Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

"More or less?" Toyokawa Shoko shrugged and said.

"Is it because 'I' think you should exist that you exist?"

"That depends on which 'I' you're referring to."

Toyokawa Shoko also turned to the side, striking the exact same pose as Shoko, making them look like two sides of a mirror.

"Is it the familiar Oblivionis, or the witch Nirvana?"

"What's the difference?"

"Well, I don't know either." Toyokawa Shoko blinked. "Who knows what important things you've forgotten? Maybe you are actually Nirvana, and the other four familiars are just a cover."

"Then why did you ask me?" Xiangzi pouted and said in a coquettish tone, "You don't know any more than I do, do you?"

"Are you sick?" Toyokawa Shoko looked at her with one eye bigger than the other.

"..."

Xiangzi didn't reply.

Her pupils began to dilate, her breathing slowed, and her consciousness had clearly drifted off into the distance.

She might be the first person to drift off into a daydream.

Toyokawa Shoko did not wake her, but watched quietly from the side, letting time pass by.

In my dream, I heard a ticking sound, like a clock, as if it were recording the passage of time.

Xiangzi's pupils gradually shrank back to their normal size.

She came to her senses.

"What exactly do you want to do? And what exactly do 'I' want to do?"

For some reason, Xiangzi suddenly started thinking about the problem.

"Whether it's Oblivionis or Nirvana, what was 'my' original intention?"

"Witches always have similar goals: to take revenge on the world that has wronged them."

"Is Nirvana one too?"

I guess so.

"And what about Oblivionis? Why do I have to forget that I am me? If I do, am I still myself, desuwa?"

"..."

"...?"

"...I don't quite understand what you're saying."

"You only need to understand the first sentence."

"About your own plan? Isn't it simple? Forget that you are the fifth familiar, Oblivionis, and hide in human society as a human. That way, no matter how the magical girls kill the other four familiars, the barrier will always reset."

"This way, Nirvana can use the safest method to drag out its growth until it is complete, and break through the barrier like a fledgling bird hatching from its shell, and come into the real world."

"Why do you know so much? You just said you didn't know more than me, isn't that a contradiction?"

"because......"

Toyokawa Shoko blinked.

"Yeah, why is that? Why do I always know a little more than you?"

- Ding dong.

The black space, centered on the two of them, collapsed and folded inward, becoming smaller and smaller.

"I......"

For the first time, Toyokawa Shoko showed a bewildered expression in front of Shoko.

She looked up, bewildered.

"who am I?"

The dream collapsed into a small black cube.

- Ding dong.

—Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong!

"coming!"

Xiangzi reluctantly opened his eyes and got up from the sofa.

As she looked down to find her slippers, she glanced out the window.

The sky outside had turned golden; it seemed she had slept all day again.

Xiangzi finally found the slippers he had kicked under the sofa, rubbed his messy hair which looked like a bird's nest, and yawned as he walked towards the entrance.

—Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong!

"Coming, coming, coming, coming! Don't rush me!" Xiangzi frowned and opened the door.

Yutenji Wakana, also known as Meow Dream, whom I hadn't seen for several days, stood at the door with her arms crossed.

She looked Xiangzi up and down, who seemed to have transformed from a dignified young lady into a useless NEET, and said sarcastically.

"You really are a coward, even at a time like this, Toyokawa Shoko."

"Huh?" Xiangzi raised an eyebrow. "What are you talking about?"

“Go look out the window and you’ll see,” Miaomeng said. “See what good deeds Nirvana has done.”

The Tale of Nirvana: Keeping to Your True Self: Chapter 131 If you remain obstinate, I'll scold you awake.

"Go and take a look at the window yourself, the one in the living room."

Miaomeng gestured in a direction and said, hands on her hips.

"Look what good things Nirvana has done."

Following Miaomeng's words, Xiangzi walked to the window.

She had no idea how much time had passed, and of course, she wasn't interested in the outside world. She thought that even if the sky fell down outside, she wouldn't feel anything.

But when she actually looked out and her gaze met the faint white light appearing on the horizon, she couldn't help but gasp.

The shock lasted only a moment.

When Xiangzi rubbed his eyes, trying to see more clearly, the white, egg-like thing that had appeared at the edge of his vision disappeared.

"Eh?"

Xiangzi blinked.

"Hey what?"

Miaomeng treated this place like her own home, taking off her shoes and walking in.

She came to Xiangzi's side and looked out with her.

"Huh? Where did Mio VTII 8L Shiki Shiki go?"

Miao Meng rubbed her eyes, seemingly skeptical, and looked at it again.

"Can't we see it from here? That shouldn't be the case..."

She opened her phone, intending to find news to show Xiangzi, but as soon as she opened the phone, the news live stream was gone, and even the comments in the live stream room disappeared along with it.

broken.

Miaomeng suddenly panicked.

She opened the short video app on her phone and searched for keywords, but couldn't find a single related short video.

But in her memory, short videos related to the suddenly appearing building had flooded in like blue shooting stars falling from the sky.

How come they're all gone now?

You mean 'cocoon'?

"Yeah!" Miaomeng exclaimed, tapping away on her phone. "How did you know!"

"Because I did see it just now."

Xiangzi stared at Miaomeng, who was jumping around like a monkey, with lifeless, dull eyes.

"So, what happened to that thing?"

"What's wrong?" Miao Meng suddenly turned her head, baring her teeth and glaring at Xiangzi. "This isn't a witch's barrier, it's the real world. You saw things from inside the barrier in the real world, and you're asking me what's wrong?!"

She couldn't believe that Xiangzi's reaction to seeing the cocoon was so minimal.

This is no small matter.

This is an unusual phenomenon that even ordinary people can see. Just now, so many reports and short videos were circulating everywhere. Now, all the information about it has disappeared in an instant. Isn't that even more terrifying?!

Why was she so calm?

Looking at the disheveled, vacant-eyed Xiangzi in front of her, Miaomeng felt as if she didn't recognize her anymore, unlike the decisive and bold Xiangzi she knew before.

"Yeah, but what does that have to do with me?"

Xiangzi walked past Miaomeng and returned to the sofa where she had been lying all afternoon. She slumped down, closed her eyes, and gently frowned.

"I'm very tired right now, let me rest for a while."

The longer he slept, the more he felt like he hadn't slept enough. Xiangzi felt exactly like that right now, as if his whole body was about to fall apart, and he was too lazy to move.

She felt as if she had just had a very important dream.

But she still remembered the content of her dream when she opened her eyes.

I have absolutely no recollection of it now.

Xiangzi opened his eyes in confusion and stared at the ceiling.

"Hey, hey, hey, did you hear what I said?" Miaomeng walked around to the front of Xiangzi and waved her hand in front of him.

"Listen clearly."

"And you still have the mood to sleep?!"

"If the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up." Xiangzi rolled over, removing Miaomeng from his sight. "The Protagonists will handle it. We'll just have to watch."

Miao Meng stretched her neck and came closer to her.

“This doesn’t sound like something you would say,” she said.

"Oh," Xiangzi replied lazily, then countered, "I was about to ask you the same thing. I was the one who threatened you into cooperating with me, and now that I'm not involved anymore, why are you suddenly concerned? This isn't like you."

Miao Meng pulled open Xiangzi's collar, revealing the witch's kiss on her collarbone.

"Is this enough?"

She risked her life for it!

Xiangzi glanced indifferently at Miaomeng's Witch's Kiss and her excited expression.

"Alright, alright, that's enough." Xiangzi said slowly, word by word, "Aren't you tired of being so excited all the time?"

Listen to this, listen to this, is this even human language?

Miao Meng was so angry at those words that she couldn't calm down for a moment.

She straightened up, spun around twice, then grabbed her hair and let out a silent roar at the ceiling.

She was really driven crazy by Xiangzi now.

"What exactly do you want? Can't you just give me a straight answer?"

"It's nothing. The deadline has long passed, and I'm fine now. You can do whatever you want."

"What about the commercial band you promised? What about the viewership you promised me?"

"...Let's talk about it another time."

"Is your promise so cheap?!"

"Then what else do you want? Do you want me to kneel down for you?" Xiangzi looked up at Miaomeng. "That's not impossible."