Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

Boom-!

"Wow!"

Miaomeng pulled Xiangzi behind her and covered her eyes with her arms to avoid being hit by the swirling sand and gravel. Although being hit in the eyes wouldn't be a big deal, protecting oneself is a human instinct.

When the wind pressure dissipated, Miaomeng opened her eyes and found that Chuhua had already put a considerable distance between them.

Chu Hua streaked across the night sky like a black cannonball, leaving a black trail—the trajectory left by magic.

The shell went straight into the tornado and disappeared without a trace, as if it had sunk into the sea.

"No way, Hatsuko, that's it?" Meow Dream stared wide-eyed at the spot where Hatsuka had disappeared.

But then, a large bulge appeared in the tornado, expanding to its limit in an instant.

Bang————!

The tornado was shattered into scattered wind pressure, blowing away the surrounding trees and rubble. The black berserker spread its huge wings and floated where the tornado had been.

"Wow, so cool..." Miao Meng murmured, gazing at Chu Hua's retreating figure.

It turned out that after Chu Hua entered the tornado, her wings, which were close to her body, opened as she entered the eye of the storm.

The airflow generated by the flapping of wings disrupted the tornado's airflow, and the gale that blocked her and Lin dissipated in an instant.

Meanwhile, Lin, who had been hiding behind the wind, had long since disappeared.

Chu Hua steadied herself and hovered in the air.

"Chuhua, five o'clock," Xiangzi whispered in her ear.

Just as she finished speaking...

An arrow made of air shot from Chu Hua's five o'clock position. Thanks to Xiang Zi's prior warning, the invisible arrow barely grazed Chu Hua's cheek. The arrow's speed even exceeded that of a rifle bullet traveling at 800 meters per second, and it couldn't even keep up with the sound. The sound only came with the airflow after Chu Hua dodged it.

Whoosh!

Chu Hua's eyes narrowed.

One after another, transparent arrows hurtled towards Chu Hua from the direction of 5 o'clock, which is now 12 o'clock.

She couldn't see anything shooting towards her at all, and could only rely on Xiangzi's prompts and her instincts to keep dodging and weaving in the open space.

"Chu Hua, she is driving you into a corner."

Xiangzi caught a familiar scent; it was...

"Then what should I do?"

"...Follow my instructions, you must hide in the direction I tell you to."

It's that long-range control tactic again, Xiangzi is all too familiar with it!

"At seven o'clock, then immediately move towards eleven o'clock to avoid it."

Soaring 1 cold yi7 (Si: Wu? Jiu NI X Ba——!)

"Back up at five o'clock and stay still for half a second."

Whoosh!

"Then it's the three o'clock direction!"

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

This wave of attacks was on a completely different level from the ones Chu Hua had blocked for Miao Meng before. Every single one of them was aimed at Chu Hua's head, and if she were hit on the head, it would likely result in her being instantly blown apart.

Moreover, the density and rhythm seemed to be forcing her into a corner. If Xiangzi hadn't had experience with similar tactics and been able to give Chu Hua the right instructions, Chu Hua might have been turned into a hedgehog long ago.

Lin showed no sign of stopping; every strike was aimed at killing Chu Hua.

"......Um?"

Finally, after several attempts to set up barrages, Chu Hua managed to slip through the gaps. Lin finally realized something was wrong, stopped, and put down the wooden bow in her hand.

Chu Hua finally found a chance to catch her breath, stopped and turned her gaze toward the direction from which the attack had come.

Lin stood listlessly with her eyes half-open, her lower body, made entirely of tentacles, gripping the nearby treetops to support herself in mid-air.

She silently beckoned to Chu Hua.

That's a provocation.

Silent provocation is often more insulting, as if saying to Chu Hua, "What you're doing is nothing but futile resistance," as if Chu Hua weren't her daughter.

The moment Chu Hua saw that action, she felt something inside her ignite.

The berserker's stance made Chu Hua more susceptible to emotional control. When she saw Lin's indifferent and seemingly emotionless demeanor, a surge of anger welled up within her, and in an instant, it escalated into a raging inferno.

The Lost Tale: The Spirit of Youth: Chapter 235 Retreat

"Why? Why can you show such a nonchalant expression? Why can you so casually kill me? Why did you turn Dad into that state?!"

Chu Hua stared incredulously at the witch not far away, her eyes wide open, her beastly pupils shrinking into a vertical line.

That woman was not the mother I knew at all.

After falling into witchhood, will she become a completely unrecognizable person... or has she already lost all her humanity?

Could it be that I, like my mother, will eventually lose all my humanity and do the most outrageous things—

Gaa...

The wolf-kiss-shaped helmet seemed to be about to swallow Chu Hua's head, and closed slightly.

The B-class creature within the Soul Gem slammed its head against the cage that imprisoned it.

The proportion of scarlet in Chu Hua's eyes began to increase.

"Chuhua!"

Xiangzi clearly felt that the filth surging out of the Soul Gem had increased significantly, so he immediately grabbed the upper jaw of the helmet and pried it back with all his might.

However, she had already spent most of her energy controlling the balance of the Chu Hua Soul Gem, and her power was extremely weak at this moment, making it impossible for her to contend with Bsk.

hateful!

This is definitely too much of a stretch.

I told Chu Hua not to come along, and my prediction was right. Now all of this is the result of her direct confrontation with Lin.

Xiangzi couldn't help but let some negative thoughts creep in, which he then immediately dismissed.

No, you can't think so.

Even if Chu Hua isn't allowed to come along, what if Lin shows up on the ship and I'm not there? Wouldn't that be even worse?

I'm still here now, and I'm her only support. Rather than saying I'm lucky that Chu Hua is still by my side, I can barely stay sober now.

But... is there any other way now...?

Xiangzi bit his lip tightly and used all his strength to pry the beast's upper jaw back.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard she tried, it was all in vain; she had done everything she could.

Just at this time.

"That's enough, Xiao Xiang."

Black beast claws covered Xiangzi's translucent hand, grabbing the beast's upper jaw in her place.

Xiangzi stared blankly at the beast's claw covering his hand.

It was Chu Hua; she grabbed Bsk's wolf-kiss shaped helmet.

"I can handle it myself."

Chu Hua clenched her teeth, her voice almost squeezed out from between them, and gripped the helmet with both hands.

Clapping—

The arms covered in keratin suddenly swelled up a size, and the muscles in both hands exerted their maximum strength, forcefully prying open the beast's upper and lower jaws!

brush--!

The jet-black blood, like shaken soda, gushed out from the gaps between her stratum corneum. She opened her mouth wide with all her might, trying to inhale air into her lungs.

“AUGHHHHH————!”

Chu Hua glared with eyes that seemed to be about to burst with fury, then with a sudden flap of her wings, her figure vanished from the spot.

Lin's pupils contracted sharply, and she hurriedly formed a defensive stance.

Bsk's wings looked like rags and offered no real flight capability. However, these wings did not rely on any structure for flight. Instead, they propelled Chu Hua's body forward by flapping their wings and spraying a large amount of magic power backward, which was somewhat similar to the effect of a jet engine.

With each flap of its wings, compressed magic surges wildly backward.

The black figure sliced ​​through the air, even briefly breaking through the sound barrier, surrounded by a cloud of energy. Only after Chu Hua arrived in front of Lin did the deep, thunderous roar finally arrive.

Boom!

Lin's tentacle skirt, enveloped in air currents, wove into a large net in front of her, completely bearing the impact of Chu Hua's body. Fragments of the tentacles were blown away by the turbulent air currents, exploding into the sky and falling like rain.

Chu Hua broke through numerous obstacles, but her claws, which had lost most of their power, were blocked by Lin using her wooden bow.

It's not over yet.

The beast's claws rained down on Lin like a storm, their wild and chaotic attacks making it seem more like a pure wild animal than Lin herself.

As the archers were brought closer, they lost their ranged advantage and had to shift their focus to defense, resulting in a series of defeats. Chu Hua almost stepped on Lin's bow, pressing down with her entire weight and the thrust generated by the flapping of her wings.

Lin lost most of her lower body tentacles and was forced back more than ten meters by Chu Hua. The broken tentacles regenerated rapidly under her and soon returned to their original form, burying themselves in the ground to resist Chu Hua's claws.

Chu Hua was unable to advance any further, and Lin was also pinned down in place with nowhere to escape.

The mother and daughter reached a temporary stalemate.

Their eyes met.

Eyes facing each other.

This was the first time in years that Lin had observed her daughter so closely.

Chu Hua's face, contorted with exertion, was reflected in her eyes. The girl in front of her overlapped with the little brat in her memory who was always forced to study at home unwillingly.

The wavy pupils were unstable for a moment before turning into normal human round pupils.

Lin slightly opened her mouth and released her grip on the wooden bow.

brush--

With no resistance, the claws sliced ​​through Lin's body, severing her entire right shoulder.

One after another, horribly disfigured faces emerged from the cross-section of his right shoulder, dripping onto the ground and emitting a strong fishy smell.

Chu Hua turned her gaze to Lin in surprise.

how come......

Did she do this on purpose?!

"Chuhua, you've grown up." Lin's cold expression softened slightly as she covered the broken part of her right shoulder and said softly.

Chu Hua suddenly smelled a familiar scent on Lin, just like...

She was her mother again.

"mom?!"

but.

The familiar taste was quickly masked by the strong fishy smell.

Lin's pupils became wavy again, and her corneas were covered with turbidity once more.

The tentacled skirt rolled up like a longbow, aiming at Chu Hua from a tricky angle.

"Chu Hua, watch out!"

Whoosh-!

The arrow pierced Chu Hua's left shoulder, creating a fist-sized hole, and pushed her away from Lin.

“We’ve already stalled for enough time,” Lin said in a deep voice. “The festival is about to begin, and it’s too late for anything you do.”

A murky airflow surrounded Lin.