Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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Even the most developed cities have places where filth and corruption can lurk; in fact, the more developed a city is, the more places where filth and corruption can lurk.

Chu Hua wasn't a local and didn't know much about Reed Plain. She didn't know that Kabukicho, Reed Plain's largest red-light district and gray area, was just across the street from this restaurant.

The low prices and main customer base here clearly indicate that people who work in Kabuki theaters are the primary target audience.

To put it bluntly, they are gangs and thugs.

When Xiangzi learned the address for the meeting, she expected to meet someone from a gang, but she didn't expect it to be someone she had met before.

These people don't talk about chivalry or morality like in movies and TV shows. Breaking contracts, threats, and coercion are the norm for them, and doing business with them is extremely dangerous.

If she's a magical girl involved in a gang, then she's extremely dangerous.

“I know what you want to ask. I’m not involved in any gangs, and I don’t live around here.”

Hailing seemed to have figured out what they were thinking.

"The owner of this restaurant is a survivor of the earthquake and is from the same hometown as me. Our home is not in Ayakawa, but in Hagino."

She looked around at the tired-looking working professionals who were about to start their jobs.

They smoked and drank, and spoke in a vulgar manner.

They are not white-collar workers; most of them work as waiters, from 8 or 9 pm to 3 or 4 am the next day, and some even have to work all night.

Hailing turned her head and looked into Xiangzi's eyes.

"There are many Hagi-yaku people here."

Hagino Prefecture was the area most severely affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake.

After the devastating earthquake, they were displaced and came to the reed plains, where they couldn't find a place to be taken in.

In the end, Kabukicho accepted these people.

“If you’re worried about my character and abilities, this should be enough to convince you.” Hai Ling took out her phone, opened the personal information interface of the gathering app, and pushed it to the center of the table.

"Hey, let me see."

Miaomeng leaned her head closer, and then her expression became quite interesting.

"is that a lie?!"

The Tale of Nirvana: Keeping to Your True Self: Chapter 64 The Wanderer Hailing

【Hachiman Kairin】

[Affiliated Band: None]

[Magical Girl Rating: Somebody]

[Hunting Credits: Tier 1 Lv5 (10003100)]

[Intelligence Credit Value: Level 4, Lv2 (150)]

"Hunting Credit Level 1 (Lv5)?"

Miao Meng's eyes widened.

"You're kidding me, right?! Tell me the app has a bug!"

"First Class Lv5." Xiangzi pursed his lips. "Is this true?"

"Chu Zi, Chu Zi, tell me quickly, where did you meet this great god?" Miao Meng lay on the table, holding Chu Hua's hand, "He can go around to the backstage and change the data of the gathering."

"We are classmates."

Chu Hua said.

"The points system isn't a scam; Hailing really does have these points."

"That's why I'm so confident in making a bet with Xiao Xiang."

Whether it's hunting or intelligence gathering, credit points are divided into four tiers: four, three, two, and one. Each tier has five levels, with tier four being the lowest. It takes 50 points to upgrade to a new level. After level 5, you enter tier three. After entering tier three, the number of points required to upgrade to the next level will increase significantly.

三等lv1到二等lv1的信用积分从251分暴涨到1w+1分，一等lv1需要50w+1分，一等lv5则是更让人难以接受的1kw分。

Even though the credit points gained from hunting witches have inflated ridiculously, with Safe-level witches earning 50 points each and Hard-level witches earning at least 1 points each, and up to 10 points, reaching Level 5 is still far too much.

Dangous's witches all hover between 10 and 100 power, but at that level, basically only people like Kasumi Toyama can handle them. Most magical girls at the Somebody level can only reach the Hard level.

In the four years since the founding of [Reed Plains Magical Girl Gathering], there are almost no people whose credit rating has reached Level 5, not even the 35 "protagonists" who were the founders.

Xiangzi himself is a level 2 (second tier) with about 3 points. He earned 2 points from killing the Hard witch during the Crychic era, which accounts for more than half of his total points.

Chu Hua is a first-class level 2 with over 120 million points. She and Mana have been a team for three years and are skilled at hunting Hard-level witches, so it's not surprising that she has 120 million points.

Needless to say, Meow Dream is an intelligence whiz, and her Hunting Credit Score is barely at Level 3, Lv1.

Although the same scoring rules are used for intelligence, even in terms of intelligence credit value, Miaomeng is only at the second-tier Lv5 level with a little over 490,000 points, just barely reaching the threshold of the first-tier Lv1 level.

"Is this enough to prove my strength?"

Hailing asked them.

Xiangzi swallowed hard when he saw the gleaming "First Class Lv5".

Who exactly did Chu Hua find?

"It's so outrageous it's almost unbelievable," Xiangzi said.

"It's obviously fake, a bug," Miaomeng said. "If they were really this good, the whole world would know about it by now."

"..." Chu Hua, who was acting as the introducer, silently sweated.

"How did you do that? First-class Lv5. As far as I know, compared to the first five teams to be established, neither RAS nor Morfonica, which were promoted in the last two years, have anyone who has reached the first-class Lv5 credit score."

Xiangzi frowned.

"After all, even with the most outstanding strength, they still need so many powerful witches to kill."

"As long as you can produce a Seed of Lamentation, the gathering can help you calculate your credit score."

Hailing's tone was as calm as that of an elderly person in their seventies.

"Living a long time is enough, it's not a big deal."

"Impossible. I remember it very clearly. At the very least, there should be a record of the commission. If it's a hunting record that came from another city, it also needs to be certified by the magical girl organization of the city it belongs to."

“Yes, yes, I’ve been to Langhuahai for tourism, and they have similar regulations there.” Miaomeng agreed. “They even asked me if I was going to move here. The people there are like gangs, blah blah blah, with a whole bunch of rules. Even their names have that江湖 (jianghu, a term referring to the underworld or江湖 culture) vibe, something like Langhua Group.”

“I heard that there’s only one boss over there, and they don’t operate in small teams, but rather… like a gang, it’s a much larger group,” Chu Hua said.

"That seems to be the case." Miaomeng nodded. "Anyway, there are quite a few annoying rules."

"There weren't that many rules at the beginning."

"At the beginning?"

“Back then, things were very chaotic. In every city, as long as you had seeds, you could get them counted,” Hai Ling said calmly. “I already had a bunch of Sorrow Seeds on me, and when I was looking for someone to rank them in the capital, I was assigned to the second tier.”

There are only two possibilities for someone to reach Level 5, the highest rank.

One possibility is that Hailin possesses the power of a Protagonist and has killed more witches than RAS and Morfonica.

But how big is the magical girl community? There's no way Xiangzi wouldn't have heard of someone this amazing.

A greater possibility...

"What you call the beginning is..." Xiangzi asked tentatively.

"five years ago."

"..."

"..."

"..."

Miaomeng picked up the lemonade and sipped it slowly.

Then, as if suddenly remembering something, he choked and coughed several times.

"Ahem! Wait a minute, Hai Zi, aren't you supposed to be in the Reed Plains? You're in the Divine Capital?"

"I have registered accounts in Shen Du, Langhua Hai, Shenbin, and Chuanliuyuan." Hailing answered whatever came to mind.

How many places have you actually been to?

"Nationwide, roughly."

Hailing picked up the kettle on the table and filled Miaomeng's water glass.

"Actually, I only settled in the reed plain last autumn."

"My God, he wanders around killing witches, and does he occasionally help others, helping magical girls in trouble with witches they can't handle?"

The cat was startled by its dream.

"Hai Zi, are you some kind of post-Witch's Night era ronin? You're so cool! I've even thought of a name for you: 'Vagabond Hailing: A Magical Girl's Romantic Tale'"

"A bit rustic."

"I didn't ask you what you thought!"

After the Witch's Night landed—that is, in the five and six years following the Great Earthquake—the effects of the Witch's Night began to erupt in a concentrated manner, forming a period of turmoil known as the Witch's Night Era.

The period following the quelling of the turmoil is collectively referred to as the post-Witch Night era.

Hey.

Xiangzi tapped the table lightly with the bottom of his cup.

Miaomeng made a zipper gesture near her mouth to indicate that she would no longer talk nonsense.

"Hachiman."

Xiangzi asked.

"...Were you a magical girl who became one during the 'Witch's Night Era'?"

The Tale of Nirvana: Keeping to Your True Self: Chapter 65 I Am Yours

"...You became a magical girl during the 'Witch Night Era'?"

Xiangzi continued to test her.

The era of Witch's Night.

Around the fifth or sixth year after Witch Night landed, the Reed Plains Magical Girl Gathering and magical girl organizations from all over the country emerged during this period.

If Hailin became a magical girl around this time, then she would have been only... around eleven years old.

It's been five or even six years now, which is no less than the time Kasumi has been a magical girl.

Although Meow Dream is also a magical girl from around the same age, there is no comparison between an information broker who makes a living by cheating and swindling and a real combat expert with a lot of combat experience.

“Everyone has things they don’t want to talk about,” Hailing said calmly. “I didn’t ask you why you, as an ordinary person, would get involved in the world of magical girls.”

"..."

“Mutual respect is the foundation of cooperation,” Hailing said. “I haven’t seen your sincerity yet.”

—"Hello, your food is served."

The waiter then brought over a plate and placed three bowls of ramen on the table, along with a drink for each person.

Hailing nodded to the waiter, took out three pairs of chopsticks from the drawer under the table, and handed two pairs to Xiangzi and Chuhua.

"eat first."

"..."

Three bowls, three drinks, and three pairs of chopsticks.

"what about me."

Miao Meng pointed to herself.

"Excuse me......."

The waitress said pitifully.

"I was just startled... I think I forgot to add it."