Chapter 268: Summer vacation ends, new semester, exchange students
"Have you finished talking?" Witch Black Rose lifted the hair beside her ear and said impatiently, "What should we do now? Don't ask me 'what should we do'. I'm talking about this person."

As she spoke, she raised the thorn and pointed at the Witch of Sloth.

Hearing this, the white-haired, white-eyed puppet opened its mouth with a "gada gada" sound. One could see that its lips were still connected with a silk thread, but a series of plain and fluent words came out of its throat.

"Give her the invitation to the Tower of Babel, and then find a place to send her back. Now is not the time to activate 'Witch Night', and she is not strong enough yet."

"Huh? Just let her go like that?" The witch Black Rose tilted her head in confusion. Then she changed her mind and realized that in her understanding, the puppet witch's decision-making was basically correct.

"She is just a backup plan." The puppet witch said, "If possible, I still hope that our sixth witch can be Ashes. At the same time, I am also curious about what kind of power she will show after becoming a witch."

The tone of her voice was not that of a witch, but rather that of an elf singing in the woods. Every word she spoke was honest, and there was no contempt in her tone when she said the words "alternative plan".

However, after hearing these words, Shi Naian was still secretly unhappy.

She curled her lips slightly downwards, the whip in her hand ready to move. If she had just come in, she would have more or less refuted, but she had just been frightened by the witch Black Rose's words "a good sound is a good start", so she had to keep silent.

Kobe had warned her in advance that these witches would not reason with you like magic girls. They looked peaceful on the outside, but their inner selves were basically a pool of twisted rotten water. If you really provoke them, you will be doomed. Shi Naian saw it with her own eyes and understood that these witches were indeed not easy to provoke.

She sighed and thought that at worst she could twist Kobe's head when she got back. If it weren't for Kobe, there wouldn't be so many things. Ever since she met him, her gray and rotten life had been shattered layer by layer. But she could also blame herself for being bewildered and blinded by the beautiful life of hanging out with magical girls and teasing them.

When I put it into practice myself, it seems that there are far more troubles than happy things.

Why not just go home and lie down and never move again, Shi Naian thought.

"Why does it have to be ashes?" Black Rose asked word by word.

"I can only tell you that she was mentioned in a prophecy left by a dead witch." said the puppet witch.

Hearing this, Kobe, who was eavesdropping in spirit form, froze in his tracks.

"So... will they still attack my sister?" Ke Mingye thought. When he heard that the activation condition of Witch Night was six extremely talented witches, he was still wondering if he had inadvertently used Shi Naian as a scapegoat and even helped these witches complete their plan.

But now it seems that due to the "prophecy", the Puppet Witch has an obsession with Bai Zini - so, she would rather use Schnaian, who is already in her hands, as a backup option, and must consider Bai Zini as the first choice for the sixth person to launch the Witch's Night.

Of course, Ke Mingye himself knew how powerful Bai Zini was after she turned into a witch - in the system's evaluation, the "Amber Witch" was a person who could sit at the same table with Zeus.

It is not surprising that these witches would target Baizini. On the contrary, it is extremely reasonable.

"understood."

After a moment's silence, the witch Black Rose summoned Thorn, asked him to take a letter from the round table, wrap it layer by layer, and then hand it to the Witch of Sloth.

The Witch of Sloth lowered her eyes and took the letter engraved with a series of strange patterns, like an admission ticket to the Black Forest.

The next moment, the letter suddenly turned into ashes and disappeared without a trace.

"It will appear when you need it. Open the letter and you will be able to enter the 'Tower of Babel' and meet us here." Black Rose said, her tone calm without a trace of disturbance.

She paused. "When we need to contact you, text will appear on this letter. The text above is what we are conveying to you... Do you understand?"

"alright."

The Witch of Sloth responded listlessly, raised her hand to take the letter, and thought to herself, I'm different from you old immortals. I just want to have sex, not destroy the world. You don't really think I will come to you on my own initiative, do you?
Seeing that the puppets beside the round table behind her were silent, Black Rose said, "You should leave. That's the exit."

"Farewell."

The Witch of Sloth threw down her wand, raised her hands, clasped them together, and bowed her head to show respect.

This action of hers immediately silenced Black Rose, who wondered how there could be such an abstract witch?

Little-known fact: before becoming a witch, one must be a magical girl. So why would such an abstract person be chosen by the comet fragments? Or maybe, in fact, her predecessor was a contracted magical girl, and it was all because of some contracted beast that was blind that she became a magical girl?
Black Rose was thinking, but her thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the words of the Witch of Sloth.

"Senior, can you cooperate with me? Just like in the martial arts drama, we become sworn brothers, girls help girls, witches help witches, and the main theme is the spirit of feminism."

The Witch of Sloth spoke listlessly. Her principle was that when you feel powerless against this world but want to resist, you should either go crazy or become abstract.

Clearly this occasion suits the latter.

Black Rose stared at her for a few seconds, without saying anything, and just walked back to her seat silently.

"Tsk, ignore me if you don't want to."

Seeing this, the Witch of Sloth picked up the magic wand on the ground, yawned, turned sideways, and slowly looked at the huge dark golden door behind her that was four or five meters high.

As she walked towards the huge door, it slowly opened.

Seeing that Shi Naian was about to leave, Kobe hurriedly reminded her telepathically, "Wait, before you leave, ask them, 'Will you use any means to monitor me?'"

"Why?" asked the Witch of Sloth.

"You are indeed an idiot. Otherwise, how could they monitor your life? Wouldn't it be immediately exposed that you are a magical girl? Moreover, you are a witch who can transform back to your original appearance, unlike these old witches who can only maintain their ghost-like transformation. Doesn't this make you even more weird?"

"Oh, yes." The Witch of Sloth suddenly realized and replied in her mind, "But how can I guarantee that they are not lying? I can't whip them all, right? Besides, they are all using a puppet to speak for themselves here. The only person who is actually present is Black Rose."

"It's okay. I'm a contracted beast that can detect lies. You have to trust my eyes, Schnaian."

As he spoke, Kobe switched back to his original form, took out the lie detector necklace from his bag, held it in his hand, and patiently waited for the moment to activate his ability.

"Okay, I'll trust you this time."

Responding in her mind, the Witch of Sloth stopped, slowly turned around, and glanced at Black Rose. The trace of ink at the corner of her eye made her look slightly contemptuous.

"Anything else?" said the puppet of the Crown Dream Witch, "I'm going to sleep. If you don't leave now, I won't let you go..."

"Are you using some means to monitor me?" asked the Witch of Sloth, "For example, the letter you just sent me."

As soon as she finished speaking, Ke Mingye gently tightened the chain and activated the ability of the lie detector necklace. [Ability of the "lie detector necklace": Press the necklace to confirm whether the other person is lying within 10 seconds. (Cooling time is 24 hours)]

10 seconds.
9 seconds.
8 seconds.
7 seconds.
After a moment of silence, the puppet witch said, "No, there is no need for that."

【According to the test results of the lie detector necklace, the other party did not lie. 】

Looking at the prompt box that popped up in front of him, Ke Mingye breathed a sigh of relief.

"Really?" asked the Witch of Sloth.

"Are you counting on a witch to keep her promise?" The witch Black Rose suddenly sneered, raised her swan-like neck, and slowly asked with her face turned sideways, "Or are you counting on a witch to make a promise to you?"

As she spoke, she held her cheek with one hand, her tone gradually became impatient, and she lowered her eyes and said, "After all, you are just a substitute, understand?"

After a pause, before the Witch of Sloth could respond, Black Rose said, "Don't take yourself too seriously. Get out of here."

"This person has a really bad personality." Shi Naian complained in his heart.

"Maybe she is protecting you?" Kobe said, "Master Kobe has passed the lie detector test, and the puppet is not lying. Since they are not monitoring us, let's get out of here."

"Then I'm leaving."

As she spoke, the Witch of Sloth turned around and walked into the gap between the huge doors. Her figure was gradually engulfed by a dazzling light, and then disappeared on the spot.

After a moment of silence, Black Rose opened her mouth slightly and spoke to each puppet.

"Are we really not going to care about her?" She lowered her head and asked in confusion, "Aren't we in urgent need of a sixth witch, and a very talented one at that."

The puppets turned their heads with a "click" at the same time, and looked at her with their buttoned eyes.

The War Witch said slowly: "From my point of view, she is very talented. But it will be too slow for her to grow up. Besides... I want Xi Ziyue to see the scene of the magical girl under her becoming a witch."

The puppet witch said: "My thoughts are the same as what Zhan said. Except for the second half of the sentence, I don't have any hatred or obsession with magical girls. I just treat them as food."

Black Rose was silent for a moment: "Really? I understand."

Half an hour later, I was drinking and thinking about the coast, on the second floor of a beach villa.

With a "bang", Shi Naian kicked open the door of the room, then staggered forward two steps like a zombie and fell on the soft bed.

"Oh my god, I was scared to death just now--"

At this time, Shi Naian, who had returned to his original appearance, sighed and complained in a long voice, "Those witches are like ghosts, speaking with puppets. The Night of the Return of the Soul is..."

"Shi Naian, I'm scared to death too..." Kobe suddenly appeared, flapped his wings and sat down beside the pillow, looking at her quietly with his round eyes.

Shi Naian sighed, "I'll pack up and go back to Senior Huijin's house. She's already texting me to urge me. By the way, where's Little Red Riding Hood?"

"She's here to pick you up." Kobe said suddenly.

Hearing this, Shi Naian turned his head to look at the balcony, only to see a girl in a Christmas dress standing on the balcony. As the snow dust wrapped around her body dissipated, she landed on her toes, gently tapped the glass window of the balcony with her magic wand, raised her eyes to meet Shi Naian's gaze, and raised her hand to show a fireball spell in her hand.

Looking at the fireball pattern, Shi Naian buried his head in the pillow and murmured faintly: "Help, why are all the magic girls and witches I meet psychotic?"

Three days later, early in the morning, at the Bo Ke family residence.

[Good morning, Mr. Player, today is July 2028, 08. There are 22 days left until the deadline for the ultimate mission "Exterminate Superhumans". ]

[No players died yesterday, and the number of global players remains unchanged. ]

Ke Mingye opened his eyes in bed and what came into view was still the familiar daily notice panel, but there was a little difference today from previous days.

This difference is not due to his identity as a time traveler, but to his identity as a high school student.

——Yes, he started school.

This summer vacation that seemed as long as a century...is finally coming to an end.

Sadly, in addition to dealing with his family, Ke Mingye will also have to deal with the tediousness of schoolwork every day - as a result, matters related to the Super Hero Association will become particularly troublesome and easily conflict with the course schedule, especially under the extreme condition that high school students have to study in the evening.

So he was thinking about whether he should reveal his identity to Commander Che and let Commander Che communicate with the school leaders to give him the right to escape from the school at any time. At the very least, he should get a pardon ticket for evening self-study to escape from the almost all-day hellish life of high school students. Otherwise, what should he do in the days ahead?
Because most of the textbooks and materials were kept at school, he washed up early, opened the cabinet and took out the schoolbag that had been left there for a whole month.

He put it on his back and then, bathed in the morning breeze, walked towards the long-missed Beijing Third Middle School.

As for his holiday homework, he had already started his "split personality" and asked Little Red Riding Hood to help him complete it. None of Blue Owl, Weird Thing and Kobe were willing to do their homework. Only Little Red Riding Hood was willing to use his body to sit upright on the bed and carefully complete more than ten papers and that damn holiday homework, stroke by stroke.

Soon, Ke Mingye arrived at the classroom and sat down. There were noisy voices all around, and the students were talking about their holiday experiences.

He held his chin up with some discomfort, lowered his eyes and looked at the textbook for a while, then heard footsteps and looked up at the classroom door.

I saw the head teacher slowly walking up to the podium.

"I have some information to announce. There are several exchange students in the second grade." She said, "They are all exchange students from foreign schools. They will stay here for a while. Everyone should get along well with them."

She paused and said, "Especially since our class has two exchange students from Japan."

As they spoke, two figures walked into the classroom.

"My name is 'Amemiya Sakura', hello everyone." Amemiya Sakura said, slightly curling the corners of her mouth.

"My name is 'Ryukako', hello everyone." Ryukako turned her face slightly and introduced herself reluctantly.

"Why are you two the grudge again..." Looking at the two figures, Ke Mingye was stunned for a moment, then curled his lips, "Forget it, luckily it's not that lesbian from Iceland."

(End of this chapter)