Chapter 71: My magic was nullified?

“Thank you for your patronage! Please come again!”

Accompanied by the cashier’s farewell, Charlotte and Huangquan Ai walked out of the supermarket.

Looking at the disinfectant and band-aids she had bought, Charlotte whispered

“That should be enough! Now, all that’s left is…”

Charlotte lightly lifted her head and glanced at Huangquan Ai beside her.

Huangquan Ai had apparently seen the video of her flying with Yukina. So, to prevent the consequences of the incident from escalating, she needed to find an opportunity to erase that extra memory.

“Gē Gē, is there anything else you need to buy?” Huangquan Ai asked casually.

“No, I’m done,” Charlotte gently shook her head.

“Then let’s hurry back! We don’t want to keep Yukina waiting!”

“Okay,” Charlotte nodded.

However, just as Huangquan Ai was about to leave, Charlotte suddenly stopped her.

“Wait a minute, little sister Ai, you seem to have something strange on your face!”

“Huh? Do I?” Huangquan Ai instinctively raised her hand to touch her face but didn’t feel anything there.

“I’ll help you wipe it off!”

“Oh!”

At Charlotte’s suggestion, Huangquan Ai bent down, offering her face without any suspicion.

Charlotte seized the opportunity, extended her two small, soft hands, placed them on Huangquan Ai’s cheeks, and used Memory Magic.

“Ngh…” After Charlotte cupped her cheeks for a full five seconds, Huangquan Ai felt something was off and asked in confusion, “Gē Gē, is the thing on my face wiped off?”

“Eh?” Hearing Huangquan Ai’s question, Charlotte’s face immediately showed a look of astonishment.

She was sure she had used Memory Magic, so why was Huangquan Ai still calling her “Gē Gē”?

Did she fail to delete her memory just now?

Come to think of it, when she used Memory Magic just now, she didn’t feel like she had successfully delved into the other person’s mind to search the memory bank.

If she didn’t find any memory, she couldn’t delete any memory either.

“Sorry, there’s still a tiny bit left. Please hold on for a little longer!”

Charlotte used Memory Magic on Huangquan Ai again. This time, she concentrated all her mental power, but the result left her dumbfounded.

It was the same as before she couldn’t find any memory in Huangquan Ai’s mind.

Wait, it was hard to even say if she had entered Huangquan Ai’s mind at all!

That feeling of finding nothing was as if her magic was being repelled by Huangquan Ai’s body.

‘Is my magic ineffective against her?’

‘Is my magic ineffective against her? Are you a Touma Kamijou?’

“Wuwu, is it done yet?” Huangquan Ai still looked completely unconcerned, seemingly unaware that Charlotte had just used Memory Magic on her twice.

Charlotte looked troubled. She was the strongest Star Witch in the other world. How could she be stumped by this little girl!

Charlotte was about to try again when a voice suddenly came from the side, interrupting their conversation.

“Um… sorry to interrupt, but have you seen a small white kitten this big?”

Charlotte and Huangquan Ai both turned their heads simultaneously. The person who appeared next to them was a girl with long pink hair, wearing a summer school uniform different from theirs, seemingly a student from another school.

Unfortunately, her chest was quite well-developed. Otherwise, she would have been perfect for bullying.

“A small white kitten?”

Charlotte and Huangquan Ai both shook their heads.

“Sorry, we haven’t seen one.”

“Is that so? Can you help me look?”

“Eh? Right now?”

Charlotte was about to refuse when Huangquan Ai immediately agreed.

“Sure!”

“Ah?” This made Charlotte look astonished. “Hey! Little sister Ai, did you forget? We have to go back to school to give these things to Yukina!”

“You can just go back and give it to her by yourself!”

“Even so…”

“It’s just helping someone find a kitten. It won’t take long to find it! Don’t worry, Uwu! I’ll definitely be back in time!”

“Uh…”

Charlotte’s face showed a look of difficulty. She had already bought the items Yukina asked for.

All that was left was to erase Huangquan Ai’s extra memory.

But unexpectedly, her magic was ineffective against Huangquan Ai. If she went back empty-handed, she didn’t know what kind of terrifying expression Yukina would make.

She might as well go with Huangquan Ai. Maybe she could find a way to successfully erase her memory during that time.

Thinking this, Charlotte sighed softly.

“Fine, I’ll help look too! The three of us together should be a bit faster!”

“Really? Thank you so much!” The pink-haired girl immediately bowed to show her gratitude. “My name is Sakurako Aya. You can just call me Aya.”

“My name is Huangquan Ai, and hers is Bai Shen Kanon! You can just call us Little Ai and little Kanon!” Huangquan Ai arbitrarily told the girl their names, which made Charlotte look displeased.

‘Seriously, meeting for five seconds and she’s already exposing our identities! It’s a good thing Kanon is just my fake name. If it were Yukina, she would have gone into a fit of rage on the spot.’

However, upon hearing the surname “Bai Shen,” Sakurako Aya also paused slightly.

“Hmm? What’s wrong? Is my surname very rare?” Charlotte asked, confused.

“Uh… yes, yes. I’ve never heard that surname before. It feels as rare as the surname Dongxue.”

“I don’t know why, but I feel like I’ve just been offended!” Charlotte frowned.

“Aya, where do you think the kitten you’re looking for might be?” At this moment, only Huangquan Ai was still focused on the kitten that needed to be found.

“Oh, it’s at…!!!”

Just as Sakurako Aya was about to answer, a white shadow suddenly darted past their feet.

“Hmm? The thing that just ran past was a small white kitten!” Charlotte, with her fully tuned dynamic vision, instantly recognized it.

“Eh?” Sakurako Aya hadn’t reacted. After turning her head and seeing the fleeing figure, she immediately exclaimed, “That’s it! That’s the cat I’m looking for!”

“Then what are we waiting for? Let’s chase it!”

After the trio’s relentless pursuit, no matter how fast the cat ran, it was finally cornered in a small room, where it was hissing non-stop.

“You can’t run away now!” Charlotte, running in the lead, pounced and grabbed the kitten.

But immediately after, Huangquan Ai’s body landed on Charlotte like a collapsing mountain, her two lumps of flesh nearly snapping Charlotte’s neck.

“Little sister Ai, you’re going to crush me!”

“Hehe, I just wanted to prevent the cat from escaping!”

“Are you preventing the cat from escaping, or preventing me from escaping?”

At this moment, Sakurako Aya, who was running last, also caught up, panting heavily.

Charlotte, holding the small white cat, waved at Sakurako Aya.

“Sister Aya, your kitten is caught!”

“That’s wonderful! Thank you so much!”

The moment the words left her mouth, the cat Charlotte was tightly holding suddenly flew out of her hands. As if an invisible hand was pulling its scruff, it obediently landed in Sakurako Aya’s arms.

“Huh?” Seeing the cat suddenly fly back into Sakurako Aya’s arms out of thin air, Charlotte was stunned.

She had to admit, this was the first time she had ever seen a flying cat. Had the cats in the real world evolved to this extent after fifteen years?

“Sister Aya, your cat…”

“Descend!” However, before Charlotte could ask her question, Sakurako Aya suddenly said those inexplicable words.

Instantly, the floor of the entire room suddenly dropped. Charlotte and Huangquan Ai fell into a deep, five-meter-deep pit, completely unprepared.

“Ngh…” Charlotte, who landed face-first, let out a muffled groan.

She tried to climb up to see what was happening, but to her surprise, no matter how much strength she exerted, she couldn’t move her body at all. It was as if a powerful glue had hardened and welded her to the floor.

“Huh? What is this?”

Although her entire face was tightly pressed against the ground, making it impossible to see her surroundings, she could perceive the situation with her magical senses.

It seemed to be a five-meter-deep pit.

Beside her lay a human-shaped object with no discernible magical energy. Judging by the roundness of her chest, that was likely Huangquan Ai.

She wasn’t moving, as if she had been knocked unconscious on the spot.

Standing at the edge of the pit above was a girl holding a cat.

Undoubtedly, that girl was the culprit who had made them fall, Sakurako Aya.

But the question was, how did she do it?

She had absolutely no magical power in her body, and there was no wind-up for a spell cast just now. She simply said “Descend,” and the floor instantly shattered, sending her and Huangquan Ai falling.

And why couldn’t she climb up? What was going on?

She had never heard of a spell that could be used without consuming magical energy.

As Charlotte felt incredibly confused, a phone suddenly rang in Sakurako Aya’s pocket.

Sakurako Aya naturally answered it.

– “Hello? Boss! I took down the girl named Bai Shen-something! You can relax. I put ten times the normal gravity on her. She can’t get up at all. But she doesn’t look quite like how you described her. She’s not as tall as you said, and her tits aren’t as big as you said. Did you give me the wrong information? Huh? What do you mean I got it wrong?”

Hearing Sakurako Aya’s conversation, Charlotte was suddenly enlightened.

‘So, my body is being pressed down by ten times the gravity, which is why I can’t move?’

If that was all it was, it would be pretty easy to solve.

She didn’t know how this girl used that ability, but that level of pressure couldn’t stop her. After all, this wasn’t the first time she had been severely pinned to the ground and immobilized.

Compared to the time Yuffie pinned her down, this situation was much easier!