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However, they then suddenly turned their gaze to the enthusiastically eroding Ellie.

Immediately afterwards, the other Herrschers also looked at Airi.

"Why are you looking at me?" Ellie asked, somewhat puzzled.

The other Herrschers knew what Ellie was planning to do next because Ellie had been talking about her plans everywhere. However, it was hard to say what Ellie would do next.

In short, the Herrschers looked at Ellie with a mixture of subtlety and pity.

More importantly, none of Airi's familiar dimensional fairies are particularly good at fighting.

"It's nothing," the Herrschers almost unanimously shook their heads.

Ellie was even more confused.

At this time, in the college dormitory

Wei Hua pushed open the dormitory door and walked in. She looked around and saw that it was exactly the same dormitory as the one in the academy on Earth.

Aside from lacking any sense of everyday life.

Wei Hua returned to her bedside and collapsed onto it.

Gabriel

"Um"

Gabrielle stared blankly at the scenery outside the window.

Weihua wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say.

However, at this moment, her phone suddenly received a call from an unknown number. Where did this phone come from?

Wei Hua answered the phone with some doubt.

A moment later, Wei Hua hung up the phone.

The room fell silent.

"My parents' phone call..."

Wei Hua said slowly, somewhat dazed.

Gabriel paused for a moment, then turned to look at Mika. She remembered that Mika's family had died long ago in the Thunder Witch incident.

"They're all fine, and they've seen what I've been up to all these years."

Wei Hua felt somewhat lost and confused.

After her family died, Mika lived in an orphanage, where she met Gabriel and Lucifer. They grew up together and eventually became magical girls.

However, she then discovered that her family was actually still alive and well, seemingly having been taken away by the Thunder Witch.

“You’re doing well; you have family who care about you,” Gabriel smiled.

When Gabriel was a baby, her parents died in a car accident, and she was sent to an orphanage. She didn't have many feelings about her parents because she had never had any since she was a child.

"Huh? What are you saying? Aren't I your family? Haven't I cared about you?" Wei Hua raised an eyebrow.

Gabriel turned her head to look out the window and gave a soft hum.

"Uh, what do you two want for lunch?"

"Beef rice bowl," one of the "old three dishes."

Gabriel and Mika answered instinctively, a response they had naturally repeated countless times over the years.

However, they then turned to look at the doorway.

Lucifer stood coolly by the door, one hand on her hip, carrying three portions of food that had already been served.

"What? Stunned?" Lucifer chuckled.

“Fei’er…” Wei Hua’s eyes held a complex expression, while Gabriel kept her head down.

For a moment, they were both a little confused, but when they saw Lucifer, who was still the same as before, Mika and Gabriel both breathed a sigh of relief.

That's right, Phil is still Phil. She is the Herrscher of Binding, Gretchen, and also the Lucifer that Mika and Gabriel know. Although her identity is different, she is still herself.

"uh-huh?"

Lucifer raised her hand and shook the rice in it.

Wei Hua stepped forward to take the lunch, breathed a sigh of relief, and revealed a bright smile.

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Chapter 501 Awakening Thirteen Days Later

Xia Die is tidying up the remains of the magical girls who have died before her. With her light and skillful movements, the dead girls are gradually returning to their appearance as they were in life.

Despite knowing that they were not actually dead, Xia Die still carefully performed the encoffining ceremony for the magical girls.

More than 10,000 magical girls.

Although there were many people, Xia Die opened the barrier at the entrance to the Underworld Sea, so the outside time could not affect her. She could complete the encoffining of all the girls within 7 days.

A few days later

The Cemetery of a Fantasy Paradise Deep Within the Earth

The remaining magical girls all came here to see off their classmates or upperclassmen and underclassmen.

Alicia was wearing the Power Gloves inlaid with 11 Witch Gems, but she felt no excitement at having resolved the 11th Witch of Bindings; only boundless despair.

In this tragic civil war between magical girls, no one survived; they were all dead.

As the crystal coffins were gradually carried into the tombs, the surviving magical girls, like Alicia, were almost in despair.

"Principal... what do we do... about the future..."

Padofelis's voice was hoarse; she had cried herself hoarse and gone blind, but her magical girl body made it impossible for her to cry herself hoarse and go blind.

She looked at Alicia, pleading with her to give her an answer.

What will become of the magical girls' future?

Even though Padofelis and the remaining magical girls were eagerly waiting, Alicia still couldn't give any answer.

"..."

Alicia didn't know what to do either.

She can't do anything.

She once believed that she, Miu Miu, Amy, and all the magical girls could achieve miracles, defeat the witch, and make everything incredibly beautiful.

But reality is so cruel.

Alicia regretted countless times, hating her past actions, wondering why she only realized her mistakes when tragedy struck.

Seeing her once vibrant students lying dead in front of her, Alicia's heart was utterly shattered.

“A way…” Alicia murmured to herself. What other way was there now?

Even the deus ex machina project, which could reverse time, vanished because of the deaths of Muirsey, Einstein, and Wilhelm.

What other options are there now?

When the witch appears again, the remaining magical girls will be powerless to stop her from completely annihilating humanity.

It is now foreseeable that the future of human civilization will be completely destroyed.

Alicia remained silent and did not give any answer.

Padofelis and the others gradually despaired—no, they had already despaired after seeing the magical girls who had died in the civil war.

Watching the dead magical girls being buried in their graves, watching their surviving classmates erect tombstones for them, watching the students who were like walking corpses.

Her once clear, azure eyes had turned deathly gray. Alicia stood motionless in the cemetery like a withered tree, her eyes unblinking as she stared at the tombstones.

Thirteen days

Alicia stood in this graveyard of magical girls for thirteen days.

Her remaining students also stayed with her in this cemetery, neither eating nor drinking, spending thirteen days and nights lifelessly.

Before anyone knew it, Alicia's deep blue eyes gradually transformed into a bright pink, and her gaze slowly came alive.

"We have one last option."

Thirteen days later, Alicia finally spoke.

Sitting lifelessly on the ground, hugging her knees, Padofelis, utterly despairing, seemed oblivious to the others. The other desperate magical girls around her also slumped to the ground, some weeping silently over the gravestones, others staring motionless at them.

However, a faint, dim light shone within them.

"Let us, together with those who are still willing to follow us, journey into the future!"

"..."

None of the magical girls answered, nor did they even look at Alicia.

Alicia continued.

"The Deus Ex deity project has not completely failed. We can use the Power Gloves to restart the timeline of the Earth-Moon system!"

"But we must work together to avoid the next witch until the new deus ex machina project begins."

After a moment of silence, a voice was heard.

"...What do you plan to do?"

"Deep within my consciousness and heart, I will build an ark capable of carrying everyone to the future."

An ark deep within consciousness and the heart?

"But how can we prevent witches from infiltrating?"

Alicia did not answer, but instead used her fully awakened power, "The Name of My True Self," to connect with the hearts of every magical girl.

The magical girls closed their eyes and felt each other's hearts; each person's thoughts, consciousness, and soul seemed to merge perfectly together at that moment.

They could sense Alicia's heart, a warm harbor, a beautiful hometown, and a flawless paradise.

"What about ordinary people?"

"It is enough to bring along those who still believe in and follow us; my heart can hold every kind and beautiful human being."

Alicia looked at Muirsey's tombstone in the center of the cemetery.

As for those people who lack beauty and kindness in their hearts...

The magical girls haven't forgotten the spark that ignited the civil war, or why Lucifer was able to lead a third of the magical girls, and so many others, on a determined departure.

“Headmistress…” Padofelis looked up and all the magical girls around her were looking at Alicia.

"I'm sorry, everyone. I made so many mistakes before, and I realized them too late," Alicia said, looking at the few remaining students before her. "I killed so many people."

During these days, Alicia thought a lot and realized what kind of responsibility she was shouldering. The fate of billions of people in human civilization rested on her, Muels, and Emilia.

But Alicia discovered that she had never realized this before; she had been protected too well by Miu Miu, Amy, and others.

Human civilization entrusted them with power, and with that power came heavy responsibilities, which Muirsey, Emilia, and many other magical girls fulfilled.

However, Alicia failed to do so. She had always simply regarded herself as a principal who taught students, forgetting that she was also, to some extent, a leader of human civilization.

After paying a heavy price, Alicia finally understood, but the price was too high, and she understood too late.

The magical girls are all looking at Alicia now, and none of them can say that none of this is her fault. If Alicia had understood sooner, Miu Miu and Emily wouldn't have died, and perhaps none of this would have happened.

It's pointless to say anything now.

"I beg you all, please believe in me one more time," Alicia knelt before the remaining students in front of many tombstones, her pink eyes filled with determination and pleading.

Her heart, thoughts, consciousness, emotions—everything about her—was completely and thoroughly connected with each student without reservation.

"......"

The remaining magical girls all looked at Alicia and slowly said in unison.

"After becoming a magical girl and enrolling in St. Freya..."

"We have already entrusted the rest of our lives to you."

"Sister Alicia"

Chapter 502 What is the Holy Mark Project?