The Little Thing's Identity

(Miluno)

It's still that desolate, cold, lifeless world...

Everywhere I looked was pitch black; even the light had vanished.

I know I'm dreaming.

I am fully conscious, but I can't truly wake up.

Tsk, any game that doesn't allow you to skip cutscenes is a bad game.

The primary perspective remains that of "He," the Great Will as I understand it.

He was once the will that governs all things, yet He could not reverse the impending destruction of this spacetime.

Everything, including Himself, will come to an end.

Even so, He still hoped to ensure the continuation of humankind...

Then.

The gods' final plan of salvation has begun.

The earth shook violently, and the two wings at the World Center began to churn. The surrounding land began to rise, crumble, and recombine, eventually coalescing into a colossal, enormous ring planet, resembling an egg roll.

This is a fortress;

It is an ark for salvation;

It was His final mercy and compassion;

It is the last hope for all people...

That is, "The Other Side".

But for Earth, they are a terrible enemy; this doomed civilization possesses technology far surpassing that of Earth.

Twelve years ago, in the early stages of the war, in the darkest era before magical girls, the opening of each wormhole meant the sacrifice of hundreds of people or the disappearance of a town.

Even after the situation stabilized, many people still developed PTSD from the hum of the wormhole.

The video (dream) ends here.

But the subsequent plot is not hard to predict: after creating "the Other Side," He also fell into a coma (sleep) due to exhaustion.

The life on the ark followed His will and found a habitable planet called "Earth," but there were some low-class natives that needed to be cleared out, and the planet needed to be modified before they could be moved Past.

And so the conflict began...

Wrong.

The Monster is not Natives of this world.

The Monster is an aggressive weapon created by fusing Earth Factor.

What about the Natives?

Where have all the Natives gone?

You can't find the answer by just thinking about it.

After all, this is something even Aldebaran doesn't understand. Perhaps the "Supreme Council" has the answer, but I can't very well go to that council and ask them directly, can I?

"Miluno."

The sound of a little thing.

Before I even opened my eyes, she popped up and started chatting with me.

"I think I vaguely remember that scene from my dream..."

Is that so...?

As expected.

I've long suspected that this little thing is connected to that will, and her saying this now is confirmation of my long-held suspicions.

"Ha! I am that Great Will?!"

Damn, she's actually quite proud of herself?

I poured cold water on this idea.

No, you're not that great; you're probably just scraps from Great Will.

"Hmm..."

The little thing should also know this, after all, she can read my thoughts.

I believe she is an intellectual being born from the fusion of a great deal of darkness.

Darkness is a substance that undergoes a qualitative change from a quantitative one.

A small amount of darkness is almost harmless and has no effect on human health; at most, it may cause irritability and back pain.

Excessive darkness forms Black Mud, Black Mud drags people into a quagmire of negative emotions, becoming a breeding ground for darkness.

If it goes a step further, it will condense into Black Crystal, which will cause magical girls to fall into witches. If it is made into Simulacrum Factor, it can also turn living people into alien monsters.

Then comes the fourth dark phase, Shadow Girl acts almost entirely on instinct, yet possesses an extremely strong desire to attack... although she seems quite afraid of me.

The Shadow Girl formed from the twelve Black Crystal would even beg for mercy. After being absorbed into the Crystal, she further merged and upgraded with the darkness I had previously absorbed, eventually forming the "little thing".

I think that's exactly how it is, and it makes perfect sense.

"Ha! I am your enemy!"

"No, the Great Will is my enemy; as for you... you are just scraps of the enemy."

"No talking about scraps!"

"But you can't remember anything, right? Because scraps don't have those memories at all, right?"

"Waaah! Oh!"

She made strange noises to indicate that she was hurt?

I was still wondering what her voice meant when I suddenly got punched in the stomach.

It was Mono's sneak attack in reality.

Good heavens, so these two creatures, big and small, are actually from Pu Songling's "Wolf" story?

But I can't swallow this insult.

I grabbed Mono's wrist and, in a flash, pinned her to the ground. The little Mono inside my head tried to take control of my body and fight back, but without distraction, she couldn't attack me.

"Fine, I surrender!"

She's waving the white flag in my head.

"Even if you are truly a part of the Great Will, you have neither power nor memories, so why should you be my enemy? Just obediently become my Witch Persona, and I won't consider doing anything to you. Otherwise, even if it means expelling the darkness, I will remove you from my head."

"I'm sorry, I won't do it again!"

He knelt down and apologized.

The saying "If you don't discipline someone for a day, they'll be climbing on the roof and tearing off the tiles" perfectly describes this little guy, right?

"Miluno?"

Ceruno rubbed her eyes and sat up; she had been woken up by me and Mono.

"Sorry, you can go back to sleep."

It was still dark and early.

But she saw clearly the person I was stepping on.

What's wrong with Mono?

"She ambushed me."

I didn't want Mono to leave a good impression on Ceruno, so I answered truthfully.

But Mono has a shameless personality.

"Ceruno- chan, I want to sleep with you!"

Shouting like that, she stood up and lunged at Ceruno, but I reached out and grabbed her face, dragging her into the bathroom.

"Alright! Now that you're awake, wash your face and brush your teeth. After breakfast, come with me to 'the Other Side' to take care of things."

Even though Mono couldn't speak because my hand was covering its mouth, it was still making a racket in its head.

"Ouch! My face is going to fall off! What kind of pliers are those?!"

It's so noisy.

If only there were a way to silence her.

In comparison, the City School is relatively quiet in the early morning.

Although there were quite a few people jogging in the morning, these self-disciplined magical girls only made up a small portion, not even as many as those magical girls who rushed into the classroom with bread in their mouths.

Because I was the first one up, I was tasked with making breakfast, but there were no ingredients left in the kitchen, so I decided to take a shortcut and go see if there were any breakfast stalls.

On the way to the Materials Distribution Center, Mono caught up with me.

"Miluno, aren't you going to tell Ceruno my identity?"

I glanced at her and replied:

"First of all, there is no evidence to prove that this inference is correct."

Dreams can't be used as evidence, and the correlation isn't that strong.

"Indeed, after all, I have no memory of it either..."

Secondly, I still have a tiny bit of trust in you.

Pinch your index finger and thumb, um, just between your fingernails.

"So little! Smaller than the 'x' in the top right corner of the ad page!"

"Finally, after seeing those fragments of the dream, I find it hard to believe that the Great Will is such a bad guy..."

He was a god who, even on his deathbed, cared for his people; he was at least better than a chaotic person like you."

"Oh!"

Mono looked utterly devastated.

But that's the truth.

Aldebaran believed that the darkness spread on Earth from "the Other Side" was to allow the true form of the Great Will to descend.

But I don't agree with this view.