Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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"Yes, you're not the only one who knows how to use this trick."

"..." Mami fell silent.

She swung the blade, smashing every joint of Mami's body until she was sure she couldn't move, before releasing her leg from Mami's chest.

"Why did you become like this?" Xiangzi turned around and asked Mami, "I'm just a little curious."

“I don’t know,” Mami said calmly. “Looking back now, it’s just like what I told you on the train: I don’t know.”

Mami didn't try to hide her past; if Xiangzi wanted to hear it, she would tell him.

"I don't know why I've become like this, and I don't think there's anything wrong with me being like this."

"Is this an attempt to save face? Do you still think you did nothing wrong?"

“I’m just stating the facts.” Mami paused, probably wanting to sigh, but her current body structure didn’t allow her to sigh. “But looking back, I can still remember that I wasn’t like this before. I guess it started changing a little later today.”

"A little later?"

"Today is June 1st, the day I fled Mitakihara."

"..."

Yes, that's right now.

Xiangzi remembered.

“I escaped from here and fled to Kamihama. You should have heard Homura mention me.” Mami paused again, seemingly unaccustomed to this body. “I escaped to Kamihama and met many people who were just as lost as I was during my most confused time.”

"The Ode to Praise? I remember this organization has existed for a while now. You only joined the Ode to Praise on June 1st?"

“Yes, I joined them and became one of them. Then, because of my strength, I was quickly promoted and came into contact with the witches of this side. After that, this plan came about,” Mami said. “I devised the plan to revive the witches of this side. Before that, it was just a useful tool. I felt that I was born to belong here and that I was born to do this.”

"How long have you lingered here, witch of this shore, during this time?"

“I don’t know, I’ve lost count,” Mami said. “We’ve been working on this plan for a long time.”

Xiangzi squinted.

wrong.

Something is missing in the middle.

"Who promoted you? What did that person say to you? When did your organization start?"

“Ms. Medion was kind to me,” Mami said calmly, “but my transformation has nothing to do with her; it’s all my own conclusion.”

"Medion?!" Xiangzi's pupils suddenly contracted.

This name was enough to make Xiangzi ignore the second half of Mami's sentence.

She and Mu were once... now, or rather, in the next few days, she noticed this name, and she also asked Miaomeng to keep an eye on it.

Unexpectedly, it all turned out to be a lucky accident; was it possible that everything was related to her?!

"You've heard of this name before?" Mami's tone sounded somewhat surprised. "How come you've heard of this name?"

"nothing dealing with you."

"You don't seem like someone who likes to follow current events."

"......What's the meaning."

"Could it be the library? The lady often goes there when she stays here."

"?" Xiangzi didn't expect that his source of information would be guessed so quickly.

"Judging from your expression, that's it." Mami paused again as if sighing, "I told her that places that leave marks in the past are easily exposed."

"Who is this Medien in the eulogy faction? Is he higher in rank than you? Are there any other people like him?"

"She is my mentor, someone who has shown me great kindness."

"You just said that, I know."

"She is the one who leads the world and brings it final rest."

"Don't try to convince me with that nonsense, it's too loud for me."

"She is God's messenger, the one who brings us the language of the day of revelation."

"The Day of Revelation?"

"Don't you understand yet?" Mami raised her head, her mirror-like yellow sapphire eyes reflecting Shoko's increasingly surprised face. "The alternation of the Old Testament and the New Testament, destruction, and then rebirth."

Asami emphasized the last word she mentioned again.

"Rebirth from the ashes".

She turned her head slightly, and fine debris fell from the cracks in her face.

"Nirvana, rebirth."

Cold sweat poured down Xiangzi's back like a waterfall. She instinctively took a step back, her trembling hand gripping the handle of the gun blade tightly.

"...What are you saying?" Xiangzi swallowed. "I...don't understand."

"You don't need to understand now."

Mami has even changed how she's addressed.

The ceramic face, like the Mona Lisa's smile, revealed a very subtle curve in Xiangzi's eyes.

“Because the gods don’t need to do anything themselves, I can handle everything.” Mami’s smile seemed to widen even more. “Singing praises to the end, celebrating rebirth.”

"I'll take care of the first half."

boom--!

Xiangzi pulled the trigger, and the bullet struck the soul gem between Mami's eyebrows, shattering it. Xiangzi's pupils shrank to their smallest size, and he gasped for breath.

Just when she thought Mami was really dead.

Only then did they realize that the barrier showed no intention of disappearing.

"Xiang, it's untied."

"and many more!"

Xiangzi turned around, intending to stop Mu from completely disabling the anti-theft mechanism.

because--

This Mami Tomoe, whom she dragged out of the Baroque Core, knocked to the ground, and dismembered, was completely powerless to resist, was still a fake!

"You're incredibly reckless to fall for the same trick again."

The Tale of Reincarnation: The Shore of Oblivion: Chapter 561 Chekhov's Gun

"You're incredibly reckless to fall for the same trick again."

Xiangzi is now returning the favor to Mami with the words he once said to her.

Mami's voice came from the sky.

A figure identical to the Mami that Xiangzi had just killed descended from the sky and landed amidst the world-destroying flowers of Mutsu and the Witch of the Other Shore.

Since Mu had already ended the ceremony and deactivated the anti-theft mechanism, the dial that held the two remaining flowers in place could now be touched.

Asami descended from the sky, smashing the transparent dial over, and her mechanical hand grabbed the world-destroying flower closest to her.

click -

The world suddenly turned black and white.

Flame realized what was happening and tried to stop Mami, but the time stop she activated only stopped the people next to her. Mami remained unaffected and continued to hold onto the Flower of Annihilation.

Her ribbon was still entangled within the mechanism of Flame's small round shield, so it was naturally unaffected by the time stop.

click -

The mechanism, bound by the ribbon, closed again before it could be fully opened, and the black and white world regained its color.

At this moment, Mami had already grabbed one of the tokens and was about to snatch the remaining one.

Just as her hand grasped the first flower of destruction, transparent threads wrapped around another flower of destruction, and Mami's hand missed its target.

"Xiang! Here!"

Mu, from a distance, tugged at the silk thread, flinging the smaller, world-destroying flower towards Xiangzi.

"You—! Are you still planning to make a futile struggle?!" Mami's porcelain face suddenly spun around, changing into an angry expression.

She turned and lunged at the Soul Gem that was flying in mid-air.

With a loud "clang!", the mechanical puppet crashed into a riot shield.

"The witch on this side won't be resurrected until she has devoured all the World-Destroying Flowers!" Flame held up her riot shield, blocking Mami and the World-Destroying Flowers flying towards Xiangzi. "So even if I only get one, I can stop you!"

The Flower of Destruction landed in Xiangzi's hands, which he held firmly.

Mami stared at Xiangzi through the flames, her eyes, made of yellow gemstones, blazing with fury.

However, as Xiangzi gazed into those eyes made of yellow gemstones, she felt uneasy. Even though she held the last World-Destroying Flower that the Witch of This Shore lacked, and even though they had stopped the ritual, she still felt incredibly uneasy.

She lowered her head, looking at the dark purple flower of destruction in her hand.

At the same time, there was another flower, emitting a faint blue light... that was not yet fully formed.

Mami, who resembled a mechanical puppet, gave up on continuing the stalemate with Homura and jumped back to the center of the circular arena, looking at the magical girls who surrounded her.

"...Do you all think I'm at my wit's end?" Mami said.

“What else?” Kyoko said, blocking Mami’s escape route with her spear. “Even if you cry and shout ‘I know I was wrong,’ no one will forgive you, Mami.”

“You betrayed what you once upheld, and now you’ve come to this…” Sayaka, brandishing her military sword, slowly approached Mami. “…It’s your own fault.”

"Mami-senpai..."

"Don't call me Mami-senpai." Mami lowered her head, clutching the World-Destroying Flower she had snatched in one hand. "I'm no longer the Mami you all know."

She reached out her other hand to her forehead.

Click.

A crisp sound rang out from Mami's forehead as ceramic fingers plunged into the groove in the center of her forehead where the Soul Gem was embedded, forcefully prying it off her head.

A bright yellow flower of destruction appeared in her other hand.

Mami held the World-Destroying Flower, which was clearly a size larger, in her other hand, and her own bright yellow World-Destroying Flower. Her ceramic face actually started to spin, revealing a sinister grin.

"I'm far from being at my wit's end." A sinister smile, completely out of character, appeared on Porcelain's face as she looked at everyone. "It's you who are at your wits' end."

Mami held a blackish-purple flower of destruction belonging to the Witch of This Shore in one hand and a bright yellow flower of destruction in the other, and brought the two together.

Intricate runes appeared between the two flowers.

The ceremony, which had been terminated, was forcibly restarted by Mami in the most violent way.

If necessary, Mami would not hesitate to use her World-Destroying Flower to fill the gap needed to resurrect the Witch of the Other Shore.

That is now.

A significantly larger, dark purple flower of annihilation collided with a bright yellow one, and a dazzling light emanated from between the two flowers. It was as if Pandora's box had been opened; a gigantic dark purple phantom appeared in mid-air.

The phantom became clearer and clearer. The black disc-shaped object at the top was the black record that was often seen on the passage to the other side. The records were stacked one on top of another, and the diameter of the records became smaller and smaller as they went up, until they finally became a pointed top, which looked like a witch's pointed magic hat.

Two fluffy braids hung down from the hat, but the person with this hair and hat was not a humanoid creature.

It is a Klein bottle.

The Klein bottle, symbolizing endless reincarnation, is the witch's true form.

【The Witch's Night - The Forgotten Shore】

Its nature is immorality, betrayal of time, blaming time, and judgment of time.

"That... is that me in the future...?" Flame's eyes widened to the extreme, her hands hanging limply at her sides.

She trembled as the witch from this side appeared before her, her entire being almost consumed by fear, and all her abilities were taken away.

With the appearance of the witch, positive entropy began to stir, and everything was about to be reversed. In an instant, two different individuals, one on this side and one on the other side, would appear in the same location on the entire Earth. The two sides would collide and overlap, and everything would disappear into annihilation.

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