Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

Moreover, when Aine saw the way those seemingly normal girls looked at her, she realized that they were seeing the same thing.

What's wrong with this world?

Aine arrived at Haneoka with unease, but breathed a slight sigh of relief when she reached the classroom.

Fortunately.

The light is fine.

This went on until after two classes, when Ai Yin finally couldn't help but turn around and ask.

"Light... have you seen anything strange?"

Ai Yin spoke to the light in the back seat.

“Everyone has changed a bit.” Lamp nodded gently. “But Aine is still the same.”

"Well......"

Ai Yin frowned, opened the group chat, and asked the other people.

To be precise, it's only Lixi.

Lenai couldn't possibly reply in the group chat, and Su Shi... ever since the first live performance, Su Shi seems to have blocked them all. They haven't seen her for the past few days, let alone practice, and it's said she hasn't even gone to school.

The lamp was also in a low mood, and everyone seemed to be caught in a strange atmosphere.

The group chat went completely silent for a whole day.

Aine didn't know what had happened, but based on the snippets of conversation she overheard during the argument after the live performance, she learned that it was related to Shoko.

Sure enough, my benefactor and those women had some very important connection.

Ding.

Lixi's reply pulled Aine out of her thoughts.

[Li Xi]: What I see is the same as what you see.

[Li Xi]: Apart from magical girls who can see each other's faces, all the other ordinary people have become like that...

[Lixi]: Is the light okay?

[Aiyin]: The light is fine.

[Li Xi]: That's good.

[Lixi]: I just arrived at RiNG. It seems like the rally organizers are having an emergency meeting. The situation is not good.

[Aiyin]: Did you skip class?

[Lixi]: He said he had an upset stomach and left during the last class.

[Li Xi]: You guys come over here quickly, it feels like something big is about to happen.

[Aiyin]: Huh?

Ai-yin raised her eyes and looked at the light.

"What's wrong?" Deng tilted his head.

“Emmmm…” Ai Yin’s eyes drifted to the side. “Li Xi said something big might happen and that we should hurry to RiNG, where it’s safer.”

"But I still have to go to class..."

"That's what I think too," Ai Yin sighed. "Should we wait and see?"

"...Yue-Yi/First-release..."

The lamp shook its head.

It means that one doesn't know either.

Ai Yin was immediately stumped.

The situation seems very wrong, but wouldn't skipping class like this be a bit too... attention-grabbing?

But before she could think it through, a terrifying change occurred.

"Classmates..."

[Time to get ready for class.]

When Ai Yin heard the teacher's voice as she walked up to the podium, she felt a jolt of electricity run through her from head to toe.

The first half of the sentence was in normal, understandable Japanese, but the second half seemed to have been distorted by something, turning into a completely different language. It wasn't a language she could understand, and it couldn't even be called human language.

"......lamp."

Aine saw the same fear reflected in the lamp's eyes.

"Let's listen to Lixi."

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When she could still communicate normally with the people around her, Aine could numb herself by saying that there was just something wrong with her eyes, but the sudden change in her language made Aine feel terrified.

She walked out of the school with a lamp, boarded the tram, and listened to the language around her that she couldn't understand at all. It was as if she had returned to that time when she still felt depressed and uncomfortable when she thought about it.

Aine gripped the tram's handrail tightly, cold sweat trickling down her forehead.

I had the same feeling when I was in England.

That feeling of being isolated from the world around you.

It's too depressing.

Ai Yin bit her lip, intending to look at the scenery outside the car window to clear her mind.

but.

What greeted her was not the cityscape of the reed plains in the morning, but a worm, as if a human face had been chopped off, leaving only the cut-off features.

Witch? !

Were they pulled into the witch's barrier?

No, the tram is still moving, and apart from the worm-like witch, the outside world is the same as it was this morning. It can't be...

Same as what I saw this morning...

Could it be that they've been inside some witch's barrier since this morning?!

The witch wrapped the tram with her long, narrow body, causing the tram's exterior walls to visibly distort.

In a few seconds, this tram might be crushed by the witch.

"lamp!"

Without thinking too much, Aine instantly transformed, grabbed Akane's wrist, pulled her into her arms, and then, just before the train was torn apart by the worm-like witch, smashed the glass window and jumped out.

A clanging sound came from behind. A moving tram had been twisted into a twisted iron rod by the witch. Not content with just breaking the tram, the face with its severed features turned to Aine and Akari, who jumped out of the tram.

Ai Yin landed steadily on the ground, carrying the lamp in her arms, and ran forward without looking back.

"How could a witch be so brazen in broad daylight!"

"This is bad, this is bad, this is bad, this is bad!"

Generally speaking, most witches set traps for people to fall into. Even if they take the initiative, they shouldn't act during the day. The evening, known as the time of twilight, is when witches are most active, and the rest of the time is late at night.

But during the day, it's impossible no matter how you look at it...

Is this really daytime?

As Ai Yin ran, she noticed that the sky she could see when she looked up had completely changed color.

The sun was obscured by shadows, and the sky turned a blood-red color.

"What on earth happened?!"

Aiyin ran while clutching the lamp, wailing all the while.

A worm-like witch was chasing after them, rampaging across the main road.

Front......

"Aine, there's a witch ahead too!"

There were some up ahead too!

Ai Yin immediately turned into the nearest alley, but after running a few steps, she found that the alley was blocked at the end.

They had no way out.

what to do......

Aiyin, holding the lamp, glanced back at the alleyway outside.

The horrifying face was staring back at her with its dark, hollow eye sockets, and the black sun was directly above it. The narrow alley framed the witch, the black sun, and the crimson sky together.

Chihaya Aine suddenly realized that the world seemed to have suddenly gone into chaos, as if overnight, the doomsday prophecy that hadn't materialized in 2012 had been delayed.

Suddenly, it was delayed until today.

Aine drew a long sword from her back, taller than herself, and swallowed hard, her expression grim, as she faced the witch outside the alley.

She was so scared that she wanted to run away.

She might be able to escape on her own, but no matter how strong the lamp's potential is, before she made a wish, her physical abilities are only those of an ordinary person, and there is absolutely no way she could escape.

She absolutely could not allow the lamp to be forced to make a wish before the lamp had figured out its own wish.

"Lamp, hide here."

Aiyin glanced back at the lamp and forced a smile.

"No matter what happens, don't come out."

Aine turned her head and rushed towards the witch outside the alley.

She seemed to see a picture in those dark features.

Blood, fragments of limbs, a magical girl who transforms into a witch in despair.

These......

Is this my future?

Aine felt herself entering some strange state; the worm witch's movements became sluggish in her eyes, and the facets of that dark, hollow face became blurred.

The fear seemed to have vanished.

He took a sidestep, turned around, raised his sword and slashed upwards, twisted his waist and slashed horizontally, sheathed the sword, concentrated his magic power on the blade, seized the opportunity, stepped on its body and jumped up, drew the greatsword again in mid-air, and aimed the facet of the facet at his center line.

Swing the sword and cut down.

The worm witch was cut open along the midline of her face.

but.....

The light is still behind me.

I can't just back down like this.

Ai Yin landed on one knee, while the witch behind her exploded into a cloud of blood like fireworks.

She had never tried to kill a witch all by herself before, and no matter what rating this worm was, this was Aine's first time.

She accomplished something she had never done before.

However, this worm was only the first; behind it, three or four witches emerged from both ends of the street.

They smelled the magical girl's scent and gathered around.

Rows upon rows, like small mountains, enveloped Aine's figure.

"This is too much... I don't want to actually die."

Aine revealed a smile that looked more like a grimace.

"This is actually the first time I've ever tried to look cool."

The weak magical girls could only flee in all directions when faced with witches rushing out of the barrier. The magical girls with some abilities, however, had to face a greater number of witches than usual. Slaughter and death took place in every corner of the reed plain, witnessed by the black sun and the crimson sky.

This was simply a grand banquet.

It's a wild feast where two sides fight each other on the dance floor until only one side remains.