, although she couldn't see it very clearly, 'she' must be smiling, right? 'She' herself should have no regrets about the ending of this time, right?"

That redeeming smile—if it wasn't an illusion, she had never seen it on 'her' face before.

"So, is it really good to do it all over again? Can it really get a better ending than this if you do it all over again?"

What's more, if you want to restart the reincarnation and find a way to save 'her', I'm afraid even 'her' may not be willing...

"Maybe it's really what you said, Yanjiang."

Madoka Kame knew very well that her request was capricious, and could even be called excessive.

In the child's own eyes, she had been redeemed.This is unreasonable, even if it is against his own wishes, he has to veto everything again, so the rescued person himself may not be grateful to the rescuer...

Muttering, Lu Muyuan covered his face with his hands.

"But, it's too sad, such an ending, so sad."

Almost everyone was smiling, and almost everyone was saved, but why was she the only one with such a transparent and sad smile that disappeared into the pure light?

Kamu Madoka couldn't accept such an ending.

"I want to grab that idiot's face and scold her loudly and heartily, but I can't, I can't do anything."

She is dead.

Carry everything on your back without authorization, solve everything without authorization, and then die without authorization.

Those who don't know enjoy the peace she bought with sacrifice as a matter of course, and those who know will always live in the shadow of guilt.

Madoka Kame didn't want to do that.