Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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The lamp was happy, but Xiangzi was not happy at all.

She dragged the lamp to the rooftop, blocked the way by leaning her back against the door, then grabbed the Delete from her shoulder and held it in front of the lamp.

"You recognize it, don't you?" Xiangzi asked with a serious expression. "You call it Delete?"

"Hey, hey, hey, hey, be careful or I'll tell the animal rights activists you're abusing animals!" Delete struggled in her hand.

"Xiao Xiang...why were you so mean to it?"

“It’s dangerous, very, very dangerous for you,” Xiangzi said.

Delete is the most special kind of Kewpie. Even though it seems much more unpredictable than the average Kewpie, it is often this kind of unpredictable guy who is the most deadly when he gets really ruthless.

"How could you say that to me! I helped you stop those shameless people from tricking her into making a wish!" Delete complained. "You were the one who kept dragging your feet and wouldn't tell her the truth, and now you're trying to pin the blame on me!"

"Shut up!" Xiangzi roared at it with a dark face.

Delete immediately drooped its head like a withered sunflower, and wilted.

"Tell me what?" Lamp looked at Xiangzi and Delete with confusion. "Is it something that even Aine can't know?"

"..." Xiangzi pinched Delete's ear and took a deep breath. "Yes, Aine is the person you should never know."

"What exactly happened?" Deng felt a vague unease.

If at first, Deng thought Xiangzi was the kind of shy girl who blushed under her coat in the dense crowd of Times Square, ready to take it off at any moment to reveal something underneath.

Now it's like a shy girl taking off her coat to reveal layers of bombs on her body, and Xiangzi is holding a remote control, ready to press the detonation button at any moment.

"The truth about wishes, magical girls, and witches." Xiangzi looked into the lamp's eyes.

She recalled that rainy day in front of RiNG, when she seemed to be looking at the "lights" in the same way.

Is what's standing in front of me now just an illusion?

Xiangzi pursed his lips.

He hesitated for a moment.

“Actually…” she slowly opened her mouth and said, “Magical girls are witches. After the Soul Gem is filled with filth, all magical girls will become the witches we see, hunt, and use.”

The Lost Tale: The Lost Child: Chapter 268 The Sun Is a Bit Blinding Today

“Magical girls are witches. Once the Soul Gem is filled with filth, all magical girls will become the witches we see, hunt, and use.”

After he finished speaking, the rooftop remained quiet for a while.

The sunlight gradually slanted, turning golden, and shone through the gaps between the buildings.

"..."

The lamp's eyes were trembling.

"Xiao Xiang... what is this... an April Fool's joke?"

"It's already June."

"Then why are you telling me all this...?"

“I’m not joking, lamp.” Xiangzi said with a gloomy face, picking up the Cupid in his hand. “Ask it if what I said is true.”

Kewpie couldn't lie, not even Delete, who suffered from "mental illness."

"Delete?" Deng turned his questioning gaze to the rag doll in Xiangzi's hand.

“It’s true, everything Xiangzi said is true.” Delete said while struggling and swinging in Xiangzi’s hands. “It’s even an open secret among a considerable number of magical girls.”

“Did you hear that?” Xiangzi said. “This is the inescapable fate of those who become magical girls.”

"..."

Deng opened her mouth silently, her barely visible Adam's apple bobbing up and down, but she couldn't utter a single word. She looked at Xiangzi, her eyes reflecting a world that seemed to be collapsing.

Those eyes looked so familiar.

Xiangzi was reminded of himself, standing in the pine forest on a rainy night, gazing at the "Gao Song Deng" he had imagined, who looked exactly like the girl in front of him.

My eyes back then were exactly the same as the lamp's now.

It was all so sudden. The world was destroyed and collapsed without warning, and the one who destroyed it all was the person I trusted most.

"Xiao Xiang... why are you telling me all this...?"

"...I don't want to wait until you actually meet him before belatedly telling you." Xiangzi brushed aside the hair that fell in front of him, pretending to be indifferent. "Even more, I don't want you to be tricked by Kyubey and make a wish without knowing anything about it."

While on the boat, Xiangzi wasn't fully ready to face the lamp, so even when she was face to face with it and had the perfect opportunity to confide in it, she wasn't prepared to tell the truth.

It wasn't until she learned from Delete that she had almost made a wish the night the lamp appeared in the pool that she suddenly realized how big a mistake she had made.

“You’re really good to her,” Delete said.

Xiangzi silently threw Delete on the ground and rubbed it back and forth a few times with his heel.

"Aaaaaaah! I'm going to die! Why am I always the one who gets hurt?!"

Xiangzi kicked Delete aside with his heel, walked to the lamp that was standing there like a stone statue with empty eyes, and grabbed her shoulders with both hands.

"lamp."

Xiangzi shook the lamp twice with his hands, bringing the shaky pupils back to normal.

"...Xiao Xiang?"

She stared blankly at Xiangzi, her wounded, animal-like eyes filling Xiangzi with a strong sense of guilt.

"I know the truth is hard to accept, but the truth is the truth, and there's no way to change it."

Xiangzi sighed and glanced to the side.

"If you can give up the idea of ​​becoming a magical girl because of the facts, I think... that's not bad either."

"What about Xiao Ai and the others..." Deng looked at Xiangzi with tears welling up in her eyes, her voice trembling, "Su Shi, Li Xi... they're already magical girls..."

"Don't tell any of them, not a single one. Even if Aine asks you what I told you, don't tell her a single word." Xiangzi gripped the lamp's shoulders tightly.

"why?"

“They don’t know yet,” Xiangzi said in a low voice. “After all the magical girls know the truth, there are only two outcomes: they either become desperate because they can’t bear the shock of the truth and quickly fall into witches, or they survive with resilience.”

"Like soldiers going to the battlefield, some die in the first battle, while others survive and live on for a very long time."

Xiangzi paused, took a deep breath, and turned his head to the side.

"I can't help them."

“You’re being too selfish, Xiao Xiang…” Deng bit her lip.

The lamp didn't say the second half of her sentence, but Xiangzi already knew what she wanted to say.

You don't want them to become witches because of you.

Is that right?

Xiangzi gripped the lamp's shoulder, but dared not look into her eyes, those eyes that seemed to see right through him.

Every lamp has a pair of eyes like this.

"Maybe." Xiangzi closed his eyes and let go of her hand.

With his arms hanging down naturally, Xiangzi's shoulders slumped involuntarily.

“I’m so stupid, I can’t do a lot of things right,” she said. “Now I just want to make up for the mistakes I made before.”

The lamp raised its hand, as if wanting to touch Xiangzi's face.

However, Xiangzi astutely avoided it.

Suddenly, he became aloof again. Xiangzi felt terrible; he couldn't stay calm whenever he saw the lamp.

"Xiao Xiang, I'm sorry..."

"You haven't done anything to wrong me. I'm the one who should be apologizing." Xiangzi sighed and turned around. "Let's leave it at that for now."

She had said everything she needed to say, and she didn't know what else to say.

Hopefully... the lamp will listen to what she has to say.

"Hmm...I know." Deng looked at the ground. "I won't tell Ai Yin and the others, Xiao Xiang, don't worry."

"......That's good."

Xiangzi picked up Delete from the ground, silently opened the door, and left the rooftop.

Click.

Gao Songdeng stood alone on the rooftop, his shadow stretched long by the dim sunlight.

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Moon Forest, also at the time of school dismissal.

Mu put the textbooks she needed for her homework into her schoolbag and walked out of the classroom with the crowd.

She arrived at Su Shi's classroom door and paused for a moment.

She saw Su Shi.

Mu's eyes widened slightly.

If Xiangzi were here, he would immediately recognize that Mu Kaixin was acting that way.

Her eyes followed Su Shi as she walked out of the classroom.

Mu raised his hand and took a step forward.

—"Dear Su Shi, I hope you are well."

Someone got there first.

"Greetings." Su Shi bowed to the classmate who greeted her.

"After the band activity today, do you want to go to karaoke together?" Several classmates surrounded Su Shi, encircling her.

Mu's steps forward were blocked.

"Okay~" Su Shi smiled and accepted their invitation. They chatted and laughed as they walked further and further away in the opposite direction from where Mu was.

Mu lowered his hand and silently watched Su Shi disappear from his sight. He blinked, then turned his gaze to the window and squinted.

The sun is a little too bright today.

The Lost Tale: The Lost Child: Chapter 269 I've Lost My Memory?

Mu stood blankly by the window, watching Su Shi walk out from downstairs and leave amidst a group of people, chatting and laughing.

From the moment she left the teaching building until she was completely out of sight of the window, Su Shi seemed to intentionally or unintentionally turn her head to the other side. She seemed to know that Mu was watching her, and deliberately didn't let Mu see her expression.

Are you still angry?

Mu lowered her eyes and rested her hand on the windowsill.

I took a week off to accompany Xiangzi on her school trip. Before that, Su Shi was also on leave. I don't know when Su Shi returned, but it seems she's been back for a while now.

I'm glad nothing happened.

Mu looked in the direction where Su Shi had disappeared, and felt a vague unease in her heart.

She was there when Suze begged Xiangzi in the park that day. Although Xiangzi didn't tell her the truth about magical girls, Suze's appearance didn't seem to indicate that she was unaffected.

But during that time, everyone was focused on Xiangzi and didn't pay much attention to Su Shi. By the time Su Shi asked for leave, they were already about to set sail.

What happened during those seven days at sea?

Is everything really alright...?

Mu sighed, turned and left.

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