A supporting character in a romance anime? I became a god using a rat talisman.

Kazama Chiba turned sideways and picked up the black and red staff that was leaning against the table.

"Since it's delivered right to my door, I don't have to go out and look for it."

Before he finished speaking...

The imposter stopped pretending and charged straight at the real entity in the air with a gust of evil wind.

The two yellow plush toys collided in mid-air and wrestled together in a yellow whirlwind.

"Let go of me! You fake! Don't pull my tail!"

"Let go of me! You fake! Don't pull my tail!"

Two voices rang out at the same time, with identical timbre, intonation, and even the same Kansai accent.

"Qianyu! Quick! Use the sealing staff to knock it down! This guy is incredibly strong!"

"Qianyu! Quick! Use the sealing staff to knock it down! This guy is incredibly strong!"

The two little ones were tearing at each other's cheeks while simultaneously turning their heads to shout for help at Kazama Chiba.

Kazama Chiba stood still, watching the classic scene of the real and fake Monkey King unfold before her, and raised an eyebrow.

How do we fight this?

Two people who look equally stupid, can they even perfectly replicate each other's intelligence?

If it were any other shonen manga protagonist, he would probably be caught in an ethical dilemma at this point, wondering "Who should I believe?" or "Quickly reveal the secret that only the two of us know."

However, this hesitation only lingered in Kazama Chiba's mind for less than 0.1 seconds.

call!

The staff struck Xiao Ke, who had flown a little further away, without any mercy.

"Wow?!"

The little creature clearly hadn't expected this human to be so decisive. It scrambled through the air, narrowly avoiding a blow that could have smashed its brains out.

It landed on top of the wardrobe, its expression changing from fear to gloom.

"How...did you recognize me?"

Kazama Chiba retracted her staff and flicked her wrist.

"I didn't recognize him."

"I just plan to fight both of them. Anyway, the real one is tough and thick-skinned, so it shouldn't die from one hit."

The mirror brand was stunned.

Even as a magical creature, it had never seen such an utterly unreasonable human.

cut."

Seeing that the madman was about to raise that stick that looked painful again, it let out a disdainful snort and turned to rush towards the half-open window.

Since the disguise has failed, there's no need to linger in the fight.

"Want to run?"

Kazama Chiba narrowed her eyes, not rushing to chase after him, but instead turning around and rushing to the table, grabbing the open Book of Seals.

Logically, since these cards were resurrected because of the Rat Talisman, they should immediately revert back to cards once the source is cut off.

Kazama Chiba pointed his finger, and the rat talisman in the book appeared and returned to his hand.

However, the expected scene of the mirror instantly losing power and turning back into a jam did not occur.

The imposter, who had already rushed to the window, was still full of energy and even flew faster because he sensed the danger.

Kazama Chiba never expected that something unexpected would happen.

On the contrary, Zhen Xiaoke, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly seemed to have her spine removed.

Before it could even let out a scream, its bright, beady eyes instantly lost their light.

His body stiffened like a stone, and he crashed heavily to the floor, becoming a completely lifeless doll.

"……what?"

Kazama Chiba looked at the rat talisman in her hand, then at the corpse of the guardian beast on the ground, and a question mark slowly appeared on her forehead.

The fact that Cerberus has become a doll indicates that the concept of the Rat Talisman remains unchanged.

But why can the Clow Cards still move?

Countless questions exploded in Kazama Chiba's mind, but he forcefully suppressed these thoughts.

Now is not the time to delve into the principles; if we let the mirror brand escape, that would truly be a double loss.

At this moment, Jingpai had already smashed open the window latch and leaned half of his body out of the window.

Kazama Chiba casually stuffed the talisman back into her pocket, then gripped the Wind Card in her other hand. After confirming that the Wind Card hadn't reverted to a regular card, she tossed it into the air to unleash its magic.

"Since the rat charm doesn't work, let's use magic to defeat magic."

"Windy! Bring it back to me!"

A burst of green light erupted in the cramped room.

The wind spirit reappeared. Although her form was still somewhat translucent, driven by her master's will, she transformed into a visible green chain that swept across the room and tightly wrapped around the mirror's ankle just as it was about to escape.

"squeak--!!"

The mirror plate let out a reluctant screech and frantically flapped its wings, trying to break free.

But its struggles seem pale and powerless in the face of attribute advantages.

The wind chains tightened rapidly, binding it tightly like a rice dumpling, and dragging it back to Kazama Chihiro.

At this moment, Kazama Chiba no longer had the same tentative feeling she had at the beginning.

He remained expressionless as he pressed the rat talisman back into the groove of the Book of Seals.

After activating the sealing key, transform it back into a staff.

Finally, it was aimed at the mirror plaque that was still changing shape.

"Return to your original form. Clow Card!"

boom!

With this imperfect sealing incantation, the tip of the staff once again burst forth with blinding light.

In the light, the constantly twisting figure gradually stopped moving and finally solidified into a rectangular card depicting a girl, which slowly floated to the ground.

Only then did Kazama Chiba let out a long breath and bend down to pick up the still-warm card.

Then, his gaze turned to Xiao Ke, who had just come to her senses.

The rag doll on the ground suddenly sprang up, letting out a scream like a zombie rising from the dead.

"Whoa! That scared me to death! Just now, it felt like I was suddenly thrown into a black hole?!"

Chapter 8 Retrospective

"What just happened? In that instant, it felt like being thrown into an absolute black box where there was no light, no sound, and no way to even think! That feeling was a million times more terrifying than not having food!"

Kerberos even tried to rush towards Kazama Chiba for comfort, but when he saw her cold, black eyes, he abruptly stopped in mid-air.

Kazama Chiba completely ignored its cries.

He sat at the desk, which was in disarray from the wind, holding the newly acquired mirror tablet in his hand, his brows furrowed into a deep frown.

He was reviewing the situation.

The unusual situation that had just occurred made him sense an extremely dangerous situation.

If he doesn't understand the underlying principles, he might lose his life as a result.

Kazama Chiba then sorted out the logical chain.

First, the Rat Talisman's power is to "transform stillness into movement," giving life to inanimate objects.

It's like stuffing a perpetual motion energy core into a toy that doesn't have batteries.

When Kazama Chiba removed the Rat Talisman, it was equivalent to cutting off the power.

Logically, all electrical appliances should have stopped working. Cerberus did indeed stop; it reverted to its puppet form, which was consistent with the power of the Rat Spell.

But the question is why the "Mirror" and "Wind" brands haven't been discontinued?

Kazama Chiba looked at the cards in her hand.

In the few seconds it took to remove the talisman, the mirror tablet disguised as Xiao Ke not only did not turn back into cardboard, but instead unleashed even greater mobility, and was even able to use flight magic to try to escape.

This unusual phenomenon made him feel deeply uneasy.

In this mixed-genre world called Shenshui City, the rules were clearly far more chaotic than he had imagined.

Logically speaking, Cardcaptor Sakura is just an anime that exists on a screen in this world, and these cards are at most a bunch of beautifully printed pieces of paper.

The rat charms gave them life, that's fine.

The problem is that once they come into being, they seem to immediately resonate with some kind of force in this world.

"Could it be that Clow Reed really exists in this world?"

Kazama Chiba tapped her fingers lightly on the table.

In the original story, the Clow Cards were originally high-level magical creatures created by Clow Reed.

If Clow Reed is truly alive, it's not impossible that he could take over control of the cards from the Rat Talisman.

But why did Cerberus and the Book of Seals revert to their original forms?

That doesn't make sense. Aren't these two more important than the cards?

So Kazama Chiba overturned her previous idea and constructed another possibility.

"Or perhaps there is a kind of magic in this city that he, a mortal, cannot see. Once the Clow Cards come to life, they will instinctively connect to and absorb this magic, thus freeing themselves from their dependence on the Rat Talisman."

"As for Cerberus and the Key of Sealing, they cannot actively absorb magic power, so the Rat Talisman is their only source of magic power."

Furthermore, Kazama Chiba keenly sensed that the power of the "Wind" card she had just used far exceeded the effect of simply using the Rat Talisman.