Magical Girls Exposed!

"Where are we?"

Reiko looked around, bewildered. "I don't know..."

They had suddenly encountered a Pillar-Tier Demon, then just as suddenly been sucked into a vortex.

Neither of them had any idea where they were.]

Volume Seven, Magic Autumn: Final Trilogy — The Fate of a Speedster...

[Reiko and Shiori's last memory was of the moment the darkness swallowed them.

They didn't know exactly what had happened, but they could guess the Pillar-Tier Demon was behind it.

They had been ready to fight the Pillar-Tier Demon to the death. Neither had expected a vortex to appear and suck them in.

And now they were here.

"What the hell is this place? It looks like... an abandoned city?"

Shiori and Reiko got to their feet, surveying their surroundings as they talked.

Reiko's delicate brows drew together. Holding the new card she had just summoned, she kept watch for any sign of the Pillar-Tier Demon.

But apart from city ruins that looked as though they had been abandoned for centuries, there was nothing living here.

After searching for a while, Reiko seemed to sense something. Her head snapped up.

"Shi... Shiori! Look at the sky!!"

She grabbed her best friend's arm and pointed upward.

The Black Sun hung high overhead. But Reiko wasn't pointing at it. She was pointing at the enormous black thing beneath it.

It was impossible to tell what the thing was. It had no recognizable creature's shape; it looked more like a curtain twisting and flowing in the air.

But that wasn't what mattered. What mattered was the "creature" tangled in its folds!

"Ah... aaagh! Wh... why...! Lord Void... Lord Void! Aaaagh!"

The figure caught in the twisting curtain was a horned woman.

She had long jet-black hair and skin the color of black jade.

A black gown,