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

It's like a drop of water falling into the ocean.

The raging lightning, powerful enough to melt steel, vanished without a trace the instant it touched the shadow, as if it had disappeared into the sea.

This is not a blind attempt.

Just as it is set in the original Cardcaptor Sakura manga, shadows are invisible and all-encompassing.

Simple energy attacks are meaningless to a shadow that has no physical form; instead, they will be assimilated and absorbed by it.

"roar?!"

The Thunder Beast let out a low growl of disbelief.

It couldn't understand why its all-out attack had been wasted like a fart.

But Qianyu wouldn't give it time to think; he suddenly brought his five fingers together and made a grasping gesture.

The shadowy figures that had devoured the lightning instantly surged, transforming into countless black tentacles that frantically climbed upwards along the thunder beast's limbs, tightly binding its body and silencing its mouth.

No matter how the Thunder Beast struggled, those shadows were like a persistent leech, tightening their grip the more it clung to it.

Seeing that the time was right, Kazama Chiba took out the sealing staff, which was painted red and black, from her bosom.

Under Hiratsuka Shizuka's dazed gaze, he waved his wand, the tip of which touched the forehead of the bound thunder beast.

"Return to your original form, Clow Card!"

A dazzling light flashed.

The enormous thunder beast vanished, replaced by a playing card that floated lightly to the ground.

Qianyu bent down, picked up the card, and without even glancing at it, casually stuffed it into her pocket.

With the Thunder Beast sealed away, everything returned to peace.

Kazama Chiba glanced at Hiratsuka Shizuka in the Aston Martin and found that Ms. Hiratsuka had already fainted from fright.

He turned around and walked straight to Yui Yuigahama to check the situation.

Yui Yuigahama remained in that duck-sitting posture, her hands clasped to her chest, as if she had been put on pause.

Those bright, sparkling eyes were fixed on Qianyu, as if two flames were burning in their pupils—a light of worship.

From her perspective, what had just happened was even more exciting than a Hollywood blockbuster.

The boy who was usually a loner and even a bit gloomy in class stepped forward in the face of adversity.

The impact of that contrast is enough to break through the defenses of any teenage girl.

Chapter 38 Ignore her

"Hey, can you still stand up?"

Qianyu squatted down in front of her and waved a hand in front of her eyes.

"Ah! Yes! I'm fine!"

Seeing Chiyu stand in front of her, Yui straightened up abruptly as if she had been electrocuted, and her voice even changed slightly.

"Are you alright?"

Qianyu's voice pulled her wandering thoughts back.

"Ah! No! Nothing! I'm perfectly fine!"

Yui shook her head vigorously, her hands gesturing unconsciously in front of her.

"I'm really fine! It's just... just a little weak in the legs... that... that was... that..."

She gestured incoherently, pointing to the scorched crater one moment and the moon the next, completely at a loss for words to describe what she was seeing.

"It's good that you're alright."

Qianyu rubbed her temples, interrupting her spellcasting.

"Also, just a heads up. Your dog is gone."

"Hey?"

Yui paused for a moment, then subconsciously glanced at the empty leash in her hand.

"Aaaaaah! Sabre! Sabre, where are you?! Oh no, oh no! If I lose it, Mom will kill me!"

The girl finally awoke from that dreamlike filter, letting out a scream, and began spinning in circles, searching for the dachshund that had long since disappeared to some unknown dimension.

Watching the girl scramble to her feet, calling out the dog's name as she tried to disappear into the woods, Qianyu sighed helplessly.

In a sense, the sheer size of the nerve endings in this single-celled organism is an enviable gift.

But just three seconds later, Yui acted as if nothing had happened and approached Chihiro again.

"It's okay to wait... wait a bit before looking for it! Anyway, Sabre is very smart! It's definitely still in the park!"

"Um! Kazama-kun! That... just now... was really amazing! That black thing swallowed the lightning in a flash! And then that big monster turned into a card! Kazama-kun, are you a legendary magician? Or perhaps the heir of some reclusive family?"

"..."

Faced with this barrage of questions, Qianyu felt a headache coming on, and he rubbed his temples.

He suddenly realized that dealing with this naturally naive and talkative JK might be more exhausting than facing the irritable Thunder Beast.

"Hey, Chiba."

Just then, Xiao Ke, who had been floating in mid-air pretending to be dead, finally couldn't hold back anymore.

It flapped its tiny wings and silently landed on Qianyu's shoulder, speaking urgently in a voice only the two of them could hear.

"What are you doing! Why are you wasting your breath talking to this human! She saw it! She saw everything!"

"If ordinary people knew about the Clow Cards, it would be a major taboo. According to the rules of the magical world, shouldn't we..."

This seemingly harmless plush lion made a throat-slitting gesture.

"Are you an idiot? Get those Mafia thoughts out of your head."

Kazama Chiba rolled her eyes without any politeness, then casually pinched Koko's cheek and pulled it outwards until her chubby face was stretched into a comical pancake shape.

"This is Shenshui City, not Gotham City. When we were speeding on the overpass just now, did you think all the passing drivers were blind? There were at least two dozen witnesses. Do you expect me to massacre the entire city over something so trivial?"

"Uh……"

Xiao Ke broke free from the clutches, covered her face, and cried out in grievance.

"Then... what should we do?!"

"If humans find out about the existence of the Clow Cards, there will be huge chaos! You have to know how greedy humans are. Once they know that these wish-granting cards exist, they will definitely try to make contact with them in secret! But the problem is, only you in the whole world can use the Sealing Staff. Anyone else touching those cards is just suicide! What if the world is destroyed?!"

"You think too much."

Qianyu interrupted its paranoia.

"Putting aside whether Kaguya could tolerate this kind of thing happening, do you think that if she wanted to hold a final judgment, she would allow a bunch of clueless nobody to ruin her stage?"

He understands the mentality of those in positions of power all too well.

Chiyu didn't believe that a perverted woman like Kaguya, with her perfectionist tendencies, would allow her game to be ruined by a bunch of insignificant bystanders.

The so-called leak of secrets?

I'm afraid that once tonight is over, apart from myself and Xiao Ke who are directly involved, everyone else's memories of the Thunder Beast will be corrected to reasonable excuses such as localized thunderstorms or a transformer explosion in the park.

"But……"

Xiao Ke wanted to say something, but Qian Yu was too lazy to pay attention to it.

He turned his head and looked at Yui Yuigahama, who had a hopeful expression on her face.

"Listen up, Yuihama."

"Here!" Yui immediately stood at attention.

"Can you keep what happened today a secret? You saw it yourself, this thing is quite dangerous, and I don't want to be taken away by the police or some weird research institution to be dissected."

Chiyu didn't use a threatening tone; instead, she spoke very casually.

Yui paused for a moment, then nodded vigorously as if she understood something.

"Yes! I understand!"

She raised three fingers and solemnly swore an oath.

"Kazama-kun saved me, this is to repay a debt of gratitude! It's also my savior's request! I absolutely, positively will not tell anyone! Even if Yukino asks me, I won't tell! This is a secret between the two of us!"

When the secret between the two of them was mentioned, her cheeks flushed visibly, and she quickly lowered her head, kicking at the pebbles at her feet.

Chiyu nodded, accepting the oath that was full of flaws.

"That's good. Go find your dog now, or it'll probably run off to the next city if you wait any longer."

"Um... well, I'll go find Sabre now... Um, Kazama-kun, see you tomorrow..."

After saying that, she turned and ran into the night like a startled fawn, clutching the leash. After a couple of steps, she seemed to remember something, turned back, gave Qianyu a bright, silly smile, waved, and then disappeared into the night.

"You...you're just letting her go?"

Xiao Ke flew back, still looking displeased.

"Chiyu! You were too hasty! What if she talks nonsense at school? Even though she seems a bit silly, girls' gossip skills are terrifying! What if the whole school knows you're a magical girl... no, a magical boy tomorrow?"

"You can try to use your non-existent brain."

Qianyu took a piece of candy out of her pocket and stuffed it into Xiaoke's mouth, silencing its incessant chatter.

"Would I kill her? There are surveillance cameras everywhere here."

"We'll see."

"Even if she really took a megaphone and broadcast it, who would believe her?"

"Yui Yuigahama. A 'reading-the-air machine' in class who always agrees with others and has no opinions of her own. A pushover who is afraid to even speak loudly."

"Tell me, if she told others that Kazama Chiba, who's always gloomy and friendless, is actually a superhero who saves the world... would people believe her, or would they think she needs to see a psychiatrist for a consultation, both mentally and physically?"

Chapter 39 Expulsion License Plate