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

The hyacinth's full-speed attack cut the jellyfish in half.

Despite the immense destructive power of the close-combat attack, Akashi didn't show much surprise. However, Albatross pointed at the jellyfish's half-destroyed remains and turned to look at Akashi with a puzzled expression.

"Who is this person?"

"Hyacinth, that's the junior you were getting along with a while ago, she's pretty good." Akashi nodded in reply.

"No, she helped deal with the jellyfish issue here a while ago. She wasn't this capable back then!" Albatross continued to press.

"Don't ask me that. Hyacinth has always been like this—the deeper her obsession, the stronger it becomes, much like you."

Chi Xue shrugged and said.

The albatross felt as if her former companion was cricketing at her, but what she said didn't seem to make any mistakes.

The meerkat spirit that emerged from behind the albatross also looked up at the hyacinth floating in the air, wary of the jellyfish's remains. Seeing that the hyacinth, even after delivering a fatal blow, still showed no sign of relaxation, it couldn't help but ask Akashi:

"Are all the rookie magical girls these days so good at combat? After delivering that exaggerated attack, they didn't even take the opportunity to celebrate?"

"...You'll know why later," Chi Xue chuckled and said.

If they knew that a meticulously modified, enhanced monster was appearing in Chengdu every two days on average, they might think that another super villain who could rival Mercury had emerged in the world.

The arrival of the hyacinths solved the immediate problem.

The sixth cycle was successfully completed. The lifeless remains of the jellyfish were successfully identified as magical material, crushed into magical dust in the mental world, propelling the world across the healing band of the Möbius strip and stepping towards the seventh cycle:

Magical dust stretched across the sky, the sun set as usual, and the moon rose as usual. This mental world seemed unchanged, except that the invisible thing called "time" crossed that boundary and entered a brand new cycle.

"...the seventh cycle."

The albatross opened its eyes, gazing at the revitalized millennial city before it, its lips moving slightly.

The astral jellyfish seemed to have never existed; all the damage it caused was reshaped and corrected by the mental world. The morning sunlight shone on the cobalt blue glass of the office building, making the gold-plated signboard on the old Hero Association building shine brightly.

The world has returned to its original state.

"Hiss... Huff..."

The pale-faced girl took a deep breath of the fresh morning air and slowly exhaled. Her face was slightly pale, but much better than in the previous cycles. The meerkats were also in much better condition than before—at least they could still stand and talk.

"Our efforts are paying off," Albatross said. "The time loop is gradually taking shape, and at this rate, it will be fully formed in just four or five more cycles."

"That is, we can defeat the jellyfish after the fourth cycle," Chi Xue replied.

The two former magical girls from Chengdu exchanged a glance and remained silent.

Let alone four or five times, even after two times, it might not be possible to resolve it smoothly.

The jellyfish's strength does not increase linearly. The longer it stays in the millennium, the more magic it absorbs, and this increased magic, in turn, enhances its rate of magic absorption from the mental world.

This erosion will continue until a perfect cycle of reincarnation is achieved. As its ability to adapt to the mental world gradually increases, it must be reverted to its original form before it is fully adapted, so that the next cycle of reincarnation can begin safely.

Time is running out for me.

"But before that, let's talk about your situation."

"hyacinth."

The red-snow albatrosses all turned their heads to look at the sky-blue magical girl who stood in front of them after the Star Shadows were removed.

The girl was a little flustered, unsure of what to do with her hands, so she deactivated the greatsword form of her wand and hid it behind her back, gripping the wand handle with both hands.

"Hyacinth, you are our trump card in this decisive battle. You absolutely cannot act rashly without orders. Didn't I tell you that?" Chi Xue said.

"I did say that... but you've been out of contact for two days now, and I was really worried about you, so..."

"So you just came in by yourself?"

Albatross picked up the conversation, her usual gentle and sweet tone replaced by a rebuke for the hyacinth's unauthorized actions.

Although she was about the same height as him, the angry expression on Albatross's face inexplicably had a sense of oppression—even though she was a firepower type and could not compare to him, a greatsword melee type, in terms of physique and strength, the sense of oppression was not diminished at all.

...It even felt a bit like the oppressive aura of Sister Jiayu.

"Well... it's because I was worried about you guys..."

"Do you know how dangerous it is here? We told you to stay outside and not come in, and to cooperate with the operation plan, but you keep thinking about rushing out. Do you know what the consequences will be?"

"Well……"

"Still playing with the Divine Stones! Hand them over! You're only allowed one hour of play per day!"

"Wow, that's actually..."

"How dare you talk back!"

Hyacinth lowered her head and pouted, timidly handing over the divine stone given to her by Heart Moon Fox, which was then taken away by the angry Albatross and stuffed into Red Snow's hand.

As for the hyacinth itself, the albatross grabbed its ear and dragged it aside, scolding and lecturing it mercilessly. For some reason, it didn't dare to utter a sound.

Chi Xue glanced down at the half-fox head on the magical screen of the Divine Stone, exchanged a look with Xin Yuehu, and the two shrugged at the same time.

Perhaps this is the suppression of bloodline. Chi Xue and Xin Yuehu thought at the same time.

Once an albatross starts preaching, it immediately transforms into a chattering machine that can go on and on all night.

Fortunately, with the help of others, the hyacinth was able to escape the albatross's sermons, and her reverence for her grew even stronger.

"I didn't expect your Divine Stone to be so powerful, it was even able to receive signals in the millennium." Chi Xue was quite impressed by the Divine Stone that Hyacinth had brought in.

The albatross also curiously came closer, poking and prodding at the sacred stone here and there, looking eager to figure out the specific principles behind it.

"Of course, I designed this specifically for this operation. Without it, the millennium would probably have become an isolated island," the golden-haired fox girl said on the other end of the video call.

Hyacinth's behavior of ignoring orders and forcibly breaking in certainly deserves criticism, but as a protagonist of the classic tropes, she has the trait of being able to overcome most difficulties by sheer recklessness, and the same applies here.

Thanks to her reckless courage, she successfully brought the Divine Stone to Chi Xue, thus establishing an effective information exchange channel between the world and beyond in the millennium.

"Now, please explain what specific trouble you've encountered."

"It can't be explained in just a few words, so I'll try to keep it simple."

After explaining the out-of-control death loop and the unexpected conditions for finding the closed loop, the magical girls gathered together, feeling completely overwhelmed, while the Bernese Mountain Dog was just there for the fun.

"...I think I know what to do."

After thinking for more than two minutes, Xin Yuehu said softly.

"You knew that?" Chi Xue blinked, showing respect to the new generation's number one villainous fox in front of her.

"That's right, given the current situation, we only have one solution."

The golden-haired fox girl slammed her hand on the table and said, but then suddenly felt that she had hurt her hand, so she quickly rubbed her palm with her other hand.

"The solution is—"

"—I'm going in!!!"