The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

Su Tianqing had already experienced a conversation that transcended time once before, something that sounded rather magical.

Although in the world of magical girls, saying something is magical—and the thing itself is rather magical—it's still inevitable to connect the two.

A magical girl supporting the future.

The Battle of Jormungandr that took place in the port city was an unforgettable experience for Su Tianqing.

Back then, with the help of a series of items left behind by Inari, I witnessed firsthand her active first half of life as a magical girl: from obtaining the Guardian Star, to growing into an excellent magical girl, then realizing the existence of Jormungandr and the series of struggles made by that red fox girl...

In the end, Inari made the unprecedented and likely unparalleled feat of "supporting the future".

Her "foresight" allowed her to talk to her face-to-face in her memories, but the magic was essentially just Inari using magic to foresee "what Kokoro will do in the future," not a genuine time-travel conversation, it just looked like one.

The soccer ball that fell into another dimension but was dug out of the meadow 16 years ago, and the video recording that disappeared in the alley but mysteriously reappeared in the garden—these two things seem unrelated at first glance, but they share a common experience:

They all accompanied their owners into that heart-shaped Chengdu city trapped in the year 2000.

The only commonality that led to the same result could be that something happened in that strange mental world that caused two points in time that would never have intersected to converge in the mental world, thus giving these substances the possibility of transcending the laws of time and returning to the past.

—The Law of Time.

Su Tianqing recalled this fundamental rule of the world that she had learned from Inari.

[A living person with a soul cannot obtain information that is not allowed to be known at their current point in time through precognition or direct communication. It's like looking through a telescope with a thick veil, never being able to see what's on the other side.]

Inari refers to it as the "future fog".

If you want to transmit information across time, you need to cover the information with the same heavy veil in various ways. Only in this way can you be in harmony with the laws of time and successfully transmit the information to the point in time you want to convey it.

"Encryption" and "puzzle" are the most direct manifestations of this veil, and the football of unknown origin and the video recording with fragmented information are the best evidence.

For example, when Inari sent emails in her inbox in several parts on a regular basis, she managed to gather all the fragments by the time she received the message. She was able to solve the mystery by following the clues she left behind, and thus adjust the structure of the underground barrier in the port city according to her original plan.

"Regarding that football, the logistics department conducted a detailed investigation of both its inside and outside surfaces."

Messiah opened the investigation report in front of him and began to speak.

"It's just an ordinary football. There's nothing inside except for the usual production information, and there aren't any notes or anything like that attached."

"I see. Maybe this football is just a reminder, guiding us to look for other clues," Hyacinth replied.

"But where are we going to look for other clues now? Are we going to have to go into that alternate dimension again...?" Qiu Baiyang said worriedly.

Everyone understood her worries, but they could also accurately state the only thing they could do at the moment—

Re-enter that shattered mental world, search for ways to repair it, and perhaps ask the albatross about the origins of these two pieces of information during your conversation with her, which may explain even more questions.

Why must the essence of the mental world be conveyed to Bai Lingyue and Tianxin, the two stargazers, by the meerkat spirit? Wouldn't it have been better for Albatross to tell Hyacinth directly? Is there some unspeakable reason behind this?

The emergency meeting concluded, and the heroes and magical girls returned to their respective residences to rest, while also discussing further details on their phones or through the Divine Stone chat app.

The Cheshire Rabbit, who had an extremely low profile, had quietly left the Hero Association at some point, and Su Tianqing didn't even have time to say a few words to her.

There was no other way, so they had to have Dandelion and Yue Tianxin pretend to go home to rest, and then secretly switch the Tail Network's host back to Xin Yuehu, who was lying on the villain's rooftop dozing off...

"Fox, wake up! Rabbit is back."

The golden-haired fox girl groggily opened her eyes, craning her neck to look at the pink-haired rabbit who had landed steadily on the entrance terrace after the flight spell was broken.

In the lounge, the two-colored Alice and her dog were playing a cooperative video game, something like "Three's Company," and they were laughing happily from time to time.

Cat was sitting on the sofa reviewing her lessons. She was facing an exam, but I usually tutor her and Rabbit, so getting a good score should be quite easy.

Why doesn't the cat stick close to me and be affectionate? Maybe it's because the temperature is 40 degrees Celsius today?

"I'm back."

Cheshire Rabbit walked back to the lounge. Upon hearing the sound, Fenrir, Alice, and Jack, who were playing video games, immediately stopped and quickly returned to the sofa. They looked at the pink-haired rabbit girl with expectant eyes, wanting to hear what kind of clues or information she had brought back.

"Let me state upfront that this is not good news, and it might even cause you more headaches."

"What's the big deal? Hurry up and tell us, we're all waiting!" Fenrir urged hurriedly.

Cheshire Rabbit sighed, picked up a glass of chilled orange juice from the coffee table, took a sip, and began to speak.

The conversation begins with football, expands on the world of imagination, and concludes with the possibility of albatrosses communicating, plunging the villain's rooftop into an unusual silence.

Alice and Jack were whispering to each other, which Fenrir found completely incomprehensible. Hellcat put down his book to try and understand what they were saying, but only Heartmoon Fox nodded in response:

"Rabbit, your reasoning is spot on! I knew sending you to the meeting was the right thing to do!"

"Hehehe... No, I only did a tiny bit of work..."

Feeling a sense that the world was on the verge of destruction, Su Tianqing silently reviewed Rabbit's lines from earlier.

With the crucial information brought back by the intelligence rabbit, the villains gathered together to carefully review the intelligence gathered from their recent investigations. Alice, as expected, astutely noticed some suspicious points:

"Albatross, she's deliberately hiding crucial information; she must know inside information."

"Her reason for not providing us with this information may be something she can't say, but if the impact in that mental world can have the same effect on Chengdu in the real world, we might be able to use a new method to communicate secret messages with her..."

Little Jack took out the Divine Stone, unfolded a magical light screen, and wrote a line of text that even Su Tianqing couldn't help but praise:

[Leave a message in Chengdu]

[Decoding Intelligence in Chengdu Today]

A message that transcends the laws of time gradually takes shape through the designs of the two Alices.