Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

Since that's what they've already said.

Xiangzi nodded helplessly and walked towards the revolving door.

Unlike a record player, the design doesn't have that strange forward and reverse music when you enter through the revolving door.

Naturally, she returned to this side.

The scorching air turned into a chilly wind, and as soon as he came out, Xiangzi couldn't help but put on a coat.

She turned her head to look at herself on the other side, backing out from inside, and then placed the bomb inside the revolving door.

Take a few steps outside and press the detonation button.

There was a boom.

Xiangzi turned around, climbed out the window, and jumped out. The moment his body touched the ground, he rolled over to dissipate all the force and returned to a standing position. Finally, he patted the snow off his body.

"Normal friction feels so strange," she smacked her lips.

"Oh, you'll get used to it soon." Del appeared out of nowhere and patted her on the shoulder. "You didn't notice anyone else interfering the whole time, which means we should keep our activities low-key from now on. So what do we do next? Wait here for that moment?"

“Of course not.” Xiangzi shook his head. “I really don’t plan to get involved in that battle anymore, but there are still many innocent magical girls inside the barrier, and I want to go and save them.”

"Go save them?" Del blinked, then sneezed. "You actually... plan to do something like that? Whether you save them or not won't affect the future trajectory, right?"

Unlike Xiangzi, who possesses a convenient magic (though her own magic is quite convenient) that allows her to conjure up whatever she wants anytime, anywhere, she is currently wearing the same clothes she wore when she came out of the safe house—in other words, her summer clothes.

It will naturally get cold.

"That's precisely why I don't want to just wait here." Xiangzi conjured a coat and draped it over Del's shoulders, then took out a scarf and wrapped it around her neck.

Finally, she patted Del's fluffy head.

"Before that moment arrives, let's do what we can."

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boom----!

A crimson laser shot straight into the sky, completely dispersing the clouds covering the reed field.

"I won't give it to you." Chu Hua clutched the flower tightly. "I've said it so many times."

"Now, Xiao Xiang is more like a puppet than before, a soulless puppet that only obeys orders. It's like a cloudy night that obscures the starry sky."

"It took me a long time to figure out that I was selfish. The Xiao Xiang I am now is not the Xiao Xiang I wanted."

The familiar scene replayed before his eyes, only this time Xiangzi was an observer.

She listened as Chu Hua said those words that had once troubled her, and then waited for that moment to arrive.

"So even if there's only a sliver of hope, as long as it can dispel the gloom over Xiao Xiang's head, I'm willing to do anything."

Buzz——————————

Just before the buzzing sound appeared, Xiangzi activated the mechanism.

click-

The world instantly turned black and white, and everything froze at the moment before the black hole was formed.

The Tale of Transcendence: Stars and Us: Chapter 828 Coming to Your Side

The world turned black and white, frozen in a moment before the black hole was formed.

Xiangzi grabbed Del's wrist and walked out of the bushes, looking in the direction he had left in the first place.

She thought she would see herself very close, but she didn't. At this time, Norin had already taken her past self and Del away from the range of the black hole, about two hundred meters away from their location.

They've already run so far, and I didn't even realize it at the time. Now it seems that Norine has never let her guard down about that black hole woman. If only I had been more careful back then... Oh well, there's no point in dwelling on my past self now.

She's back, back here once again, with the chance to change everything.

This time, there won't be any more mistakes.

Xiangzi turned and walked towards Chuhua.

As time stood still, Chu Hua also turned into the same black and white as her surroundings, maintaining that resolute expression, frozen in place.

It's been so long since I've seen this face.

More than thirty years?

But in fact, she had been alone for more than 30 years. To say that she had never met them, she didn't remember everyone's faces very clearly, including Chu Hua.

Seeing that face again instantly reawakened memories that had become dulled by time.

Watching the sunrise together on the sea, watching the sunset together on the beach of dreams, watching the stars together on the snow-capped mountains, every day and every night we spent together, every little thing... it all surged up from the depths of my mind like a spring bubbling up.

Xiangzi stood in front of Chuhua, raised his hand, and wanted to touch Chuhua's face.

However, Xiangzi stopped just before touching Chu Hua. He lowered his eyes, hesitated for a moment, and then reached for the super causality that Chu Hua was holding.

She could have simply taken the supercausality into her own hands and then dealt with the rest.

But Xiangzi doesn't intend to do that now. Thirty years ago—no, even thirty years ago, she had already figured out very clearly what she should do.

In the end, she didn't encounter the cause-and-effect barrier, but instead grabbed Chu Hua's wrist directly.

The color spread from Xiangzi's body along the point where the two had touched to Chuhua's body, first to her wrists, then to her arms, and then to her whole body, restoring her original color. Her golden hair was as dazzling as the sun.

Chu Hua's frozen pupils returned to normal, startled when she saw Xiangzi suddenly appear in front of her.

"Xiao Xiang?! What happened to you—"

"Wait a moment," Xiangzi interrupted her, lowering his voice, "We can't stay here forever."

She remembered that the time stop only lasted long enough for Yan to leave the black hole's range, meaning there wasn't much time for her to dawdle in the time-stopped world.

If you want to talk, you need to find a more suitable place.

Xiangzi held Chuhua with one hand and Del with the other, and set up his own barrier around himself.

Another reed field gradually enveloped the three of them, and Xiangzi only released the time stop after the original reed field had completely disappeared.

Chu Hua appeared to be in shock. The moment Xiangzi let go, she distanced herself from Xiangzi, gripped Chao Yinguo tightly, and grinned slightly, revealing her sharp teeth.

In her memory, just a moment ago she was about to fight with Xiangzi.

Although I don't know why it turned out this way, but... Xiao Xiang...

Xiangzi raised his hands to indicate that he had no intention of hitting anyone, and took a few steps back to a relatively safe distance.

Del stood between Xiangzi and Chuhua with his arms crossed. He took out a long, rectangular object wrapped in thick burlap from his soul gem, propped it on the ground, and looked like he was watching a show.

Chu Hua looked at Xiangzi and suddenly felt that Xiangzi was so different from before.....

It wasn't just different; the aura emanating from Xiangzi was completely different from that of a different person. The previous Xiangzi was like a river that had changed course, or the sea during a thunderstorm—he gave off an unstable feeling, making people worry and fear.

But in a fleeting moment, she changed, becoming like a calm lake—vast, steady, and reassuring.

It seemed that Xiangzi had no intention of taking Chaoyin's power. Chu Hua gradually lowered her guard, and her agitated golden hair returned to its original form.

"Xiao Xiang, what's going on...?" Chu Hua looked at her in confusion, "...What's wrong with you?"

“I am not the Xiangzi you know.”

Xiangzi's words made Chu Hua's heart skip a beat. His words reminded her of Nirvana. Could the Xiangzi before her be another Nirvana? The thought made Chu Hua's heart skip a beat.

"So... what do you intend to do to Xiao Xiang, whom I know?" Chu Hua bared her fangs once more. "I won't let you do that to her—"

"I've come back from thirty years in the future." Xiangzi smirked mischievously. "I'm not the useless guy I used to be."

"Huh?" Chu Hua was stunned.

"Actually, it's the same person." Xiangzi waved his hand with a laugh. "I came back from the other side, you should understand what that means."

"Ah.......Oh......." Chu Hua nodded blankly, seemingly understanding but not quite.

"Pfft." Xiangzi covered his mouth and chuckled softly.

Chu Hua's occasional bristling appearance was quite cute, and she couldn't resist teasing her.

"Xiao Xiang!" Chu Hua's face flushed bright red. "What on earth happened?!"

"Ahem." Xiangzi cleared his throat, calming his overly unrestrained smile.

After all, she was truly happy to see Hatsuka again. It's perfectly normal for Desuwa to be so overjoyed that she couldn't control herself.

"Anyway, I just saved you." Xiangzi put his hands behind his back, the smile from earlier still lingering on his face. "If it weren't for me, you would probably have died in the black hole that was formed—that's what I thought thirty years ago, that you were already dead."

"In order to reverse your death, I used my own secretly hidden super-causality to forcibly activate the time machine created by Del, and ended up unexpectedly going to thirty years later."

"After that, in order to return to this point in time, Del and I moved to the other side."

Xiangzi spread his hands generously and looked at Chuhua with a smile.

"Finally, you saw me."

The smile on Xiangzi's face slowly disappeared. She looked at Chuhua from a distance of nearly ten meters and bit her lower lip.

The moment when her longing and aspirations truly became reality arrived, she had endured for a very long time.

However, there's no need to endure it any longer.

Xiangzi raised his head and started walking towards Chuhua.

Her steps quickened with each step, eventually turning into a jog. The safe distance she had just created was compressed to its limit, and finally—she threw herself into Chu Hua's arms, hugging him with all her might.

"I'm sorry, Chuhua," Xiangzi whispered in Chuhua's ear, "I'm too late."

The Tale of Transcendence: Stars and Us: Chapter 829 Give My Past Self a Punch

Chu Hua was held tightly by Xiangzi, her lips trembling uncontrollably, looking utterly lost. She opened her mouth, stammering out a few words, unsure of what she should say, or rather, what she wanted to say.

In the end, she could only raise her hand and hug Xiangzi instead.

"Thank you, thank you for saving me again," Chu Hua said softly.

In fact, she sensed the premonition, like a spatial vibration, just before the black hole was formed. However, it was too late for her to escape. If Xiangzi hadn't saved her with his time-stop, she and the super-causality in her hand would have been completely wiped out by the black hole.

The fear of surviving the ordeal only belatedly appeared just now. She couldn't imagine what would happen if she died like this, or what would happen if Xiangzi just watched her suddenly disappear...

Xiao Xiang has already experienced it once.

Chu Hua choked up at the thought that Xiangzi had experienced that kind of despair once, or even more than once, the despair of loss.

It's truly unimaginable how she managed to endure it.

"Xiao Xiang...you are so strong." Chu Hua hugged Xiangzi and sniffled.

"Tell me something I don't know," Xiangzi patted her on the back.

"Huh?" Chu Hua stared wide-eyed in astonishment.

"Just kidding." Xiangzi let go of Chuhua's hand and instead put his arm around her shoulder. "I have my moments of collapse too, don't I? You're the one who helped me get back on my feet. That trip to the snow country was the happiest trip I've ever had."

“…Hmm.” Chu Hua blushed and turned her head away.

Xiangzi patted her shoulder, his smile slowly fading.

"Now that you're safe, let's discuss what's next." Her gaze drifted to Chu Hua's palm, to the super-causal object that Chu Hua had been clutching tightly in her hand.

Chu Hua felt Xiangzi's gaze and subconsciously tightened her grip on it.

"Xiao Xiang, so you still want to take it away?" Chu Hua frowned.

"Actually, I'm more curious about your plans if I don't join," Xiangzi said, shaking his head and crossing his arms. "What do you plan to do without me?"

"This..." Chu Hua bit her lip, looking embarrassed.

“Let me explain,” Del waved his hand from the side. “There’s no need to hide anything now that we’ve come this far.”

She cleared her throat, picked up the long, narrow burlap sack, and walked between the two men.

“Our plan is to send someone back in time to wake up the you who was devastated when the lamp went to the anti-universe in your place. At that time, you will have all of Toyokawa Shoko’s memories and the ability to go to the anti-universe to stop this from happening. So, I think that is the most crucial point to change the world.”

Del turned his head, looked at Xiangzi, and said seriously.

"If we succeed... our future will be changed, all the suffering we have experienced in this timeline will be gone, or perhaps, there will no longer be just one world."

"Varied--"

Before Xiangzi could even ask what "the world is no longer just one" meant, Del raised his hand and covered her mouth, indicating that he would finish speaking first.