Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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But just before that moment happened, Xiangzi completed an action.

She transformed her Soul Gem back into the shape of a flower, placed it into the magazine of the gun blade, and pulled the trigger.

Sizzle s ...

The gunblade ignited the flower within the chamber, and the magic of rebirth surged forth from the crack, covering the world about to split into this shore and the other shore with white light.

A buzzing sound lingered in Xiangzi's ears. She opened her eyes and found herself holding a gun blade. Mami's body, its limbs severed and its Soul Gem shattered, lay on the ground.

She went back to a minute earlier.

The whole world, along with her, went back to a minute earlier.

The Tale of Reincarnation: The Shore of Oblivion: Chapter 562 Short-Term Cycle

Delete had told Xiangzi to prepare for the worst, that he should use his flowers as bullets.

Although Xiangzi said she was unwilling, she knew in her heart that the possibility of this happening was almost 100%.

That's just a probabilistic description; in probability theory, nothing is absolutely 0% or 100%.

But in Xiangzi's view, this was something that was bound to happen.

Because on the last page of the notebook, she saw a record of the power of Nirvana and Reinhard's characteristics.

Reinhardt can activate his Soul Gem to travel back one minute.

This is the information recorded in the notebook.

Since Xiangzi could see it, it means that this event did indeed happen in the "future," and that his Soul Gem was indeed fired by Reinhard.

Xiangzi was merely clinging to the last sliver of hope that things might not come to the point where he would have to do this.

However, that last glimmer of hope was completely extinguished after Mami stole the World-Destroying Flower from the Witch of This Shore.

The moment Mami merged the bright yellow and blackish-purple flowers of destruction together, Xiangzi felt a weight lifted from his heart.

Without hesitation, she raised the blade of her gun and pulled the trigger.

The trigger pulls the hammer, and the specially designed hammer strikes the firing pin on the gun blade. The engraved patterns inside light up instantly, activating the... Nirvana Flower stored in the magazine.

The cracks on the flower had spread so slightly that they were barely noticeable to the naked eye.

boom!

I have seen many times that the white light first covers Xiangzi himself, then the circular platform, then the entire barrier, and then the whole world.

Sixty seconds of time were erased from the world's time.

They returned to a minute earlier, before Mami revealed her true form.

Xiangzi opened his eyes and looked at the shattered puppet body in front of him.

"You're incredibly reckless to fall for the same trick again."

The moment she regained consciousness, Mami's voice came from the sky.

A figure identical to the Mami that Xiangzi had just killed descended from the sky and landed amidst the world-destroying flowers of Mutsu and the Witch of the Other Shore.

The familiar scene played out again before Xiangzi's eyes.

Xiangzi wanted to stop it all, but by the time she realized what was happening, it was too late; Mami had already obtained the Flower of Destruction.

"I'm far from being at my wit's end." A sinister smile, completely out of character, appeared on Porcelain's face as she looked at everyone. "It's you who are at your wits' end."

The ritual to resurrect the Witch of This Shore was restarted. A bright yellow halo surrounded Mami, and the semi-transparent dial reappeared, with the two World-Destroying Flowers positioned exactly at twelve and one o'clock.

Mami gripped them with both hands, forcefully compressing the space between the pointers to a minimum.

A clanging sound came from outside the aperture, but no matter what the people outside wanted to do, it was too late when the ceremony restarted.

Finally, Mami's sapphire eyes dimmed, and her body slumped to the ground.

The silhouette of the witch on this shore was reflected in Xiangzi's pupils, and the same scene reappeared before his eyes.

"Gan!"

Xiangzi gritted his teeth and stuffed the Soul Gem into the magazine.

hum!

A white light covered everything, and time rewound to sixty seconds earlier.

This time, she immediately turned around, abandoned Mami's mangled body, and ran towards the center of the circular area.

"You're too naive to accept the same trick again."

"Mumu, don't let Mami get the flowers!"

Seeing that he couldn't get there in time, Xiangzi shouted at the top of his lungs.

The silk thread flew towards the largest flower of destruction a step ahead of Mami's hand, touching the flower almost at the same instant.

The result remained unchanged.

The yellow ribbon intercepted the silk thread's trajectory, and Mami obtained the Flower of Destruction.

This time, there was no need to hesitate. Xiangzi stuffed the Soul Gem into the magazine and once again chose to return to the past.

Sixty seconds. If she goes back earlier, can she return to sixty seconds ago?

If that's the case, wouldn't there be plenty of time?

The white light dispersed.

Before Xiangzi's eyes appeared Mami's broken body.

"You're incredibly reckless to get caught using the same trick again." (The last sentence appears to be a fragment and doesn't translate directly.)

Mami's voice came from behind her.

"Did it fail?" Xiangzi took out the Soul Gem ahead of time and put it into the magazine. "It really wasn't as easy as I imagined."

Xiangzi sighed. He had already pulled the trigger before Mami merged with him, and he was back to the same point.

A white light comes on.

The familiar scene played out once again: Xiangzi pulled the trigger the instant Mami grabbed the Flower of Destruction.

This time, Xiangzi only returned to five or six seconds ago.

Xiangzi planned to intercept Mami directly.

Failed.

A white light illuminates, and time resets.

Xiangzi planned to warn the others in advance.

It failed again.

It shines brighter.

Reset again.

Failed.

It shines brighter.

Reset again.

Failed...

How many times has it been reset in such a short period of time?

Xiangzi's forehead was covered in sweat. She glanced at the flower with its cracks becoming more and more obvious, her lips trembled, and her face turned pale.

The thrill of Nirvana brought her back to the feeling when the Soul Gem first cracked, a feeling that seemed to penetrate her entire body, a feeling that something was about to burst out of her body, a feeling that was like stepping on the gas pedal at full throttle on a mountain road, rushing headlong towards the cliff.

She was finding it increasingly difficult to control her Soul Gem.

How many more times do we need to reset?

Xiangzi pulled the trigger again, returning to that moment once more, and once again watching helplessly as Mami snatched the flower.

How much longer can she hold on?

Xiangzi's hope, which had been slightly restored, began to plummet once again.

The reset time was actually a very awkward moment, coinciding with the appearance of Mami's true form. Xiangzi's location couldn't prevent her from grabbing the largest World-Destroying Flower.

Not only could she not get it, but no one else could either. No matter how much Xiangzi hinted or how proactively he attacked, Mami always managed to get the Flower of Annihilation within the first five seconds.

Once the ritual restarted, there was no way for them to stop it. Once Mami obtained the largest flower of destruction, nothing they did after those sixty seconds could change the outcome.

What is the significance of this inexplicable node?

Does she have to restart this short period of less than sixty seconds again and again until her flower completely shatters...? Then why did she try so hard to stop Mami?

When the Klein bottle of the Witch of This Shore appeared in Xiangzi's eyes again and again, she even felt that this bottle, which seemed to have an infinite loop structure, was mocking her.

An endless cycle, an endless futile effort.

Xiangzi's eyes darkened.

Just as Xiangzi's mood grew increasingly irritable with each reset, she made eye contact with someone.

Each reset doesn't mean everything happens exactly as the scripted. Most people's "lines" and "actions" remain highly synchronized, but even if Xiangzi gives a hint, interrupts, or does something else, some lines and actions are always repeated.

But there was one person who was different.

She was just as anxious as Xiangzi, frantically trying to change something, making different efforts each time.

Xiangzi finally noticed.

"flame!!!!"

"Huh?!" Flame's pupils shrank to their smallest size, then a look of sudden realization appeared on her face. "Senior, could it be you?!"

Yan also showed an expression of sudden realization.

The two women made different efforts each time to stop Mami from obtaining the Flower of Destruction, but they didn't realize that at the same time, there was another person trapped in this endless loop.

Sure enough, the two of them have some special connection in the dark!

Whether it was time stop or returning to June 1st, none of Homura's abilities affected Shoko. Conversely, the same was true; Homura was unaffected by Shoko's abilities, and like Shoko, she returned to the very beginning with her memories intact.

Why is it?

Delete said that their connection transcends time and causality so that they are not affected by each other. Is it because it transcends causality, or is there some other reason?

Xiangzi's brain seemed to explode, bursting forth with countless sparks of thought, and began to work at lightning speed.

Regardless of the reason for now, Flame is the only way to break this sixty-second stalemate. The only way to stop Mami from obtaining the Flower of Annihilation is to put her into time stop as well.

But... what should I do?

The mechanism inside the small round shield is entangled with ribbons, so even if it is forcibly opened for a brief one-second time stop, it cannot affect Mami. Instead, it will cause Kyoko, Sayaka, and Mutual Affair to be paused.

Xiangzi had initially thought the ribbon would be easy to untangle, but he hadn't found a way to do it yet. Mumi's silk thread wasn't as strong as Mami's ribbon, not to mention small tools like scissors. Attacks that could destroy the ribbon were too destructive and could easily damage the mechanism of the round shield itself.

Is there any way to remove the restraints on top?

We hadn't thought of a solution before, and now it's even less likely.

Xiangzi looked up and saw that Mami had restarted the ritual to resurrect the Witch of This Shore. She raised her gun blade, ready to pull the trigger and return to the past.

but.

Xiangzi felt his heart suddenly pounding, his vision began to blur, and his fingertips seemed to turn white.

We're almost at our limit.

This is probably the last chance to be completely in her own hands. If she does this again afterward, she might become less and less like herself.

Xiangzi gritted his teeth fiercely and shook his dizzy head.

Never mind, anything is better than resurrecting the witch of this side. We can talk about Nirvana later.

His finger was on the trigger.

Xiangzi gazed at the figure of the Witch of This Shore floating in mid-air and took a deep breath.

--"senior!"