Hyacinth's full-speed charge sliced the jellyfish cleanly in half.
Such overwhelming close-range destructive power did not draw much surprise from Scarlet Snow, but Albatross pointed at the jellyfish's severed remains and turned to Scarlet Snow with a puzzled expression.
"Who's that?"
"Hyacinth. That junior who got along pretty well with you a while ago. She's pretty impressive," Scarlet Snow replied with a nod.
"No, she helped deal with the jellyfish here a while back too. How was she this strong back then??" Albatross pressed.
"Don't ask. Hyacinth has always been like this—the deeper her obsession, the stronger she gets. She's a lot like you."
Scarlet Snow shrugged as she spoke.
Albatross felt that her former companion was taking a jab at her, but what she said did seem perfectly reasonable.
The Meerkat Spirit poking out from behind Albatross also looked up at Hyacinth, who was hovering in the air and keeping watch over the jellyfish's remains. Seeing that she had not relaxed in the slightest even after delivering that fatal strike, it could not help asking Scarlet Snow:
"Are rookie Magical Girls nowadays all this combat-aware? She didn't even celebrate after landing an attack that ridiculous?"
"...You'll understand why later." Scarlet Snow chuckled.
If the two of them learned that Rongcheng now spawned a carefully adjusted enhanced monster every other day on average, they might think another supervillain capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with Mercury had appeared in the world.
Hyacinth's arrival had resolved the immediate crisis.
The sixth cycle was successfully completed. The jellyfish's inert remains were successfully identified as magical material, crushed into drifting motes of magic within the Mindscape, pushing the world across the healing seam of that Möbius Loop and onward into the seventh cycle:
Motes of magic stretched across the sky. The sun set