The Masked Heroine's Awakening

Why had the Association deemed Our City safe enough to transfer away even the Magical Girls stationed there, leaving only one on permanent assignment?

"Eternal Day Rank... Seven years ago, a power comparable to Eternal Day Rank erupted in Our City."

As Lin Guo's words faded, an eerie silence fell over the conference room.

You could have heard a pin drop.

Xu Youyou's mouth hung open. For a long time, she couldn't close it.

Zhou Xingxing's hand froze on her glasses.

Li Qi shot upright, forgetting even to breathe.

Eternal Day Rank.

The ranks of Magical Girls—Glow, Firefly, Lamp-Burning Realm, Dawn Rank, Sunlit Rank.

And finally, Eternal Day Rank.

It was a rank that existed only in theory.

There were only a handful of Sunlit Rank Magical Girls in the entire world. Every one of them was a legend worthy of a place in the textbooks.

But Eternal Day Rank wasn't even a legend. It was merely a theoretical "endpoint" the Association had extrapolated from models of Magic Power.

No one had ever seen it.

No one had ever reached it.

And now Lin Guo was saying that seven years ago, a power comparable to Eternal Day Rank had erupted in Our City.

"W-wait, wait, wait..."

Xu Youyou finally found her voice, though her words came out in a jumble.

"Eternal Day?! The legendary Eternal Day?! Zhou Xingxing, did she get it wrong? Did she say Eternal Day when she meant Sunlit?!"

She grabbed Zhou Xingxing's arm and shook it hard.

"She didn't get it wrong."

Shen Qingyin was the one who answered.

Her expression was graver than anyone there had ever seen.

"This matter is a sealed file even at headquarters. I don't have sufficient clearance, so I only know fragments. Seven years ago, the monitoring networks of Associations