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

Hikigaya took a deep breath and pulled his hand out of his pocket.

"Ah, yeah. Just thinking about these pointless hypotheticals gives me a headache." Hachiman forced a smile, maintaining his usual world-weary expression, and waved to Chiyu. "I'm off."

He turned around and walked along the main road toward the teaching building.

This time, however, his back was straighter than before, and his steps were no longer so unsteady.

Chiba stood there, watching Hikigaya's figure recede into the distance. The compassionate smile on her lips vanished instantly, replaced by an extremely wicked grin.

Hachiman Hikigaya is someone who can't stand seeing others get hurt, and his greatest talent is taking on all the messes himself.

The saying "With great power comes great responsibility" seems tailor-made for his self-sacrificing personality.

After completely fooling Hachiman, Chiba didn't waste any time and immediately contacted Xiao Ke to ask him to call Ichiri over.

After giving the instructions, it took less than five minutes.

A petite figure in a pink tracksuit peeked halfway out from the door frame.

Boqi looked around and saw Qianyu leaning against the wall. Then he darted out like a startled rabbit and ran to Qianyu.

"Dad, Dad..."

"You...you were looking for me? Mom...no, Urushihara-kun is in line to buy crepes, and Kakeru told me to make an excuse about having a stomachache and leave, so I can come find you..."

Qianyu turned around and looked down at Boqi.

"Dad... Dad?"

Pochi felt uneasy under his gaze and stammered, "W-what's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"

Qianyu shook her head

"I didn't say anything wrong, but you mentioned before that you went back to investigate the source of the future card riots, right?"

Ichiri nodded, his voice very soft:

"Hmm... Xiao Ke said... if we can find the source, maybe we can prevent future disasters..."

"I've made some progress on that future card riot you mentioned."

Pochi suddenly raised his head, his large blue eyes instantly filled with hope:

"Really?!"

Qianyu nodded, then changed the subject.

"I have basically identified the culprit who caused that disaster in the future as a girl named Homura Akemi."

"Akatsuki, Akemi Homura?" Pochi stammered, repeating the name, clearly having no idea what it meant.

Qianyu gave her time to process it, then took out her phone from her pocket, flipped to a photo, and handed it to her.

Long black hair, purple eyes, wearing the school uniform of Takihara Girls' Middle School.

Yili took the phone and looked at it, then looked up at Qianyu.

"She's... a magical girl?"

"Yes." Qianyu put her phone away. "A time-manipulation ability user, capable of stopping time and summoning various military weapons."

"But..." Ichiri's voice was so soft it was almost drowned out by the chirping of insects by the roadside, "What does she have to do with the future card riots?"

Qianyu remained unfazed and firmly pinned the blame on Qianyu.

"I checked through some special channels, and those dangerous cards originally came from her."

Although Chiyu's words were unsubstantiated, Ichiri always listened to Chiyu unconditionally and had already assumed that her father wouldn't lie to her.

Then Ichiri and Chiyu discussed:

"Then, what should we do? Call the police? Or... or tell the defense forces?"

"Calling the police is useless. The other party is an extremely dangerous superhuman with the ability to stop time."

Qianyu paused, her expression turning serious, and placed one hand on Boqi's shoulder.

"So, for the sake of the future world, for Xiao Ke, and so that we can continue to be together, I need you to get rid of her."

"Solve, resolve..."

Pochi chewed on those two words, and after a few seconds of processing in his brain, he finally understood their meaning.

"Alas--!"

She let out a short, extremely tragic scream, took two big steps back, and frantically waved her arms in front of her chest. She looked like a melting ice cream cone, ready to collapse to the ground at any moment.

"No! Absolutely not!"

Pochi's tears streamed down his face instantly.

"Murder... I've never even killed a chicken! And, and if I get caught, I'll go to jail, and my resume will be ruined! The band will break up because of me! I'll only be able to play guitar behind bars, and my fellow inmates will beat me up because I play so badly... Waaah..."

Tears streamed down her face as she slid down the high jump mat and landed on the ground, clutching her head in her hands, like a snail about to disappear from the world.

Qianyu looked at her daughter, who was at the peak of her combat power but was as timid as a mouse, and her lips twitched almost imperceptibly.

"Who said you were going to kill someone?"

Pochi's crying stopped abruptly. She looked up, tears still streaming down her face, and sniffled, "Then...then what Daddy means is..."

"What I mean is, since you're unwilling to go all out, let's try a gentler approach."

Seeing that the time was right, Qianyu offered a way out.

“I understand that you don’t want to kill anyone, but the future crisis must be resolved, so let’s take a step back and not kill her, but we must cripple her.”

Boqi froze, then looked up with teary eyes: "Useless? Useless?"

Qianyu stared at her: "You can do it, right? Use your magic to erase her memory."

“Erase all her memories of magic, time, and those dangerous plans. Once she becomes an ordinary person who remembers nothing, the disaster will naturally be impossible.”

Pochi was stunned. "Just... just erase memories...?"

Compared to the horrific task of "murder," which crosses the line, "memory erasure" doesn't sound so cruel; it even has a romantic illusion of a magical girl saving a lost girl.

Chapter 250 The Two Meet

Ichiri's previously frantically resistant nerves relaxed a little.

"But...I...I don't even dare to talk to strangers...What if she glares at me..."

"If she glares at you, just use magic to fight back; she can't beat you."

Chiyu stroked Ichiri's pink hair, as if comforting a frightened pet.

"Think about your original intentions, Yili. You don't want your future home to be destroyed, and you won't be able to live with me anymore, right?"

This statement precisely hit Li's Achilles' heel.

For this person with severe father complex, losing their father would be a hundred times more terrifying than the end of the world.

Yili slowly stopped trembling and bit her lower lip.

Although his eyes were still filled with fear of strangers, the dejected state of being ready to run away at any moment was replaced by a weak courage that he had forced himself to muster.

"If it's just about erasing memories... I... I understand..."

She lowered her head, her voice soft, but finally she stopped stuttering, "For...for a stable future...I will try my best!"

"That's more like it." Qianyu patted her head with satisfaction. "Go ahead, with your abilities, you should be able to find her exact location."

Yili took a deep breath, and like a martyr about to be executed, turned around and walked heavily out of the school.

Qianyu watched her daughter's desolate figure as a smile curved her lips.

You can solve a problem without having to do it yourself.

Having a daughter who's a max-level fighter is definitely a relief.

Only after the conspicuous pink figure disappeared from sight did Qianyu take action.

Although she successfully tricked her daughter into becoming her exclusive henchman against Homura Akemi, Chiba had no idea just how strong her future daughter's fighting ability really was.

Looking at the panel alone, the data is indeed very strong, but that poor mental fortitude is a huge weakness.

What's more, her opponent is Homura Akemi, who has struggled through countless reincarnations.

I have to see this cross-server magical girl battle in person to feel at ease.

But Chiyu didn't follow immediately; instead, she took out a shadow card from her pocket.

With a slight shift of magic, his body sank rapidly, merging into the shadow of a nearby building, like a formless blob of ink, silently gliding across the street, hanging far behind a mile away.

Meanwhile, in Mitakihara Ward.

This is a place with a subtle difference in style from other areas of Shenshui City.

The streets were wider, the buildings had a cold, geometric feel to them, and the clouds in the sky were always low.

Standing at a crossroads, looking at the unfamiliar and oppressive environment around her, Yili felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

Xiao Ke poked half of her fluffy head out of her bag and complained softly:

"Hey Yili, are you even capable? Where is that woman your father told you to find?"

"I-I don't know..."

Yili's voice was choked with sobs, and her feet seemed rooted to the ground, unable to take another step.

"How about... how about we go back? My stomach suddenly hurts so much... the bread from lunch must have gone bad, I need to go home and find my dad..."

"We've come this far, if we go back now, Chiyu will definitely be angry."

Xiao Ke mercilessly cut off her escape route, "Besides, if you can't find anyone, you can use the Kazama card! Doesn't one of your cards have the ability to sense magic? Hurry up!"

Yili shrank back in fright at Xiao Ke.

With trembling hands, she pulled a slightly worn Clow Card from the inside pocket of her tracksuit.

The card depicts a girl with her eyes closed, surrounded by a strong wind, with the words "THE WINDY" written below.

However, the magical fluctuations emanating from this card were far more volatile than those from the wind card in Qianyu's hand.

Ichiri closed his eyes and laboriously poured his meager magical power into the cards.