Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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Chu Hua bit her lip hard, then released it, feeling the metallic taste filling her mouth.

"I won't be soft-hearted, Xiao Xiang."

“I know.” Xiangzi gently wrapped his arms around Chuhua’s neck. “From now on, I will be your eyes.”

"Thank you, Xiao Xiang." Chu Hua looked up.

She slowly stood up.

bang——

The helmet, resembling a Bsk, closed up, and the wings, which had shrunk to the size of a cape, opened again. The close-fitting armor, freed from its constraints, began to grow wildly, becoming the carapace of a beast.

Chu Hua opened her empty, crimson eyes and stared into the void ahead.

"In that case, let's end this."

The Lost Tale: A Young Man's Spirit: Chapter 250 I'm Not a Foolish Villain from Anime (Part 2)

Just as Chu Hua fully extended all her joints, the black mist in front of Mio also changed. The black mist, which had gathered all the wronged souls in the barrier, transformed into a crystal that emitted a faint green light.

bang——

The crystal shattered, and a foot clad in black armor stepped out. Then, a knight shrouded in black mist stood before Mio.

Standing three meters tall with a slender figure, she vaguely revealed some feminine features. In her right hand, she held a weapon that, by normal human proportions, could be described as a giant sword, while in her left hand, she held a massive black shield whose surface could be used as a table.

After Mio stopped concealing her identity, she appeared in an exquisitely beautiful dress, as if she were truly a sea princess from a story.

The princess gracefully floated to her knight, raised a short sword made of transparent crystal, and gently tapped it on the knight's left and right shoulders.

hum-

A green glow shone from beneath the knight's helmet.

Mio turned around, floated back behind the knight, and looked at Hatsuka with indifferent eyes—and Shoko behind her.

"This is my guardian knight, formed from the countless wronged souls who perished at the bottom of the sea."

She was talking to Xiangzi.

"If you want to kill me, you'll have to step over my corpse first."

The voice just fell.

"Roar--!"

A hoarse roar came from beneath the knight's helmet. He held his shield in front of him, and his feet pounded as he charged toward Chu Hua.

"Something is rushing towards you, about three meters high! It's going very fast!" Xiangzi said.

Upon hearing Xiangzi's voice, Chu Hua immediately made a dodging motion, unleashing astonishing power from his feet and leaping to the side.

but--

"It will correct its positioning, so it can't be avoided!"

As Chu Hua dodged to the side, the guardian knight surprisingly changed the direction of his charge. His heavy armor shattered the ground and locked onto Chu Hua's body like a missile. His shield collided with the air, making a whooshing sound.

"Then what should I do?"

"Keep moving forward, then follow my instructions."

"Ah."

The situation didn't allow Xiangzi to explain what had happened to Chuhua word by word, but through the connection between the two, she knew that Chuhua had already understood her meaning from her few words.

As the guardian knight drew ever closer, Xiangzi mentally calculated the timing for Chuhua to avoid him, silently counting down the seconds.

Just as the figure of the guardian knight grew larger in his eyes, Xiangzi knew it was time.

"It's now!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Chu Hua forcefully shoved her claws into the ground, slowing down while simultaneously pushing off the ground with both legs in the opposite direction.

Stones flew everywhere.

Chu Hua's footsteps left a small, circular crater in the ground. The Guardian Knight's massive, truck-like body brushed past her, and she could even feel a strong gust of wind blowing across her cheek.

"It's over, now let's wait!"

Xiangzi's voice stopped abruptly, followed by a very abrupt turn of events.

"Avoid it, anywhere is fine!"

At such a speed, stopping would be extremely difficult, but the Guardian Knight suddenly slowed down as if someone had pressed the pause button, stopping in an extremely unscientific and illogical manner. The sword and shield in his hand turned into black smoke, reforming into a huge warhammer, which he then swung back down towards where Chu Hua was.

boom----!

A deafening roar, comparable to the beating of a heart, came from the massive thud of the warhammer striking the ground.

The impact of the warhammer compressed the air to its limit, and the burst of air, carrying debris and a destructive shockwave, spread outwards from the warhammer's center.

Chu Hua managed to dodge the attack after being reminded by Xiangzi, but was still blasted away by the shockwave.

She managed to regain her balance in mid-air using her wings, only to hear Xiangzi's next warning.

"Get to the left!"

Whoosh-!

A black stream of air brushed past Chu Hua's waist, carrying away a piece of black keratin.

The guardian knight maintained his throwing posture, then lowered his hand, and the black energy in his hand condensed back into the shape of a spear.

"My guardian knights are the souls of all those who have sunk in this sea throughout history. They wield spears, hammers... and more than that. They are all kinds of people."

Mio sat atop the boulder with her legs crossed, calmly watching the battle between the two black knights.

"After coming together, the skills of these dead souls merged and became even more powerful."

"Tsk."

Xiangzi clicked his tongue, squinted, and carefully observed the guardian knight's next move.

However, upon seeing the new weapon formed from black energy in the knight's hand, her pupils suddenly shrank to their smallest size.

"Chu Hua—! Fly, fly as high as you can!"

It wasn't the cold weapon she had imagined—it was an M2HB heavy machine gun that Xiangzi himself had used!

hum-

The green light flashing beneath the Guardian Knight's helmet locked onto the flying figure, and he pulled the trigger.

The heavy machine gun, billowing black smoke, spat out flames as the first tracer bullet, trailing a ghostly green light, led a dense barrage of bullets toward Chu Hua in flight.

Using the magic emitted from its wings, Chu Hua performed various irregular maneuvers in the air before plunging headlong into the smoke that filled the canyon above.

The sputtering sound gradually faded into the smoke until it disappeared completely.

“We’ve entered the fog, we can slow down a bit.” Xiangzi patted Chuhua on the shoulder.

Chu Hua nodded and slowed down.

strangeness......

Xiangzi frowned, feeling that something was not quite right.

Thick fog surrounded them, obscuring everything. It was normal that the guardian knights stopped firing after they flew up, having lost their target. But Xiangzi felt something was amiss.

The Guardian Knight's spears are definitely faster than bullets, and machine guns are not easy to aim at agile targets flying in the air. Continuing to throw spears poses a greater threat to them than bombarding them with bullets. Why did it suddenly change its attack mode?

Not to mention that once they reached high altitudes, the surrounding fog made it impossible to see their target...

"Xiao Xiang, what happened?"

Could it be that this fog is also...?

Xiangzi suddenly woke up, staring at the shadows that were gradually appearing in the mist.

"Chuhua—" Xiangzi gasped, "It's up here!"

However, Xiangzi had already missed the best opportunity to warn him. The guardian knight's figure emerged from the clouds above, raising a black greatsword as tall as himself, aiming at Chuhua, whom he could neither see nor hear—

Boom!

Chu Hua transformed into a shooting star and fell from the sky, creating a sizable crater on the ground.

Then, the guardian knights descended from the sky.

It cannot fly; the thick fog in the sky is simply part of its body.

"Is it over already?" Mio shook her head regretfully.

too weak.

Even if one surpasses the limits of a magical girl, being stuck between a witch and a magical girl, is that all there is to it?

"Didn't anyone tell you not to say things like that before everything has settled down?"

"Still alive?" Mio looked at the sunken crater with slight surprise. "Wait, that sound..."

The one who answered her was not Xiangzi, but Chuhua, who should have been deaf and blind.

“Yes, it’s me speaking.” Chu Hua emerged from the swirling smoke and dust, her eyes closed. “Xiangzi connected his senses with mine, and now I can hear your voice directly.”

Xiangzi quietly lay down behind Chuhua, using his own eyes to replace Chuhua's eyes and his own ears to replace Chuhua's ears.

She is a spirit, so no matter how loudly her heartbeat is, it will not make her blind or deaf.

Although sharing her senses with Hatsuka means she has to process two identical pieces of information at the same time, making her ability to act extremely weak, this is Hatsuka's battle, and entrusting everything to Hatsuka is Shoko's final decision.

"Mio, I also have a lot to say to you, but—"

Boom!

Chu Hua shattered the ground behind her, leaving a piercing sonic boom in her wake. The powerful force propelled her instantly in front of the guardian knight.

At this point, the second half of the sentence finally arrived, albeit belatedly.

"—I have to step over its corpse to stand in front of you, right?"

The guardian knight raised his shield to block the charge, and the sword and shield collided with the beast's claws, sparking a loud crack.

After regaining her senses, Chu Hua was like a completely different person, able to perfectly unleash her speed and strength.

Two knights dressed entirely in black were locked in a fierce struggle, almost becoming one with the other, making it impossible to distinguish them.

The Guardian Knights are nearly as strong as Lin. They are both the highest-ranking familiars in Ji, and their status is comparable to that of Nirvana, equivalent to Oblivionis.

Just now, outside the barrier, Chu Hua was already able to overpower Lin. Now that she has regained her sight and hearing, the balance of the battle has instantly shifted in her favor.

Countless swords, spears, and clubs fell like rain from the misty sky, piercing the earth all around them.

The guardian knight's weapon was repeatedly shattered by the ferocious beast's claws, then he would pull out another weapon from the ground and continue charging forward.

It transformed from sword and shield to spear, from spear to warhammer, and from warhammer to dual swords, employing almost every trick in the book.

Its martial arts come from the dead, possessing skills from various schools, and it also knows how to deal with the moves of various schools.

However, Chu Hua's fighting style almost completely abandoned everything that makes her human. Claws, knees, wings, tail—she used every part of her body that she could use like an animal, attacking it without any strategy or method—or rather, based on instinct.

The fight between the two sides was almost non-stop; sparks would fly whenever blades and claws clashed.

when--!

Like a swallow's tail, the claws swept across, leaving three ferocious claw marks on the guardian knight's helmet.

In desperation, it grabbed the nearest weapon and swung it down in front of it.

It was a giant sword, a heavy sword without an edge. Its sheer size alone was enough to be lethal, and the gusts of wind it generated even blew away the weapons that had fallen around it.

However, if you miss, it's useless.

He stepped on the guardian knight's sword-wielding hand and leaped onto its back.

"ended."

Chu Hua opened her tightly closed eyes, and the head of the guardian knight was reflected in her empty eyes.

Claws pierced the helmet from behind, and Chu Hua jumped off the knight's shoulder, tearing the helmet and its contents out by the roots.

Clang.

Clang clang clang clang.