After turning it over in her mind, Chu Yuanqing decided the only explanation was the accident onstage.
Although the Lantern Pendant had successfully used the positive emotions of the Live Broadcast Room's viewers to suppress and crush the Sea of Truth's curse, it was itself like a frost-covered blade, dulled by rust. It had nearly limitless potential as a Witch, but its stats were abysmal across the board.
Thinking about it that way, it was still all the Sea of Truth's fault.
Chu Yuanqing was a dazzling rough diamond who had awakened as a Klein right from the start.
But the mottled cracks in her soul had left her Lantern Pendant with Schrödinger's strength.
Call it weak, and it could use feedback from the livestream to gather a Magic Threshold comparable to the Sea Realm's and affect an entire country.
Call it strong, and its actual magic reserves were pitifully meager. It couldn't even cast low-level spells like Water Dragon Bullet or Fire Dragon, making it seem like the most useless Magical Girl around.
It was all rather absurd.
All she could say was that her counterattack onstage had pushed the Lantern Pendant into overdrive. It was only natural for the backlash to hit her afterward.
After all, a Magical Girl's Lantern Pendant was practically her body.
"Outside viewers, positive emotions, magic feedback, resisting the curse, rejection reaction..."
Chu Yuanqing murmured to herself, sorting out the chain of events.
The girl tilted her head slightly and lifted the pendant at her chest. With a slender finger, she poked the dim, shattered glass at its center as if teasing a kitten. Then she watched as it gave a guilty little wobble before immediately going still and pretending to be dead, and let out a helpless sigh.
A Magical Girl's Lantern possessed