A Fierce Battle (Part Two)

Bubbles was gradually moving away from the center of the battle as Zhou Ping lured her on.

It wasn't that Bubbles hadn't noticed, but the situation left her no room to hesitate. Who could say for certain that Zhou Ping wouldn't do something terrible? At least, that was how she saw it.

Even as she chased Zhou Ping, though, she kept worrying about Snowglimpse, who was fighting the Demon King.

How is she doing now...?

The Branch.

The building had collapsed, and nearly everything within several hundred meters had been reduced to rubble.

Snowglimpse had tried her best to contain the fighting, but neither combatant was weak. Even the aftershocks were enough to destroy everything around them.

"Hah... hah..."

Snowglimpse knelt on one knee in the middle of the square, gasping for breath. Her whole body ached.

Even fighting on her home turf, she had burned through far too much magic power. The Demon King, meanwhile, hovered not far away without so much as a hitch in her breathing.

She hadn't even used her own ability. She was fighting with magic power alone.

That was terrifying...

It was as though Snowglimpse's brief advantage earlier had existed only because the Demon King hadn't been taking the fight seriously.

Was the gap between Lamp-Lighting Rank and Dawn Rank really that vast?

"Still don't understand?"

The Demon King descended slowly in front of her and looked down at Snowglimpse.

"You can't win."

Snowglimpse was strong. There was no question about that.

Against any other Dawn Rank Magical Girl besides herself and Love, Snowglimpse might well have won already.

But the Demon King wasn't an ordinary Dawn Rank Magical Girl either.

As the daughter of a First Generation Magical Girl, she had inherited some of her mother's traits. Her magic power was greater