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"What you most cherish, you will never reach. Such is the way of the world. {Hands that rule will never grasp}." (Wang JianYi, Ward H)
A psychic force attempts to crush Eterna, rooting her to the spot tightly with all of her magic. A magical girl in a modern jacket and jeans grasps at the air with all her might, giving no room for Eterna to breath after Nagisa's attack. With a wave of her hand, the force collapses and Eterna was free once more.
" After winter, there will always be a sun awaiting a promised future. With my vow, humanity will always have a future. {Snow washed heart faces tomorrow}." (Heli Durand, Ward C)
A woman with pallid skin and pale white hair stands in contrast with her dim surroundings, a faint luminescent glow wrapped around her figure like a fairy of legend. Her white robe shivered as snow blew into the air, a wide column of space around Eterna freezes all at once. A booming voice and a mountain of a silhouette moves to the front. His lean but firm muscles shape his bodysuit.
"No matter who stands here and who hasn't doesn't really matter. There will come a time in every man's life where they have to face adversity in place of others.
Weaving a web of myth and folk tale, the greatest 'story' is one of humanity's indomitable will. {Blazing unreality comes for all}, it is time to face your own end great mother. " (John Atlas, Ward E)
Black flames swim forward from his hands and swallow the ice hole. A man in a full power suit reaches the front, painting his silhouette against the paradoxically brilliant black flames, and revealing a fully covered helmet resting upon his shoulders. They conflagrate but not through inheriting sparks from ignited fuel.
What is inherited remains the human will, passed from generations to generations. They course through their target ignoring the ice, ravaging the flesh of the enemy. For a moment the world stood silent, before the ice shattered into the sky and the black flames spew against the magical girls. A white translucent barrier protectively wraps itself around everyone, forming an impregnable dome where the flames do not reach.
"{Crystallised rapture}, it's always important to have faith. If not in others, then in yourself. If not in yourself, then in those who vested faith onto you.
You're never alone, when you can't find the light within you, look around." (Beatrice Houver, Ward K)
A magical girl in priest robes lifts her holy staff, a flag under which people congregate and pool their beliefs, turning ideals into power. Her determination was clear for all to see, her trembling fingers tighten around her staff.
" Hmph, everyone has already stolen the good lines. I'm sure you don't need anything from me after this, truth is inherent to life, your own truths will always remain. {Fading sun illuminates the lands}. " (Eili Synch, Ward L)
Her combat dress reminiscent of a sunflower field, flutters in a tranquil manner. It will flutter its last, for now.
"Advice? The truth is that it doesn't matter! There is so much more to life, like family. Not just those related by blood, but perhaps something more. {Setting toll of judgement}, for desecrating life you will face the penalty, Eterna!" (Seren Freesia, Ward I)
" Right... Family. Humanity has so many more bonds beyond that, and no label could accurately describe your most precious. Fight with all your might, if you know what you desire then go for it! {Buried stream records all sins}!!" (Melia Dovy, Ward M)
Twin magical girls rush to the front. One with red eyes black hair, and one with blue eyes white hair. They share near identical combat dresses with opposing colour schemes, but they also have smaller trinkets and other details that differentiate their dress. Seren sets the law, Melia archives the evidence. Together they enforce the rule. For such an old being, they must have killed countless. For example... All the sentinels that came before them. From Taneda to Eili, the moment they used their magic, they parted after their speech. Reduced to nonexistence.
"... Big sis, it's scary..." (Melia)
"It's alright. I'm here." (Seren)
All the others had their existence erased, and people's memories of them removed. Only upon Eili's magic that sets a rule and enforces it by reading any history of violations in the past, and Melia's magic that unearth's said evidence to subsequently enforce punishment, did these two notice the deaths of all the other sentinels. If their magic doesn't work, if they can't beat Eterna...
Faint light particles gently flit to the ground in their place.
"The legislature(Seren), the judiciary(Melia), and who do you think is the executive? The one to enforce the rules you claim of... I can override that authority." (Eterna)
Vines crawl from the sky as the earth trembles. A sea of green blocks out the sky, thrashing wildly as it crashes towards the ground.
" {Idyllic unbridled viridescence}, primeval nature has no care for laws... I'm going ahead. Remember, nothing is meaningless." (Fortesia Britanny, Ward Q)
"Would you entrust your fate to the future? {Thousand eye oracle}...I will bring about the desired future no one can see... That's why trust your eyes over the future. " (Zhi YingQuan, Ward S)
A magical girl with a thorns and petal themed dress fights on. She exhausts her magic all at once, moving the heavens and bringing it down. Primordial forces assemble at her command, a brilliant gold light converged into an explosion. The nature of existence and the universe persisted before there were 'rules', that's why the laws of heaven will no longer apply. The plants ravage the target without impediment.
Using the oracle's power, YingQuan will block out Eterna's ability to perceive the past and future. Lacking any pause, her figure vanishes into thin air as she output her magic at maximum strength. She will blind the enemy to other possibilities. Future is for humanity to seize, not the rebelling deity.
" That won't hold her for long. My power is useless, I'll leave it to you. Save it.{Endowed truth seeks promised returns} " (Giviera Violet, Ward T)
Waving her hand, the detective magical girl bids farewell. Her trench coat and inconspicuous hat leaves its mark in their lives. A smile that never doubted one bit.
The power to change fate won't work for long, it's only an instant. After all, 'fate' is going to resist them. It comes with the package of fighting the sovereign deity of one's own universe. The earth, humanity, nature, the laws, the cosmos, fate itself is going to rebel against their very efforts to change the future. It was a given, no one is surprised. Yet all the more so... They're magical girls. Of course they'll try to honour the lives of others before their own.
"The nature lady brought us a short moment. I'm afraid I have to leave it to you guys. But Alice, you knew that from the start, didn't you? Prove it to everyone. That what we did wasn't pointless. I know you can. {World between twilight encroached horizons}, this is the gap between existence and nonexistence. The gap where you can fight even the world itself. " (Lux Klikaissi, Ward V)
Milk white kimono with black drapes, her tanned skin and golden hair stood out less than her beautiful smile. Giving them a push, they slip into a gap of a darkness.