Magical Girl Fate Kite froze for a moment—
"Hina..."
She tried to get up, but it took some effort...
Hina was now the Devil King's vessel. If the Devil King had suffered such an injury, then her little sister...
The Devil King's body gradually dissipated, leaving only a girl lying quietly in the woman's arms with her eyes closed.
The girl wore nothing, and the woman gently extended an arm to shield her from some of the rain.
"Don't worry. She's fine."
The woman's voice was hoarse and cold.
It sounded somewhat familiar... yet she couldn't remember where she had heard it.
Then, the woman shook the Magic Crystal in her hand.
"But I'll be taking this."
It was the crystal belonging to the avian Devil King, as well as the Devil King's true body.
Perhaps they should not have allowed someone of unknown identity to take that thing, but none of them was currently capable of stopping her.
"Well then, farewell, magical girls."
The woman placed Kirishima Hina beneath the statue in the square, sheltering her beneath the umbrella beside it.
"Wait, who exactly are you...?"
Takanashi Shiori endured her trembling as she looked toward the witch within the black mist, whose magic power was terrifying beyond words.
That presence... even she had no idea who this person was.
She was completely different from ordinary magical girls, yet she was definitely not a Black Magical Girl...
Nor could she be a Monster.
"Hmm..."
The woman merely raised her head slightly and said coldly—
"For now... I suppose I count as a magical girl."
That answer made the other three breathe a sigh of relief.
But as the woman toyed with the one-of-a-kind Devil King Crystal in her hand, she suddenly smiled.
"Only..."
The woman walked step by step toward