Toyokawa Shoko doesn't want to become a witch

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Ding-dong-

The warning lights on the platform went off, and the bullet train "Swift Wind" entered the platform and stopped in front of Xiangzi. Xiangzi and Mu met eyes, and then silently walked in the front and back directions of the train.

Xiangzi waited on the platform until almost closing time, but he still didn't see RAS.

Xiangzi looked somewhat anxious, and only reluctantly went inside after the train attendant persuaded her to. Standing by the window watching the train leave the station, Xiangzi turned around and walked towards the middle of the carriage.

This is not what was agreed upon; RAS did not get on the bus.

Xiangzi pursed his lips, turned away sullenly to avoid the passengers, and continued forward.

Just then, a pair of very conspicuous cat ears appeared in Xiangzi's field of vision—the reason she could only see cat ears was because she could only see them protruding from behind the seat.

Walking a few more steps forward, the angle changed, and Xiangzi could clearly see the true appearance of the cat ears.

A woman with long pink hair wearing cat-ear headphones was sitting in a window seat typing on a keyboard, while a maid with abstractly highlighted twin ponytails sat next to her, feeding her beef jerky.

Xiangzi pretended to be a passerby and walked through the aisle to the next carriage.

With long pink hair and cat-ear headphones, she looks small at 1.4 meters tall but has a super big temper. She is the same age as Xiangzi but skipped grades and finished university. She is a magical girl, but she cares more about her band than her mission. She is the leader and producer of RAS, named Tomoyuki Tamate, stage name Chu2, pronounced Chuchu.

She is a support-type magical girl with poor combat abilities, but her DJ booth, which serves as a weapon, can provide different buffs to her teammates during battles, just like Motoyo did in Crychic.

Beside her was a twin-tailed girl wearing an abstract-streaked wig, exuding the scent of a loyal maid that almost filled the aisle, holding beef jerky and waiting for Chu Chu to open her mouth to feed her. Uh, her name was... Niohara Rei-no-na, a very stressful kanji character, and her stage name was Pareo.

She was RAS's information point, and she did all the work, including off-site investigations and intelligence gathering. Her perception was so good that it was almost unbelievable. When she walked down the corridor, Pareo had already recognized her as a magical girl, and their eyes met for a moment.

Hey, hey, hey, this is too conspicuous! These people have no intention of hiding themselves at all. Why didn't we see them on the platform?

After Xiangzi left, he immediately leaned against the aisle between the carriages, his brows furrowed.

If you can't see them on the platform but do see them on the train, then there's only one possibility: Mami's information was partly wrong, and RAS didn't actually board the train at this station; they were already on the train.

If Mami did it on purpose, it means she was playing a prank on herself.

But there's no need for that. Either she should come and snatch it herself, or she should wait until she has it in her hands before snatching it back. Doing something like this is completely unnecessary.

If she really wanted to mess with herself, why didn't she just say that RAS would never exist?

In short, Xiangzi felt it was unlikely that it was simply to upset her. But if that was ruled out, then there really was a mistake.

If something really goes wrong...

Those who praise the future are able to bring information from the other side back to the present, thus gaining a significant intelligence advantage by anticipating future events.

The occurrence of this oversight indicates that the information at this time will not be handled correctly in the future, and there may have been a great deal of chaos.

Xiangzi curled the corners of his mouth in the shadows.

Secondly, she was also able to confirm that the eulogists were not "omniscient," which was undoubtedly good news for her.

After passing two more carriages, she made another discovery as she walked by. She glanced discreetly at a girl with short, yellow hair that looked like a delinquent, and continued walking.

Xiangzi squinted.

His stage name is Masking, his real name is Sato Masuki. He plays the tank role in the group and is the drummer in the band. His weapon is a baseball bat. He looks like Yoroshiki. I'm not familiar with Xiangzi.

However, we've already confirmed the third one.

They continued walking and met up peacefully in the middle of the train. The two of them sat down in their seats as if nothing had happened.

Throughout the entire process, she and He Mu never used voice communication once. When they needed to communicate over a distance, they would simply type a few words on their phones.

The chances of Pareo intercepting verbal communication are very high, so to be on the safe side, Xiangzi and Hemu always communicate verbally.

For now, they've only confirmed the recipient. Next, Xiaoyuan and the others will board the train with PasPale, and only then will the mission truly begin.

"How is it?" Xiangzi turned his head and asked.

“Lay and Lock have confirmed it,” Mu said. “Section 35A in carriage 3 and seat 1D in carriage 4.”

“I saw the other three as well,” Xiangzi said. “They were sitting spread out, and I’ve probably already been exposed.”

"...Pareo?"

“Yes, it’s her.” Xiangzi shook his head. “But it doesn’t matter, I can handle Pareo’s ‘nose’.”

Among the 35 Protagonists in Reed Plains, each team has an information point. The magic of the information point is kept absolutely secret, and no one except their own team knows about it.

However, Mami's intelligence report specified the capabilities and characteristics of the intelligence agents in the two information positions of RAS and PasPale.

Now that we know the characteristics of the ability, we have ways to avoid it.

Should I believe her?

We can only gamble that this intelligence is true.

The Tale of Reincarnation: The Shore of Oblivion: Chapter 495 Please Believe Me

Information is always the most important resource in a confrontation between two sides, and the side that controls the information often has more initiative.

The information provided by Mami had already given her the most important information in advance: the information about RAS was Pareo. She had an extremely keen sense of magic, like a canine, and could trace the magic back to its owner.

The tracking method is similar to that of Nyanmu, but Nyanmu is more extreme.

Although Miao Meng is also an excellent source of information, in addition to tracking the target's magical traces, she relies more on experience to judge where the prey will appear next, trying to anticipate the situation and catch up with the prey before the clues are lost.

However, Pareo possesses a more acute "nose" than Meowmon, allowing her to find traces that Meowmon cannot.

Xiangzi simply walked past her, and she probably already knows which row and seat he's sitting in.

However, just knowing Pareo's method of locating enemies is already very important. If he tracks enemies by "smell," then all he needs to do is disrupt that scent.

"Mu, suitcase."

Mu picked up Xiangzi and handed it to him.

Xiangzi placed the suitcase on his lap, unlocked the combination lock, and opened the lid. A dazzling array of Seeds of Sorrow were exposed to the air, and a chaotic aura of magic instantly surged out from inside the suitcase.

At the other end of the train, Pareo, who was feeding Chuchu beef jerky, suddenly froze for a moment, and his pupils constricted noticeably.

"What's wrong, Pareo? Where's the beef jerky?" Chu Chu smacked her lips in dissatisfaction, then looked up. "Or did you find something?"

“The magic suddenly became very noisy…” Pareo said.

"What's going on?" Chu Chu slammed her laptop shut.

“It’s like…dozens…no, hundreds of witches appeared on the train at the same time.” Pareo frowned, putting the beef jerky he was originally going to feed Chu Chu in his mouth, trying to use the saltiness of the beef jerky to dispel the mixed magical taste. “…How disgusting.”

"Is it that magical girl you told me I needed to be especially careful of before?"

“Yes, it’s emanating from the carriage she was in, and it’s starting to spread outwards now… My senses are becoming very blurred.” Pareo closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and frowned. “No, I can’t pinpoint her exact location anymore… This mixed magic has now overwhelmed Masking and Lay’s positions.”

"Smoke bomb." Chu Chu bit into a piece of beef jerky, chewed it, and her voice shifted to speaking aloud, "(Masking, Lay, can you still hear me?)"

"(Oh, sure, what's up?)"

"(I can hear you.)"

"(It's okay, don't move.)" Chu Chu swallowed the beef jerky. "(Be alert to your surroundings, have you seen anyone suspicious pass by?)"

"Shouldn't we do something, Lady Chu Chu?"

"Qian Sheng told me not to move around if something happens." After finishing her beef jerky, Chu Chu started gnawing on her fingernails. "I have a feeling that PasPale has some other ideas, but oh well, I'll just do whatever Qian Sheng tells me to do."

Because of frequent business dealings, PasPale and RAS have a pretty good relationship compared to the other two groups, and Chu Chu trusts PasPale quite a lot.

However, even with complete trust in Chuchu, it's impossible to be completely unreserved. The reason everyone was asked to sit spread out was to quickly grasp the situation in the entire carriage, but now it seems that sitting spread out has actually hindered their progress due to the smoke bombs...

Chu Chu, with the beef jerky Pareo handed her in her mouth, fell into deep thought.

Was I really right to do this?

Xiangzi also had doubts about himself.

Was this high-profile "smokescreen" too ostentatious? Was she really doing the right thing? But whether it was right or wrong, she had no other choice at the moment.

Xiangzi carefully placed the last Seed of Grief, which he had used to influence Pareo's perception, and glanced at the time.

There is one minute left before the train arrives at the station.

One minute later, we will move on to the next stage.

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At Kamahama East Station, the three little ones from Takihara were waiting on the platform.

"Are we really going to do something like this? Robbery and stuff, it's really too..." Sayaka pouted and said sullenly, "I always have this feeling that we've become the villains."

“Strictly speaking, we’re the villains now, the kind of two-faced, lowly villains.” Kyoko put her hands in her pockets, grinned to reveal her little tiger teeth, and said, “If you can’t stand it, just quit.”

"I won't quit, otherwise Xiaoyan will be in danger."

"Um...you two, have you seen...PasPale?" Xiaoyuan looked away and tugged at the clothes of the two people beside her. "Have you seen PasPale? I can't find them."

The three little ones' task was not complicated: to find and monitor PasPale's people in Kamibama East. In fact, Xiangzi did not include them in the core of this plan at all. Xiangzi felt that he could do such a dirty thing himself and there was no need to drag Xiaoyuan and the others into it.

Of course, the most important thing is that in a head-on battle, there's no way they could defeat ten Protagonists. As for what Xiangzi wants to do, Xiaoyuan and the others can't help much.

It's already quite good that they can help with surveillance.

Of course, Xiangzi himself didn't really expect them to do anything.

The train stopped, but Xiaoyuan still couldn't find PasPale and started to get a little anxious.

“Sayaka, Kyoko, what... what should we do now?”

"Get on the bus, come on along." Kyoko shrugged.

"No, don't get on the bus."

A familiar yet indifferent voice came from the side.

"Senior Mu?" Xiaoyuan looked at the figure who was speaking.

“You can’t help with what’s happening on the bus. Since we still have enough time, let’s hurry to the Shenbin Free Trade Port,” Mu said, looking somewhat anxious.

“This isn’t what we planned,” Sayaka frowned.

"You weren't really of any help with Xiang's plan to begin with."

"What are you going to the free trade port for?" Xingzi raised an eyebrow.

“The flame is there.”

"Wait, wait, wait, where did you get that from?" Kyoko asked, raising her question.

She always felt that the green-haired man following Xiangzi was strange, but she couldn't quite put her finger on what was strange about him. Xiangzi, on the other hand, seemed to have gotten used to it.

I really don't understand.

"I just found out, so I came to let you know." Mu seemed very anxious, pushing them towards the platform exit. "Hurry up, or you'll regret it."

Mu sighed.

"Really, please believe me."

The Tale of Reincarnation: The Shore of Oblivion: Chapter 496 Successful Docking

Just as Mu was trying his best to get everyone out of the subway station, two people who had disguised themselves and looked inconspicuous boarded the train.

One of them took off her hood, revealing a head of beautiful long pink hair. She rubbed her hair, which was messed up by the hood, and pouted.

"Finally, I can be free."

"We've only just gotten on the bus; we're still not out of danger." Another figure, also wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, had blond hair that was less noticeable under the black cap. "Cai, you still need to take care of your injuries."

The two individuals are Aya Maruyama, the captain of PasPale, and Chisato Shirasagi, the vice-captain. PasPale has been trapped in Kamihama for many days, and this is the first time they have emerged from the safe house.

"It's nothing... I'm fine." Maruyama Aya smiled wryly, clutching her side.

There is a gunshot wound there, pierced by a bullet from the other side, which has not yet healed.

“You didn’t need to come. Wouldn’t it have been better to have Hina do it?” Chisato said, pursing her lips.

“Japanese food is too lively, who knows what might happen? It’s better if I do it.” Cai shook her head, picked up her suitcase, and walked towards the food cart. “We shouldn’t keep Chu Chu and the others waiting too long.”

"Cai." Qian Sheng called out to her from behind.

"Ok?"

"Are you really going to do that?"

“What’s done is done, so we had to do it.” Cai shrugged. “And it’s not a bad thing, so relax.”