Is it really normal to contain these anomalies?

How much time has passed?

Bai Yu didn't check the timer.

It was only after he discussed with HOD and the others the possibility of something happening at the headquarters.

I didn't know when the fluorescent rain called Cogito started falling outside the window.

Perhaps, just like the ceiling, some pipes above this virtual world were also broken for some unknown reason.

This is not good...

Bai Yu sat on the bench, looking at the rain marks on the glass window beside him, and fell into silence for a short time.

Cogito fell to the ground with a crackling sound, and slowly, they also gathered in the dirty drainage ditch here to form the stream that was the source of all this...

"Everyone...are we just going to let them flow on the ground?"

Makuku nervously clicked her sleeves with her fingers. Whether before or after her death, she still had some PTSD about this substance.

"Can't we think of a way to pack them up?"

"no way."

Yesod, who was standing behind her, flatly denied the inquiry.

"Our previous methods could only temporarily slow the spread of these substances. Moreover, we will no longer be provided with the pipes and containers to collect Cogito.

The only person truly responsible for managing and having the ability to stop the spread of this liquid is the one responsible for developing EGO."

“…That’s right.”

Makuku nodded with a somewhat depressed mood.

She felt a sense of powerlessness coming from deep within her body.

As Sephirah, they only appear glamorous in the eyes of their employees. But in the end, as they gradually learn the truth, they are just prisoners in this endless cycle of reincarnation...

What can they do in this situation?

I can neither save my employees nor myself...

"Don't worry about it for now. At least it seems that the black forest won't really spread out in this illusion that originally belonged to Alley 23.

Everyone, go get to work, whether it's making coffee or doing something else."

"Bai Yu?"

The unexpected encouragement reached Makuku's ears, suddenly waking her up from her loss.

At this moment, she looked at the man who was standing up with some surprise, just like the other Sephirahs around her.

He's just an employee...

But he gave people an inexplicable feeling that he was more reliable than these Sephirahs who had come all the way from the research institute.

what.

Also.

She should have noticed it in the past two years.

This guy is different from the Lobotomy Corporation employees they've seen along the way, and it should even be said that he's quite different from the urban folks...

Just like now, it was just a few seconds of her thinking.

Bai Yu even arranged a series of tasks.

HOD and Tiphereth will go out to inform Myuu and the other children to take shelter from the rain, while Netzach and Yesod will go to the area directly below the broken ceiling to search for information about this incident....

'Has he been thinking about this while he was daydreaming?'

HOD and others around her passed by her one by one, but Makuku was still a little dazed.

She might be thinking a lot too.

To the extent that even when Bai Yu walked up to her and called her softly, she was a little scared.

"Are you okay?"

"Ah! It's okay, it's okay!"

Makuku shook her head, and only then did she hear the sound of wind chimes as she walked out of the coffee shop behind her.

Yes, right beside them, the crowd will disperse.

No one really has time to make coffee...

"Still suppressing your emotions? You don't need to do that with me. Even if you can't find a job for the time being, I won't look down on you."

Bai Yu looked at her brown pupils and explained seriously.

He still remembered that during the core suppression, Makuku thought he was useless in the experiment, so he secretly injected himself with Cogito...

And now, although he didn't think that Makuku would do this again, he still hoped that their Minister of Control could cheer up.

“…”

A few seconds passed and Makuku didn't react to what he said.

Bai Yu even thought he had failed.

But before he could take a step, a heavy blow landed firmly on his toes.

"Hey! Bai Yu, we clearly agreed not to talk about my death anymore!"

Makuku finally showed his aura as a Sephirah of the Control Department.

She had originally switched from loss and daze, but now, she was able to look at Bai Yu firmly while holding the document she had been preparing in her hands.

"Alright...Bai Yu, we're not as good as you and Lu Ti in combat, but if you need anything else or need any other arrangements, just let me know. Even if it means staying up all night for a week, I'll definitely do my best to get it done!"

"There's no need to be so forced."

Bai Yu felt a little relieved after hearing this answer.

“Follow me first…”

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He and Makuku walked towards the spiral staircase in the basement.

There were other people down there, and the lights were not even turned off...

"Is your meeting upstairs over?"

Under the bright light, the two people who had just come downstairs saw the two magical girls who were also wearing dark blue clothes.

It's Luti and...the Knight of Despair.

"Ms. Luti, so you are here... then why didn't you come up just now?" Makuku walked down the stairs with some surprise.

"Anyway, I don't understand. In the past two years, you haven't been willing to tell me about these things, saying they involve company secrets~~~"

Luti gave me an expression that said, "How dare you say that?"

"Forget it. I'm not curious about anything related to the Wings of the World anyway. I just want to leave as soon as possible. Don't tell me anything about Singularity Technology anymore..."

"Okay, Luti, stop talking nonsense. You've been watching it these past few days. Has it woken up on its own a few times?"

Bai Yu walked to her side and looked carefully at the real magical girl in front of him.

Desperate Knight...

The appearance of this guardian knight today is not good at all.

In the battle with Sister Hong in the past reality, its face, body, and sword blade were all injured to varying degrees of violence...

The damage and disfigurement were so severe that three months ago, he and Luti could hardly be distinguished from the black weeds in the twisted forest on the border of this illusory world.

Even now, after such a long time, the wounds on her body are still being filled with tiny amounts of daily dust, just like repairing a broken porcelain doll.

'The wounds on her body have not yet disappeared, but the sharp blades spreading from her body are no longer visible.'

'Is this an improvement?'

Bai Yu was thinking.

In the end, he still stretched out his finger and gently touched the magical girl's white jade cheek.

And that's at this moment.

The dust on her cheeks and her eyelashes trembled slightly.

The beautiful blue pupils looked at Bai Yu in an instant.

It woke up.

as always....

Chapter 234: For This Vanishing World

"Looks awake?"

At this moment, looking at the pair of beautiful sapphire-like pupils in front of him, Bai Yu softly confirmed...

Of course he knows.

This motionless knight of despair is certainly not an absolutely exquisite mannequin.

She is still alive, but now she rarely speaks...

"Ms. O-01-73, this is the same as before."

"Do you remember what happened after your fight with the red-haired lady?"

During these few seconds, Bai Yu did not receive a response from the Knight of Despair.

But he still asked these questions that had been repeated many times in the past.

After all, this issue is really important to him.

Although he did not actually witness the battle between Red Sister and the Knight of Despair.

But according to Makuku and the others' description, this Abnormality should be the last thing that stayed with Sister Hong before the abnormal core suppression began.

And now, it has been found again by them after more than a year.

So....

"Where is the protagonist of this core suppression? Where is she?"

Bai Yu sighed deep in his heart.

In reality, he still looked at the abnormality in front of him calmly.

No one spoke anymore, and the entire basement fell into silence along with the Knight of Despair.

Everyone was waiting for the answer, whether it was Luti or Makuku.

But the wait may be longer than they imagined.

It wasn't until a certain moment, when the black tear from the Abnormal's left eye flowed, that they finally got the answer.

"This world is going to disappear too."

The magical girl's voice was filled with endless sorrow, as if it floated out from the abyss of despair.

"She couldn't protect anything."

"It turns out she is just like me, always the same..."

This sadness seems to be going on for a long time.

Almost everyone was stained this black, and tears also appeared in their left eyes.

Thanks to this thing, Bai Yu and others finally felt the emotions and senses being released from this eye.

Yes.

They all saw it in this darkness.

That fluorescent river, and——that bloody knife stuck in the shore...

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Now, it is the third day.