Want to be human, but cube-like

"That's no reason to make such a decision lightly!"

Xiangzi grasped Alex's small hand and said with a serious expression.

"If you sign the contract, fighting witches will become your responsibility, and you might even lose your life for it! This is extremely dangerous!"

Even when asking Alex for help with the Witch's Kiss, Xiangzi made the request only after confirming that Alex indeed had the ability to defeat the familiar and that she would not be attacked in the hamburger shop, since the risk was not actually that great for Alex.

However, as the superiors of the familiars, the witches that Kyubey spoke of knew nothing about them, and their level of danger was even more uncertain.

"Furthermore, you must never make a wish for someone else!"

In the empty tram, Xiangzi stared intently into Alex's crimson eyes. She had to make sure that the other woman had indeed given up on the idea.

"Otherwise, you'll definitely regret it later."

She recalled her father's past treatment within the Toyokawa family, and how, after her mother's death, he was ruthlessly expelled from the Toyokawa family after losing a huge sum of 16.8 billion yen to a fraudster.

"The connection between people is a very fragile thing."

She then recalled that her father, not long ago, wanted her to completely lose hope in him, leave him, and sever ties with him. In a drunken impulse, he stole a few cans of beer from a convenience store.

In the end, she had to spend a lot of money to get the person out of the police station.

Otherwise, could Xiangzi really just stand by and watch his father go to prison?

"An accident or a huge sum of money could sever this connection and change a person beyond recognition."

Xiangzi held Alex's small hand tightly, and his fingertips were slightly white.

"Not to mention, such a miraculous and all-powerful wish."

Her voice trembled slightly, but her tone remained solemn.

"So, Alex, promise me."

Complex emotions flickered in those amber eyes.

"No matter what, never make a wish lightly."

It's Alex, an emotion she can't yet comprehend.

"..."

She opened her mouth.

"Okay, I promise you."

Then, with a slight smile, she took Xiangzi's soft little hand in her own, and raised her other hand, gently hooking a strand of Xiangzi's hair that had been thrown over her shoulder and fallen onto her chest due to her emotional outburst.

He pulled her to one side and smoothed her hair, his fingers brushing against her temples, the cool touch startling Xiangzi.

Only then did she realize that, because of what she had just said, she had unknowingly leaned against Alex, their thighs pressed together, their shoulders touching, and even a few strands of Alex's hair were intertwined with her own ponytail.

"Ugh...! I'm so sorry! I was being rude!"

As if electrocuted, Xiangzi released his grip on Alex's hand, lowered his head, and blushed deeply.

Just then, the tram slowed down and finally arrived at the station.

Alex didn't say anything more. She stood up first and walked out of the tram door, with Xiangzi following closely behind.

"Ding-ding—!"

The sound of the tram starting again came, and Alex turned her head to look to her side, but was stunned.

Xiangzi did not get off the bus with her.

"Xiangzi?!"

He hurriedly looked up and saw the blue-haired girl's figure appearing and disappearing between the windows of the tram, which had already traveled several meters.

She stood motionless in front of the tram door.

Alex couldn't see if Xiangzi's expression was unusual, but she noticed it immediately.

A faint golden light emanated from Xiangzi's lower abdomen, seeping through his clothes.

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P.S. Some people say that a city as big as Tokyo couldn't possibly have no magical girls at all. This relates to what I mentioned earlier, which makes the habits of witches and familiars more in line with the Bandauri worldview. To reiterate, Bandauri is a gentle and friendly world.

Then, I noticed someone mentioned in the previous chapter that Xiangfu's theft was a rumor. Well, I definitely made some changes. Some fanfiction even includes drug use and cult membership. If you're talking about the original work, Bushido wouldn't allow Xiangfu to commit a crime; after all, he'd have to be whitewashed and dealt with. In Japan, theft is a criminal offense regardless of the amount, it's recorded in a file, and it completely destroys one's social reputation—essentially a social death, much more serious than in our country. Of course, if it's a minor offense the first time, it usually won't be this severe. My setting here is just a way to deepen the conflict.

People always seem to get hung up on unimportant details.

Volume 1: Chapter 46 As a guest, I was invited to enter.

For a moment, Alex's mind went blank.

Tram is still working

It drove on, getting further and further away.

She didn't even bother to open the minimap to see if the appearance of a familiar nearby had triggered the witch's kiss on Xiangzi.

Almost instinctively, Alex instantly pulled the nameless sword [Puppet] from her inventory. Ignoring any passersby or surveillance cameras around her, she caught up with the train in a few quick steps before it had started moving and was still running at a fast speed.

However, it is unlikely that one can use Shunpo to rush onto the roof of the train. If the train speeds up in a few seconds, even Shunpo will not be able to catch up.

However, currently, apart from Xiangzi, there is no other living creature inside the tram that Alex could target and use her Phantom Blade to teleport into.

Unlike the damage caused by the katana itself, the Phantom Sword, which is a ranged attack method of the katana, does not distinguish between friend and foe. Alex cannot guarantee that she will be able to block the Phantom Sword that is stabbing at her while teleporting to Xiangzi.

But there was no time for Alex to hesitate. She gritted her teeth, locked onto Xiangzi's figure, crouched down, and a flash of eerie blue light appeared.

"call out--!"

The instant she teleported back into the tram, Alex tackled Xiangzi to the ground with all her might. At the same moment, a dark blue blade sliced ​​across their heads, cutting through the handrail like a hot knife through butter, and disappeared into the metal of the adjacent carriage.

With a thud, the two fell to the ground together. Xiangzi, jolted awake by the violent movement, blinked blankly.

Then he saw, magnified before his eyes, Alex's stunningly beautiful face.

And, like silk, her snow-white hair cascaded down, covering all eyes around her.

Xiangzi was almost forced to focus his gaze entirely on Alex's face.

"Huh...huh..."

Slightly out of breath, Alex looked at Xiangzi beneath her with a mix of nervousness and relief.

She wasn't out of breath from exhaustion, but from nervousness.

The warm breath that Alex was breathing over covered Xiangzi's face. Almost everything she inhaled and exhaled was Alex's breath.

Perhaps it's because the oxygen content has decreased.

It's so sweet it makes you feel a little dizzy.

Moreover, Xiangzi could feel that one of the other's hands was tightly wrapped around her waist, forcing her to press her body close to Alex's. Their slender bodies intertwined and pressed together.

Incidentally, they were both wearing skirts today. Xiangzi was wearing a knee-length skirt and white ankle socks, while Alex was wearing a short skirt and her usual black sheer stockings.

This meant that in just a few seconds, Xiangzi had almost completely memorized the wonderful tactile sensation of Alex's smooth skin wrapped in black stockings.

"Ahhhhhh... Alex?!"

In an instant, Xiangzi, whose face was so red that he was almost steaming, stammered out a cry.

"Xiangzi! Are you alright?!"

But Alex clearly didn't have the luxury of paying attention to Xiangzi's feelings. After she finished speaking and confirmed that the other person was not seriously injured, she stood up and helped Xiangzi up as well.

"Were you bewitched by the witch's kiss again just now?"

As they spoke, Alex opened the minimap.

"I……"

Upon hearing this, Xiangzi, whose mind had been immersed in the strange feeling she had just experienced, gradually came back to her senses. She opened her mouth, and a trace of lingering fear slowly crept onto her expression.

There are no familiars around.

After observing carefully, Alex frowned.

On her minimap, you can only see her own and Xiangzi's avatars at the moment; there are no living creatures around, let alone familiars.

However, it's normal not to see any living creatures now that the tram is moving at high speed. The witch's kiss on Xiangzi was only triggered when the tram stopped at the station.

Could this situation have arisen because the familiar happened to be near the station?

But just as Alex was about to tell Xiangzi her guess, she immediately noticed that the witch's kiss mark on his lower abdomen was still emitting a faint golden light.

"Xiangzi, your witch's kiss!"

Xiangzi also glanced down and lifted her clothes a little.

It is indeed glowing, which means there are familiars around.

But clearly, there isn't a single living creature around!?

Uncertainly, Alex reopened the minimap and scanned it carefully several times. She confirmed that there were indeed no living creatures within a 200-meter radius around them.

But after confirming this, Alex thought of something.

"Is it normal that there's no one in the houses along this road?"

She asked Xiangzi softly.

"impossible!"

Xiangzi also raised his head and looked out the car window.

"This should be a residential area. At this time of day, it's impossible for no one to be sleeping at home."

Moreover, the journey to this station is a bit too long.

Both of them looked up.

Before their eyes, similar residential buildings kept passing by, and at the moment these buildings passed by, they could not possibly be more than two hundred meters away from the tram where the two were.

A nameless fear suddenly began to grow in Xiangzi's heart. Her breathing became more and more rapid, and her chest heaved more and more violently, almost in sync with the frequency of the light emanating from the witch's kiss on her lower abdomen.

"Don't be afraid, hold on to me."

Alex turned around and walked past Xiangzi, standing in front of her and gently comforting her.

She reached out and tightly grasped Xiangzi's small hand. Their fingers intertwined, and Alex led her towards the front of the tram.

With each step, the scenery outside the car window became more distorted, and the dim streetlights in the surrounding darkness became brighter.

Throughout this time, Alex kept a small portion of her attention on the changes on the minimap.

She stared at those three numbers, memorizing them firmly.

The two continued until they reached the very front of the carriage.

Outside the tram, everything was bathed in golden light.

"Hey—!"

The tram doors opened not far from the two of them, and the sudden noise startled Xiangzi, making her body tremble.

"fine."

Then, Alex gently squeezed her palm.

Xiangzi took a deep breath, nodded to Alex, and the two slowly stepped off the tram.

"It seems we've arrived at the home of the familiars."

As soon as Alex stepped off the tram, she saw a dense array of small red dots appearing at the edge of the minimap.

"The witch should be here too, waiting for us to come and visit."

She raised her gaze to the sky above her, to the deep red health bar that she had seen countless times before, which only appeared in her field of vision when she was close to the BOSS, locked directly above her.

The Banker Witch

【100%/100%】

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P.S. If you don't want to watch the Five Colors Team right now, please like this post.

The number of votes exceeded the number I wanted to see by over a hundred, so I removed the Five Colors Team from the outline and only wrote about the Chicken and Dog Team.