I, the little cat, am a substitute for others who are starving and thin

Maybe the tastes in each region are different, just like the food in each world Yimi travels to is more or less different. Maybe people in other places like to eat Kewpie.

Yimi wants to try it.

Traveling across cities seemed like a waste of time, and the city with tall buildings didn't allow her to get to a place by walking in a straight line.

"Kazuminoichi, we're here."

It was almost dark when we got off the bus. Yimi had originally wanted to go to Zhijiu to ask about sashimi before it got dark.

By the way, you also need to prepare loneliness sauce for sashimi.

"Lonely sauce, lonely sauce, lonely lonely..."

She kept repeating the word in her mouth so as not to forget it. She changed into human form and ran to a convenience store. She slapped the money that Madoka gave her on the counter and said, "Give me Lonely-chan."

"It's mustard sauce... Little sister, which kind do you want? Wasabi or?"

Another word Yimi didn't understand popped up, and she raised her little face in annoyance: "I want to make sashimi, a little more."

"For sashimi, I recommend this one. It might be a little pricey, but it's just what you have. Did your mom ask you to run errands? That's awesome."

The clerk held out a bottle and gave it to her.

"Be careful on the road."

But Yimi, who got the mustard sauce, did not leave. She still looked up at the person in front of her and asked, "Are you a magical girl?"

The 30-something shop assistant asked: "?"

"..."

It turns out not to be the case. There is something wrong with the cat's luck.

Yimi walked out of the store with a sullen face, holding the bottle, and looked up to think about what Zhijiu said.

I didn't ask about it at the time, but I remember him saying to just chop the meat and serve it with mustard sauce. It's amazing that there's a sauce in the world that makes meat delicious without even cooking it.

Out of curiosity, she unscrewed the bottle cap of mustard and took a sip.

"Cough cough cough! Heck heck heck—"

Yimi choked on her nose and quickly transferred the misfortune away. Even so, the force she felt just now still made her cry and snot.

Humans are horrible creatures that they like this stuff.

Yimi put the mustard sauce back into the storage space and wiped her tears with her sleeves.

"Tsk!"

With a click of the tongue, a red-haired girl who had just passed by her turned around, scratched the back of her head, looked down at her in annoyance, and took out a relatively red apple from the paper bag she was holding and handed it to her.

"Eat and stop crying."

13

Chapter 13 Sacrificed.

Yimi's luck did not fail. The girl who spoke to her had a faint smell of magic on her, which should be left over from the battle with the witch just now.

"Here, play with this."

In the game hall, a red-haired girl named Sakura Anzi put a handful of game coins in Yimi's hand, and then went to find the dance machine herself.

Normally, she would never care about others. How others lived or died had nothing to do with her. Just like the game coins she handed to Yimi, she didn't spend a penny at all.

In an arcade like this, you can always find one or two game coins by just looking under the machines.

It doesn't matter if she can't find him. There are no restrictions on minors entering this kind of area. She can find children younger than herself and observe for a while. If the unlucky child is particularly bad at the game, she can reasonably push him aside and play for him, and take away a few game coins.

It wouldn't work for a child as old as Yimi, because children of this age won't come alone and are usually accompanied by adults.

Then, she could use the starting capital to win a few more at slot machines or other places. She was lucky today; usually, she would lose a lot of money playing slot machines or something like that.

Yimi looked down at the game coins in his hand and caught up with Xingzi: "This is OK, can we buy some food?"

"You're dreaming. If you can buy things here, this isn't an arcade anymore. It should just be called a gambling den."

He is not very polite when talking to children.

She thought of the little kid crying alone just now and softened her tone a little: "Why were you crying just now? Did your mother scold you? Or did you run away from home?"

A normal person would call the police immediately if they saw a child alone at night, but she is not a normal person.

"I didn't cry, I ate loneliness sauce."

Yimi tells the truth.

"whatever."

Kyoko rolled her eyes, pulling out a pack of stick-shaped biscuit snacks and biting into them.

On the contrary, she didn't understand why she had to meddle in other people's business. This little ghost couldn't let her see her sister's shadow when she was alive. At least her sister wouldn't cry on the street...right?

Xingzi saw Yimi staring at the biscuit in her hand, so she threw it to him.

The cookies were the kind you see in movies and TV shows, stick-shaped like chopsticks, where couples typically bite one end to seduce their partner. One side was coated in chocolate sauce, but the human-shaped Yimi didn't taste unpleasant.

Yimi sat beside her, crunching on the biscuits and watching Xingzi dance.

Direct question: "Are you a magical girl?"

"what?"

Xingzi leaned against the armrest of the dance machine and tilted her head back to look at Yimi. "Yes, I'm the kind of magical girl who patrols at night and eats children who can't get home."

"Eat children!"

Yimi stood up and took a few steps back.

She didn't expect that the magical girl was hiding a dark side that she didn't know about.

"Haha, I'm just scaring you."

Xingzi stopped looking at her and started stepping in the direction shown on the dance machine.

Suddenly remembering how powerful he was, Yimi approached again: "Who did you sign the contract with? Kyubey?"

Hearing the word Kyubey, Xingzi finally stopped what she was doing and turned around to look at Yimi again.

"Why, the magical girl business has become so widespread now that they're even hiring elementary school kids? This kind of career that doesn't discriminate by age really makes me feel worried about the future."

Xingzi reached out to Yimi in dissatisfaction, wanting to get back the game coins that had just been handed to her, but when she raised her hand in the air, it dropped down.

She leaned on the armrest of the dance machine, propping up her face: "What wish did you make? Don't tell me you're crying because you regret making a wish."

At this age where she doesn't even have the ability to think independently, it's not surprising that Xingzi made a wish for a lollipop.

Yimi shook her head: "I didn't make a wish, and I didn't cry."

This little guy is really tough. He just cried so hard that his nose was running, but he still wiped it himself.

"You refused, didn't you? You didn't refuse then, and then you regretted it and started crying, right? Even throwing yourself into your mother's arms won't help with this kind of thing. You'll probably understand when you get to junior high."

Xingzi raised her eyebrows, turned around and continued watching the dance machine. The combo had been disconnected long ago and could not be continued.

"If you want to make a wish one day, whether it's for a cake or for immortality, it's okay to be a little selfish, but don't think about making a wish for others."

Xingzi got off the dance machine, put one hand in her pocket, and stretched out the other hand to Yimi: "Come with me, I'll take you somewhere."

Yimi held her hand, but was a little wary: "Are you trying to eat a child?"

"..."

A church, not even a church of mainstream faith, is Xingzi's temporary residence.

It is called a church, but it is more accurate to call it an abandoned building. There is a layer of dust visible to the naked eye in the unattended church, and even some green ivy has grown in some places. It is a pity that Yimi did not find any mice here.

"This is my father's church. He's a pastor, but he always preaches things that don't align with doctrine. Gradually, people stopped coming to listen to him, and people from higher-ups in the church wanted to remove him from his position."

When she spoke about herself, Xingzi's voice became much softer.

Then, having lost their income, their family lived like homeless people. Not to mention having enough to eat, it was extremely lucky to have anything to eat.

Xingzi threw another apple to Yimi and said, "But what he said makes a lot of sense. It would be great if everyone could calm down and listen carefully to what he said. That's what I thought at the time, and then I made a wish to Kyubey that everyone would listen to him carefully."

The next day, a lot of people suddenly showed up, and their family returned to normal life for a while. At least they no longer had to worry about filling their stomachs.

It would have been nice if things could have stayed that way forever, but this happiness didn't last long. One day, a witch appeared in the church. She wasn't a very powerful witch, but after defeating her, the novice Anzi forgot to undo her transformation, and her father saw her like this.

To explain, she confessed everything to her father.

After learning that people were not listening to his words because they made sense, the father, a pastor, collapsed and angrily denounced Xingzi as a witch who bewitched people. He then forced Xingzi's mother and younger sister to commit suicide with him, destroying this happy family with his own hands.

"Tsk, talking so many dark things to a kid your age will give you nightmares at night, right? But being a magical girl isn't a beautiful profession like in cartoons, and I don't want another magical girl to appear in this city."

This is true. If a magical girl wants to become stronger, she can also purify her soul gem through the Seed of Sorrow. However, the Seed of Sorrow can only be dropped by witches. If it is a familiar that comes out to cause trouble, then it is not worth it to waste magic power to save passers-by.

Therefore, most magical girls would just leave their familiars alone when they see them, letting them eat people and grow into witches before reaping the spoils. Unfortunately, she was such a dark creature.

Xingzi looked at Yimi who was looking around curiously and said: "If you are still yearning for it, I advise you to give up. Magical girls can't save anyone, and may even cause many tragedies."

She had no intention of changing her style of doing things, but she herself was already so dark that when she saw the innocent child about to fall into the quagmire, she couldn't help but want to push her out.

"why?"

Yimi looked at her in confusion.

"It's probably like many professions in society. You think it's wonderful until you're involved, but once you're there, you can feel its awfulness. Once you're stuck in it, it's hard to get out... It's too early for you to say that now."

The fourteen-year-old girl said things that were not appropriate for her age.

Xingzi threw away the apple core she had eaten and pointed in a direction: "There are rooms for sleeping over there. If you don't have a home to go back to, just find a place to sleep. The quilts should be clean. If any homeless people come in, I will chase them away."

Yimi didn't leave, she raised her hand and asked for it: "I want to see the Soul Gem."

"You still don't give up?"

With a thought, Xingzi's ring turned into a red gem in the same shape as Mami. She waved it in front of Yimi, but she held it tightly and didn't intend to let go.

"Well."

Yimi gently touched the surface of the gem.

It can be felt that this is an object made with all of Xingzi's soul. The principle is easy to understand for Yimi, who has asked for knowledge from Kyubey.

After satisfying the child's curiosity, Anzi took the gem back and said, "If a child like you who knows nothing becomes a magical girl, you will probably become like Mami Tomoe. In any case, the ending will not be good."

"Do you know anyone in yellow?"

Yimi remembers Tomoe Mami's name, but Tomoe Mami's sister is five characters long and she doesn't want to call her that.

"That's a weird name... Have you actually seen that girl? She wouldn't have come to this city, would she?"

Xingzi looked out the church window warily.

He opened his mouth and continued to smack his lips: "How is she doing recently?"

"How about it?"

Yimi bit her fingers and thought about it, not knowing how to answer this question.

But she remembered that the people in blue at noon had discussed this.

Sayaka at noon: "That's only natural. We didn't know the true nature of magical girls was like this before. Mami-san had no choice, but it's not Madoka's turn to make such a sacrifice when her family and friends are happy."

Yimi looked up at Xingzi: "She sacrificed herself."

The kitten only has a vague understanding of the word sacrifice.

"?"

The apple in Xingzi's hand fell to the ground.

Her expression was uncertain, and there seemed to be a hint of sadness.

"Really? That's natural, right?"

She covered her face. "After all, this guy would waste his magic power on his familiars."

14

Chapter 14 How to do it?

For Anzi, even though she always said she was annoyed with Mami, it was still a big blow to her when something really happened to her.