Pochi-chan, I used to be a princess.

[Taizhong Ritsu said: "It changed a long time ago, we should have discovered it long ago. Xiaowei, do you still want to be a magical girl now?"]

【Hirasawa Yui lowered his head and said nothing.】

[Taizhong Ritsu placed her hand on Hirasawa Yui's shoulder and said soothingly, "That's true. It can't be helped."]

Hirasawa Yui said sadly, "I know I'm being cunning, regretting it now. But no, I can't. Just thinking about that kind of death makes me almost suffocate. I'm so scared. I don't want it."

【Hirasawa Yui couldn't help crying again. 】

Taichu Ritsu embraced Hirasawa Yui and spoke calmly, "You're truly a gentle person. To make us understand the depth of resolve required to fight, that person... Hey, Kyubey, what will become of this city? Who will take over and protect us from the witch?"

Kyubey said calmly, "This place has been in charge for a long time. If there's a vacancy, the other magical girls won't just sit there and watch. Other children will come here to hunt witches."

Chapter 115: Competent Kyubey

[Tai Nakagura said unhappily: "But they came here just for the Seeds of Sorrow, right? Just like Mio..."]

Kyubey said, "It's true that people like ?? are rare. They usually calculate the gains and losses seriously, and everyone wants to be rewarded."

[Tai Naka Ritsu said: "Then..."]

Kyubey said, "But if there's any accusation, it should only be made by children who share the fate of being a magical girl, right?"

【Tai Nakagura was speechless.】

Kyubey continued, "I understand how you feel. Although I'm sorry, I can't force you to do anything. I'll say goodbye now. I must go find the child I need to sign a contract with."

Hirasawa Yui said: "I'm sorry, Kyubey."

[Quppy said: "I am. I'm sorry for dragging you into this. Although it was only for a short time, thank you. It's been a pleasure being together, Xiaowei, Xiaolu."]

【After saying this, Kyubey left.】

Everyone in the light music club was confused.

The development of the plot was completely different from what they had imagined.

According to the common routine, Hirasawa Yui and Tainaka Ritsu should have signed a contract with Kyubey, becoming magical girls and hunting witches on behalf of Kotobuki. However, the two gave up this mission because of fear.

Yamanaka Sawako sighed, "This is reality. Even adults fear death. Seeing a good friend die in a violent accident, how could an underage child not be afraid?"

Nakano Azusa said sadly: "Is there a difference between the story and reality? Just as cruel as the spellcaster that was shown before, there are more magical girls who died in places unknown to everyone, right?"

Akiyama Mio couldn't help but sigh. "The only one with the same story is Kyubey. As a magical girl's contracted beast, he acts as her partner, searching for girls who could become magical girls. Even if they're rejected, he doesn't mind... Why did I attack Kyubey last week?"

Akiyama Mio was very confused. Judging from the plot in the video, Kyubey was very reasonable and was a more competent partner of the magical girl than some contracted beasts who would quarrel with the magical girl.

"You're blaming yourself too much, Hirasawa Yui."

After school, Hirasawa Yui walked out of the school alone. Akiyama Mio called out to Hirasawa Yui from the front of the road.

Hirasawa Yui looked at Akiyama Mio with red and swollen eyes: "Mio?"

Akiyama Mio said calmly, "No one can blame you. If anyone does, I won't allow it."

Hirasawa Yui looked at Akiyama Mio at a loss.

Akiyama Mio asked, "You listened to my advice, didn't you?"

Hirasawa Yui nodded and said sadly, "If I had listened to Mio earlier..."

Akiyama Mio said, "Even so, Kotobuki's fate won't change, but yours will. I'll be happy even if I can save just one person."

Hirasawa Yui followed Akiyama Mio along the sidewalk under the setting sun. Hearing Mio's words, Hirasawa Yui couldn't help but ask, "Mio, you seem quite mature in a different sense than...?"

Akiyama Mio said calmly, "Perhaps. I don't deny it."

Hirasawa Yui asked, "Have you seen people die like yesterday many times?"

Akiyama Mio said, "Yes."

Hirasawa Yui asked, "How many times?"

Mio Akiyama said, "There are so many now that I don't even want to count them. This is the end of magical girls. Even if they die, they don't leave behind a body. In the end, they are just announced as missing."

[Akiyama Mio's tone was calm, but the words she spoke seemed even more desolate because of this calm tone.]

Mio Akiyama in front of the screen understood.

“Too many to count…”

When Akiyama Mio thought of that scene, her face turned pale.

Nakano Azusa was shocked: "Is that really the case?! Countless magical girls have died."

The reality that Mio Akiyama described was much more cruel than she had imagined.

There are so many that I don’t want to count them. To reach this level, it must be at least three digits, right?

Yamanaka Sawako said in astonishment: "No wonder Xiao Mio has been preventing others from becoming magical girls. The death rate is too high! Can't Kyubey find a police officer, a soldier, or even a yakuza to be a magical girl?"

Qin blowing? Raise your face.

Police, soldiers, gangsters... each of these burly men raised their soul gems, shouted about transformation, and changed into beautiful little skirts. Their swollen muscles made the skirts almost burst.

This scene appeared in Qinbuki's mind, and her head was about to smoke.

Hirasawa Yui burst into tears: "It's so tragic! I've been fighting alone for everyone, and no one has noticed. It's so lonely."

Akiyama Mio said calmly, "It's through this contract that we gain this power. We fight not for others, but for our own wishes. Even if no one knows, even if we are forgotten, there's nothing we can do about it."

Hirasawa Yui said firmly, "I'll remember this! I won't forget what happened. Absolutely not!"

Akiyama Mio said coldly, "Really? Just thinking that, Kotobuki? You're very happy, so happy that people envy you."

Hirasawa Yui said loudly: "Mio, I won't forget En either. I will never forget how you saved me yesterday."

[Akiyama Mio clenched her palms without saying a word.]

Hirasawa Yui yelled anxiously, "Mio?"

Akiyama Mio said, "You are too gentle. Don't forget that this gentleness may also bring about greater sorrow."

Hirasawa Yui looked at Akiyama Mio at a loss. Akiyama Mio said this and walked away.

As the sun sets, the city at night becomes even brighter than it was in the evening. The lights on the roadside drive the darkness into the corners.

Hirasawa Yui walks down the street, feeling lost and thinking, "Mio, we could have been friends if we had just talked properly, so why did you end up arguing with...? Huh? Hehe! !"

Hirasawa Yui paused. Not far away, Manabe and someone else walked across the intersection.

Hirasawa Yui ran over and shouted, "He He!"

Manabe ignored Hirasawa Yui's shouts and walked forward with lifeless eyes.

Seeing Manabe Kazu's expression, Hirasawa Yui was shocked: "That, is the same person as back then!"

Hirasawa Yui thought of the woman who jumped from the building a few days ago and hurried over to block Manabe Kazu, shouting, "Kazu! Hey, Kazu!"

Manabe Kazu seemed to be awakened and asked Hirasawa Yui with a smile, "Hey! Yui, you haven't gone home yet?"

Chapter 116: Death of Hirasawa Yui

Seeing that Manabe and this one were clearly not normal, Hirasawa Yui asked anxiously, "What, what's wrong? Kazukazu, where are you going?"

Manabe put his hand on his chin and said dazedly, "Where are you asking? This place is much better than here."

Hirasawa Yui yelled anxiously, "He He."

"Oh, and Wei, you must come too. That's right, this is fantastic."

Manabe walked past Hirasawa Yui with a smile on his face and headed somewhere forward.

Hirasawa Yui follows behind Manabe Kazu, anxiously thinking, "What should I do? Could this be..."

After crossing the block, the number of pedestrians around them dwindled. A dozen men and women gathered at the intersection, each with a bewildered expression, making Hirasawa Yui very uneasy.

Hirasawa Yui thinks: "If I could contact Mio, I wouldn't be able to. I don't know her phone number."

"Yeah, I'm not good enough. I can't even run a small factory like this."

The crowd gathered and walked into a small factory. The factory manager said sadly, "In this day and age, where can I find a place to stay?"

Someone pulled down the rolling door, and someone else brought over two large buckets and poured liquid into them.

Seeing that liquid, Hirasawa Yui suddenly remembered her sister's warning: "Listen carefully, sister, if something like this is used improperly, the consequences will be very serious. Our whole family will die. You must not make any mistakes."

“No! That’s not allowed!”

【Hirasawa Yui hurried over to stop him.】

Manabe stops her: "Don't interrupt. This is a sacred ceremony."

Hirasawa Yui yells, "But, that's dangerous! Everyone here will die!"

Manabe smiled and said, "Indeed, from now on, we will all embark on a journey to a beautiful world. Don't you know how wonderful it is? This living body is just a burden, Xiaowei, you will understand it soon."

[“Let me go!”]

Hirasawa Yui shook off Manabe's hand, ran over desperately, lifted the bucket, and threw it hard against the window.

[The plastic bucket shattered the glass and fell outside.]

Hirasawa Yui's heart was pounding, and she gasped for breath until she heard the sound of a gasoline barrel dropping to the ground behind her. She turned around and saw the people controlled by the witch walking towards her.

Hirasawa Yui quickly backed away, trying to open the window, but it didn't work. She slid against the wall and suddenly felt the door handle. She quickly opened the door, ran out, and immediately locked it.

Hirasawa Yui looked around, searching for a way out, but saw strange colors floating in the air. Hirasawa Yui retreated in panic: "What should I do? What should I do? No, don't do this..."

The witch's familiar leaps onto Yui Hirasawa and pulls at her. Yui screams, "No... Help me!"

[Before he finished speaking, the familiar tore Hirasawa Yui's body into pieces.]

"what!"

Akiyama Mio screamed, and she fainted again after just recovering.

Hirasawa Yui trembled: "I, I'm dead too?"

Nakano Azusa said in astonishment: "How can this world be better than that of a sorcerer? The mortality rate is obviously higher than that of a sorcerer!"

Yamanaka Sawako's eyelids twitched. According to this pattern, the light music club would probably be wiped out.

Kotobuki Tsumugi said, "Don't be nervous, look, Xiao Wei is not dead yet!"

Everyone focused their attention and looked at the screen of their mobile phone. As expected, Hirasawa Yui was not dead yet, but had fallen into the witch's barrier. This witch's barrier was like a world of television. A huge tape was spinning in the sky, and the witch's servants were flying around carrying the television. Hirasawa Yui seemed to have descended into a dimension, floating in the witch's barrier like a paper man.

Hirasawa Yui saw her past on the televisions around her, including the now-dead Kotobuki Tsumugi. She was terrified and thought, "Is this a punishment? It must be because I was too weak and lied that I'm being punished."

[Several more familiars flew over, grabbed Hirasawa Yui's limbs and hair, and pulled her into a strip.]

[At this moment, a pale blue sword light flashed, beheading all the familiars.]

Hirasawa Yui recovered and saw a figure flying down from the sky. It was Tianzhong Ritsu, wearing a white cloak and holding a sword. The moment she turned around, she looked like a wandering female swordsman.

Hirasawa Yui shouted in shock: "Ritsu-chan!?"

Tian Jing Ranchuritsu swung his sword with a swift movement, his cloak whipping up a storm, the blue light of his sword flashing as he annihilated the witch and her familiar with ease.

The witch's barrier disappears, and the two return to the factory. Tian Zhongli puts his hands behind his head and says with a silly smile, "It was a close call."

Hirasawa Yui asked in surprise, "Xiaolu, this outfit..."

Tianzhong Ritsu waved his hand and looked away, "Well, it's just a change of heart, right? It's okay. For my first time, I did pretty well, right?"

Hirasawa Yui said: "But..."

[The sound of footsteps interrupted Hirasawa Yui's words. Akiyama Mio walked over and looked at Tianzhong Ritsu with complicated eyes: "You..."]

[Taizhong Ritsu snorted and said, "It's too late, isn't it, Mio-chan?"]

[The two stared at each other in silence, with Hirasawa Yui caught in the middle, at a loss as to what to do.]

Kotobuki Tsumugi asked in surprise, "Didn't Ritsu-chan decide not to become a magical girl?"

Akiyama Mio lowered her head and said self-reproachfully, "Is it because I'm too late? In order to protect Xiaowei, Xiaolu chose to become a magical girl."

Hirasawa Yui clenched her fists and encouraged herself: "I want to become a magical girl too, and fight alongside Ritsu-chan, Mio-chan, and Tsumugi!"

She doesn't want to be protected unilaterally. Although she has been taken care of by everyone except Xiaolu in the light music club for a long time, now even Xiaolu has become reliable, and she can't stand still.

High up on the power line tower, Nakano Azusa sat in a rough posture, eating bread. Kyubey squatted beside him and asked, "I didn't expect you to come."