Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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The Tale of Reincarnation: The Shore of Oblivion: Chapter 548 Oil Painting

As they ventured deeper into the maze, Xiangzi and Yan quickly caught up with the small group that had gone ahead, but the magical girls had completely blocked the way, and Xiangzi couldn't see what was happening ahead.

"What's wrong?" Xiangzi pushed through the crowd, trying to get to the front.

"There's no road ahead," someone replied to her.

"No road? Impossible." Xiangzi frowned. "The map shouldn't be wrong."

"If you don't believe me, see for yourself." The magical girl who answered her seemed to be in a bad mood, so she simply picked Xiangzi up and jumped in front of her.

Xiangzi was lifted to the front like a kitten being carried by the scruff of its neck by its mother cat.

"Hey!"

Before she could even get angry, her feet had already touched the ground. The magical girl released her grip and crossed her arms over her chest.

"Take a look for yourself, see which way to go."

At the end of the road was a void, with a white sea of ​​clouds above that shone with holy light, and a dark sea of ​​clouds below that flickered with lightning. Above and below were clouds, and in the distance, one could vaguely see other corridors floating in the air.

Those corridors were too far away; you could only see the figures above them, and there was no way to get through.

So, this road has indeed come to an end.

Xiangzi narrowed his eyes.

She remembered the map directions; this couldn't be the way forward, there must be somewhere else to go. Unfortunately, PasPale had limited time to create the map, and the map, with roads in all directions, was too three-dimensional and difficult to understand. Even after simplification and abstraction, it was still incredibly complex.

No wonder these magical girls couldn't find their way.

“I remember this is a downward path.” Yan squeezed through the crowd to Xiangzi’s side, and together they looked down at the sea of ​​clouds below. “Will we need to jump down?”

"What if there's no road down there? Then we won't be able to get back!" the magical girl behind said irritably.

"That's right."

"Wait, wait, wait, you just said the map indicates we're going down?" Xiangzi suddenly had a flash of inspiration. She pointed to a corridor not far away where the direction of gravity was clearly different from their path. "There are no signs of anyone walking there yet. Could it be there?"

Of the surrounding floating corridors, only that one was the closest to us, and there were no signs of anyone having walked through it, indicating that the magical girls from other routes had not passed through there either.

"It's too far; no one can get there."

"Perhaps there are still roads we haven't seen yet that we can get to," Xiangzi said.

"The problem now is that we can't find the right path."

“Maybe it’s just ahead of us?” Xiangzi said, “a road we can’t see.”

Inspiration is what sets Xiangzi apart from most people. Just as she can quickly grasp how to use objects on the other side of the river through intuition and learn to fight against the people on the other side, the road that suddenly breaks off in front of her also makes her think of some other possibilities.

Maybe the road was never actually broken.

Xiangzi lifted his foot and stepped into the void in front of him.

"Hey, wait, what do you think you're doing?!"

"Do not worry about it."

Xiangzi swallowed hard and lowered his toes, which had been dangling in mid-air. His toes continued downward until they were above the horizontal line of the corridor.

For a moment, Xiangzi felt disappointed.

She thought her senses were wrong; there was no invisible bridge in front of her.

but--

His toes continued downward until a "thud" was heard, and Xiangzi felt his feet firmly planted on the ground.

"!"

With joy in his eyes, Xiangzi carefully weighed the transparent pavement beneath his feet.

This is a downward staircase!

"There's a path ahead!" Xiangzi stood on the transparent steps, turned around and looked at everyone. "You can go down from here."

"No way...it really exists."

"what?"

"Then what were we doing standing here in a daze for so long...?"

The magical girls looked surprised.

Xiangzi groped his way down and continued, turning back to wave to them.

"Do any of you have any magic that can use liquids?"

"I used a paintbrush to draw weapons to aid in combat, does that count?" one of the magical girls said, "like ink wash painting."

"That's perfect." Xiangzi pointed to the ground beneath his feet. "Could you please splash some ink on it?"

......

With the magical girl who could blaze a trail, the speed at which they explored the transparent stairs became very fast, much like a battle game on a handheld console where you could win by coloring the entire map in your own color. The magical girl dyed the transparent stairs a deep black, creating a path leading to the other end.

Xiangzi followed behind the magical girl, watching as they drew ever closer to the road they had just observed from afar...

Suddenly, the magical girl who had been clearing the way stopped, her hand, which had been splattering ink, hovered in mid-air before finally falling down.

In front of her toes, ink dripped straight down into the abyss below.

"The road ahead is blocked." She turned around and looked at Xiangzi, as if asking him what to do.

Xiangzi glanced at the next section of the road, which was much closer to them, and then turned his gaze back to the broken transparent steps.

This distance is not enough.

That shouldn't be the case. This road should connect to the road they saw earlier, so how could it be...? Hmm?

Xiangzi walked past the magical girl and stood before the broken steps. Looking down at the broken section of the road, he felt something was off.

The road appears to have been vandalized; the ink marks on the last step show obvious damage, unlike the earlier ink wash marks.

Has someone fought here?

Xiangzi frowned and dipped his finger in the colored ink on the ground.

But there's no sign of a previous battle here. It should have been... colored ink?

She turned around abruptly.

"Is this your ink?" Xiangzi asked the magical girl who used ink magic; the ink in her hand emitted a bright yellow glow.

"No, I only have three colors: black, red, and green."

“If that’s not your word, then—”

Xiangzi turned her head and looked at the broken, transparent road ahead. Colorful ink was gradually taking shape, converging from all directions onto the open road between the transparent passage and the road they were about to take.

At the same time, two figures flew rapidly towards this side from another direction.

As the colored inks formed countless fragments of brick and stone that were about to come together, a tremendous attraction erupted from the center point where the paints converged.

"They are from the other shore!"

Just as she thought, the road wasn't cut off because of a previous battle, but because the battle that would destroy it hadn't even taken place yet!

The Tale of Reincarnation: The Shore of Oblivion: Chapter 549 Alina

A powerful attraction emanated from the center of the restored transparent corridor, where two intertwined figures appeared in the middle of the passage before continuing their flight in the original direction.

The immense gravity caught the magical girl next to Xiangzi, who was clearing the way, off guard, and her entire body was pulled towards the center of the battle.

"what--!"

Just as the magical girl was about to be pulled away by the gravity generated by the explosion on the other side, he grabbed her wrist and flung her back towards where everyone was gathered.

She watched as the magical girl crashed into her companion's arms, escaping the effects of gravity, but at the cost of switching places with her.

Now it's Xiangzi's turn to fly towards the direction of the explosion on the other side.

"senior!"

Click——!

Black and white enveloped the entire world. Flame reached out, trying to grab Shoko. But she forgot that even without a physical connection, Shoko could move within her own time-stopped state. The frozen time couldn't stop Shoko's momentum as she flew towards the explosion's epicenter.

The mechanism, which had been jammed by the dense ribbons, closed again, and the world returned to color.

Yan watched helplessly as Xiangzi was swept into the explosion on the other side, disappearing along with the two abruptly appearing figures.

The vibrant colors that had just appeared disappeared from the transparent passageway, the splattered ink following the two figures engaged in battle, vanishing into the distance. The passageway, which had been shaped by the paint, returned to its invisible state.

Yan rushed across the transparent bricks to the spot where Xiangzi had disappeared, looking up in that direction, her pupils trembling violently. She clenched her fists, clenched her teeth, and her molars rubbed together, making a grinding sound.

"I've had enough of this feeling of being unable to do anything."

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Huhu——

The howling of the wind reached my ears.

Xiangzi realized that he had been caught in the explosion and was being taken to some unknown place by the two people from the other side who were fighting fiercely.

Because those two people were on the other side, the repulsive force generated during the battle turned into an attractive force, which is why I was being carried away.

Xiangzi raised his gun blade to block the attack from the green-haired figure wearing a gas mask.

It was a magical girl holding a paintbrush and a palette, whom Xiangzi didn't recognize.

But there was another one she knew.

Although he was wearing a gas mask, his pink hair was distinctive enough that Xiangzi recognized him at a glance.

Aya Maruyama.

Their eyes met in mid-air, and even through the goggles of their gas masks, Shoko knew that Aya Maruyama had recognized her.

So there's no need to hesitate about what to do next.

That's a righteous two against one!

A person from the other side and a person from this side ganging up on a person from the other side—the advantage lies with her!

--boom!

Three intertwined figures flew across another section of the broken bridge, restoring it to its original state.

With a series of thuds, several broken bridges were restored, and several huge rocks floating in the air flew towards the direction they had ascended, like meteorites attracted by gravity.

——————!

With an indescribable roar, the massive rocks finally formed a circular platform, becoming their foothold.

After the stone platform was restored, Xiangzi lost the gravity to continue moving forward and rolled around on the ground several times in a mess. Finally, she managed to regain her balance. When she looked up, she found that Maruyama Aya had disappeared, leaving her alone to face the green-haired magical girl who was singing praises.

Uh......

Two against one, the advantage is in my hands, right?

Xiangzi twitched the corner of his mouth.

Seeing Maruyama Aya continue walking in a certain direction, she finally understood that Aya-senpai had actually joined the battle the moment she smashed the platform.

In his view, the battle between the two people from the other side restored the platform, and then one of them left the battlefield at the same speed, leaving Xiangzi alone to face the enemy.

Conversely, in Cai's view, she actually joined the battle at this moment, leading Xiangzi and the other shore person, smashing an entire floating platform and several suspended corridors, and finally leaving Xiangzi on that transparent passage, facing the other shore's eulogists alone.

Tsk.

In other words, no matter what, he was actually fighting the enemy alone?

Moreover, judging from the various wounds on this person's body... they were all self-inflicted, and after a while, these wounds will heal due to his own attacks.

Xiangzi gripped the gun blade tightly and gritted his teeth.

In other words, she will face an increasingly powerful opponent from the other side.