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All the fans were NTR'd, this is just too cruel and heartless.

As for Yuri Takajo, since she is an ordinary person, there is not much information about her online.

However, Hitomi Tono also has quite a few everyday photos taken with Yuri Takajo.

Now all of them have turned into photos of only her.

Not only that, when Hitomi Tono went to Yuri Takajo's house, she found that the butler claimed that there was only one young lady in the house, and that was Yu Kagura.

...No, your nameplate says "Takajo," but the young lady is "Kagura." Didn't you notice anything wrong?

Hitomi Tono attempts to find traces of Yuri Takajo's past at the Takajo house, but because she is not very familiar with Yu Kagura, she is ruthlessly turned away at the door.

The child tried to sneak over the wall, but was caught red-handed.

She changed her strategy again, planning to transform into the magical girl Crimson and fly in. To this end, she even went to Terasaki Ayasa to learn invisibility magic.

Terasaki Ayasa had completely forgotten several people who had disappeared, and she was not familiar with Haga Mayumi, so she shouldn't be able to recall them immediately.

However, after hearing the purpose of Tono Hitomi and Sugiyama Rika's visit, she showed a look of sudden realization.

"I knew I wouldn't have written that sentence in my notebook." Terasaki Ayasa rubbed her temples, opened her notebook which she used to record her daily schedule, and showed the two the words she had hastily written.

It was clear that they were in a hurry; the handwriting was so illegible that neither Hitomi Tono nor Rika Sugiyama could decipher it.

Perhaps it was precisely because it was so difficult to identify that what she had written down was not erased along with it.

—Patient 3904, Bed No. 2.

She explained to the two of them, "I don't recall any patient with that name, but I did write down that record."

This means that, at the very moment her memory began to fade... no, it should be the moment she realized that her spirit had disappeared, Terasaki Ayasa had actually recorded information that only she could understand in her own way.

This directly proves that the phenomenon of disappearing from sight is indeed happening.

And now, there's one more victim who has disappeared without a trace.

After all, the name 3904 is completely unfamiliar and is not on any known list of missing persons.

Several people who finally realized that their memories had been altered by the disappearing spirit gathered together and began to think about how to rescue the person who had disappeared.

In response, Aya Terasaki, who has a richer knowledge base and has done some preliminary research on the phenomenon of disappearances, offered a method worth trying after an urgent investigation.

First, if we can find the traces left by the person who disappeared, we might be able to find the last place they disappeared in this world with the help of tracking magic.

Then, the last place where the other party disappeared must have been the intersection of the surface world and the inner world at that time.

Although it is difficult to deduce the intersection of the two worlds, Terasaki Ayasa will try her best.

Of course, it's not easy to make a calculation based on just one location, so it's best to find the last known locations of all the missing people.

Among them, Mayumi Haga and Akari Arisu are easy to find. The former left behind a Megarane in this world, while the latter, Megarane, disappeared directly on the rehearsal stage.

As for 3904, Terasaki Ayasa couldn't recall for a moment whether the other party had disappeared directly in the ward, since she hadn't written it down.

As for Yuri Takajo... Hitomi Tono was preparing to sneak into the other party's house to find something of theirs to use tracking magic.

All that's left is for Tono Hitomi to successfully infiltrate the Takajo family.

"This is utterly reckless." Terasaki Ayasa expressed her astonishment and disdain after learning about Tono Hitomi and Sugiyama Rika's plan.

She has a better way.

“Kagura Yu was in a car accident a while ago and is being treated at my hospital, and I happen to be her attending physician.” Terasaki Ayasa stroked her chin, narrowed her eyes slightly, and thought of a more feasible plan. “If you want to go there, why don’t you come with me for a follow-up visit?”

"Doctors are now required to follow up with discharged patients?!" Hitomi Tono exclaimed in surprise.

Terasaki Ayasa couldn't help but tease the child for being so naive: "Of course not. When I was treating her, I discovered that she has the potential to become a magical girl. I can take this opportunity to ask her if she wants to become a magical girl... You have a lot on your plate right now, don't you?"

The consequence of having only Tono Hitomi as a magical girl is that she has been overworked and exploited lately.

Admittedly, having another companion would make her task much easier, but suddenly asking Kagura to become a magical girl seems a bit excessive...

“It’s alright, I was just testing the waters,” Terasaki Ayasa muttered. “That child seems quite suitable to be a partner with a snake, and the snake has been hibernating for far too long…”

Terasaki Ayasa's former Jewel Beast has been sleeping somewhere ever since she made a contract with it.

When she's extremely busy, Ayasa Terasaki often thinks:

Ah, if only I could dig out the little snake now and give it to any child to form a contract with, how wonderful it would be to work overtime with her.

She couldn't stand how carefree the little snake was.

And now, she's only "slightly" interested in it.

Of course, if Kagura Yu is unwilling, Terasaki Ayasa will not force her; at most, she will slightly modify her memories.

“That certainly sounds feasible.” In the end, it was Sugiyama Rika who made the decision.

After all, this plan is much more reliable than "Magical Girl Crimson going to someone else's house to steal."

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Completely unaware that the people outside were planning to rescue them, Mayumi Haga and her group were already preparing to leave the Otherworld.

The black dragon originally wanted the three of them to climb onto its head and find a place to be fixed in place, but the three of them could not find a place where they would not be affected by the black dragon's high-speed flight and the impact of crashing into the stone wall.

Helpless, the three could only watch as the black dragon slightly opened its mouth—

—Then I struggled to climb inside.

Then it carefully climbed into the black dragon's mouth.

The black dragon was also very cautious, its tongue seemingly frozen, afraid to move. It carefully gave the three people who had crawled in enough space to move around and enough air to breathe, and then it didn't move again, breathing very softly, as if afraid that it might accidentally swallow them.

However, swallowing it is not a problem.

Her body could only maintain this state for a maximum of three minutes. After three minutes, the black dragon would disintegrate into rotten flesh. Many of its internal organs were not fully developed, and its intestines lacked digestive juices.

This means she won't actually digest all three of them... at most, she'll just embark on a esophageal adventure.

Of course, because her body is so large, even Black Dragon can't be entirely clear about the internal workings of her. It wouldn't be good if she got crushed somewhere along the way, so it's best to avoid any dangerous actions.

Hmm... all preparations are almost complete, time to take off.

The black dragon raised its head and, relying on its memory, immediately located the shortcut in the maze.

This shortcut is actually a dead end for ordinary people.

But to the black dragon, which could easily pierce through the maze with its hard head and horns, it was like the weakest point on a car window, which could be shattered with a gentle tap of a fire hammer.

Although the rest of the maze is heavily guarded, there are places where you can get through if you find the right spot and method.

The black dragon headed towards the shortcut.

No obstacle could withstand her sturdy physique.

Any building crumbled like a block of tofu, and any monster trembled under the dragon's might. Nothing could stop the black dragon's advance.

She didn't slow down... or rather, she kept accelerating, breaking through layer by layer, the dust she kicked up couldn't even keep up with the speed at which she left.

It was like a pitch-black cannonball that pierced through countless layers of the fragile target in a very short time.

Even the colossal labyrinth was helpless against another brutal behemoth. It began to tremble, and the labyrinth, once again giving birth to its own consciousness, tried to stop the black dragon by moving its position and changing its layout, but it was no match for the opponent.

The dusty, demolition-like, and brutal passage allowed Heilong to descend directly to the deepest point in just two minutes.

However, Black Dragon doesn't have much time left.

Her body temperature rose abnormally, her flesh began to melt, her beautiful scales lost their luster, leaving only her blood-red eyes, fixed on her ultimate goal, still gleaming with sharp light.

Main Text: Chapter 203 Black Dragon Breaks the Ice

This wasn't Hitomi Tono's first visit to Yuri Takajo's house, but after Yuri Takajo disappeared and was forgotten by everyone, she lost that connection, making it difficult for her to enter the villa openly as before.

Yuri Takajo's family seems to be very wealthy. However, aside from magical girl and school matters, Yuri Takajo doesn't usually talk about her family, so Hitomi Tono doesn't know much about her family situation.

Furthermore, Yuri Takajo's family members are usually busy with work and rarely appear in this spacious mansion. Therefore, when Hitomi Tono visited before, she only saw the butler and a few maids.

Now, with Yuri Takajo's existence forgotten, Yu Kagura, Yuri's cousin and blood relative, has automatically become the young lady of this family.

Kagura Yu was previously in a car accident and received treatment at Terasaki Ayasa's hospital. Now, Terasaki Ayasa, as a doctor, has requested a follow-up visit from Kagura Yu, which Kagura Yu has accepted.

Therefore, Terasaki Ayasa was able to bring Tono Hitomi directly in, instead of trying to climb over the wall as those two unreliable red-clad actors had previously imagined.

They need to find what Takajo Yuri left behind during this time to use in tracking magic and find the intersection of the two worlds.

This important task fell to Hitomi Tono, who was Yuri Takajo's friend.

The butler and maid opened the door and welcomed Terasaki Ayasa and Tono Hitomi inside.

This was the first time Hitomi Tono had ever witnessed such a spectacle, and she felt quite uneasy. Although she had been here before, it was as a friend of Yuri Takajo, and perhaps Yuri Takajo had explained her personality beforehand, so the welcoming ceremony at the entrance wasn't very grand.

That would be more friendly to a child from an ordinary family who hasn't seen much of the world, and Yumi Takajo has no intention of showing off.

The reason for this scene was because of Ayasa Terasaki. Some members of her family also went into business and had regular dealings with the Takajo family.

People from families that run hospitals are used to such scenes, and their calm demeanor made Tono Hitomi, who was following behind feeling uneasy, relax a little.

Hitomi Tono wasn't used to this kind of scene, so she followed closely behind Ayasa Terasaki.

"Please allow me to take you both to the young lady's room..." The butler was interrupted halfway through his sentence by a commotion upstairs.

All that could be heard was the sound of barefoot running on the wooden floor, and the purple-haired young lady made her unexpected entrance.

With her crimson eyes, Kagura Yu nimbly darted past the maid who tried to stop her, ran over, grabbed the railing, and leaned down. Her eyes lit up when she saw the two people looking up from below.

Her demeanor was not elegant, and her running posture did not resemble that of a sickly and quiet girl. Instead, every move she made was full of simple yet wild and energetic tension, like a light and hopping bird.

"Hey, come up here quickly." She waved to the two people downstairs, "I need to talk to you!"

Hitomi Tono keenly noticed the familiarity in the other person's tone, as well as the pronunciation habits that were unintentionally revealed, which were different from those of Yu Kagura herself.

Because of this habit of punctuating and breaking sentences, Mayumi also has it.

Hitomi Tono remembered the shrike she had seen once before in Mayumi Haga's mental space. For some reason, her intuition was that the grumpy little bird with bright red eyes was looking at her through Yu Kagura's eyes.

Of course, the servants were shocked by the sudden change in the once dignified young lady's personality and hurriedly tried to persuade her to go back to her room, just as they had done before.

The scene above was chaotic, while below, the butler wiped the sweat from his brow and explained to Hitomi Tono and Ayasa Terasaki, "Young Miss has been acting very strange lately."

That's certainly strange. How could it not be strange if another person lived inside your body?

After a period of chaos, the two were finally able to stay in the room and talk with [Yu Kagura].

Kagura Yu rudely kicked everyone else out, only speaking to Tono Hitomi and Terasaki Ayasa, since what was about to happen was extremely important and not something anyone else could hear.

After the last maid left the room and the door closed completely, all that could be seen was [Kagura Yu] raising her hand towards the door, and with a "click," the door automatically locked.

“Magic?...No, this fluctuation is very unusual, but it is definitely driven by magic power…” Terasaki Ayasa identified the spell used by Kagura Yu and found that it was not the kind of magic she was familiar with.

【Kagura Yu】sat cross-legged on the cushion and said, "This is of course not magic, it's witchcraft."

Her expression looked much more menacing than usual, and her bright red eyes added to the dangerous look.

Hitomi Tono tried hard to recall: "You seem to be... Miss Kotori from that day!"

"...You actually still remember?" [Kagura Yu], or rather, Lania in Kagura Yu's body, was quite surprised. "I thought all of your memories had been altered. Hmm, it seems your memories have been corrected, so you remembered Mayumi, right?"

Hitomi Tono nodded quickly.

Since Terasaki Aya hadn't experienced being guided by Rania in the mental space, she naturally didn't have a strong initial affinity for Rania. She was focused on something else: "Where did the original owner of this body go?"

“Ah, Kagura,” Rania said. “She’s resting. I rarely borrow her body; we’ve reached an agreement.”

Currently, a part of Lania's soul still resides in Kagura Yu, but the part of her soul attached to Haga Mayumi has lost contact, which is why she was able to learn of Haga Mayumi's disappearance immediately.

After Mayumi Haga disappeared, Yu Kagura's memories were also affected. Lania is skilled in witchcraft involving the human body, soul, and memory; in fact, after being a fragment of a soul for so many years, it would be difficult for her not to be proficient.

So she helped Kagura Yu fix it.

Kagura Yu's soul is weaker than that of ordinary people, so she often feels tired these days and needs to sleep.

Rania was discovered by the servants of this household just two days ago.

After Kagura Yu's offline time increased, Rania, who wanted to understand the principle of disappearance and find Mayumi Haga, used her body to prepare to go out at night.

As a result, she was caught red-handed because she was unfamiliar with her body, and because of the huge personality differences, she was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Several psychologists have been invited to her home to treat Kagura Yu in the past few days, and she has not been able to go to school for quite some time.

Hitomi Tono: "..."

Terazaki Aisa: "...Poof."

I couldn't help but laugh, I'm so sorry.

It was truly humiliating for the witch to be captured as Kagura Yu's second personality. However, her current soul strength couldn't support her engaging in too many activities, especially since she had expended too much power in Haga Mayumi's mental space earlier.

Fortunately, compared to the magic users who only realized their mistake in the last two days, the astute young witch had even more investigative results.