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"..."

Alicia looked embarrassed, while Muirsay sighed wearily.

"It's my fault, I didn't have time to tell you."

"No, no, no, this is my fault. It's because I didn't check the records at all that caused the problem."

"No! This is my problem!"

"No, it's me!"

"it's me!"

The two of them argued like children.

Emilia, who had just arrived, was speechless, but she let them be.

"Hello, Miss Xia Die. My name is Emilia, you can just call me Emily."

Emilia, sitting in her wheelchair, greeted Xia Die with a smile. Two magical girls behind her pushed the wheelchair, and together they arrived in front of Xia Die.

Each of them also carried a witch's gem.

Xia Die glanced at the gems they were carrying, her expression unchanged.

"Hello, Lady Emilia, my name is Xia Die."

After a brief introduction, Emilia explained her purpose for coming.

"How does Miss Xia Die understand the powers of a witch?"

Emilia did not suggest that Xia Die help teach them how to use the powers of a witch, since Miss Xia Die was busy guiding the dead and had no time to teach others.

But chatting is fine, so talking about witches is normal, right?

As Emilia spoke, she took out the Thunder Witch Gem.

Xia Die didn't speak, but looked at the two magical girls behind Emilia, Du Shushu and Selena.

Du Shushu was holding the Ice Witch Gem, while Selena held the Wind Witch Gem. The latter was the magical girl who had the deepest grasp of the Wind Witch Gem's power so far. However, compared to Du Shushu, Muirse and the others' grasp of witch powers was far from sufficient; they were simply the tallest among the short.

"Why do you need to understand the [Basic Thunder] power?" Xia Die countered.

Emilia was puzzled as to how Xia Die knew the name of the power within the Thunder Witch's Gem. She hadn't even come into contact with the gem.

Perhaps sensing Emilia's confusion, Xia Die continued.

"Gemstones are merely the vessel; the power is what matters. Power embedded in an external object like this reveals its true nature at a glance."

"I see"

Emilia understood a little better; the powers within these gems were like an unlocked door, and what was inside was clearly visible.

Emilia, however, had a new question: what exactly is power?

However, she didn't ask any further questions, but instead answered Xia Die's earlier question.

"I need the power of the [Primal Thunder] ability to save people."

Emilia expressed her thoughts, which were indeed what she thought and did. Without the [Basic Lightning] power, the Antarctic glaciers would have melted completely during the Ice Witch incident. Afterwards, she forcibly activated her power to refreeze Antarctica, thus preventing the uplift of the Antarctic tectonic plates from being as rapid and terrifying.

Xia Die could see Emilia's determination and resolve, but she still emphasized it again.

"Your Excellency, my question is why you want to understand the [Basic Lightning] power."

"...Is that not allowed?"

Emilia didn't quite understand.

"Then this power must have come from the witch you mentioned?"

"right"

As Emilia responded, she thought to herself, "Miss Xia Die doesn't seem to know what a witch is? Hmm, she probably doesn't call herself a witch, right? Just like how Miss Xia Die refers to magic as imaginary energy."

"【Basic Lightning】is a witch's power, not yours."

"Although you can use [Basic Lightning], you will never reach the level of the witch who possesses this power."

Upon hearing Xia Die's words, Emilia pondered for a moment and thought of the deepest part of the earth, the inner world created by the Thunder Witch and named Fantasy Paradise by Alicia.

Although Emilia was very familiar with the power of [Basic Lightning], she was also certain that it was almost impossible for her to replicate a world one-to-one with [Basic Lightning]. Not to mention replicating it, Emilia couldn't understand any details at all just by standing there and looking at it. It was exactly the same as something that had been created naturally. Moreover, the Fantasy Paradise was completely unaffected deep inside the earth!

After thinking about Xia Die's words again, Emilia suddenly realized that [Basic Lightning] was ultimately the power of the Thunder Witch.

"What does Miss Xia Die mean?" Emilia had a guess in her mind, but she still couldn't quite believe it.

Xia Die calmly revealed the scythe in her hand, and all the magical girls involuntarily looked at the scythe.

“This is…power?” Muirsays asked hesitantly.

The sensation emanating from the scythe in Xiaodie's hand was undoubtedly a reaction of power to all the magical girls present, but it was different from the power reaction of a witch, and the difference was significant.

The power reactions of witches, like the evil magic they use, are extremely dangerous and aggressive. Such power reactions can generally only be sensed by magical girls of B rank or higher.

But the power in front of Muirsey and the others was completely different. It was not dangerous or aggressive at all; it just gave people a strong sense of deathly stillness and was relatively less dangerous.

Most importantly, the power of the Butterfly is manifested through imaginary energy, which is magic.

"Witches have witches' powers, and I have mine."

Xia Die's calm yet matter-of-fact voice crashed against the hearts of all the magical girls like a tsunami.

They're not fools. Combining what Xia Die emphasized earlier, it's entirely plausible that magical girls can indeed possess their own powers, and there's a high probability that this is true.

"Power that belongs to oneself?"

Du Shushu looked at the ice sword in her hand, which was inlaid with the Ice Witch's gem. Although she could unleash the formidable power of the [Stagnation Ice] ability, during the Ice Witch incident, the Ice Witch had frozen a large area of ​​time in order to defeat Emilia at that time!

Du Shushu was stunned when she heard the news. Stopping time? That's something no human could do! When she obtained and used the power of [Ice of Stasis], she understood even more how terrifying the Ice Witch was during the battle at the South Pole.

Time seemed to stand still, while Antarctic glaciers were thawing! They even built a huge army.

Du Shushu knew that she could never, and would never, reach the level of the Ice Witch.

However, after learning from Miss Xia Die and seeing the power that was completely different from that of a witch and belonged exclusively to Xia Die herself, Du Shushu understood.

Without hesitation, she ripped the Ice Witch Gem from the ice sword and shoved it into the bewildered Selena's hand.

"This is not needed!"

Suddenly, a faint but unique light emanated from Du Shushu, a light called the light of power.

Xia Die looked at Du Shushu with some surprise. The power she possessed was a completely new power derived from Aunt Anna's power.

"...?"

Alicia, Muelseth, and Emilia were all stunned. What was on Du Shushu? Power? A completely new power unlike anything they had ever seen before?

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Alicia and the others felt extremely confused. What on earth was going on?

How did Du Shushu suddenly gain power, and how did it become her own power?

Xia Die was surprised by this, but not entirely.

"The essence of power, simply put, is to use one's own will to control imaginary energy to achieve the desired result."

Xia Die said as she watched Du Shushu undergo her transformation.

"This gentleman's will is very pure."

However, as they talked, Xia Die became somewhat confused. She realized that Du Shushu seemed, seemed to be, not human at all... but rather similar to herself.

Xia Die naturally understood that she was a life created by Mother Seele, her daughter and her family.

Du Shushu is similar to a relative, but it seems that she became that relationship later in life.

Her amethyst-like eyes blinked calmly, and Xia Die glanced at Alicia out of the corner of her eye.

Why is this seemingly dim-witted pink-haired Thunder Woman's retinue?

However, the crowd, who were all in shock and focused on Du Shushu, did not notice Xia Die's doubts.

Du Shushu, who was immersed in her own power, finally came to her senses and saw that the principal, vice principal and director were all looking at her.

"This is my power." Du Shushu stood there stunned for a few seconds, then quickly reacted and reconstituted an ice sword. The previous ice sword had automatically disappeared because she had given up the Ice Witch Gem.

The ice sword in Du Shushu's hand was not fancy; it was simply a sword formed purely of ice. Its power response was similar to, but completely different from, the [Stagnation Ice] power she had used before.

"Its name is the [Eternal Sword]!" Du Shushu said with great pride.

"..."

Although everyone felt a bit strange about the name Du Shushu gave her power, which had a kind of old-fashioned taste, they all understood why it was this name after learning about the power's abilities.

"You mean you can make the target of your power constant? Make it eternal and unchanging?"

Muirsay looked at him strangely.

"Yes! Uh, before the magic is exhausted." Du Shushu felt the power within her body growing stronger and stronger every moment, and she was extremely excited about it. However, she quickly added that she felt she couldn't truly make something eternally constant, at least not now.

Muirsey quickly pressed for an answer.

"Is it possible to stabilize the injury?"

“Of course!” Du Shushu glanced at Vice Principal Emilia in the wheelchair before answering firmly.

"Is it possible to make life constant?"

"what?"

Can magic power be kept constant?

"what?"

"If you hold the ground down, can you make the Earth stationary?"

"..."

What about time? What about space?

Muirsay's ramblings became increasingly outrageous, leaving Du Shushu dumbfounded.

However, compared to the powers of those witches, Du Shushu's powers, though formidable, are not so powerful upon closer inspection.

The "Principles of Science" which possesses almost all scientific knowledge, the "Void of Existence" which manipulates space at will, the "Thunder of Foundations" which is close to creating all things, the "Wind of Flow" which controls the flow of concepts, and even the "Ice of Stagnation" which can stop time.

"Director, I can't do it," Du Shushu replied weakly.

“No, perhaps you can,” Muirse said thoughtfully. She then took out the Witch of Reason Gem and handed it to Selena.

Holding the three witch gems, Selena was somewhat at a loss. She carefully kept the three gems—Wind, Ice, and Reason—in her hands, and then the next second she saw another gem being handed to her.

Emilia looked at Selena with a slight smile.

Selena readily accepted the Thunder Witch Gem.

However, Alicia was still confused; she didn't understand what it meant to control magic to achieve the result she wanted.

Muirsey looked at the butterfly.

"Miss Xia Die, leave those vengeful spirits to us."

"Gentlemen, please be careful."

Xia Die nodded without saying anything more.

Anyway, they volunteered to help deal with those vengeful spirits. Xia Die herself was guiding the dead souls into the Underworld Sea, and she didn't do anything like instructing the magical girls.

Xia Die is also dealing with vengeful spirits; it was those magical girls who secretly learned and observed Xia Die's methods and techniques for manipulating imaginary energy.

Xia Die has always insisted that she will not interfere in worldly affairs; her only duty is to guide the souls of the dead.

The first group to enter the Realm of the Butterfly was five magical girl squads, each consisting of five members. These 25 magical girls were incredibly curious and surprised by what they saw upon entering the Realm. They also witnessed human souls and the imprisoned vengeful spirits.

"The first squad will begin by gathering information about those vengeful spirits; proceed with extreme caution."

Emilia informed the 1st Magical Girl Squad.

"understand!"

The captain of the 1st Magical Girl Squad quickly made preparations and led her squad members into the area where the vengeful spirits were imprisoned, while the magical girls from the other squads observed from the outside.

The vengeful spirits among them were four or five meters tall. All the other vengeful spirits had been devoured, and only this one remained. Upon seeing them, it immediately rushed over.

"Everyone, get out of the way immediately!" The girls quickly flew into the air to avoid the vengeful spirit's attack.