Chapter 201: Breaking the Mask
"I was indeed a bit angry at the time… no, I was very angry, because you wasted a full fourteen days of my time. I could have used that period to do more things, to be better prepared."
Her staff rained down like a violent storm against the black sword. Through the cracks in the mask, she stared straight into Airwen's pure black pupils, speaking word by word: "But now it seems, since everything starts with you and ends with you, then whether I prepared or not, the result wouldn't have been much different."
"Because I only know one thing."
"If I give up on you, if I let you exchange your own despair for a future where everyone else is happy…"
"Then I can absolutely never become a true magical girl."
—The crimson girl's Soul Gem, which should have been clouded and murky, was now blazing hot and radiant, shining brilliantly.
But the cracks on Airwen's mask were spreading.
They crawled from the edges all the way to the center, like a layer of ice collapsing under heavy pressure and sunlight.
She gritted her teeth and lunged forward again, wildly slashing her black sword at Lin Guang.