The sunny boy from Cardcaptor Sakura

【Master, Master, I took a picture!】

"!"

Xia Yu was startled and hurriedly asked, "Really?"

[Really! Master, you can completely trust my judgment!]

"Tsk, as expected of you!"

As expected of a system that has been with him for so long, it really understands his thoughts.

"Now that we've filmed it, let's import the video into the camera and show it to Tomoyo and Sakura tomorrow."

【receive! 】

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……

The autumn sun shines brightly, and the air is crisp and refreshing.

Late autumn has arrived, and the trees that serve as part of the landscape have lost their summer greenery, turning yellow and withered.

As usual, Xia Yu arrived at the school classroom early and then idly waited for the class bell to ring.

A moment later, the classroom became more crowded, and Sakura and Tomoyo walked into the classroom together, seemingly having bumped into each other again on the way.

"Sakura, Tomoyo, good morning."

Xia Yu waved and greeted the two as they entered the classroom.

"Morning~"

"Good morning."

Sakura responded to the greeting with her usual energy, while Tomoyo nodded slightly with her hands folded in front of her, politely saying good morning.

Xia Yu was used to Tomoyo's polite and respectful response. After all, Tomoyo was like that to everyone, always maintaining impeccable politeness, even when facing Sakura.

"Huh? Sakura, you got a haircut?"

When Sakura approached, Xia Yu, who was about to tell her about yesterday's events, paused slightly and suddenly asked.

Although Sakura's hairstyle remained unchanged, the hair at the edges was a bit shorter, about one or two centimeters shorter, which was not noticeable unless you looked closely.

"Hmm! I didn't expect you to notice it just like Tomoyo. It turns out I didn't observe carefully enough."

Sakura nodded, cupped her face in her hands, and said shyly, "This was cut by Yukito yesterday."

"His cooking skills are quite good."

After all, being able to cut hair so that it looks like it hasn't been cut at all, but upon closer inspection, it's clear that it has been cut, is something that not just anyone can do.

"Hehe, maybe it's because Yukito cuts my hair a lot, since he often cuts my brother's hair too," Sakura guessed.

Yesterday, when Xue Tu was cutting her brother's hair, she cut hers too.

"Um, Sakura..."

Just then, Chiharu and the others suddenly walked over, looking troubled.

"What's wrong?"

Sakura noticed that her friends seemed to have something to ask her, and she bent her head in confusion.

Seeing that Sakura seemed completely unaware of what had happened, Chiharu and the others exchanged glances, and Chiharu finally spoke up to ask.

"Sakura, did you go to the stationery store yesterday?"

"Huh? No."

Sakura shook her head in confusion: "After I went to the supermarket to buy pasta yesterday, I've stayed at home and haven't gone out since."

Upon receiving Sakura's definite answer, Chiharu breathed a sigh of relief and happily looked at the others, saying, "It really wasn't Sakura. I knew Sakura wouldn't do something like that."

What did you see yesterday?

Xia Yu pressed further, noting that it seemed he wasn't the only one who had seen that strange Sakura yesterday.

"We saw a girl who looked a lot like Sakura doing something bad yesterday."

Naoko recalled what she had seen yesterday and continued, "That girl ran into the stationery store and knocked over the shelves, and she seemed quite happy about it."

"Looks a lot like me?"

Sakura frowned slightly. A girl who looked a lot like her was doing something bad. Chiharu and the others even mistook that girl for her.

This seems terrible. What if other people also mistake that girl for her?

“Speaking of which, I saw it yesterday too,” Xia Yu suddenly said, drawing everyone’s attention.

"Yesterday I saw that girl snatch a lollipop from a little kid, and she seemed quite happy about it."

"What? Stealing a child's lollipop?"

"How awful."

"That's something only delinquents would do."

"Would delinquents steal children's lollipops? They're probably after money, aren't they?"

Faced with the seemingly off-topic topic, Xiaoying didn't interrupt, but instead looked nervously at Xia Yu and asked, "Xia-kun, does that girl really look like me? Did you mistake her for someone else?"

Thump~ thump~ thump~ thump~

Before Xia Yu could answer, the class bell suddenly rang.

Upon hearing the bell, Chiharu and the others immediately stopped talking and hurriedly walked to their seats.

Xia Yu also abandoned the idea of ​​taking out the camera and said, "Let's go to class first, I'll tell you during lunch break."

Hearing this, Sakura had no choice but to suppress her unease.

Xia is right. Going to class is more important than that girl who looks a lot like her.

However, even so, during class, Sakura couldn't help but let her thoughts wander, recalling Chiharu and the others' words. After all, with a bad kid who looked a lot like her suddenly appearing, no one could stay calm for a while.

The agonizing morning passed quickly.

Sakura, who had been thinking about this all along, finally waited until lunch break. Then she took Xia Yu and Zhi Shi to the quiet side of the teaching building, which was the lawn where they occasionally ate lunch.

"Xia, can you tell me now?"

Upon arriving at this quiet place with few students, Xiaoying couldn't even wait to take her lunch out of her bag before hurriedly asking Xia Yu for directions.

"Okay, okay, but don't be surprised later."

Seeing how eager Xiaoying was, Xia Yu didn't keep her in suspense any longer and reached into his bag to take out a camera.

Although they didn't know what Xia Yu was going to do by suddenly taking out a camera, Sakura and Tomoyo still crowded around, the three little heads huddled together looking at the camera's playback screen.

On the screen, a girl wearing a yellow long-sleeved shirt and a red bunny ear hat snatched a lollipop from a little boy, arrogantly waved it, and then laughed as she walked away.

The image wasn't very clear, but you could still see the girl's arrogant smile, as if snatching lollipops from children was a very enjoyable thing for her.

(。_。≡°д°)

Sakura first looked carefully at the girl on the screen, then looked at Xia Yu incredulously, and stammered.

"Xia... Xia, this... this video..."

"That's right, this was filmed when the girl was grabbing the lollipop. There's no Photoshop yet... wait, it seems like there is now..."

Xia Yu paused, remembering that the earliest version of Photoshop was released in 1990. Although it was only released on Mac and was only about 800KB in size, it was still there.

Besides, it's 1998 now, and Adobe Photoshop version 5.0 has already been released, so that statement doesn't seem to be accurate.

After thinking for a moment, Xia Yu said again, "Not yet... not yet... never mind, this video isn't faked, so it's real."

Damn it, he couldn't believe that while there was nothing yet, even Premiere Pro existed in this day and age.

Upon hearing Xia Yu admit that the video was real, Xiao Ying couldn't think of what expression to make, because she discovered that the girl in the video not only looked exactly like her, but was even wearing the same clothes.

That's the outfit she wore when she went out to buy groceries yesterday. No wonder Chiharu and the others mistook her for someone else!

"Who...who exactly is this girl?"

Sakura suddenly felt a chill around her. Could it be that she had a twin sister she didn't know? But her father had never told her about this.

"It might be a Clow Card."

Xia Yu put away his camera and shared his guess.

"After all, there are so many Clow Cards, and based on past experience, if any strange phenomena occur here, it's always right to guess that they are related to the Clow Cards."

"Is it another Clow Card? Xia, do you know what kind of Clow Card it is? I'm going to seal it away!"

Sakura was a little angry. Using her face to do bad things everywhere was ruining her reputation. How could this Clow Card be so wicked!

Clow Cards that like to do bad things should be sealed away as soon as possible!

"I am not sure."

Xia Yu shook his head and replied, "However, if it can completely imitate a person's appearance, there are only a few possible directions to guess: imitation, transformation, mirror, reflection, etc. You can go back and ask Xiao Ke. Isn't it a sealing beast of the Clow Cards? It will definitely be able to guess."

"Oh right, I can also ask Xiao Ke." Sakura clenched her fist and realized.

"Thank you so much, Xia. I probably wouldn't have known about this without you."