Although it is possible that Sakura Kyoko just wanted to make her afraid of death and then shamefully beg for a chance to live, but generally speaking, Sakura Kyoko made her realize that her life was not lived simply for herself, so she didn't care whether Sakura Kyoko said these words to humiliate her.

After all, without these words, she would never realize how excessive what she had done to her family and relatives.

"I didn't intend to kill you. I was just irritated by your foolish self-sacrificing attitude and irresponsibility. It seems that you now understand what you are doing, so there is no need for me to kill you or make you beg for mercy."

As she spoke, Sakura Anko stood up and shook the chain gun, retracting the chain gun that was restraining Sayaka Miki.

Sayaka Miki regained her freedom and waved her hand. The saber on the ground disappeared immediately, and then the monkey's transformation into shochu was also lifted.

"...Although I cannot approve of your behavior of keeping a witch in captivity, I have to thank you for what you just said to me."

Sayaka Miki thanked Sakura Anko sincerely. Since she couldn't beat it, she couldn't continue to chase the familiar. More importantly, she couldn't just abandon her life to save ordinary passers-by.

"Hmph...Treasure your family."

Sakura Kyoko snorted and said.

"Well, I will."

After saying this, Sayaka Miki turned around dejectedly and prepared to leave.

She had never thought that being a messenger of justice would be so... irresponsible. Her actions had made her begin to doubt the meaning of her life.

"Hey."

Looking at Sayaka Miki's somewhat pitiful back, Sakura Anko couldn't help but call out to Sayaka Miki who was about to leave.

Hearing Sakura Anko's voice calling her from behind, Sayaka Miki stopped and looked back at Sakura Anko.

"What's your name? My name is Sakura Kyoko."

Sakura Kyoko asked, she felt that she couldn't leave Sayaka Miki in this state.

She herself, at that time, had no one to help her. She was almost, if she hadn't changed her personality to become selfish, she would have turned into a witch long ago. But a fool like Miki Sayaka didn't have her talent, so she felt that she had to call Miki Sayaka. (To prevent the loss of his wife (fog)

"Sayaka Miki."

Miki Sayaka replied in a low mood.

"Let's talk about that other thing you mentioned just now. What do you mean? The only valuable thing on a witch should be the Seed of Sorrow. Maybe I know something and I can eat this at the same time. If you refuse, I will beat you down again and then pinch your mouth open so that you can eat it."

As Sakura Anzi spoke, she took out a box of pocky and stuffed it into Sayaka Miki's hand.

"Oh."

As her faith was almost shattered, Sayaka Miki sat on the ground listlessly, silently unwrapped the POCKY and began to eat it quietly. Anko Sakura, who was standing against the wall, silently watched Sayaka Miki eating the pocky.

Sweets can bring people a sense of happiness. Now, Sayaka Miki gives her the feeling that she is standing on the edge of a cliff and a slight push will push her off the cliff. So in order to prevent this from happening, Anko Sakura decides to pull her emotions back a little from the edge of collapse.

While eating sweets, Sayaka Miki's attention was gradually diverted away from the disillusionment of her beliefs. Although her mood could not return to its best state in a short period of time, overall it was moving in a positive direction.

"You guy, you did something so outrageous, why do you care about others now?"

Miki Sayaka asked.

"I released the witch's familiars only to obtain the Seed of Sorrow. It's just like the food chain, the strong prey on the weak, humans are weak, and witches eat humans. As the monkey at the top of the food chain, I eat the witch who has the Seed of Sorrow. It's just a simple and easy-to-understand principle."

Sakura Kyoko answered without any hesitation, she didn't think she was doing anything wrong by letting the witch run wild.

"...So that's how it is...You are doing this to be responsible for your family..."

Sayaka Miki began to understand Sakura Anko's way of dealing with people.

"I have no family anymore. Everyone is dead. The wish I made with QB was to spread the teachings of my father's faith. QB fulfilled my wish, but my father thought I had deceived everyone with the power of a witch. He became depressed and drank to drown his sorrows. One day, he killed the rest of the family and committed suicide. I live for myself."

Sakura Kyoko answered. (Moyin: What about me? Kyoko: You already have a girlfriend, which is like a daughter who is married off and spilled water! Moyin:???)

She didn't know why she told these things to Sayaka Miki. Perhaps she saw her past self in Sayaka Miki, so if she could... save her past self, then it didn't matter if she told these things.

"How can this be, this, this is too much!!! This kind of life..."

Sayaka Miki looked at Sakura Kyoko in great shock. She originally felt that the beliefs she had always held on to were shattered and she was miserable, but she didn't expect that compared with Sakura Kyoko, she was just a happy fool.

"Well, that's it. Making a wish for someone you don't understand could lead to despair, so from now on I'll just use the power of the monkey soju on myself."

Sakura Kyoko answered.

"Then! From now on, I will be your family! It's too lonely to live alone in this world!"

Sayaka Miki said seriously that she, who has a strong sense of justice and compassion, already understood why Sakura Kyoko had such a twisted and contradictory personality. It must be because there was no one around her who could hold her back that she had developed this personality. If she became Sakura Kyoko's family member, then one day she would be able to change her personality, or at least would not let her behavior of sacrificing others continue to deteriorate.

"Tsk, I don't want a fool to be my family member."

Although Sakura Kyoko said it with some disdain, she looked away to hide her wavering eyes. Family... She used to have a sister named Sakura Momo, but that child was also killed by her devastated father... If she wanted a family, she definitely wanted one.

Yesterday she called Moyin "brother". . . She just called him that casually because of the atmosphere. She felt that Moyin and she were from different worlds, and it was impossible for someone who met on the first day to develop into a family. . .

"Don't say that. What you just told me has made me realize that I must protect myself before exercising justice. This is my responsibility to my family and friends. I will no longer have any beautiful dreams of self-sacrifice. I will cherish my life."

Sayaka Miki answered.

"Then... I'll just take care of you for now."

Sakura Kyoko hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

When her family died, she resented why no one came to save her. Now that she sees Sayaka Miki, who has a certain shadow of herself, she decides to be the one to save her. Perhaps this is to make up for what she didn't get in the past.

But it's always good to have companions.

"By the way, what did you want to investigate about witches before? I often fight with witches, maybe I know something."

Sakura Kyoko asked.

"Well, I want to know where the witch came from. The birth of Mahou Soju is based on hope, but essentially there must be a girl who signed a contract with QB for Mahou Soju to exist. So what is the essence of the witch? Well, this question is not my own curiosity. It was my super awesome tutor named Moyin who asked me to find the answer myself."

Sayaka Miki answered.

"Silver?"

Sakura Kyoko was stunned when she heard Moyin's name here. Not only because Moyin had met her yesterday, but also because of the development of the situation.

There is no doubt that Moyin should be an insider to some extent, but was he the one who induced Sayaka Miki to get to know him behind the scenes?

Although she had to admit that she cared about Sayaka Miki, was this the wife that Moyin had found for her?

"Did you come here because of what that person called Mo Yin said?"

Sakura Anko confirmed that if Sayaka Miki was arranged by Moyin, she would have a fear of being monitored, watched, and arranged, because that meant that Moyin was watching where she was all the time.

Not only that, Moyin also clearly knew his own and Miki Sayaka's personalities. Only after understanding all of this was it possible to arrange for Miki Sayaka to come.

But if Sayaka Miki was not specially arranged by Moyin, then I am afraid... Moyin must have understood fate... or something. Then he is very powerful, and there is no need to be afraid that all this was arranged by Moyin, but a natural development.

"No, he just thought I was too naive and said that my character would cause me trouble in the future. He also taught me that if I wanted answers, I should find them myself. So I thought that if I wanted to find the origin of the witch, the easiest way would be to check if the witch had any clues such as identification."

"And then I ran into you when I came here to investigate the witch's familiar."

Sayaka Miki answered.

Hearing this answer, Sakura Anko felt relieved. She didn't want to be monitored by Moyin all the time. After all, she missed Moyin's head-patting gesture. She didn't want the person who made her miss him to be a disgusting perverted stalker who would follow her secretly.

After all, I had asked for the encounter with Mo Yin yesterday. Now it seems that Mo Yin did not interfere. It was completely... my own fate.

"So what's the problem?"

Sayaka Miki looked at Sakura Anko, who suddenly felt relieved, and asked curiously.

"No problem. I can tell you about the origin of the witch."

Sakura Kyoko waved her hand.

"What is it?"

Sayaka Miki asked curiously.

"It's us."

"Huh? You, what do you mean, are you kidding?"

Miki Sayaka was stunned by Sakura Kyoko's answer.

"What I mean is that the source of witches is us. The birth of Monkey Soju was based on hope, and witches were born out of curses and despair. The hope of causing a miracle will itself bring about the same degree of despair. Because miracles are something that humans cannot make up for even if they sacrifice their lives, so isn't it normal that the end of Monkey Soju is a witch?"

Sakura Kyoko explained seriously.

She has been to many cities, including Futaki City, so she has witnessed the scene where the soul gem of the monkey soju was completely polluted and turned into a witch.

After all, the monkey liquor in Niki City was scarce and the ecological environment was too bad, so she left there.

Although Kamihama City is a big city, there is a large organization of monkey liquor called Magius Wings. The weak monkey liquors act as a group, and there are capable monkey liquors at the top. So after hanging out in Kamihama City for a while, she came to live in Mitakihara City where there are relatively fewer monkey liquors.

"How...how could this happen?? In other words, one day, we will become witches who kill and eat others?"

Sayaka Miki sat on the ground with a look of devastation on her face, looking absentmindedly at the calm face of Sakura Kyoko.

"Yeah, otherwise why do you think I want to get the Seed of Sorrow at all costs? Even at the cost of raising witches? For a monkey like me who stands at the top of the food chain, once the Soul Gem is completely contaminated and turned into a witch, the disaster caused will probably endanger the entire city. I don't think ordinary monkeys can hurt me, so in order to prevent the entire city from being destroyed by me, it is normal to occasionally raise a few witches. In a sense, I just gave up a small number of people to save the majority, you know?"

"After all, you wouldn't become a monkey soju without knowing such a thing... would you?"

Sakura Kyoko asked while looking at Miki Sayaka.

"I... I don't know. Mami-senpai didn't tell me about this either. She just said that we should try to keep the Soul Gem as pure as possible... She doesn't seem to know the origin of the witch either, because I asked her over the phone..."

Sayaka Miki answered.

"Heh, it looks like we've all been fooled by that damn QB. But it's okay, you'll just follow me from now on, and I won't let us be short of Seeds of Sorrow. Since you want to become my family, I will definitely protect you until the last moment."

Sakura Anko gently hugged Miki Sayaka and patted her back to comfort her.

She could see that Sayaka Miki was on the verge of a personality breakdown after learning about the end of Mahou Shochu, so naturally she had to comfort her first.

She didn't want to lose her hard-earned companions and family.

"How could this happen... Am I actually, hurting someone?"

Sayaka Miki murmured in despair.

All along, she thought that she was exercising justice by destroying the witch and saving people, but it seemed like God was playing a big joke on her. The people she saved might be the ones killed by her after she turned into a witch.

If she doesn't want to become a witch, she has to accept what Sakura Kyoko does and use the blood-stained seeds of sorrow dropped by the witches she raised at the expense of others.

She was trapped in a contradictory logical cycle. Continuing to use the power of Monkey Soju to destroy the witch would accelerate her own massacre, and using the Seeds of Sorrow would mean a slow killing at the expense of a certain number of humans.

Perhaps her existence as a monkey shochu was a mistake! At this moment, Sayaka Miki fell into despair.

Sayaka Miki's eyes gradually lost focus. Sensing something was wrong, Sakura Anko immediately found her Soul Gem from Sayaka Miki. The moment she saw the state of Sayaka Miki's Soul Gem, Sakura Anko's pupils instantly shrank, because the Soul Gem was becoming turbid and filthy at a speed visible to the naked eye. She had experienced this situation before. It was the process of Mahou Shochu quickly turning into a witch after being completely desperate. She didn't expect that her answer to Sayaka Miki's question would lead to such consequences.

Sakura Anko immediately took out the Seeds of Sorrow that she had stored previously to absorb the filth of Miki Sayaka's soul gem, but once Mahou Shochu fell into despair, the filth of the soul gem would continue to accumulate rapidly. It can be said that unless she has infinite Seeds of Sorrow to prevent Miki Sayaka from turning into a witch, Miki Sayaka will turn into a witch sooner or later.

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