Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

Chu Hua lowered his body, and with his left hand, he used the round shield to block the iron fan that came from another direction. He lowered his center of gravity and rotated his body counterclockwise as the round shield and the iron fan collided.

A two-meter-long tail grew out of thin air along the coccyx during the rotation, and slammed into the bright red familiar with tremendous inertia.

boom----!

The dust kicked up formed a trumpet-shaped arc centered on the point of impact, and Amoris's body flew out like a cannonball, smashing into a group of surrounding enemy soldiers like a bowling ball.

Chu Hua didn't stop just because Amoris flew off. Her legs transformed into the reverse-jointed hind legs of a predator, and her explosive muscles propelled her away from her original position. She moved at a speed that created a dazzling acceleration line, shooting towards Amoris, who was still in flight, like an arrow released from a bow.

But just as she was about to get close to Amoris, a bright red arm emerged from the smoke and dust, grabbed Chu Hua's head, and flung her to the ground!

With a muffled thud, the one-handed sword was flung into the air.

Chu Hua's body was swung left and right by Amoris, making dull thuds on the ground and walls.

Amoris picked up the iron fan with her other hand, preparing to deliver the final blow to Chu Hua.

at this time.

The reverse-jointed legs had somehow transformed into the claws of a raptor. Chu Hua bent her body, hooked her wrist around Amoris's wrist, and her sharp claws severed the tendons in his forearm.

Although Amoris's body began to regenerate rapidly the moment it was injured, Chu Hua seized the moment when the tendon was severed, broke free from Amoris's restraints, hooked her tail on the one-handed sword that had fallen to the ground, twisted her waist in mid-air, and swung the sword up, colliding it with the iron fan that was slashing towards her.

With one hand's tendons severed and the other hand, which was holding a weapon, flung away by its tail, Amoris was suddenly left wide open.

Chu Hua's movements were fluid and seamless, turning the tide of the battle almost instantly.

Instead of giving chase, she jumped back, stepping on Amoris's chest to create distance.

It's no use; even if we pursue them, Amoris will find a weakness.

It is not afraid of Chu Hua at all.

Chu Hua fought it for so long without inflicting any effective damage. Even the wound that Amoris had almost severed in half healed within a second.

To kill Amoris, perhaps the only way is, as Xiangzi said, to steal its head and deliver a fatal blow to its skull.

Or until it can no longer regenerate.

However, Chu Hua has been fighting it for a while now, and hasn't seen its regeneration speed slow down. Heaven knows how long it will take.

The corpses of the White Soldiers beside Chu Hua were enough to form a small mountain, and several priests in white religious robes and white knights on horseback could also be seen mixed in.

There were very few enemy soldiers left in the area, and Chu Hua had also sustained many injuries, but most of them did not come from the lower-ranking familiars around her.

They are all Amoris, but only Amoris can pose a threat to me.

This headless noblewoman had a physique twice the height of Chu Hua.

Calling her strong wouldn't be accurate; Amoris has a great figure, with long legs and a wasp waist, slim where she should be and curvy where she should be, more like a 1.7-meter-tall beauty magnified to 3 meters.

Amoris flung aside the two iron fans and walked towards Chu Hua.

His tall body cast a long shadow on the ground.

Her red skin, which was similar in color to her clothes, did not make her look ugly; on the contrary, it gave her a unique appeal—provided that she didn't have a head.

Chu Hua knew it was coming again.

Just a second or two after Chu Hua was distracted, Amoris charged up again, carrying his iron fan.

Chu Hua had no choice but to draw his sword and fight.

Her task was to stall Amoris, not to kill it.

All you need to do is hold them off.

The sword and shield clashed with the iron fan, sparks flying everywhere. Amoris launched a fierce attack on Chu Hua with the iron fans in both hands, using two completely different rhythms.

Moreover, this time when Amoris launched another attack, his fighting rhythm was completely revamped, becoming very similar to the rhythm of music. However, it was not the 4/4 time signature commonly used in pop music, but rather an asymmetrical time signature that was very abstract and difficult to understand, such as 3/8, 7/8, or 9/8.

Seemingly unrelated beats can strangely "come together," merging every few beats. This makes Amoris's movements fluid and visually appealing, resembling rows of equations placed on the XY axis, forming a "flowering" function graph.

Playing two completely different, asymmetrical beats with both hands simultaneously is even more difficult than drawing a circle with one hand and a square with the other. Amoris's two hands seem to be his dominant hands, and he uses them without any problems.

This makes it difficult for Chu Hua to gain an advantage in simple sword fights, and even makes it difficult to find an opportunity to counterattack with magic.

when--!

The small round shield in his left hand blocked Amoris's nine-eight-beat iron fan, but the rhythm on the other side changed to a strange thirteen-eight beat, bypassing the one-handed sword in his right hand and slashing at Chu Hua's ribs.

If Chu Hua hadn't covered herself in scales beforehand, this cut would have reached the bone.

so close.

Just when Chu Hua thought it was going to go even further, Amoris suddenly stopped, jumped back a distance, and approached the bank's door.

Just as Chu Hua was wondering what it was planning to do, the bank sounded a piercing air raid siren.

The alarm that hadn't been triggered by the commotion outside suddenly went off. Amoris immediately abandoned Chu Hua, lifted her skirt, and ran back into the bank.

"Stop!"

Chu Hua tossed the one-handed sword toward Amoris.

The one-handed sword spun and flew toward Amoris, the blade piercing through Amoris's chest from behind, but it didn't even bother to pull the sword out, and just ran into the bank with the sword in its hand.

"broken!"

Her legs switched to reverse joints again, and Chu Hua's figure disappeared from the spot, rushing towards Amoris, who had her back to her, in a manner that was almost flying close to the ground.

But it's still too late.

The bank doors slammed shut the moment Amoris stepped inside, and Chu Hua slammed into the door with the momentum of her sprint.

Chu Hua angrily slammed his fists twice on the door panel, leaving two fist marks.

Just as she was still thinking about how to get in, the sunlight that fell on her shadow on the door was covered by more shadows.

Chu Hua turned around.

It was the chess soldiers who hadn't gone in yet who surrounded Chu Hua at the entrance.

Facing the remaining defeated troops, he pulled out a new one-handed sword from the Soul Gem.

The pupil constricts, elongates, and becomes a vertical pupil.

He grinned, and his canine teeth became sharp.

Chu Hua became like an angry wild beast.

"Don't bother me at times like this."

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Thirty seconds ago, Miaomeng entered the safe's combination as instructed by Xiangzi.

As she expected, the safe beeped after she clicked "confirm".

then.

Beep beep beep beep ——————!

The indicator light turned red.

The Tale of Nirvana: Maintaining One's True Self: Chapter 56 Birds of a Feather

"(How could the password be wrong?!)"

The moment the alarm went off after the password was wrong, Miaomeng knew something bad had happened.

Despite the alarm, Xiangzi rushed from the front desk into the power distribution room and pulled all the power switches for the entire bank.

The alarm sounding signifies that the bank has completely entered an "unusual" state, throwing even those ghosts who are still handling business or at work into complete chaos.

The bank was in complete chaos.

"(How should I know! All my passwords are my birthday!)"

Xiangzi roared silently in the pitch black.

"(Huh? You actually use your birthday as a password? What if you're not a witch?)"

The alarm went off, so Miaomeng simply stood on the ground and paced back and forth in front of the safe.

"(Weren't you so sure I was a witch?!)"

"(But this situation is clearly not right now! Forget about that, what should I do now? Should I just retreat?)"

Xiangzi, amidst the chaotic group of ghosts, looked up at the ventilation ducts above his head.

The ventilation ducts here are really, really spacious, as if they were deliberately left with enough space for people to crawl into.

"(I'll buy you some time.)"

Xiangzi took the initiative to walk towards the direction from which the enemy might come.

"(Buy me some time, what do you want me to do?)"

Miao Meng had a bad feeling.

"(The ventilation duct is spacious enough; you can move the safe.)"

"(What the hell? You want me to move the safe into the ventilation duct and then push it away? Do you think I'm playing a puzzle game?!)"

"(This is the only way right now; I'll try my best to buy you some time.)"

Xiangzi took off his employee hat, revealing his long blue hair, deliberately walked into the White Soldiers' line of sight, lingered for a moment, and then immediately walked away.

The brainless White Soldiers immediately changed their route to the vault and instead pursued Xiangzi.

"(I've already pulled the power switch. You need to quickly figure out a way to escape along the ventilation duct with the safe.)"

"(And what about you?)"

"(Once you're safe, I'll figure out a way to get out, maybe by blending in with the ghosts.)"

Miaomeng clicked her tongue.

"(Go to hell and figure it out.)"

She used a long whip to restrain the safe and dragged it out.

The safe smashed into the ground, leaving a spiderweb-like pattern of cracks.

Miaomeng used the same method she had used to climb the ventilation duct to send the long whip up, then jumped into the ventilation duct herself before trying to drag the safe up.

"How could I have fallen for such a madman?"

"This is so unlucky."

The safe was much heavier than Miao Meng had imagined. Even with the physical strength of a magical girl, it would be difficult to lift it. Miao Meng even worried whether the thin sheet metal beneath her feet could support the weight of the safe.

In the real world, this broken ventilation duct would have collapsed long ago.

Fortunately, this isn't the real world, so we don't have to follow the physical laws and materials science of the real world. In the end, the safe was dragged little by little into the ventilation duct by Miaomeng.

The safe made a creaking noise as it rubbed against the metal sheet.

Now there are sounds everywhere—alarms, footsteps, and collisions—so Miaomeng doesn't need to worry about the noise she makes anymore.

She removed the exhaust fan from the ventilation duct, dragged the safe away from the vault area, and returned along the original direction to the exit of the ventilation duct.

She hung it outside and pulled the safe out.

The safe fell to the ground like a small meteorite, creating a large crater.

Miao Meng twitched her lips and sighed inwardly that it actually worked.

If I had known, I would have just gone with Plan A and figured out how to drag the safe out.

Just as she was about to let go of the rope and let herself fall freely down with the safe, Miao Meng suddenly remembered that Xiangzi hadn't made a sound.

"(Hey, I got the safe. How are you?)"

There was no reply.

"Well, I guess he's dead inside."

Meow Dream shrugged.

Anyway, it was Xiangzi who wanted to commit suicide, and it had nothing to do with her.

Miaomeng thought to herself, looking at the dark ventilation duct opening.

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