Chapter 529

She was a woman simply wearing a white coat over a teacher's uniform that she wore year-round, but she had striking, silky, and beautiful long, silver-gray curly hair, making her look like a portrait of a beautiful woman who had stepped out of an oil painting.

Her face was breathtakingly beautiful, with a cold and aloof demeanor and deep purple eyes. Even dressed in a simple teacher's uniform, she gave the impression of a fairy who had strayed into the mortal world.

It didn't belong in this ordinary classroom at all.

But everyone accepted it.

He acted as if it were perfectly natural.

Needless to say, Kirishima Ai was dumbfounded.

But under her gaze, the stunningly beautiful gray-haired woman walked to the podium quite naturally, tidied her briefcase, glanced at the stunned Kirishima Ai, and gave a smile that seemed to find it amusing, saying:

"Morning self-study is about to start, why aren't you back in your seat, Kirishima?"

"Is there something strange on the teacher's face?"

At that moment, Kirishima Ai felt—the world had gone mad.

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From early morning self-study until the first Japanese language class of the morning, Kirishima Ai was in a state of contemplating life.

Honestly, does nobody find it strange that a stunningly beautiful teacher with silver hair and purple eyes would be a homeroom teacher here?

Oh, it seems that Professor Roland is the same way.

But that doesn't make sense, does it?

Isn't their homeroom Teacher Haihara?

Although this is still Teacher Haihara, isn't the change a bit too drastic?

So, during morning self-study, Kirishima Ai and Sakaki Chika whispered to each other:

"Um, Chika, don't you have any questions about Teacher Haihara today? Don't you feel anything... different from usual?"

She inquired tactfully.

Upon hearing this, Sakaki Chika slightly raised her head and secretly glanced at Teacher Haihara today, observing her carefully with her clear gaze for a while:

"Is Teacher Haihara wearing a particularly pretty black bow today?"

"Huh? A bow tie, Haihara- sama..."

Kirishima Ai couldn't help but feel confused. She looked up to see if what Chika said was true, and then she saw a tall and slender figure who had appeared in front of her at some point, the shadow of which blocked the morning classroom light.

The silver-haired beauty was indeed wearing a very simple black bow as an embellishment in her sideburns today.

It's kind of... weirdly cute.

"Kirishima, what are you whispering about? Would you like me to hear it too?"

Their homeroom teacher looked down at Kirishima Ai, smiling.

Kirishima Ai's body stiffened slightly, and she gave an awkward, dry laugh.

"It's nothing... it's nothing."

"Keep quiet."

The woman's indifferent tone remained unchanged.

"Yes."

Kirishima Ai had no choice but to lower her head and temporarily give up asking questions.

But even so, this confirmed a fact for her.

In the minds of her classmates, it seems that their homeroom teacher is still Teacher Haihara, but no one thinks it's strange that Teacher Haihara has suddenly changed like this.

Even Sakaki Chika and Kuroki Yuka are the same.

What is going on...

She glanced back and noticed that the seat next to Kuroki Yuka, which originally belonged to Takanashi Shiori, was still empty.

Did Takanashi not come to school today? It doesn't seem like he's late.

I wonder if Takanashi Shiori, like Chika and Kuroki Yuka, has completely forgotten the real situation.

Now, Kirishima Ai is a battle-hardened Magic girl who has seen countless storms.

Similar strange situations have occurred before.

So she began to speculate about the possibilities of the current situation.

Could it be... another dream or something?

But honestly, she couldn't sense it at all. She wasn't the Little White Magic girl she used to be anymore. With her mind clear and her memories intact, why couldn't she feel anything?

After the first class, Kirishima Ai began her own investigation and confirmation.

She first went to the classroom door, to the registration form with the teacher's signature.

In her memory, the place would simply have the surname "Haihara" written on it.

Now it says "Haihara Lilith" instead.

"..."

What is all this nonsense?

Kirishima Ai has always been a straightforward person.

In Maple Plain City, she is also known as a kind-hearted and righteous young woman, and a headstrong and reckless woman.

So, after a long period of deep thought—a morning self-study session, another class, and then a two-minute break— Kirishima Ai immediately finalized her plan: to confront the Teacher Haihara behind all this offline.

"Teacher Haihara, I have a question."

Not long after class ended, Teacher Haihara, who was about to go to her office to get some snacks, was stopped by the biggest Problem Child in the class.

The woman turned her head:

"Kirishima, you should know that I teach Japanese, right?"

This kind of conversation seems to have happened before.

"Yes, yes."

Kirishima Ai clasped her hands together and obediently placed them in front of her, striking a pose like a model student.

A determined gaze, filled with an insatiable thirst for knowledge.

Haihara... Haihara Lilith- sensei, upon hearing this, pinched her chin and pondered for a moment.

She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear:

"Okay, let's go."

The answer was concise and clear.

With that, she continued walking toward the office, and Kirishima Ai, who had done similar things many times before, followed her.

Behind Lilith, Kirishima Ai at the silver-haired woman's retreating figure.

How should I put it? It looks like Lily, but it definitely feels like the Teacher Haihara I remember.

No, they're actually the same person.

After Haihara Lilith entered the office, Teacher Haihara Kirishima Ai a large bag of snacks on her desk. Although various snacks were often kept there before, it was rare to see so many.

Lilith sat down in her swivel chair, casually pulled out a box of chocolate bars, tore it open without hesitation, and then used her slender fingers to pick up the chocolate bars one by one and start biting into them.

The pearly teeth snapped against the chocolate bar with a crisp sound.

The woman ate a chocolate stick while staring at Kirishima Ai, and said expressionlessly:

"You can ask now."

"Ah....@?1#I_?() [... Okay."

Kirishima Ai took a deep breath:

"Teacher, what's going on?"

She asked very directly.

Haihara didn't answer immediately. She slowly swallowed the snack, then said calmly, "---"

What do you mean?

"The others don't seem to remember what happened before, and they don't find anything strange about it. What exactly did you do?"

It was that crunching sound of a chocolate stick being bitten off again.

Kirishima Ai remembers that chocolate stick was really sweet. When she shared it with her teacher before, the teacher only took one bite and then lost interest.

"Hmm... like, getting the world back on track or something?"

The teacher in front of her smiled.

"... No, what kind of normal course is this? And why did you come to school looking like this?"

Now that things have come to this point, why would I still come to this school...?

She didn't understand at all.

"You ask why? Well, I've always looked like this from the beginning. I don't think anyone else in this school has any issues with my appearance, right?"

Haihara Lilith's expression was indifferent, one hand supporting her pretty face, as if it were perfectly natural.

That appearance was something Kirishima Ai couldn't understand.

Her voice became less confident and softer.

"Is this... another dream?"

"You're more like talking in your sleep, Kirishima. I don't need to do such trivial things."

Compared to the past, Teacher Haihara's tone is now gentler, and her expression seems more emotional.

But it didn't make me very happy.

Before she knew it, she had finished a bag of chocolate sticks. Lilith didn't seem to mind consuming so much sweetness, and even planned to have another bag later.

"What's wrong?"

She couldn't understand.

"Hmm, there are many methods. Even you can alter the memories of ordinary people who witnessed your transformation, right? Of course, I can do it even better."

"Besides, turning back time and making it seem like I've been teaching here like this from the beginning is also a way."

"There are many more; you can choose one you like to imagine."

The woman before me is, in truth, the strongest Magic girl in history.

Although Kirishima Ai had never witnessed its true power before that battle, the other Magic girls and Monster who had acquired a portion of its power were enough to glimpse even a fraction of its potential.

Even so, it's still hard to imagine.

"You can even do something like that?"

"I remember, didn't R'lyeh call the Overlord an omniscient and omnipotent Witch? Didn't anyone tell you that?"

"That... isn't an exaggeration?"

"It's about half and half. Theoretically, I need to defeat Her R'lyeh Her Majesty the Queen and eliminate the interference of the Genesis Crystal to obtain true omniscience and omnipotence. Wasn't that what happened when my rebellion failed back then?"

Even so, it's enough.

In other words, this is not a dream.

It was the real reality, but for some reason, everyone except Kirishima Ai had their perceptions altered, and they only remembered the teacher standing before them who was Haihara Lilith.

After realizing this reality, for some reason, Kirishima Ai wished it were just a dream.

Her initially calm expression turned slightly tense.

They should have offered some more convincing and rational arguments.

However, Kirishima Ai felt increasingly strange, and finally, when she realized what was happening, she blurted out—

"... Change back to normal."