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

"hyacinth……!"

"Hyacinth! Wait for me!"

The white ferret sprite flew at full speed through the air, trying to catch up with the blue figure ahead.

But she showed no sign of slowing down or waiting, maintaining the maximum speed allowed in low-altitude airspace as she flew forward towards a familiar place.

Soon, Hyacinth's figure disappeared into the distance. Bai Ling had no choice but to stop flying and float in the air, panting. She turned around to look at Yue Tianxin, the fox spirit who had hurriedly followed.

"Senior Bai Ling! Where did Hyacinth go?" the fox spirit asked anxiously.

Bai Ling sighed helplessly, spreading out her sable claws.

"She doesn't listen to us at all, she just keeps flying forward, I can't keep up with her at all. Sigh... I have no idea what she's trying to do..."

After speaking, the white ferret elf showed a helpless and distressed expression. The two stargazers looked at each other and turned to look in the direction the hyacinth had gone.

After listening to the recording attached to the terminal, Hyacinth fell into a silent state. Without saying a word, she ran to the rooftop, took off, and left. No one could stop her.

Iris thought about catching up, but Bai Lili stopped her with the words, "Don't worry, she'll be fine."

"She was probably provoked by Albatross's message," Yue Tianxin said helplessly. "Albatross and Hyacinth are actually quite close, but she made Hyacinth forget about her in the recording..."

"But... with her personality, how could she possibly forget so easily?" Bai Ling crossed her arms over her chest, understanding Hyacinth's personality very well.

Yue Tianxin, who was in manual mode, was also very clear about what a typical protagonist like Hyacinth would experience when she suffered a setback:

First comes shock and disbelief, followed by the urge to investigate and try it out personally, and then a period of depression and despondency after hitting a wall.

Hyacinths are undoubtedly in the first stage.

If no one can guide her after that, she will quickly fall into a state of depression and even face the danger of being disqualified from the mainstream system.

If, at such a time, someone appears—someone who can lead her out of her predicament, or even help her regain her spirits—Hyacinth will use her secret-certified, kingly, and brute force to transform into a sky-blue dump truck, clearing away all obstacles and difficulties.

"Xiaoyue, where do you think Hyacinth will go?" Bai Ling continued flying forward, and Yue Tianxin followed her speed.

"Hmm... If it were me, I'd probably find a quiet place to be alone," Yue Tianxin replied.

"It's hard to imagine Hyacinth being in a place like this... Hmm... If I had to guess, I think she'd probably be..."

Five minutes later.

"This is it!"

The stargazers flew to the entrance of a small alley and peered inside.

This is the crime scene of several missing persons cases in Chengdu not long ago. It has been reopened after the cases were solved, but there is still no pedestrian crossing here. Everyone tacitly avoids this alley that was once strictly closed off.

At this moment, a magical girl in a sky-blue dress stood in the middle of the alley. She stood blankly under the dim street lamp in the center, looking around as if she was trying to find something.

"Hyacinth! I knew you'd be here!"

Bai Ling quickly called out and flew to Hyacinth's side with Yue Tianxin.

The girl glanced back at the two stargazers, a glimmer of hope flashing in her eyes for a moment, but it quickly dimmed when she realized that the newcomers were Bai Ling.

"Oh, it's Bai Ling... What are you doing here?"

"I was about to ask you the same thing! You just ran off without a word, everyone was so worried about you!" Bai Lingfei plopped down on Hyacinth's shoulder and said to her.

Yue Tianxin remembers this place.

It was here that Hyacinth became involved in the investigation of a series of disappearances, and it was also here that she entered the dilapidated mental world of "Millennium" and met Albatross for the first time.

Perhaps she wants to go back to that millennium from this place.

Once you return to that mental image, you can find the albatross who left the recording and ask her face-to-face why she did it.

But is this really possible?

The fox spirit narrowed its eyes, its fox tail swaying from side to side, when it suddenly realized something.

...If what the albatross said in the recording is true, it is almost impossible for the hyacinth to return to the millennium.

The albatross aims to construct a perfect cycle, using the laws of time to seal off an existence that cannot be killed.

Once such a cycle begins, it will form a closed loop structure like a Möbius strip on the time level, and external forces cannot enter it without warning or guidance.

Inari's experience was just like that. She used the legendary spell of future jump to achieve a closed loop on the timeline, and when she leaped out of the river of time, this closed loop naturally broke.

However, if the closed loop is not broken, no external force can break it... unless the closed loop never existed in the first place.

"I know you're very sad, but Bai Lili and Qiu Gui are here, we can think of another way."

Bai Ling tried to persuade her.

"If all else fails, you can go to Xin Yuehu. She's quite familiar with the Mind World. Didn't she manage to take you inside the Mind World last time?"

"If the millennium truly is a mental world unconsciously created by Albatross, then Heart Moon Fox can definitely..."

The girl didn't answer Bai Ling's question, as if she hadn't heard it at all, and muttered to herself, "If it's not this, then it can only be a football field."

Just as the fox spirit flew to sit on the other side of the hyacinth's shoulder, the hyacinth unexpectedly restarted its flight magic, soaring into the sky amidst the stargazers' screams and speeding off in another direction.

The white ferret spirit clung tightly to the hyacinth's shoulders, while the fox spirit instinctively grabbed the hyacinth's head, screaming in the raging wind.

After a short flight, the hyacinth landed on the football field.

Bai Ling floated to the trash can and spat out rainbows. Yue Tianxin smiled wryly and handed the white sable spirit a tissue and some water.

The football field remained tightly sealed off, but the spatial rift that had been floating in the air had long since disappeared. Hyacinth stood in the center of the open space, gazing at the void where a rift should have once existed.

There was nothing in the air.

It's as if that door leading to sixteen years ago never existed, and the city of twenty years ago was just a fleeting dream.

The hyacinth remained silent for a very long time.

It wasn't until a cool breeze blew across the back of her neck, bringing a slight chill, that she snapped out of her daze.

Why was she suddenly so agitated? Hyacinth couldn't help but lower her head and ponder.

I had only met Albatross a few times; we had only brushed past each other by chance.

She is indeed a senior colleague who interests me a lot.

A gentle, considerate, optimistic, cheerful, and occasionally a bit naive girl who tends to act without thinking things through.

But she was ultimately just a passerby, someone I only met briefly a few times.

Why did I suddenly become so anxious after hearing that I would never see her again?

Hyacinth couldn't understand it, but the recording playing on the terminal kept echoing in her mind:

Forget me, hyacinth.

The voice was like a heavy hammer blow to the girl's mind, shattering the budding expectations in her heart.

……

"Sigh... judging from her condition, it'll probably take her a long time to recover..."

Bai Ling finally floated up from in front of the trash can, drinking the bottle of water in her hand as she spoke to Yue Tianxin.

"I didn't expect that hyacinths and albatrosses would get along so well, even though they've only met a few times."

"That's what a young girl thinks," Yue Tianxin replied softly.

"...Actually, I can understand her," Bai Ling continued.

"When I think about how Senior Mengmeng disappeared forever along with the albatross, I feel like I've lost something important too."

"Besides, at least the albatross left behind a recording, but Senior Mengmeng only left me this encrypted sacred stone. I really don't understand..."

Bai Ling sighed helplessly, but Yue Tianxin suddenly widened her eyes.

Divine Stone? Encryption?

"Wait a moment!"

Yue Tianxin suddenly said.

"Is that the divine stone the one we saw at Senior Bai Ling's house?"

"Yes, it's the one that fell from the ceiling and hit me." Bai Ling nodded.

"Senior Mengmeng left an encrypted recording inside, and I have absolutely no idea what that recording means..."

The white sable elf suddenly stopped and gasped.

"Hiss...wait...if that's the case..."

"That sacred stone was the one that was brought into the new millennium along with the terminal!"

"Senior Mengmeng also left a message!"