Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

"and many more!"

Yan saw a faint wisp of smoke gathering towards the bullet holes in the wall. She didn't know what it was, but instinctively felt it couldn't be anything good.

--"three."

Mami started the countdown.

--"two."

"Wait a minute, Senior Ba!"

--"one."

Without giving Homura any chance to explain, Mami pulled the trigger without hesitation.

——Whoosh!

The bullet flew out from behind Flame, passed through her thigh, went through one of the bullet holes in the glass wall, and flew back into the barrel of the double-barreled shotgun.

Flame's expression froze for a moment.

"ah------!"

At first, she lost feeling in her thigh, followed by a burning pain that felt like hailstones falling from the sky and hitting her head.

—"One, two..."

"Senior Ba, I—"

--"three."

Mami Tomoe pulled the trigger again, and the bullet pierced Homura's abdomen, repairing the last bullet hole in the wall.

—"The next shot will be in your head."

Two bullets from the other side pierced through his body, and Flame was overwhelmed by pure, intense pain, as if a typhoon had taken over the sky and destroyed everything.

His breathing became rapid, and sweat poured out incessantly, mixing with the blood on his head and the icy water.

"It's on the way! I left it on the way!" Flame shouted, enduring the pain, giving Mami the answer she wanted.

"really?"

Mami's voice rang in my ears.

"?!"

Flame suddenly opened her eyes wide and stared at Mami in the blue room.

No, that wasn't the sound coming through a loudspeaker...

Yan swallowed the blood that was stuck in her throat, turned her eyes to look at her side.

Mami... The second Mami, holding a double-barreled shotgun, pressed it against her head.

"You really mean it was lost on the road?"

"Really...really..."

"I believe you." Mami gently patted Homura's head.

In the past, when Mami patted her head like that, she quite liked it. It felt nice to have her hair rubbed. Xiangzi also liked to rub her hair like that, and Yan didn't dislike it at all.

But now, seeing Mami make this move, Homura only felt terrified.

Mami opened her lifeless eyes and glanced at herself in the blue room.

Inside the blue room, Mami had stopped asking questions and was slowly retreating towards a corner of the room.

Following Mami's gaze, Homura realized that the two rooms were connected at the end. At the end of the room were two familiars that looked like record players, and on top of the record players were two revolving doors stacked together.

“Homura, actually, out of all my juniors, you are the one I like the most.” Mami gently stroked Homura’s hair. “You are timid, insecure, and hesitant. When I protect you, I feel a sense of satisfaction. It’s a sense of satisfaction that Madoka and others can’t provide. It’s like… like raising a pet.”

“Senior…”

"But I didn't expect you to have kept so many things from me."

"I've already said... I left it here..."

"I only found out recently that you came from the future."

"—!"

"That's why I said you're special." Mami lifted Homura's chin, looking deeply into her eyes. "You're the most special one, so special that—"

Mami's eyes swept around the surroundings before returning to Homura.

"Especially since it all started because of you."

"..." Homura looked at Mami with a confused expression. "What are you talking about, Senpai? I don't understand..."

“You are the forgotten shore.” Mami calmly revealed the truth. “In the future, you lost all hope because of the endless cycle of reincarnation. In the end, you fell into despair and became a witch who betrayed the shore of time, almost destroying the world. Those people finally managed to separate you, and to prevent you from doing something that would destroy the world again, they sent the separated ‘you’ back to the past.”

"......"

"Why don't you speak?"

"Impossible..." Flame raised her head, her eyes filled with fragile disbelief. "How could this be? How could I possibly—become—"

boom----!

The warehouse door was abruptly blasted open.

The azure figure, wielding a gun blade, burst through the gate. With two swift movements, two Lament Seeds were fired, slicing the magical girl blocking the way in half at the waist. Then, the figure charged straight towards Mami.

"Let her go!"

Behind Xiangzi, several magical girls appeared in the warehouse.

The eulogists had heavily guarded the warehouse, but this defense was torn to shreds like paper by Xiangzi and her group of magical girls.

"Your future self is dead, Flame."

Mami took two steps back and released her grip on Yan's cheek. She and the last few remaining subordinates retreated into the passage on the other side.

"But it's okay, I will put you back together, and I will help you fulfill your ultimate wish."

"I will bring you justice."

The Tale of Reincarnation: The Shore of Oblivion: Chapter 503 PasPale's Support

After being knocked off the train by the dark figure, Xiangzi rolled several times on the ground before barely coming to a stop.

The dull pain all over her body made it take her more than ten seconds to finally get up. However, by the time she got up, she could no longer see the train on the other side that carried Mami, Homura, and the mysterious black shadow.

"what!"

Xiangzi kicked the gravel that was laid under the rails hard.

"I'm sick!"

She clutched her still-dizzy head, wondering which idiot had knocked her down.

No, no, no, now is not the time to vent. If we follow the tracks of the train on the other side, we can still catch up.

Xiangzi only lingered in the same spot for about half a minute before regaining his composure, picking up the fallen gun blade, and chasing after the train on the other side.

Following the railway tracks, Xiangzi saw several figures converging on the way, about six or seven people, but the traces of magic were not demonstrated at all.

It's a magical girl.

Xiangzi immediately became alert and gripped the gun blade tightly.

"Xiang, it's us!" one of the figures shouted in Xiangzi's direction.

"Mu?"

Xiangzi stopped and waited for them to approach. Mu had indeed gotten off at Shenbin East Station, but how did she know she would be here?

Moreover, besides Mutsumi and the three kids from Mitakihara, there were three other people she had never met before.

"You are..." Xiangzi pointed his gun at the three strangers, narrowing his eyes, "...PasPale?!"

Xiangzi's pupils contracted sharply, and he instinctively swung the gun blade in his hand.

when--!

The gun's blade was blocked by a samurai sword. The magical girl with white double braids, dressed in the attire of a Sengoku period geisha, used the samurai sword in her hand to block Xiangzi's impulsive attack.

"Bushido!" the white-haired magical girl shouted!

"Why are you here?!"

She just stole the flowers from PasPale and then lost them. They're probably here to confront her now.

Xiangzi nervously thought of Yi Qiliu 1 Erren Er.

"Of course we'll be here! Of course we have to get involved in something like this!" The green-haired magical girl walked up. "Relax, don't be so nervous. We're all in this together. Cai Cai specially called us here to help you."

"You are...Hina Hikawa?" Shoko lowered the tip of her gun. Although she had relaxed her stance, she remained vigilant and dared not let her guard down.

"That's me~" Hina made a V-sign.

Genius Rina—no, I mean Hikawa Rina, is also a member of PasPale, one of the Protagonists of Ashihara, and is the twin sister of Roselia's Hikawa Saya. She plays the role of the second offensive position in the team.

"So you're Wakamiya Eve?" Shoko turned to the girl who had blocked her attack earlier.

"Bushido—!" The white-haired samurai girl beside her, carrying a samurai sword, also gave a peace sign.

Bushido Pokémon—no, that's not right, it's Wakamiya Eve, PasPale's keyboardist, third attacker. Despite being a foreigner, her favorite weapon is a samurai sword, and her swordsmanship is quite remarkable.

After all, he is one of the Protagonists, so it's only natural that he's skilled. It's just that I don't know why he always likes to use the word "Bushido" on his lips.

"Why...why are you helping me?"

Just now on the bullet train, there was also Maruyama Ayana's unconditional support.

"I just thought the witch on this side was kind of cool, that's why I came along," Hina said. "The rest was Ayana's idea, so I don't know anything about it."

“When Cai Cai was first injured, she left us alone for a while and came back. She became like a prophet and started talking nonsense.”

The last member of PasPale came into Xiangzi's view, a mechanical arm extending from his lumbar spine pushing up his glasses on his nose.

“She must have learned about information related to the future during that period, and she always said ‘what has happened has already happened.’”

With short brown hair and glasses, she looks like a typical nerd, but a closer look reveals she's actually incredibly beautiful, with two mechanical arms extending from her waist. She's the drummer for PasPale, a super tech geek, and an equipment inventor—Maya Yamato.

Xiangzi's gaze swept over the three people in front of him, his shoulders went slack, and he completely let down his guard.

“Thank you all,” she said.

"Don't say thank you yet, we still have very important things to do." Mayi stepped forward with her mechanical hands on her hips, placing her hands on Xiangzi's shoulders. "Only you know where we should go, so lead the way quickly."

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Following the railway tracks, I actually caught up with the train on the other side. It was parked at the port, near a building that read "Free Trade Port Warehouse".

There were a group of obvious magical traces inside the warehouse.

Without a doubt, this is the stronghold of the eulogists.

With so many powerful helpers around him, and unable to confirm Yan's safety, Xiangzi decisively chose to break through the Freeport warehouse head-on when he saw its airtight defenses.

There are over twenty magical girls guarding the Freeport warehouse, as well as the assimilated clone of the witch from the art museum, Fukashi Lullaby. Including Xiangzi, there are only eight of them on their side.

but.

They are stronger.

Eight against twenty, Xiangzi's side broke through Freeport's defenses in just a few minutes, and then skillfully cracked Deep Stone Lullaby's defense system in less than a minute and a half, rushing into the red room where Mami and Homura were.

"Let her go!"

Xiangzi rushed towards Mami and fired two Sorrow Seeds, slicing the two magical girls who tried to stop him in half at the waist.

In such a confined space, Mami's flintlock muskets were difficult to deploy and unable to unleash their full firepower. If she could seize the initiative, her chance would be...

brush--!

The blade grazed the air, but found nothing; it didn't even cleave a single bullet.

Because Mami didn't launch a counterattack at all.

She dodged the trajectory of the gun blade and led the remaining men in the warehouse through the revolving door. At the same time, Mami in the blue room also retreated towards the revolving door and entered it.

throat--.