The Daily Life of a Hogwarts Terrorist

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Even though Louise (Shana) had once made a pact with another god of the Crimson World, "Heavenly Blaze," to become a Flame Haze, it was all in vain.

Hiraga Saito (Yuji Itai) was eventually kidnapped by the masquerade ball and became the Snake of the Festival. Even Louise (Shana) was once kidnapped by the masquerade ball and imprisoned.

Faced with a huge gap in strength, the girls were filled with despair!

But then an unexpected person appeared: a black-haired girl whom the Crimson World Demon Lords called the "enemy of the gods of the multiverse".

She calls herself a "demon".

28. The Origin of the Witch – The Battle Between Gods and Demons

She has a pair of wings on her back, as black as her hair.

Strangely, she wasn't wearing the magical robes of mythology, but rather an ordinary school uniform. Combined with the red ribbon on her head, if it weren't for the wings, everyone would have thought she was just a cute and beautiful girl.

However, Louise at the time found the demon's attire extremely incongruous.

But Louise saw it in the black-haired girl with black wings!

Something more fervent than hope, more profound than despair!

For some unknown reason, a black-haired girl who calls herself a demon rescues Louise (Shana) and reunites with Henrietta (Kazumi Yoshida).

Then the demon told them how to separate humanity from the soul of the god.

Although they didn't know what the devil's purpose was, Louise (Shana) and Henrietta (Kazumi Yoshida) rekindled their hope and, following the devil's instructions, set a trap.

As a result, they actually separated the human part of the ritual snake from its body—the soul of Hiraga Saito (Yuji Itai).

Replenished by the power of the Ritual Serpent and guided by a demon, Louise and Henrietta successfully brought Hiraga Saito's soul back to Tristene.

But just then, the demon appeared once again!

This time, the demon told Louise and the others that although they had brought back Hiraga Saito's soul, the matter was far from over.

As long as the sacrificial serpent, as the main body, remains seated on the throne of the creator god, the soul, as the main body, will naturally suppress and summon the split soul fragments, calling for their return.

This influence is ever-present, and it will eventually cause the soul fragments to be assimilated again and return to their origin.

For Louise and her companions, that time would mean another heartbreaking separation from their loved ones, and they would likely never have the chance to see them again.

Louise and the others frantically sought the demon's advice on how to resolve the situation.

The devil told them, "God needs to be completely corrupted."

Only in this way can the gods no longer be protected by the law of cause and effect, and only then can they truly stay together with their beloved forever.

The specific method involves corrupting the current fragments of the soul, causing them to awaken the seven sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride.

Because in this way, that fragment of soul will fall into demonic possession, and if the god wants to reunite it, he will find that his own divinity has also been corrupted. At that time, the sacrificial serpent will no longer be able to sit peacefully on the throne of the creator god.

The Serpent of Sacrifice is merely the creator god of a small world in the multiverse—the Crimson World. Therefore, although it is difficult, it is not impossible to corrupt him.

However, the demon frankly admitted that directly polluting fragments of God's soul would cause a strong backlash, which would attract God's apostles.

Therefore, the demon suggested that Louise send the soul fragments to reincarnation, using the mystery of the womb and the new body to place a seal on the soul fragments, thus preventing the gods from searching for them.

Afterwards, Louise and the others learned all sorts of knowledge from the demons. They began to alter the memories of the Tristains and weave beautiful dreams for them.

And so everyone began a seemingly happy, fake life.

Because of his overwhelming spiritual power, Osman once recalled the original truth.

But it didn't matter. With the help of her master, Louise and Tiffany subdued him and fabricated a false memory for him.

This leads Osman to believe that Tristan is in the witch's cycle of reincarnation, and that the witch's purpose is to use reincarnation to alter cause and effect and summon the soul of her lover.

However, in reality, Louise and the others had already taken control of Seamus's soul and sent him to be reincarnated.

The later arrival of Verne and others was a coincidence. Verne himself was the singularity of the world, and his existence itself represented a variable.

Therefore, Louise and others used Verne's investigation into the whereabouts of the Papacy and Osman's memories to deceive Verne.

Verne believed that Louise and the others were cooperating with the Papacy to send the Papacy's survivors to an unknown world, but in reality, they were all in the hands of the devil.

Because the so-called Papacy, and the god they worship, is the greatest enemy of the devil, the god of cause and effect in the universe.

The demon's goal is to corrupt the God of Cause and Effect of the universe, who was her former lover and once destroyed all the witches' gods in all worlds and timelines, past, present, and future—the Law of Cycles.

In reality, the Demon is the mastermind behind the war between wizards and the Church. She wants to destroy the foundation of the Law of the Circle, so how could she easily let her followers go?

The reason the demon helped Louise pull the Serpent of Ritual down from its pedestal was that only in this way could she use it to demand that Louise and the others join her divine war against the Law of Cycles, along with the fallen Serpent of Ritual.

In fact, the demon once split off a fragment of humanity from the Circular Principle and brought it into the closed world it created.

That's why she was able to point out directions and offer suggestions to Louise and others.

But in the end, the fragments of the Law of Cycles awakened the memories of God, and that awakening exposed the space where the demon resided.

Although the demon eventually sealed her away to prevent her from returning to her original form, an endless war began between the demon and the god in order to seize this part of the soul!

The demon, always at a disadvantage, can only make a desperate struggle by taking advantage of its terrain. Every battle with the Law of Cycles is like walking a tightrope, and the situation is becoming increasingly critical.

At this moment, she came up with a solution: to bring back the witches who had been destroyed by the Law of Cycles to the stage. Of course, the new generation of witches would be different from the witches of the old era!

Then, by using the power of the new generation of witches, they can fight against the Law of Cycles, and perhaps even bring the Law of Cycles down from its pedestal!

However, Louise and the others didn't really know what kind of beings the witches of the old era were.

All they knew was that, according to their master, it was the embodiment of despair, the final destination of all magical girls who fell into inner darkness because hope turned into despair, and they would hide in their own barriers, spreading despair everywhere.

But those were witches of the past. According to the master, there is only one reason why the new generation of witches exists: love.

A love more ardent than hope, more profound than despair!

So, from the day they were rescued from despair by the demon, Louise and the others began to call the demon their master, and they became witches of the new world.

And this is the origin of everything.

29. Forgotten Despair and New Beginnings

Consciousness was plunged into darkness.

Unaware of the passage of time,

The existence of space cannot be touched.

Even its own identity has become blurred.

until,

I heard it...

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"On the 34th occasion, after a ritual lasting 137 days, the individual finally exhibited the first original sin—sloth..."

"This is the 36th time, and this ritual will only last for 14 days. During the ritual, the individual does not eat, drink, or sleep, and survives solely by relying on their own magic power. They read 56% of all the manga in Japan before dying."

. . . . . .

"The 39th time, the ritual lasted 39 days. The individual finally watched all the anime in the world, and then began to become anxious and aggressive..."

. . . . . .

"The 61st time, the ritual lasts 121 days, the second original sin manifests, this time the original sin awakened is pride, the cause is..."

. . . . . .

"The 96th time, the ritual lasted 23 days. For the first time, the individual involved in the ritual believed that the world was an illusion and began to doubt themselves. The observer then initiated an emergency recall..."

"The 97th time, the ritual lasted 203 days, the individual's first murder, a true murder, and a brutal one at that. The victim was a human trafficker from a criminal gang, and the location was Afghanistan..."

"The 98th time, the ceremony lasted 7 days. Seemingly due to lingering emotions from the previous ceremony, although we moved the location to Italy, the individual immediately began a massacre after witnessing the gang members' atrocities for the first time... Ultimately, the individual was eliminated by the army..."

"Afterwards, we conducted a brain scan and found that there was no residual memory of the previous incident; it was merely driven by emotion... From this, we concluded that the third original sin—anger—had awakened."

"The 154th time, the ceremony lasted 142 days, and it has been 56 times since the last awakening, with a cumulative time interval of 8094 days."

"Through this ceremony, we discovered that individuals have developed an emotional dependence on figures who have appeared in their past."

Even if his memory is erased, he can easily regain the favor of a particular person when they reappear. This might be beneficial for our future rituals...

. . . . . .

"For the 163rd time, in this ceremony, we took the individual back to a world he had experienced and restored his related memories in order to test whether this could speed up the process of the ceremony."

. . . . . .

"Koro-sensei! Don't die!!!"

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"The 187th time, this time... hiss... hiss..."

"Stop! Nagisa! Let me go! Let me pass!"

"Hey! Octopus! Don't die! Don't die! No!!!"

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"The 239th time...jealousy..."

"Why are you all laughing!"

"He's clearly dead! Why are you all still laughing!"

"No, I'm not crazy! You're the ones who're crazy!"

"Only you! Only you! I will never let you go! Die!"