The sunny boy in Cardcaptor Sakura

Chapter 571 Virtual and Real
"Card acquisition."

As the spell was recited, the hexagon on the top of the Dream Wand began to spin rapidly. The crystal light shone in all directions, and transparent crystals also appeared out of thin air.

The trapped Hollow Sakura put her hands behind her back, and with a smile on her face, she turned into a crystal body, which then shattered into pieces all over the sky.

Amidst the flying crystal fragments, a card emitting a faint blue glow slowly fell while spinning.

Sakura also reached out and pinched it, but she did not look at the card first. Instead, she quickly turned her head to look at Syaoran's position.

"Little Wolf!"

"Sakura!"

Two shouts rang out at the same time, and Li Syaoran ran over anxiously with his sword tightly grasped. This time there was no accident, and he successfully came to Sakura's side.

"Are you okay?" ×2
Another nervous question was asked in unison. They were both stunned at the same time. Looking at each other's worried expressions, they paused and laughed together in tacit understanding.

After a few seconds, the two stopped laughing and looked at the newly acquired card together.

The artistic Chinese characters "虚実" are written on the top of the card, and the English words "TRUE OR FALSE" are written on the bottom. The card surface is painted with a girl elf who is keen on writing. She holds a pen in her left hand and a book in her right hand, with a confident look in her eyes, as if she is about to write down the fantasy that does not exist in reality.

"Is this Naoko?"

"Is this Yanagisawa-san?"

Sakura and Li Syaoran were both a little surprised. There was no need to compare. Just by looking at the Pokémon on the card, they could tell who the Pokémon's image came from.

"Virtual reality..."

"true or false..."

The two of them read out the name of the card, one in Chinese characters and the other in English.

After the name was read out, Sakura suddenly realized, "So that's how it is. No wonder she said she is the imaginary me and I am the real me."

"So that Sakura is really just an illusion? But why did she appear?"

Li Syaoran was confused, and Sakura's words reminded him of the explanation given by another Sakura at that time. The other person said that she was also Sakura, but just an illusion.

"This one……"

Sakura smiled awkwardly. Although she looked a little dull, she was not stupid and her mind worked quickly.

When she saw the card in her hand and the image that corresponded to it, she immediately recalled what happened during cheerleading practice this afternoon.

She must have been thinking about the strange story about the doppelganger at the time, and her subconscious mind caused another her to appear in reality.

As for why the other girl doesn't know magic, but has the magical ability to turn objects into words, it should come from another text legend that she doesn't know much about.

Under the influence of powerful magic, her thoughts may have changed, even she herself was not aware of it, which led to another her who did not know magic but instead possessed that kind of magical ability.

Thinking about these possible guesses, Sakura also told them to Li Syaoran. At the end, she looked at the cards in her hand again.

"Virtual Reality... Maybe it has the ability to turn virtuality into reality, just like creating a brand, it can turn the written story into reality."

"Think about it carefully. When we created the cards, we were also fighting against another self. I just don't know who wrote the story that time."

Sakura raised the corner of her mouth slightly. At that time, she and Li Syaoran were not yet a couple, but when they were manifested by the card, they were already close enough to call each other's names.

Thinking back to the past experience, Sakura couldn't help but ask curiously: "By the way, Xiaolang, how did you know that I was in danger? I came to the locker room just to call you, but before I could call you, you suddenly showed up."

At this point, Sakura took out her cell phone from her bag and gestured, then she blushed slightly as she held it in her hand.

Just after obtaining the virtual-real card, everything in the locker room returned to normal as if time had gone back, and the mobile phone that was originally taken away by Hollow Sakura was also returned to her bag.

"This one……"

Li Xiaolang also blushed a little when he heard this. He stretched out his index finger to scratch his cheek and said shyly: "When I was at home, I suddenly felt panicky, and then I found out through divination that it was related to you, so I hurried back to school."

"Then when I was looking for you, I suddenly felt your magic bursting out outside the locker room door, so I rushed in immediately."

Listening to Li Xiaolang's explanation, Xiaoying poked her index finger and whispered shyly: "Is that so... then can we also be considered to be in sync with each other?"

"We are in perfect harmony..."

Li Xiaolang's face turned even redder when he heard this, and he stammered, "How did you know this poem?"

"Remember this when you are studying: 'We may not have the wings of a phoenix, but our hearts are connected.' These are two very beautiful lines of poetry."

Sakura lowered her head. When she was learning Chinese, she was indeed intermittent, but sometimes when she came across poems about lovers, she would involuntarily pay full attention.

As a result, my Chinese didn't improve much, but I did remember a lot of poems about love.

"Really……"

Li Syaoran looked at Xiaoying, who was blushing and hanging her head, and paused before whispering, "Well, Chinese is indeed difficult to learn. If you really want to learn, I can teach you anytime."

"I wanted to give you a surprise..."

Sakura muttered softly. In her imagination, she should have finished learning and then scared Syaoran with her fluent Chinese.

"what?"

"nothing……"

Sakura shook her head and changed the subject, "Then I'm going to go back to the cheerleading team. Chiharu is probably still waiting for me. I have to go say hello to her."

"Well, then I'll wait for you outside." Li Xiaolang said no more after hearing that. He nodded and walked towards the locker room door.

But before he could open the door, there was another knock on the door outside the locker room.

dong dong——!
"Xiaoying, are you in there? Are you changing clothes?" Xia Yu's voice came from outside the door.

Hearing this, Sakura quickly walked over and replied, "I'm here. I'm not changing clothes."

By the time she finished speaking, she had already walked to the door and opened it casually.

Looking at Xiaoying in her gymnastics uniform, Xia Yu was about to ask something when he suddenly caught a glimpse of another figure out of the corner of his eye and looked up in surprise.

"Why are you here?"

Why is Li Xiaolang in the locker room? This is the women's locker room, right? Why did this guy go in so blatantly?
"I'm here to help Sakura."

Facing Xia Yu's strange gaze, Li Xiaolang also reacted. He coughed lightly and explained, "Xiaoying just got a new card. I came to help her."

The implication is that he had a legitimate reason to enter the women's locker room, so don't look at him like that.

"New cards?"

Hearing this, Xia Yu immediately shifted his attention away from Li Syaoran entering the women's locker room and looked at Xiaoying curiously.

Sakura also nodded and raised the card in her hand: "It's this virtual and real card that I just obtained."

"Real or fake?"

Xia Yu was startled, and Zhishi, who followed him, covered his mouth in surprise and turned to look at Xia Yu beside him: "Mr. Xia? Isn't this what you just said..."

"Yeah, I kind of understand why the other me suddenly turned into nothingness and disappeared." Xia Yu nodded in reply.

If the guess is correct, Sakura should have also encountered an illusory person, and then Sakura defeated and sealed the illusory person on her side, which caused the illusory Xia Yu on his side to disappear.

I just don't know who the imaginary person on Sakura's side will be. It could be Li Syaoran, or it could be Sakura herself. "Another Xia classmate?"

Xia Yu's mumbling did not lower his voice, and Xiaoying couldn't help but wonder: "Did you also meet another self, Xia classmate?"

"Also? Then it seems that the other illusory person is you, Sakura."

Xia Yuming nodded and said, "Yes, I met another me. He claimed to be the imaginary me. As a result, before the battle between us was over, he suddenly disappeared."

"I thought this might be related to you, so I came here to take a look. It seems that it was you, Sakura, who obtained the card, and the other me disappeared."

"Wow...something like this actually happened."

Sakura rubbed her temples in distress and couldn't help muttering, "Obviously I didn't think about letting another us appear. When will my magic power be able to stabilize?..."

After saying this, she shook her head again, and said with renewed energy: "Then let's go to my house together later, so we can talk to each other about the situation."

After she finished speaking, she handed the phone in her hand to Li Xiaolang and ran out of the locker room, saying hurriedly: "My cheerleading practice hasn't finished yet, so I can only trouble you to wait for a while."

"no problem."

Xia Yu replied casually, and Tomoyo also waved gently, saying goodbye to Sakura who was leaving.

After Xiaoying's back was out of sight, Xia Yu looked at Zhishi beside him and said, "Zhishi, has your choir practice finished?"

"My practice is over, so I can leave early." Tomoyo smiled.

"Then let's go pack our things first and then go to Sakura's house together later, how about that?"

"all right."

After saying goodbye to Li Xiaolang again, the two of them left. Li Xiaolang, who was left alone, looked at the two people leaving and stood there silently thinking.

So what was he going to do? Wait for Sakura to come back?
No, he should leave here now.

Li Xiaolang's expression was a little stiff. He almost forgot that this was the women's locker room. Fortunately, it was Xia Yu and the others who just came, so no misunderstanding occurred. If he was seen by others, there would be no way to explain it.

Thinking of this, Li Xiaolang hurriedly walked out of the locker room and closed the door.

……

Evening, dusk.

The afterglow of the setting sun illuminates the sunset glow on the horizon, dyeing it mottled and bright as fire.

The Wood family.

living room.

"Tea, please."

Sakura served tea to the three people who came to her house. After they thanked her, they picked up the teacups and took a sip.

"So, what happened over there Sakura?"

Xia Yu put down the teacup and asked Xiaoying. On the way back, he had already explained his side of the matter. Now he just needed to know what happened on Xiaoying's side.

Xiaoying also told her about what happened to her in detail. After listening, Xia Yu touched his chin and nodded, "I see..."

As long as he could trap his illusory self, he could subdue it. It seemed that his guess was correct.

By touching the knife next to the standing knife with the book, he can delete it. According to this rule, he has guessed that his virtual self strictly abides by the meaning of each word.

In this case, if we use "口" to trap him as a "person", we can turn him into a "prisoner", and in this way, we can imprison the other party.

However, before he could take any action, Sakura had already obtained the card, which resulted in his situation ending so easily.

"I'm sorry, this time it didn't happen under my subjective will, it was because of my magic power running wild, I'm very sorry."

After telling what happened on her side, Xiaoying suddenly stood up and bowed to Xia Yu to apologize.

The sudden apology also interrupted Xia Yu's thoughts, and he stood up quickly in shock: "Hey, what are you doing? I don't blame you."

"I'm sorry. It was because of me that classmate Xia encountered such a strange thing." Sakura didn't look up, still feeling very guilty.

Seeing this, Xia Yu smiled helplessly and said, "I'm not blaming you, and what can I say..."

Xia Yu reached out and patted Xiaoying on the head, saying gently: "I also want to thank you."

"Eh? Why?"

Xiaoying looked up in surprise. Xia Yu did not answer immediately, but pressed his hand: "Sit down first, I will talk to you after you sit down."

"Uh-huh."

Upon hearing this, Xiaoying immediately sat down and straightened her back, and Xia Yu also sat back in his seat, picked up the tea and took a sip, and smiled.

"It is because of your magic, Sakura, that I can have this fantastic and extraordinary experience. This is a battle with another self. It's exciting just thinking about it, okay?"

"Is that right?"

Xiaoying was stunned, and Xia Yu nodded seriously and said, "Yes, that's it. Do you still remember what happened when we created the brand?"

"remember."

"That time, you all fought against your other selves, but there was no other me at that time, so I could only watch from the sidelines. Do you know how regretful and helpless I felt at that time?"

"Is that so?"

Xiaoying asked stupidly, because that happened several years ago, so she couldn't remember clearly what Xia Yu's situation was at that time.

However, she remembered the fact that there was no other Xia Yu quite clearly.

"That's it!"

Xia Yu suddenly clasped his hands together and said with a smile: "So I am very regretful, but this experience has satisfied my regret, so I am very grateful to you for satisfying my idea of ​​fighting with another me."

"oh oh--"

Xiaoying nodded in a daze. Seeing that Xia Yu was so serious, she also believed what Xia Yu said.

"After hearing what you said, Xia, I also feel it's quite strange."

Xiaoying suddenly smiled and said, "When we created the brand, all of us had another version of ourselves, except for you, Xia. This time, only you and I appeared, and no one else appeared."

"But I think it might be because you, Xia, were the first to bring up this weird story about another self, so I subconsciously thought of you as well, which led to the appearance of another you."

"I just don't know who wrote the story of the brand creation. Why do we all appear? Even Meiling appears, but you, Xia, are not there."

Hearing Sakura's doubts, Tomoyo suddenly chuckled. She quickly waved her hands and replied with a smile: "Sorry, sorry, I suddenly thought of something happy."

"Happy things? What are they?" Sakura asked.

Zhi Shi looked at Xia Yu with a smile: "Well, this is related to Xia Jun. Xiaoying, you can ask him."

Hearing this, Xiaoying turned to look at Xia Yu. Xia Yu turned his head away embarrassedly for a moment and coughed lightly, "It's no big deal, I won't say anything."

I was actually the mastermind behind the brand creation incident. How could I possibly say such a thing out loud?

(End of this chapter)