After returning to Sequence 3, the Demoness of Unaging, Harley gathered up the magic power dispersing around her and soothed the overly active forces within her body. Then she stretched contentedly.
She felt as though she had just woken from a long sleep, full of energy after emerging from Slumber.
Ever since returning to the magical world, Harley had never felt so relaxed, as if every shackle had fallen away.
A mass of black flame sprang from Harley's hands, whirling freely around the room and changing into various shapes without damaging a single object.
Harley herself made no movements and didn't use her Mythical Creature Form. Her eyes simply shone with a faint green light.
In an instant, the black flames froze in midair and swiftly turned gray. The flames and everything else within Harley's field of vision turned to stone.
Then the petrification receded like a tide. Every petrified object except the flames returned to its original material.
Without Harley giving an invisible shriek, the deep blue halo symbolizing Frozen World surged directly out of her body.
The stones formed from the black flames froze instantly, then burst into fragments in midair and finally dissipated completely into magic power.
Spider Silk, hair, traveling through mirrors... Harley quickly tested all kinds of abilities, and they were all significantly more powerful than before.
Finally, Harley gave a slight twirl in place, and a curious sight appeared:
Her figure and all her clothes began to shrink, changing until she was about six or seven years old, at her cutest.
The clock on the wall suddenly moved to midnight under some inexplicable force and began turning from the start.
With every full turn of the second hand, Harley's body seemed to grow a year older.
From a soft, adorable six- or seven-year-old, to