Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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The armor pieces fell to the ground one by one.

Chu Hua stepped over the wreckage made up of parts and walked toward the boulder in the center of the open space.

"Mio..."

"Shh-"

Mio raised her index finger and placed it in front of her lips, interrupting Hatsuka from saying anything she wanted to say.

"The brave prince overcame all the difficulties along the way and finally stood in front of the final boss..." Mio sat on top of the boulder, looking down at Chu Hua, "...with her princess."

"I won't let you succeed, Mio." Hatsuka clenched her fist.

"Successfully?" Mio tilted her head slightly.

Suddenly, a scene appeared around them, filled with clouds and mist, and eight tentacles, comparable in size to a chord, rose from the seabed and completely destroyed the island.

The String Horn was like a small boat amidst the huge waves stirred up by the tentacles.

......

Pfft——!

Dark blue blood spurted from the wound as Hailin kicked the headless familiar into the sea.

Mu went inside to "catch the ghost," and now she's the only one holding on to the deck at the bow of the ship.

Hailing gripped two swords tightly, one long and one short. The katana in her right hand was covered in blood, and even the cloth wrapped around the hilt was stained bluish-black. The wakizashi in her left hand had only the tip covered in blood, but it still gleamed with a sharp light.

Countless enemies gathered together, shouting and yelling in front of and behind her.

Hailing is like a seagull riding the wind and breaking through the cold, flying over the vast sea with white foam.

The petrel rushes towards the oncoming wave, then flips over to meet the next wave.

The clash of swords was almost constant, not even for a second. Every time a blade flashed, someone would immediately fall to the ground. Whenever the familiars surrounding Hailing witnessed this scene, they would gasp in horror.

Gradually, the familiars formed a vacuum around the sea bell, which resembled a demon.

Hailing finally had a moment to catch her breath, exhaling heavily, her disheveled hair clinging to her temples, like a demon crawling out of hell.

Woo——!

Just then, the Strings emitted a piercing, mournful cry, as if struck by a huge wave, and the entire ship rocked violently.

Hailing turned her gaze in shock toward the direction from which the sound came.

—"Oh oh oh!"

Aden turned around and shouted excitedly.

"Amazing! Our Sea Witch is truly incredible!!!! Now that you've completed your ascension, you're invincible!!!"

What made the entire cruise ship tremble was a tentacle.

Thick tentacles rose from the seabed, their barbs tearing through a steel plate on one side of the cruise ship, leaving a gruesome wound. The screams everyone heard were the sounds of the tentacles slicing through the ship's steel hull.

The thick tentacles are connected to a figure that is faintly visible in the distant clouds.

......

"I'm not some stupid villain from an anime who will give you a chance to stop me before my plan is complete."

She crossed her legs and said casually.

"While you and the guardian knights were wasting time, my true form had already completed its 'ascension'."

“I am free now, and no one can stop me from taking my revenge on the sea and the land.”

The Lost Tale: The Spirit of Youth: Chapter 251 Helper

"Waaaaaahh ...

Ai-yin gripped the handrail and watched as the enormous, overwhelming tentacles rose up in front of her.

The surging waves nearly threw them off, but once the waters calmed down, the tentacle had already risen into the sky, obscuring the moon.

Tentacles are one thing, but more importantly—

"Lixi! Dengdeng! It's ripped a huge hole in the boat, and seawater is pouring in!"

"I have eyes, you don't need to remind me!"

The ship, carrying more than two thousand people, was rocking so violently that Lixi had to hold onto the handrail to avoid being thrown off.

"Lamp, you'd better hold on tight... Lamp?!"

What Lixi didn't expect was that she and Aine were magical girls, and their superhuman physical abilities guaranteed that they could hold on firmly as long as they grabbed the handrail.

But Deng was different; she was just an ordinary person with a weak constitution. Even though she had gripped the handrail, there was still a risk of losing her grip. In the violent shaking, Deng finally lost her hold on the slippery handrail and was thrown off.

Lixi reached out and tried to grab the lamp's hand.

She was so close, so very close, to catching it.

The lamp's fingertip brushed past Lixi's fingertip and flew towards the sea.

at this time.

A hand grabbed the lamp and pulled her into his arms.

"Dengdeng, I've caught you!"

Ai Yin leaned her whole body out of the ship's side, pulled the lamp back into her arms, and then the two of them fell down together.

"Lights, newbies—!" Li Xi's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets as she watched them disappear from her sight.

Boom!

A muffled thud sounded beneath Lixi's feet.

"Ouch!" This was followed by a not-too-loud scream.

Lixi immediately peeked out and looked down, only to find Aiyin holding Deng, hanging upside down outside.

It turns out that when Aine leaned out, one of her feet hooked onto the railing, which prevented both of them from falling into the sea—the price being that she would spin 270 degrees around her foot and then crash into the hull of the ship.

"Ah!" Only then did Deng belatedly realize what was happening, and she screamed in Aine's arms.

"It's alright, it's alright, Dengdeng! We survived!" Aiyin hugged Dengdeng tightly, who looked like a frightened little animal, and gently comforted her.

After all, Lantern is just an ordinary girl. No matter how much potential she has to be a magical girl, she is nothing without signing a contract with Kyubey.

"Rookie, Deng, are you alright?" Lixi called out, sticking her head out.

"It's okay!" Ai Yin said, "but my foot is about to slip, can you help me pull it up?"

Upon hearing this, Lixi immediately squatted down, quickly found Aiyin's feet, grabbed them with his charred hands, and pulled them upwards with all his might.

When Aine felt her body slowly rising, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

But she soon regretted it.

Lixi usually blocks out her pain sensations; after all, with such a wild fighting style, she would go crazy from the pain if she didn't. But this also brings some hidden dangers, such as making her assessment of her own injuries less accurate.

This wasn't a problem at all when Su Shi was around, since no injuries would remain.

With Su Shi gone and the intensity of the battle high, Li Xi completely forgot about assessing her own injuries—her hand was actually carbonized.

Clapping—

A tooth-grinding sound came from between the charred arms.

Li Xi's pupils shrank.

That was the sound of bones breaking. Her forearm was already burned down to almost nothing, with the exposed radius and ulna charred black. Now, under pressure, the carbonized surface cracked and snapped off with a crack.

Then, I fell down with Aine.

"Eh?"

The feeling of weightlessness suddenly descended, and Aine's relaxed expression froze.

"Eh?!?!"

Tick-tock————

The world suddenly turned black and white.

Everything stopped. The witch, the familiar, the waves, the sea—everything turned black and white, as if someone had pressed the pause button amidst the ticking of a clock.

Of course, the same goes for Aine and the lamp that were halfway down.

In the completely black and white world, several yellow ribbons shot out from the cabin, made a right-angle turn in mid-air, and wrapped around Aine and Lamp's bodies. One of them also went out to retrieve Riki's broken left forearm.

As Aine and the others came into contact with the yellow ribbon, they regained their original colors. Weightlessness turned into increased weight, and Aine felt a dizzying sensation before she found herself back in the side corridor.

She hugged the lamp, rolled twice on the ground, and then returned to the same position as before, with one of her on top and the other on the bottom.

tick-

Time resumed its flow and returned to its original colors.

"Xiao Ai..."

Tears welled in the lamp's eyes, and she gazed at Aine with her hands on either side, her eyes filled with tears.

Looking at that pitiful face, Ai Yin suddenly remembered the topic that had been interrupted by someone a few minutes ago.

"You told me before about getting lost together..." Aine said softly, "I promised you."

"Huh?" The lamp paused for a moment.

Ai-yin propped herself up and looked directly into the lamp's eyes.

“Let’s move forward together, let’s face it together,” she said. “And then, let’s…”

"Su Shi?"

A voice appeared in their ears.

Have you ever met Su Shi?

Mu squatted down next to the two of them and asked expressionlessly.

"Uh... hello?" Ai Yin's lips twitched. "May I ask who you are?"

Aine had met Mu in the conference room before, but didn't know her name.

“Mu…” the lamp said softly.

"Wakaba Mutsumi," Mutsumi introduced himself.

"Mu, what are you doing here?" Li Xi walked over, clutching her severed arm.

“There’s a big hole in the side of the ship.” Mu took Lixi’s forearm and walked over. “The ship will sink soon. We need to evacuate the passengers, as many as we can.”

“Otherwise, it will sink little by little, just like the Titanic, right?” Aine’s gaze lingered between the lights and the mask several times, swallowing back the question she wanted to ask, “So you two know each other?” “But how are we going to evacuate so many people?”

Mu lowered his head and manipulated the silk threads to reattach Lixi's arm.

For an ordinary person, this condition would be so bad that they would give up on treatment, but for a magical girl, it would only take a few days to recover.

"Lixi, your hand will take at least two days to recover. Don't use magic anymore," she said calmly, then changed the subject, "Don't worry about the evacuation."

She should have been the one to save Aine and Akari; the silk thread had already flown halfway, but in the next instant, Aine and Akari were back on the ship, so there was no need for her to intervene.

As for who saved the person, Mu knew.

She turned her gaze to the interior of the cabin, and at the edge of her vision, a yellow ribbon flashed by.

"We have help now."

A Tale of the Lost: The Spirit of Youth: Chapter 252 Stream

The aft deck of the String Roll was much narrower than the front, but it was still a flat open space with a wide view and high places to guard. Therefore, Mana initially thought that all she needed to do was guard the largest entrance from the high place with the kitten-like girl next to her.

But in reality, her coordination with the cat-like girl wasn't bad, it was practically nonexistent. As the pressure from the rear deck increased, Mana even had the illusion that she was the only one under pressure.

Because that cat-like girl is still swimming among the tentacles of the sea slug.

Mana couldn't even see what weapon she was using, yet she ripped open sea slugs one by one, spraying their contents everywhere, while the girl who was moving through them remained spotless.

Mana was grateful for her relentless killing of the enemy—it would have been even better if she had realized that these sea slugs were not the main source of pressure on the defense line.