Chapter 144: End of Volume 1: Night, Dawn, Magical Girl
"Fate Weaving" is a very weak magic outfit.
This was once the consensus of the magical girls team in the old Fangting City.
As the magic outfit that Delphinium obtained when it was at the bud level, Lifeweaver was originally just a bunch of seemingly meaningless magic thread. They are rare in number and lack toughness, so even when used to restrain the enemy, they appear extremely weak.
At that time, whenever she faced a strong enemy together with her companions, when her companions took out their magic suits, Delphinium could only wave those few silk threads to act as harassment and meat shield.
Because of this, in the early stages of her magical girl career, Delphinium never relied on her magic costume to fight.
This doesn't mean she gave up on developing her own magic suit. After all, it is a consensus among everyone that the magic costume will evolve as the magical girl grows.
As the saying goes, hard work pays off, and Zhiming has indeed evolved. It first happened when Delphinium was 15 years old. When she became a Bud and awakened to her own wonderland, her magic outfit somehow had a pair of small tailor's scissors.
The scissors were so tiny that Delphinium did not realize what they were used for at first. She just thought they would take time to grow like her own silk thread.
But after several months of waiting, she finally discovered that the shape of the scissors seemed to be fixed in this way. After several attempts, I finally discovered the true use of this pair of scissors - it must be used together with silk thread.
It seemed that because of this discovery, she soon obtained the third form of weaving fate - ruler.
Thread, scissors, and a ruler may sound like a combination of a sewing tool kit, but when combined together they unleash a powerful force that no one could have imagined. Therefore, the Delphinium at that time could even challenge the remaining beasts whose strength far exceeded that of the average bud-level at the bud-level, and even defeat them.
But even so, Lei's ability has its limits, but the enemy's strength has no limits.
When she was 16 years old, Delphinium encountered an unprecedentedly powerful enemy while defending the garden in the magic kingdom. Her entire escort team was caught in a fierce battle, with many members of the team on the verge of death, and the magic kingdom's capital of knowledge, Runore, was on the verge of being breached.
During that battle, Delphinium used a skill that should not have been used for the first time.
It is said that every magical girl can only use it once in her life, and once used, her true self will be shattered, or even death.
Delphinium used it and she defeated the powerful enemy.
She even survived, but the price was her true form and magic suit - her scissors were almost scrapped and became almost unusable.
It was just a minor injury - Delphinium told herself so. She even completed another power development after that and officially stepped into the Flower level.
She continued to be active and fight as a magical girl.
Although she took the initiative to stay away from the power center of the magic kingdom due to some influences of the garden defense war, this did not prevent her from still having a fighting spirit.
So, when she was 17 years old, in the year known as the Great Disaster and Great Celebration, a beast disaster broke out in the material world that had not been seen in a hundred years. The Fangting City Magical Girls Team encountered a horrific beast that no one could repel even if they worked together.
When seeing his companions in danger, Delphinium hesitated, but once again used a skill that should not have been used.
She became very strong, gaining powers far beyond her normal capabilities. She won again, and even after doing this she still didn't die. But the price this time was still her own magic suit—her ruler was broken.
Unlike scissors, the ruler could not even retain its shape. It turned into a pile of debris and completely disappeared from this world.
This is accompanied by extremely strong side effects: the Heart Gem is cracked, the true form is incomplete, the ability of the magical girl is greatly degraded, as long as a relatively large amount of magic power is used, a severe headache will occur, and the Heart Gem will be further damaged. The wonderland that should have been at the fingertips has become a huge burden.
Taking part in the battle of the Fangting City team in this state, she has become a burden.
Even though she had won the honor of being a lifelong magical girl in the kingdom, even though the royal court had invited her to become the final sapphire scepter, on the magical side, she had no power and could not fight, so all the honors were just empty talk.
So, despite the dissuasion of his teammates, Cuiqiao chose to retire.
Her teammates are already stronger than her, and Anya is improving day by day. There is no one she needs to help or protect anymore.
She was also very tired. She had fought hard for three years, defeated unprecedentedly powerful enemies, and saved the city in distress... She thought that she had made enough contributions in her short career as a magical girl, so perhaps ending it like this would be perfect enough.
The heroes in comic stories always have a happy and fulfilling life after saving the world, and the world is so vast that it will not stop functioning because of the absence of anyone. The retirement of a magical girl will not have a far-reaching impact.
She had thought so.
——“But, that’s not the case.”
Delphinium closed her eyes slightly: "Life is not a comic book story, and I am not the hero in the story. I have not been able to truly solve the problem. I am just self-satisfied with my own efforts."
From the day he learned of Anya's death, Lin Yun, who was already just Lin Yun, felt guilty and blamed himself all the time.
If I hadn't retired and fought with Anya, would things have been different?
He doesn't know the answer to this question, and perhaps he will never have an answer. Anya's death was like a flame that burned the fairy-tale story to ashes.
And he could only recall the burnt pages of the book and blame himself endlessly.
He wanted revenge, but he was not without worries. He knew how powerful Anya was, and he could imagine how dangerous the enemy who killed Anya would be. If something unexpected happened to him during the process of revenge, what would his daughter do? But if you don't seek revenge, that poisonous fire will burn your heart all the time.
Countless times he embraced the illusions of the past in his sleep, countless times he groped his empty pillow after waking up, his anger and sorrow almost turned into an inescapable curse, locking him firmly in the past.
In the end, he could only helplessly tell himself that he was just an ordinary person and he could not and should not think about these things anymore.
Then just concentrate on work and raising your daughter. As an ordinary single father, this may be the most normal choice.
If that's all it is. If my daughter had not entered the world of magic.
But when all this happened, the dark shadow lurking in Fangting City and even in Donghua Province surfaced and even threatened his own daughter. So the so-called "normal" is better off not having it.
"I don't have any lofty ideals. All I want to do is protect the people around me. But before this, I escaped and failed. I failed to fulfill my promise and follow my wishes."
"Well, this time, I will never allow this to happen again."
"Black Dawn, I have known your deeds, understood your actions, and seen the ugliness you displayed. No matter what you did in Anya's death; no matter what you are still planning in this material world; no matter what kind of hatred you have for the material world. I have only one attitude towards you."
Delphinium raised her head, her pupils full of magic power shining like the bright moon in the night sky: - "From today on, get out of Fangting City, or I will personally drive you out one by one."
Silver-blue silk threads fell from the night sky, interweaving and overlapping around her. The outline of a huge building gradually took shape from the network of silk threads, covering the entire central block of Fangting City.
The azure castle, shining with pure light, stands tall and majestic, as if it were something out of a fairy tale.
This is the wonderland of delphinium.
It is like the castle that every child has fantasized about, a magnificent castle that only belongs to princesses and princes in fairy tales. However, it is not made of bricks and stones, but a wonder woven together by countless fine magic threads.
The night sky, which was originally dyed with purple-black magic power, was instantly isolated by the huge castle. Whether it was the magical girls, Moss, or even the remaining beasts on the ground, they were all accommodated in the castle.
Not only that, outside the castle, there are endless silk threads extending in all directions and towards the entire Fangting City.
The chaotic streets, the broken houses, and the fleeing crowds all looked up at the sky, gazing at this miraculous scene. Those vicious and violent beasts that were raging in large numbers also inexplicably became quiet.
It’s not because they are also watching the drizzle in the night sky, but because those silk threads that cross the night sky are targeting them.
Endless blue threads hung from the sky, fixing every crippled beast roaming the city, and then connected them to the castle through the threads.
"Saved?"
Someone in the crowd asked this. At first, there was only a tentative cry, but soon, some brave people walked to the side of the mutilated beasts and reached out to touch those hideous and terrifying remains.
The brutal beasts that were originally destroying and killing were now like sculptures, motionless. Then people realized that the attacks of the beasts were really over.
"We are saved! We are saved!"
"Magical girl! This must be a magical girl!"
People began to cheer and cry. The disaster came so suddenly and ended so quickly, like a miracle, leaving the survivors immersed in gratitude for being alive.
And this scene is not only happening in cities. In the Strategy Bureau that had become a ruin and no one had noticed, the "remnant beasts" that were originally hanging on the ceiling and were now crawling among the ruins were still sleeping peacefully and quietly.
——"Out of control? No... their magic has become inactive. Why? This shouldn't happen, and there's no reason for it."
In the silver-blue castle, Moss felt the changes in the magic power of these remnant beasts, and felt inexplicably uneasy. He asked the figure wrapped in silk threads not far away: "What did you do?"
Delphinium didn't reply immediately.
It wasn't that she didn't want to deal with Moss - although that was true - but because she felt like her body no longer belonged to her.
Intense, intense pain filled her consciousness, the pain that seemed to tear her soul apart made her clench her teeth, afraid that she would scream out if she opened her teeth a little.
She held the silk thread tightly in her hand, as if to transfer the pain away. She slowly raised her head amidst the waves of severe pain, staring at Moss with wide eyes.
Then, she slightly raised the scissors in her hand that were on the verge of breaking.
This action made Moss feel extremely dangerous.
After transforming into a remnant beast, as a complete metamorphosis, it can not only retain its rationality as a human, but also use the instincts and intuition of a remnant beast.
Ordinary crippled beasts are irrational and cannot understand what a survival crisis is, but that doesn't mean their intuition is not sharp. It was this kind of perception and intuition that made Moss understand that what Delphinium was going to do next was definitely something very dangerous.
"Don't even think about it!"
It would not allow the other party to use a move that threatened it, so it shouted loudly and called upon its own rules, trying to act on the magic power around Delphinium to cover it again.
It had done just that before, successfully eliminating Delphinium's magic, taking away her masterpiece, and being able to prevent the other party from taking further action.
It thought the process would be the same this time, but it never expected that its attempt would fail.
The dense silk threads in the castle were not affected at all and still existed there intact.
"impossible!"
Moss was stunned and said, "How could there be magic that cannot be affected by my rules!"
"…Because…this is not magic at all."
Delphinium opened her mouth with difficulty and uttered these words through gritted teeth. Then, without waiting for Moss to take any further action, she resolutely swung the scissors in her hand.
Click.
There was no sound when she swung the scissors, but Moss seemed to hear a sound coming from the void, like the crisp friction sound when the scissors closed.
At that moment, it felt as if it had lost something.
What have I lost? It didn't feel anything physically, nor was there anything abnormal mentally. It had no idea what had happened to it when the scissors were swung down.
But when Moss looked at its body with its compound eyes and began to observe the changes in itself, it was stunned.
The six legs, which were originally sharp limbs, disappeared at some point, and what was left was a pair of human hands.
Those were a pair of extremely small, hairy hands attached to the huge body of a remnant beast, but it was impossible for it not to recognize them because they were its own hands when it was a human being.
"What did you do?"
It asked again, but this time the meaning was completely different, and its words contained a fear that it couldn't stop.
It knew what Delphinium had just cut off with the scissors. It was not its own flesh, nor its soul, nor even its magic power, but the part of itself that was the remnant of the beast.
The scissors do not roughly cut off the limbs, but rather erase the "remnant animal's limbs" from its body.
"Impossible, your magic power has no effect on me, your magic suit has no effect on me..."
It muttered to itself, and began to retreat because of the strong sense of threat: "I can cover your magic power, I can cover your magic power, I can take away the strange scissors, and I will use it to take revenge on you..."
Click.
The crisp friction sound rang out again.
Moss lowered her head almost reflexively following the friction sound, and this time, it was her lower body that disappeared.
"impossible!"
It howled angrily and in vain, and when it saw that retreating was useless, it changed direction and once again applied its own rules, but this time its target was the scissors in Delphinium's hand.
The scissors in Delphinium's hand are part of the magic suit, and are indeed made of her magic power, so when Moss used the rules to cover Delphinium's scissors, it was possible to take them away.
And it worked.
As the rules came into effect, Delphinium's scissors disappeared in an instant and then appeared in Moss's hands.
"Hahaha, I've found a way to crack it!"
Seeing that it had succeeded, it couldn't help laughing wildly, and then grabbed Delphinium's scissors with its disproportionately funny palm: "I can do it too! Look at me using your magic suit... Ugh! Gu! Ahhhhhhhhh!"
But before she could even finish her words, the moment Moss touched Delphinium's scissors, she let out an extremely miserable wail: "It hurts ah ah ah ah ah——"
Screaming like a ghost or a wolf, it cut with the scissors in its hand with all its might, but found that it had no effect, so it quickly threw the scissors aside. But even if he threw it away, the pain did not ease. The intense agony made his whole body tremble, leaving him no room for thinking.
From beginning to end, Delphinium didn't say a word. She just covered her head and watched expressionlessly as the scissors appeared in Moss's hand. She waited until Moss threw it away and picked it up again.
"You can't use it." she said.
"…Impossible! How could this happen! How could you wield a magic suit like that! Are you completely unaware of the heart-wrenching pain?"
Moss looked up and said angrily, "You knew I would do this, so you tampered with the magic suit, right?"
"I don't need it."
Delphinium inserted her fingers into the loop of the blade again and opened the edge of the scissors. "I'm used to it."
"Get used to that kind of pain? What nonsense are you talking about!"
Moss screamed in retort, but when she saw the icy look on Delphinium's face, the words that were about to come out of her mouth stopped.
It realized that the Delphinium might not be lying.
Having overdrawn herself twice, her true self was incomplete, and the price of the Heart Gem's cracked web was far more than just a weakening of her abilities. At this point, whenever Delphinium used her magic outfit to fight, she was almost always in pain in her soul.
Even in such a state, Delphinium can still remain calm and even keep thinking, analyzing the battle situation and defeating the enemy. But because of this, she never shows any expression during battle and always advocates efficiency.
"Are you a human or a machine..."
Moss asked in a state of collapse: "What kind of monster are you!"
"I'm a magical girl."
Delphinium waved the scissors expressionlessly: "Drive away the monsters and protect everyone."
Click.
As the crisp sound rang out again, this time what disappeared was the head of Moss, the remaining beast.
The old woman's face appeared on the body of the crippled beast again, but this time her hair was disheveled and she looked terrified: "Impossible! Impossible! Impossible! Is there a loophole in my rules? What's so strange about your magic suit? Why can you hurt me with it? Why! "
It frantically mobilized its perception, trying to find any inconsistencies in this space, wanting to stop this terrible process, but it could not find any loopholes.
In its desperation, its consciousness even began to split and went to the remaining beasts under its control outside the strange land. It saw the remaining beasts standing still like sculptures in the city; it saw the remaining beasts sleeping peacefully in the ruins of the Strategy Bureau; it also saw Hong Siyu, who was lying surrounded by the remaining beasts and sleeping soundly.
Then it discovered that all the remaining beasts were the same as itself.
They lost their claws, their legs, and their heads. It’s just that the remains of the beasts that were originally stitched together by humans revealed their original forms, while the real remains of the beasts were completely turned into corpses.
All the remaining beasts were connected by wires. Connected to the magical threads that emanate from this huge castle and originate from the wonderland.
The wonderland is created by the power of the soul's will in its true form, not by magic, so its rules cannot affect the wonderland.
It was these threads of wonder that connected her to the huge castle, and in disguise connected her with all the remaining beasts, and then they were all affected by some unknown rules.
"These are your rules, these are your rules!"
Shouting loudly, Moss looked crazy: "What are your rules? What the hell is it doing!"
Although a human head had clearly appeared, Moss's roar was still as shrill as a ghost's. It approached Delphinium madly, trying to stop Delphinium's actions.
But the delphinium didn't give it that chance.
"Same fate."
Gently opening and closing the scissors in her hand, she said to Moss in a calm tone: "Our lives are connected. We lose together and gain together."
It was not until she got close to the delphinium that Moss finally saw clearly what the delphinium was doing.
Countless tiny silk threads connected the huge blue castle, and inside the castle, all the threads hung down from the sky and gathered in front of the delphinium.
Each line connects to the existence in the wonderland, no matter it is a magical girl or a remnant beast, one line corresponds to one life.
Delphinium simply picked up her scissors and gently placed them on a silk thread.
Moss could feel what the silk thread corresponded to. It corresponded to an egg-level crippled beast in the corner of the wonderland, a creature that was just making up the numbers among the army of crippled beasts.
From the beginning to the end, Delphinium never thought of using the magic armor to directly influence Moss. All she had to do was just cut off the corresponding lines of the other remaining beasts.
As she said, we gain together, we lose together.
Under the rules of Delphinium's wonderland, all lives in the wonderland are connected. As long as one of the individuals loses something, all other individuals will lose the same thing. Including Delphinium itself.
And because life is linked to the silk thread, Delphinium only needs to use its scissors to trim the silk thread and it can act directly on the opponent's body.
At this moment, what Delphinium cut off with the scissors was the "body of the remaining beast".
Adding to this the concept of "crippled beasts", this is undoubtedly a catastrophe for the crippled beasts, because this is all their life has, and as long as it is cut off, they will naturally die.
But for those humans who were transformed into remnant beasts, this was like the most precise surgical operation. All the "remnant beast" parts of their bodies were removed as Delphinium wielded the scissors, and what was left in the end was their original appearance as humans.
And because in the wonderland, all life is connected, as long as one individual undergoes such a change, all individuals will change accordingly. If one crippled beast loses its "claws", all crippled beasts will lose their "claws".
This naturally includes mousse.
"The last cut."
Looking indifferently at Moss who was flying towards her, Delphinium calmly closed the blade in her hand, allowing the sharp edge of the scissors to finally act on the silk thread in front of her.
With this knife, she cut off the "carcass of the beast". This is also the last part of Moss that belongs to the beast.
"Stop it! Stop it now! You have to stop it!"
Moss yelled and screamed crazily, stretching out her hand to use magic to stop Delphinium's movements: "Didn't you hear me telling you to stop! Stop! You lunatic! Stop!"
——Ka.
The scissors closed and the thread was cut.
It seemed like something happened, but it also seemed like nothing happened.
With a crisp sound, the huge bodies of the remaining beasts in the air, the still remaining beasts in the city, and the "remaining beasts" sleeping in the ruins of the Yi Ce Bureau all disappeared.
They, along with the blue castle that originally covered the city center, all disappeared into the night. Just like the spell that Cinderella received from the fairy in the fairy tale, all the magical, dreamy and extraordinary things turned into nothingness with that slight crisp sound.
After the ball, Cinderella became Cinderella again, and everything that should return to reality returned to its original state.
People looked at each other, unable to understand what was happening before their eyes - if the damage to the street buildings had not still existed, they would even suspect that the attack by the beasts was just an illusion.
No one noticed that with the disappearance of the remaining beasts, some humans who did not originally exist among them inexplicably appeared in the ruins and were sleeping quietly.
As the instigator of everything, on the scorched earth of the city center, Delphinium was holding a pair of scissors, quietly looking at Moss in front of her.
The remains of the giant moth no longer existed, leaving only an old woman in black robes. She was kneeling on the ground in a daze, staring at her hands in a daze.
There was nothing left there except a tiny purple-black crystal.
"My experiments, my plans, my power, my revenge..."
She raised her head and looked at Delphinium: "What have you done? Without these, how can I take revenge on the magic kingdom and kill all those high and mighty magic girls in power?"
"How can you do all this... I'm just a former karuta who was seriously injured, whose magic suit is incomplete and who can't even use all of my abilities. How can you take away all of this from me!"
"Such a terrible rule, such an unreasonable rule, on what basis can you use it at will!"
"Gain together? Lose together? What a bullshit! The concept of limiting yourself to crippled beasts, don't you magical girls have to pay for everything?"
"Why would you not pay any price for using such an ability?"
She screamed hysterically, "This is not fair, why! Why!"
Delphinium still looked at Moss calmly.
"you're right."
She spoke slowly: "Everything has a price."
——Crack, crack.
As she finished her words, the small, cracked pair of tailor's scissors in her hand finally made a crisp sound under the heavy weight. The cracks on the scissors spread wildly, eventually completely penetrating the blade, turning the scissors into countless pieces.
Then, as Moss watched, Delphinium's scissors broke.
Just like the ruler she once lost, as another form of weaving life, the scissors seemed to have completed its mission and turned into countless debris after doing all this. Completely disappeared.
"Rules are rules, and magic suits are magic suits. If you use magic suits to change the rules, you will have to pay the price."
As if she didn't feel the scissors in her hand disappear, Delphinium said to Moss expressionlessly: "Now, there are no rules between you and me."
Moss ignored Delphinium's words. She watched the scissors break, her eyes wide open, as if to confirm whether this was real. When she found out that Delphinium really couldn't reunite them, she let out a "huh" in a somewhat collapsed tone.
"Magic suit? The price is actually your magic suit! Hahaha!"
She stood up awkwardly, her messy golden hair covered with the beast's body fluids, sticking to her cheeks. "You are such a lunatic! You monster! You actually destroyed your magic suit to weaken my power! How can there be a magical girl as crazy as you! Is there something wrong with your brain?"
"I know which is more important, the magic suit or this city, or the power or my own descendants."
Delphinium shook her hands, looked at her palms in a daze, and raised her head again: "It's just a pair of scissors. In exchange for a miracle to save all this, I have earned too much."
"Mad man... Mad man..."
Moss muttered, standing up straight. "Hahaha! Crazy! You're a mentally ill, self-abusing lunatic!"
"That's ridiculous coming out of your mouth."
Delphinium breathed a sigh of relief, took a step forward, and walked towards Moss: "I admit that this is the funniest thing you have said tonight."
"Still bluffing!"
Moss stared at Delphinium with hatred, and then she opened her mouth and revealed a crazy smile: "You can't use Wonderland anymore! You lost your magic suit! You don't have much magic power left! How do you think you can beat me now?"
"I don't have the beast organs anymore, but I still have magic power and my spells. I have much more magic power than you do, and my condition is much better than yours!"
"Ace versus Ace, joker versus joker, when all the big cards are used up, it's all about who has more quality cards, idiot! What capital do you have to trade now? Admit it, you've already lost!"
"You're done. I will definitely torture you in the most cruel way. I will make you regret everything you did tonight. None of those brats over there will escape either. I will make you..."
Bang! “Ouch!
With a muffled sound and Moss's strange cry, she flew out heavily.
Cuiqiao retracted her fist, raised her hand calmly, and rolled up the sleeves of her dress, revealing her slender and white arms and a pair of fists that didn't look very intimidating.
But just now, it was this kind of fist that hit Moss's face hard.
"Have you said enough?" she asked calmly.
"What the hell are you doing!" Moss covered her face and got up from the ground angrily.
"I don't want to listen to your nonsense anymore, just end it quickly."
Delphinium raised her chin expressionlessly and raised her fist: "Next, I will smash your stinky face with my fist, scum."
"With your fists..."
Moss listened to her words in a daze, then grinned again: "Hahaha! Use your fists? Come on if you can! You psychopath!"
But before she could stand up again, she saw the blue magic power suddenly surge in front of her. A blue track flashed past her, and the delphinium was approaching her again.
Then, a fist hit her face hard again.
boom! This time, Moss was like being hit by a large vehicle. She flew into the air from her original position and then crashed directly into a half-remaining building nearby, causing a ground full of broken bricks and tiles.
Delphinium raised his fist and appeared from where he was just now, looking at the broken building expressionlessly: "Okay."
Then, a trail of magic lighted up from under her feet, and she flew out again at an extremely fast speed, as if she had suddenly disappeared.
Moss would never understand why a magical girl was so good at hand-to-hand combat.
What she didn't know was that when she first obtained Fate Weaver, in order to make up for the weak combat power of her own magic suit, the method that Cuique thought of was - fighting.
Even if the magic armor is ineffective, the magic power still exists. Just use appropriate auxiliary spells to block long-range attacks, and the rest can be solved by close combat.
Therefore, hand-to-hand combat is actually something that Delphinium is extremely good at.
The blue magic trail kept flashing and shuttling in the building. Moss was like a ping-pong ball, being hit repeatedly in the air, flying everywhere, without any ability to fight back.
Every punch hit her face hard, and every punch hit her nose hard. Moss felt dizzy and couldn't even tell the direction.
At first, she was somewhat dismissive of Delphinium's acrobatic attack, but as his fists hit her face again and again, and her gums and nose made sounds of being unable to bear the weight, she finally felt a little scared.
She realized the underlying reason why Delphinium chose to fight this way - to vent her anger.
He punched her in the face again and again, not for anything, just to vent his anger.
Her teeth were knocked out and her nose was broken. With Delphinium's heavy punches, no matter how extraordinary Moss's physical fitness was, she could not withstand such damage.
"Ah! Is that enough?"
So she struggled and started to fight back, dodging and trying to fight back: "You are an idiot like a bull!"
She also punched Delphinium on the arm and yelled hysterically: "Who do you think you are? Do you think you are a righteous army? You are just a running dog abandoned by the country!"
"The ruthlessness of the royal court and your own ruthlessness have brought you to this point. You still claim to be righteous and want to judge me here?"
"Look at your barbaric and ugly appearance now. Have you ever thought about what those truly high and mighty gemstone scepters are doing now? You are fighting for life and death here, while they are enjoying black tea, fine wine and comfortable sleep!"
"I wanted to declare war on those people, I wanted to crush their rule, but you destroyed everything! It's all gone! I have nothing left!"
After being hit hard in the face by Delphinium again, she fell to the ground, but got up again, extremely emotional: "You don't understand my hatred at all! I am right, I am righteous, there is no reason for me to lose!"
"Mortals simply don't have the power to resist the kingdom. The only way to take revenge on the kingdom is to borrow the power of the remaining beasts. If I hadn't done this, how would I have the strength to fight back against the kingdom!"
"You magical girls simply don't understand the helplessness and pain of mortals. You were chosen by the country at a young age and have powers far beyond those of mortals. And no matter how much magicians like us train, we can't catch up with you! This is not fair at all!"
"How desperate! A mere mortal wants to take revenge on those high and mighty magical girls. What else can I do? What else can I choose besides the power of the remnant beast?"
"You say I'm evil? You say I'm scum? Then tell me - if you also have a daughter, if your daughter also sacrificed in vain and was treated coldly by the country, with no benefit in front of her and no reputation after her death, what would you choose?"
"When you can only silently attend your daughter's funeral and cannot express any pain, what other methods do you have for revenge besides choosing the power of the crippled beasts!"
She grabbed Delphinium's collar fiercely and yelled almost in her face, "You don't understand at all! Cornflower!"
“…I have a daughter.”
But Delphinium suddenly said this.
She looked at Moss expressionlessly, and said slowly in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "She is also a magical girl, but she met your people a few months ago when she was just starting out."
"If one day she dies because of the country's fault, then I will definitely find the person involved and decide life and death. But now, as I said before, I only have one thing to do."
She looked into Moss's eyes and said, "I won't let her get into danger. Before anything happens, I will beat up those bastards who threaten her safety with my fists. I will beat the stinky faces of beasts like you into scum as good as your character."
Moss stared at the delphinium blankly.
She tried hard to understand the meaning of Delphinium's words, and then, as if she had finally figured out something, she cursed, "So it's you! So that's how it is! I understand! I don't understand! How can this be possible! This is impossible!"
"That's why you weren't affected at all after meeting me! That's why you always show up the first time that man is in danger! That's why you care so much about Sakura's death!"
"Hongsi and that bitch! She actually lied to me. She hid the most important thing!"
She pulled her hand out, and using her size advantage, she pushed Delphinium to the ground, then grabbed Delphinium's hair and started tearing it: "You have a secret! You have a huge secret! I must beat you! I want to know what your secret is, and I still have a chance!"
Two figures, one big and one small, rolled over and fought on the ground.
The two of them had no demeanor like a magician and a magical girl, and they were fighting each other like the most despicable street fight. At first it was unclear who would win, but soon Delphinium inexplicably gained the upper hand, seized the situation from the chaos, and once again, hit Moss hard on the nose.
Phew!
This punch directly broke Moss's already injured nose, and blood gushed out.
Delphinium pursed her lips, her eyes were red, and she said nothing. She held Moss's forehead, knelt on her, and began to hit her face with her fists repeatedly.
In the ruins, only a heart-wrenching muffled sound remained.
Delphinium just kept punching Moss in the face with an expressionless face. There was even blood on her white fists, but she was completely unaware.
Moss's screams gradually became weaker amid the splattering blood, and finally she was out of breath and could not utter a single sound.
Her face was so deformed from the impact that it no longer looked human at all. Mottled bloodstains covered her entire face, and even her facial features could no longer be distinguished.
"You'll be like me."
In a trance, she suddenly said: "The hatred and murderous intent on your face, and the brutality you have always hidden, are the causes that led you to the path I have taken."
"……I won't."
Delphinium put away her fist and gently wiped the blood on her cheek: "I will not lose myself for revenge."
"You will."
Moss's voice was weak: "One day, you will discover the truth about hatred, and you will understand the mechanism of this world. At that time, the only way for you to seek revenge is destruction."
She swallowed slightly and said in a trembling voice, "Look at the expression on your face, that expression is like that of a man-eating devil. You will be devoured by your hatred. The ending of a lunatic like you will not be much better than mine."
Bang! He punched her in the face again. This time, Delphinium didn't hit the bridge of the nose, but hit Moss in the mouth, knocking out several teeth with another punch.
She raised her fist and looked at Moss quietly for a while. Finally, she stopped beating him, loosened her hand on his head, and slowly stood up: "What is the relationship between Anya's death and your Black Dawn? Who is it? Or who is involved? Tell me, I will give you a quick death."
“Huh…huh…”
With blood flowing out of her mouth, Moss also looked at Delphinium. She no longer had the strength to howl, but just slowly revealed a somewhat strange smile.
She opened her scarlet mouth and said in an inarticulate voice: "It's too late..."
"What are you talking about?" Delphinium frowned.
"In this world where the strong prey on the weak, if you don't eat others, you will end up being eaten by others. We are all ingredients on the plate and chess pieces on the chessboard..."
Moss opened her eyes wide and used a subtle voice to entice Delphinium to concentrate. Then she suddenly stretched out her hand, in the shape of a claw, and stabbed at Delphinium's eyes: "Since the success of the Saint Creation Plan and the advent of the Son of God, we have no other choice but to let others manipulate us—"
Despite being extremely weak, her hands burst out with swift speed and attacked Delphinium as if with a last breath. Even at the last moment, she wanted to fight back and hurt the opponent.
But her plan was doomed to fail.
The moment she stretched out her hand, the blade made of magic power pierced through her head and nailed it to the ground.
Delphinium kills her with a masterpiece.
Losing the scissors does not mean that the thread no longer exists. As the only remaining form of weaving life, the masterpiece can still play its role.
She stood up, and several light blades condensed around her, stabbing into the vital points of Moss one by one, until Moss stared motionless and had lost all breath, then she slowly retracted her masterpiece.
Looking at the other person's eyes that were still open, Cuique closed her eyes and slowly loosened her clenched fists.
Moss, also known as Moth, the former servant of the King of Black Dawn, the Director of the Strategy Bureau of Fangting City, and the culprit of the sacrifice incidents in Donghua Prefecture in the past two years, was executed here.
The anger in her heart had not yet subsided, and the boiling hatred was still rolling. She looked at the sky in the distance, which was gradually turning pale, and felt inexplicably empty in her heart.
The moth dies, then what? He avenged Hongsi and the employees of the Yi Ce Bureau, and avenged the danger that Lin Xiaolu had encountered. Then what?
【You will be like me】.
What Moss said before her death seemed like nonsense, but after feeling this sense of emptiness, Delphinium inexplicably understood her own feelings: she wanted to continue, she wanted to find more enemies, and then, personally kill all of them -
"Delphinium?"
A sudden shout sounded behind her.
This was a very familiar voice to Cuiqiao. Even without turning around, she could tell who the voice came from: it was her daughter, Lin Xiaolu.
She slowly turned around and looked in the direction of the voice with her reddish blue eyes, only to see Lin Xiaolu and Bai Jingxuan supporting Xia Liang, the three of them limping towards her.
At this time, Lin Xiaolu was looking at Delphinium hesitantly, with worry and a little fear on her face.
Fear? Is the way I look now scary?
Delphinium couldn't help but think so.
She looked at the three girls in front of her and for the first time found that she didn't know what to say, because she realized: revenge, such bloody revenge, seemed that it should not be seen by children.
Even though she knew that they would understand these things when they grow up, she didn't know how to start now.
She and Lin Xiaolu just looked at each other silently. For a moment, no one spoke.
How similar.
Delphinium suddenly thought so.
Once upon a time, it was precisely because I, as a father, did not want to tell my daughter anything, did not want her to be exposed to anything, and just wanted to take it all on my own that I ended up having that kind of fight with my daughter.
I think this is a kind of protection, but to children, it is actually a kind of adult arrogance.
If I remain silent now and continue to hide everything, will it be...
——"Go back."
Delphinium's complicated thoughts were interrupted because Lin Xiaolu suddenly said this.
There was still a hint of helplessness on her face, but her eyes were full of determination as she looked at Delphinium, and then she slowly stretched out her hand in front of her.
This extended hand seemed to pull Delphinium back to two years ago.
After Anya died, he had a big fight with his daughter. At that time, his daughter chose to run away from home and went to her classmate's house without saying a word, and did not tell him anything.
At that time, Lin Yun searched every street and alley, and finally found the person because the other party's parents leaked the information. It seemed that they were in the same situation at that time. Lin Yun stood outside the door, looking disheveled, while Lin Xiaolu stood inside the door, looking hesitant.
But at that time, it was he who reached out his hand.
That’s what he said then: “Go home.”
Looking at her daughter's outstretched hand, Cuique subconsciously wanted to hold it, but suddenly remembered that her hands were actually covered in blood, which looked very scary.
She didn't want blood on her daughter's hands.
So she withdrew her hand in silence.
Memories and reality overlapped, and in a trance, she seemed to be back in front of the door of the apartment building, standing outside the door, looking at the little Lin Xiaolu hiding behind her classmate. The two of them were separated by the door frame, as if they were divided into two worlds.
She looked at her little daughter, but this time, she didn't dare to reach out her hand.
Then she saw the daughter in front of her move.
Lin Xiaolu suddenly emerged from behind her classmate, jogging all the way, and then her appearance changed, and in the blink of an eye she became the 14-year-old Lin Xiaolu. She rushed to Delphinium and, regardless of her attempt to evade, grabbed her hand, which was supposedly covered in blood, and held it tightly in front of herself.
"Go back."
The daughter spoke to Delphinium again, seriously and solemnly.
At that moment, the cage of past memories seemed to be completely shattered, and Delphinium was pulled back to reality by her daughter's hand. She once again stood under the vibrant sunshine of the early morning.
The girls in front of him were all looking at him, some with serious expressions, some with worry, and some with admiration.
Forget it, never mind.
She wondered in her mind.
Then he opened his arms, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and hugged the girls who rushed over tightly.
I didn't want to divide it into chapters, so I finished writing 12,000 words in one go and uploaded them all together today.
The epilogue and postscript of the first volume will be updated tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)
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