The Qingluan watched as the Calamity Beast pounced upon it.
It was a wild wolf, as tall as two men, and the army in front was being rapidly destroyed by the Calamity Beast.
Her cat was huddled under a small table, trembling with fear.
Today, because she did well on her exam, she insisted that her mother take her out for a nice meal.
Then, while I was having a cold drink here, I was suddenly attacked by Calamity Beast...
Next, next, I have to go rescue the cat.
Are we really going to rescue the cat?
A voice asked her, "Your mother is still looking for you, if you go to rescue the cat..."
Mom will die.
For some reason, some strange memories surfaced in my mind.
The mother was killed by the Calamity Beast in an attempt to protect herself.
The father, enraged by his mother's death, beat himself and stomped on the cat to death.
She kept backing away.
"But didn't you want to save your predecessor?"
The voice continued, "If you don't go here, you'll never know about the magical girls of Full Bloom, and your senior will never awaken. Is that alright?"
The Qingluan stopped again.
No, this isn't reality.
No, I must have been swallowed up by the Mental Image Remnants.
This is the Mental Image Remnants!
She quickly regained her memory, and although she was a little confused, Qingluan quickly understood what she needed to do.
Reality is reality, and it cannot be changed.
So, I had to go save the cat, and then, kill my mother...
" Little Qing!"
Her mother called anxiously from behind, and Qingluan, who was originally about to go back to find the cat, stopped in her tracks at the sound of her call.
I don't want to look back.
Once you turn back, there will be no more chances...
" Little Qing!"
But that call, I missed it so much.
No other words were needed; simply calling her by her nickname was enough to make Qingluan's tears fall uncontrollably.
The sound was flawless, and it even stirred her memories.
She had almost forgotten what her mother's voice sounded like.
It wasn't a recording, nor was it the distorted sound from television; it was real sound, transmitted to my ears through air vibrations.
It's gentle, a feeling that seems to warm and fill your whole body.
"Come here quickly, Little Qing!"
However, the mother never chased after them; she only called out from a distance.
That's not actually the case.
At that time, his mother was chasing after him, which is why she was killed by the Calamity Beast.
Because I was determined to rescue the cat.
It's all my fault. It's all because of me that I insisted on rescuing that cat!
If only I hadn't rescued the cat back then...
" Little Qing!"
Qingluan could almost hear her mother's anxious voice behind her.
As soon as I pounce on the cat, my mother will chase after me and be killed by the Calamity Beast.
I should have run over, hugged the cat, and watched my mother die.
Then leave this place, to find the secret within the Mental Image Remnants, to find the secret of the magical girl in Full Bloom, and to save the senior who has been lying in bed unable to wake up because of her...
She knows everything.
But when her mother's scent wafted from behind on the wind, lingering around her nose, that familiar, cherished aroma was not far behind her, and she felt she had a second chance to make amends for a mistake she could never forgive herself for...
Even if you know everything, so what?
That's her mother!
Suddenly, a familiar scent enveloped her once again, and Qingluan saw the hands she had always longed for.
He leaned out from behind and pulled her into his arms.
Qingluan lowered her head and grabbed those hands; they were almost identical to those from her childhood memories.
The lines of that palm, its warmth, the feel of that skin—it was almost identical.
How could it be fake?
"Mom, I really miss you so much. Mom, Dad and I have always wanted to see you again..."
She sobbed and cried, tightly holding her mother's hand, tears dripping onto it, just like when she was a child, feeling wronged and heartbroken.
"Don't cry, don't cry, Little Qing." Her mother touched her face and wiped away her tears. "Mommy's here, it's alright."
He wanted to pull her away, but Qingluan just stood there motionless, tears streaming down her face, her whole body trembling as if she were afraid.
"Don't be afraid, Little Qing." Her mother immediately bent down and patted her head.
Then he picked her up and ran towards safety. "You must have suffered a lot..."
What started as quiet sobbing suddenly turned into loud wailing.
She leaned against her mother's chest, barely able to lift her head.
The sounds, smells, and textures—everything about it—were almost identical to reality.
She longed to look up and see her mother one more time.
But she still didn't look up; she just hugged her mother tightly.
"Mom, I really miss you."
"Yes, Mom knows."
"Mom, I really love you so much."
"Yeah, don't say that at a time like this, silly girl."
"Mom, I... I'm so sorry. I'm the one who killed you. Father will never forgive me, and I never will."
Seeing Qingluan, who had been keeping her head down, suddenly jump out of her arms and stop in her tracks, her mother also stopped, looking at her with confusion, "What's wrong, Little Qing?"
Qingluan turned her head, her back to her mother, facing the Calamity Beast directly. "So, Mom, I can't kill anyone else anymore. I will never, ever kill anyone again."
"What's wrong with you? Run!"
"I can't turn back now." Qingluan, her back to her mother, gripped her hand tightly. "So..."
"Let's go back together, Mom."
In the last second before the Calamity Beast charged, her mother hugged her and shielded her with her body.
Just like before, the mother, who had been knocked away by the Calamity Beast, landed headfirst on the street in the distance, like a tattered rag.
As Qingluan stood up, the Calamity Beast behind her crashed into her!
Then, it landed with the mother.
However, it wasn't a fatal wound. Lying beside her mother's body, she felt an intense, unbelievably real pain.
Quietly waiting, nothing has changed, and the world continues to evolve.
She paused for a moment, then began to climb on the ground.
Something was swaying in my heart.
She struggled to crawl to her mother's body, and holding it close, she finally saw her mother's face.
Blood was flowing freely, the wounds he had inflicted were so horrific that the white bone was visible, and large amounts of warm blood were flowing uncontrollably.
The roar of the Calamity Beast still echoed in my ears, my mother's body temperature gradually cooled, and thick blood stained my body. The sound, the breath, everything felt incredibly real.
A kitten nearby started meowing.
The Calamity Beast kept walking towards her, but the cat just rubbed affectionately against her feet.
"Mom..."
She held her mother's head, her nose tingled, and she cried again.
Is this place even reality?
" Qingluan!"
A sound came from afar.
"The streets are a complete mess!"
Qingluan raised her head and looked around.
" Qingluan! What are you daydreaming about!"
Until the noise outside grew louder and louder.
" Qingluan, aren't you going to make a move?!"
Qingluan took a deep breath and looked at her mother in her arms.
Slowly, slowly, she let go of his hand.
"Wake up right now, Qingluan!"
Then she slapped herself in the face again, Qingluan looked up blankly at the anxious Iris.
"That's strange. Didn't Teacher Hongmian say that people wouldn't be affected within their own Mental Image Domain? Why is everyone still unable to wake up?"
Looking around again, I realized that I was actually in Iris's Mental Image Domain.
The scene, resembling falling onto the moon, left her momentarily dazed.
Then he looked down and realized he was holding a stone in his arms, so he quickly threw it away.
Looking around, one can see that many other magical girls from the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau are lying in Iris's Mental Image Domain.
And these magical girls are disappearing one by one!
She immediately scrambled to her feet and called out to Iris, who was frantically standing next to Teacher Hongmian, " Iris, how are you?"
Iris turned her head and saw that Qingluan had woken up, and she almost cried with joy. "You're finally awake! After coming in, I followed what Senior Hongmian said and first activated my Mental Image Domain. I clearly saw that the other magical girls also activated their Mental Image Domain Mental Image Domain, but in the end, only mine remained. Everyone else's Mental Image Domain collapsed after a short time..."
"Calm down." Qingluan patted her shoulder, then wiped her face. Still immersed in the pain of having caused her mother's death again, she took a deep breath and looked around.
Some people even have trouble distinguishing where they are.
Is this reality? Or is it possible that this place is also fake?
However, Qingluan dared not gamble any longer. "According to previous records, Senior Mujin's Mental Image Domain is related to space. Perhaps we've all been teleported to another location..."
Before she could finish speaking, Iris suddenly picked up a magic badge.
"Finally, news!" Iris said excitedly. "It's a message from Senior Golden Tea. She said that the missing magical girls have all been teleported away."
Qingluan breathed a sigh of relief; it was good that everyone was alright.
Then, looking at the magical girls who possessed Mental Image Remnants but were also unconscious, Qingluan glanced at Iris and asked, somewhat puzzled, "Why are you the only one unaffected?"
Iris immediately snorted, "That's because my Mental Image Domain, as the first level 300 high-level peak Peak Full Blossom magical girl in the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau, is invincible. The ancient Magical Girl Mujin- senpai, who doesn't understand the value of realms, can't affect me!"
Could this really be the reason why even the Full Bloom magical girl senior couldn't affect her?
" Heart Mirror Reality is, of course, the first test of this Mental Image Remnants."
" The Heart Mirror Reality "?
"It's the world you just experienced from your memories. Let's call it the Heart Mirror Reality," An Shiyu explained, standing on the back of the Calamity Dragon.
It doesn't feel as bad as the Heart Demon Tribulation.
Jiang Si thought disdainfully, then the dragon's face darkened with displeasure. "How long are you going to stay on my back?"
"Oh well, I'm very light anyway, and besides, we're all acquaintances who will take care of me."
"She has legs of her own." Then, a powerful twitch of her back muscles caused her wings to flap so forcefully that An Shiyu almost flew away.
The girl, terrified, quickly grabbed the Calamity Dragon's tail. "Hey, hey, hey, I've been explaining the mechanism of the Mental Image Remnants to you, can't you grant our and her wishes? It's just a back rub, isn't it?"
The Calamity Dragon quieted down.
An Shiyu jumped back onto her back and continued, "Although it's called a test, the Heart Mirror Reality isn't actually that dangerous. After all, it's a mechanism to select magical girls who can solve the problem of the Mental Image Remnants."
"Generally speaking, once you're trapped in a world of memories, you'll face the person you regret most, or the person you most want to see. You'll have an unyielding regret, and then you'll face a choice once again in the face of such regrets and people."
"Magical girls who lack the resolve will be weeded out to avoid future regrets, because what's needed here are those who are willing to fight to the very end as magical girls, no matter what."
"The magical girls who are selected will be kicked out of the Mental Image Remnants." As Jiang Si flew along, An Shiyu on her back clapped her hands, and the phantom images of the unconscious magical girls appeared in the glass of the receding buildings.
"These are no longer needed."
Jiang Si nodded, understanding.
Qiankun Love Querying Valley.
But it's obvious they can't even copy properly. How could they be kicked out without passing the test? Shouldn't they be killed and resurrected for further mental torture? They copied a little bit and then started modifying it according to their own ideas, right? They didn't even consider whether it was appropriate, making it incredibly rigid!
Anyway, we'll have to find this magical girl in Full Bloom to collect taxes for our ancestors!
An Shiyu suddenly shuddered.
Jiang Si let the girl ride on his back; from a distance, it looked as if An Shiyu was riding a Pokémon. "Will the world in my memory eventually become reality?"
"That's right. The reason why 'Heart Mirror Reality' includes the word 'reality' is that it gradually becomes the real world based on the individual's perception."
Jiang Si frowned.
Doesn't it seem more like False History?
No, it should be Qiankun Love Querying Valley, that's right.
"Once you fail to grasp your inner self and make the right choices, the Heart Mirror Reality will transform into the completely real world."
No, no, it's still False History.
An Shiyu sat on Jiang Si's back, stepping on the patterns and protrusions between the black carapace of the Calamity Dragon: "However, the content in the memory that can be perfected into all the details and transformed into the real world cannot be imagined. It must actually exist in some place. So rather than saying that the memory has transformed into reality, it is more accurate to say that it is constantly connected to the real world in space, but it is somewhere between stable and unstable."
Is it right or wrong?
Couldn't you have made this simpler?
Can I skip asking you for ancestor tax?
"If the magical girls fail the test, they will be sent to the real world region linked to the Heart Mirror Reality Mental Image Remnants. So don't worry, they are all very safe. In fact, you are the only one who is not safe."
The Calamity Dragon asked in a deep, resonant voice, "What do you mean?"
"Anyone who takes the Heart Mirror World seriously, even for just a moment, will have their body enter the Heart Mirror World —that is, another layer of space. Generally speaking, they will not be attacked or harmed by the Mirror Beast in this layer."
An Shiyu looked at him with a flicker in her eyes, "But you're different. You can transform into Calamity Beast and still have reason. From the very beginning, your physical body never entered the Heart Mirror Reality. In other words, from start to finish, you never took that side seriously."
Yes, the Illusionary Sea is confirmed.
This time, there will be no further changes.
"Generally, people get pulled back a second time because they regret it after passing the test and feel that the Heart Mirror Reality, so they're pulled back." An Shiyu scratched her head. "Did you hear anything at the time?"
"I heard it, it sounds just like your voice."
"But actually, that wasn't us. It was, uh, anyway, a reminder that the assessment was about to begin..." An Shiyu was even more confused afterward. "You can hear it, which means it is indeed Heart Mirror Reality constructed with you as the subject. That's strange. It doesn't make any sense at all. Could it be that you have a split personality?"
Looking at An Shiyu, who herself didn't quite understand, Jiang Si flapped her wings, and a gust of wind caused An Shiyu to fall. "Aren't you the owner of the Mental Image Remnants?"
"Um, um, I don't know." An Shiyu got up and chuckled awkwardly, then pretended to raise her finger, "I'm just an ordinary introducer for the Mental Image Remnants,' actually, this ' Mental Image Remnants ' doesn't really have much to do with me..."
After muttering a few words, under the watchful eye of the Calamity Dragon, cold sweat streamed down An Shiyu's face. "In short, spatial distortion causing people from the other side of reality to mistakenly enter the Heart Mirror Reality is... quite normal, isn't it? And isn't the world in your memory a bit special? That caused the problem in this Mental Image Remnants space, leading your mother to that side..."
Jiang Si nodded. "Oh, the world in my memory is indeed somewhat special."
An Shiyu immediately shouted, "I knew it! You're extraordinary! This unusual Heart Mirror Reality caused... something to go wrong with the Mental Image Remnants on this side, causing spatial distortion, which led to your mother on the other side accidentally entering your Heart Mirror Reality."
The girl patted her chest again, "But don't worry! Once you break free of the Heart Mirror Space Heart Mirror Space, it will gradually return to normal after losing its main body, and your mother will return to her original world. It will just feel like a dream, and there will be no danger!"
Jiang Si snorted coldly, ignoring her, and simply looked around.
In any case, it's not a good time to stay here for now.
If I don't understand the reason, it would be troublesome if I dragged myself into it again.
As they flew swiftly out of the city, An Shiyu jumped onto his back again.
Wow, so fast, so exhilarating!
Ignoring the other person's exclamation, after leaving Beihai, the outside world was not the familiar suburbs, and it was completely different from Jiang Si's memory. It was a continuous forest.
"How nostalgic!" An Shiyu suddenly said. "We loved that big forest outside the Beihai back then. I wonder how it is now."
" The Beihai no longer has its large forests."
"Huh? How could this be...?"
Accompanied by An Shiyu's low, frustrated complaints, a large number of Mirror Beast emerged from the great forest.
Jiang Si glanced at her. "Was the great forest Beihai like this back then?"
"Of course not."
An Shiyu tilted her head to look at Jiang Si, " Beihai used to be very peaceful..."
Before she could finish speaking, Jiang Si had already rushed forward.
High in the sky, the terrifying dragon's breath was unleashed without any warning!
Magic bombarded the forest and all the Mirror Beast within it!
As Jiang Si flew and surveyed the entire forest, constantly spewing out dragon breath, he suddenly heard a shrill cry.
"No, this is an illusion! Boss, we need to go back! We need to go back to the real world!"
" Lu Ya, Mom!"
Jiang Si was startled, her attention immediately falling on the Nascent Soul within her heart. The nascent Nascent Soul was currently rolling around frantically, crying out, "I want to go back! Ahhh! I want to go home! Mom! Lu Ya!"
"What are you talking about?" Jiang Si asked coldly. "What mother? What Lu Ya?"
"It's clearly in my memory, it's about to become reality!"
The Nascent Soul Black Dragon roared mournfully:
"I can't tell, I really can't tell, boss!"
Damn, so this is where my inner demons are...
The next chapter will be posted later; two chapters today are guaranteed.