Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

It's the very flat one, no wonder it's been sitting there in a panic.

The Lost Story: The Lost Child - Chapter 322 The First Night in Another World

Lin Hai lay in Ai Yin's arms, feeling a bit uncomfortable with his head being rested there.

But she was too embarrassed to say it aloud, so she could only look at Xiangzi's chest with a look that said, "I wish you had caught me."

Aine suddenly felt that she was being looked down upon in some way, but she didn't know why.

I'm inexplicably annoyed.

She ground her back teeth and put Lin Hai down.

"Here, this is the map." Lin Hai patted his clothes and handed the scroll to Xiangzi. "I'll arrange your rooms. You can take a look before you go to sleep."

"A room?" Aine blinked. "Are we going to stay here?"

"Where else can we stay if we don't stay here?" Lin Hai glanced at her. "You have no currency and no identification. Do you want to sleep on the streets?"

"Even though I sleep on the streets, I will still give them a place to shelter from the wind and rain."

"Ugh... I hadn't even considered spending the night here."

"..." Xiangzi looked at Lin Hai, then at Ai Yin, "Go on, take a shower and rest. You've already done a lot of exercise today."

Then she added.

"Even if we spend a whole day here, it's only an hour in reality, so we have plenty of time."

"I advise you to give up the idea of ​​going back." Lin Hai shook his head. "Adapt as soon as possible and find the path you should take."

"And then spend the rest of your life here?" Xiangzi said.

"Pretty much," Lin Hai said, turning his head away. "Anyway, I'm not holding out much hope."

But we came here to save you!

"..."

"Regardless of whether you came to rescue me or not, now that you've transmigrated, your situation is the same as mine." Lin Hai stood at the door with his hands on his hips. "Whether you want to go home or not, there's no going back now."

"No, my master and I will definitely find a way—"

"—You're not the first people to say things like that." Lin Hai interrupted Ai Yin. "People who have just transmigrated are all like that. Once they face reality, they won't think that way anymore."

"But--"

"Shh, stop arguing." Xiangzi patted Aiyin's head and said softly, "No matter what, it's late, we really should rest."

“…I understand,” Ai Yin said dejectedly, hanging her head and following behind Xiangzi.

"I'm doing this for your own good." Lin Hai pushed up his glasses, turned around, and walked towards another room.

She took out her key and opened a guest room near the study. Inside were several beds that looked like they hadn't been used for a while and were covered in dust.

Lin Hai turned on the lights in the room, then took out a feather duster from the corner behind the door and handed it to Xiangzi.

"I can't help you clean up the ash. I need to boil some water. There will be hot water for you to take a bath in about half an hour. I'll come and call you when I've boiled the water."

"You've already gone to so much trouble." Xiangzi took the feather duster, smiled at her, and said, "Thank you."

Lin Hai hadn't seen such a bright smile in a long time. She stared at Xiangzi's face for a moment, stunned.

"It's nothing troublesome... just a side thing."

Her face flushed, she turned around, leaving the back of her head to Xiangzi.

"gone."

As she spoke, she picked up her small lantern and disappeared behind the beams and pillars of the spiral staircase.

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It was 11 p.m., a time when the night was deep and quiet.

After taking a shower, Xiangzi returned to her room wearing the pajamas Lin Hai had prepared for them.

The room where she was staying had already been cleaned. Ai Yin was wearing the same style of pajamas, sitting cross-legged on the bed, drying her long pink hair with a rough towel while frowning at the spread-out map.

"What's wrong?" Xiangzi saw her expression as soon as he entered the room.

"This map..."

"Is it very different from the game?"

"Ugh..." Aine looked frustrated after her words were guessed.

However, she quickly returned to normal.

"Little Master, you haven't learned about the structure of this world yet, have you? Come and take a look."

She waved to Xiangzi.

Xiangzi hung the towel around his neck and sat down next to Aiyin.

Aine felt a heat source approaching.

She had taken a shower earlier and had cooled down completely, but Xiangzi had just come out of the bathroom, her body still radiating a faint warmth.

There are no products like shower gel in the world within the barrier, but there are still everyday items like soap that have been passed down from ancient times. The church uses a soap mixed with olive oil.

A warm breath, carrying a faint olive scent, wafted from Xiangzi's neck and into Aiyin's nostrils.

It smells so good.

I'm using the same soap, so why can't I smell the difference?

His gaze unconsciously drifted to Xiangzi's delicate, pale pink skin exposed to the air.

Aine was momentarily lost in thought.

"So, where exactly is this map inconsistent?"

Xiangzi's voice brought Aiyin back to reality. She hurriedly pointed to a random spot on the map to prevent Xiangzi from discovering that she was peeking.

"here......"

"here?"

"Uh..." Ai Yin then realized that her finger was placed on a blank area.

Her eyes darted around twice, quickly searching her memory of the original map of "Once Upon a Time," and she blurted out something in a moment of inspiration.

"This looks like a gap, but it exists in the game. When the young master chooses his place of belonging, there are eight options, right?"

"Ah."

“But there are actually nine worlds in total,” Ai Yin said. “This empty space was originally the goddess’s kingdom, but it’s gone now.”

"It matches the disappearance of the goddess and the shattering of the Holy Grail."

“Yes, and…” Aine started to get into the swing of things, her finger circling around the other worlds on the map. “The world names that were originally supposed to correspond to the seven virtues plus sacrifice, these eight wonderful qualities, have become the seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, and pride. And what does the desire for life mean?”

“The original sacrifice corresponds to the current desire to live, which should refer to the will to survive,” Xiangzi said. “The desire to survive will drive people to do many despicable things, which is the opposite of selfless sacrifice and dedication.”

"That's how it should be?" Ai Yin tilted her head. "The changes are too drastic. How could Su Shi have come up with the idea of ​​turning the game world into this?"

“Perhaps Su Shi didn’t want to either; she couldn’t break the rules she set herself,” Xiangzi murmured. “The missing goddess and the shattered Holy Grail must be closely related to Su Shi.”

"The goddess in the game has no face. Could it be that here, the goddess is Su Shi?" Xiangzi suggested a possibility.

"Wow, the goddess has a really great figure."

"Isn't your basis for judgment a bit off?" Xiangzi gave Ai Yin a chop to the neck. "I only mentioned a possibility."

"Hey, stop hitting me! Stop hitting me! If you keep hitting me, I'll go stupid!" Ai Yin covered her head.

"You've always been a bit silly."

Xiangzi shook his head and continued flipping through the map.

The scroll Lin Hai gave her contained two maps, one general and one limited to the world of desire. She glanced through them briefly.

The world of life desires is relatively well-organized, surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on the other, forming a circular shape and a huge basin.

It is said that even without portals, there are ways to travel to other worlds on foot or by other means of transportation, but it is unknown where the passage connecting these worlds is located.

The world is vast, and there are many things waiting for them to explore.

Fortunately, they had plenty of time here, allowing them to linger with Su Shi and slowly explore the world.

As he watched, Xiangzi started to feel sleepy and tilted his head back to yawn.

"Is little master sleepy?" Ai Yin watched her yawn and couldn't help but yawn herself.

Yawning is indeed contagious.

"Yes, I'm sleepy. Let's talk about it tomorrow."

Xiangzi stretched like a kitten, climbed back into his bed, pulled up the covers, wrapped himself up, leaving only his furry head sticking out.

Goodnight, Desuwa.

Xiangzi, still half-asleep, greeted Aiyin.

Ai Yin felt a warm feeling in her heart when she saw Xiangzi's adorable, drowsy expression.

Goodnight, little master.

She blew out the light.

The Lost Story: The Lost Child - Chapter 323: Beginning to Adapt to This World

For a period of time afterward, Xiangzi and Aiyin explored the area surrounding the starting point.

Speaking of which, Lin Hai possesses something called a "system." She can clearly see her level and the skills she has learned. According to her, everyone who transmigrated with her has this.

However, the magical girls who traveled through time after that were gone.

Xiangzi didn't have any either.

The barrier seemed to think they didn't need the system's assistance and didn't offer them any more conveniences. So much so that after Xiangzi leveled up, it took him a while to figure out exactly what had changed about him.

The blockade on magic seems to have loosened a little, an extra space has appeared in my memory, and as for my physical attributes... I don't feel any changes.

After spending three days inside the barrier, she should be at level two now. Ai Yin is still at level five, and it's unclear how far she is from level six.

In addition, Xiangzi discovered that the class he chose when creating his character—the spellcaster—was inherited into the game.

In the original world setting, spellcasters are people with special talents who are born with a connection to the Holy Grail and are therefore able to cast spells.

They can use offerings to unleash "spells," just like Lin Hai did when he lit a fire earlier; this is a privilege unique to the barrier world.

Offering + incantation + gesture = spell.

This is the rule of this world: offerings are the price of an equivalent exchange, while spells and casting gestures are the ways to invoke the Holy Grail and communicate with it.

In the original game, no offerings were required; only spells (casting bars) and gestures (standing in a daze) were needed, because the Holy Grail at that time was still the Holy Grail that could grant any wish.

Now that they've become Holy Grail fragments, you have to exchange them for something of equal value in order to use spells. Otherwise, the Holy Grail will randomly take the "equivalent" it needs from the caster. In that case, a turkey feather or a monster's material wouldn't be enough to satisfy the demand for Holy Grail fragments.

In the present-day Fairy Tale Town, offerings are the most crucial factor determining the nature and quality of magic. Xiangzi must also abide by this principle if he wants to use magic.

That's what they say, but at her current level, she can't get many offerings. At most, she can only light a fire like Lin Hai... right?

No, of course not. Using magic to fight is Xiangzi's primary fighting method within the barrier.

As a magical girl, her hidden blade has almost no combat ability, and she is not a legendary assassin. What she relies on most is to reproduce the magic that only she can use.

The turkey feathers Lin Hai used to start a fire could only be used three times. After three uses, the feathers would turn to ashes. This was true for all offerings in this world. If the number of times the spell was used exceeded the offering's capacity, it would disappear.

No matter how precious the offerings are, they will eventually run out.

But for Xiangzi, it wasn't like that.

She now has four memory slots, which means she can store four offerings and reproduce and use them without limit. If she encounters a better one, she can replace the previous one. The way she uses offerings is practically tailor-made for her.

Adapting to this world wasn't that difficult for Xiangzi...

"Little master! I missed a few here!"

Ai Yin slashed two rats, each as big as her waist, away with a single stroke, then turned and shouted in Xiangzi's direction.

Zhizhi——!