The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

Chapter 602 Arrival

Sasha was the one who was dragged into the dreamlike state of mind tonight.

Su Tianqing felt that something was strange about this matter no matter what, but she just didn't know how to explain it.

Logically speaking, it would be most reasonable for Sasha to enter the fray as the final victim just before the decisive battle. However, this only applies if one knows from the secret manual that this is the final stage. From the perspective of others, it would be most unreasonable for Garuda to drag Sasha into the dreamlike vision.

"But no matter what, since Sasha is the victim today, we must find a way to notify Red Rose, at least to get Sasha out of that dreamlike state of mind as soon as possible," Chi Xue said.

Xin Yuehu nodded in agreement.

I never expected this. I only intended for Sasha to guide Garuda's gaze, but it turned out like this.

Su Tianqing was thinking about how to tell Hong Qiangwei about this. Just as she was about to call Hong Qiangwei via magic communication, Inari stopped her.

"No, you absolutely mustn't use magic communication with Red Rose right now," Inari said.

"Huh? Why? Isn't using magic communication the fastest and most convenient way?" Chi Xue was a little confused and quickly asked.

For magical girls, using this magical communication is the most convenient way to communicate with each other. It can ignore most barriers, and even Mercury in the astral plane can theoretically receive communications sent from the mortal world, although the signal may be weak and it will take longer to know the full content.

In this situation, the most important thing is to notify Red Rose as soon as possible. Su Tianqing couldn't understand what Inari meant by this advice.

The red fox girl nodded slightly and explained:

"I know that magical communication is fast and convenient, but Garuda has already deployed a giant egg into the mental image, and Red Rose has taken over that mental image world from you, Heart Moon Fox. In other words, it is invading Red Rose's mental image."

"Once you establish a magical connection with her, it will be like creating a channel for Garuda, which has not yet been given a physical form, allowing it to 'observe' you directly through this communication."

"what……"

Su Tianqing opened her mouth slightly, understanding the meaning of Inari.

"So what should we do next? We can't just stand by and watch... we have to think of something to do."

"There's another way to ensure your safe journey," Inari said softly, her brow furrowed slightly.

"—Use the same method you used to enter the Dreamlike Imagery to find Sasha's whereabouts in the world of the Red Rose, and find a way to bring her out."

Chi Xue and Su Tianqing looked at each other, and at the same time remained silent in tacit agreement.

The concept of Inari sounds simple, but putting it into practice is far more complex than it seems.

"But we can't just sit idly by." Chi Xue raised her head and looked directly at the two people in front of her, her eyes resolute.

"We must ensure Sasha's safety no matter what. Her connection with Garuda is the closest. It's too dangerous for her to stay in that mental world; she might attract Garuda's extra attention."

"We have to hurry!"

Without much hesitation, Su Tianqing immediately agreed to Chi Xue's suggestion, as it concerned the success or failure of the entire operation, and quickly opened the passage to the world of mental images.

Since this was a mental image that I had handed over to Red Rose, I knew very well how to enter this mental image and its specific characteristics, so I entered the mental image without any effort.

The scene of the dilapidated city reappeared before their eyes:

The streets were a mess, with abandoned defensive lines piled with sandbags and various bunkers, several burned tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, large craters and charred burn marks everywhere, and several collapsed shopping mall buildings blocking the road...

But after looking around a few more times, Su Tianqing suddenly frowned—this wasn't the familiar city of Foxkov; it felt more like…

"Qiuxi Road in Rongcheng".

Chi Xue reacted the fastest and had the best eyesight. She immediately recognized the giant panda statue buried in the ruins in the distance. The main body of the statue had been completely destroyed, with only half of its broken head sticking out, giving it a strange and terrifying feel.

Why is this Qiuxi Road? Su Tianqing really couldn't understand the principle. Presumably, when Hong Qiangwei took over this mental image, she made some changes to this place to suit her habits.

"Can you use your flying magic? Let's fly up and find it." Chi Xue took the lead and activated her flying magic, soaring into the sky, with Su Tianqing following closely behind.

Following the direction of the strongest magical fluctuations, the two found a sky-blue magical girl guarding the entrance in a garden completely destroyed by an explosion, and a bewildered winged person named Sasha standing beside her.

"Hyacinth, they're over there!"

Chi Xue spoke up and immediately flew towards the direction of the hyacinth.

The latter appeared unusually tense at this moment. When she saw Chi Xue and Xin Yuehu flying over, she subconsciously thought it was an enemy attack. She raised the shield in her hand to protect Sasha behind her back. Only after seeing who it was did she quickly lower her defense.

"Senior Akashiki! And, and Kokoro no Koko..." Hyacinth's tone quickly changed from excitement to calm, and even a little disappointed.

"Hey, what's with that tone? I came all the way here to rescue you, you know," Su Tianqing said with a smile.

"Who asked you to save me... If only it were Inari-senpai..." Hyacinth muttered softly, her only stubbornness being her mouth.

Sasha stood calmly behind the hyacinth. She seemed a little confused as to why she had been pulled into the world of mental images. She was nervously looking back at the direction from which the garden was emitting a huge magical fluctuation. She only turned around after hearing the voices of Heart Moon Fox and Red Snow.

"How are you all doing? Are you injured?"

"Hehe, don't worry, I wiped out all the monsters here a long time ago. I actually found it quite amazing to see a giant egg fall from the sky."

The hyacinth, holding a shield, smiled and glanced up at the horizon before continuing to speak to the two people in front of her:

"At first I thought that thing was going to hit me directly on the head. I saw a huge crack suddenly appear in the sky, and then something like a meteorite fell from it with a thud and crashed into the garden!"

"Good heavens, did you guys see how big that was? The wind was howling! My ears were ringing from the wind, and the crash when we landed was incredibly loud!"

Hyacinth's use of various onomatopoeic words to describe such grand scenes is a common, elementary school-level rhetorical device, something Su Tianqing is used to.

Fortunately, she was able to explain the whole story clearly, without any hint of the riddle-maker's behavior. This was what pleased Su Tianqing the most. It seemed that Xiaoyu hadn't wasted his time beating that kid when he was teaching her to write essays.

Su Tianqing walked to the garden entrance and peered into the garden through the bushes.

The view was obscured by the green belt and trees and bushes, but judging from the magic perception, it was indeed the magic fluctuations emanating from the red rose. She seemed to be using a powerful barrier to seal herself and the giant egg in a relatively enclosed space, trying to eliminate all external interference in this way.

"Things seem to be going quite smoothly," Su Tianqing said.

"Yes, Senior Red Rose told me to keep a close eye on my surroundings and not let anything get close to this garden." Hyacinth nodded. "But I suddenly saw Sasha flying in the sky just now, so I called her to stop her from flying into the garden and disturbing Senior."

"I'm sorry... I don't know why I was arrested..." Sasha said, sounding a little disappointed.

Hyacinth quickly waved her hand and apologized.

"Waaah, I'm not blaming you, Sasha. I was quite surprised to see you here. I thought it would be Iris or Lily-senpai, or maybe... or Hellcat and the others..."

"Never mind all that for now. Xin Yuehu and I came here specifically to get you out of here, Sasha. It's too dangerous for you to stay here."

Instead of engaging in casual conversation with Hyacinth, Chi Xue went straight to the point and addressed Sasha.

Sasha was well aware that she was just a burden since she couldn't transform into a magical girl yet. She pursed her lips, nodded, and decided to fully cooperate with her senior, Akashi.

Chi Xue didn't hesitate either. Always a woman of action, she immediately grasped Sasha's outstretched wings and cast a spell to escape the world of her mind. Surrounded by magical energy, she closed her eyes and carefully began to construct the magic's form.

—No response.

Chi Xue suddenly opened her eyes, stared blankly at the eagle-winged man standing in front of her, and then looked at Xin Yuehu and Feng Xinzi who were watching from the side, her eyes filled with surprise.

"This...this is impossible! Why didn't it work?"

"No way, let me do it!"

Su Tianqing rolled up her sleeves and stepped forward, taking Sasha's wings from Chi Xue's hands and personally casting a detachment spell.

However, her magic failed to construct the spell, and even emitted a burst of magical sparks indicating a failed casting, which startled Sasha so much that she quickly retracted her wings to avoid being burned.

"Crack!" "Whoa!?"

"The escape mechanism failed... Why...?" Su Tianqing asked the same question as Chi Xue.

The magic failed, meaning there was no way to escape this mental world. But why did this method of escape, which had been tried so many times, suddenly stop working? Is it because the Red Rose's mental world doesn't allow escaping?

That's impossible! The underlying logic of everyone's mental world is the same. This is a method that decouples from the underlying code level, so why would it...?

A sense of fear suddenly rose in Su Tianqing's heart.

Suddenly, I understood something.

The matter that I had ignored for so long, even Inari might not have taken it into consideration, because it was entirely my and Rabbit's subjective guess, without any objective verification. Given Inari's meticulous and objective analytical methods, she might not have been able to take this matter into account.

That is—Sasha, as a "child" hatched from the giant egg, has been continuously "watched" by Garuda for so many years. She is the one who receives the most attention from Garuda!

She is the most perfect anchor in this world; she is the most perfect anchor and proof of Garuda's existence!

In other words... since Garuda dragged Sasha into this illusory mental image, it means that Sasha is the real target of Garuda's invasion this time!

"Red Rose! Break that giant egg! Hurry!"

Su Tianqing shouted loudly, amplifying her voice with magic. She didn't know if Red Rose could hear her, but she shouted with the same force she used when petting her cat at home.

Before the words were finished, a clear sound of a shell hatching rang out.

The red rose's protective barrier collapsed and shattered in an instant, and the surrounding trees withered and died at a visible speed, symbolizing the arrival of something that would bring destruction.

"Snap!"

The eggshell shattered, releasing countless dark, viscous shadows that instantly covered the entire center of the garden. From within these shadows rose a colossal creature with wings that blotted out the sky.

But the crimson magical girl still stood in the center of the garden, like a mountain blocking the spreading aura of destruction, shielding the group at the garden entrance behind her, and gazing alone at this great being descended from the astral plane—

The celestial behemoth Garuda has descended upon the world.

Like a world-burning fire falling from the heavens.