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With a crisp sound, the enormous Remnant Beast in the sky, the motionless Remnant Beasts within the city, and the "Remnant Beasts" sleeping in the ruins of the Abnormal Strategy Bureau all vanished.

Together with the blue castle that originally enveloped the city center, everything disappeared into the night. It was as if, like in a fairy tale, all magical, dreamlike, extraordinary things dissipated into nothingness with one light sound, just as Cinderella's enchantment from the fairy godmother.

Once the ball ended, Cinderella was Cinderella again, everything that should return to reality regained its true form.

People looked at each other in bewilderment, unable to comprehend what they had just witnessed—if it weren't for the remaining damage on the buildings' streets, they would even doubt that the Remnant Beast attack was just an illusion.

No one noticed that as the Remnant Beasts disappeared, some humans who weren't there before mysteriously appeared amidst the ruins, lying there sleeping quietly.

As the instigator of it all, atop the scorched ground in the city center, Emerald Sparrow was holding a pair of scissors, quietly watching Mosi before her.

The colossal moth Remnant Beast was no more, only an old woman in black robes remained. She sat on the ground, dazed, staring blankly at her own hands.

Apart from a tiny purple-black Crystal Stone, nothing was left there.

"My experiment, my plans, my power, my revenge..."

She looked up at Emerald Sparrow, "What have you done? Without these, how am I supposed to take revenge on the Magic Kingdom, how am I supposed to kill all those high-and-mighty magical girls in power?"

"How could you do all this... You're just a former trump card who's been seriously injured, with Magic Power that is already damaged and can't be fully used, on what basis did you take away everything I had!"

"Such a terrible rule, such an unreasonable rule, how can you use it at will!"

"Gain together? Lose together? What nonsense! Limited to the concept of a Remnant Beast, don't magical girls like you not have to pay for anything?"

"Using such power, why don't you pay any price?"

She roared hysterically, "This is not fair, why! Why!"

Emerald Sparrow still looked calmly at Mosi.

"You're right."

She slowly spoke, "Everything comes with a price."

——Crack, crunch.

As the words fell, the small, already cracked pair of tailoring scissors in her hand finally gave in to the strain with a crisp sound. The cracks spread wantonly, eventually cutting through the blade completely, reducing the scissors into countless fragments.

Then, under Mosi's gaze, Emerald Sparrow's scissors shattered.

Just like the ruler she had once lost, as another form of the Weave of Fate, the scissors seemed to have fulfilled their purpose, turning into many fragments after everything was done, disappearing completely.

"Rules are rules, Magic Power is Magic Power, to leverage spells to move rules, one must naturally pay the price due."

Emerald Sparrow seemed oblivious to the disappearance of the scissors from her hand, and emotionlessly said to Mosi, "Now, neither of us has any rules."

Mosi didn't heed Emerald Sparrow's words; she watched the breaking apart of the scissors, her eyes widening as if confirming whether this was reality. When she realized that Emerald Sparrow really couldn't put the scissors back together again, she let out a somewhat deranged "heh."

"Magic Power? The price is your Magic Power! Hahaha!"
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She propped herself up off the ground in a disheveled manner, her golden hair matted with the fluid of Remnant Beasts, sticking to her cheeks, "You're a lunatic! You monster! To weaken my power you destroyed your own Magic Power! What kind of crazed magical girl are you! Are you out of your mind?"

"Between Magic Power and this city, power and my juniors, I know which is more important."

Emerald Sparrow shook her hand and looked somewhat stunned at her palm, then raised her head again, "It's just a pair of scissors, in exchange for a miracle that reverses everything, I've already gained far too much."

"Lunatic... lunatic..."

Mosi muttered, straightening her body, "Hahaha! Lunatic! You mentally deranged masochist!"

"It's quite funny hearing that from you," Emerald Sparrow sighed, took a step forward, and walked towards Mosi, "I'll admit, that's the funniest thing you've said tonight."

"Still putting up a show!"

Mosi glared at Emerald Sparrow with venom, her mouth curling into a mad smile, "You can't use the Magic Realm anymore! You've lost your Magic Power! You've barely any magic power left! How do you think you can defeat me now?"

"I no longer have the beast's innards, but I still have magic power, and I have my Spell Techniques, my reserves of magic power are far greater than yours, and my condition is much better than yours! When all the trump cards and jokers have been used up, what's left is a comparison of who has more quality cards in hand, idiot! What bargaining chip do you have left at your disposal now? Admit it, you've already lost!"

"You're finished, I will torture you with the most cruel methods, I'll make you regret everything you did tonight, and those brats over there won't escape either, I'll make you all..."

Bang!

"Ow!"

With a muffled sound and Mosi's cry, she was sent flying.

Emerald Sparrow retracted her fist, her expression calm as she raised her hand to roll up the sleeves of her dress, revealing her slender and white arm, as well as the pair of fists that didn't seem very menacing.