mygo, Villain Simulator

"...I'm sorry. erG澪2D谰翼叁冥"

The night was still, the atmosphere so tense it was breathtaking.

Shiina Tatsuki froze, her expression faltering.

Ultimately, she was just venting her anger and pain.

Even though she was furious, she felt somewhat uncomfortable seeing her former friend kneel down and apologize like that.

The purple spear trembled slightly in his palm, and Shiina Tatsuki's gaze began to waver.

[Toyokawa Shoko slowly raised her head, strands of hair falling across her forehead and obscuring the slightly reddened corners of her eyes.]

Her voice choked with emotion, but she tried her best to remain calm.

"It's fine if you don't want to forgive me... but, Riki, if your wish to become a magical girl really is the resurrection lamp..."

"Then please let me help you!"

After saying this, Toyokawa Shoko clenched her fists tightly, as if she were using all her strength to support her words.

"Yes! Let's do it together!"

Chihaya Aine immediately nodded in agreement.

She raised the magical artifact and materialized the magical power collected within the Heart of the Rising Sun.

The radiance condensed in the air into a warm, crystalline mass, shimmering with pure light.

"This is the magic that Xiao Xiang and I have collected over this period of time."

Shiina Tatsuki stared at them blankly, a complex light flickering in her eyes.

Faced with the sincerity of both men, she finally sighed.

Rather than remaining angry, she wanted to gather enough magic power as quickly as possible and find Takamatsu Lantern.

So, the girl reached out and accepted the magic crystal that Chihaya Aine offered.

"...My wish is actually—to find the lamp."

"Found...the light?"

Shoko Toyokawa and Aine Chihaya exchanged a glance.

Their hearts tightened suddenly—after all, Gao Songdeng was dead; they had witnessed it with their own eyes.

Why can you still make such a wish?

In that moment of confusion, Shiina Tatsuki frowned, a flicker of panic crossing his eyes.

"Wait, wait...why did you guess my wish was for the resurrection lamp? Could it be—"

A sudden thought struck her, and her heart felt as if it had been ripped open.

However, Shiina Riki had not yet uttered the question.

[The Child of Zero, having received the magic, suddenly erupted with a blinding crimson light.]

"--ah!!!"】

The girl's body trembled suddenly, and blood-red cracks spread from her arm, gradually encroaching on her entire body.

Under the incredulous gazes of Toyokawa Shoko and Chihaya Aine, Shiina Tatsuki's appearance became distorted.

Her skin cracked, her purple demonic armor was swallowed by blood, the whites of her eyes turned black, and fangs and twisted horns sprouted from the top of her head.

[From their original human form, they gradually degenerated into monsters.]

"Lixi...monster..."]

[Toyokawa Shoko's voice trembled, and her eyes welled up with tears.]

"Xuxu! What's going on?!"

Chihaya Aine exclaimed, staring intently at the Rising Sun Heart floating beside her.

But the Heart of the Rising Sun did not respond; it simply remained silently suspended in the air.

In the clash of light and blood, Shiina Tatsuki managed to squeeze out the last syllable.

"The lamp...she..."

The words abruptly ended.

As the last light faded, Shiina Ritsuki completely transformed into a monster devoid of humanity.

"Lixi!!!"]

[Toyokawa Shoko braced herself on the ground, tears blurring her vision, her voice filled with heart-wrenching pain.]

Chihaya Aine cried out urgently, "Asahi! Tell me quickly what to do!" But the Heart of the Rising Sun remained silent, as if it had completely vanished from her perception.

Just as despair was spreading, a light "meow~" pierced the oppressive atmosphere of the battlefield.

A lithe figure plummeted from the sky, her heterochromatic eyes reflecting a blood-red scene like a cat's. A silver light erupted from her body, and her sharp claws pierced Shiina Ritsuki's chest in an instant.

"No!!!" Toyokawa Shoko screamed, but could only watch helplessly.

With a dull tearing sound, a seed imbued with dark energy was forcibly ripped from Shiina Ritsuki's body.

The girl's heterochromatic eyes flashed coldly as she clutched the twisted, struggling seed of darkness in her hand and tossed it far away.

The two claws crossed instantly, tearing through space with silver cracks, like a blade slicing through the curtain of time. The seed was instantly drawn into that streak of light, utterly annihilated on the other side of time.

The wind howled past, and silence returned.

Chihaya Aine stared incredulously at the newcomer, murmuring softly, "Who...is this...?"

The silver crack closed, and the battlefield fell silent once more.

The cat-like girl with heterochromatic eyes retracted her paws and glanced down at the lingering black aura on her fingertips.

The next moment, she stuck out her pink tongue and gently licked her hand, as if she had simply done some trivial thing.

"Matcha Parfait."

"well--?"】

Chihaya Aine froze, even wondering if she was hallucinating.

After all, would anyone actually order a matcha parfait?!

Chapter 410 Leo is annoying now.

[Shiina Tatsuki is not dead.]

[The crimson seed, transformed from a magical artifact, was forcibly ripped from her chest by the silver claw light, and her body's mutation ceased.]

Her skin, which had been covered in bloody cracks, gradually returned to the appearance of a young girl, but she fell into a deep sleep.

[Then, Shoko Toyokawa and Aine Chihaya called for an ambulance and took her to the hospital.]

The air outside the ward remained oppressive on the afternoon of the second day.

[Shiina Ritsuki's parents bowed deeply to Toyokawa Shoko and Chihaya Aine once again: "If it weren't for you, Ritsuki would definitely have gotten into trouble."]

"N-nothing...it's alright." Chihaya Aine's smile was somewhat stiff, her voice so soft it almost seemed to dissipate into the air.

Last night, they used the excuse that they had met in the middle of the night and ended up in a car accident, to take the unconscious Shiina Tatsuki to the hospital.

While waiting in the corridor, the girls contacted Shiina Tatsuki's family. The sound of their urgent breathing on the other end of the phone still echoes clearly in Toyokawa Shoko's mind.

The parents, who rushed to the scene, saw the panic as the operating room lights came on, but in the end, all they could do was apologize: "Thank you for taking care of Lixi..."

This apology, however, struck the two girls like a hammer blow, making the pain in their hearts even more unbearable.

Just recently, the doctor announced that Lixi was out of danger, and the parents thanked them with tears in their eyes before they left the hospital.

However, the weight on my heart has not been lifted.

In the hospital ward, the steady beeping of the electrocardiogram monitor echoed.

After the visit, Toyokawa Shoko turned back for the last time to look at Riki on the bed—his peaceful face no longer showed any trace of the pain and madness that had preceded him.

[Leaving the hospital, neither of them spoke. A cold wind brushed their faces, and the sunlight cast long shadows. Toyokawa Shoko and Chihaya Aine walked side by side down the street, each in silence.]

"Really..." Chihaya Aine finally couldn't help but mutter under her breath, her voice filled with suppressed emotion.

Toyokawa Shoko didn't respond, only clenching her hands tightly against her chest, her knuckles turning white from the force. The crowd was bustling, but to the two women, the street felt utterly empty, devoid of life except for them.

The sunlight on the street was bright, but it couldn't penetrate the gloom in their hearts.

"Xuxu..."]

Chihaya Aine walked ahead, unable to resist calling out softly.

[In the past, whenever it heard a call, the magical device would immediately respond with, "Chihaya-sama, I'm here."]

[But ever since Shiina Tatsuki's magical device malfunctioned last night, Rising Sun Hearts has remained silent, as if forever plunged into darkness.]

"Xuxu...are you there?"

[Chihaya Aine gently grasped the magical device on her chest amidst the rustling wind in the street.]

No response.

She tried again, her voice even softer than before, almost pleading: "Xuxu, answer me..."

Silence remained.

[As if completely broken, Rising Sun Heart offered no response.]

The girl's fingertips trembled slightly. What had happened to Shiina Tatsuki last night had shattered her long-held beliefs.

[The magical girl is not the kind of "being full of love and hope" that Chihaya Aine imagined.]

Toyokawa Shoko walked beside her, but his expression became even more dazed.

She was thinking about Ruoye Mu. Would her childhood friend, who had also become a magical girl, one day be consumed by a magical device like Riki?

"What exactly is Muxu's wish...?"

[Toyokawa Shoko murmured to herself, her eyes unfocused.]

Then, unable to suppress it, she thought of the lamp. A chilling question rose in her heart: —Was the lamp also…?

"well?!!!"】

The sudden exclamation pulled Toyokawa Shoko from her endless thoughts.

She looked up, following Chihaya Aine's trembling finger.

Under the sunlight at the street corner, the mysterious girl who saved them last night was walking by carrying a bag and a guitar case on her back.

Xiangzi was stunned.

Last night, the scene of that figure with heterochromatic eyes wielding silver claws and severing the crimson seed was still vivid in my mind. She had cat-like ears on her head and a tail swaying behind her.

But when they met again, the other person was just an ordinary girl—no ears on her head, and no tail behind her.

"The ears and tail have disappeared?!"

Chihaya Aine uttered those words in a daze.

Upon hearing the girl's voice, the girl merely glanced at her indifferently, her eyes showing no emotion whatsoever.

She didn't stop; she pushed the cart full of things slowly forward.

"Wait a moment……!"】

Chihaya Aine frowned and quickly chased after her, but the other person didn't even turn around.

The girl's figure receded into the distance, and in her haste, she cried out the only words she had overheard from the other person yesterday: "Matcha Parfait!"

The sound echoed through the street, startling Toyokawa Shoko, who then followed.

They chased after the girl until they arrived at a small shop with a "Ring" sign.

At the entrance, the matcha parfait girl finally stopped. She pushed her cart inside and sat down at the bar with practiced ease, as if this place was nothing out of the ordinary for her.

"Matcha... Parfait..."

Chihaya Aine followed us in, panting, her hand on the doorframe, her breathing so rapid her shoulders heaved.

Despite her magical training and being far beyond that of an ordinary girl, she felt she couldn't catch up with him at all when chasing after him.

"Okay, one matcha parfait, please."