Chapter 89: Please Call My Name

...I had already expected this to some extent.

I had already unconsciously assumed that the woman was still alive—and that, if she was alive, the place would be the Abyss. It wasn't as if I thought she had died; I'd often thought of her simply as no longer being in this world.

...Because I couldn't believe that crazy bitch would die so easily...

'...But I hadn't wanted evidence this conclusive.'

-Vrrrr...

Even if I took the wand charging normally as a given, once we crossed into the Abyss, its recharge rate suddenly increased to an abnormal degree. It was the first time anything like this had happened in my eight years of activity.

No matter how much I tried to fool myself, how could I deny this situation?

Even if I bent over backward and assumed that magical power usable by magical girls happened to overflow in the Abyss, causing the wand to suddenly recharge, or that crossing the dimension had taken a long time even though it had only felt like a brief moment... I could think of possibilities like that, but...

'...The garden, cards, knight, hearts, judgment, neck... Fuck.'

No matter how positively I tried to think about it, wasn't it all too obvious...