Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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As Hailing spoke, she raised the katana in her hand.

With a flash of light, the sharp blade sliced ​​through the tentacles blocking her way. Hailing stepped onto the sticky roots of the sea anemone, passed through the large net formed by the tentacles, and stomped on a sea slug.

She raised her katana and slashed downwards.

"Ok?"

Hailing frowned.

The imagined splattering of bluish-black blood did not occur. When the blade touched the sea slug's body, it did not transmit to Hailing the sensation of the blade cutting into flesh. Instead, it felt like the blade had missed its mark.

It was as if the blade had grazed the skin of a sea slug without causing any real damage.

"Hahahaha! It's useless. Thinking you can slice through its skin with just a knife is the most ridiculous idea ever!"

Aden stood at the bow of the ship, watching with smug satisfaction as Hailing swung her sword in vain.

It was too slippery. The sea slug's skin was covered with a layer of mucus, which not only caused the blade to slip when cutting through the skin, but also made it impossible for Hailing to stand firmly on the sea slug and exert force.

If your feet aren't firmly planted on a flat surface, you can't create a complete power chain.

Just as Hailing was slightly stunned by missing her target with her sword, Miaomeng's voice came from the ground.

"Hai Zi, watch out!"

The sea slug's tentacles, which were the sea anemones that Hailing had just used as stepping stones, turned around and rammed into Hailing on the sea slug's back.

Its enormous mouth opened, revealing countless ferocious and sharp teeth that almost completely covered Hailing's head.

but.

The moment Hailing heard the sound, she reacted, crouching down before the sea anemone's mouthparts closed, thus avoiding the most fatal blow.

Then, she rolled back to the ground.

After unloading and rolling, it created some distance, and Hailing finally felt grounded.

The sea anemone, having failed to take a bite, turned its head, and the dozen or so eyes surrounding its mouthparts, along with the two chandelier-like eyes on the sea slug, all locked onto Hailing. It then brandished its dense, hair-like tentacles and charged straight at Hailing.

It's clearly a snail from the sea, but the speed at which its foot moves is no different from that of a real semi-trailer truck.

Faced with such a gigantic monster, Hailing's small body was no different from a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

But instead of flinching, she raised the knife above her head.

The main hand holding the knife loosens its grip slightly, leaving a small gap between the palm and the handle, while the other auxiliary hand simply pinches the end of the handle.

Its lion-like eyes were fixed on the sea slug that was attacking it. Its lungs expanded to their maximum to inhale as much air as possible, and its muscles were ready to be used.

Just as the sea slug was about to collide with the sea bell—

Hailing exhaled the stale air from her lungs.

The heart pumps fresh oxygen into the limbs and bones.

With his feet firmly planted on the ground, he began to exert force, and the muscles in his calves tensed up instantly.

The force is transmitted upwards, from the soles of the feet all the way up.

It travels through the waist and abdomen to the arms.

Then, loosely grasp the katana with your fingers.

Finally, even the strength of her fingers was used. The moment the power was transferred to her fingers, Hailing gripped the hilt tightly, and the complete power chain was formed.

Boom——

Like a spring stretched to its limit suddenly released, the blade flashed across the roots of the sea anemone, and the circle it drew continued downwards after passing the anemone, tracing the midline of the sea slug's body before falling into the water.

Pfft!

The sea anemone, along with the body of the sea slug, was sliced ​​along a straight line, creating a spray of water.

The sea slug splits into two neat halves along its midline. Its bluish-black blood mixes with the water droplets and falls like rain. The scalding blood and the icy seawater come into contact, releasing a large amount of foul-smelling steam.

Rumble————!

A deafening roar followed immediately.

Two anti-aircraft machine guns reappeared beside Xiangzi, and Mu's silk-bound hands controlled them to fire simultaneously.

The machine guns are very powerful, but they consume a lot of energy. Just by recreating two machine guns, Xiangzi had already used up two Seeds of Sorrow, not to mention that each bullet was the size of an arm.

However, despite the high energy consumption, the damage output is very impressive.

The 20mm shell broke the sound barrier and hit the target before the gunshot rang out, tearing the two close-knit sea slugs and their tentacles to shreds almost instantly.

In the blink of an eye, three sea slugs were turned into minced meat.

"This...this all at once—" Aden's face was covered in octopus tentacles, his mouth agape in astonishment, revealing a set of rotten teeth hidden beneath the tentacles. "Who are they?! Do these supernatural beauties really exist in the real world?!"

“But we are supernatural beings, boss,” the henchman who had been persecuted the most whispered a reminder.

“But we’re not pretty girls,” another henchman said.

"So the focus is on pretty girls after all...?"

"Amazing! Hai Zi is so awesome!" Miao Meng clapped from a distance.

Hailing took a breath, wiped the blood off the blade, and leaped back to Xiangzi's side.

"That's amazing! He took one down with a single slash," Xiangzi exclaimed.

"Xiangzi is amazing too, his firepower is even more exaggerated than Hailing's," Miaomeng said with a smile. "Can I just stand by and cheer him on?"

“No, it’s not dead.” Hailing shook her head. “It seems like it’s not dead yet.”

"Of course we're not dead! We wouldn't die even if we were chopped into mincemeat!"

Aden stood on the mast at the bow of the ghost ship, his facial tentacles twitching with excitement, his murky, dark, wavy pupils looking down at the crowd below.

"Don't be too happy, it's not over yet!"

"So what if you can slice them in half with a knife? So what if you can shatter them with cannon fire? My brothers and sisters are not that fragile. Don't think this is the end of it!"

As Aden finished speaking, a tremendous writhing sound came from the sea slug that had just been cut in two by Hailing.

Under the moonlight, the contents of the three sea slugs lying nearby became clear.

How can one describe the scene that Xiangzi and her companions witnessed?

What's protruding from the sea slug's body isn't internal organs or soft flesh like snail meat, much less a condensation of magic.

What flowed out from inside were hideous, desperate, and terrifying human faces.

The piled-up human faces had only two empty eye sockets, their mouths wide open, crowded together, slowly writhing, like a pool of flowing chaos.

“Yue…” Miao Meng covered her mouth, almost vomiting. “What the hell is that… It’s dozens of times more disgusting than the ants in Ave Maria.”

Mu watched as the thick pus oozed from the cut surface of the sea slug.

She has always possessed extraordinary observation and perception abilities; she could sense that the contents flowing from the sea slug's body were crying and trembling.

The faces above seemed to be staring directly into her eyes, their empty eye sockets and open mouths telling tales of their suffering and resentment.

Mu unconsciously grasped Xiangzi's hand.

"Mu?" Xiangzi turned his head, looking at her with confusion. "Do you know what those things are?"

Mu's eyes were fixed on the pus flowing from the sea slug's body, and clusters of sorrow welled up in his eyes.

"Xiang, can you hear me?" she whispered in a slightly trembling voice.

"Can you hear me?" Xiangzi blinked. "Can you hear what... ah?"

She suddenly understood what Mu was talking about.

After Hai Ling cut open the sea slug's body, Xiangzi could hear some very obvious noises, like many people talking in a shopping mall or a vegetable market.

In fact, she could always hear these noises, especially when her soul left her body.

She could always hear it, but she never listened carefully to what the noise was saying.

Now that the sea slug's body has been cut open, the sounds are no longer blocked and have been amplified, allowing her to begin to understand what the noises are saying.

I'm not reconciled...

Why do I have to die here...?

Our family is almost starving, and we simply can't sell our food...

[It's clearly a government problem, why should we have to pay for it...]

I really want to leave here...

【Help......】

This world is utterly rotten...

......

The intense resentment materialized and became sound, reaching Xiangzi's ears.

“These are…” Xiangzi opened his mouth slightly.

“He was killed by the sea witch,” Mu said. “There is no other possibility but this conclusion.”

"..."

For a moment, Xiangzi didn't know how to look at those sea slugs.

The contents flowing from the slug's shredded flesh slowly crawled toward the shredded flesh beside it, and the empty faces intertwined and then coalesced into a mass.

then.

Dark blue slime flowed from their eye sockets and from their open mouths, covering their empty, desperate expressions and reconnecting the bits of flesh to form two new sea slugs.

The remaining scraps were swallowed back into the bellies of the two newly grown sea slugs.

Although I already knew when I saw the villagers turn into seafood people, tentacles, and sea anemones, the impact of all of them combined was not as strong as the contents flowing out of these few sea slugs.

How many people must have been devoured, their souls mixed together, to become such a... twisted familiar?

"See that?! That's our resilience! You can't kill me just by breaking me! As long as Lady Sea Witch is here, we are invincible! Hahahaha!"

Aden laughed loudly, looking up at the sky.

"Mu, it's about to start." Xiangzi patted Mu's shoulder, and a whole machine gun ammunition belt reappeared.

Hailing is preparing to face the impending onslaught.

Aden waved his hand forward and shouted:

"Go, brothers and sisters, we've had enough fun. It's time to drown these ungrateful little girls with the fiercest waves!"

Just as he was arrogantly directing the sea slugs forward.

A small dot flashing with scarlet light appeared in the sky above the direction of the forest.

Xiangzi twitched his ears and looked up.

A dark shadow swept over her head and crashed into the center of the swarm of sea slugs.

Boom!

The debris and flesh exploded outwards from the shadowy figure, forming a small crater.

"What is it again?!"

Aden's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.

“Aghhhhh.......”

His reply was a low, guttural growl, like that of a wild beast.

"—"

suddenly.

The gurgling sound disappeared.

The entire rocky beach fell silent for a moment, with only the sound of waves crashing against the pebbles on the shore.

But then.

"AGHHHHHHHH——————!"

The furious roar dispersed the surrounding mist.