In merely the time they had been talking, the sea of ice cream had already risen past their waists.
“Why did it suddenly start melting so fast?!”
Before the words had even finished, the two of them were wrapped by the sea of ice cream and slammed toward the glass at the end of the corridor.
“We fell for its trick!” Seika shouted in the melting ocean. “Even after melting, it can still control this ice cream! From the very beginning, it wanted to use us to escape outside!”
But it was already too late.
In this conscious ocean, they had no purchase at all.
The waves carried them and smashed through the glass, pouring out of the shattered floor-to-ceiling window like a waterfall.
Wind **whooshed** past.
In an instant the two of them were a hundred meters in the air.
And the symbiote had already condensed a human form in midair.
A spinning back-kick carrying enormous force kicked the two of them into the office area on the fourth or fifth floor.
Sakuraraku and Seika had no time to react at all.
They only felt the world spin with a violent pain in their abdomens.
The scene before their eyes blurred at high speed.
When they came back to themselves, they found they had been embedded in a giant LCD screen printed with the Harusame Group logo.
This was the entrance to the office area.
In other words, that single whip-kick from the symbiote had sent the two of them flying nearly a hundred meters.
Their communication devices had long been lost in the fighting.
They could not even call the special operations squad to intercept with Magic Pressure Rounds.
The two of them helped each other up.
Each saw despair in the other’s eyes.
“It’s not time to give up yet. We are magical girls, after all!”
Sakuraraku spoke first.
She wiped the dust from her face, and her sakura-colored eyes recovered their resolve.
“Yes. Protecting civilians is a magical girl’s duty, and it is also the duty of the Harusame family.”
Seika nodded.
A blazing fire burned in both their hearts.
Endless strength seemed to surge through their limbs again.
When they had decided to become magical girls, they had already prepared themselves for battle.
The two of them stood and leapt over office desks and computers smashed into fragments all over the floor, sprinting through a sky full of flying paper scraps.
But at the end of their vision, a figure was faster than they were, streaking past like a black meteor.
By the time the two of them reached the ground, Fox Mask had already sliced the symbiote into countless fragments.
They writhed slowly on the ground, seeming for the moment to have no chance of reassembling.
Fox Mask stood quietly in place.
That blade was thrust straight into the ground, swaying with sakura-pink light under the sun.
The surrounding special operations squad members had already surrounded her heavily.
Some gun muzzles pointed at the ice cream fragments on the ground, while others pointed at Fox Mask’s mask.
Countless red dots crawled across the silver-white mask.
“Don’t shoot!”
Her body moved a step faster than her mind.
Sakuraraku charged into the crowd and stood in front of Fox Mask.
“Miss Sakuraraku?!”
The leading special operations captain was clearly startled and hurriedly ordered the team members to lower their muzzles.
“Fox Mask, thank you.”
Sakuraraku turned back and sincerely thanked Fox Mask.
Even though she knew this was in front of the Demon Hunting Division, the girl before her eyes had truly saved everyone.
Facing Fox Mask, she always felt a little awkward.
She did not know how the masked girl before her eyes actually saw her.
*An enemy?*
*Or a toy for her amusement?*
*Or a fool who delusionally wanted to save her?*
Sakuraraku did not know.
If she could, she truly wanted to tear off Fox Mask’s mask and ask for her true heart.
But she could not do it.
Fox Mask pulled the blade from the ground and laid it across Sakuraraku’s neck.
“Stay away from me,” she said.
The people around instantly drew in a sharp breath.
In the distance, Seika had already nocked an arrow.
“I only did it to prove that [Night Theater] did not plan this attack.”
Ignoring everyone’s hostility, Fox Mask continued.
She sheathed her blade.
Under everyone’s eyes, she dissolved into fluttering white feathers.
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