Sayaka paused. Her heart, which had begun to relax after the incident was over, was suddenly filled with anxiety.
He hurried over to Zhi Xing, picked him up, and stared at Zhi Xing's lifeless eyes, demanding:
"Madoka, what's wrong? What are you still hiding?"
"Hey...it's not Madoka, it's a mermaid...Can you treat me first? I feel dizzy...I think I have anemia."
Although the battle was not long, less than half an hour, it was not short either, at least more than 10 minutes. The long deep breathing and the pressure of life and death crisis left Zhixing no time to recall things.
Therefore, after Sayaka tried to ask a few more questions without getting a response, Sayaka materialized the Soul Gem. Without Mami's guidance, she instinctively used magic to heal Zhi Xing's fatigue and exhaustion without any external injuries.
With the replenishment of magic power, Zhixing's brain and body quickly recovered to their original state, although it was only the state before being sucked into the witch's barrier, and it did not heal the otaku's body to the level of a normal person.
But it was enough for Zhixing to remember what he had just done.
Sayaka watched Zhixing regain his composure. After realizing the shock of her slip of the tongue, she simply stopped the magic healing. She stared at Zhixing with narrowed eyes and asked word by word:
"What happened to Madoka? Why did she call me a mermaid? What else did you say about the future that you haven't told us?"
Chapter 73: Finale and New Arrangements
After stretching his recovered arm, Zhixing remained silent subconsciously, avoiding answering and wanting to buy some time to think.
But the silence in this situation seemed to be a tacit agreement.
"Ah~ Really?"
Sayaka stood up, half of her face hidden by the shadows. Without lowering her head, she looked down at the paper and said in a cold tone:
"I thought you were just coming here to help us. Even though your actions were a bit out of line, that was because you didn't know enough."
"For this reason, when you forced me to give up Kamijou, I endured it. I also accepted the reason for not saving Asami, and now Asami has indeed returned. You used the influence of the wish to interfere with my relationship with Hitomi-chan and Kamijou, because there was a deadline and for Witch Night, I also endured it. After all, now I have to fight hard to defeat a witch, and I really need more time to train. But..."
Sayaka clenched her fists, squeezing the paper-line glasses to a crack, and without noticing, she emphasized her tone:
"I can't pretend I didn't hear it. What's going to happen to Madoka? What do you mean by alive? You don't think I would tolerate something as irreversible as the life and death of a friend?"
After saying this, without giving Zhixing time to think, he raised his right hand and lifted Zhixing up to a height a head lower than his own. He looked down at Zhixing with an expression that was completely different from a few minutes ago and said:
"I won't give you any more time to think. Tell me everything you know now, right now."
"Calm down, I was just confused for a moment and didn't see the person clearly."
Seeing that Zhixing didn't answer directly, Sayaka raised her left arm and interrupted Zhixing with a punch, then warned:
"Don't try to prevaricate with other excuses. Answer my questions directly."
"Well, I've been saying this before. I've never met you before. I've been here for so long, and except for Madoka, I've met everyone I need to know, and I've talked about everything I need to talk about. So now the only one I haven't met is Madoka."
"The future I know is what I told you. Basically, all the magical girls here died in the battle, including Mami and you before the Witch Night. Even Madoka, who fought against the Witch Night, didn't survive. So in my eyes, you are just dead and resurrected. Do you understand this?"
After hearing what Zhixing said, Sayaka punched Zhixing in the stomach again. Seeing Zhixing lying on the ground holding his stomach, she spoke:
"If it were me before, maybe I could accept your explanation, but I still feel like you're not telling the truth."
"Although I can't communicate with you telepathically, your attitude towards Madoka is much more important than your attitude towards me or Mami. You care about her so much that you don't even think she should be alive."
Sayaka recalled the joyful expression on Kamehameha's face when he mistook her for Madoka, and it was as if she was back to the first time they met, when Kamehameha still had disheveled hair, that uncertain look, and the subsequent request for help.
"Even if the future you spoke of is real, it's just a certain outcome. Why, when you clearly said you had no choice but to choose because of lack of time, are you so clear about our situation?"
"It's like I knew you would come, so I told you a lot about Mitakihara, and you remembered it clearly. So even though we haven't met, you believed the information you knew and made plans and implemented them without hesitation."
Although Zhixing had recovered from the damage he had just suffered in the witch's barrier, an ordinary person's body was still hit by two punches from the magical girl. Even if he had obviously restrained his strength, it was still more than Zhixing could withstand.
Zhixing raised his head in embarrassment and looked at Sayaka, who had nothing to do with the Knight of Justice. Although he wanted to know why she suddenly turned evil, in order to avoid being beaten, he raised his hand to indicate that he had something to say.
Sayaka noticed Zhixing's raised hand and stopped talking. After Zhixing took two breaths, she spoke:
"Madoka is still alive and well, and she hasn't turned into a short-lived magical girl. Can't you confirm that yourself?"
"Even in the future, where you can't even survive a month, I wouldn't have the same thought as you about not believing you can survive, let alone Madoka, who is still an ordinary person."
Zhixing lay on the ground, lowered his head and covered his stomach, using Sayaka as an example.
Sayaka glanced at Mami behind her, then squatted down and looked at Zhixing. She placed her hand on Zhixing's back, inputting magic power, and said:
"Now is not the time to ask you in detail. Come to my house alone tomorrow to see me. Do you understand?"
Feeling the pain fade away, Zhi Xing raised his head and asked:
"I don't know your address yet, and what time?"
Sayaka's ears moved, and without looking, she realized that Asami was coming here, so she quickly reported her home address and then instructed, "Tomorrow afternoon, after school, come to my house. If I don't see you, I will look for you."
Feeling the magic power turning into a warm current, flowing through the wounds in the body, and finally being taken back by Sayaka, Zhixing experienced what it felt like to have magic power for the first time.
"How's Edogawa? Is he okay?"
"Ahahaha, I really suffered a lot at the hands of the witch. I'm currently receiving treatment."
Sayaka changed her expression and returned to her previous cheerful state, teasing.
"treat?"
"Sayaka's wish is to be healed, so her magic itself has the ability to heal."
Paper behavior explained Sayaka's actions.
"Is this how magical girls acquire their abilities?"
"Asami, don't you know?"
"I don't know. The only magical girl I've had in-depth contact with before was Kyoko. Besides, each magical girl has different weapons, so it's normal for their abilities to differ. It's impossible for me to know the wishes of others."
After Mami finished speaking, she hesitated for a moment, then asked Zhixing for confirmation:
"More importantly, as for the abilities you mentioned as being gained through wishing, I haven't discovered any other abilities myself. Even my current guns and cannons are only used to summon ribbons for attacks."
Zhi Xing was grabbed by Sayaka's hand and pulled up. He was also stunned when he heard the words and asked uncertainly:
"Didn't Kyubey tell you anything?"
"Qupi didn't mention anything about this. Speaking of which, he's been away for the past two days. I'd like to know how he's been doing while I've been gone. Is he eating well?"
Zhi Xing thought of the culprit who had caused him such misfortune, his eyelids twitched, and he casually spoke to comfort him:
"It's okay. Kyubey has no reason to hide from you. He should be back soon."
Asami heard the hidden meaning in Zhixing's words and was about to say something else, but Sayaka interrupted:
"Asami, have all the people over there been arranged? Are there any injuries?"
"They are all safe. Apart from being a little frightened, they were not hurt by the familiars. It seems that Conan-kun has helped them avoid the patrols of the familiars many times."
When Zhixing heard the conversation between the two, he thought of the group of people he had implicated. He raised his hand and pretended to rub his eyes because he didn't have glasses. In fact, he took advantage of the obstruction of his vision to quickly glance around.
Iron railings, iron floors, iron stairs, nothing else to see except the buildings at the dock whose name the paper merchant couldn't remember.
After rubbing his eyes, Zhixing glanced at the group of people who were not far away, and mentally declared Passerby A missing.
"Oops, Edogawa's glasses are broken."
While Sayaka was walking on the paper, she had a brief conversation with Mami and only then noticed that the glasses in her hand had been broken and could no longer be used because they had been held.
"It's okay, I'll go back and ask if there are any extra."
Zhixing searched his pockets and found that the only thing left was the pile of coins that he had not thrown away. Even Mami's cell phone had dissipated along with the barrier.
After being stunned for a few seconds, Zhi Xing finally asked:
"What time is it now? Are you still on patrol?"
Mami handed the Seed of Sorrow dropped by the witch to Sayaka, who was fighting and restoring the paper, and then took out her phone and said:
"It's probably around 20pm now, oh, 19:53pm."
Thinking that the patrol was scheduled for 20 PM, Mami estimated the distance and shook her head.
"It's too late to go there now, let's talk to Homura Akemi first."
"Now that a witch has appeared, there shouldn't be any more witches. There's no need to reunite."
Sayaka used the Seed of Sorrow to cleanse the filth on her Soul Gem while speaking, and turned to look at the paper path:
"Besides, when you agreed to meet at this time, it was based on the premise that Edogawa could sense the witch and thus shorten the patrol time."
"Now that the Edogawas are still here, and we've found a witch, it would only be a waste of time if we go to reunite with them."
Sayaka used the excuse of paper behavior to clearly refuse the magical girl team from assembling, which made the paper people look at her differently.
"Although magical girls cannot improve intelligence, the advantages brought by strength can still allow people to express their thoughts more calmly."
"Ha, are you calling me a fool who relies on strength?!"
Under Asami's gaze, Sayaka didn't dare to take action. She could only glare at Zhixing fiercely, with a look that said, "Just wait for me tomorrow."
Zhixing didn't care about Sayaka who had already made an appointment for tomorrow, but asked Mami curiously:
"What happened with that phone call earlier?"
Mami smiled slightly and said:
"Let's talk while we walk. We've already wasted a lot of time."
As he spoke, he walked along the railing and prepared to go down the stairs like an ordinary person.
Zhixing saw Sayaka following closely behind, and while Asami wasn't paying attention, she glared at Zhixing with one eye from the backlit side.
"Are those guys done with it? I see they're still standing there."
"I've called the police. They will all be taken to the hospital. I've asked them to report to their families that they're safe. Don't worry about them."
Zhixing nodded and squinted at the crowd over there. Although their facial features were blurry without his glasses and he couldn't make out their faces, Zhixing could still roughly tell from their positions that they were looking at him and the two girls.
After taking another quick look around, Zhi Xing turned his gaze to Mami, thinking to himself, "Didn't they tell Mami about that stranger? Or maybe Mami already knows about it, but just doesn't want to mention it in front of Sayaka?"
On the way downstairs, Mami explained the previous operations to Zhixing and also asked about Zhixing's experience.
Zhixing hesitated for a moment and still did not give Kyubey up. After all, Kyubey's betrayal of Mami might cause Mami to despair.
As they walked and talked, Zhixing soon arrived at the station with the two of them and parted ways.
Jixing plans to go back to Homura's house to rest, while Mami and Sayaka have to patrol the rest of the way to prevent the harm of familiars. They also tell Jixing that today's joint patrol is temporarily cancelled.
After being alone, Zhixing sat on the train on the way back. Without a cell phone, he could only summarize the experience that Mami had just described:
They discovered that the witch's traces had separated from the tram tracks halfway through the tram, so the two of them chased her up and down in that direction.
After changing lanes several times, we found the witch who had stayed at this container terminal.
Both of them quickly noticed that someone was trapped in the barrier.
Asami asked Sayaka to observe outside and provide support to ordinary people at any time, then she left a ribbon and jumped to the place where ordinary people gathered.
As a result, although he was prepared to fight the witch, there was not even a familiar around.
Realizing that something was wrong, Mami asked about it while protecting everyone, and found out that it was someone who knew about witches who saved them, avoiding the crisis of being discovered by the familiar many times.
Mami immediately realized that the ordinary person who knew the truth could only be Conan, so she immediately used her magic to enchant the other end of the ribbon into Mami's clone, and asked Sayaka to call Conan.
As expected, it was not in the service area. Mami then understood why ordinary people would not be taken to the witch's room when they entered the barrier.
So he asked Sayaka to pay attention to his signal, and then he transformed his clone into multiple ribbons and inserted them into different places of the barrier, so that the call signal could flow into the barrier.
It turns out that Mami's plan is feasible.
He quickly made a call inside the barrier, and after determining the coordinates of the witch's room by checking whether the signal was interfered with, he notified Sayaka to send a divine soldier down from the sky, while Asami summoned a barrier to protect everyone and moved towards the room from inside the witch's barrier.
Although there was a time difference between the two, they still managed to reunite and defeat the witch.
"Alas, the amount of knowledge I can't use has increased. Mami is indeed a top student."
Zhihang feels helpless that even though they know this knowledge, they cannot make use of it.
Then he thought of the information that Kyubey had translated, and laughed at himself:
"I've prepared so much, but the knowledge points in the materials themselves are useless. Instead, they're just a means to force myself into despair. This utilization rate is so inefficient."
Zhi Xing recalled that most of the *-marked parts were content that could not cause despair. They were just to lead to the final conclusion, so as to make himself fall into despair. This time, he even had to specifically emphasize the specific option of letting Witch Night come in order to achieve the despair condition.
Zhi Xing looked at the city's starry sky, which had been revealed by the speeding tram, as it left the high-rise buildings behind. He seemed to have thought of something and exclaimed in surprise:
"Can I... decide where Witch Night ends?"
Chapter 74 Decryption: Search for Foreign Aid List
Take a car to the suburbs alone, or take a bus, exercise while reading some materials to get yourself in a good mood.
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