Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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“I didn’t even mention it.”

"Good good..."

......

She lingered by the bartender's side for a long time until almost 2 a.m. before finally emerging from the bar as it was about to close.

Feeling the cool breeze outside, Miaomeng couldn't help but smile warmly.

Although she always greets people with a smile, such smiles are rare, and they only appear when she is with her "family".

Walking down the deserted street, humming a little tune, Miaomeng turned the corner.

Sudden.

She stopped.

The world before us has changed, become distorted, and is moving in a surreal direction.

"...Witch's Barrier?"

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The street in front of me twisted into an infinitely long, empty avenue, like an infinite corridor in a quirky work—empty, lifeless, and devoid of any vitality.

This is different from the roads that run through the grasslands. The roads on the grasslands also seem to stretch endlessly, but... they are not as wide as twenty or so lanes.

It was so spacious that Miao Meng thought she was on a giant's driveway.

Moreover, the streetlights on both sides were also strange. The streetlights started about ten meters in front of me and stretched into the distance until they disappeared into the gray fog, as if the place where I was standing was the starting point.

Yes.

This is true.

Miaomeng glanced back; behind her stretched a gray, drab grassland. She knew that after a few steps, she would enter the gray fog. After walking through the fog for a while, she would return to her original spot.

Therefore, the place where you entered is the starting point of the barrier.

Miaomeng swallowed.

If a normal person were standing here, they might think they were drunk.

But Nekomu is a magical girl, and she knows what happened.

The witch's name had already surfaced in my mind.

【Witch's Name: Take Me Home, Country Road】

Miao Meng frowned, using her magic to filter the alcohol from her blood that was making her dizzy. She used to quite like this feeling, but the current situation didn't allow it.

"The witches are getting more and more rampant lately." Miao Meng clicked her tongue and glanced at the empty road around her. "Country road, where does it lead?"

Where it leads is not important; what Miaomeng cares about more is how to get out.

Moreover, once you come in, all you can see is the road; you can't see any familiars or witches. There's just a wide, frightening road standing there... and a small car too?

Miao Meng suddenly noticed a car parked in the middle of the road, with no one inside.

As far as I remember, I didn't see it when I scanned the screen just now.

Was this an invitation to drive? Miao Meng raised an eyebrow. She did have a driver's license, but she hadn't driven since passing the test.

Besides, this thing looks like a trap no matter how you look at it. Would anyone actually sit on it? No way, no way, no way—

She actually sat down.

After all, there was nothing left but this car. Even if it was a trap, I had to step into it and see what happened—anyway, with my ability to escape, no one could stop me.

That was what Miaomeng originally thought.

But after she got in, started the car, and drove for an hour, she realized a problem.

This witch's barrier is very large.

Different witches have different boundaries. Some witches deliberately expand the size of their barriers to make them appear boundless, but that's only an appearance. Just like a cat standing at the beginning of a road, turning back and plunging into the fog, only to return to its starting point after walking for a while, those seemingly boundless witch barriers actually have boundaries.

The barrier that Miaomeng is currently in is no exception; she has already proven that this barrier has boundaries.

So I drove for an hour and still didn't reach the other boundary... Could it be that I got lost and went in circles in the same place?

Ghost hitting the wall?

Miao Meng swallowed hard and turned the car around.

Then it took another hour.

We've returned to where we started.

Cold sweat trickled down Miaomeng's forehead.

Is it an illusion? Or is there a limit, and once you cross it, you're stuck in the same place? Meow dreamed of many, many possibilities, but they all ultimately revolved around the concept of being trapped in a maze.

She was unwilling to admit that the barrier she had stumbled into was truly enormous. Apart from Nirvana, she had never seen such a massive witch's barrier.

Regardless of whether the witch intentionally controls the range of the barrier, the more powerful the witch, the larger the range of the barrier she can create; this will never change.

If the barrier is truly so large that even after driving for an hour, Miaomeng still couldn't see the edge...

boom--

A muffled thud drifted over from afar.

Miaomeng poked her head out of the car, looked in the direction from which the sound came, and swallowed.

"Damn... could that be a witch?"

In the distant thick fog, a blurry, towering shadow appeared and disappeared. Miaomeng couldn't make out what it looked like at all, only that it was frighteningly tall and vaguely resembled a human figure.

Even though she couldn't see anything clearly, Miao Meng inexplicably felt that it looked like a figure gazing into the distance.

On the deserted and desolate highway, a colossal object suddenly appeared.

The cat dreamt of a bizarre dream it had once had by chance.

"This is definitely beyond Hard! She's a real witch!" Miao Meng's face turned deathly pale. "The typhoon isn't coming for another day, how could something like this happen... Or is the typhoon not even here yet...?"

Isn't that even more terrifying?!

Miaomeng slammed her head against the steering wheel, and the car horn went off with a "beep."

With her mind in complete chaos, Miao Meng wasn't thinking about how to deal with the witch at all; her first thought was about the typhoon that hadn't yet made landfall.

The typhoon hasn't made landfall, which means "Witch's Night" hasn't arrived yet. So what is this? A Dangou-level witch who appears out of nowhere without warning?

No, perhaps it wasn't entirely without warning.

Meow dreamt of cases where witches had appeared like an ooze in the past few days.

Where did all these witches come from?

It's only possible that all the magical girls in Reed Plains turned into witches overnight, but as far as Meow Dream knows, her work handover has been going smoothly these past few days. The magical girls are diligently eliminating the surge of witches, and even if some die or turn into witches out of despair, it's still within a controllable range.

There's absolutely no reason for such a sudden appearance of so many, let alone this huge creature in front of us.

Wait, wait... why did it appear out of nowhere?

It was as if witches were holding a festival, and these witches, who had sprung up like mushrooms after rain, were there to participate in the festival.

【Witch's Night】

Meow dreamed that the name "Witch's Night" was a name for the witch who looked like an inverted stage prop. But it doesn't mean that "Witch's Night" only refers to the stage prop.

Witch's Night: A night of witches gathering and revelry to celebrate the arrival of spring.

Wouldn't that be just the right solution to the current situation?

"No, you must tell Xiangzi."

Miao Meng was trembling as she sat on the steering wheel.

Then, without warning, she suddenly noticed a line of text on the dashboard behind the steering wheel, at an angle not visible during normal driving. It wasn't witch script, but Japanese, as if it had been deliberately prepared for her, knowing that Nyanko would look down.

Don't look up.

Then Meow Dream raised her head.

I saw eyes emerging from the clouds, looking right at me.

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Don't look up.

Anyone who sees this line of text cannot help but look up.

Then Meow Dream saw a figure, barely visible in the misty sky, seemingly turning its head. A pair of eyes appeared in the mist.

It was looking at itself.

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"No wow!"

Xiao Su Shi suddenly jumped out of bed.

Sweat soaked through his thin clothes, his chest heaved violently, and his hair, glistening with sweat, clung to his cheeks and forehead.

She wiped the sticky sweat from her face with the back of her hand and took a few breaths.

"What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?" Xiangzi's concerned voice rang out beside her.

Xiao Su Shi looked in the direction from which the sound came.

Xiangzi sat at her desk, holding a book, a pair of glasses perched on her nose. She slightly raised her eyes, her worried gaze drifting towards herself; her figure, bathed in sunlight, appeared somewhat unreal.

"Ah."

Xiao Su Shi withdrew her gaze, clutched the blanket covering her legs, and responded softly.

"It seems like I dreamt about things from the past."

"Before?" Xiangzi looked up. "How long ago?"

“Back in the monastery,” Little Su Shi said. “Didn’t I say that I spent my time in a monastery before inheriting the throne?”

"What happened there? Did it leave you with some bad memories?"

"I don't know." Xiao Su Shi shook her head. "I only remember it happened in the monastery, and the rest... I have no recollection."

Or rather, it was there just a moment ago, or even a few seconds ago.

But after saying a couple of sentences, she realized she had forgotten.

I forgot what the dream was about, forgot why I was afraid, and only a vague impression remained: the dream was terrifying.

“Dreaming is a common thing; you forget about it after you wake up.” Xiangzi closed his book, took off his glasses, and put them in the box. “Don’t take it to heart.”

"Mmm..." Xiao Su Shi responded softly.

“However, it’s not good to stay in a confined space after having a nightmare.” Xiangzi stood up, patted the knitted cashmere sweater hanging beside him, and asked, “Want to go out for a walk?”

As the weather turned cold, Xiangzi helped Xiaosu put on a knitted sweater he had just taken out, then a coat, a scarf, and finally a hat. He then took her hand and led her out of the small house.

squeak-

The moment the door was pushed open, a blast of cold air rushed in from outside.

Xiao Su Shi was incredibly grateful that she had just worn enough warm clothes.

Along with the cold wind, the noise from the street also blew in.

Stepping out of the small house, I saw people coming and going, and a thin layer of snow had just fallen on the street. Several children were still playing in the snow nearby. As far as the eye could see, there was a warm and peaceful scene.

If we ignore the conspicuous Sky City floating in the sky not far away.

Since Deng had already obtained the fragment of the Greed World, the "Eye Ornament," there was no longer any need to consider going to the Greed World. Xiangzi led everyone back to the World of Desire to prepare for the final battle.

They were currently inside the city walls of the imperial capital. As the saying goes, "the darkest place is under the lamp," and Xiangzi boldly chose the best place to observe the situation while the empire was preparing for war.

With just over twenty days until the Empire is ready to invade the real world, Lin Hai is already preparing to gather the rebels. As the new generation of Gross, she has accumulated far more experience in the Empire's underworld than Xiangzi could ever imagine, so it's better for her to handle this kind of thing.

During this time, Tobacco chose to return to the gathering place of time travelers in the country. She said that she wanted to use this time to persuade everyone to prepare to go home with her.

The eccentric Yashiki Nene was also scolded by Lin Hai after waking up, and then she obediently followed Lin Hai to do his errands.