Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

Xiangzi also had to go to work; in fact, she was about to leave as well.

"Why don't you tell Chu Hua? Even leaving a note would be fine. Didn't you two have a great chat yesterday?"

No, that sounds rather sarcastic.

Xiangzi regretted ever having a mouth.

"When Chu Hua wakes up later, there's no need to mention me to her."

"why?"

“Xiao Xiang is Chu Hua’s friend. I just met her by chance.” Deng put on her shoes, stood up and lifted her heels. “Although Xiao Xiang’s friend is my friend, I don’t want Xiao Xiang to be sad if she gets hurt.”

"..."

Xiangzi felt as if he had been seen through; the light was like a hospital X-ray machine, illuminating him from head to toe.

The lamp nodded to her, opened the door, and left.

Less than ten seconds after the light was turned off, Chu Hua came out of the room yawning. Her pajamas were all wrinkled, and her beautiful golden shoulder-length hair was sticking up in a bunch of silly bristles, making her look like a golden retriever that hadn't woken up yet.

"Good morning, Xiangzi..." Chu Hua mumbled sleepily.

"Good morning." Xiangzi nodded.

Xiangzi's somewhat detached tone was like a bucket of cold water poured over Chuhua's head. She sniffed the air and opened her eyes again, now clear-headed.

"What's wrong, Xiangzi?"

"It's nothing... I'm sorry." Xiangzi shook his head.

She just didn't know what to say.

"No need to apologize, Xiangzi didn't do anything wrong." Chu Hua tilted her head in surprise.

"..."

"..."

"..."

A cloud drifted past the window, blocking out the sun. The sunlight disappeared from the room, and the temperature suddenly became a little chilly.

so awkward.

Embarrassed, Xiangzi wanted to open the door and run away immediately.

Chu Hua was also embarrassed. Her beautiful violet eyes lingered around Xiangzi and the others for a long time, as if she wanted to say something but couldn't.

"Um...would you like breakfast, Xiangzi?"

"No, I have to go to work at eight o'clock, and it's quite a distance from here." Xiangzi walked to the entrance, squatted down to pick up his shoes, and said, "Thank you for your help yesterday."

"No, it's not troublesome at all."

Chu Hua stepped forward, but stopped about five steps away from Xiangzi and dared not go any further. She had a very special sense of smell and could detect the atmosphere in the air. Xiangzi was emanating a scent that made people want to stay away.

However, she couldn't maintain a proper distance from Xiangzi.

"Xiangzi, if you run out of seeds of sorrow, you can come to me again. And the same goes for financial matters..."

"I'll handle it myself. Yesterday was an accident," Xiangzi said.

“Sumimi’s success today is inseparable from your father’s help, Xiangzi. Your family has suffered such a misfortune, and I want to do what I can to help.”

Don't mention him to me!

“You’ve hit the bullseye perfectly, Triangle Chuhua,” said Qiu Bi, squatting between the two of them, enjoying the spectacle.

Whoosh!

A climbing axe split open Cupid's forehead, sending the cotton-filled contents flying everywhere.

"shut up."

The air pressure inside the house was so low that it was difficult to breathe.

"I'm sorry," Chu Hua said.

“There’s no need,” Xiangzi sighed. “If you’re only helping me to repay your father’s kindness, there’s no need for you to be so humble towards me.”

"I did not mean that......"

Xiangzi stood up and, as he lifted his shoes, discovered that the glue on his cheap leather shoes had come undone, and a surge of anger rose within him.

“I will repay you for the three seeds of lamentation, as well as the accommodation fee for last night.”

She opened the door, left behind a cold remark, and disappeared from Chu Hua's sight.

"I am leaving, bye."

Bang.

The golden nanmu wood gate slammed shut.

......

“By Reed Plains standards, Mitsumi Hatsuka is now the closest to the Protagonists. I never expected you to know such an amazing magical girl.” Kyubey followed at Shoko’s feet.

"Well, so what?"

Xiangzi walked hurriedly down the road, his worn-out shoes making a clattering sound as they came unglued.

"Winning her over can greatly improve your hunting efficiency."

"I can do it myself."

"You can't do it."

"I can."

"You will die during the hunt."

"I will try to survive."

"Once you die, you lose everything."

"Then don't die," Xiangzi said calmly.

In human terms, someone like you is called a stubborn mule, harboring an indomitable pride in your heart to mask your inner weakness and inferiority complex, and displaying a sharp edge and unyielding stubbornness in your actions to hide the dire straits of your actual life—

Xiangzi kicked Qubi away, along with his tattered, unglued shoes. Qubi rolled twice on the ground before landing in the middle of the road, where he was crushed into a two-dimensional creature by a passing truck.

Xiangzi walked down the street wearing only one shoe.

Anyway, a magical girl's body is just a hardware peripheral, so you can create it however you want.

"How cruel, Toyokawa Shoko, both to others and to yourself."

The new Cupid kept a certain distance from her.

The Tale of Nirvana: Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Chapter 13 Meow Dream Meow Dream

At 8:00 a.m. sharp, Xiangzi sat down at his workstation, clicked "attendance," and began his day of intense online battles.

After starting her customer service job, Xiangzi comforted herself every day by telling herself that she was just keeping a diary of observing bizarre people; otherwise, she would have gotten a blood clot from all the anger.

Perhaps my current bad temper is inextricably linked to this job.

But there's no other way; we still have to find a way to survive.

She works eight straight hours from eight in the morning to four in the afternoon without a lunch break, so that she can use her time after get off work to hunt witches.

Customer service representatives don't necessarily need to make phone calls. Often, after being transferred by AI, they can communicate using some standard phrases. She can even secretly play on her phone during her breaks at work.

Log in to [Reed Plains Magical Girl Gathering], change the Candy Witch's request status to "Completed", and give it the lowest star rating for information satisfaction, with the following note:

【ksm, you almost killed me.】

Click to confirm upload.

Xiangzi stopped slacking off and continued talking to his client online.

After the commission status is changed, someone will confirm it. As long as there are no problems, you will receive a sum of points soon. These points can be used to exchange for small items at the Livehouse and accumulate hunting credits for your personal account.

Points can be exchanged for Lament Seeds, musical instruments, merchandise, and all sorts of other items. It's similar to membership points on other apps, where you usually have to spend a fortune to get a very ordinary item that's not very useful.

The most important thing is the hunting credit value. The higher the credit value, the higher the priority when accepting commissions. Commissions below Hard level are often accepted by many people at the same time, and in this case, the credit value is needed to allocate tasks.

Xiangzi has a high credit rating now and is already a well-known magical girl within RiNG's jurisdiction.

In addition, she had a fairly good relationship with Kasumi Toyama, who was the RiNG administrator, and she received requests almost every day. Otherwise, given the rate at which her soul gems were being consumed, she wouldn't have been able to live for half a year.

I get up at 7 a.m., eat breakfast on my way to work, start work at 8 a.m., and get off work until 4 p.m. After get off work, I go to the location of the commissioned hunt for witches, then go back to the internet cafe, eat the 50% off bento boxes sold in the supermarket after 8 p.m., use the internet cafe's computers to compose and compose music, upload these commercial songs online, pray that someone will buy them, and finally find a comfortable corner to sleep.

This is what Xiangzi's life has been like for the past six months.

If she didn't still see Takamatsu Akari from time to time, she might have become numb long ago, turning into a puppet who only acts to survive.

drip.

Her phone rang; someone was looking for her.

Xiangzi picked up his phone and saw that it was "Miss Kasumi Toyama, the first Protagonist-level magical girl in Reed Plains who now calls herself a reliable magical college student".

Yes, this is Xiangzi's nickname for Toyama Kasumi. By the way, ksm is the abbreviation for Kasumi.

She probably saw Xiangzi's comment.

[Miss Lu (hereinafter referred to as Kasumi Toyama)]: Sho, Sho! What happened yesterday?! Was there a problem with the intelligence?!

[Toyokawa Shoko]: It wasn't anything serious, I just almost died.

[Toyama Kasumi]: Huh? !

[Toyokawa Shoko]: Candy's strength is above the Normal standard line and between Hard. She is not someone that can be dealt with by a single person. If it were a novice, the whole team would probably be wiped out.

[Kasumi Toyama]: Eh?! The information provider had a very high information credibility rating! How could this be?!

[Toyokawa Shoko]: I said a long time ago that the system should be reformed. Couldn't we wait until the task is completed before issuing credit points to the providers?

[Kasumi Toyama]: It's very troublesome to change it... We know that, and we are trying.

[Toyokawa Shoko]: Never mind, who provided the information?

[Kasumi Toyama]: Sorry, Shoko... You know the rules, the informant is anonymous.

[Toyokawa Shoko]: Please, just this once.

[Kasumi Toyama]: Well, what can I do? You're so cute, Shoko.

[Kasumi Toyama]: I'll check.

When a witch/familiar is first discovered, she is in an Unknown state. Only when enough information is provided will the administrator classify the witch and issue a Safe-Dangous level subjugation request.

Besides hunting witches, providing information can also earn you points and credits at the gathering, but information credits and hunting credits are two separate point systems.

Moreover, the points for providing intelligence far exceed those for hunting witches. If you want to exchange points for something, you can almost only do so by providing intelligence. If you rely solely on hunting witches, it will take forever to accumulate enough points.

It is said that the Roselia band, the current administrators of CiRCLE, formulated these rules to encourage magical girls to actively provide information, activate the community, and create a virtuous cycle of information provision.

After several years of practice, this model has been very successful. Even magical girls with weak combat power can earn points by acting as intelligence agents to exchange for Lament Seeds, thus surviving. It has even led to the development of magical girls who specialize in acting as intelligence agents.

Xiangzi occasionally does this kind of work; it's easy and not tiring, but he earns too little.

Moreover, it wasn't without danger; quite a few people still failed to escape with their families after entering the witch's barrier.

Although it is a mature and systematic system, this system still has a major flaw: dead people cannot leave bad reviews.

The intelligence was wrong, and people died inside, but the intelligence provider had already earned their credit score. Their credit rating will only increase, unless someone is lucky enough to come back alive and give them a bad review.

This issue had been raised before, but the Protagonists, who were the actual leaders, disagreed on whether to reform, and the reform issue was ultimately left unresolved.

There's no way around it, magical girls grow up too, and when they grow up they'll know what profit and lucrative deals are.

Shoko probably knows that even the high and mighty Protagonists, including Kasumi Toyama, know that magical girls will eventually become witches.

In short, survivor bias made the intelligence system turbulent, and the magical girl gathering in Reed Plains was not as united and wonderful as it seemed.

【Kasumi Toyama】: Found it.

[Toyokawa Shoko]: What's your name?

[Kasumi Toyama]: I can't tell you my real name, that's my bottom line.

【Toyokawa Shoko】: ID is fine too.