Chapter 740

The concept of time within the Time Railway, the concept of space formed by Kyubey's built-in computing power, and numerous existences all merged with her.

She broke away from the three-dimensional world. Kiryu Minori overlooked the long river of time and saw everything that happened in eighty thousand years.

A boundless war that stretched across the entire universe for eighty thousand years!

New and old humans, magical girls, and countless alien life forms started a terrifying slaughter!

At first, magical girls only wanted to escape the Incubator's contract, but they were driven by an unscrupulous interstellar military-industrial complex, and then the magical girls started a rebellion, sparking a great war!

At first, the combat power of both sides was balanced, and the war didn't even spread out of the galaxy, but as magical girls externalized interpersonal relationships, their Ouroboros-like magic power became endless!

The magical girls went completely insane!

They indulged in spreading cuteness and overturning everything!

Cuteness filled the universe, and death also filled the universe—

Kiryu Minori's gaze followed the long river of time upstream, and finally, she returned to the very beginning, the era when humans and Incubators reached a contract.

Kiryu Minori returned to 2021. That's right, she wanted to go home! She wanted to live in the time she had lost!

The torrent of time set off a surging tsunami, as if to take everything away, but Kiryu Minori held onto the threads of time tightly!

She succeeded; her consciousness successfully merged into her body in this era!

The events repeated themselves; she fell and broke her head, Kyubey crawled out of her brain and took out an envelope, then headed to...

No, nothing happened when the envelope was taken out... This space-time began to become bizarre and gloomy, and Kiryu Minori looked up abruptly!

The originally dim and cramped rental room was now swallowed by darkness, and even more hair-raising giggles came from the deep darkness!

That's right, she should have thought of it earlier; this era was a huge trap aimed at her!

A closed-loop labyrinth, an endless time-space hell. Kiryu Minori frantically wanted to escape, but she was trapped forever in this labyrinth.

"Sister, see you later, waiting for you at the center of fate~" her younger sister Hiruna's voice sounded like a ghost.

Kiryu Minori couldn't make a sound; her eyes were frantic and trembling violently. She was going crazy; she was going to be driven mad by this thing that had long been dead!!!

Why, why on earth treat her like this!

Kiryu Minori tore at her face, roaring like a madwoman!

And she gradually saw that so-called fate—

A corpse with a noose around its neck swayed in the room with the wind. Her face was purple, her tongue and eyes bulging, and that familiar face was even more surprising.

She saw herself dead in the room.

"Locked-room murder..." Kiryu Minori understood; if she wanted to escape, she had to find the truth!

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Chapter 404: The Universe's Consciousness Enters! Universe: Please Kill the Magical Girls! The Beginning of Everything! Terrifying Magical Girls!

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The magical girls' laughter echoed throughout space-time.

Creepy, terrifying, horrifying, happy, bizarre—they permeated every corner of this era!

Kiryu Minori even felt that this creepy laughter was lurking in her hair, her pores, and her cells!

The stiff corpse was hung high by a rope, eyes wide open in death. This is a labyrinth of time, a locked room of death; every step forward, she had to face immense pain!

This pain went deep into the bone marrow and stung the soul!

But if it were just this, she could still endure it, but... what was more terrifying than this was that it was an eternal hell with its future blocked!

"Detective game, catching the culprit..." Kiryu Minori stood up with difficulty, looking at her own corpse, and suddenly understood.

Only by finding clues, integrating all the leads, finding the culprit, and solving this locked-room murder case could she find the only way to survive!

So who is it?

"Who is it? Who was the first discoverer? Who has been to this room? Who had a dispute with her? Who is the biggest suspect?" Kiryu Minori was like a madwoman, her expression frantic, muttering as she searched every corner of the room.

A moment later, she showed a morbid and proud smile, "As far as I can see, the victim is me, and the criminal... is also me!"

Due to the previous explosion and various reasons combined, this had become a time-locked room. No matter how much she struggled, she couldn't break through 2021!

Even if she rewound this year thousands, ten thousand, or a billion times, it was still the same!

All endings were destruction: burned to death, drowned, starved, poisoned, electrocuted, suffocated.

Endless death endings; countless versions of her died in this year.

But even so, Kiryu Minori was still unwilling. She didn't want to accept her fate like this; she didn't want her sister to pester her anymore!

Kiryu Minori rewound again, but was horrified to find that the causal sequence of this era began to collapse with her as the center!

Kiryu Minori suddenly remembered what Kyubey said about the collapse of the space-time sequence, like an Ouroboros that consumes and gives birth to itself. Her actions single-handedly created the causal ring, bringing her into this closed space-time!

There were no logical flaws; her death was caused by her own hand. Space-time slowly collapsed, the world began to perish like an illusory bubble, and the laughter became denser and more creepy.

But at this moment, Kiryu Minori fell into a bizarre calm...

"The logic is indeed flawless, but I must figure out the cause and effect of this matter!"

Who exactly lured her into this space!

In other words, who wrote the wedge of the story!

To deduce this ultimate murder case, one must make the ultimate deduction; the ultimate answer must have an ultimate question!

So what is the question?

Kiryu Minori spoke slowly, "Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?"

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【Lu Mofei: "Hahahaha! Is it a detective game?! I love detective games the most! It's just a pity I'm not in that world, otherwise things would definitely be more interesting!"】

【Conan: "A puzzle spanning eighty thousand years, this kind of case is simply... *cough cough*, simply mind-boggling. But! Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu! There is only one truth!"】

【Mouri Kogoro: "Leave professional matters to professionals! It's time for the famous detective, Sleeping Kogoro, to appear! By the way, what is this case trying to do? What are the three questions actually asking?"】

【Izayoi Sakamaki: "Alright, old man, you'd better go take a nap first."】

【Aqua: "Tsk, can't understand, can't understand at all. What suspects, what dead people, what are you talking about! In my opinion, this is just that woman's self-directed and self-acted play!"】

Across the Myriad Worlds

Countless people were confused, but they could still grasp a few key points.

The three questions were asking about the origin of magical girls, the end of magical girls, and why magical girls became like that.

Kiryu Minori, trapped in the singularity of 2021 and unable to escape, was simply because of the interference of magical girls.

And to break this, one must start searching from the source!

But observation alone was not enough; one also needed the ability to interfere!

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The third question was already obvious: we will become magical girl humans, establish an infinitely eternal cute relationship, and cover this damn cute relationship network across the entire universe!

So now only two questions remained. Kiryu Minori used the first question as an entry point: where do they come from.

Kiryu Minori's consciousness began to backtrack. Although her body was trapped in the space-time of 2021, she could use the Time Railway and Kyubey's abilities to backtrack into the past to observe and interfere!

Time flowed endlessly. Kiryu Minori's consciousness began to retreat frantically, and soon she returned to 75,000 years ago, where she saw ancient humans on the African continent!

And because of merging with Kyubey, Kiryu Minori actually established a one-way link with a race in the universe!

That was the alien civilization known as the Incubators!

That was a race that lived in the form of a collective spirit; individual information was connected through telepathy—all is one, one is all!

Kiryu Minori couldn't imagine such an existence. The minds of every one of them were independent, but the existence known as the Incubator was like this.

Don't they have selfishness? Don't they have their own emotions?

Clearly, no. Kiryu Minori realized this very clearly through the one-way link.

She continued to watch, and she saw Kyubey's perception of the future of the universe and the end of all things.

Everything will head toward the end; this unavoidable fact was not terrifying to the Incubators, because they had no concept of individual death.

Individual death was too bland for them, so bland that they felt nothing at all.

Individual death would not affect the whole; they were absolutely certain of this!

But there was one exception, and that was the death of the universe—

The universe is the whole; the death of the whole is terrifying. Even without this concept, Kyubey, which regarded the universe as a whole, began to spare no effort to extend the life of the universe!

They discovered the forces that govern the universe: gravity, electromagnetic force, strong and weak nuclear forces, and... the ever-increasing entropy!

Entropy is irreversible!

They couldn't find any way to break the second law of thermodynamics, let alone reverse entropy increase!

They tried every method, but all were in vain. But they didn't give up; the universe is vast, so vast that they actually found a way to reverse entropy increase from it!