Reincarnated as the Narrow-Eyed Character in a Magical Girl Battle Story

After the white flash of light passed by.

The opaque forms of Erebus and the Goddess of [Death] appeared.

Black fragments gathering again beneath the pointed halo.

Only faint remnants remained, like shimmering light in the dark night.

Erebus, born of a destiny to endlessly divide and multiply her very existence, was almost completely dissipated, then rapidly regenerating. The avatar left behind by the Goddess of [Death], perhaps due to the unstable descent, instead flickered like mist, leaving only a weak presence.

What was certain was that, with my sudden attack, they had barely managed to hold onto their forms by mobilizing all their transcendent powers, and that considerable strength had been consumed in doing so.

“Gah…?!”

Hoo…

Erebus charged at me by kicking up the stairs. The black starlight streaming from her entire body, like tentacles, sought to absorb the white starlight enveloping me with the help of golden energy.

Goooorrrr!!!

The black and white were alternately pulling and pushing against each other.

Facing each other beneath the Throne of Nihility, created by a false miracle.

Me and Erebus.

The brightest starlight and the darkest starlight met, creating a sharp boundary, like the darkness just before dawn. The black and white starlight completely separated a space of several hundred meters as they absorbed and repelled each other.

Fssssssh!!!

Erebus was emanating the power of [Greed] to directly usurp me, the most threatening divinity, instead of confronting the unstable avatar left behind by the Goddess of [Death], who was barely existing.

[Greed] Magical Girl Unique Skill

Great Greed’s Transgression

Helping her usurp even the distorting deity that twisted herself.

Her unique skill, infused with golden energy, was certainly taking away divinity bit by bit.

But what she was overlooking was.

“My starlight is bound to everyone’s hope, shining infinitely.”

Would it look like the image of someone connecting a pump to seawater and grinning maliciously?

“If the opponent hadn’t been me, she probably would have usurped even the divinity and become the strongest magical girl.”

Before the fight, the heretic, shaking me with the most intense temptation, had completely twisted the fates of the gods and the world to suit herself.

Perhaps because it wasn’t so far removed from my own appearance, which had been meddling recklessly with the fate of a world that should have perished, and because I could understand the fragments of her selfishness that felt entirely reckless.

I felt like I might empathize with the wish that resided within that ugly form.

That I might understand how that ugly form had come to be.

I wanted to cut it off more resolutely.

Because the path I tread now had the dreams and futures of many people hanging in the balance.

What looked like a shortcut was now a path that fled from everything, running further away than before.

I still declared to Erebus, who was seeking to absorb the infinite starlight.

“It’s useless.”

“Do you even know what I’m trying to do?”

“Pointless.”

While fending off Erebus’s incessant invasions and attempts at soul usurpation, I gradually formed a white scythe, and as Erebus was bewildered by the infinite starlight that could never be dominated by her power of [Greed], she quickly retreated.

The raised hand was filled with the will representing billions of souls still fracturing.

Commands directed at the legions endlessly flowing from the crack into chaos.

Erebus’s enormous halo began to glow.

“Legions of [Greed]!! Usurp the Throne of Nihility, where the three goddesses’ essence resides!!”

Ahhh…!! The power of the goddess!! The one who toyed with us…!!

The goddess who tore our fates apart!!

Take it all away!!

– Hikari-chan!! Be careful!! They’re all coming up suddenly!!

– Leader!! I’ll be there soon!! Wait!!

The magical girls of [Plague], endlessly pouring out from beneath the crack, faced the yellow meteors, green giants, golden sickles, and lavender violets.

The legions of [Greed] that imitated the starlight of the magical girls from the ruined world.

Legions that siphoned the surrounding starlight just by existing.

A massive wave of black starlight, perhaps tens of thousands strong, surged up from the crack and the battlefield, rushing toward the stairs leading to the Throne of Nihility. Their coming was like a gigantic black wave crashing over the red sky.

Whoooomm—

A single phrase uttered by countless black magical girls echoed with a thundering resonance, enough to send chills down one’s skin.

– Alert from each minor crack! The magical girls of [Plague] that appeared in each crack are returning into the cracks!!

– Alert from Elysion Observatory!! Over tens of millions of [Plague] magical girls are pouring out from the fracture of trials!!

Concentration of all forces.

“……”

What had appeared to be a massive black wave gradually drew closer, enough for everyone’s expressions to be visible, and I could hear Yuki and Hecate casting spells to protect themselves behind me.

– Hikari-chan!!

– Hikari-yan!!

From far away, golden, yellow, green, and lavender starlight were cautiously approaching, protecting themselves.

A swarm of magical girls cloaked over the coniferous forests of Siberia like clouds.

They were cursed magical girls using their starlight-stealing abilities as if it were second nature, advancing to usurp starlight and fate, and even the world itself.

There were so many that my white starlight and the unique skills of the magical girls could not handle them all.

Our new fate!!

We will reclaim this world!!

Revenge on the goddess…!

We crave it!!

We long for tomorrow!!

Tatatatatatatatatt!!!

Uuuaaaah!! Give it back!!! Everything! Give it baaaack!!!

From somewhere, the fire of a machine gun approached, spewing black starlight. A fake Lena came near, avoiding Himari, who was desperately trying to keep the 2-Star fake magical girls in check.

The ferociously twisted face of the fake Lena.

The face of the fake magical girl mimicking Lena.

Perhaps ‘originally’ Lena’s face.

– Boss, living together with Nanami, Kohane, and Kaede isn’t bad. I haven’t found my dad yet, and the kids haven’t found their families either, but… tomorrow might be better, right?

I recalled Lena’s face when she apologized for what had happened in Kabukicho, revealing that she had secretly sent her wages received anonymously from Sumire to cover the repair costs of the Kabukicho shops.

To protect Lena’s life, as she was living here now and trying to move forward despite being full of mistakes.

I struck down the approaching fake Lena with my white scythe.

The white trajectory it carved was so sharp that it cleanly lopped off the broken remnants of the girl whose fate had been completely ruined by the gods without causing her any pain.

Shooooosh—!!

Grrrkkk…?!

And behind that, other faces of Sumire, Natalia, and Lee Hua arrived, deploying their unique skills.

Contaminated unique skills by black starlight.

Navy blue spear.

Lavender blade.

Murky lightning.

“Descendant, I will assist you in focusing.”

As the three magical girls charged, Hecate fired a silvery white bow to hold them back. Shooting hundreds of branching silvery white arrows, she turned back for a moment.

A faint smile lingered on her lips.

“Thank you, for choosing this world once more.”

“…What for?”

To bring peace to the remnants of all the magical girls rushing in from the destroyed world, and to prevent Erebus’s selfishness from devouring this world, I aimed my white bow once more at Erebus.

What was rushing toward us was the massive wave of magical girls.

Infinite starlight.

A world created not just by the will of the stars, but also by human dreams.

So that their great power could no longer divide and multiply in one blow.

“With all my strength… with all my might. For your rest.”

And a warm white flame ignited behind me, supporting my choice. Even amidst the temptations of Erebus, who had suggested I depart to another universe, I firmly believed I would not choose that.

The girl surrounded by the warm white flame, now turned warmer than red, bloomed a gigantic flame lotus in her hands.

As the tightly gathered flower buds gradually bloomed, it emitted a gentle light akin to the loving warmth the girl possessed.

Each petal of the lotus, starting from the palm, grew larger and larger, warmly enfolding everything.

Becoming a massive white flame flower that protected both of us, as well as everything we sought to safeguard.

[Love] Magical Girl Unique Skill

Love’s White Fire

The immense love lotus warmly surrounded and protected us from the charging tens of millions of magical girls. Hundreds of petals danced wildly, granting us a moment’s respite from the malicious, charging legions.

Erebus, who controlled [Plague] and [Greed], concealed herself within the enormous wave made of black magical girls, as that great wave charged to break through the dimensional barrier hiding the Throne of Nihility.

I felt the starlight of Erebus hiding in that mass and aimed my arrow.

Though obscured by so many magical girls, it wasn’t entirely certain.

Yet, thanks to the gap Yuki provided, I was once again able to calmly aim at Erebus.

“Thank you.”

“No, thank you.”

Yuki grasped my hands from behind.

The warmth of our overlapping hands.

The warmth felt within.

No longer did I see any of the hesitation displayed by the weak girl from the novels I had once seen.

What we lived in was not the world of those stories, but rather the reality that came after.

Fsssssssssh—!!

The gentle white starlight began to gather above, now infused with the warm white flame.

“Leader!!”

Ichika, approaching with urgency, infused green starlight into the arrow inscribed upon my tightly held shoulder.

Ichika, who trusted me.

“Hikari-chan!!”

From the small palm that wrapped around my waist, yellow starlight approached with dazzling brilliance.

My friend, Hana.

“Hikari-yan!”

With a resolute voice, Sumire approached, lavender starlight descended from the flowing fabric of her kimono.

Sumire, who bore the responsibility for the world I had opened up.

[Trust]

[Friendship]

[Responsibility]

Ah.

The world we had created had certainly surpassed its original fate.

So much so that even the gap we transcended appeared as a new fate.

I understand now.

The second epithet was likely.

“Those who have transcended the original fate because of me. Those who forged a new destiny.”

Hana.

Ichika.

Sumire.

This world has changed because of me, and I have also changed because of this world.

A different fate blossomed within this altered world, unlike that of Dorim and Himari.

A testament that told us we had progressed far beyond the previous world.

A testament that proclaimed our complete severance from the fate of destruction.

‘I have definitively changed the fate of this world.’

I was no longer an outsider in this world.

Realizing this, I fired a colossal arrow of miracle toward the approaching tens of millions of [Greed].

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