Give children a little self-destruction shock to their worldview.

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Hitomi Tono wasn't so troubled by other people losing their memories; she optimistically and naively believed that she could always awaken their memories through the power of friendship.

This wasn't just her own imagination; past experience has proven that it's entirely feasible in this world.

So all you need to do is find the other person and figure out a way to start a conversation.

But Makoto... - a stubborn and foul-tempered rock that goes straight back to square one, that's really tricky.

In the original timeline, Mayumi Haga had spent many years with Hitomi Tohno before she softened back to her previous state.

Even Mayumi Haga, who was initially somewhat distant from the protagonist, was the result of years of persistent persuasion from Hitomi Tono and Rika Sugiyama.

If Sugiyama Rika had been defeated back then, and hadn't taken in Haga Mayumi, then Haga Mayumi, who ended up in this world without any support, might have really buried herself like a stone.

True Bow doesn't have magic power. If she really abandons her physical body and only leaves her core to sleep, how am I supposed to find her... Never mind, I'll go find the people I can first.

Hitomi Tohno analyzed the current situation in her mind and knew that the most urgent thing was to find the magical girl who was most likely to help her.

Arisu Juri, also known as Magical Girl Azusa, is located too far away. Without being able to transform and fly there, it's impossible for her to reach Strange City in a short time.

Moreover, not knowing the other person's address makes finding them very inefficient.

That leaves only one option.

Yuri Takajo, also known as Magical Girl Iris.

Despite her low profile, Yuri Takajo and Hitomi Tono have known each other for a long time and often visit each other's homes.

Hitomi Tono knew the address of the other person's villa, so even though they were no longer classmates, she could still find the house by following the address she remembered.

It's currently early summer vacation, so the other person is not at school and is most likely at home.

Since Lily doesn't really enjoy traveling, she probably won't leave the city as soon as she has a holiday.

Okay! Let's set off to find Lily now!

Having determined her next goal, Hitomi Tono cheered herself up and rushed out of the house like a whirlwind.

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Xiaotong!

"Where are you going?" Tono's mother wanted to say something more, but her impatient daughter had already dashed out again.

She remarked with some surprise, "This child... is really energetic today."

"I haven't heard her say that she's made any new friends."

Well, Xiaotong is a high school student now, and it's a rare opportunity for her to go out and meet her friends. I won't spoil the fun by nagging.

Turning her gaze away from her daughter, Tono's mother closed the door.

Outside the door, the thick dark clouds seemed to loosen slightly. Through the gaps in the heavy clouds, a thin ray of light pierced through the obscurity and shone firmly onto the earth, like a sharp blade piercing through the darkness.

At that moment, Hitomi Tono arrived at the gate of the Takajo residence.

After all, this heavy iron gate doesn't use a smart lock, and even if it were, I hadn't registered my fingerprint.

The location of the Takajo residence did not change with the timeline, but the overall feeling was slightly more gloomy. This was perhaps because there were too few people here, and the green plants in the garden appeared rather dark on cloudy days. Tono Hitomi rubbed the goosebumps on her arms, looked around, and began to search for a place to climb over the wall.

She has good physical fitness and is quite agile, but her height is a disadvantage, so she can only find a convenient spot to climb over without being caught on camera.

If it were Mayumi here, she should be able to find the best spot at a glance... No, she would have simply reached out and floated in, landing silently like a ninja...

This isn't just Tono Hitomi's imagination; this is Mayumi Haga's usual behavior.

Before receiving help from Karasuha, Mayumi Haga was unable to fly, so most of the time Mayumi Haga's high mobility was manifested in her extraordinary skills.

Whether it's stealth or all-terrain parkour, Mayumi Haga is good at it all.

In contrast, Hitomi Tono is a bit clumsy without magical enhancement.

That is, the level of a female high school student with good athletic ability.

She finally found a blind spot without surveillance cameras, and faced a huge challenge looking at the high wall. She started climbing with both hands and feet, and several minutes had passed by the time she reached the top of the wall.

She moved her right leg over the wall, tensely steadying herself, and only then did she breathe a sigh of relief.

However, when looking down at the ground, they were puzzled about how to get down.

Having already climbed to the top of the wall, there's no way I'm going to back down now. I'll just grit my teeth and come down...

Just as Hitomi Tono began to shift her center of gravity, attempting to slowly slide down the wall, she suddenly heard a panicked voice behind her: "Watch out!"

With a solid thud, Hitomi Tono's already swaying body was completely thrown off balance by the sudden impact, and she tumbled to the ground with the guy who crashed into her.

However, there was no pain as expected.

Hitomi Tono closed her eyes in fright, and only when she landed did she realize that she didn't seem to have hit anything and wasn't in pain.

She opened her eyes, only to be greeted by an unexpected familiar face.

"..Who are you...

Oh it's you

"...You are...Don't make a sound!"

Hitomi Tono cooperated exceptionally well, hiding with the other person in the nearby bushes.

A moment later, several black iron cans flew across the sky. They looked like strange people, but their overly uniform style was far from Hitomi Tono's impression of them.

After all, the monsters are completely different in terms of both physique and appearance. If you want to make all the monsters wear the same clothes, wouldn't that be abandoning their original individuality?

However, thinking about it, this timeline is quite strange, so it's not impossible that all the weirdos become subordinates of a villain...

As Hitomi Tono pondered this, she shifted her gaze to the girl beside her.

Long, straight purple hair, slightly curled at the corners, dark purple pupils…

Isn't that Yu Kagura? Oh right, Yu Kagura is Yuri's relative, so it's normal for her to live here.

But it seems the other party is being chased by a strange person? Tono Hitomi raised an eyebrow in her mind.

At this time.

After seeing Tono Hitomi's unfamiliar face, Kagura Yu felt a deep sense of unease amidst her surprise.

She was actually a classmate? After transferring to Miracle City, she hadn't made any friends in class. After all, she and the little snake Lena were caught in a vortex and didn't have any extra energy to deal with interpersonal relationships.

Hitomi Tono was the most popular student in the class.

Hitomi Tono has a cheerful and lively personality, a rare bright spot in a colorless world, but the two are not friends, let alone able to trust each other.

What should we do? Will Tono-kun sense something's wrong...?

That's right, Yu Kagura is the magical girl Pansy.

In this worldline without Magical Girl Crimson, Magical Girl Iris, and Magical Girl Azure, Yu Kagura, who never made a contract with the snake Lena, became the only magical girl.

On her way home from middle school after graduating, she found Lena, a small snake that had awakened and was wanted by a strange man. By chance, she signed a contract and became the magical girl Pansy.

After that, they became active in their efforts to overthrow the rule of the freak leader, Ein.

Kagura Yu doesn't like the world now. She hates the life where most of the colors have been stolen, and she hates the central urban area that is gradually becoming alien.

Because of her computer skills, she once hacked into the central city's database out of curiosity and learned some of the facts that the strange man had covered up.

In addition to the information provided by the little snake Lena, she became increasingly dissatisfied with the status quo, so she simply transformed into the magical girl Pansy to punish evil and promote good.

At first, it was just small-scale fighting, defeating some shady characters, but later they gradually discovered Ein's conspiracy and were drawn into this vortex.

The world line has been modified.

Upon learning this, Kagura Yu was terrified.

There was nothing out of place in her memory, but the information from the World Library hacked by Lena the snake indicated that the timeline had been modified. The most unusual one was the Magical Girls section, where dozens of items had been deleted from ten years ago to the present.

Even Kagura Yu couldn't know the details of these deleted items, but according to the access records, she learned that this data had been extracted and taken away by Ein, and might have been placed somewhere in the central city.

So these past few days, Kagura Yu has been trying every possible way to sneak in and steal the data crystal, and she's even been wanted by the weirdo.

The worst part is that she was about to get the data crystal when she discovered that what she had was a fake. She really had no idea where it had been switched.

Having finally escaped home, I was completely exhausted and just wanted to rest, but I was spotted by a classmate.

Just a second before Hitomi Tono opened her eyes, Yu Kagura's transformation ended due to the depletion of her magic power.

This is bad, the problem is probably going to be discovered... Hopefully the other party won't discover her identity and report her... Just as she was thinking this, her expression suddenly froze.

However, Hitomi Tono showed an even greater sense of guilt than she did.

The reason is simple... I was caught by people inside the house while climbing over the wall, which was really embarrassing.

Even though she was momentarily surprised that Kagura Yu was the magical girl Pansy, she was a magical girl herself, so she wasn't surprised by it anymore.

The more important thing now is to come up with a plausible excuse...!

"...Speaking of which, how did Kagura Yu end up here?"

Why do I need to use a VPN?

"Tono Hitomi seized the initiative as soon as she opened her mouth!"

In situations like this, you need to be even more assertive than your opponent to avoid being at a disadvantage.

Sure enough, Kagura Yu's eyes darted around: "It's nothing... wait, I'm just going home."

"Isn't this Gao Tiao's house?" "It's my relative's house where I'm temporarily staying. - Wait a minute."

You're changing the subject, aren't you?

"Why did you have to climb over the wall?!" β Kagura Yu, who had been pretending to be calm with her hands rolled up, immediately let go after realizing the loophole in Tono Hitomi's words.

Hitomi Tono: "...I am..." The two looked at each other for a long time, and then realized that there was no point in continuing like this.

Kagura Yu cleared her mind: "Tono-kun, you saw it all?" "I'll keep it a secret for you."

"Tono Hitomi said that since the other party is a magical girl, the two of them are naturally on the same side."

Rather, she came here to find companions.

To be able to meet the magical girl Pansy in person is quite lucky.

"So you're here...?" Kagura Yu breathed a sigh of relief after realizing that the other party wouldn't betray her, and then asked curiously.

"I'm looking for Yuri, Takajo Yuri."

"Tono Hitomi gave an answer that Kagura Yu hadn't expected."

Since Kagura Yu is a trustworthy person and a magical girl, and since Takajo Yuri can't be found right now, Tono Hitomi simply started exchanging information with her.

You mean...

You have memories from another timeline...? You are the magical girl Crimson, your cousin Yuri is the magical girl Iris, and you have other companions...? Kagura Yu struggled to process this massive amount of information.

A pleasant surprise followed.

The information Hitomi Tono mentioned vaguely matches what Yu Kagura and Lena Kosuke deduced, which greatly proves the credibility of the other party.

In other words, this is a help that came to us without warning!

Just as the two girls emerged from their hiding place and began exchanging information, a sinister gaze was watching the two girls, who had quickly become acquainted, from a tree not far away.

Worse still possible

On the treetop, a short, strange-looking man wearing a black hoodie was looking furtively at the two suspicious-looking girls.

Because of his short stature and agile movements, the Natto Monster generally does not participate in combat missions.

He originally intended to retreat with the team chasing the magical girl Pansy, but he never expected to witness this scene.

It's normal that the magical girl Sanshoku-zuki just now seemed to be running out of magic power and was forced to deactivate her transformation.

The weirdos planned to wait until the other party deactivated their transformation before capturing them, but they didn't expect to follow them anyway.

The magical girl pansy couldn't be found on the road; it turned out she was hiding in a private house.

The Takajo family... He remembered that they were a wealthy family with properties in various corners of the city. Perhaps even the safe house for the magical girl pansy was scattered throughout the city.

No wonder they couldn't catch him despite issuing an arrest warrant; he's got multiple escape routes.

Fortunately, I discovered the other party's true identity, otherwise I would have had to deal with this brat for a long time.

Realizing that discovering the identity of the magical girl Sanshokuro would be a huge achievement, Natto Monster couldn't help but get excited.

But with that comes more consideration.

He wanted to capture the magical girl pansy himself and claim all the credit, rather than let those simple-minded guys get the benefits.