Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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As the symbol of the empire, the Red Queen has been the absolute symbol of the empire since the first Red Queen held real power. Of course, among the thirteen Red Queens, including Xiao Su Shi, there were also Red Queens who seized power through their own means, except for the first Red Queen. However, Xiao Su Shi is clearly not among them.

All the Red Queens are "talents" selected by the Empire. These girls have the ability to reject the Holy Grail fragments. They are taken away from their families at a young age, or are simply orphans. They grow up in a secret monastery, receive various training, and finally, at the age of thirteen, they are selected to become the official heir to the Red Queen. They continue to receive more rigorous education and officially appear in the Empire's high-society occasions at the age of fifteen.

After that, it's just a matter of waiting for the current Red Queen to step down and then inheriting the throne.

According to public statements, the new Red Queen is the biological daughter of the previous Queen, but in reality, they are not related by blood at all. Xiao Su Shi never even saw the face of the previous Red Queen, who died in an assassination.

Yes, she died from an assassination attempt, which was the most important reason why Little Su Shi took office as the Red Queen ahead of schedule.

Generally, the Red Queen's heir is chosen at the age of thirteen, but Xiao Su Shi was only seven when she took the throne. Now that she is thirteen, she has been a puppet on the Red Queen's throne for six years.

The memories of her time at the monastery were so distant that they had become blurry, like a demagnetized cassette tape. When Xiao Su Shi tried to recall them, she would often pause for a long time, and finally gloss over them with vague words.

She seemed to have memories of that period, yet it also seemed like it was just a dream, unclear and ambiguous.

Before she knew it, she was already the Red Queen.

I can't remember how I was elected, or what happened after I was elected, or what happened to the children who were candidates with me.

Overall, I think I was happy during that period.

At least compared to life after becoming the Red Queen, it was much happier.

Mu sat quietly to the side, listening to Xiao Su Shi recount her past, nodding occasionally to show that she was listening.

If she didn't nod, Xiao Su Shi might really have thought she was a doll.

In the end, it was Mu who came to talk to someone, but it turned into a one-sided outpouring by Xiao Su Shi.

Anyway, Mu didn't dislike her, and she wanted to say that they should just keep talking about it.

Perhaps because she had been holding back for so long, she really enjoys talking to others about her past.

Although he was getting no feedback and started to feel sleepy as he talked, his little head was nodding off.

She was already quite sleepy, and was barely managing to stay awake to chat, but now she just couldn't hold on any longer. Her voice grew softer and softer, more and more intermittent, until finally...

Without any suspicion, she lay down on Mu's lap and fell asleep.

"call......"

A faint breathing sound.

In the end, he's still just a child; he'll sleep when he's tired.

In the end, nothing was said, only listened.

But... this can be considered building a good relationship, right?

Mu lowered his eyes and gently stroked Xiao Su Shi's hair.

that's it.

Being able to watch quietly like this is enough.

Mu thought of it.

After finishing his business, Xiangzi pushed open the door a crack and peered into the unusually quiet room.

Mu gazed at Su Shi's sleeping face, the dim fire embracing them.

Time seemed to stand still at that moment.

Xiangzi couldn't bear to break the tranquility so quickly, so he turned around, stretched in the corridor, and tiptoed downstairs.

She wanted to get some fresh air outside.

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Going back a little bit, it was probably when Xiangzi left the room to take care of his so-called "own business".

She walked out of the door and turned to walk into another room.

This is a storage room. Brooms, shovels and other odds and ends are piled up in one corner. There is a shelf on the left with all sorts of random things. Xiangzi asked Aiyin to temporarily store the "sack" she was carrying here. She came here now to "deal with" this troublesome bag of things.

The creaking sound of the door being pushed open brought "Sack," who had been struggling for a while and was starting to feel sleepy, to a response, emitting a weak whimpering sound.

Xiangzi bent down and untied the knots on the sack.

"Wow----!"

A dark blue, hairy head popped out of the sack, taking deep breaths of fresh air.

Tobacco had been hidden in the sack for hours, and she thought she was going to die inside. The moment she regained her freedom, she almost instinctively wanted to shout:

"Help—uhhh—!"

Xiangzi covered the tobacco's mouth, and in the dim light, raised his index finger to his lips.

"Shh..."

The faint smile at the corner of his mouth was both beautiful and dangerous, giving Tobacco goosebumps. His struggles gradually lessened and eventually stopped completely.

Seeing how sensible she was, Xiangzi nodded in satisfaction.

"I have some questions for you," Xiangzi said softly. "Depending on your response, I might consider granting you some of your less unreasonable requests."

Without his glasses, the severely nearsighted Tobacco couldn't see Xiangzi's facial expression at all, only vaguely making out the curve of Xiangzi's lips.

That curve, like a little devil.

"Can you let me go?" Tobacco asked tremblingly.

"Of course not," Xiangzi replied with a smile.

That expression seemed to be telling Tobacco, "If you try to run, I'll make sure you can't run away."

"But it's still possible to avoid having to stay in a sack all the time," Xiangzi added.

"..." Tobacco twitched the corner of its mouth and swallowed. "Whatever you want."

Xiangzi then took out tobacco glasses from his pocket and put them on her.

"Here's your glasses back," she said.

With glasses, things become much clearer.

Only then did Tobacco have the opportunity to examine Xiangzi closely.

Xiangzi was still wearing that tattered nun's habit. Yancao recognized the meaning behind that outfit, so after seeing it clearly, Yancao's expression changed from a glimmer of hope to a shattered disappointment.

“…Saint-Shuary, huh?” Tobacco smacked his lips. “Falling into one pit from another doesn’t seem to make much difference.”

"Is Saint-Shuary really that bad?" Xiangzi raised an eyebrow at her. "Oh, sorry, I think I asked a pointless question."

Tobacco lives in the imperial capital. Anyone with a modicum of common sense knows how negative the empire's propaganda about Sanctuary will be, not to mention that the organization itself isn't as clean as it claims.

“I can roughly guess the Empire’s opinion of Saint-Shuary.” To reassure Tobacco, Xiangzi explained the origin of his clothes, “But don’t worry, I’m just wearing their clothes, I’m no longer a member of Saint-Shuary.”

"...What do you want to ask me?" Tobacco sighed and asked.

"It's mainly about what you know."

Xiangzi helped her take off the sacks from her body and handed her a stool, while he leaned against the window, bathed in the pure white moonlight.

"Let's start by telling you how you 'traveled' here."

The moment he heard the word "time travel," Tobacco showed an expression of disbelief.

Seeing her shocked expression, Xiangzi gently turned his head and smiled:

"I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Toyokawa Shoko, and I'm the magical girl who came to save you."

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Then came a long storytelling session.

Surprisingly, after learning Xiangzi's identity, Tobacco revealed everything he knew.

Tobacco's real name is not this. Whether it is "Moon Village" or "Tobacco", it is undoubtedly her online name, a name used for playing games and social networking.

However, since she came into this world, this online name has become her official name.

She accidentally entered this world while playing games all night with some online friends. The group was lucky enough to arrive in the capital and found a way to make a living in the empire by relying on their in-game professions. They lived a peaceful year.

The luckiest person this year was the tobacco company itself.

Her profession is "researcher," also known as "scholar." In the original game, this profession was relatively weak in combat but quite powerful in solving various puzzles or knowledge-based tests. After coming to this world, this profession gave Tobacco a strong research and development capability.

By chance, thanks to her exceptional R&D capabilities, she joined the Rainbow Bridge Gate project and significantly advanced the R&D progress in less than six months.

The first experiment with the Rainbow Bridge Gate was conducted under her guidance.

The "incantation compiled by historians" that Xiaosushi mentioned was actually a spell pieced together by using the skills granted to him by the tobacco system to find keywords for the spell from countless ancient books.

It can be said that tobacco, single-handedly, propelled this experiment from stagnation to a point where it could be put into practice, and even...

In the eyes of her colleagues, she was an exceptionally young super genius.

The tremendous achievement gave tobacco an extremely unreal feeling.

While I enjoy reading light novels where the protagonist uses a system to overpower others in another world, I'm actually afraid when it happens to me.

The achievements, which were completely disproportionate to her own accumulated knowledge, made her feel as if she were standing on a castle in the air, and could fall at any moment.

What frightened her even more was the fact that she had become the assistant director.

The assistant director position itself wasn't the problem; the problem was that it allowed her to learn about some behind-the-scenes stories that she shouldn't, and didn't want to, know.

About the regent, about the grand vision of the empire, about the true purpose of my job.

The empire wants to expand its territory, collect all the Holy Grail fragments, and become the world's overlord... No, the empire's grand ambitions are obvious to everyone.

What truly terrified tobacco was the Regent.

His real purpose is to invade "another" world.

reality.

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Invading reality?

How to do it?

How did he know about the existence of another world?

These questions immediately popped into Xiangzi's mind.

Tobacco was a clever man; before Xiangzi could even ask, he continued explaining on his own.

The regent seems to have found evidence in a certain book related to the goddess that the goddess came from another world, thus deducing the existence of another world.

He believed that the Rainbow Bridge was connected to other worlds, and that if the Rainbow Bridge could be rebuilt, it would lead to the world where the goddess once lived.

This guy spent a lot of time and used all sorts of means to win over the entire empire's top brass to his side, and for many years he has been preparing for a war to unify the world.

It is also for the purpose of moving towards the next world.

After listening to Tobacco's account, Xiangzi's assessment was:

"He hasn't even unified this world yet, and he's already thinking about the other world? Isn't that a bit too presumptuous?"

She pouted.

"So cliché, it feels like a movie from the 1970s."

The sense of déjà vu is so strong, it's almost blinding Xiangzi.

"But when it happens to me, there's nothing I can do." Tobacco rubbed his head and lowered it. "I'm already a sensitive person related to the door. If he finds out I'm also a player, I'm really doomed!"

She breathed a sigh of relief.

"Now that I look at it, it seems that kidnapping me has actually made things a little better by accident. At least I don't have to live in constant fear of my identity being discovered."

"A loss may turn out to be a blessing in disguise, right?" Xiangzi smiled.

"I hope so." Tobacco hung its head listlessly.

After the conversation ended, the storage room was quiet for a while.

Xiangzi lowered his head, pondering the information he had gleaned from Tobacco.