Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

Author: Lingfeng

Introduction:

[Puella Magi Madoka Magica + MyGO/Ave Mujica + Sho ALL]

People call women who are growing up "girls", so you who will eventually become "witches" should be called "magical girls".

Toyokawa Shoko is about to become a witch for some reason, and in order not to drag her teammates down, she chooses to leave Crychic.

But why did the light catch up? And why did it so passionately shout, "I want to be Xiao Xiang's heart-shaped box?"

Chu Hua, her childhood sweetheart whom she hadn't seen for many years, took her home.

The information broker, Yutenji Wakana, cried and clung to her leg, saying, "I'm willing to do anything."

Super mercenary Hachiman Kairin made a lifelong contract with herself.

Then there's Mutsumi Wakaba, who's like a sister to someone who isn't blood-related. When she became a magical girl, her wish was, "I want to always follow Sho."

When did I start having so many troublesome people around me?

And another thing, Yuki, why did you put a scythe to my neck? And what is this Witch Nirvana?

Progress Directory:

The Tale of Nirvana (√)

The Tale of the Lost (√)

The Tale of Reincarnation (√)

The Tale of Transcendence (In Progress)

The Tale of Nirvana: Where Did You Sleep Last Night? Chapter 1: I'm Going to Become a Witch

The practice room was deathly silent.

Drummer Shiina Ritsuki held his wildly twitching eyebrows, his drumsticks twirling between his fingers; bassist Nagasaki Motoyo looked out the window, the rain that day was even heavier than today, the raindrops shattering against the glass; the guitarist held his pink seven-string guitar, his back to the door; lead singer Takamatsu Akari sat on the floor, his notebook of lyrics open in front of him, but not a single word was written on the brand-new pages.

Click.

The practice room door opened, and immediately all eyes turned to it.

Xiangzi appeared at the door.

"Very good......"

Su Shi breathed a sigh of relief, ran to Xiangzi, grabbed her hands, and quickly scanned Xiangzi's soaked clothes before taking out a handkerchief from her pocket.

"Why are you so wet? Did something happen? You haven't been to school lately and haven't replied to messages. We thought you'd been attacked by a witch—"

"I'm here today because I have something to say."

Xiangzi grabbed Su Shi's wrist, raised his eyes slightly, and looked at her, and at everyone else.

"I'm quitting Crychic."

......

A barrage of harsh insults came from the other end of the phone, and Toyokawa Shoko could only suppress her frustration and force herself to speak in a gentle and kind tone.

"I'm very sorry, we will handle it for you very soon," Toyokawa Shoko said with a smile.

"You better hurry up!"

"I've already made the reservation for you. A representative will be on-site to handle it at 10 AM on Sunday. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule."

beep----

A busy tone came through the earpiece; the other party hung up before she could finish speaking.

Xiangzi glanced at the time: 16:03.

She sighed, opened the attendance management page, and clicked to leave the office.

get off work.

She looked out the window; the tree branches were swaying wildly in the strong wind.

......

The wind came first, then the rain.

Raindrops fell on the shop window and cascaded down, pedestrians with umbrellas hurried by, water from the roof flowed down the drainpipes onto the street, and the puddles at the edge of the road reflected the traffic lights on the pedestrian crossing.

The traffic light turned green, and Xiangzi walked through the dense array of umbrellas without using one himself.

The rain soaked most of his clothes, but Xiangzi's attention was focused on the Soul Gem in his hand. As he changed direction, the Soul Gem vibrated slightly.

A large screen on the street was showing an advertisement for the emerging group Sumimi. Xiangzi unconsciously stopped and looked up at the screen.

A white creature, resembling both a rabbit and a cat, followed at Xiangzi's feet, its ruby-like eyes gleaming with a cold light as cold as a rainy day.

A creature named Qubi tried to jump onto Xiangzi's shoulder, but Xiangzi grabbed it by the ear, threw it to the ground, and stomped on it.

“The witch is nearby, Xiangzi,” Cupid said pitifully.

“I know, shut up,” Xiangzi replied. “I just got off work and I’m in a bad mood right now.”

"I was just trying to be helpful by reminding you why you have such a lot of malice towards me."

Xiangzi suddenly turned around, his golden eyes staring coldly at Qiu Bi, without saying a word.

Knowing better than to speak, Cupid stopped talking.

Xiangzi sighed, turned around, and continued to follow the sensations emanating from the Soul Gem.

She is a magical girl who has made a contract with Kyubey, a mysterious creature that, like a fairy from a fairy kingdom in a children's anime, can grant one wish to the girl chosen by them.

As the price for their wishes, the girls will become magical girls and help Kyubey vanquish an evil creature called a "witch".

After girls become magical girls, their souls become Soul Gems. Using the magical girl's abilities will corrupt the gems, and if the corruption reaches its extreme, the magical girl will die.

The "Seed of Lamentation" dropped when a witch dies can purify this impurity, so magical girls need to keep hunting witches in order to survive.

In the Reed Plains, where Xiangzi lives, magical girls have existed for a long time. Originally, each magical girl had a fixed territory like wild animals, and witches were their prey.

However, the number of witches continues to increase, making it increasingly difficult for magical girls fighting alone to cope with the growing number of witches.

The deadlock was broken by a magical girl named Kasumi Toyama, who gathered four magical girls to form a band called Popin'Party. After they started acting as a group, territoriality was quickly eliminated, and a new model spread rapidly across the reed plains.

In order to face the increasing number of witches, the magical girls of Reed Plains spontaneously began to organize group activities in the form of "bands". They established the Reed Plains Magical Girl Gathering, with CiRCLE, Galaxy and the CiRCLE branch RiNG as their main bases.

The gathering brings together magical girls, develops connections with ordinary people, collects information about witches, and announces witch hunts in the form of commissions at the Livehouse. Witches are divided into four categories: Safe, Normal, Hard, and Dangos. Before the information about a witch is clear, she will be placed in an additional category called Unknown, and the classification will continue after the information becomes clear.

There are many witches below Hard level, and magical girls can accept them at will. Starting from Hard level, the strength of witches undergoes a qualitative change, and their numbers become scarce. The Seed of Lamentation will have additional effects besides purification.

The Magical Girl Band can accept Hard-level or higher requests by booking a live performance, which is equivalent to asserting their dominance.

If two teams want to hunt the same witch at the same time, they need to perform live on the same day, and the winner will be decided by audience vote. The winner will gain the right to hunt the witch.

Under the standardized system, the number of magical girls in Reed Plains has increased significantly, enough to handle a greater number of witches.

However, what the girls didn't know was that the increase in the number of magical girls allowed them to face more and stronger witches, and also gave rise to more and stronger witches.

The Reed Plains became the place with the most witches in the world.

All of this is because of the creature that made them sign the contract—Kyubi.

Kyubey's real name is Incubator. He lures girls into signing contracts to become magical girls by granting them a wish. He collects the energy that bursts forth during the magical girls' transition from "hope" to "despair" in order to prevent the so-called heat death of the universe.

A witch is the embodiment of a magical girl after despair; a magical girl is the nascent form of a witch.

This is the truth that Cupid hid from them.

The rain seemed to never stop.

Xiangzi stood in front of the shop window, looking at his reflection.

Exhausted, at a dead end, numb.

The once azure soul gem was now almost entirely black, with murky black tassels swirling within it. A distinct crack ran across the gem's surface, a final "gift" left to her by her father.

Xiangzi found out too late.

The Soul Gem cracked, and the purification efficiency of the Seed of Lamentation was shockingly low. She had used up all the Seeds of Lamentation she had stored, but she still couldn't completely purify her gem. The filth was still accumulating, but the supply of Seeds of Lamentation was far from keeping up with its use.

Xiangzi's life was entering its final countdown.

She's about to become a witch.

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P.S.: The world of this book is based on Puella Magi Madoka Magica and Magia Record, but it is outside the scope of the Law of Cycles.

The Tale of Nirvana: Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Chapter 2 Becoming Your God

"RiNG's intelligence says it's located in this old school building... is this it?"

Xiangzi climbed over the wall and jumped into the old school building of an ordinary middle school. It was a rainy day, the sky was gray and gloomy, and the old buildings looked particularly eerie.

The Soul Gem in his hand was trembling, which meant he had come to the right place.

Xiangzi took out his phone, whose screen was cracked into a spider web, opened the Reed Plain Livehouse ticketing app, entered a special password in the code redemption section, and clicked confirm. He then entered the app's hidden page: [Reed Plain Magical Girl Gathering].

Username: Toyokawa Shoko

[Affiliated Band: None]

[Magical Girl Rating: Somebody]

This is her personal information. You can see the tasks she is currently performing by clicking on another section called "My Requests".

【Safe Candy】

Witch's name: Candy

Difficulty of the task: Safe

Intelligence: The location appears to be the old junior high school building of XX Middle School. The intelligence provider said that this "old school building" was still in use last week, but after four students went missing within a week, the school immediately moved to the new school building and sealed off the old school building.

After observing the witch's barrier for three days, the barrier showed no signs of movement, its magical power was relatively weak, and no new victims appeared. Therefore, it was classified as Safe and suitable for solo players or novice teams.

"Ugh....."

Xiangzi shook his head, put his phone back in his pocket, transformed the ring into a soul gem, glanced at the turbidity inside, and estimated the cost of the battle.

Six months ago, she didn't need to be so cautious at all. She had a complete team, and the time it took to deal with a Safe-level witch was about the same as the time it took to wait for a cup of milk tea at a milk tea shop on the street. They could even take care of the safety of an ordinary person.

"It's been half a year." Xiangzi chuckled self-deprecatingly. "Half a year of barely surviving. Congratulations, Xiangzi."

Let's rewind a bit and go back to a year ago.

Xiangzi once had very loving parents. Her father was a famous actor, and her mother was a gentle and virtuous housewife. Because her father was successful, Xiangzi's family owned a large mansion, and she lived a life of luxury from a young age. At that time, Xiangzi had no idea what it meant to eke out a living, nor did she know what the future held for her.

The first turning point in my life was my mother's illness.

She watched as the electrocardiogram representing her mother's heartbeat turned into a straight line, saw her father crying his heart out, and saw a creature she had never seen before appear in front of her mother's sickbed.

“I can grant your wish, Xiangzi,” said Cupid.

"Please, please save my mother! I'll do anything!"

Xiangzi shouted at the air.

"Yeah."

Kewpie tilted its head, the lamp casting a shadow on its adorable face, its pursed lips seeming to smile.

"Then make a wish, Xiangzi, you can wish for anything."

Then, thanks to the doctor's desperate and tireless efforts, the mother's electrocardiogram recovered, and the mother that Xiangzi remembered woke up.

Xiangzi became a magical girl.

That year felt like a dream.

She rescued Takamatsu Akari, who had been captured by a witch, and together with her, Wakaba Mutsumi, who grew up with her, Nagasaki Motoyo from the same school, and Shiina Tatsuki, the younger sister of Shiina Maki, a famous girl at school, they formed a magical girl band called Crychic.

Of the five members of the band, all except Takamatsu Akari are magical girls, and Takamatsu Akari also has the potential to become a magical girl. She can see Kyubey, so becoming a magical girl is only a matter of time.