dmims Chapter 165 Sakura Takes a Bath~
Chapter 165 Sakura Takes a Bath~
Chapter 165 Sakura Takes a Bath~
"You all saw it just now, right? It was a female ghost with disheveled hair!" Sakura, holding Wang Changsheng's hand with one hand and Zhi Shi's hand with the other, ran over here, panting heavily.
Wang Changsheng gently patted her back, signaling her not to be so nervous: "I'm not sure, I didn't see anything clearly before you pulled me away."
"I saw it! That ghost has sharp teeth!" Li Jia was still in a daze, and her eyes still revealed a hint of fear.
"And there are two bloodshot eyes staring at us with malice!" Chiharu patted her chest, her face filled with fear.
"Its mouth is pink and its tongue is very long!" Naoko steadied herself, and this time, she finally saw clearly what the ghost she was seeing looked like.
Although she was a little scared, Naoko felt more excited than scared.
After all, she was certain that ghosts really do exist in this world!
This is a major discovery!
Doesn't this also illustrate a certain situation?
Perhaps some of the ghost stories she had heard before were actually true?
The thought of this possibility made Naoko tremble with excitement.
"Tomoyo, you saw it too, right? Wasn't that ghost incredibly scary?" Naoko turned to Tomoyo, who was still somewhat dazed, and asked.
Wang Changsheng might have been looking at other places, but he was facing the ghost for a while before being captured by Xiaoying.
Naoko realized this, which is why she asked the question.
Upon hearing her words, Tomoyo thought for a moment and uttered three words: "No."
"Huh?" Naoko was taken aback. "What do you mean, 'not'?"
"What I saw wasn't a ghost, but a..." Tomoyo paused, "...a big meat bun."
"Huh??"
Hearing what Tomoyo said in her sweet voice, everyone present was stunned.
Wang Changsheng, who was comforting Xiaoying, raised his head and looked at Zhiyi with a strange look in his eyes.
Why is it that everyone else saw a ghost, but you're the only one who saw a big meat bun?
Even Wang Changsheng himself, although he couldn't see clearly what exactly emerged from that ball of blue light, felt that there seemed to be something else hidden around him.
"A big meat bun?" Sakura, who was hiding next to Wang Changsheng, was also stunned. She turned her head and looked at Tomoyo with her dark green eyes. The ahoge on her head couldn't help but stick up.
"Yes, a big meat bun." Tomoyo nodded, then raised her head slightly, recalling the scene she had just witnessed.
When Sakura and Naoko screamed, Tomoyo was wondering what was going on. But when she looked up, she was shocked to find a super-sized, incredibly plump, fragrant, and steaming meat bun floating in mid-air.
The first thought that popped into my head was, "If I pounced on this giant meat bun and took a bite, it would burst with juice!"
Thinking of this, Tomoyo couldn't help but rub her little belly: "I'm a little hungry, I want to eat something."
"So what do we do now?" After a while, the group had mostly calmed down. Chiharu now completely believed what Naoko had said. She looked around, wanting to ask her friends for their opinions, "Why don't we go back..."
"Hahaha!" Upon hearing Chiharu's words, Sakura immediately knew what she was going to say and interrupted Chiharu's next words, "Yes, why don't we go back? It is indeed very late. My brother and father are probably already home. If we go back any later, they might worry about us."
"..." Chiharu looked at Sakura and couldn't help but smile awkwardly, "Actually, when I said 'go back,' I didn't mean 'go back to'..."
She was about to say something when Wang Changsheng interrupted her again: "It's getting late. If we stay here any longer, we don't have any lighting equipment. If it gets completely dark, we could easily get lost in the forest. It would be bad if we wandered deeper into the other side."
"Uh, that's true..." Chiharu said, somewhat conflicted.
However, seeing that none of her friends seemed inclined to go back, Chiharu could only sigh and nod, "Alright, since we're not going back, let's hurry up and leave."
She drooped her head, her expression seemingly sullen. Her two braided pigtails hung down over her shoulders, swaying with her gait, and like her owner, she looked somewhat powerless.
Because they had run all the way here and were almost at the exit, it didn't take them long to leave the back mountain, which was like a primeval forest to these elementary school students.
On the way, Wang Changsheng observed Chiharu's expression. Before the group parted, he thought for a moment and then whispered to Tomoyo, "Chiharu seems to be very interested in that ghost. I'm worried she might come back on her own later. But tonight should be our operation time, so if Chiharu calls you, you must persuade her not to come, or to come tomorrow."
"Huh?" Upon hearing Wang Changsheng's words, Zhi Shi couldn't help but look at him. "From what you're saying, Changsheng-kun, that wasn't a ghost, but rather..."
"That's right, I sensed a strong magical aura. Even if it's not a Clow Card, it shouldn't be a ghost either." Wang Changsheng nodded slightly.
By this time, Chiharu and Rika had already left, but Wang Changsheng and Tomoyo were still standing there. Sakura hadn't clearly heard what they were whispering about, but she vaguely caught some familiar words: "What are you guys talking about? I heard something about Clow Cards?"
Wang Changsheng did not hide anything and directly told Xiaoying the identity of the big light ball.
"Huh?! It's not a ghost, it's a Clow Card??" Sakura's expression was shocked, but also seemed to carry a hint of joy and relief.
"(???；) The Clow Cards can actually play tricks. I think we should seal them away properly," Sakura muttered to herself.
She was terrified just now, never expecting that the ghost was actually a Clow Card in disguise.
"I'll remind Chiharu." Tomoyo nodded, agreeing to Wang Changsheng's instruction.
Of the three of them, if Chiharu really wanted to contact someone, the most likely person she would contact is Tomoyo.
After all, Wang Changsheng is a boy, and he just transferred to the school. Although they met because of Sakura and Tomoyo, they are not particularly familiar with each other.
As for Sakura, even if you think with your butt, you know that she would never agree to come here to look for ghosts in the middle of the night.
Chiharu didn't want Sakura to get seriously injured from the fright, so she naturally wouldn't contact her, but Tomoyo was different.
Everyone else saw the ghost, but she saw a big meat bun, which was really strange.
So if Chiharu really wants to call, she might call Tomoyo over as well.
Of course, that's not necessarily true. Wang Changsheng was just instructing Zhishi to pay a little attention to the situation.
"Should we seal this Clow Card tonight?" Sakura looked at Tomoyo, then at Wang Changsheng. "This Clow Card is so scary, we can't let it continue to scare people like a ghost!"
"That's natural."
Wang Changsheng and Zhishi both nodded.
After agreeing on a time, the three of them went home.
However, before leaving, Wang Changsheng turned back and glanced at the back mountain of the school.
Tomoeda Town isn't entirely surrounded by mountains; the mountain behind it isn't particularly large, at most just a small hill.
However, Wang Changsheng couldn't be sure if it was always like this, or if his arrival and the integration of the world had caused this small back mountain to grow so large.
Besides the cliff they had just reached, there was another side to the back of the mountain, which seemed to connect to a forest.
They had planned to go to the forest park, but the place they didn't end up visiting was right there.
Wang Changsheng also learned something from his housekeeper: the forest park established by Tomoeda Town was only a small part of the developed forest.
In other words, this back mountain is not so simple; a large part of the forest it leads to has not been explored by humans.
"What might be hidden there?" Wang Changsheng couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
The strange thing that was previously detected in Sakura's library has not reappeared since.
However, not too much time has passed since then.
But within this short period of time, Wang Changsheng also discovered another strange place, but he did not go in.
Now, this back mountain exudes a unique feeling.
Wang Changsheng truly felt that Cardcaptor Sakura, which was supposed to be a world of pure love, was only on the surface.
This is truly a place where hidden dragons and crouching tigers abound and undercurrents surge.
"But why did Sakura have to call Kero over? I could have just gone straight over there and captured that card..." On his way home, Wang Changsheng couldn't help but think of the conversation the three of them had just had.
Sakura said she wanted to take a shower, so she told Kero about it and brought Kero along.
Tomoyo also said she needed to go back and prepare, so she strongly agreed with Sakura's suggestion to come later.
Since two of the three people in the group said the same thing, and considering that their families were probably waiting for them to go back for dinner, Wang Changsheng naturally couldn't insist on anything further.
"But one of them has a car to pick them up, and the other lives nearby. I didn't have a driver come over, and I don't want to attract attention by flying back. Does that mean I have to walk?"
After all, Wang Changsheng has now parted ways with the two main characters of the world.
Without the aura of the two protagonists around him, if he used magic in a high-profile manner, the surrounding residents would probably notice it quickly.
"Sigh, I wish I were the main character too..."
Wang Changsheng sighed inwardly, casually found a restaurant to sit down, ordered a lot of food, and slowly began to eat. Then he quietly waited for Tomoyo and Sakura to call him.
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Kinomoto family.
After Sakura rushed back, she dealt with her arrogant older brother's questions.
She, Zhishi and Wang Changsheng had already colluded with each other before they separated.
They said they came back late because they were delayed at school for a while. Touya didn't think much about it and just teased Sakura in a cheeky manner.
Sakura, who was hiding something, was very angry, but she didn't vent her anger on Touya. Instead, she finished her meal in a few bites, then stood up and put the bowl and chopsticks in the sink.
"I'm full, now I'm going to take a shower!"
Sakura made a fuss and then went upstairs to get clothes and towels. Because Kero kept saying he wanted to take a bath too, she hid Kero in a towel and brought him to the bathroom.
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"This monster is quite clean." Touya glanced at Sakura, who was in a hurry to take a bath. "I was going to go first, but the floor is always wet after she finishes... Hmph, I'll let you go first this time."
After carrying her things into the bathroom, Sakura put them aside and then took off her clothes one by one, placing them aside to make sure they wouldn't get wet. Only then did she turn on the tap and test the water temperature.
"So that's not some kind of ghost, but a Clow Card?"
After being led into the bathroom by Sakura, Koko happily crawled into the hot water that Fujitaka had prepared for Sakura, which was filled with hot water.
Sakura ignored it and sat on a small stool next to the bathtub, letting the shower wet her hair.
"Yeah, that's what Xiao Wang said." Hearing Xiao Ke's words, Xiao Ying nodded, then applied shampoo to her hair and began to scrub it carefully. "You don't know, that thing is really scary! It can turn into a ghost, and I was so scared that I panicked! I thought I was going to die there."
"Really...?" Xiao Ke was soaking in the hot water, with a square towel on her big head, like she was in a sauna. "So you're afraid of ghosts."
It was pushing a toy boat in its hands. The boat was not very big, about the size of a standing boat, and it was swimming around in the bathtub.
For Xiao Ke, a two-meter bathtub is like a pool of water, where she can play to her heart's content.
The boat is very realistic, but it looks a bit old.
According to Fujitaka, this was a toy he gave to Touya when he was a child, because Touya was too naughty and never took a proper bath, so he could only use toys to distract him.
Later, the boat was passed down to Sakura, and now it is passed down to Kero.
Fujitaka's purchase was definitely worthwhile; he didn't lose out at all.
Because of this incident, Sakura mocked Touya harshly, and the brother and sister fought several times because of this.
Because the two of them weren't that far apart in age, Touya insisted that the toy boat was actually bought for Sakura by his father, and not something he wanted to play with.
Of course, Sakura would never agree with what he said, and she would absolutely agree with what her own father said: Touya was particularly naughty when he was a child.
"If it weren't for that naughty older brother of mine being so mischievous when we were little, always trying to scare me with ghost stories, I wouldn't be afraid of ghosts now!" Sakura snorted twice.
However, despite saying that, she actually sped up her work considerably.
She scrubbed her hair a little more with the foam, then quickly picked up the showerhead and started washing herself.
There was nothing she could do. If she didn't think about it, it would be fine, but now that they were already talking about ghosts, Sakura felt as if she were surrounded by darkness with her eyes closed.
If it weren't for the rustling sounds and strange onomatopoeia that Kero was making nearby, Sakura would have suspected that a terrifying monster was watching her wash her hair.
"So you're afraid of ghosts because your brother scared you too much when you were little?" Kero's voice brought a bit of comfort to Sakura, who was washing her hair. "Then why are you so brave to face the Clow Cards? Shouldn't they both be mysterious and strange things to you?"
"That's true..."
After washing her hair, Sakura washed her face with water. Steam rose, and wisps of mist covered her naked body.
"But Clow Cards are ultimately different from ghosts. Besides, I've discovered that each Clow Card is actually quite cute. They can also be sealed away by me and become playing cards. They're not completely devoid of physical existence, so I'm not afraid."
Warm water flowed from the showerhead, gently cascading down Sakura's body. Sakura wiped her face with her other hand, then opened her eyes and glanced at Kero, who was splashing and playing in the bathtub.
"What I'm really afraid of is that inexplicable thing, something that I can see sometimes and then not see at other times!"
Hearing Sakura's words, Keroberos nodded thoughtfully, swinging her little legs to propel herself and the boat forward: "So you're actually afraid of your own imagination, and... things that look too scary."
"That's weird. I don't know what you're afraid of." Xiao Ke didn't let Xiao Ying explain further, but shook her head. "Ghosts aren't really that scary. In the end, they're just people who have turned into ghosts. Ordinary ghosts can have very little effect on people."
"Huh?" Sakura, who had just lathered up the shower gel on a bath towel, turned around after hearing Kero's question. "You mean ghosts really exist?"
"Of course!" Keroberos nodded matter-of-factly. "If the Clow Cards can exist, then how could ghosts, as the souls of humans after death, not exist?"
Kero glanced at Sakura, but there were some things it didn't say.
For example, some of the Clow Cards were created by their former owner, Clow Reed, who, for some reason, turned human souls into cards.
It became the soul of the playing cards, completely losing its previous memories, but instead inherited the rules of the world, becoming an incredible card—the Clow Card.