Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

"I've handed you the program to hack into the central terminal, so this is all I can do for you." Xiao Su Shi said, hands on her hips. "You'll have to walk the rest of the way yourselves."

"Can't you come with us?" Aine looked up at her, her eyes brimming with tears. "It's not a big deal to leave just one terminal behind, is it?"

It really looks like a big pink-haired dog.

Xiao Su Shi smiled as she thought to herself.

“I’m already dead. Dust to dust is the only way for the dead to return to the earth.” She walked up to Aine, stood on tiptoe slightly, and cupped Aine’s face in her hands. “This is the last thing I can do for you… just like you did for me back then.”

She took a breath, her voice trembling slightly.

"After I got out of that carriage, I traveled almost all over the world with you, but I feel there are still so many places I haven't been to. The world created by the goddess, the world you live in, there are so many places I want to go... Can you go for me, go see the wider world for me? This is my dream in this life."

Aine held Xiaosu's little hand, which was pressed against her cheek, and felt its warmth.

"Please, just this once, okay?" Xiao Su Shi whispered, "Ai Yin."

"...I promise you."

"Remember to tell Xiangzi that the days when she rescued me from the carriage were the happiest time of my life, so I won't blame her and she shouldn't feel guilty anymore."

Xiao Su Shi released her grip on Aine's hand and took two steps back.

"Thank you, Aine, and everyone else, for wasting so much time with me because of my stubbornness."

"Then we're leaving, this time really." Aine said vaguely, a piece of bread baked by Su Shi in her mouth.

She was using food to cover up her sobs.

"Go on, go on, take care." Xiao Su Shi waved her hand, shooing away the group of people who were still reluctant to leave.

She stood there gracefully, watching everyone walk towards the terminal switch, when suddenly something occurred to her. What did she remember? A song, a song she had learned after entering the divine realm.

Just as Aiyin was about to pull the switch, she heard a clear and lovely singing voice drifting from not far away.

"Outside the long pavilion, along the ancient road, fragrant grasses stretch to the horizon."

Damn——

The singing stopped abruptly.

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Fairy Tale Town World, "Living Memories".

The city, once bathed in golden light, is no longer what it used to be; most of the area has dimmed, leaving only the region controlled by the central terminal.

Since most facilities were shut down, they had to walk the last part of the journey.

Walking towards the central terminal, you can see a tall man in black standing in the distance. Compared to the various passersby, the man's tall stature is very eye-catching.

When the White Queen saw the figure, she frowned, took a step forward, and unconsciously protected everyone behind her.

"Who is that?"

“You should have seen him before.”

"Regent?"

"Hmm." The White Queen clicked her tongue. "I knew he would be here."

After all, all the dead are reborn in the divine kingdom, and the Regent is still a familiar of the same level as himself, so it's impossible for him to just disappear like that.

It seems this hurdle is one we will have to overcome.

"Let me make this clear first: I don't intend to stop you from drinking and drinking."

As it turned out, the first thing he said when we met was this.

"What do you mean?" The White Queen still looked wary.

Based on the White Queen's understanding of him, she shouldn't believe him even if he said that snow is best when it's white.

"Does the goddess mean that I am no longer bound by my mission and am free?" The man shrugged. "I was just an employee. The boss doesn't need my help now, so it's like I've been fired."

"Then why are you blocking the road?"

"I've come to deliver something."

"what?"

The man took a small object out of his pocket and tossed it toward the White Queen.

"What's this?" The White Queen caught what he threw at her, glanced at it, and said, "Isn't this your power armor's steam core?"

"It can also be used as an offering." The man's gaze drifted to the back of the White Queen. "It's for that little girl. She probably doesn't have any more offerings to use in battle. You'll be facing the fully upgraded Goddess later. No, it would be more appropriate to call her the Eternal Goddess. You can't do without a means of combat."

"Why are you helping us?" Deng accepted the offerings given to her by the Regent.

“Because I think about the same thing as the one beside you.” The Regent glanced at the White Queen. “The Divine Kingdom is the Goddess’s paradise, but those eight worlds were built by me, bit by bit. They are mine.”

He walked toward the White Queen and brushed past her.

"Nobody wants to see the fruits of their labor destroyed, right?"

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After all, no one wants to see their stage destroyed like this.

Although becoming a Protagonist wasn't quite what Xiangzi had imagined, she was now indeed one of the "protagonists" of Reed Plain. And as a protagonist, she had to shoulder that responsibility.

This is what Kasumi-senpai expects of herself, what Yukina expects of herself, and what Shoko expects of herself.

In the real world, there are still three and a half hours until the typhoon makes landfall.

Xiangzi rushed to the location sent by Miaomeng as quickly as possible. Chuhua and Mu were a step ahead of him. Just as Xiangzi arrived, Hailing followed. The four of them stood at the empty crossroads, looking at each other, but they did not see the person who had called them.

"(Meow Dream, where are you?)"

"(Wait a moment, just a moment, soon—)"

【————！】

An indescribable roar reached Xiangzi's ears, piercing her eardrums with pain.

In an instant, it seemed as if something had sped past in front of him, and the entire space was distorted by that fleeting shadow. The road beneath his feet began to change, turning into a broken asphalt road, and the surrounding environment became a fog with visibility of less than five meters.

It's exactly the same barrier that Meow Dream described.

A gray-blue sedan emerged from the gray fog and stopped beside them. Miaomeng poked her head out from inside, raising her sunglasses with one hand.

"Here I am."

"Meow Dream?!"

"There's no time to explain, get in the car." Miao Meng put her sunglasses back on her nose. "I'll explain when we get in the car. Right now, we need to make sure we don't get left behind."

......

Where did this car come from?

"It's inside the barrier, it's alright, I've had it open for a long time."

Miaomeng floored the accelerator before navigating through the fog, her eyes not even on the road, but turning her head to chat with Xiangzi in the passenger seat. Xiangzi, sitting in the passenger seat, faced the fog constantly pounding against the glass, with no way to slow the car down. The visual impact and the feeling of powerlessness against the vehicle simultaneously sent a shiver down Xiangzi's spine.

The tingling, goosebump-inducing sensation felt like someone had a gun pointed at your head.

"Aren't you watching where you're going?" Xiangzi said through gritted teeth.

"Don't worry, nothing will happen." Miao Meng waved her hand nonchalantly. "I chased it for a long time and found that it was patrolling the city according to a fixed route, so I called you here in advance."

"What are its strengths and weaknesses? Are there any countermeasures?" Xiangzi forced himself to calm down and turned to look at Miaomeng. "You seem quite calm. Have you already figured it all out?"

"More or less?" Miao Meng shrugged. "After all, I almost died at its hands once, so I already know the most lethal thing. The subsequent intelligence investigation won't be so troublesome."

She raised her index finger and mysteriously raised the corners of her mouth.

"For the most accurate, firsthand information, look for MeowDream! Get a 20% discount on your next visit!"

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Central terminal, base of the tower.

Miko and her group finally stood beneath the central terminal once again.

Unlike other sub-terminals, the central terminal does not have an obvious switch. In fact, this switch is just a symbol of authority. Sub-terminals having a switch means that they can be turned off without administrator privileges, while the central terminal is something that only the administrator can control.

The golden terminal was flooded with data that was invisible to the naked eye, like a torrent. This torrent prevented them from getting close to the central terminal. There was only one way to get there.

The White Queen reached out her hand towards the torrent of data flowing across the terminal, and a beam of white light shot from her hand toward the central terminal.

This was the "intrusion program" that Xiao Su Shi had given her. In the words that the White Queen herself was more familiar with, it was a spell used to tear a crack large enough for a person to pass through in the data torrent of the central terminal.

"Could she really have developed such magic...?" The White Queen looked at herself as she successfully cast the magic given to her by Xiao Su Shi, her pupils shrinking slightly.

"That's Xiaosu Shi's authority as an administrator, that's what she said herself." Aine took out the Soul Gem, her casual clothes transformed into her usual combat outfit, and she jumped a couple of times on the spot, as if to cheer herself up, "We're coming in, Su Shi-san."

The lamp gripped the offering the Regent had given her tightly and took a step forward.

"I need to maintain the spell here, so I won't be able to stay with you anymore." The White Queen took out a pouch containing something and handed it to the lamp. "However, take this. It contains some small, auxiliary offerings. Make good use of them."

"Thank you so much for coming with us this far." Lamp took the fanny pack, bowed slightly to the White Queen, and thanked her. Then he turned around, looked up at the torrent of data floating above, and turned to his companions to confirm, "Everyone, are you all ready?"

Without any unnecessary words, the answer was consistent.

"""certainly!"""

Ding--

[Entrusted to Open]

【Fairytale Town: The Eternal Goddess Annihilation Battle】

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【————！】

The ear-piercing and chilling roar was getting closer and closer to Xiangzi. During the time that Miaomeng was driving to catch up with him on the country road, she had already arranged her countermeasures.

Finally, Xiangzi turned around and asked his companions in the back seat:

"Everyone, are you all ready?"

A sea of ​​thumbs-ups told her there was absolutely no problem.

Xiangzi turned back with relief, his back to everyone, and gave a thumbs up.

Ding----

[Entrusted to Open]

[Country Road Annihilation Campaign]

The Tale of the Lost: The Lost Children: Chapter 438 The Lost Children (6-in-1)

Reading this chapter in conjunction with the FF14 7.0 final boss theme song "Paved in Solitude" will enhance the reading experience.

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As he passed through the rift that the White Queen had torn open in the central terminal, Lamp seemed to see some blurry fragments of memory. Those vague memories transformed into pure emotions that flowed into his heart as he left the rift's passage.

I tried my best, but to no avail.

Broken, and sorrowful.

"Su Shi-san!"

Aine's voice brought the lamp back to its senses.

Beyond the rift, after passing through the passage, they arrived at a void. Everyone remembered this space; it was the scene they saw during the "loading" process before entering the game. The square platform they landed on floated in the void, with streams of azure data drifting overhead, converging towards the white dot beyond the void.

Su Shi was not far from them, floating in the air, head down, her chest rising and falling rhythmically.

"Su Shi-san!" Aine called out Su Shi's name loudly, "Can you hear me!"

"it's useless."

For the first time, Lena, who was always carefree, showed a sullen expression. She looked at Su Shi's dull and lifeless eyes and said...

"She can no longer hear."

sizzle-

As Lena finished speaking, familiar snowflakes appeared on Su Shi's body and slowly disappeared into the air.