Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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Looking at Xiangzi's face, still deeply immersed in his dream, she hesitated. A lingering, ominous premonition prevented her from pressing the detonation button.

The countdown is over.

The next second, the world suddenly lost gravity, and everything floated in the air.

“(Mu, did you detonate it?!)” Hailing’s voice rang in my mind.

“No.” Mu Yue said softly.

"(Why?! There shouldn't be any enemies around you interfering with you?!)"

“（.......）”

"(We've already missed it!)"

“(But…)” Mu raised her eyes and looked at Xiangzi, whose eyes were still tightly closed. “(They didn’t react. The next part isn’t over yet.)”

Hailing struggled to adjust to the weightless environment in the corridor. Upon hearing Mu's words, she grabbed the protrusion on the light strip behind her back and barely managed to steady herself.

"(Is this the bad feeling you were talking about?)"

"(perhaps.)"

"(So what do we do now? The plan has failed. Are we just going to stay here and wait to die?)" Hailing turned around and looked at the security guard who was also experiencing weightlessness as he climbed out of the elevator shaft. "(The first floor is a week, so we're...)"

Hailing drew two lightsabers, freeing up both hands to control her movement, and floated towards the security guard.

Hey.

The sword light flashed.

Mu remained silent for a while, and only spoke after Hailing had taken down several security guards that crawled out of the elevator shaft.

"(One hundred and forty days, almost five months.)"

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Thunder rumbled outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. Guangguang, who was just sitting in the empty vault, knew without even going out that the sky outside was probably completely illuminated by lightning.

Inside the vault, Miaomeng and Xiangzi sat side by side, dumbfounded, staring at the corpse lying before them. Medien was dead; he had fallen into Limbo, and the newly devised temporary plan had utterly failed.

It’s over.

It's all over.

"Xiangzi, did we miss our chance?" Miaomeng said blankly.

"Yes," Xiangzi replied blankly.

"Now what."

"I don't know..." Xiangzi hugged his knees and curled up into a ball. "Let's just end it like this. I'm tired."

With Medine's death, all leads were severed at that moment.

There's no way to save the situation.

“I won’t blame you,” Miaomeng said. “It’s all because of this damn fate that there are so many unexpected things happening. Plans can never keep up with changes.”

“Your words won’t make me happy either.” Xiangzi lowered his eyes, looking at Medine’s pale yet mocking face. “This was all part of their plan. Medine and Alina knew from the beginning that we would be on the same plane, infiltrating the dream. Alina, now a witch, has taken control of the entire dream. We’ve been completely manipulated by her. Now, no matter what we do, Alina will stop us. What defeated me wasn’t some unexpected event, but them.”

Xiangzi buried his head in his knees.

"I lost." Her voice trembled with sobs, pausing between each word. "I lost so badly."

Medine was even prepared to let herself fall into Limbo, no wonder she said at the end, "In the end, I won."

“…I’m sorry.” Miao Meng also hung her head dejectedly.

The sleeping pills haven't worn off yet, so there's no way he'll wake up. Even if he dies inside Limbo, he'll probably just keep waking up in some corner of Limbo until the effects of the sleeping pills wear off.

But now all the dreams generated by the Dream House have been implanted into Alina's very bones. Xiangzi can't beat Alina in the dream above, not to mention Limbo, which is made entirely of chaos.

"No need to apologize, you've already done enough for me," Xiangzi replied sullenly. "I'm the one who dragged everyone down with me."

"Hey, let's look on the bright side. We won't die in a dream anyway. At worst, we'll just fall into Limbo." Miaomeng raised her hand, draped it over Xiangzi's shoulder, and offered clumsy words of comfort. "We can spend our whole lives in there, then wake up on a plane, and everyone can act like nothing happened and just walk off the plane..."

"The timescale of the Soul Stone changes depending on the time perceived by consciousness. None of the Soul Stones except mine could last a lifetime in Limbo, let alone those at the very bottom..."

Xiangzi paused for a moment, then told Miaomeng what she had been unwilling to say.

"...Nirvana."

Who would want to spend their whole life in one place with a monster whose only instinct is destruction?

That was hell.

and many more.

Xiangzi blinked.

"Yes, there's also Nirvana below."

"Huh? Nirvana?"

“Yes, if it’s still inside Limbo, Alina can’t take control of Limbo, nor can she protect Medine in every way. If we go down to find them, we still have a chance.”

"Are you going to actively confront the monster in your heart?"

“Medion and Alina will also face it; our risks are the same.” Xiangzi clenched his fist. “Once we enter Limbo, we’re actually on the same starting line.”

“But the fall is over. Even if we find Medine, we won’t have a chance to wake up. There’s no point in staying down there.”

“Actually, there was a second chance to fall,” Xiangzi said. “When the carriage fell into the water, there was another ‘fall’.”

"Is there enough time?"

"Once we're in Limbo, there's no such thing as not having enough time. But the real problem is how we get in. We can't just..."

Xiangzi paused for a moment, turned around, and pushed aside the large, frightening box, revealing the briefcase underneath.

She had a feeling that the box was a bit strange; it looked like there was something underneath it.

"Did you put this here in the first place?"

"How could that be? If we could put it in, would this place still be empty?" Miao Meng shrugged.

“That must be what Alina prepared.” Xiangzi opened the suitcase, and inside was indeed the structure of the Dream House. “No… it couldn’t be Alina or Medion, and it couldn’t be Nirvana either, it’s not that smart.”

Then there is only one possibility.

“Looks like you knew all along that I’d eventually descend to Limbo.” Xiangzi shook his head with a chuckle. “You’ve predicted every step of my plan, Oblivionis.”

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When he opened his eyes again, Xiangzi found himself on a desolate plain.

She rubbed her eyes groggily and got up from the ground.

"I thought it would look like the Nirvana Barrier," she muttered to herself. "I didn't expect it to be the nightmare I've been having lately."

The weather here is terrible; if she had a choice, she would definitely choose the Nirvana Barrier.

Xiangzi patted the dust off his clothes and turned his head to the side.

There was an SUV parked next to her, but Miaomeng wasn't inside; there was no one in the car.

Xiangzi opened the car door, sat in the driver's seat, stepped on the brake, and pressed the large red button for the switch. The churning sound of the internal combustion engine came from under the hood, but more important than the engine's sound was the cool air blowing out of the vents.

"Alright, Miaomeng should be nearby. Let's find her first."

Xiangzi wiped his sweat, released the handbrake, and drove towards the horizon.

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"(One hundred and forty days—who can endure this kind of environment for one hundred and forty days?)"

"(No, we still have a chance.)" Mu shook his head. "(There's a second chance to fall.)"

"(You mean when the carriage fell into the water?)"

“(Hmm.)” Mu nodded.

"(But we're already in a state of weightlessness. Even if there's another chance of falling from the next level, how can we synchronize?")

Hailing lightly tapped the wall, flew forward, and casually used her lightsaber to cut down the security guard that had been in her way.

She finally returned to the door of A-345 and pushed it open.

As soon as the door opened, she saw Mu using silk threads to gather everyone together, stacking them up like a human pyramid.

"What are you doing?" Hailing raised an eyebrow, quite surprised.

She couldn't understand Mu's thoughts.

"A fall," Mu said calmly. "We can artificially create a fall."

"Explain it more clearly." Hai Ling crossed her arms, and the two hands behind her back made the same gesture, making it look as if the two people were back to back.

"Go downstairs and retrieve the explosives. I'll move everyone into the elevator car." Mu said, piling Miaomeng, Xiangzi, and Medien together while using silk thread to tie them up with the Dream House.

"I understand now. The elevator is accelerated by an explosion, and the moment it hits the wall is the instant it falls." Hai Ling immediately understood Mu's meaning.

Incidentally, it was also noticed that the Dream House was a sturdy suitcase, which Mu stuffed between Meow Dream and Medien.

Is this blatant favoritism?

It is not impossible.

She almost couldn't suppress her smile.

"Yes, this is the easiest way to implement it."

"But there are many obstacles and security guards in the elevator space."

"I'm leaving it to you, is that alright?"

"..."噾艺妻?〨堮栮

"Please." Mu looked at her pitifully.

"The pressure from the outside enemies is immense, and I cannot guarantee success."

"That's enough."

"You two sisters are really alike." Hai Ling grabbed the door frame from behind, pulling her out of the room and towards the elevator. "Let fate decide."

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In her hazy state, Miao Meng seemed to see some images.

A raging fire, a woman shielding her from the flames, screaming people, and... she seemed to have lived a very long time through someone's perspective while she was in a daze.

She seemed to have become a GoPro, an action camera mounted on someone's head. She could see the owner's every move through the camera, but she couldn't do anything herself and could only watch silently from a first-person perspective.

Watching the owner of the perspective spend their days one after another.

It seems like it lasted for many years, but she can't remember exactly how many.

Is this a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream? Or what's going on? Why am I seeing these things?

Miao Meng felt her head was throbbing and throbbing, as if it was about to explode.

"Hey."

Snap. Snap.

"Hey!"

*Slap.* *Slap.* *Slap.*

"Hello--!"

Miao Meng felt a burning pain on her cheeks and finally opened her eyes. The moment she opened her eyes, she saw the wind blowing Xiangzi's long hair, and it was as if a dreamlike halo filter appeared before her eyes.

Snapped!

Another slap landed on her face, shattering all the illusions she had of Miaomeng into pieces.

"Wake up!" Xiangzi shouted, as he tried to raise his hand again.

"I'm awake! I'm awake!" Miaomeng quickly grabbed Xiangzi's raised hand. "Stop hitting me! If you keep hitting me, I'll make you stupid!"

"You should have said you were awake earlier, desuwa." Xiangzi angrily put her hands down and put her hands on her hips. "It's good that you're awake. Now that you're awake, you should go find Medien."

"Where is the Nirvana you mentioned? I haven't seen it."