Chapter 104: Ah

The fact that I had been able to inherit Alice's contract, pretend to be her, and use Alice's magic was a phenomenon akin to a bug.

It was a case that even mascots who had made contracts with magical girls across countless dimensions could never have predicted.

The original magical girl had been sucked into the Abyss, and her identical twin of the opposite sex had conspired with the mascot to inherit the contract, then perfectly played the original Alice with such a high level of fidelity that nobody noticed. That was the bug.

'...Will it work? No. I have to believe it will.'

The possibility of failure? I would exclude it.

If that happened, it would already be over, so wasting my thoughts on it was pointless.

For now, I would focus all my attention on succeeding.

The staff in my hand was unmistakably Han Serin's. Alice's staff.

It was common knowledge that a staff could only be used by the magical girl herself. Neither on Earth nor anywhere in the networks of countless mascots had there ever been a recorded miracle of someone using a fallen companion's staff to defeat Abyssal Ones.

I had been doing something that violated that common knowledge for the past eight years...