Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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Sure enough, a dark figure was rapidly approaching from afar.

That was Dolores. She had transformed into a wild beast running through the darkness, stepping on the top floors of tall buildings, and without any concealment, she was rushing towards Xiangzi little by little.

"Miaomeng, you take Mu with you," Xiangzi said. "You two go and rescue people."

"Hmm." Mu stood up and walked to Miaomeng's side.

"Okay." Meow Dream gave a thumbs up. "Just like we agreed before?"

"Just like we agreed before." Xiangzi winked at her.

After saying that, the two disappeared into the night.

"Senior, what about me?" Flame asked, pointing to herself.

“You’ll come with me to face Dolores.” Xiangzi licked his lips. “She’s a formidable opponent; we can’t afford to be careless.”

"it is good!"

Flame nodded solemnly and released several rocket launchers from the small round shield, placing them around the area.

After giving his orders, Xiangzi turned his head toward the shadow of the wild beast that was already climbing up the wall and running upwards. It was a beast that looked like a feline, with its pupils, wide open to the extreme, reflecting bright spots of light in the darkness.

Xiangzi gritted his teeth and drew his gun.

“Come on... Dolores.”

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On the other road, Miaomeng had already led Mu around Doloris and was heading back to the place where Doloris had first appeared, following the path Doloris had taken.

When they arrived at the place where Dolores had first appeared, Meow stopped. Ahead was the entrance to the underground station; Dolores's magical traces stretched from the surface into the depths.

"So it really was hidden underground?" Miao Meng clicked her tongue. "No wonder there wasn't a single trace."

Mu lifted her foot and walked inside.

"Hey, Mutsuko, wait a minute." Meow Dream called out to Mutsuko, "There's absolutely no light source underground. We're not like Chuko who can see in the dark. We need to think of something."

"No need, I brought a flashlight." Mu took out a flashlight from the Soul Gem.

Snapped.

When the flashlight was turned on, Miaomeng felt as if she saw a small sun.

"Only one?" Miao Meng twitched the corner of her mouth.

“Not only that.” Mu said, taking out another high-powered flashlight.

This flashlight is for industrial use. When turned on, it can illuminate a distance of two to three kilometers, and the beam of light looks almost like a solid object, making it particularly dazzling.

"Why do you carry something like this with you?" Miao Meng took the flashlight and walked down the underground tunnel with He Mu.

"I have a feeling we might need it," Mu said casually.

"Muko's premonition, I really admire her more and more."

As they talked, their figures gradually disappeared into the depths of the tunnel.

The Tale of Reincarnation: Bonds - Chapter 715 I Regret It

The perspective shifts to Xiangzi's side.

While Miaomeng and her friends were searching for the hostages against Dolores's route, Xiangzi was directly confronting Dolores head-on.

From the moment Dolores showed herself, to the moment she climbed to the highest data terminal and came to Xiangzi.

When taking the initiative, Chu Hua has always had considerable dominance. After the passage of time, she became Dolores, and she became even more violent and manic. In just over ten seconds, a straight-line distance of several hundred meters, nearly a kilometer, was compressed to less than ten meters.

From a distance, it wasn't particularly noticeable, but once Dolores got close enough, her speed and jet-black fur made her almost impossible to track with the naked eye in the dark.

By the time Flame realized it was almost upon him and hurriedly activated the mechanism of the small round shield, Doloris was practically pressed against Xiangzi's face.

Click——!

The mechanism opened, and time suddenly stopped.

The beast that Doloris had transformed into froze in mid-air, its outstretched claws only a few centimeters away from Xiangzi's neck.

Xiangzi lowered the gun blade that was blocking his neck, turned around and gave Yan a grateful look, then jumped back two steps, within a range where he could touch Yan but Yan couldn't touch him, and swung the gun blade.

Yan Xin understood and turned off time stop, and at the same time Xiangzi pulled the trigger.

Doloris felt its claws, which should have at least touched something, swing into thin air. Then, an accelerated slash swept across its arm, followed by a barrage of bullets.

when--!

Suddenly, as if waves were rippling across his body, a large patch of metallic scales arose out of nowhere. These scales collided violently with the gun blade, sparking dazzling sparks and deflecting the slash in another direction. The scales grazed Dolores's cheek and blocked all the bullets flying towards him.

Doloris roared angrily, leaped backward to create distance, and his enormous body gradually shrank into a human shape in mid-air.

Doloris wiped away the small marks left by the gun blade with the back of his hand, glaring fiercely at the two men who were subtly surrounding him.

Has time stopped...?

Dolores' extensive combat experience allowed him to quickly realize the kind of opponent he was facing.

"I didn't expect you to need help." Dolores looked at Xiangzi with disdain. "Are you afraid to face me alone?"

Xiangzi could clearly sense that Dolores and Chu Hua were very different, especially in their temperament.

It always maintained a certain distance from Xiangzi and Yan, able to reach either of them at any time, or dodge their simultaneous attacks.

Doloris is like an aging beast that has reached its end. It possesses a wealth of experience, a body covered in scars, a weary mind, and a ferocious, maddening determination that will fight with all its might at any moment.

Time can transform a person into someone completely unrecognizable.

“Although I roughly know why you hate me so much…” Xiangzi cautiously assumed a ready stance, slowly circling around Dolores, “but seeing you like this still makes it hard for me to accept. I try not to think about what I did to turn you into this.”

“You once said that I was a part of you, that we were an inseparable whole,” Dolores said through gritted teeth. “But you have left me behind time and time again, both in the past and in the future.”

"...Is that all?" Xiangzi asked.

Is that all it took to turn Chuhua into this? Xiangzi couldn't quite understand.

In her memory, she must have done this kind of thing quite a few times.

"That's all?!" Chu Hua's eyes widened suddenly, her pupils shrinking to the size of needles. "You actually say that's all?!"

whoosh-

The figure in front of him vanished in a flash, and in the next instant, it was already close to Xiangzi again. The pupils, which had shrunk to the size of needles just now, had dilated to fill the entire iris, turning into an eerie fluorescent green in the darkness.

Doloris twisted his waist, and a metal tail grew out from behind him, with a rapidly spinning chainsaw hanging at the end of the tail.

when--!

Xiangzi used the blade of his gun to block the chainsaw on his tail.

The serrated edge struck the gun blade, producing a sickening metallic scraping sound.

“I knew it all along, you changed right from this point!” Dolores said through gritted teeth. “Was it right from this point? Or even earlier?”

"I... have changed? How have I changed?" Xiangzi's hand went limp, and the rapidly spinning saw teeth drew even closer.

click-

Time paused, then resumed.

Several bullets flew towards Dolores at extremely tricky angles, forcing her to create some distance between herself and Xiangzi.

“You betrayed our vow, and you still have the nerve to say ‘that’s all.’”

"I did not mean that......."

"what does that mean?"

"I never intended to betray you, I just..." Xiangzi's voice suddenly trailed off, "...I didn't want you to suffer like I did..."

Xiangzi bit his lower lip hard.

She just didn't want everyone to suffer like she did.

After seeing Chu Hua, Mu, Miao Meng, Hai Ling, or anyone else die countless times in front of her, she grew tired of this endless cycle of reincarnation, tired of seeing them die for her so meaninglessly time and time again.

There was something she had kept to herself and hadn't told anyone.

Although they say they're a team, that they need everyone's abilities, and that they need to work together to break through the endless cycle, in reality...

She regrets it.

I regret dragging everyone into this endless cycle of reincarnation.

Just like the regrets I once had for not making a wish, for not becoming a magical girl, or even for never having existed at all... these thoughts resurfaced in my mind.

Oblivionis and Somniorum did not appear this time either.

Because of myself, they disappeared.

Long ago, Xiangzi realized that he had messed things up again.

Perhaps she really shouldn't have been born into this world.

The world would be much better without you.

The Tale of Reincarnation: Bonds - Chapter 716 We've Never Seem to Be Very Good at Fighting

Underground tunnel.

Miao Meng walked ahead carrying a high-powered flashlight, while Mu An followed quietly behind her, her gaze sweeping around the surroundings from time to time, following the beam of the flashlight.

Suddenly, Miaomeng stopped in her tracks.

"Muko, get ready." Meowmon squinted, the beam of her flashlight sweeping across...

The road ahead said, "We're almost there."

Ahead was a train station, and Miaomeng stopped near the platform. She cautiously surveyed her surroundings and took a deep breath.

The traces of magic eventually converged in this place, which looked like a tangled ball of yarn in Miaomeng's eyes.

She was the first to climb onto the platform, her flashlight beam sweeping across the tiles. A thick layer of dust covered the tiles, making a series of different footprints stand out conspicuously.

The footprints followed the platform, then up the stairs, and finally disappeared from sight.

Mu followed her up the platform and walked a few more steps forward.

whoosh-

She heard a faint rustling of wind, the sound of something very delicate approaching at a rapid speed.

Pfft——!

Miao Meng's arm made a sound like the moment a shaken Coke bottle is opened, and blood spurted out with a splattering sound.

The flashlight fell to the ground with a thud, its lens stained with blood, and was instantly charred by the high temperature of the bulb, emitting a foul odor.

"Muko!" Meow Dream shouted, "She's here!"

It was a semi-transparent thread that had been laid out all around beforehand. When Miaomeng got close, it loosened like a spring and cut off the hand holding the flashlight.

Because Mu had anticipated this, she wasn't affected by the launched threads. She took a step back, moving out of the trap set by the threads.

"Mortis!"

"Are you calling me?" A ghostly voice rang in Mu's ear.

"?!"

Mu's pupils shrank to their smallest size in an instant, and he reflexively dodged in the opposite direction of the sound source. The high-speed blade almost grazed Mu's nose, leaving a thin groove in the ground.

Sure enough it was her!

Mu flicked the silk thread that extended from her fingertips, winding it towards the source of the sound.

However, there was nothing.

The sound just now seemed like a hallucination; when I shone the flashlight, it only illuminated the walls of the underground station.

At the same time, Miaomeng picked up the flashlight that had fallen to the ground with her regenerated hand, but before she could even get a firm grip on the handle, a thread that appeared out of nowhere severed her arm again.

The flashlight on the ground was also lost.

The light source inside the station was suddenly reduced by half.