Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

She took a deep breath, intending to wait until no one opened the door before finding another way in. Regardless of whether Su Shi had become a witch or not, she wanted to settle this matter here...

click-

The door lock turned.

Xiangzi held his breath.

A pink head popped out from behind the door.

"Little Master, it's you!" Ai Yin exclaimed in surprise, her mouth agape.

Xiangzi raised an eyebrow.

Ai Yin? Shouldn't they have fallen out recently? Why is she at the Su family...? Wait a minute.

Did she just call me "little master"?

The Tale of Reincarnation: The Shore of Oblivion: Chapter 446 Stay Tonight

"Little Master, it's you!"

Ayane's voice clearly conveyed surprise.

"Why can't it be me?" Xiangzi replied habitually.

Then she realized that the way the other person addressed her was not the way Aine should know "at this moment," as she and Aine were not familiar with each other at all at this point.

Xiangzi's brain stopped working for about a second.

In that very second, another dusty head popped up behind Aine.

"Xiao Xiang?"

Who is this?

It took Xiangzi's visual system about half a second to recognize the person appearing behind Aiyin.

lamp?!

Is the light still there?

My heart skipped a beat.

"Who are you? What are you doing at the door?"

A somewhat agitated sound drifted out of the room.

Lixi's head popped out as the light came on, and he froze when he saw Xiangzi.

"You guys are talking so loudly so late, it'll disturb other people... ah."

The last one to come out was Su Shi.

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

Four people stood inside the doorway, and one person stood outside the doorway, looking at each other in silence.

"..."

Xiangzi pursed his lips, seemingly wanting to say something but holding back.

She saw Su Shi, and of course Su Shi saw her too. Their eyes met for a moment, and then Su Shi turned away from her.

"Come in," Su Shi said. "Don't stand outside so late at night, especially someone as loud as you."

As he spoke, he grabbed Ai-yin by the collar and pulled her back.

"Hey! I know I was wrong, don't pull my collar!"

Deng and Lixi exchanged a glance. Lixi nodded, turned, and followed Su Shi back into the house. Then, Deng turned her gaze to Xiangzi.

For some reason, looking into Deng's familiar amber eyes, Xiangzi felt a sense of calm settle in his uneasy heart. It seemed that the past twenty-seven days... or even nearly a year, had not been in vain.

"Actually, I..." Xiangzi cleared his throat.

"Come in, Xiao Xiang, I also have something I want to tell you." Deng made way for him and said softly.

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After sitting down, Xiangzi quickly scanned Su Shi's house. Besides marveling at how exquisite the place was, almost devoid of human warmth, she also noticed that there were tatami mats on the living room floor, indicating that they planned to sleep at Su Shi's house tonight.

"I'll go make some tea, you guys chat." Su Shi said this and then disappeared, leaving Xiangzi and the other three on the sofa in the living room.

Well, to be precise, there were four people.

Lenai was fast asleep, having taken up a spot on her body, with a familiar white creature clinging to her. When Xiangzi arrived, the white creature looked up, climbed off Lenai, and yawned.

"Delete?" Xiangzi frowned.

"Ah, good evening, Xiangzi." Delete lazily raised his ears and waved at her. "Welcome back to June 1st."

"..." Xiangzi opened his mouth slightly, then slumped his shoulders in relief. "Looks like I don't need to speak up, is that right?"

What happened to Su Shi's barrier, and how they returned to June 1st, seems to be no longer something I need to ask.

Xiangzi raised his eyes and looked at the lamp.

"You said there was something you wanted to tell me," Xiangzi said. "Are you planning to start over?"

"Xiao Xiang." Deng nodded, raised his hand, and showed the ring on his hand.

Although Xiangzi had prepared herself mentally before asking the question, her pupils still contracted to their smallest size the moment she saw the ring on Deng's middle finger.

"I made a wish and became a magical girl," said the light.

"..."

Xiangzi's facial muscles were slightly out of control for a moment, but he managed to regain his composure.

"...Really? You did make a wish." She said as calmly as possible.

She knew all along that the lamp would eventually make its own choice, especially after she talked to Somniorum, whose amber eyes were exactly the same as she remembered.

"May I ask what kind of wish you made? Is it related to your safe return to June 1st?"

“Perhaps,” said the lamp. “We just discussed that our ability to return to this time period with our memories, and even our own Soul Gems, might be related to the fact that Once Upon a Time became an independent world. Perhaps the timeline in Reed Plains was reset before we returned, which is why we returned to June 1st with the soul of 'June 27th'.”

"?"

What does it mean that Fairy Tale Town became an independent world? What exactly did she wish for?

"My wish is to turn the fairytale town into a real world."

"?!"

His barely maintained expression faltered once again, and Xiangzi's first thought was: Absolutely impossible.

"How much cause and effect would it take to turn a virtual world into a real world? How could you possibly succeed?" Xiangzi's voice trembled noticeably.

She didn't believe deep down that such an outrageous wish could come true.

However, Deng answered Xiangzi with her actions; she transformed the ring into a flower bud-shaped soul gem and placed it on the coffee table.

“Delete said that I have enough ‘supercausality’ so my wish came true.”

“Even if there is a super-causal relationship—” Xiangzi stood up abruptly, “—then why was my wish distorted?! Why didn’t my wish come true?”

The emotions I had been carefully controlling since the time reset suddenly exploded like a Mentos being thrown into a Coke.

She clearly remembered that when Delete was not yet Delete, but just an ordinary Kyubey, he said something like, "Your karma is insufficient, so your wish will be distorted." As it turned out, Delete was right, and her wish was fulfilled in an incomplete form.

Is it possible that resurrecting a dead person requires more cause and effect than creating a world? Impossible, absolutely impossible!

They are all people who transcend cause and effect...

Why only lights?

This isn't fair—

"Hey, the way you're saying it's like 'Why can the lamp be treated this way? It's unfair.'" Lixi stood protectively in front of the lamp, looking at Xiangzi warily. "Do you want the lamp's wish to be twisted like yours?"

"—!"

"Lixi, you're too excited. Little Master definitely wouldn't think that way... Right, Little Master?" Aiyin quickly stepped in to smooth things over, glancing tentatively at Xiangzi.

Xiangzi stood in the center of the living room with his head down, his pupils trembling uncontrollably, and his upper and lower teeth clattering together, making a slight sound.

"I......"

at this time.

"I'll just be gone for a little while, what are you doing?"

Su Shi brought over the tea and placed it on the coffee table.

Looking at the strange atmosphere among the group of people, she picked up a cup and handed it to Xiangzi.

"It's getting late, I should go." Xiangzi didn't take the teacup, keeping his head down and not daring to look at Su Shi.

“It was already very late when you arrived, and the trams had long since stopped running. Someone must have brought you here,” Su Shi said calmly. “It’s not right to make someone make a special trip so late at night.”

"She has no objections." Xiangzi turned around and was about to walk towards the entrance.

"But you came to see me, right? Are you really planning to just leave without saying a word?"

"...I'm relieved to see you're doing well." Xiangzi, with her back to Su Shi, clutched the hem of her skirt and said in a low voice, "If you're happy with them, then I'm fine."

“Is that so…” Su Shi looked down at her face in the teacup. “But I have something else I want to tell you, not just me, but also… that child.”

Xiangzi froze, biting her lip hard, her fingers gripping the hem of her skirt until they turned white. When she turned back to face Su Shi, her gaze remained evasive.

"What do you want to do?" Xiangzi asked.

"How about this, I have plenty of bedding here, you can stay here for the night."

Su Shi took a step closer and handed the tea to Xiangzi. The steam rising from the teacup clung to Xiangzi's cheeks, condensing into tiny water droplets on her skin.

"This is herbal tea, it won't keep you awake."

The Tale of Reincarnation: The Shore of Oblivion: Chapter 447 Pillow Fight

"Three, two, one!"

"Don't move around."

"Yeah~"

Xiangzi was caught in the middle by Aiyin and Deng, looking completely bewildered. Su Shi stood behind Xiangzi, seemingly unwilling, and stood on tiptoe.

Click.

"Hey, why is my photo blurry?" Ai Yin frowned as she looked at the photo.

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"I told you not to move around. If you move while taking the picture, it will be blurry."

"Huh...why is this happening?"

"Because it's easy for it to burn at night."

"But why is it easier to blur at night but not during the day? I don't understand."

"..."

"What's wrong, little master? Could it be... you don't know either?" Ai Yin blinked and gave a mischievous smile. "By the way, little master, can I borrow your phone for a moment?"

“I do know, but you probably can’t understand things like shutter speed, ISO, and aperture.” Xiangzi shrugged and handed his phone to Aiyin.

After sending the photo to Xiangzi, Aiyin forwarded it to Chuhua through Xiangzi's social media, adding the message, "Little Master, lend us your phone for one night~", and then returned the phone to Xiangzi.

"Alright, little master, you can stay here tonight without worry~" Aine made a peace sign.

"..."

Xiangzi rubbed his forehead and let out a long sigh.

"understood."