Monster Hunter Gathering

"The magical girl's attack power... is still very strong."

When Sakura Anzi heard this voice, she looked up and saw a hand holding a small shield smashing down on her forehead, and then... the world went dark.

"?"

Homura Akemi quickly arrived and saw Nie Chiwu, who was bleeding from a spear stuck in his chest, and Sakura Anzi, who was knocked unconscious by Nie Chiwu's hand shield...

"You're just in time. I've already taken care of it." Nie Chiwu said casually after seeing Homura Akemi coming over: "Magical girls really are a profession with high attack and fragile skin."

"? You've been hit in the vitals, haven't you?" Homura Akemi was a little worried about Nie Chiwu, but Nie Chiwu, whose chest was pierced, seemed to not care at all about the spear stuck in his chest.

"Small injury."

Nie Chiwu suddenly pulled out the spear from his chest and threw it to the ground. He took out a bottle of recovery medicine from his backpack and poured it into his mouth directly through his helmet. The wound on his chest that was still bleeding healed in the blink of an eye, which made Homura Akemi stunned.

"Don't you feel any pain?" Homura Akemi had a confused look on her face, but she saw Nie Chiwu turned around with his hands behind his back, and his hands behind his back were trembling slightly.

"It doesn't hurt!"

Nie Chiwu gritted his teeth and said, "I'm wearing this gear now. It's the hunter's face. How could it hurt?"

Homura Akemi looked at Nie Chiwu with a deep gaze. It was obvious that she was just being stubborn.

Nie Chiwu's face under the helmet was grimacing in pain, but through personal experience, Nie Chiwu had a preliminary assessment of Sakura Anzi's attack capabilities.

Although Kyubey is indeed a newborn, the magical girl transformed through incubator technology is really strong, at least in terms of attack power.

"Xiao Yan, if you really want to make a change, then you have to make good use of the power of the Labyrinth Master." After the pain subsided, Nie Chiwu leaned over and carried Sakura Anzi on his shoulders: "If you really don't want things to become what you see..."

"I won't let Madoka become the Principle of the Circle." Homura deadpanned as she spoke of her long-decided decision. "That kind of future... is definitely not suitable for Madoka."

"But I still have a question." Homura took a deep breath. "That [Tenkai Dragon] you want to hunt, it will cause...great harm to Mitakihara City, right? Can we really stop it together?"

"Hunters exist for this purpose, to maintain the balance between life and to prevent unnatural monsters from destroying nature."

Nie Chiwu looked into the distance: "And I'm very happy that you are like this."

"?" Homura Akemi was stunned for a moment, but Nie Chiwu continued speaking.

"It's good that you have time to worry about things other than Xiaoyuan." Nie Chiwu laughed twice. "There are other meanings in life. Hoping she can survive and hoping she can live happily are two different things."

"But that's another matter."

Nie Chiwu laughed out loud: "I've supported you two for a long time! I'm an old 2D fan!"

“…I think the atmosphere might be better if you didn’t add that last sentence.”

"Really? Then I should mention that I have other small circle peripherals and atlases here. They are all exquisite works by various masters..."

"I suddenly feel that there's nothing wrong with the 2D world. Can you send me a copy of the one you mentioned?"

Chapter 384 Development (2)

When Sakura Anko woke up from her coma, she heard the sound of typing on the keyboard.

Before she opened her eyes, she heard the whisper of the man who claimed to be from the Demon King's Army, but because of the distance, Sakura Anzi couldn't hear what he was saying. She could only hear the very clear sounds of typing on the keyboard and clicking the mouse.

Not dead?

After a brief moment of confusion, Sakura Anzi recalled what she had experienced. After piercing the chest of the guy from the Demon King's army, she was knocked unconscious by the other party's backhand attack. Where was she brought to?

Sakura Anzi opened her eyes slightly and looked around through the gap, and found herself in a very simple room... Everything around her was white, and Sakura Anzi felt as if she was not tied up.

So what's going on now?

Sakura Anzi simply opened her eyes and finally found that she was lying on a sofa. On the other side, Nie Chiwu was facing away from her, pointing at a screen and whispering something to a figure with long black hair.

Sakura Anzi's eyes widened as she noticed the back of a girl her age.

Could it be that the Demon King's army is threatening that girl?

Sakura Anzi reached out and felt much more at ease after touching her soul gem. At the same time, after some hesitation and struggle, she decided to transform and launch a sneak attack on the demon king's army to save the girl.

"I didn't expect that I could do something like a magical girl..." Sakura Anzi said to herself with self-mockery, clenching the Soul Gem and aiming at the back of Nie Chiwu's head, ready to kill him with one blow.

She didn't believe that this demon army could turn around and attack her after their brains were pierced!

Sakura Anzi slowed down her movements and prepared to transform and attack as quietly as possible.

After taking a slow, deep breath, Sakura Anzi suddenly rushed forward, grasping the Soul Gem and transforming.

The spear in her hand stabbed directly at the back of Nie Chiwu's head. If she was given a little time, she could directly turn this man's head into a paste.

But to her surprise, Nie Chiwu keenly sensed her sudden attack, reached back and grabbed the tip of Sakura Anzi's spear that was about to pierce the back of his head, making it impossible for the spear to move forward an inch.

Nie Chiwu laughed grimly, "I've been practicing with Xin Mei'er for so long! I can even catch a bullet...hiss, it hurts, it hurts."

Nie Chiwu suddenly let go of the tip of Sakura Anzi's gun, covered his palm where the gun blade had cut him because he held it too tightly, and jumped while gasping for air. "Fuck! Is it really that painful to grab the tip of a gun? Damn, I got tricked! Can't those protagonists just grab where they can? I should have stopped pretending."

"what?"

Looking at Nie Chiwu who was jumping up and down, Sakura Anzi was stunned. She turned her head and saw that a touch of pink on the screen suddenly disappeared, and Akemi Homura pressed the power button of the screen without changing her expression.

"What exactly is going on!"

"Don't worry, it's safe here." After hiding the computer behind her, Homura Akemi faced Sakura Kyoko without changing her expression: "I am also a magical girl. The reason I brought you here in this way is just to let you know something."

"That's right!" Nie Chiwu gave Sakura Anzi a thumbs-up after the wound on his hand healed. "Ah, but the Demon King's army is real. This is really the equipment the Demon King wears. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to penetrate it."

Nie Chiwu patted the set of appearance equipment he was wearing. This set of equipment was the same set of appearance equipment that Laos wore at the beginning. Apart from being handsome, it was basically useless.

"Huh?" Sakura Kyoko's eyes widened. "The Demon King's Army is real?"

"Is the Demon King's Army real?" Homura Akemi also showed a confused expression.

"Why do you look so confused too? Aren't you two in the same group?" Anzi looked at Homura in shock.

"The Demon King isn't necessarily bad." Nie Chiwu raised an eyebrow. "The Demon King could just be a pervert who loves monsters to the point of madness... and who, incidentally, saved the world."

Sakura Anzi had a lot of things she wanted to say but they were stuck in her throat.

"What exactly do you want to do!" Sakura Anzi pointed her spear at Nie Chiwu, wanting to know what he wanted to do.

Could it be that he was simply planning to have fun with her?

"I want to talk to you about something and see what you're going to do." Nie Chiwu spread his hands. "Do you want to know your future?"

"Huh? What nonsense are you talking about?" Sakura Kyoko frowned. "What future?"

"Martyrdom... uh, this is our 2D profession. You might not understand it, but the main point is that you sacrifice yourself for someone else and accompany her to the end. That's about it."

Nie Chiwu spread his hands and said, "Red and blue have always been a perfect couple. This is where I first learned about this saying."

"How could she possibly understand what you said?" Homura Akemi pushed Nie Chiwu away and walked directly in front of Sakura Anzi: "No matter what you think, today we will show you the future related to you. With your strength, there is no way you can escape from here."

Homura Akemi's words immediately angered Sakura Kyoko: "Huh?! Who are you looking down on? Then try..."

Before Sakura Anzi could finish her words, she found that Homura Akemi and Nie Chiwu were several meters away from her. She had originally pointed a spear at Nie Chiwu, but now she was trapped on a chair by iron chains and unable to move.

And on Homura Akemi's shoulder, a little lion with wings appeared out of nowhere.

"Sure enough... this works."

Homura Akemi looked at Kyoko Sakura who was tied up by her using the time stop.

If she touches other people during the time stop, she will pull them into the time stop as well. Even like Mami, if two people are connected by a thread during the battle, Mami will not be affected by the time stop.

So Homura Akemi couldn't move other people without leaving any traces during the time stop, but...

Winged Lion can.

As a magical winged lion, its movements are like the air and the ground, and it will not cause the people being moved to escape from the time stop.

"Isn't this a bit rough?" Nie Chiwu scratched his head.

"We don't have time to talk nonsense with her." Homura Akemi said decisively: "Mami can't know the truth because she will collapse."

"If Sayaka knew the truth, she might just turn into a witch."

"She's the only one we can contact now, isn't that what you said?"

Chapter 385 You don’t want Sayaka to be…

"! Let me go! What on earth do you want me to see! Let me go!"

Sakura Anko originally wanted to struggle, but was tied tightly to the chair by Homura Akemi, and she couldn't break free even after transforming.

Not only that, Homura Akemi also directly pried open Sakura Anko's eyes and forced her to look at the screen in front of her. This action made Sakura Anko suspect that Homura Akemi was going to show her something brainwashing.

"Not really, it's not like we're brainwashing her."

Even Nie Chiwu couldn't stand it any longer and started to persuade Homura Akemi: "I think Xingzi is quite easy to talk to, at least in your Five Colors Team..."

"What Five Colors Team?" Xingzi looked confused. What on earth were they talking about?

"She has to know it anyway." Homura Akemi said bluntly, "After she finishes reading this, she'll know why we did this."

"Hmm..." Nie Chiwu pondered for a moment, and before starting to play, he asked tentatively, "Although this is indeed a way to help her understand the situation quickly, but she will also see everything you did to Xiaoyuan, right?"

"..." Homura Akemi was silent for a moment before gritting her teeth and saying, "So what if they saw it? Even Madoka saw it herself! One more person doesn't matter!"

"As long as Madoka can succeed and live happily in the end, anything is fine!"

Homura Akemi's expression was a little excited, which scared Sakura Anko who was standing next to her.

"Okay, then let's play it." Nie Chiwu didn't continue to argue and directly clicked on the TV series of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, then put the screen in front of Sakura Anko.

Sakura Anko was forced to catch up on the anime. At first, she was looking at the girl named Madoka in the picture without knowing what she was doing, but in the blink of an eye, she saw things about Kyubey, Homura Akemi, and other things.

Madoka's encounter with Homura Akemi, Madoka's encounter with Kyubey, Madoka's contact with Mami Tomoe, and then Mami Tomoe's death...

Sakura Anko's mind was blank, but the anime on the screen was still playing fast.

Later, Sakura Anko even saw her own appearance, saw herself fighting with Sayaka, and then she comforted Sayaka after she knew the truth about the magical girl's soul gem. Finally, when Sayaka was completely desperate because of the truth and became a witch, she chose to accompany Sayaka on the journey.

After seeing all this, Sakura Kyoko was completely stunned, but then she got another big surprise. Madoka made a wish to subvert the universe and accepted all the witches into the Principle of Circles. In the end, they were resurrected in the reorganized world, but...

In that new world, she and others were still fighting, witnessing the end of Sayaka Miki as a magical girl and seeing her being taken away by Madoka, who had become the Law of the Circle.

After watching twelve episodes of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Anko Sakura sat in the chair in a daze for a long time. When she finally reacted, she immediately began to struggle.

"let me go!"

Homura Akemi frowned. "Although the magical girl's body is very strong, it will be difficult for you to break free with so many chains tied together."

But Homura Akemi still asked tentatively: "What do you want to do?"

"Of course, we should take that idiot named Sayaka to the hospital and talk to that Kamijou Kyousuke!" Anzi said excitedly, "What is this?! After making a wish for someone else, I have to go through something like this... This is real, right? Sayaka did so much, but he doesn't know anything! What is this?"

Xingzi struggled excitedly on the chair, causing the chains on her body to make continuous friction noises.

"And Asami! How could she die in the witch's mouth! How is this possible... she clearly..." Anzi exerted so much force that the chains became taut.

"Sayaka hasn't turned into a magical girl yet, and Mami hasn't had her head bitten by a witch." Nie Chiwu scratched his head and pointed at himself: "So why are you so anxious? Haven't you noticed that there's a person carrying a TV series running in front of you?"

"Now be quiet. I'll untie your chains. Don't run around yet."

Nie Chiwu reminded Xingzi, then reached out and grabbed the chain on Xingzi's body. Then, in Xingzi's somewhat shocked eyes, Nie Chiwu tore the chain off as if he was tearing off a piece of tape.

After the chains fell to the ground, Sakura Anzi just stretched her arms, which were numb from being tied up, when she saw a small notebook being handed to her from Nie Chiwu's direction. "Well, before we talk, please sign your name for me first."

"Huh?" Sakura Kyoko's eyes flashed with question marks. "What's the signature for? What kind of unfair treaty do you want me to sign? Some kind of illegal underworld contract?"

"..." Homura Akemi gave Nie Chiwu a strange look and said, "He probably just wants you to sign an autograph for him. As a fan... count as a fan, right?"

"I swear to God! I'm just going to keep it as a treasure!" Nie Chiwu said confidently, "I can't help it! Puella Magi Madoka Magica is a masterpiece! I've loved it for a long time! It's normal to want an autograph!"

Nie Chiwu muttered, "Look, I wouldn't ask someone like Kazuma to sign anything. After all, his signature has no commemorative value at all. I'd rather have a fight with him than let him get angry all the time..."

Sakura Anzi was a little confused when she saw Nie Chiwu chattering away, but in the end, she signed her name in a somewhat sloppy handwriting on Nie Chiwu's notebook after some hesitation.

"Hey, one extra bonus for the Magical Girl Autograph Collection." Nie Chiwu carefully placed the autographed booklet into his backpack, then said with a serious expression, "Now you know the future, but the future is no longer what you knew. There have been some changes... I also hope you can participate."

"So isn't it enough to just deal with Witch Night?" Xingzi was a little confused.

"Of course not, otherwise I wouldn't be here." Nie Chiwu spread his hands: "So Xingzi, you probably don't want to see Sayaka go down the same path as in the original plot, right?"

Kyoko's eyes widened. "You're threatening me? I'm telling you right now I don't know that girl named Sayaka!"

"Then why were you so anxious just now?" Nie Chiwu said with a look of confidence: "I have even read your design collection, otherwise how could I threaten you with Sayaka?"

"Because he's a good person, that's why he can point a gun at me." Nie Chiwu raised his nose proudly: "Just tell me whether you care about Sayaka's affairs or not!"

"I just signed an autograph for you! You said you were my fan!"