Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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Having completed the most important task, Chu Hua pulled Xiangzi's arm forcefully, lifting her up. Then, she came up behind her, hugged her, and lifted her up by her armpits, swaying as she walked towards the bathroom.

The room itself had a bathroom with only a simple shower; there was no bathtub. Xiangzi rarely showered in the room before, but she was unwilling to step out of the room even half a step. When she was in the room, Chuhua could still move her, but as soon as there was any sign of pulling her out of the room, she would scratch and meow wildly like an insecure cat and start self-harming, making it impossible to take her out.

Then she can only take a shower in the room, and I'll have to help her wash. If I just throw her in the bathroom, she won't move and might just rot there forever.

So... the first time, Chu Hua spent a lot of time stopping the bleeding, uh... she meant her nosebleed.

Honestly, it's hard to hold back a nosebleed when a completely naked blue-ringed octopus is right in front of you; you wouldn't be able to either.

Chu Hua took Xiangzi to the restroom, placed her on a plastic stool, sat behind her, took out a comb, and began to gently comb out the stray hairs hidden in her hair.

There were quite a few hairs, some even knotted, but no matter how hard you pulled, Xiangzi wouldn't react at all, just like her completely lifeless eyes, like a porcelain doll, beautiful but lifeless.

After combing your hair, rinse it with water once, then apply shampoo and wash it thoroughly.

Next up is the shower gel...

This part was both enjoyable and painful for Chu Hua.

It's very difficult to resist doing nothing, but she managed to.

He turned off the shower, quickly dried Xiangzi off, and led her to sit at the desk. Xiangzi picked up her chopsticks herself, slowly picking up her bowl and chopsticks like a sloth, and began to eat.

Taking this opportunity, Chu Hua used a hairdryer to clean her hair.

Xiangzi ate heartily, but it took even longer to dry his waist-length hair. After finishing his meal, Xiangzi sat obediently with his hands on his knees, waiting for Chuhua to help him dry his hair.

Waiting and waiting.

Chu Hua noticed that there were several water droplet stains on Xiangzi's new pajamas that had just been put on.

Xiangzi's shoulders were trembling.

Chu Hua put down the blower, put her arm around Xiangzi's shoulder, and gradually wrapped her arms around Xiangzi's neck. She didn't say anything, just quietly held Xiangzi and let her cry. She stayed with her quietly while she cried.

The city outside the window cast shadows that slanted from west to east, and then the moon rose, revealing a whole expanse of starry sky.

Then, the sun rises and sets. The starry sky also gradually changes; the Milky Way, suspended in the sky, slowly descends, and the Summer Triangle disappears on the horizon, replaced by Orion and the Winter Triangle.

As the reed beds grew colder, the seasonal trees shed their leaves, leaving only bare branches standing along the roadside. Pedestrians began to wrap scarves, put on cotton coats and down jackets, and some girls, even in the freezing cold, insisted on wearing short skirts, their bare legs turning purple from the cold, yet they still forced smiles.

The air conditioning in the room was turned into heating, making the room cozy and warm, and you could hardly feel the change of seasons.

Half a year has passed just like that.

Xiangzi's hair had grown so long it was almost touching the ground, so Chuhua turned the blower back on and continued to dry Xiangzi's hair.

For a full six months, I spent my time like this.

Other people occasionally appear at home, such as Mu, Miaomeng, and Hailing.

Su Shi had visited before, but after a few visits, she never saw him again. She said she didn't want to live in the pain of the past anymore and wanted to try to find a future. However, she didn't give up communicating with Xiangzi. From time to time, she would film her recent life as a simple vlog and send it to Xiangzi's phone, even though Xiangzi never replied to her.

Sometimes it's a typical school day, with Mu appearing in the video. Other times it's a daily adventure with the pink-haired girl, the girl with the beauty mark, and randomly appearing stray cats, battling monsters. Su Shi never directly mentions their names, but you can tell from her words that she cherishes these friends.

The messages I sent remained unread for a long time.

Mu was the person who came most frequently. At first, it was once a day, but as she got busier, it gradually became once a week, but she still insisted on coming.

At first, every time he came, he would just stay with Xiangzi without saying a word. He would quietly lean against Xiangzi and do nothing. But he wouldn't do absolutely nothing; he would nuzzle his head against Xiangzi's shoulder.

She came less often later, but she would try to say something.

At first, she could only manage to squeeze out two or three words intermittently, her face turning bright red as she strained. Eventually, when her time was up, she had no choice but to give up. After a while, she started to be able to talk about everyday topics and even mentioned taking photos with Su Shi.

She also mentioned her future plans, although it's still uncertain, but she'll probably end up following the path her mother laid out for her.

Miaomeng has been coming to visit steadily once a week from the very beginning. Each time, she can talk for a whole day in the room, chatting about all sorts of trivial matters and everyday life.

She's also been helping manage that "Band of Birds of a Feather" project that Xiangzi proposed before. Although it hasn't officially started yet, Miaomeng has already opened up quite a few channels on its own.

She said that when Xiangzi returns, the entire project can be launched immediately and get on track.

Hailing's visits were very irregular. Sometimes she would come for two days in a row, and sometimes she would come for one day every two weeks. She would not come into the room, but would just sit in the living room and ask Chuhua about Xiangzi's recent situation.

Every so often, Hailing would hand over to Chuhua, like submitting a report, detailing what she had been doing recently, and have Chuhua pass it on to Xiangzi.

The report stated that she wanted to build her own kendo dojo and promised that Xiangzi would be a top-tier VIP whenever he came to the dojo, and she would teach him for free.

Finally, she thanked Xiangzi for helping her find what she truly loved.

Chu Hua would place these reports by Xiangzi's bedside.

This group of people seemed to have made a pact to always avoid each other and never get together.

Oh, and there's another very special person, Homura Akemi.

Yan comes once a month. Like Hailing, she doesn't enter the room, and each time she talks to Chuhua briefly. At first, Chuhua didn't understand what Yan was trying to say, but when she finally realized what was going on, she discovered that she might have fallen into a trap.

Yan always seemed very busy, always rushing around with something on her mind. Even so, she still made time to visit Xiangzi once a year, standing outside the door and saying a few harsh words in a tone of disappointment.

Apart from that, nothing else happened. Six months passed peacefully.

For Chu Hua, every day was spent either going to school or work, and then returning home late at night to help Xiangzi with his daily needs. On weekends, she could spend more time with Xiangzi, from morning till night. Occasionally, she would use her work as an excuse to ask for leave from school when she wasn't working, spending the whole day at home as if it were a weekend.

Chu Hua found herself getting more and more used to this "little trick," because it allowed her to spend more time with Xiangzi and also give her a good rest.

Today, as usual, I took a shower, ate, and dried my hair.

It was around 11 p.m., the time when Chu Hua had just finished work and returned home. She turned off the blower, bent down, and buried her head in Xiangzi's thick hair, the scent of shampoo filling her nostrils.

Chu Hua felt very sleepy.

She had to juggle school and work, and also had to dedicate a lot of energy to taking care of Xiangzi. By the time she finished drying Xiangzi's hair, she was so tired that she almost fell asleep buried in Xiangzi's thick, soft hair.

Suddenly, she felt Xiangzi's shoulders trembling slightly again.

Is this... another cry?

Chu Hua opened her eyes groggily and realized that she had almost fallen asleep.

Xiangzi cried a lot at first, going through a whole pack of tissues a day. He gradually got better and hasn't been crying much lately.

I haven't seen her cry for almost a month, but I didn't expect her to cry again today.

Chu Hua lowered her eyes, tightened her arms around Xiangzi, and pressed her cheek against his. She had figured out the easiest way to calm Xiangzi down.

But today seems a little different.

What happened?

Xiangzi's sobs gradually became more and more obvious, and slowly, they even began to turn into whimpers.

Chu Hua panicked a little.

"Xiao, Xiao Xiang..." She hugged Xiangzi tightly, comforting him like an awkward mother, "Don't cry, don't cry..."

She didn't know why Xiangzi suddenly burst into tears, so she could only try the most clumsy way to comfort her, hugging her from behind and gently stroking her hair.

"......Hey, what are you doing?" Xiangzi said in a muffled voice, thick with sobs.

“…Ah,” Chu Hua said.

This is the first sentence Xiangzi has spoken in the past six months.

Why are you all so nice to me?

If you listen carefully, you can hear the difference.

Chu Hua didn't show any surprise. Instead, she breathed a sigh of relief, loosened her grip on Xiangzi a little, and gently rested her chin on Xiangzi's shoulder.

Chu Hua thought of many things to say, but in the end, she couldn't say anything. She just awkwardly uttered the first thought that arose in her mind:

"Perhaps it's because everyone likes you."

Xiangzi bent down and gripped the curtains in front of his desk tightly. The frustration and bitterness he had been suppressing in bed for the past six months turned into a loud cry, which he released completely tonight.

There was a crash.

The curtains were pulled down by Xiangzi's out-of-control force, and the starry sky within the frame seemed to fall into Xiangzi's heart along with the sound of the curtains falling.

A Tale of Transcendence: Stars and Us: Chapter 788 Snow Country

"Huff... Huff..."

My footsteps pounded heavily on the frozen pavement, my toes scraping up bits of dirt.

Yan ran through the woods, heading in the direction where Xiangzi had fallen.

The crimson beam of light was more than just an upward-firing beam for those who approached it. For the magical girls still within the barrier, the energy Norin unleashed, pushing herself to her limits, was a terrifying explosion, even in its aftershocks.

After the shockwave swept through, Flame lost contact with the others.

To make matters worse, when he tried to activate time stop to avoid the shockwave, he got stuck by some debris during the process.

The drawbacks of relying on the mechanism of the round shield to activate time stop were glaringly obvious at this moment. She even wondered if someone else could use time stop if the shield were taken away by someone else.

The probability is very small, so small that it is almost impossible.

After all, only the person in charge knows how to activate the mechanism, and even if someone else steals it, they won't be able to use it.

Regardless, she is temporarily unable to use this ability.

Flame expelled all the stale air from his lungs, and his hot, moist breath formed a white mist in the cold air, while his throat emitted a sucking sound similar to a broken bellows.

We must find Xiangzi quickly, otherwise...

hum-

A chilling voice suddenly rang in Yan's ears. She remembered this voice; it was the sound that only appeared when the Agent's black hole was formed.

In an instant, Flame caught a glimpse of vast expanses of space being distorted in the distance. It was the gravitational lensing created by the black hole that was distorting the light. At this moment, the black hole had not yet fully formed. The instant it was fully formed, everything around it would be swallowed up.

This black hole is larger than any black hole that has appeared on the ground before; it looks like the last gasp of a dying person.

Could it be that the proxy is still alive?

Just when she thought she was about to be swallowed by the black hole that was forming.

click-

Time has stopped.

"This... how is this possible?"

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"Why did you do this?" Xiangzi, supporting himself on his knees, stood up shakily. "Chuhua, tell me."

"You were the one who helped me move on, but why? Why is it that now you're the one clinging to the past?!"

“Xiao Xiang is in great pain, and this pain cannot be erased with the passage of time.” Chu Hua looked down at the flower in her palm. “Xiao Xiang only promised me that he would pretend to have moved on from the past.”

"No, that's not it. I clearly did...do what you told me to do." Xiangzi suddenly deflated.

She became very insecure.

“Chuhua…” She reached out her hand to Chuhua, “Give it to me.”

"Do not."

"What can you do with it?" Xiangzi said. "Do you really believe Delete? Do you really believe she can take you back to the past and change the future?"

“I’m right beside you,” Del said softly. “You can ask me directly.”

"Do you think I don't know what you're up to?" Xiangzi turned his head away, revealing a disdainful expression. "Whenever you show up, nothing good ever happens."

"I also have the desire to do good deeds."

"But you always mess things up? How is that any different from doing something bad?"

"I don't want this either... I don't want to mess things up every time."

"If saying that would work, we wouldn't be here now." Xiangzi gritted his teeth and looked away from Del.

She reached out her hand to Chu Hua once again.

“Listen to me, give it to me,” Xiangzi said. “It’s very unstable and could cause an accident at any time. I can send it back to the Negative Universe to quell this commotion.”

The purest form of supercausality can fulfill anyone's "desire." The first magical beast to come into contact with it became the master of Helheim, and supercausality transformed into whatever it desired because of its master's desire.

Now, Del has separated it, allowing it to return to its original state. This return to pure, transcendental causality can once again fulfill human desires, provided the thought is strong enough.

Noreen was unaware of this, so the supercausality was merely a decoration in her hands for the time being. Xiangzi, on the other hand, had long understood its principles, which was why he was able to so easily invoke its magic and control it, keeping it in its original pure form, rather than allowing it to reunite with him due to his own desires.

Preventing the supercausality from merging with herself was for another purpose—to send the supercausality away from this world.