Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

Scattered fragments of memory washed over Xiangzi's mind.

"Xiao Xiang?!"

Chu Hua immediately came to Xiangzi's side and helped her to the side.

Xiangzi put his arm around Chuhua's shoulder, panting heavily, his half-dry clothes once again soaked with cold sweat.

"Hey, I didn't say anything."

Miao Meng raised her hands to show her innocence.

"I was just saying something casually, who knew she would react so strongly."

"..."

Xiangzi clutched his chest.

"Thank you for reminding."

Xiangzi said.

"I think I know what the password is."

She closed her eyes, as if recalling that string of numbers was an extremely painful thing.

"32123432, Meow Dream, give it a try."

"32123432......"

Miaomeng entered the numbers as Xiangzi instructed.

"what is this?"

"notation."

Xiangzi leaned on Chuhua's shoulder, rubbing his throbbing temples.

"notation?"

Chu Hua hummed along a few times, then realized what was going on.

"This wasn't written by you, Xiao Xiang..."

Xiangzi nodded and voluntarily said the name.

"Yes, it's the prelude to 'Spring Shadow'."

drop.

Miaomeng pressed the confirm button.

This time, the indicator light on the safe turned green.

The Tale of Nirvana: Keeping to Your True Self: Chapter 58 The Witch's Kiss

drop.

"Um......"

When I opened my eyes, I was greeted by a blue sky and white clouds.

The wind brushed against my skin.

It was so quiet all around that you could only hear the wind.

Miao Meng almost thought she was in heaven. She blinked and propped herself up.

"you're awake."

Xiangzi said.

"Fuck!"

Miaomeng sprang up with a whoosh.

"Where is this?!"

"The very beginning, the entrance to the barrier."

Xiangzi sat on the steps, enjoying the breeze, his gaze drifting towards the clock in the center of the square that pointed to eight o'clock.

"Welcome back to where we started."

Miao Meng covered her bewildered head.

The brain rapidly filters out what happened before.

......

drop.

The indicator light turned green.

"This time it's right."

Miaomeng breathed a sigh of relief, stepped aside, and left the task of opening the safe to Xiangzi.

"That settles our score. Don't forget the agreed-upon payment."

Then came Sumimi's interview, which garnered a lot of attention and will probably get her hundreds of thousands of views.

Although the process was a bit tortuous, Miaomeng already felt that this deal was incredibly profitable.

It's best to avoid getting involved with them again after that.

Miao Meng had just caught a glimpse of Xiangzi taking a small medicine bottle out of his pocket, but Chu Hua stopped him from taking the medicine. Instead, Chu Hua gently comforted him until he calmed down.

We met in an afternoon.

Perhaps it was more than just an afternoon; counting their first real meeting, Miaomeng didn't think Xiangzi was the kind of spoiled young lady who was easily emotional and needed comforting.

Combined with her strange behavior just now and the medicine bottle in her hand.

Miaomeng roughly understood.

Maybe she has some kind of illness.

If someone is truly ill, then there's no need to bring up any connection.

Sigh, someone who's foolish enough to sign a contract with Kyubey to become a magical girl is probably not mentally sound to begin with.

Did I include myself in the insult?

Well, Yutenji Wakanagi is indeed quite silly; what kind of crazy wish is a billion yen?

Miaomeng leaned against the side, watching Xiangzi open the safe and take out a scarlet head.

The back of her head was facing Meow Dream, so she couldn't see Amoris's face.

But what's so interesting about a familiar's face? It's none of her business.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that regardless of what Amoris or Toyokawa Shoko are like, Nyanmu is simply keeping herself out of it.

All she cared about was the interview opportunity with Sumimi.

If it weren't for Chu Hua's loyal demeanor making Miao Meng realize that the interview might fall through if she didn't bring Xiang Zi out unharmed, she wouldn't have saved Xiang Zi.

Seriously, I'm not kidding.

“Chuhua, look,” Xiangzi said, “it’s the same as it was back then.”

Xiangzi held Amoris's head in his hands and looked at its face intently.

Chu Hua leaned over to look at Amoris's head, then glanced at Miao Meng, and nodded.

"Really."

"What? What?!" Miao Meng looked completely bewildered. "What are you talking about, is it real or fake?"

Xiangzi placed Amoris's head on the safe, took out his pistol, and aimed it at the head.

The slide recoiled, bringing out a brass cartridge case, and the gunshot startled the bird that looked like a simple line drawing on the telephone pole.

Xiangzi put his hand down.

"Do you want to know?"

She then looked up and asked Miaomeng.

"You'll find out sooner or later anyway."

"No, why are you acting like a riddle teller? If you don't want to tell, then don't."

Miao Meng raised her eyebrows, her tone unfriendly.

Xiangzi silently turned Amoris's face toward Miaomeng.

Just as Miaomeng clearly saw that face, a white light covered the entire world.

......

What about after that?

Miaomeng doesn't remember.

When I came to my senses, I was back where I started.

She vaguely remembered seeing...her own face?

Yes, although it was all red and there was a black bullet hole on its forehead, it was indeed its own face, the face of Yutenji Wakanagi.

"Are you kidding me...?" Meow Dream said, covering her head. "What did you do to me?!"

Could it be that she was dreaming the whole time?

That's impossible, it just doesn't seem right.

Why does Amoris have her own face?!

Why would she do Toyokawa Shoko this favor?

“The world resets after the leader is killed,” Xiangzi explained. “We just killed Amoris, so the barrier reset time once.”

Xiangzi briefly explained the mechanism of the barrier rollback to Miaomeng.

"After the reset, the internal structure of the barrier will also change, and Amoris's territory should have changed by now."

Does that mean they've successfully killed Amoris and turned back time to 8 a.m.?

"Want to take a look? The new Amoris, and its territory," Xiangzi invited Miaomeng.

"What a joke! I've finished my work, now you owe me an interview!"

"Just a look."

"I don't care, I'm leaving."

It was too strange. Nirvana's barrier was unlike any other witch's barrier she had ever seen. There was something wrong with it from top to bottom.

The one who's most suspicious is Toyokawa Shoko.

She should have become a witch, but now she appears before me as an ordinary person—not even a magical girl.

Miao Meng felt like the protagonist in a horror movie who received an invitation from an unknown source. If she accepted Xiangzi's invitation, she would sink deeper and deeper until she could not get out at all.

She got up from the ground and faced the empty city center square. Suddenly, she realized that she didn't seem to know where the entrance to the barrier was at all.

"The exit is the door directly below the clock; go through it and you'll leave the barrier."

Xiangzi pointed her out a way.

"If you want to come in again, you'll need me to show you the way, otherwise it will be very difficult to find."

"I'm never coming back in, not in this lifetime." Miao Meng scoffed and walked toward the exit Xiangzi had pointed out to her. "I don't want the interview with Sumimi anymore either. That's it, bye-bye."

She didn't want to have any more contact with Toyokawa Shoko, or even with Mitsumi Hatsuka who was with her.

Miao Meng just wants to go home, take a nice hot bath, turn on the stereo, put on her favorite CD, lie on the sofa, and stare blankly at the ceiling.

He gripped the doorknob and glanced back at Toyokawa Shoko and Mikami Hatsuka, who were still standing there.

Miao Meng silently wished them all a prosperous and wealthy life.

Then open the door.

A slight tingling sensation came from my collarbone area.