Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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We're now very close to the center of the maze.

Within sight, the ground was littered with the corpses of monsters lying on the ground or broken into pieces, along with the mournful Rubik's Cubes that had fallen with their deaths.

A battle had just taken place here, but it ended quickly and didn't take much to spare.

But how many waves of Warcraft are there now?

The higher the intensity of the battle, the closer to the center, the better. It's also normal to frequently encounter monsters during a monster wave. But isn't something amiss?

"There's something I want to ask you," Xiangzi called out to everyone. "On your way here, did you encounter any other magical girls—not the ones from Reed Plains?"

Xiangzi struck a pose that said, "You all know what I'm talking about."

“No.” Mu shook his head. “On the road, there are only monsters turned from the dead and some magical girls from the Reed Plains.”

“No, that’s not quite right,” Miaomeng said. “Remember, some of the monsters we killed, after their bodies turned back to normal, clearly didn’t have any of their own kind showing up.”

"I knew it was so." Xiangzi nodded knowingly.

"what happened?"

"Don't you think we've had too few enemies along the way?" Xiangzi said. "Besides monsters, there should be many more other opponents."

Helheim should have been a battlefield for many sides, but after being inside the barrier for so long, I haven't seen any people fighting, only monsters and dead people who have turned into monsters.

In other words, all those people who were supposed to fight are dead?

How is that possible? Even if there are many magical girls just there to make up the numbers, what about top-tier combat power? Like the woman I met a few days ago, there should be several others at her level, but so far, I haven't seen even one.

Are they all gathered at the center of the barrier, or...?

Someone has already taken care of all these people in advance.

"flame."

"Anything else, Senior?"

How much do you remember about the future?

"Not many, but also a lot," Flame said decisively. "Perhaps there were some unavoidable problems during the transmission process, and the memories transmitted to my mind are very fragmented. I can only extract some key information from them..."

She paused, then continued.

"Perhaps, it would be more appropriate to say 'the future me wants to see this key information' rather than 'I extracted the key information'."

"That means you don't know everything either."

“Of course, I said that a long time ago.” Yan tilted her head. “Are you bringing it up now because you’re thinking of something?”

"........"

The revolving door he saw in the apartment building was almost identical in structure to the passage on the other side. Although the door's design wasn't as fancy as the passage on the other side—it was just a very ordinary tin can shape—Xiangzi knew the moment he saw it that Yan was definitely hiding something from him.

Could it be related to those enemies who should have appeared but disappeared without a trace?

Maybe.

Ask me?

Should we ask?

What if I ask her and she continues to evade the question? But what if she continues to say nothing at all...?

“Hey, Yan,” Xiangzi called out to Yan, “I actually saw something from up there—”

"Wait, something's not right," Yan suddenly interrupted her.

Xiangzi raised his eyes and looked into the depths of the maze.

She sensed that something was off about what Yan said.

The sound of the wind. The sound of the wind became very unstable, as if something was disturbing the airflow, making it very chaotic.

"What's wrong?" Miaomeng looked at them, puzzled.

“Something is approaching.” Hailing looked up at the white expanse overhead. “It’s moving very fast.”

Before anyone else could respond, a sudden gust of wind arose ahead.

Is it a battle between humans and monsters, or between humans themselves?

Xiangzi pulled his scarf up to shield himself from the biting wind.

Whoosh-!

A figure flew past them.

Xiangzi clearly saw the figure riding the silver skateboard.

Immediately afterwards, immense wind pressure and sonic booms swept around them.

The Tale of Transcendence: Stars and Us: Chapter 773 Seems Like Just a Pervert

The wind pressure and sound arrived belatedly after the silver light had passed by them, but after the wind pressure subsided, a gust of cold wind, like countless sharp knives piercing them, blew from behind them. Xiangzi shielded her eyes from the swirling wind mixed with snowflakes, barely managing to lift them to look at where the silver skateboarder had disappeared—

No, the figure on the skateboard didn't disappear from sight. Instead, after passing Xiangzi and his group, it abruptly stopped as if completely out of control of the laws of physics.

Neither wind nor snow seemed to have any effect on her, passing directly through her body which was covered in a chrome-plated, bright silver.

She floated steadily in the wind and snow, turned around, and looked at them curiously.

The biting cold wind swept towards them, becoming increasingly unbearable, as if even their blood was about to freeze.

Mu tried to weave a net with her own silk threads to block the cold wind, but almost instantly, the net made of silk threads was torn to shreds by the cold wind.

Chu Hua grew a pair of wings and covered Xiangzi's front, trying to shield him from the cold wind. However, the price was that she herself quickly fell into hypothermia and collapsed into Xiangzi's arms with a purple face.

All of this happened in just a few seconds.

If it had been just one or two more seconds, Chu Hua's body might have frozen completely.

At this moment, Xiangzi, holding Chuhua, turned around and placed her behind him.

"Xiaoxiang..."

"Shh." Xiangzi raised his index finger expressionlessly, and the Soul Gem on his wrist shone brightly.

The next instant, the re-enactment began, and glowing patterns of magic appeared in the direction from which the cold wind was coming, forming a metal wall that could only be seen from inside a vault at top speed.

Then, the wall began to extend outwards, gradually changing into a cone shape that could guide the flow, enveloping everything inside.

Only then can everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

Xiangzi put Chuhua down and turned to look behind him.

The magical girl who seemed completely unaffected by the blizzard actually floated down and landed in the shelter she had built.

"Why are you looking at me? There's something blowing right above your heads." The magical girl noticed Xiangzi looking at her and tilted her head. "Don't you realize there's something right above your heads all along?"

At this moment, Xiangzi suddenly realized that the extremely cold wind did not seem to come from the bright silver skateboarder in front of him. Instead, she seemed to be... running away? Yes, this bright silver magical girl seemed to be being chased by something.

The top of her head that she was referring to was...

Xiangzi raised his head, replaced some of the windproof material with transparent material, and looked through the cold wind towards the sky.

She discovered that her head was actually covered by a shadow as large as a mountain.

The shadow had actually been covering their heads the whole time, but the wind and snow had been so fierce that it had completely obscured the view above. Only now, having lowered its height and come below the clouds, could Xiangzi observe its presence with the naked eye.

"This is... an owl?"

Perhaps it was a shadow larger than a mountain. Looking at it from within the labyrinth of skyscrapers was like seeing a leopard through a tube. Just those two pupils radiating cold light already occupied a large part of the sky, not to mention its outstretched wings.

The giant owl merely flapped its wings slightly, and a biting cold wind swept across the entire land.

"This, this is huge... Why didn't anyone notice such a big thing before!" Meow Dream stared blankly at the giant owl that completely covered the sky.

"Could it be that the reason everyone can't observe its existence is because this thing itself is a blizzard cloud covering the reed plains?"

As soon as Xiangzi opened her mouth, the cold wind rushed into her throat, sticking to the mucous membrane of her mouth, as if it wanted to freeze her saliva, making her afraid to speak too exaggeratedly.

Even with shelter from the wind, the temperature here is still too low.

"...Could this barrier be moving under its protection?"

As expected of a magical beast that has attained super-causality, this is almost as exaggerated as when I first saw the Sea Witch.

As he stared at the giant owl, the name of the monster appeared in his mind.

Jerez-Velgo

“Jerez Vergo…” Xiangzi looked up at the giant eagle and whispered its name.

"The giant eagle dwelling in Helheim, with each flap of its wings, stirs up a deadly wind." The silver-haired magical girl lowered her skateboard and came to Xiangzi's side. "This is from mythology, and what we see before us now is the master of this barrier, a magical beast with the same name as the giant eagle in mythology, and it is also—"

"The possessor of the Holy Grail (beyond causality)."

Xiangzi and the magical girl said in unison.

"So you did know about that thing after all." The chrome-plated silver on the magical girl's body gradually faded, revealing her true form. "We meet again, kind guide."

"You two actually know each other?" Yan's eyes widened.

“I just happened to see her once on the roadside.” Xiangzi swallowed hard, looking at the other person as if facing a formidable enemy. “The ace magical girl of America… Silver Surfer, Noreen Ryder.”

“Rebecca told you all of this, didn’t she?” the magical girl named Norlin suddenly said.

"So what if it is?" Xiangzi tensed up immediately, ready to use magic at any moment.

"Relax, I don't have that thought. Rebecca is fine now."

"What about the monsters overhead?"

"It was chasing me just now." The silver-haired magical girl looked at the sky, defiantly meeting the giant owl's eyes. "It should have given up by now. It seems that as long as you follow its rules, it won't be too difficult for you here."

"Rules? Are there any air traffic control measures here?" Xiangzi raised an eyebrow.

“That’s right. I flew in, but after entering, I got lost in the clouds and was chased around by them. I finally had to land because I couldn’t take it anymore.” Unlike her own description of how miserable she was, Norlin seemed quite relaxed as she said, “The others also seem to have been knocked down to various corners of the maze.”

"The others, are they your companions?"

“No, I mean other competitors, like the relationship between you and me.” Norlin raised the corners of her mouth, revealing a bright, sunny smile, her face flushed as she said, “I’d love to stuff them in, tie them up, hang them on an iron rack, clamp them with electrified clips, and then whip them mercilessly…”

"......"

Xiangzi's lips twitched a few times.

It seems that what Rebecca said was true.

That guy is a freak.

The Tale of Transcendence: Stars and Us: Chapter 774 - So Hard to Guess!

Although Norin's outburst of sexual fetishes was frightening, the information she inadvertently revealed gave Xiangzi a lot to think about.

Just as she had initially thought, quite a few magical girls at Norin's level, roughly equivalent to the Protagonist of Reed Plains, had intervened in the battle.

Perhaps magical girls like Norlin are much older, and experienced magical girls are stronger than the Protagonists of Reed Plains, but their strength is not absolute. They will still struggle against barriers with super-causal properties and monster leaders.

Although.......

Xiangzi glanced at Norlin.

This guy didn't look like he was in a tough fight at all; on the contrary, he seemed completely at ease, as if he were just strolling around.

Xiangzi could see clearly that the blizzard passed right through her body without affecting her at all. Even without creating a shelter, she wouldn't have frozen to death in the blizzard.

Norlin noticed Xiangzi's gaze, turned around, and gave her the same bright smile as before. Although, in her own eyes, this smile was now synonymous with "S-pervert."

"Your goal is also beyond causality, right?" Xiangzi swallowed and spoke up.

"You mean the Holy Grail? You call it Supercausality... which is similar to the Incubator."

"Are they inside the barrier too?" Xiangzi paused. "I mean the incubators."

“There is an agent of them inside the barrier right now.” Norlin made no attempt to hide the information and said frankly, “To tell you the truth, to me, even the thing above us and all of you combined are no threat as great as that agent of the incubator.”

She sat beside Xiangzi, hugging her knees, her cascading, bright silver hair falling naturally.

With silver eyes, silver hair, and even her long, silver eyelashes, combined with her snow-white and delicate skin, she looked like a beauty from a dream.

The dreamlike beauty spoke:

"Want to know why? Since I like you, I can tell you even more."