Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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She looked at where she was standing, the same spot where the black figure had stood just a dozen seconds earlier, before she even stepped into the revolving door.

This shore, the other shore.

Time can move forward or backward.

She was finally able to understand—or more accurately, to grasp—what Xiangzi had explained to her.

"So Amoris didn't disappear; she escaped to the past through this door." Miaomeng muttered to herself as she walked out of the dark passage. "Xiangzi wants me to go back and chase Amoris, then we'll fight, and after a while, we'll fight our way to the foot of the mountain and meet my past self..."

As you walk, the dimly lit passage comes to an end.

A warm breeze blew from behind, but the sun overhead felt chilly. The sound of the wind became strange, and the whole world seemed strange as well.

She stumbled and struggled to get used to the strange feeling of her feet on the ground, looking at the pool of water beneath her feet, where ripples had already appeared even before she stepped in.

Just as Xiangzi said, everything is reversed.

No, no.

The world is normal; the only thing that's truly reversed is ourselves.

She climbed all the way to the edge of the basin, the highest point of the mountain in the true sense, and took a deep breath.

"Oh, oh, oh~" Miao Meng clenched her right fist and pounded it on her palm. "So that's how it is~ I understand everything now."

So, next, I'll have to go after Amoris, right?

Miao Meng was about to continue walking, but then she thought about it and something seemed off. Xiangzi seemed to have said something to her earlier.

What did they say again?

[After entering the other side, do not try to chase Amoris; you will not catch up. If you look at the time on the other side completely backwards, the time you entered the other side from this side was later than Amoris, which means that the time you appeared on the other side was earlier than Amoris. Therefore, after crossing the barrier, what you should do is not to chase it, but to wait for it.......]

Xiangzi's words of advice slowly surfaced in my mind.

At almost the same time, Miaomeng saw two familiar figures emerge from the giant rock in the center of the basin.

One is Amoris, and the other is also Amoris.

That's obvious!

Miaomeng quickly found cover and hid, keeping an eye on the seemingly normal Amoris's every move.

This must be Amoris, who, like me, is on the other side.

Her gaze shifted to the other side, where Amoris, who was backing out, was fighting with her and Xiangzi—in reverse, of course.

Oh oh oh——

Miao Meng watched the reversed scene of several people fighting together like a popcorn movie audience member, frequently expressing her amazement.

However, while she was watching the show, she was still keeping an eye on Amoris's movements on the other side of the world.

Amoris's arm has fully recovered and is moving towards Meow Dream.

It doesn't seem to be used to the feeling of everything being upside down on the other side, and it walks with a stumbling gait.

"Eh... looks like this is also my first time being transferred to the other side." Halfway through her muttering to herself, Meow Dream felt something was off. "Wait, if she's my future self, she should have been here at least once before."

Why is Amoris so unfamiliar to me?

Are their experiences different?

Miaomeng smacked her lips and estimated the distance between the two people.

Just as she had calculated the distance and was about to jump out from behind the cover, Amoris strode straight in her direction and swung his chain-blade whip.

boom!

The heavy iron block on the lock blade slammed into Miaomeng.

“I remember hiding here!” Amoris’s distorted voice came from under the mask. “Looks like my memory is pretty good!”

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P.S.: Taking two days off for Qingming Festival, mua.

The Tale of Reincarnation: Bonds - Chapter 706 Sealing the Ring

Boom-!

The two chains were intertwined, and Amoris's truck-like body crashed directly into Meow Dream.

The instant the two collided, it was like a close-up shot of bones shattering in "Flash Fighter." Miao Meng clearly heard the sound of her bones breaking, and excruciating pain spread throughout her body.

Gan!

The first thought that came to mind after my brain repaired itself was, "Why isn't this guy following the script?"

Amoris didn't seem to have considered how to slow down after crashing into him at such high speed. He carried Meowme, whose bones were shattered and who was swaying limply in the air like a rag doll, as they rushed off the mountaintop and rolled down the hillside.

Amidst billowing dust, Meowmon's bones and limbs repaired themselves as they tumbled, only to break again from the fall. Amoris appeared to be in a similar state, but unlike Meowmon, it was clearly able to control its body more freely in this situation. Just as it was about to hit the ground, it drew its lockblade and pulled Meowmon, who was tied to it, to its side, using it as a cushion.

A thud.

The lower teeth bit off the tongue.

There was another thud.

His head hit a rock and it split open.

Miao Meng rolled through the first half of the race almost entirely in a daze.

After her brain was smashed into a rotten watermelon for the third or fourth time and then repaired, Meow Dream finally began to master the ability to control her body in such chaotic situations.

First, she finally figured out her current state, then she could see exactly where Amoris was, and then she began to struggle to break free from Amoris's control.

The lock blade retracted to the side of her arm, forming a streamlined arm blade. Miao Meng first cut off the hand that was entangled with Amoris, releasing the interlocking state between the two. Then, she pierced the tip of the arm blade into the ground to slow her fall.

The arm blades cleaved through the soil like a plow, and Meow Dream's descent gradually slowed down.

Finally, she stopped in the clouds halfway up the mountain.

What feels slightly damp and cool in the summer is unbearably hot and dry on the other side.

Miao Meng wiped the sweat from her newly regenerated arm, her eyes, hidden beneath the black mist, narrowed warily as she searched for Amoris's whereabouts.

Since he cut off his hand to separate himself from Amoris, it seemed to have vanished suddenly. He heard nothing as it continued to slide down, nor did he see it.

The surroundings suddenly became incredibly quiet.

"What are you thinking, my future self?" Miao Meng said in a low voice, as if talking to herself, or perhaps asking a question.

In response to the dream, Amoris appeared from above.

The towering figure, over two meters tall, loomed overhead like a giant dark cloud. Miao Meng turned around abruptly and saw Amoris's eyes peeking out from under the wax helmet.

The brief balance was broken, and the two continued rolling down the hillside once again.

But this time, Meow Dream reacted. She grabbed the lockblade that Amoris had thrown at her and pulled it to the ground.

The rumbling sound continued downhill, breaking through the thick fog, and two entangled figures rolled all the way up the winding mountain road.

Meow Dream's lockblade wrapped around Amoris's shoulder armor and pulled it outwards with force, tearing Amoris's entire arm off.

Amoris grabbed Meowmon's hair and pulled hard, tearing her head out along with her spine.

Basically, every time the two of them hurt each other, they take away a large piece of their body parts. The movements are not very elegant, and they have a kind of rough and rogue feel. It's a bit like an upgraded version of hair-pulling fighting, but hair-pulling fighting doesn't involve heads, arms and legs flying everywhere.

The two guys rolled all the way from the mountaintop to the winding mountain road, damaging the road and leaving it full of potholes, before finally tearing themselves into the forest.

Miao Meng had no idea that during the battle, she had passed by the ravaged mountain road she had seen earlier, and the battle marks all over the road were the ones she and Amoris had left behind when they passed by.

She was now completely focused on Amoris, like a raging beast, unleashing all her power on him.

A clearing appeared in the forest below the mountain because of them.

The open space was filled with tree stumps that had been cut in half, their cross-sections resembling those gnawed by dogs, scattered leaves, dug-out soil, and limbs strewn about.

How long will the battle between two immortal monsters last?

No one knows.

After becoming Xiangzi's familiar, Miaomeng basically had no weaknesses. At least for Amoris, this future self had no way to kill her past self.

I don't know when it got dark. The sun must have set in the east, and then it will rise again in the west.

Blood, limbs, wax blocks, soil, leaves, and sawdust—these things were mixed together, carving a clearing out of the forest and stirring up a dark red mixture.

Time is slowly rewinding.

Sunrise, sunset.

The sky brightened, but then dimmed again.

Miao Meng thought the battle would continue like this, going back in time, until she didn't know when it would end.

however.

Things were somewhat beyond her expectations.

At the beginning, the two were completely equal, but Amoris, as her future self, had much more combat experience than her current self, so Meow Dream could hardly gain any advantage over Amoris.

Later, she began to fight back, and Amoris was injured much more frequently than before.

After that, the two reached a strange consensus to take turns hurting each other, and began to exchange injuries. At this time, blood and other miscellaneous things were the most abundant, mixed with the soil. The proportion of blood and flesh residue in the mixture was probably even greater than that of the soil.

During this period, her battle with Amoris reached a balance, a phase that Miaomeng believed would continue indefinitely.

However, after the tug-of-war between the two continued for countless days and nights, Amoris's regeneration rate gradually slowed down.

How can it be......

Meowmon rode on Amoris's back, waiting for its head to slowly repair itself. The whole process took about ten seconds, and Meowmon clearly saw its own face regenerate first, and then be covered by a waxy full-coverage helmet.

Ten seconds is an incredibly fast healing speed for most magical girls, but before that, Amoris could heal this level of injury in just two or three seconds.

what happened?

After she becomes a familiar, shouldn't her regenerative power be unrestricted by the Soul Gem?

Unless it's a corrosive type of magic that can devour her body, she should be able to regenerate even if she only has one cell left.

Why has Amoris's regeneration rate slowed down?

Her almost numb brain finally started working again, but Amoris didn't give her much time to think. She slammed her arm around Miaomeng's face, grabbed her neck, and flipped over to sit on top of her.

“My turn.” Amoris took a breath and raised his fist high.

"You rascal!" Meow Dream could almost picture the smug face beneath its mask. "Will this ever end?!"

Boom-!

Amoris didn't give her a chance to speak, slamming his fist down hard, smashing the arm that was blocking his face and his head into the ground.

Amoris grabbed the still-regenerating head of the cat and flung it forward.

Boom——!

The flying figure crashed into two trees, snapped, and finally lost momentum, falling to the ground. A second or two later, Miaomeng, supporting her spine which was slowly returning to its original position with crackling sounds, got up from the ground.

“***!” Meow Dream looked up.

Amoris's body rapidly magnified in his eyes.

Her head collided with the wax helmet, and she and Amoris rolled together again, carving a furrow in the ground.

Just as her mind was about to start working, Amoris cruelly interrupted her, and Meow Dream was forced to fall back into the same cycle as before.

After several sunrises and sunsets, Miaomeng's consciousness had become somewhat ethereal.

Meow Dream slammed into Amoris's face, shattering half of the full-face mask. Beneath the mask, half of her own face was revealed.

"call......"

Meow Dream rode on Amoris's back, panting heavily.

Beneath him, Amoris had lost both arms, his mask was mostly shattered, and there was a huge gash on his side, ripped open by a chainmail whip, the wound so deep that bone was visible. And, most importantly, there was no sign of recovery.

“I…I’m not fighting anymore.” Amoris’s lungs expanded and contracted like bellows as he exhaled a large breath of air mixed with blood and foam. “…You win.”

The eyes peeking out from under the wax helmet shone with only a faint glimmer of light, appearing as if they might go out at any moment.

Miaomeng knelt on her waist, her hands supporting Amoris's head on either side.

"why?"