Truth

Boom!!

It exploded.

First came the light.

Light that swallowed everything.

The instant that miniature sun struck the center of the test field, its silver-gray armored floor, coated in magic power, glowed red, then melted. Finally, even melting became too slow a process: it vaporized outright.

Then the sun, no longer under control, began to expand—and burst.

A shock wave swept outward from the point of impact in every direction.

"Hold it back!!"

Around the test field, the barrier raised by dozens of Magical Girls shuddered violently, sending out ring after ring of visible ripples.

I'm never coming back... Someone else can watch this kind of excitement!

Who knew coming to watch would turn into this?

"Can someone tell me what's happening in there? I was just passing by!!!"

The Magical Girl who had been passing by was even more bewildered.

Surely the Magical Girls' equipment department hasn't started pulling the same bizarre stunts as that dragon-slaying academy?

But did they really have to make a Hydrogen Bomb?

No one could answer her. Everyone was busy reinforcing the test field's outer defenses to keep the explosion contained.

Inside the test field—

Knight had her shield planted firmly at the front, with Thousand Blades pressed close behind her.

As for Shen Yin—

She was a psychic support Magical Girl. They could hardly send her out to take a Hydrogen Bomb head-on.

Even when Love wasn't at full strength, one of her Hydrogen Bombs could kill an ordinary Fourth Rank Fallen Beast.

"Oh... I may have gone a little overboard..."

In midair, Love scratched her cheek sheepishly.

Still, she had only put a little more power into it because Group Leader Bai had seemed so confident. Who knew the test field's magical defenses would prove so flimsy?

At that thought, Love held