Chapter 541 My magic is best suited for cleaning up aftermath
"here we go again?"
Seeing the complicated expression on the store manager's face, Sakura couldn't help but feel curious: "Maki-sister, do you know why Chiharu's doll is here?"
Although it was strange that the doll that was stolen from Chiharu's house suddenly appeared in the doll shop, judging from the manager's attitude, she seemed to know something about the inside story.
The store manager was silent for a moment after hearing Sakura's question, then he sighed deeply and said, "I opened a store in another town before, and the same thing happened to me, and it happened several times in a row."
At this point, the store manager's voice trembled a little, and even her tone was filled with sadness and loss.
"So some rumors started to spread that anyone who bought something in my store would be robbed. But since the culprits were never caught, some people started to suspect that I was the one who staged this."
By the end, the store manager's voice had become choked up, as if he was about to cry: "I'd better close the store..."
“How can…”
The kind-hearted Sakura felt sorry for him, and Tomoyo couldn't help but say, "What a shame, it's such a great store."
Xia Yu, who had always been an invisible person, didn't feel anything. After all, this was his first time in this store. Although the store was not big, he could feel that the owner was managing it carefully.
As for the aura of the Clow Cards... he still didn't feel anything. The time with the Water Card, he remembered the plot, but this time he had no impression at all.
And he didn't even know what the Clow Card was, so even with the "Show me the way" spell, he couldn't do anything.
There are a total of fifty-four Clow Cards, and many of them are used to make up the number, because there are only nineteen Clow Cards in the comics. In order to match the playing cards, the animation increased the number to fifty-two regular cards and two special cards.
Therefore, apart from a few memorable cards and important plot turning points, he only had vague memories of the rest of the daily plot.
On the other side, the store manager heard Sakura and the others' dissuasion, shook his head and said sadly: "I still can't do it alone. I was once engaged to a doll designer, but he died in an accident. He loved dolls and he dreamed of selling the dolls he designed in his own store."
"Maki-sister..."
Sakura and Tomoyo looked at the store manager's back as he turned his back to them, and for some reason they felt sad.
They wanted to speak up to comfort the manager, but when they opened their mouths they didn't know what to say. Even if they were precocious, they were still just elementary school students with no emotional experience.
How can they comfort each other when they are like this?
"If I give up, he will probably be very sad, but I have already..."
For a moment, the atmosphere in the store was a little depressing, but soon, the manager wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. There were students present now, and she understood that the innocent and carefree elementary school students were not suitable people to listen to.
"Sorry, I just couldn't help myself..."
The store manager calmed himself down, then forced a smile and said, "I'm sorry to have made you worry about me. It's getting late, so you should go home quickly."
Looking at the manager's red eyes, Sakura was silent for a moment and didn't say much. After saying goodbye to the manager, she quietly left the toy store.
Seeing this, Tomoyo and Xia Yu nodded goodbye to the manager, then followed Sakura.
After walking in silence for a while, Sakura suddenly turned around and looked at Tomoyo and Xia Yu who were following behind her: "I want to help Sister Maki. No matter if it's the Clow Cards that are causing trouble, I want to help Sister Maki."
"Tomoyo, Xia-san, you will help me, right?"
Hearing this, Zhishi and Xia Yu smiled at each other and responded with one sentence each.
"Of course."
"We are friends."
Hearing their answers, Sakura couldn't help but stepped forward and held their hands, and said with some emotion: "Thank you!"
Since we have decided to help the toy store manager, we must first determine whether the Clow Cards are causing trouble. If so, we must resolve it as soon as possible.
After all, the store manager is already considering closing the store. If he delays for a few more days, he might just close the store and stop operating.
…
Night at the Kinomoto family.
In Sakura's room.
Sakura, Tomoyo and Xia Yu gathered here, and changed into casual clothes, and were asking Xiaoke about the stolen doll.
"Collecting doll cards?"
Xiao Ke sat on the bed with his arms folded, frowning and thinking: "How can there be such a strange card? It doesn't matter at all."
"Are you sure?"
Xia Yu suddenly approached Xiao Ke and said with a suspicious look on his face: "I heard from Xiao Ying that you slept for thirty years and didn't take your responsibility of guarding the Clow Cards seriously at all. How can you be so sure that there is no interest in collecting Clow Cards?"
"this……"
Xiao Ke was speechless for a moment. Seeing this, Xiao Ying also took advantage of the situation and said, "Xiao Ke, go and confirm it. Can't you feel the existence of the Clow Cards?"
"It's impossible that every abnormality is caused by the Clow Cards..."
Xiaoke retorted in a low voice, but feeling the gazes of three pairs of eyes, under that almost materialized line of sight, Xiaoke rubbed his big head and smiled helplessly.
"No choice, I'll go with you."
"Thank you, Xiaoke!"
Sakura cheered and took Xiaoke's hand, shaking it up and down with joy.
Since they had already decided to investigate, Sakura and the others decided to go in the middle of the night after discussion so as not to disturb the store manager or be seen by others.
Time passes slowly.
Late at night, night falls.
The cold moonlight sprinkled on the city, covering the city with a layer of veil. The night sky was full of stars, shining with unique brilliance.
At this time, Tomoeda Town had already fallen into a deep sleep, and there was basically no activity outdoors, which was completely different from the life in later generations when shops did not close at night.
The toy store was closed at this time, and the dark store seemed very quiet, but the rustling sounds seemed to indicate that the toy store was not peaceful.
Outside the toy store.
Sakura and others were standing at the door of the store. At this time, Sakura had already changed into the combat suit prepared by Tomoyo, which was a blue clown suit.
However, the clown costume is not a clown costume in the ordinary sense, but a clown costume that has been redesigned by Tomoyo. It is blue as the main color, and it is matched with a white skirt, which looks very cute.
If you move slightly, the ball decorations on the clown costume's hat and skirt will jump up and down, which is very lively and cute.
After making sure that there was no one around, Sakura nodded to Xia Yu.
Xia Yu made an OK gesture and pointed his wand at the door lock.
"Alaho hole open!"
As the door lock flickered, the originally tightly closed door of the toy store opened automatically. Several people hurriedly and secretly pushed open the door and slipped into the toy store.
Xiao Ke also followed behind them and flew in, flapping his little wings like a big moth.
The moment he came in, Xiao Ke frowned: "There is the scent of the Clow Cards!"
"It's the Clow Cards!"
Sakura cheered. If it was the Clow Cards that were causing trouble, then she could help the store manager by sealing the Clow Cards.
"Let's go find Chiharu's panda doll first. Since the doll has come back again, maybe the Clow Card is hidden in the doll."
"good!"
After deciding on the target, several people immediately started searching the store. The dolls in the store were neatly arranged, so it was not difficult to find them.
Soon, with Xiaoke's perception, the panda doll that was hiding everywhere was soon discovered.
The moment it was discovered, the panda doll quickly rolled towards the corner. Sakura was not to be outdone. She jumped up and hugged the doll tightly.
However, Xiao Ke, who flew over, frowned and said hurriedly: "Oh no, it escaped!"
"It escaped?"
Sakura was a little confused, Xiao Ke nodded and looked around: "Now this doll has lost the aura of the Clow Card again, the Clow Card may have escaped to another doll!"
"Why is this happening..."
Sakura let out a sigh of disappointment, but soon cheered up again. When she was about to continue searching, Tomoyo suddenly came in surprised, holding a pink rabbit doll.
"Why is this bunny doll so heavy? It feels different from the other dolls."
"Um?"
Hearing this, Sakura and Kero turned their heads at the same time. After seeing the rabbit doll in Tomoyo's hand, Kero shouted in surprise: "That's it, it's a jumping card!"
"Jumping cards?"
Chishi looked curiously, and at that moment, Tiaopai opened his light green triangular eyes, then slanted his eyes, and the nearby dolls immediately rioted.
The dolls affected by the card jumping seemed to come alive. They suddenly jumped up from the shelves, gathered and collided in mid-air.
At this moment, the dolls, which were originally dead objects, seemed to be injected with infinite vitality. They ran around wildly among each other, making people dazzled.
The next second, the dolls that were running around continued to gather in the air and gradually formed a huge doll ball. When all the dolls in the store gathered together, the huge doll ball suddenly smashed towards Tomoyo.
"ah!"
Although the toy ball is made of soft dolls, seeing such a big ball, Tomoyo couldn't help but scream and fell to the ground. The jumping card in her hand took this opportunity to kick the ground hard and escaped from Tomoyo's control.
Seeing that the doll ball was about to hit Zhishi, Xia Yu flashed in front of Zhishi and raised his wand at the doll ball.
"Explosion rumble!"
With a loud bang, the huge doll ball suddenly exploded. However, the exploded doll did not lose control, but instead turned into a torrent of dolls again.
Then the pink jumping card charged up its energy and jumped directly through the window and came out onto the street, and the torrent of dolls followed closely behind in a flash.
In the blink of an eye, Jump Card had already disappeared into the darkness with the torrent of dolls, seemingly trying to escape.
“Chase after him!”
Xiao Ke shouted hurriedly, and Xiao Ying also hurriedly pushed open the door of the toy store and chased after the toy.
"Are you okay?"
Seeing that Sakura had already chased after the jumping card, Xia Yu did not rush to follow her, but turned around and reached out his hand to Tomoyo who was sitting on the ground.
"Yeah, it's okay."
Zhishi blushed a little and took Xia Yu's outstretched hand and lifted herself up. She had always been confident and calm in the past, but she didn't expect to show such an embarrassing scene today.
The key point is that I was seen, which was really embarrassing.
Tomoyo covered her face and took several deep breaths before she calmed down her heart that was pounding due to the shock.
After recovering, Zhishi looked at Xia Yu and said, "Let's catch up quickly, Xia-san, we can't let Xiaoying fight alone!"
"Okay, then hold on tight."
Xia Yu casually reminded Zhishi, then reached out and held Zhishi in his arms, then spread his wings and flew straight towards the torrent of dolls in the distance.
Zhishi was stunned when she was suddenly hugged in his arms. Her already red face turned even redder. After a few seconds, she followed Xia Yu's words and grabbed his clothes tightly.
distance.
The jumping puppet was carrying a huge torrent of puppets behind it, jumping and fleeing into the distance, like a long dragon made up of puppets, extremely conspicuous.
Fortunately, there were no pedestrians at night, otherwise who knows what strange urban legends would have spread.
Behind the torrent of dolls, Sakura was running on her own two legs, trying to catch up with the jumping card in front of her with extremely strong jumping ability.
When Xia Yu caught up, this was what he saw. He was a little confused. It was obvious that he couldn't catch up, so why didn't he use flying cards?
However, in Xia Yu's gradually widening eyes, Xiaoying actually caught up with the torrent of toys with her own two legs.
How can this be a primary school student? Even a sprinter can't run this fast.
In the end, with Sakura's unscientific but magical running speed, she actually caught up with the jumping card with her own legs.
However, just when Sakura found the right moment and was ready to grab the card, the card seemed to have predicted Sakura's action. When Sakura pounced, the card suddenly jumped up and avoided Sakura's pounce.
Then the next second, the jumping card landed on Sakura's head. Then the jumping card used Sakura's head as a springboard and suddenly jumped to a higher position, almost like flying at a low altitude.
Sakura almost fell to the ground, but luckily she was agile and quickly supported herself on the ground with both hands, thus avoiding making a fool of herself.
"Jump card? Where is the jump card?"
After recovering, Sakura looked around hurriedly, trying to find the missing card, but before she could find it, the surroundings suddenly fell into endless darkness.
"Shadow blockade!"
As Xia Yu's voice sounded, the shadow card carrying endless shadows turned into chains and rushed straight towards the jumping card.
Although the jumping card jumped extremely fast, it was still not faster than the shadow.
Under the siege of Shadow Card's shadow chains, Jump Card was directly bound by layers of shadows in mid-air, then pulled down, and then trapped on the ground.
After restricting the jumping cards, Xia Yu also landed with Zhishi in his arms. At this moment, Zhishi had calmed down, and a camera appeared in his hand.
As a director, it is basic quality to carry a camera with you at all times.
"Xia, thanks to you, otherwise I wouldn't be able to catch it."
Xiaoying ran to Xia Yu and thanked him. Xia Yu nodded and said, "Since the jumping card has been bound , let's seal it quickly."
"good!"
Sakura nodded, took out her key necklace, placed it in the palm of her hand, and chanted slowly.
"The key that hides the power of darkness! Show me your true power. Sakura, who made a promise with you, orders you to--"
"The seal is lifted!"
In an instant, the key-shaped necklace turned back into the shape of a magic wand. Sakura held the magic wand in her hand and was about to seal the jumping card when a dazzling pink light suddenly appeared on the jumping card.
Then in the next second, the various dolls that were originally scattered on the ground and had been motionless began to tremble uncontrollably again, and then turned into a torrent of dolls again, rushing straight towards the bound jumping card.
Under the impact of countless dolls, the shadows around were scattered, and the pink jumping card took this opportunity to gather strength and kicked, suddenly breaking free from the confinement of the shadow card.
After the jumping card was freed from its restraints, the torrent of dolls seemed to have found a backbone and all of them gathered towards the jumping card.
In an instant, the countless dolls formed a huge pink rabbit, which was exactly the appearance that appeared after the jumping card was freed from the seal.
At this moment, jumping cards can no longer be called jumping cards, it is more appropriate to call it big cards.
"This...what's going on? Xiaoke, isn't this a card jump? Why is it getting bigger?"
Sakura was a little dumbfounded looking at the huge jumping card. It was so big, how could she find the true form of the jumping card and seal it?
Looking at the giant Jump Card, Xiao Ke was also a little confused: "I... I can't go there. I'm not familiar with Jump Cards. After all, not all Clow Cards can talk. I don't know much about Clow Cards of the animal type like this."
He used the giant jumping card to look at the three little people below, and suddenly raised his head and roared.
“Ahhh…”
This scene surprised Xiao Ke even more: "Is that considered roaring?"
After shouting, Tiaopai suddenly raised his huge foot, ready to step on the three people below.
“Run!”
Sakura screamed and tried to pull Xia Yu and Tomoyo away, but she pulled hard and failed to pull Xia Yu.
"Student Xia, stop being in a daze and run!"
"Haha, no need."
Xia Yu smiled at Xiaoying, raised his head and looked at the huge jumping card, and said in an inexplicable tone: "Giant? Come to think of it, I just happen to have an opposite magic that I haven't tried yet."
After saying this, Xia Yu pointed his magic wand at the jumping card: "Shrink quickly!"
In an instant, a light similar to white lightning suddenly appeared on the huge jumping card. Under the flow of that light, the huge jumping card shrank rapidly.
In just a few seconds, the jumping sign, which was originally larger than a building, had returned to the size of an ordinary doll.
The card jumper who was originally showing off his strength suddenly found that his field of vision was getting smaller and smaller. It stopped changing only when he was surrounded by huge monsters.
The jumping card looked up foolishly and saw three children surrounding it. Just a few seconds ago, these three children seemed so small in its eyes.
Tiaopai doesn't know what the saying "fortunes change" means, but it knows that it will be miserable next.
Bang——!
Before Xia Yu and the others could do anything, the jumping card suddenly began to disintegrate from the beginning, and countless dolls flew out. Because they were hit by the shrinking spell, these dolls remained in their shrunken appearance, just like miniature dolls.
And in the center of these miniature dolls, a little pink rabbit was lying inside pretending to be dead.
"Okay, let's seal it now."
Xiao Ke landed next to the jumping card and pointed at the jumping card that was smaller than himself.
"Um!"
Sakura nodded in response. The manager had to endure so many misunderstandings because of the girl, so she must not let the girl wander around and cause trouble again.
Thinking of this, Sakura raised the wand in her hand.
"Return to your original form, Clow Card!"
bite--!
With the knocking sounds, magic circles and card phantoms appeared one after another. The pink rabbit that was shrunk by the shrinking spell was also swept into the virtual card by the milky white light.
After a few seconds, the virtual card turned a real card. The card turned twice in the air and finally floated towards Xia Yu.
"Ah——Why is it this brat's again?"
Watching the Clow Cards flying towards Xia Yu, Xiao Ke couldn't help but rub his head hard: "Obviously the Water Card was Sakura's last time, wait! Could it be because of me? When I'm not around, the Clow Cards are Sakura's, and when I'm around, the Clow Cards are that brat's!"
Xiao Ke clapped his hands and punched, as if he had thought of some pattern. But before he could continue, Xiao Ying couldn't help but defend Xia Yu, "Xiao Ke, it's obviously Xia Yu's credit that he was able to capture the Clow Cards. Don't make random guesses here."
On the other side, Xia Yu looked at the jumping card that floated into his hand. The main image of the jumping card was a milky white rabbit with wings, which was completely inconsistent with the image of the cunning pink rabbit just now, and was comparable to a photo.
The Chinese character "跳" (jump) is written on the top, and the English word "THE JUMP" is written on the bottom. You can also feel the magic contained in the cards.
It was a Clow Card that was of no use to him after he analyzed it.
The Shadow Cards could at least familiarize him with the power of shadows, and would still be useful to him even after they were analyzed. But for an Amplification Card like this, he could use its ability as long as he analyzed it, and there was no need to use the Clow Cards again.
Just like flying cards, he can fly once he analyzes them, and the same goes for jumping cards.
Thinking of this, Xia Yu waved the jump card in his hand and said to Xiaoying: "Xiaoying, the jump card is of little use to me, I will give it to you tomorrow."
"Huh?"
Hearing this, Xiaoying looked at him in surprise, but she quickly reacted: "In that case, I will lend the water sign, tree sign, and rain sign to Xia. Xia can return them whenever he wants."
"Need not."
Xia Yu shook his head and smiled, "It's too troublesome to lend me the cards one by one. When Xiaoying has collected a full set of Clow Cards, you can lend me the ones I don't have for me to look at."
"Okay, I won't forget it!"
“Ahem…”
Just after Sakura finished speaking, Tomoyo suddenly coughed twice and pointed to the small dolls all over the floor.
"We are going to be in trouble now. We have to send these dolls back to the store. But thanks to Xia, the shrunken dolls are not that difficult to take."
"You don't have to worry about this."
Xia Yu suddenly pointed his magic wand at the small dolls scattered all over the floor and said with a smug smile: "My magic is most suitable for post-processing work!"
"Wingardium Leviosa!"
As Xia Yu pointed his magic wand, all the dolls on the ground floated up, as if an invisible force was holding up the dolls.
"Okay, let's go!"
"Oh, classmate Xia is still so reliable."
"Haha~ Every time we have Xia with us, we don't have to worry about the aftermath. If Xia had been there when we sealed the tree and rain cards last time, we wouldn't have had to clean up so hard."
Hearing this, Xiao Ke, who was still a little dissatisfied with Xia Yu, immediately clenched his fist and said, "That's right! Xiaoying, you must invite Xia Yu to your home often in the future. You can also let him observe the Clow Cards directly. I absolutely don't mind!"
"...Xiao Ke, please stop talking. Your intentions are too obvious."
"Eh? Really?"
