Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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Xiangzi nodded reluctantly.

"...Marie doesn't care about anyone at all."

Xiangzi raised his eyes, and the way he looked at Mary was not like he was looking at a human being at all.

"She is worse than a witch."

"Oh, the devil..."

A soft, murmuring whisper escaped Mary's lips.

"Demon, I know you're inside. Leave, leave this place..."

At first, no one could hear what Mary was saying, but gradually, her voice rose from a low pitch to a high pitch.

Suddenly, the nun seemed to grasp something, holding onto the void.

"Get out of here, get out of Mr. Saito's body, you demon!"

The man suddenly looked up at the sky, opened his mouth wide, and his jaw opened to an angle that was difficult for a normal human to achieve.

"What is she going to do?" Xiangzi squinted.

Mary quickly responded to Xiangzi with her actions.

A miniature ant familiar crawled out of the man's mouth.

After the familiar crawled out of the man's body, it began to grow rapidly, quickly reaching a normal size of sixty or seventy centimeters.

It roared in all directions.

"demon!"

"It's the devil!"

"It rolled out!"

The believers shouted.

Mary grabbed the familiar, choked it by the throat, and held it tightly in her hand. The miniature familiar struggled in her palm, letting out a shriek.

"They can see?" Xiangzi stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

"Shh...don't interrupt their good show." Toyokawa Shoko raised her index finger next to Shoko. "They probably did something to the familiar, just like ordinary people who see urban legends."

"Get out! You demon! Don't come back!"

Mary threw the struggling familiar to the ground and glared angrily at the "demon" on the ground.

"As long as I have teeth, I will bite through you! Even if I lose my teeth, I will still clench my jaws!"

The heel of the high-heeled shoe pierced through the familiar's abdomen.

The familiar emitted another sharp howl.

The shriek seemed to be a command, and the congregation in the church erupted in cheers. They suddenly stood up and shouted in unison.

"Get out, you demon! Don't come back!"

The frenzied shouts engulfed the entire church.

The statue of the Virgin Mary is smiling; it has been smiling since the day she was born.

Mary smiled too.

She stepped on the familiar's heel and twisted it twice, then smiled and addressed everyone.

"I have slain the demon, brothers and sisters!"

"oh----!"

The believers erupted in cheers, raising their hands and waving them in the air.

"Lord Saint!"

"The Holy Maiden of the Slums!"

"The nun saved the lost lamb!"

Toyokawa Shoko watched the cheering crowd from afar, as if she were watching an absurd farce.

She turned her head to the side, but noticed that Xiangzi's expression seemed a little off.

"She actually used a familiar to deceive these ordinary people, I can't stand it anymore." Xiangzi covered his head and squatted on the ground. "How can anyone be so... repeatedly crossing the line?"

Knowing about Mary's methods is one thing, but this time, what is happening before Xiangzi's eyes is something she is witnessing with her own eyes.

Over the course of a day, Mary's image in Xiangzi's mind crumbled and fell again and again. Just when Xiangzi thought he had hit rock bottom, she actually buried the familiar inside the man's body ahead of time.

Regardless of whether the man surnamed Saito was a true gambling addict, Xiangzi was certain that his claim of losing all his money last night and borrowing ten million yen in high-interest loans was made under the influence of the familiar.

He was given the witch's kiss, and before the debt collectors even came to collect, his head might have been eaten by the familiar, and he might have jumped off a building and committed suicide in front of everyone.

Xiangzi could not accept this disregard for human life; it had completely crossed the line of her moral values ​​by tens of millions of feet.

But these believers...

She frowned, watching from a dark corner as they surrounded Mary and began to sing.

"—It will never change~until the end of time~Let us be friends for life~"

It's clearly a very nice song, but it sounds jarring and unpleasant to listen to right now.

Suddenly, as if he had made up his mind, Xiangzi stood up abruptly.

"What do you want to do?" Toyokawa Shoki, Oyama Lengsi, Chizaki 3Z, private group raised an eyebrow. "It's no use, they won't listen to you."

"I'll give it a try, I'll persuade as many as I can." Xiangzi clenched his fist.

"No, why are you suddenly so righteous? This matter has nothing to do with you in the first place, right?" Toyokawa Shoko frowned.

“It’s always been related to me!” Xiangzi opened his palm, showing her the Witch’s Kiss on his hand. “Now I know why Mary was so well hidden. This group of believers has been covering for her all along! Maybe those two groups of robbers came from this church!”

"Be careful, they might burn you as a heretic."

"We have to try no matter what. I can't stand by and watch." Xiangzi remained stubborn. "Chuhua and the others will be here soon. Even if we fail, we just need to hold on until they arrive."

"Sigh...he won't listen to advice again." Toyokawa Shoko sighed helplessly.

Xiangzi ignored his other self, stepped out of the shadows, and came to the podium.

The believers and Mary were drawn to her; the singing gradually faded and eventually disappeared. They looked at Xiangzi standing on the platform as if she were a piece of dead flesh.

"Mari Ono, I don't know what tricks you played to make them see familiars, but can you tell me where that feverish child from the night before last went?"

No one in the audience responded.

Mary chuckled and crossed her arms.

"She was taken to the hospital."

"When were you taken to the hospital? Which hospital? What illness did you have? How long will you need to stay?"

“…” Mary frowned.

"You didn't even take her to the hospital! You disposed of her like trash! And then turned her into the 'demon' they see now!"

Xiangzi slammed his hand on the podium and pointed at Mary.

"You lot should think about this: when Mary was exorcising demons, didn't the demons she banished always look like ants?!"

"That's not a demon at all, it's a monster she raised herself to deceive and control you, to make you obey her!"

"She's lying to you. She says having nothing is freedom. She's using this nihilistic rhetoric to brainwash you, making you obediently hand over your money and do things for her. Doesn't anyone understand?!"

Xiangzi, panting heavily, leaned on the podium.

Still, no one answered her, not even the children. The one standing in the front row, the one named Xiaohui who had served her food, looked at her expressionlessly.

Dozens of eyes were fixed on him, reminding Xiangzi of the eyes in Ave Maria.

His thin gaze was overwhelmed by the stares of dozens of believers, and Xiangzi felt a chill run down his spine for no reason.

how is this possible.

Why did no one respond to her, not even the man named Saito? They just stared at Xiangzi.

Mary stood below the stage, raised her hand, and beckoned to a few people.

Xiangzi had a bad feeling.

“I have treated you with the courtesy due to a guest, but since you insist on continuing to deceive the lamb of God with the language of the devil, then I have no choice but to arrest you and subject you to divine punishment.”

Several burly believers surrounded Xiangzi from all sides of the platform, forming a net around him.

Xiangzi gritted her teeth, drew her gun, released the safety, and pulled the trigger towards the sky. After a deafening roar, she aimed the gun at the worshippers who were walking up.

"I don't want to hurt anyone, please don't force me."

"You also have no chance to harm the Lamb of God."

whoosh-

Mary threw something up, knocking the gun out of Xiangzi's hand. The four believers seized the opportunity to pounce on him and grab his limbs.

"Uh!"

With his limbs firmly held, Xiangzi soon found that he could hardly even make a decent struggle.

If she were still a magical girl, she wouldn't need to be afraid of these ordinary people at all.

hateful.

“I told you, it’s no use.” Toyokawa Shoko squatted down beside her, smiling sarcastically. “You insisted on trying.”

"Go away!"

Xiangzi shouted at the top of his lungs, but it was unclear who he was shouting at.

Four believers carried Xiangzi off the stage. Someone pushed a hospital bed with restraints into the audience, and they pressed Xiangzi onto the bed and tied him up with the restraints.

A chorus of stomping feet signaled everyone to stand up and gather around Xiangzi's hospital bed.

"you!"

Inside the innermost room was a group of children, grinning as they watched Xiangzi, chanting in unison, "Divine punishment, divine punishment."

The man named Saito was pushed to the front by the children, looking at Xiangzi with a face full of sweat.

Mary slightly opened her eyes, took out a small knife, and handed it to Saito.

"God decided to give the newly joined brothers and sisters a chance to prove their loyalty to God."

“Mr. Saito, follow this path.”

Mary bent down, pressed her cheek against Xiangzi's, placed her fingers on Xiangzi's chest, and gently slid them down.

A tingling sensation, like an electric shock, traveled to my brain.

"!"

Xiangzi's cheeks flushed bright red.

But what Mary said next made her face turn deathly pale.

“Keep cutting until you take out her heart and put it in the basin of holy water in front of the idol. Then the divine punishment will be complete.”

"Are you all crazy?!"

Xiangzi struggled incessantly on the bed.

"If you really wanted to kill me, why didn't you do it yesterday! Are you doing this now to humiliate me?!"

Xiangzi shouted hysterically at Mary.

"A hopeless madman! A liar! You've brainwashed so many people, doesn't your conscience hurt?!"

"conscience?"

Mary pressed her cheek against Xiangzi's, opened her eyes, and reflected Xiangzi's terrified expression in her dull eyes. She lowered her voice and spoke in a volume that only the two of them could hear.

"I don't have that kind of thing anymore."

"If you do nothing, I can ignore you. But who told you to come out and ruin my plans?"

"Now, I have no choice but to ask you to die."

"you!"