Chapter 582
Banyuan also transformed her Magic Armament back into Magic Wand and unleashed the same Magic.
"-------boom!"
The eerie light struck the double crystal Barrier made of illusory light, and all the Magic girls were protected by Star Flower's Magic.
When the ghostly light and the Barrier canceled each other out, the vast amount of Flower Magic Power was transformed into countless scattered petals.
The bursting rainbow light is also bright and beautiful.
This time, before the Overlord could launch another attack, the Banyuan pressed down on another Crystal.
Needless to say.
"Gale ----"
"Transform."
The figure falling from the sky, its black hair whipped by the swirling wind, also caught the flying Crystal with equal precision.
Suddenly, the wind in the sky picked up even more.
Banyuan and the Magic girl raised their crystal spears together.
This time, it was neither offensive Magic nor defensive Magic.
The dazzling crystalline light gathers and illuminates the world.
"------ The World-Cleansing Wind!"
The ever-flowing, cleansing winds and rains wash away filth and impurity. The strong winds sweep away the world tainted by the Magic Power of desire, strip away the blood-red hue of the sky, and purify everything before our eyes with pure, fresh air.
In the end, the remaining Crystal are the Crystal of the Fate Kite.
It is also Lilith's own Crystal.
The Banyuan touched the Crystal that held immense significance for both of them.
Then—finally, the story came to an end.
Volume Four Does This Count as a Magical Girl??: Chapter 91 The Myriad Desires of the World
Finally, what kind of place is where the story concludes?
A tranquil, empty darkness, yet not so frightening, like a movie theater with the lights off, simply waiting quietly for the next show to begin.
The boundless darkness stretched endlessly into the distance, making one reluctant to look any further.
Like a child who wants to go home after dark.
The Magic girl known as the Overlord stood in the darkness, her beautiful Feather Wing casting even deeper shadows, making one realize that there might still be a glimmer of light here.
She slightly raised her head, a sense of disbelief washing over her.
It's unusually quiet.
There was no sound at all.
For Lilith in the past, from a certain point onward, quiet became increasingly precious.
The voices of those who have passed away are growing louder, and those voices of regret have not faded away for a long time. Nature and all things are filled with the traces of sorrowful rain, and the unresolved obsessions in people's hearts are piling up like mountains.
Lilith always listens to those voices.
Before she knew it, she was overwhelmed by those sorrowful voices.
In the end, he also committed heinous crimes.
And now, those incessant murmurs that have been lingering in my ears for so long have finally gained a brief moment of clarity, becoming peaceful and reassuring.
Compared to her previous hysterical Overlord in the mental world, Lilith now appeared quite calm and natural. Then, she turned around and looked behind her.
"Teacher."
Kirishima Ai was standing there.
Lilith did not respond to the address; instead, she looked at Kirishima Ai's face and gave a faint, cold smile.
Seeing that the other party did not answer, Kirishima Ai continued to ask:
"Do you still intend to wage war in R'lyeh?"
Even at this point, it can't really be said that the Overlord has been defeated. Even though all the planned methods have been used, the opponent has not actually been defeated or sealed.
Everything they've done so far has been nothing more than trying to get Lilith to hear their voices.
The moment the two of them awoke from their mental world, it meant that Lilith had actually been persuaded by them.
Then, Lilith calmly said---
"Haven't you already won?"
She spoke quite calmly and casually, and Kirishima Ai immediately looked as if she knew it, but there were still many things she didn't understand.
Although there seem to be many questions I want to ask and many things I don't understand, when I think of this woman, the first thing I want to ask is something that's not really relevant.
"So you never really intended to do that in the first place?" Kirishima Ai couldn't help but ask.
Lilith smiled:
"Hmm, I guess so."
In the quiet darkness, another silence fell. Lilith's answer made everything seem somewhat absurd, yet also perfectly natural.
So, what is the purpose of all this?
In her exploration of past memories with Professor Roland, Kirishima Ai seems to have found many fragments of the reasons why Lilith did all this.
The reason might be...
"..."
But when the words reached her lips, Kirishima Ai seemed unable to bring herself to say them.
She walked forward, getting closer to Lilith, whose figure was, as always, much taller than hers. She looked up at Lilith, gazing into her eyes where the other woman sometimes looked at her with indifference.
"You look completely different now compared to how you were in your inner world just now."
How should I put it? The Overlord in the mental world should be the other person's most authentic self, with all the disgust, hatred, memories, and madness being real.
But the Lilith before me, calmly facing all of this, doesn't seem like a hypocritical pretense.
It made her feel calm and composed, much like the person she knew.
Even now, the true purpose behind everything Lilith has done remains unclear.
Despite saying they were going to start a war in R'lyeh, they patiently waited for Kirishima Ai to make up their minds and make all the necessary preparations.
It wasn't just Kirishima Ai; everyone else, like the student council president Kuroki Yuka, seemed to have sensed something as well.
However, even though Kirishima Ai herself found fragments in her past memories that seemed to corroborate the present, she still couldn't fully connect them with what the Overlord had done in the past and what he was doing now.
Upon hearing this, Lilith's lips curled into a smile, her gaze somewhat unreadable.
"That was me in the past, corrupted by the Magic Power of the Demon King."
"Her madness and obsession still linger deep within the Devil King Crystal. Even being killed once couldn't purify her, because Al White and the others failed to kill me, the Demon King at the time, in the right way."
Kirishima Ai instinctively wanted to look around to confirm something, but there was only darkness, and the chill of the recent winter seemed to still linger, stinging her thin skin.
"The correct way?"
This sounds like it's quite a problem for Miss Overlord.
Without keeping her in suspense, Lilith quickly answered:
"At that time, I gathered almost all the Magic Power and desire in the world, and in the form of Overlord's obsession, I attached myself to those Devil King Crystal that had already been torn apart by Snake-Type Magic."
"If there were a Magic girl who could defeat the Demon King and purify all the negative Magic Power in the Crystal, just like a hero in a fairy tale, wouldn't that sound amazing?"
"Unfortunately, when they killed me through sealing, those desires and evil thoughts were not purified; instead, they accumulated to an even more dangerous level hundreds of years after I was sealed away."
"Although this pollution no longer affects me, now that I've become Overlord, if left unchecked, the catastrophe that befell the world thousands of years ago will soon return."
To put it more simply, the concentrated pollution and evil thoughts, accumulated over the hundreds of years of being sealed away, have reached a point where they could explode at any moment.
The evidence is the Crystal of Serpent Demon King that has already been born somewhere.
"And it'll probably get even worse."
At this point, Lilith still hadn't explained how to purify the desires and evil thoughts that had gathered from all over the world from the Devil King Crystal.
But Kirishima Ai had already seen it.
In the final battle, the Magic girl Silver Kite cleansed the once corrupted and mad Overlord.
"Silver Feather?"
"Silver Feather."
An answer that is both obvious and unbelievable.
I kind of understand, but I don't quite get it.
"... But by then, Silver Feather himself had already passed away, right? So, it would have been impossible for him to use that Crystal."
Kirishima Ai was confused and bewildered.
Apart from the real Silver Feather, Kirishima Ai couldn't think of anyone else who could use this Crystal.
So what was the Overlord thinking when he created this Crystal to purify himself?
"So this issue has been put on hold until today, darling."
Miss Lilith put her hands behind her back, the Feather Wing at her waist slightly unfurled, and even in the darkness, her pale face remained breathtakingly beautiful, her smile captivating.
Kirishima Ai's face flushed slightly, feeling a strange mix of Teacher Haihara and allure in her voice.
"So, you resurrected Silver Feather and yourself just for this? You want to be defeated by Silver Feather in the end, is that it?"
At this point, everything seems to be gradually becoming clear.
This is the past, the story of Lilith's past struggles and the truth behind her rebellion in R'lyeh and her ambition to become the Magic Girl of the End.
It all sounds perfectly reasonable.
Is it really possible for someone like Yi Qi Lu Yi San Ren Er Er Jiu e, r to accept...?
Upon hearing Overlord, Lilith tilted her head to one side and pondered for a moment.
"Certainly..."
She had seen similar storylines in Magic girl anime.
The evil Demon King, in reality, wanted all evil to be concentrated on himself, so that he could be defeated by the united power of the people, thus bringing about a peaceful and beautiful ending.
So...
"----no."
Lilith said with a smile.
... Huh?
Kirishima Ai tilted her head and blinked blankly.
The Overlord young lady in front of me just seemed to have categorically denied that possibility.
The Overlord, however, seemed to have anticipated this guess and found it somewhat boring.
"Unfortunately, although I had my reasons, I didn't think that far ahead at the time."
"At that time, after hearing those voices of desire, I truly wanted to resurrect everyone."
"I have no doubt that I wanted to achieve that wish, and for that I instigated rebellion and disaster in R'lyeh."
"Perhaps for a time, I regained some of my senses and was willing to actively create opportunities for myself to be sealed away."
"But that's all."
"If they fail in their attempt to seal me away, I will not hesitate to R'lyeh completely and fulfill my wish."
Lilith, no... Haihara, ever since she was little, she's never really liked the idea that a villain who was once universally condemned was actually a good person with unspeakable secrets.
She believes that bad people are bad people, and there's no need to make excuses.
As Overlord brought war and disaster, Lilith ultimately met her end by being killed by everyone, which was a fitting conclusion.