Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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Although they had only met once before, the Mami that Xiangzi knew didn't seem like that kind of person.

Did they really go down such an extreme path simply because they learned the truth about magical girls?

"Why do you do these things? Why do you hope the world will end?" Xiangzi asked.

Why would I want the world to end?

Is it meaningful to answer questions with questions?!

"But I don't know!" Mami looked at her painfully. "Tell me!"

The soul gem on her forehead grew increasingly murky, and the ribbons around Mami, along with her collapsing face, began to flutter wildly like tentacles.

Whoosh-!

The floating ribbons swept towards Xiangzi.

Xiangzi pulled the trigger at the incoming ribbon, the flames of the gun engulfing an area in front of her. She rushed into the flames, and when she emerged again, she had become two shadows, one black and one white.

The ability to hold the soul of a twin.

Xiangzi was able to transform into a state of having one soul and two bodies in a very short time.

The two perspectives were hard to accept, but even the most unacceptable one was more comfortable than when they first arrived on the other side. The white-clad Xiangzi rushed towards Mami almost without hesitation, and then jumped off the locomotive and disappeared.

Mami seemed to have completely broken down and didn't notice the disappearance of one of Xiangzi's.

Her shattered thoughts were being reassembled. The flintlock pistols that Mami used were originally shaped from her own ribbons. These ribbons, no longer under Mami's control, moved instinctively, twisting together and turning into a monster clinging to the roof of the train.

Asami was suspended in the center by a monster made of ribbons, like a suffering saint, with her eyes tightly closed.

It looks terrifying, but this version of Mami is undoubtedly much weaker than before. Without the flintlock pistol and without Mami's ingrained precision control, this monster made of ribbons is not actually as much of a threat to Xiangzi as he imagined.

Shoko, dressed in black, darted and dodged amidst the fluttering ribbons. Standing on the other side, she seemed more like an unidentified monster than Mami's wildly flying ribbons in front of Homura.

The reversed sound intermingles with the normal sound, creating a noise that is uncomfortable for the eardrums.

The lament of holding a child's soul splits her perspective and actions into two parts. The experience of having one soul and two bodies is very novel and difficult to control. Xiangzi must focus most of her attention on the direct confrontation with the ribbon monster.

The brief but intense close combat lasted for nearly half a minute. While the black-clad Xiangzi was fighting the ribbon monster on the roof of the train, the white-clad Xiangzi was actually circling around, going around from the edge of the train to behind the ribbon monster.

This guy can put less defensive pressure on Xiangzi than Mami, but the ribbon, controlled by instinct, will focus more on protecting its master in order to protect itself, so it is not easy to break through its defense.

Xiangzi has begun to feel an attraction emanating from another body; the duration of her ability is almost over. She must find a weakness in the ribbon monster and kill Mami, who is being protected by it, before the duration of the Soul of Holding Hands ends.

In other words, Xiangzi is not under defensive pressure, but rather offensive pressure.

However, the white figure lurking in the shadows still couldn't find an opportunity to break through the ribbon monster's heavy defenses.

Just as the attraction was becoming stronger and stronger.

Xiangzi had a sudden inspiration. He gave up resisting the attraction and instead gave in to it by pushing hard.

The black and white shadows flew towards the ribbon monster, and due to the attraction, they instantly burst into an exaggerated speed.

The fluttering ribbons gathered around the black shadow, leaving enough space for the white shadow. The white shadow passed through the defense between the ribbons, accelerating to its limit with the increasingly strong attraction, and aimed the blade tip at Mami's head, at that extremely murky soul gem.

锔——!

The ribbon monster reacted in time, deflecting the blade to the side before it touched Mami's brow, but Xiangzi pulled the trigger at that moment.

The chamber spun, and a Seed of Lamentation shattered into pieces inside.

Bang-!

A streak of silver light flashed and covered Mami's head.

The white Xiangzi and the black Xiangzi collided and became one again.

The Tale of Reincarnation: The Shore of Oblivion: Chapter 511 Collision with One's Past Self

Using the attraction generated when his ability's duration ended, Xiangzi successfully broke through the ribbon monster's defenses and attacked Mami, who was protected in the very center.

Although the blade did not touch Mami's Soul Gem, the flames that erupted from the gun blade covered Mami's entire head, and the ribbons surrounding her also dissipated.

As they brushed past each other, Xiangzi heard a crisp cracking sound.

Xiangzi landed at one end of the train, flipped over to unload the force, and plunged the gun blade into the ground to stop his backward movement.

She raised her head and looked at the fallen Mami.

"Is it done?"

She regretted saying it as soon as it left her mouth.

Because she had already seen Mami float up again. The remaining ribbons were suspending Mami, as if she were on a cross. Mami was hanging there, her eyes closed and her brows furrowed.

The soul gem between her brows—like Xiangzi's—had developed a crack, but it didn't break.

Xiangzi smacked his lips, gripped the gun blade tightly, and was ready to go at any moment.

She knew it wouldn't be that easy.

Suddenly, Mami opened her eyes.

The jumbled, contradictory, and fragmented thoughts seemed to have been integrated, and the eyes that had reopened regained... the appearance that the "Saintess of Kamishima" of the eulogy school should have.

She was no longer confused; she became resolute.

Perhaps it's just a temporary way to numb myself, but that doesn't matter.

She remains the "Saintess of Kamibama" to this day;

The ribbon helped Mami return to the ground.

Mami frowned slightly, raised her hand, and the tangled ribbons around her transformed into flintlock pistols, which she aimed at Xiangzi.

Xiangzi maintained the posture of carrying the gun blade on his shoulder, somewhat like the preparatory stance of a certain one-handed sword technique.

"..."

"..."

Asami wore a half-covering white mask. The air on this side of the world was transformed into a breathable space on the other side through special processing. She could hear her own breathing becoming very heavy inside the mask.

Xiangzi also heard her own breathing. The protective suit that Mami gave her served the same purpose as Mami's mask.

Their breathing became very heavy, and the space between them seemed to be in a vacuum, completely silent.

Besides the clanging sound of the rails grinding against the gaps in the tracks, there was also the sound of wind rushing in from the opposite direction.

Both of their soul gems had been cracked open, leaving them both severely injured, and their relationship once again returned to a state of evenly matched strength.

Is this a fair fight?

No, it is not.

Clearly, Mami didn't think that way.

Mami looked into Xiangzi's eyes, said nothing, but simply waved her hand, and the flintlock pistol struck its hammer.

boom--!

The barrage of comments flew towards Xiangzi and Yan, who was not far from him.

"Tsk!"

With several clangs, the gun blade deflected the bullets flying towards Yan, but at the cost of Xiangzi himself being hit twice.

On the other side, the wounds were not beyond healing. Xiangzi simply pretended that the two gunshot wounds did not exist. Taking advantage of Mami's regrouping of a new flintlock rifle array, he rushed up and tried to close the distance with Mami.

Xiangzi ripped a large hole in her chest, and the Soul Gem cracked during the time she lost consciousness. Compared to Xiangzi, who completely gave up using his abilities, Mami still chose to stubbornly endure it.

The process of the ribbon forming a flintlock musket in the air became extremely slow, the window of opportunity became longer than ever before, and the possibility of Xiangzi breaking through the defense line head-on was higher than ever before.

The gun was aimed at her torso, finding the most difficult path to avoid—if she avoided it, the bullet would fly towards the flames behind Xiangzi.

The bullet left the barrel, spinning as it flew toward Xiangzi.

when--!

The ribbon-made bullet was torn apart by the tip of the gun blade, exploded in mid-air, and turned into a colorful flower.

Bang!

The bursting ribbons and colorful flowers severely obstructed Xiangzi's vision. She used her left hand to shield her eyes and rushed out of the area affected by the colorful flowers.

But Mami was no longer where she was; instead, a height restriction sign was in front of her.

Xiangzi's pupils contracted, and he quickly lay down on the roof of the train.

Where is Mami? Above Xiangzi's head, the ribbon grabbed the billboard flying overhead, lifted herself up, and flew over the billboard, holding two double-barreled shotguns, aiming at Xiangzi below.

Bang bang bang bang—!

Xiangzi rolled awkwardly to the side, tumbling right off the locomotive, then swung back up, grabbing the edge. This sequence of actions occurred almost simultaneously with Mami landing back on the ground.

"..."

"...Yi Lingyi Qi seems to dance for a long time 4..."

Once that moment passed, the two switched places, their breathing becoming even more powerful than the roar of a locomotive's internal combustion engine.

The next moment.

Mami dropped the empty double-barreled shotgun and pulled out a flintlock pistol from behind her.

After landing, Xiangzi pushed off the ground with all his might and sprinted toward Mami, who was right next to him.

when--!

The gun blade deflected the bullet, and Xiangzi was almost at close range with Mami.

But at that moment, she suddenly noticed something hanging from the edge of the locomotive.

There were many gantry cranes set up in the port. A locomotive happened to pass by, and the gantry crane swept overhead, its dark shadow momentarily obscuring the moonlight, and the surroundings turned dark for a split second.

When things returned to normal, Xiangzi was finally able to see the swaying figure clearly.

Oops!

Xiangzi watched helplessly as the figure rolled onto the roof of the locomotive in a very counterintuitive way, and then—straight up, like a missile, crashed into Xiangzi!

Damn it, that's me!

Boom-!

! —Thump

The two heads collided, like two meteorites colliding in the floating space, like positive and negative electrons colliding, like the moment of the Big Bang.

Xiangzi was thrown off the ground and rolled several times before crashing into a pile of rusty cart frames near the railway.

"what--!"

A steel bar of moderate thickness pierced Xiangzi's abdomen, sending a sharp, intense pain through her; her pupils nearly shattered. She watched her past self standing on the roof of the train, continuing her desperate fight with Mami, growing ever more distant from her.

It turns out that the person who knocked me down was myself...

Xiangzi gave a helpless twitch of his lips.

What is all this nonsense? What's done is done... Sometimes it's really infuriating, whether it's the past or the future, whether it's the other side or yourself on this side.

As Xiangzi gripped the steel bar embedded in his abdomen, he took a deep breath, intending to slowly pull himself out of it.

She heard a loud bang.

Looking up, a small mushroom cloud rose in the direction the train disappeared.

The Tale of Reincarnation: The Shore of Oblivion: Chapter 512 What has happened has already happened.

The train derailed.

Halfway through the fight between Mami and Xiangzi on the other side, Xiangzi on this side took over her position and continued the fight.

At that moment, she saw Xiangzi toss the flowers over mixed with the seeds of lamentation, and then, in a seemingly careless and opportunistic manner, hand them to Yan.

Based on the information she had previously obtained, she now fully understood how Xiangzi and Yan had teamed up to hide the flower.

She looked up at Xiangzi, who was backing up onto the train next to her.

! — Swoosh

A bullet flew from behind, which Mami easily dodged, and flew back into Xiangzi's pistol.