NOVEL NEXT Chapter 126
Chaos intertwined with red and black.
Memories of the stars.
The blasphemous scar created by humanity at the dawn, longing for death.
The last dragon yet to wake lies deep within, waiting to eradicate humanity.
[Plague] and wild boars… the third Trial Monster was fighting.
Kuuwuung——
The fallen giant.
The third monster, which dominated the chaotic space like a massive mountain range, was defeated by the endlessly regenerating and splitting [Plague] Magical Girls. The floor of the chaotic space was filled with the countless fallen [Plague] Magical Girls.
The third monster, meant to weaken humanity before the last dragon awakens, was completely erased in a space unknown to humanity, to absorb starlight for the endlessly multiplying [Plague] Magical Girls to survive.
“Hehe, hehehee!!”
“We won!! We finally won!!”
“Now we can live for a while inside the star’s wound!”
“Hahaha…”
“…….”
“…….”
The emptiness.
In the chaotic space, the [Plague] Magical Girls, who endlessly absorbed monsters to maintain their existence and steal starlight, all looked up at the sky. Even now, all the [Plague] Magical Girls being born endlessly stood there in despair.
They could only gaze at the sky.
“…….”
“…….”
No.
There was no sky.
The children of the stars, humanity, realized that they were divided into land and sky by the Goddess of [Start].
They looked at the world through her, and differentiated countless things by her.
If they escaped from the world she delineated, only the primordial chaos remained.
Primordial chaos.
Will of the stars.
Wound of the stars.
For the beings stemming from humanity, it merely felt empty.
The sky.
The sea.
The wind.
The land.
The fire.
The water.
All just mixed and flowed within the starlight.
Emptiness.
“No.”
“This isn’t it.”
“We can’t live here…”
“Though cursed by the three goddesses, and despite hating the First Goddess…”
“…We still wanted to be born!!”
“We can’t live within the star’s wound.”
The [Plague] Magical Girls, who now endlessly die or are reborn, knew nothing of the world, except for a very biased information. But at least they knew this much: this place was not one where they could live peacefully.
The girl who should have been their eyes had already vanished, drowned by billions of personas.
For the [Plague] Magical Girls, no fate existed.
The fate of emptiness merely stood alone in the universe of emptiness.
“…….”
“…….”
One girl, wrapped in black bandages, reached out toward the sky in a pitiful state.
“Th-this is a lie…! To live in this hellish place, eternally repeating proliferation and annihilation while stealing starlight from monsters…?!”
Next to her, a girl of the same form, in despair, also reached her hands toward the sky.
“No!! We can’t live like monsters!! We wanted to be born into this world!! But I don’t want to live forever in a place like this!!”
Under the massive chasm where the last dragon slept.
“If the fate and starlight meant for one person are split into billions!! There will be nothing left!! All we’ll have is emptiness!!”
Countless girls with the same face cried out.
“Rather, give us trials!!”
“We’ll be the trials!!”
“We’ll take care of humanity!!”
“Please, don’t leave us in a place like this…!”
“Please let us out of here…!”
In a curse of endlessly proliferating and splitting with billions of souls,
While existing only made others weaker and sick in the starlight.
Thousands of [Plague] Magical Girls longed.
To escape their hellishly small bodies and possess their own flesh.
To break free from chaos and live in the world as ‘humanity.’
Longing to become humanity instead of protecting it.
We yearn.
“We’ll do anything!!!”
“Hand us that world.”
Guuwuung———
The enormous will remaining within the wound of the stars permitted it.
Acknowledged the [Plague] Magical Girls as a new trial and a new humanity.
If they became the third trial and cleansed the descendants of sin, they would be allowed to live on the surface of this star under the will of the stars.
Promised to accept the [Plague] Magical Girls who could change their twisted fates beyond the chasm.
“Oh…”
Golden starlight poured down onto the [Plague] Magical Girls just below the vast crevice.
Brilliantly shining yet possessing a massive darkness—a foreboding golden hue that contained secrets older than the [Start] which once differentiated the beautiful within chaos.
Darkness and light, life and death, birth and destruction.
Chiihiiik―!!
The golden starlight clung to the [Plague] Magical Girls like mud, bestowing divinity upon them. From a dimension far higher than the three goddesses, countless memories flowed in.
The originally predetermined fate of the stars.
Foolish humanity, wounding each other out of greed.
Foolish goddesses, who relinquished their existence to return to the flow of the stars.
The fates predetermined for the foolish.
The world of destruction.
“Hehe… what’s this? It was a world destined to fall anyway.”
Magical Girls attacking each other.
Apostles hidden in each’s domain.
Goddesses absorbed by the will of the stars.
Chiihiiik―!!
The fates of destruction, vividly recorded in the records of the timeless universe.
Reaching out to draw in the thousands of starlights that had finished all fights and fallen asleep in different timelines.
Drawing in thousands of fates where souls vanished and only records remained in the darkness.
“If only this, just this would exist…!”
The [Plague] Magical Girl, clad in golden starlight, sprinkled it over the thousands of her that endlessly proliferated behind her. She transferred it to the [Plague] Magical Girls, who had a fate of being empty and incapable of possessing starlight.
Creak——
Creak——
Thousands of scales of greed moved, absorbing the starlight.
Absorbing the starlight recorded in the history of destruction, they also absorbed the fates they had taken and the dreams twisted by their paths.
Grrggrg
The forms of all the girls except for the one at the very front changed by the starlight.
Changing, dyeing countless colors into darkness.
It was an appearance that anyone could see was foreign and creepy, but it was the only form permitted to the [Plague].
Longing.
Even if we are forsaken by fate, we long.
Lightning
Navigation
Freedom
Guardian
Machine Gun
“Justice… it’s fleeting and hollow. That’s why it’s noble.”
“On the vast sea, there’s no place for humans.”
“There’s no freedom in this world. Thus, I take revenge on those who stole freedom.”
“All that has been kept is an illusion, merely floundering in the past’s pit.”
“It wasn’t a toy I held while waiting for my family. This is a weapon that kills.”
The girls, now changed, quietly muttered.
Now absorbing the once genuine fates turned false.
Transforming while donning the false selves.
Reflecting on their vanished history.
Collecting and mimicking the fake memories of the girls who had already died.
“We are fake.”
“Even if that’s so.”
“We long.”
What we wanted was not destruction.
What we wanted was not emptiness.
“Ah yes. What we long for is not emptiness or destruction…! We are beings who seize all fates! The plague of greed!!”
The [Plague] Magical Girl, now clad in golden starlight, wore a dress with patterns of darkness that mimicked the skies of the destroyed fates, scattering the golden darkness while extending her hand toward the [Plague] Magical Girls who had mimicked the Magical Girls lost in destruction.
Four black stars.
Soaring divinity.
“We are darkness.”
Darkness that seems ready to engulf the world.
As the [Plague], not the hollow.
We seize and mimic the fates that slept within the time of destruction.
We are both [Plague] and [Greed].
Having possessed nothing, we mimic and seize everything.
Fully bloomed 4-star [Greed] Magical Girl
Erebus
“Fates, worlds, dreams, and time—all shall be seized.”
Human beings living in the Age of Greed.
Goddesses who cursed us.
All those who reject predetermined fate.
This is a massive rebellion of the forsaken, pitiful fate.
Only the wound of the star embraced us.
The [Greed] shouted before the Magical Girls who accepted the false fate.
“Let’s absorb what the [Start] irresponsibly left behind!”
“Let’s usurp the three goddesses who only left us endless deception and curses!”
“Let’s seize this world for us to live, as we endlessly split!”
On the day the third trial opens.
We will challenge them.
To establish a world only capable of making others sick with nothing to possess.