Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

"I want to make a wish to become a magical girl."

The Tale of Nirvana: Keeping to Your True Self: Chapter 139 My Wish

Xiangzi had no idea where Qubi came from. He just knew that as long as he called out, Qubi would definitely appear, whether in the sky, on the ground, or in this place where no one but himself could enter.

"Chubi, are you there?"

Xiangzi blurted out.

"I want to make a wish to become a magical girl."

"I'm always here."

Sure enough, Qubi ran out from a dark corner, ran to Xiangzi's feet, and rubbed against Xiangzi's leg like a cat.

"Long time no see, Toyokawa Shoko."

"It hasn't been that long, has it?" Xiangzi raised one eyebrow and said with disgust, "Don't rub against me like that, it's disgusting."

"Don't be so disgusted. You didn't even wear them this time, which proves that you don't hate me as much as you thought?"

"...a rhetorical question?"

"Rhetorical question".

"Are you... really Kyubey?"

Xiangzi sensed that something was amiss.

"Of course I am, what else could I be but Kyubey? Look at these ears, look at this soft body, look..."

Qubi spun around in front of Xiangzi twice, showing off his cute but annoying body.

Was Cupid really that...emotional?

Xiangzi frowned, supporting his left elbow with his right hand, pinching his chin with his left hand, and squinting his eyes.

"Are you... not quite right?"

“Yes, I’m not quite normal.” Kyubey readily admitted. “Our race has always lacked emotion, which is why we need you to collect emotional energy. To us, having emotions is considered a mental illness, so all of you humans are mentally ill.”

Cupid tilted his head and winked at Xiangzi.

"Now, thanks to you, I've become mentally ill and been kicked out of the tribe."

"what?"

"That missing record—the record we've been looking for all this time—did you find it but didn't tell me?"

Cupid asked a question, but then immediately skipped over it.

"Whether you sue me or not doesn't matter, we can observe what you've been going through during this time, including your discovery that you are Oblivionis, which we have also observed again."

This unusual Cupid seemed to have opened a floodgate of words, talking non-stop.

“That’s amazing. Even if I were face to face with you now, I wouldn’t see how you could be a familiar. That means that in the judgment of the wish-granting machine created by our race, you are still a pure human being and still enjoy the right to make a wish.”

As Xiangzi listened to Qiu Bi's incessant chatter, he started walking towards the elevator deep inside the building.

The two of them stood in the empty, pure white space, chatting idly while waiting for an elevator. The only thing higher than the ground in this white space, which looked like a game engine without models, besides the two of them, was the elevator shaft.

It's a bit like waiting for Godot, waiting for nothingness.

"So what does this have to do with you, um... having a mental illness?"

Xiangzi was halfway through the conversation when he realized that Qubi had run further and further away.

"There is a connection, but not much. I've gone off-topic, I know that myself, you don't need to remind me."

Qubi simply jumped onto Xiangzi's shoulder and stopped him before Xiangzi could throw him off.

"Don't kill me. I'm the only guy you can open up to and talk to. If you kill me, you'll just get back the same boring people you had before."

Xiangzi lowered his hand, which was about to grab it by the scruff of its neck and throw it away.

"To be honest, I never thought they were boring before, but now I'm starting to find them boring. They always have a straight face and hide some key information to lure people into becoming magical girls or something. In your Earthly terms, it's like a pyramid scheme. It's a bit pointless. To make people willingly make a wish even knowing all the consequences, that's what you call having ambition..."

"Just say what you want to say, stop talking so much nonsense."

"Oh......"

Cupid's ears drooped.

Xiangzi discovered that it was quite talkative.

So this is what it's like when Cupid has a mental illness?

"Simply put, when you find your lost record, we also observe that the abnormal emotional energy contained in the record affects the organism responsible for observation, causing it to malfunction—that unlucky one is me, do you understand?"

Xiangzi nodded, seemingly understanding but not quite.

"So what? Can you still sign a contract with me?"

"Yes, I'm still connected to the wishing machine."

"Then hurry up and make a wish."

"Hey, wait a minute, wait a minute."

Qubi squatted on Xiangzi's head and shook his head violently, his big ears slapping Xiangzi's face hard. Xiangzi grabbed it, threw it on the ground, and stomped on it hard.

"That's enough. Is there anything else?"

Xiangzi bent down and, speaking in a low voice like a banshee, addressed the Cupid he had stepped on.

"Be careful, or I might replace you with your colleague."

"No! I'm one of a kind now, I've already tasted the preciousness of life!"

"Then spit it out."

That's exactly what I wanted to say!

Cupid looked at Xiangzi with his expressive ruby ​​eyes.

"The end result of becoming a magical girl is becoming a witch. Do you really want to jump into the fire?"

"I am a familiar, not a human. Shouldn't you know that?"

"But it's a familiar that's disguised as almost indistinguishable from a human! You can just abandon your witch and leave. How many familiars become witches this way? You can learn from them and find a place to start over!"

"Oh, there's another way. Why didn't I think of that sooner?"

"Your tone sounds so fake."

"Then why are you asking?" Xiangzi pressed harder on his feet. "You know that's not me, not the style of Toyokawa Xiangzi."

"But, but!" Kyubey writhed like a worm at Xiangzi's feet. "Even so, even if the wish-granting machine still treats you as a human, no matter how well you disguise yourself as a human, you are still a familiar, not a human."

"Who knows what will happen after you make another wish! This is a bug! It could very well be a serious bug!"

"understood."

Xiangzi said calmly.

"Let me make a wish."

"Do you still want to make a wish...?"

"Yes, I have a reason why I must become a magical girl."

Xiangzi released his foot from Qubi and looked up.

You can already see the elevator coming down through the transparent elevator shaft.

Ding dong.

The elevator doors leading to the top floor of the cocoon opened.

"I still have things I need to get rid of completely."

“...Yi Ling Yao Qi%IV?? Wu Jiu^ Si Zhou 〩? Ba 〓....Okay.”

Cupid shook his head and got up from the ground.

"The person who could make me mentally ill is definitely not a normal person."

It sighed.

"Toyokawa Shoko, what wish do you plan to make?"

Qubi paused, and before Xiangzi could speak, he added.

"By the way, let me remind you first. It's true that you can make wishes in the form of a familiar, but wishes are based on karma. The karma you have as a familiar is calculated from the day you were born, not as Toyokawa Shoko. In other words, your karma only extends from... the month or so since that incident."

"..."

Although Shoko had somewhat anticipated this, after hearing Kyubey state the truth, she felt one thing even more acutely: she was not the real Toyokawa Shoko; she was just a familiar.

"I see......"

Xiangzi nodded.

"So be it."

she says.

What level of wish can I make?

"It should only affect your own wishes, and it cannot be related to anyone else. It cannot be vague either. It must be clear and accurate, specifying the time, place, people, what you want to do, and how to carry it out."

"Is it really that exaggerated?"

"Yes, you have so little karma."

The mentally ill Cupid tilted his head.

"So, it's not too late to give up if you want to."

Xiangzi smiled slightly, shook his head, and walked into the elevator.

Cupid followed her and jumped in.

"Aren't you going to give up yet? According to the previous archives, no one has ever made such a clear, precise wish that is only related to themselves. This is too difficult."

"A clear, precise wish that is only related to oneself, that's enough for a girl to have a dream."

Xiangzi pressed the button for his floor in the elevator.

A ding-dong sound.

The elevator doors closed, slowly obscuring her face.

"My wish is..."

The Tale of Nirvana: Maintaining One's True Self: Chapter 140 Battlefields

In the large open space in front of the White Queen building, a battle between inhumans is taking place.

Boom!

White claws slammed down on the ground, shattering large sections of stone bricks. One of the familiars, unfortunately positioned directly below, was smashed to pieces.

Then, the claws that had just landed rose again and swung at the giant white shadow in front of them from the side.

boom!

Another huge commotion erupted as sharp claws clashed with tough dragon scales, whipping up a gust of wind that destroyed everything in its vicinity.

Chu Hua, panting heavily, controlled his massive body to create distance between himself and the monster in front of him.

There are two giant beasts in the center of the battlefield.

One is Chu Hua, and the other is Dolores.

Having mastered the Hundred Aspects, Doloris transformed into a pure white dragon and challenged Hatsuka. Every movement of the two giant beasts during their battle stirred up a fierce gale, affecting any familiars that tried to approach.

This is why Chu Hua had to switch to large-scale combat—the battle between the two monsters made Dolores's human wave tactics completely ineffective, effectively turning it into a 1v1 battle.

Although it was very costly, it was worth it for Chu Hua.

The all-white dragon, with scales resembling marble, flapped its wings, creating a gust of wind and distancing itself from Chu Hua. It crouched down and circled around the white and red chimera Chu Hua.

As the two long tails faced off, they swept left and right with each breath, deterring the familiars that tried to approach and clearing a blank area in the center of the battlefield.