(Miluno)
"No, not necessarily."
"Hm? What do you mean, not necessarily?"
"It's nothing. Let's create the world first~"
Mi Xue stopped halfway through her sentence, keeping something hidden. Who knew what odds of victory she had discovered.
Within the empty field of vision, Mi Xue, as the Creator, began to paint the world.
Perhaps she was skilled, or perhaps she had already prepared a copy in advance.
The world formed so quickly that the naked eye could not keep up. In the span of a breath, that vibrant blue planet smacked right into my face—in simpler terms, I fell into the ocean.
"Wha—glub glub glub!!"
Unable to tell east from west in the pitch-black water, I could only swim upward by instinct. Before breaking the surface, I swallowed a mouthful of saltwater. It was hard not to suspect Mi Xue had done it on purpose.
Still, thanks to that, I had escaped the Lunar Palace.
The entire world had already been generated, and it looked exactly the same as before.
This was already the fourteenth cycle.
But only the world itself was the same. Since people's memories from the previous cycle had not been erased, while time had returned to the day the New World began, the people who had been placed back here would surely...
Uh, they were all lying on the ground.
When I returned to Skyreach City, I saw Magical Girls sprawled motionless everywhere.
"Hey, Mi Xue, what's going on here?"
Especially those who had been protesting until the very end of the Old World—they were piled atop one another like a human pyramid, making me worry whether the ones at the bottom would be crushed to death.
Mi Xue's explanation came from beside my ear.
"The data bodies I created also need real consciousnesses to control