Sakura Emma, ​​I'm going to control you fiercely!

Before leaving, Yang Wen saved a file, intending to probe the warden's opinion on the [Golden Fairy].

"By the way, do you know anything about the Golden Fairy?"

"..."

Without saying a word, the warden attacked, intending to silence them.

Emma felt a chill run down her spine as she noticed that the deity had immediately rewound the timeline: it was right at the farewell phase of the office mission.

"Come on in, don't be shy. I'll tell you everything I know."

In the final farewell, the warden said politely.

Yang Wen: "You ruined one of my save files... That's not how you did it just now."

Emma: 'Exactly!'

Yang Wen, controlling Emma's voice, was equally unceremonious.

"From now on, whatever Sherry and I want, we'll come to you."

She and Shirley smiled innocently together.

"Don't worry, we won't stand on ceremony. We'll make sure you can be of great help to us."

Before I kill you as the BOSS.

“That’s right!” Sherry agreed.

Click!

close the door.

Warden: "..."

Those two guys shouldn't come here again.

It flew back to its workstation, stood on the solid wood table, and stared blankly at the window opposite.

In the window, only its reflection stares blankly.

Afterwards, the warden bowed his head slightly.

"Lady Meruru, what do you think of her?"

wow——

The window suddenly shone with pure white light, and in addition to the warden's shadow, a blurry human figure appeared.

The white light from the window gradually rose higher, and the faint sound of footsteps drifted in.

click, click, click...

A young girl emerged from the white light, moving through the air as if it were flat ground.

The girl was dressed in a pristine nun's habit, her long, rose-gold hair cascading down her back from beneath a headscarf. Her eyes were downcast, her demeanor timid and gentle, and the hem of her knee-length skirt and her legs encased in white stockings made her appear even more pitiful.

The girl's chest, more delicate than that of her peers, swayed slightly with her steps.

If Yang Wen were to see this character design on the screen right now, he would definitely transform into a cybernetic filial son on the spot and shout:

mom.

“Very good children...all very kind.”

Meruru walked straight ahead and eventually sat down in the director's seat.

She clasped her hands together, her eyes filled with regret.

"Fortunately... they didn't do anything drastic."

On the ice, Meruru reached out her hand, looking at the white light in her hand with pity and sorrow.

"I don't want to use magic to snipe and take the lives of those two good kids..."

"...Good boy?"

Upon hearing Meruru's assessment of Emma Sakura, the warden somewhat disagreed.

"That little girl has a whole repertoire of threatening tactics; she's probably used them many times before. And you call her a good child..."

"...It's all because the warden watches that kind of porn during work hours."

Meruru blushed and said in a soft, timid voice:

"Bird, bird slices?"

"Lady Meruru, do you know that you now look a bit like that Sakura Emma?"

The warden clearly didn't want to discuss this topic, and sighed.

"However, although Emma Sakuraba's behavior seems very shrewd, on the surface... I can't tell how much [emotion] she has."

The warden preened his feathers.

"She seems... a little dazed?"

"[Stupid]? Is that how you see her?" Meruru's voice revealed a hint of disappointment.

The warden was puzzled.

"Merulu-sama?"

"Compared to your impression... I felt that her expression gave me a chilling feeling."

Meruru tilted her head back, her pupils slightly unfocused. She recalled the results of her observation of Emma Sakuraba outside the window just now.

She would glance out the window every now and then, as if she had already noticed my presence.

"Her eyes were like those of someone looking at a dead object. In her eyes, you were no different from a prop."

"...Could it be that Emma Sakura discriminates against familiars?" the warden thought to himself.

Meruru shook her head.

"It's not just you. Even Tachibana Sherry is the same. It's just that to her, you are a handy tool, like a broom or a dustpan; while to her, Tachibana Sherry is a delicate doll, a favorite collectible, an object to which she can attach her emotions."

"Although Emma Sakuraba had feelings for Sherry, ... her feelings were not directed at people, but rather at objects."

"Yes...that's right."

Meruru came to a conclusion, a small flame flickering in her eyes:

"Sakura Emma did not consider this world to be a real world."

“In her eyes, we were like lifeless, inanimate objects.”

She clapped her hands suddenly, her eyes burning with fervor.

"Yes! In her eyes, we're all just 'things'!"

"Uh……"

The warden looked at his master, who was staring intently at him, and found it difficult to reply.

"You mean, Emma Sakura doesn't discriminate against familiars, but rather discriminates against the entire world equally?"

It looked out the window in disbelief.

"She not only discriminates against me and you, but also against the magical girls she once helped. Even Tachibana Sherry couldn't escape her discrimination?"

"……Um!"

Meruru then gave the warden a very interesting look before closing her eyes.

She interlaced her fingers and made a fist, praying.

"What exactly did Emma Sakura go through to have that kind of look in her eyes?"

"It's as if... she's not a person who exists on an equal footing with us—"

Meruru found it hard to believe her next guess, so she paused for a moment.

Then, under the warden's gaze, Meruru opened her eyes, two hot tears streaming down her cheeks. It was unclear whether they were tears of pity or tears of fervor.

"She observes us in this world as if we were fish in a fishbowl. Yes... [The Observer]!"

“…Sigh.” The warden sighed, offering only superficial flattery.

My inner thoughts: How is this possible?

The warden had gotten somewhat used to his loud and boisterous master.

They're either emotionally agitated or crying out loud; it's rare to see them in a stable emotional state.

The impression Emma gave it... although she was a bit mercenary, she was a kind girl.

Even though her threatening tactics were so sophisticated that they surprised even Bird, she wouldn't forget Tachibana Sherry after she had profited herself.

How could someone who helps a magical girl in the city not treat others as human beings?

No matter how "arrogant" the other party may be, she is still just a fledgling white-level magical girl.

Therefore, the warden did not listen to Meruru's metaphors and evaluations of Emma Sakura at all.

But for the sake of their jobs and career advancement, they still used "yes, yes, yes" as a perfunctory response.

"I think I made some mistakes."

At this moment, Meruru suddenly spoke up.

The warden tilted his head, wondering why his master's attitude had changed.

Could it be that she has also realized her own mistake?

"What do you mean?"

“As I just said, Emma Sakura is like an [Observer].

Melulu stared blankly at the ceiling.

“But I was wrong, terribly wrong. She was not merely an observer. Her status was far above that of an observer…”

"what?"

The warden gained a completely new understanding of Meruru's sudden change in thought process.

It wanted to ask what it meant, but suddenly realized...

My whole body feels like I can't move.

Then, the warden suddenly noticed:

The light from the ceiling reflected back towards the light tubes; the words of self-criticism echoed in reverse on the lips; the clock on the wall raced backward, the second hand moving from 10 to 9, then back to 8…

Everything told the warden one fact:

Time has turned back.

After that, its memory was also erased and regressed.

Meruru stood up as if nothing had happened, gazing intently at the floor. It was as if she could see through countless floors to the pink and white figure on the first floor of the Demon Bureau.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the warden fly back onto his desk, and the dust in the air visibly flew back into the air.

Even Meruru herself found it difficult to travel backwards in time for an extended period of time...

The white light outside the window reappeared, pulling Meruru back to a time in the past...

Meruru could no longer maintain her actions within the time reversal. Her body moved like a puppet, performing its functions backwards...

But in the final second before her consciousness was erased and reset, Meruru did not despair; instead, she erupted in a martyr-like, fanatical scream:

"This power to manipulate time and cause and effect! Even the Great Witch... no, even the Divine Tree cannot match it!"

"Great Witch... Meruru has been found, she has found the true enemy we need to fight!"

"Sakura Emma is not a magical girl at all—"

"She is a goddess!!!"

With her last words, Meruru's memories faded away with time...

Volume 1: Chapter 35 (Fast Forward)

Five minutes ago, on the first floor of the Demon Bureau.

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