Chapter 546: Quiet
When you put your heart and soul into something, time always passes quickly.
It didn't take long for Sakura to finish her painting. After comparing the painting in the sketchbook with the statue, Sakura smiled and nodded.
“It’s done!”
Xia Yu, who was deepening the shadows at the side, took a glance and the pencil in his hand suddenly stopped, and the tip of the pencil broke with a click.
Xia Yu: “…”
What a soulful painting! The messy lines are majestic, and the intermittent lines are like insects crawling. If he didn't know that Sakura had been painting seriously, he would have thought that this was just a casual doodle by Sakura while she was unconscious.
I didn’t expect that the person looks cute, but the painting is so abstract.
"Ahem, the painting is not bad, the style is very... unique."
Xia Yu coughed lightly and gave a compliment against his will. After all, he was still a child, so there was no need to be so harsh on him.
"Really?" Xiaoying scratched her head a little embarrassedly, turned her head and looked at Xia Yu's sketchbook: "Xia classmate, what about you?"
“Wow.”
Seeing the sketch in Xia Yu's sketchbook, Xiaoying couldn't help but exclaim, although there was no color, the light and dark depths of various details were displayed, and the relationship between light and shadow was also perfect, it could be used in a textbook.
“It’s a very nice painting.”
Sakura couldn't help but admire that in comparison, her paintings looked like a child's doodles.
"By the way, Chise, how about you?"
Thinking that the three of them drew it together, Sakura couldn't help but turn her head to look at Tomoyo.
In Chiyo's sketchbook, a lifelike watercolor painting appeared on the paper. At this moment, Chiyo was coloring the painting, which looked extremely delicate.
“It’s a very nice painting.”
Sakura exclaimed again, thinking back to Xia Yu's sketch and then looking at Chise's watercolor, she suddenly felt that she really couldn't draw.
We are all elementary school students, why is there such a big gap between us? Wow...
Coincidentally, at this moment, Chiharu and others waved at them in the courtyard, and Sakura also waved back.
"Tomoyo, Xia-san, do you want to go to the courtyard and take a look?"
Chiyo stopped painting and replied, "I'll finish this painting first."
Xia Yu also changed to a new pencil at this moment, and started drawing in the sketchbook again, and replied casually: "Me too."
"Then I'll go first."
Sakura put away her sketchbook and pen and prepared to go to the atrium to see how everyone else was drawing.
But just as she was halfway there, a small commotion suddenly caught her attention.
A young, pretty-looking child was about to destroy a painting hanging on the wall.
The main subject of the painting was a cold-blooded woman in a dark blue dress and with long white hair. Before the child could get close, the security guard rushed over and stopped the child.
However, when the security guard was not paying attention, the child suddenly broke free from the security guard's restraints and ran towards the painting again. The security guard hurriedly chased after him.
Just as the noise was getting louder, the woman in blue in the painting suddenly moved.
She raised her index finger and made a "hush" gesture.
The next moment, the world seemed to have pressed the mute button. Neither the running security guards nor the tourists chatting around could make the slightest sound.
But only Sakura noticed this scene. She put her hands to her ears but didn't hear any sound.
It was not until the security guard came to the child and caught him that the world seemed to gradually return to sound.
Sakura came to the painting with some confusion. The woman in blue in the painting returned to her original posture, and everything that had just happened seemed like an illusion.
"Huh?"
Just as Sakura was looking at the painting, she suddenly found a small tag below the painting, which seemed to be the name tag that the child had just dropped.
After picking up the name tag, before Sakura had time to observe it carefully, the call to assemble suddenly came. Sakura could only put aside her doubts temporarily and ran towards the assembly location.
Not long after, the class teacher organized all the students to leave the art gallery and prepare to return to school.
While waiting for the green light, Sakura became more and more concerned about what had just happened, and couldn't help but talk to Tomoyo beside her.
“A painting that moves on the wall?”
“That’s right!”
Sakura nodded fearfully: "After the woman in the painting moved, the sounds around her suddenly disappeared, although only for a moment..."
As she spoke, Sakura began to gesture with her hands and feet. "Could it be that? The unhappy and frustrated painter who passed away was holding a grudge. The painting must be cursed to be so scary!"
"Did you see the ghost?" Xia Yu suddenly interrupted the topic and said grimly, "Xiaoying, you drank the potion that can see ghosts. If you didn't see the ghost, where do you think the ghost is most likely to hide?"
"Where is it hiding?" Sakura couldn't help but shrink her body, and suddenly felt a chill around her.
"Think about it, since you didn't see the ghost in front of you, does that mean the ghost is floating behind you..."
“Eh!!!”
Before Xia Yu could finish his words, Xiaoying's exclamation had already resounded through the sky, attracting the attention of the surrounding classmates.
Xia Yu didn't feel anything, but Xiaoying's face was already blushing with shame, and she hurriedly apologized to the students she had scared.
After all the classmates looked away, Xiaoying couldn't help but glared at Xia Yu angrily: "Xia classmate, you are so mean, you scared me again!"
"Hey hey~"
Seeing Sakura's angry look, Tomoyo beside her also covered her mouth and chuckled: "You can obviously see ghosts, why are you still so scared, Sakura?"
Hearing this, Sakura silently shed tears in her heart. She was just afraid. Even if she could see it, there was nothing she could do. She was still afraid.
After laughing, Tomoyo suddenly guessed, "Sakura, do you think it could be that?"
"Ah...Clow Cards!"
After hearing Tomoyo's reminder, Sakura was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized, that's right, maybe it wasn't a ghost, but the Clow Cards?
Just like the phantom card last time, this one might also be a new Clow Card!
"Hehe, I can prepare new clothes for Sakura again." Tomoyo covered her face with one hand and couldn't help but fantasize: "Is it a witch of the night? Or a phantom thief hidden in the darkness? I really want to try both."
Sakura was a little embarrassed about Tomoyo's fantasy and said, "Tomoyo, it's better not to investigate at night..."
Before Sakura could finish, Tomoyo crossed her hands firmly and shook her head: "No, magical girls must have their own uniforms, I will not back down."
"I think, since we are going to investigate, we should keep a low profile as much as possible..."
Xia Yu next to him suddenly touched his chin and made a suggestion. Xiaoying was touched to hear Xia Yu actually speaking to her: "Xia classmate..."
"So let's set the theme as Phantom Thieves. Phantom Thieves come to the art museum at night and steal the Clow Cards that are causing trouble. Isn't that exciting?"
"That's right!" Zhishi's eyes lit up, he stepped forward and grabbed Xia Yu's hand, excitedly looked into his eyes and said, "Xia Yu really understands, so let's set the theme of tonight as Phantom Thieves."
The next moment, Tomoyo and Xia Yu turned their heads to look at Sakura at the same time, their eyes shining, and they spoke in unison.
"Sakura, what do you think?"
“Don’t refuse.”
“…”
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…
Night at the Kinomoto family.
After everyone in the family went to bed, Sakura hurriedly climbed out of the window and prepared to rush to the art museum.
However, she had just jumped from the second floor to the tree when she was discovered by Yukito who came to look for Touya. Fortunately, Yukito was very gentle and promised to keep it a secret for her.
After this little episode, Sakura felt depressed and happy at the same time.
With such conflicted emotions, Sakura quickly skated towards the art museum on her roller skates. When she arrived at the entrance of the museum, she saw a familiar RV.
"Sakura, come and change your clothes."
Next to the RV, Tomoyo waved at Sakura with visible excitement on her face, while Xia Yu leaned aside, seemingly taking a nap.
“…Here I come.”
A few minutes later, Sakura came down from the RV and changed into a brand new combat uniform. The main body of the uniform was indigo blue, revealing her thighs and waist. The pattern on the clothes was a simple blue-gray diamond.
There are two little devil wings on the back of the clothes, which looks a little playful.
"Today's clothes are a bit plain."
Sakura looked at today's clothes and casually commented that compared to her usual combat uniforms, today's Phantom Thief uniform was indeed much simpler.
"That's right." Tomoyo held up a camera and filmed Sakura changing into her clothes, while explaining her design idea: "Because a Phantom Thief can't be too conspicuous."
"Wrong, a phantom thief has to be conspicuous." Xia Yu, who was waiting nearby, also took out a camera and expressed his views while filming Sakura.
"The so-called phantom thief is mainly a thief, not a thief, so we can't use ordinary ideas to design it. A real phantom thief should wear a conspicuous white dress! That's what a phantom thief is!"
"I see!"
Zhishi suddenly realized something and couldn't help but admire him: "I didn't expect that Xia also has such insights into design. Maybe we can exchange our design experiences."
"No problem, next time we can design Sakura's combat uniform together."
Seeing that Xia Yu and Zhi Shi were talking more and more excitedly, Xiao Ying interrupted them hastily: "Okay, okay, let's talk slowly after we finish investigating the art museum. Now let's go into the art museum first to see if it's the Clow Cards who are causing the trouble!"
"I remember now. The Clow Card that can make sounds disappear!"
Suddenly, Xiao Ke, who was wearing a bow tie, flew to the middle of the group and said seriously, "It's Jingpai. Jingpai hates noise the most, so it stays in a quiet art gallery."
After hearing Kero confirm that it was the Clow Cards that did it, Sakura couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and said confidently, "Then let's set off quickly. Since it's the Clow Cards, there's nothing to be afraid of."
Seeing that Sakura was ready, Xia Yu waved his magic wand to cast an illusion spell on the three people and one beast, and then added a "silent and breathless" spell, so that they could become invisible and eliminate any sound at the same time.
Although this was a bit too cautious, after all, from the outside, the interior of the art museum was dark and empty, without even a patrolling security guard.
Besides, there was no surveillance in this era, so there was no need to worry about being discovered.
Next, the few of them had no awareness of sneaking into the art museum, and walked directly into the museum in a swaggering manner. Anyway, no one could see them.
Soon, they arrived in front of the picture.
Because of the blessing of "silence", the quiet-loving Shizuka did not use her ability to expel Sakura and others.
Seeing the woman in blue in the painting, Xiao Ke started to dance and gesture, and seeing this, Xiao Ying nodded and raised her wand.
"bite--!"
There were no routine sealing lines. They had discussed it before coming here. In order to avoid any accidents, no one should talk before sealing the Clow Cards.
The moment the magic wand fell on the oil painting, the woman in blue, who had originally closed her eyes, suddenly opened her eyes.
There was no surprise in those cold eyes, but rather a cold and indifferent expression.
But because there was no sound around, the woman simply opened her eyes and let the wand fall, sealing herself into a card again.
“Success!”
After successfully sealing the Clow Cards, Sakura took the fallen Clow Cards and couldn't help but cheer softly.
"Eh? Why does it feel like it was so easy to seal the Clow Cards this time? There were almost no twists and turns."
Chiyo, who was holding a camera at the side, was a little confused. If it were according to the usual practice, at least a lot of things would have to happen before the Clow Cards could be sealed.
Although this time it was indeed a little simple, Sakura was very happy. She couldn't help but cheered while holding up the Clow Cards, "It would be great if every Clow Card could be as simple as this one."
"Hahahaha, it's so easy to seal the Clow Cards this time. Who put in the most effort?"
Xia Yu laughed proudly with his hands on his hips, but before he could finish laughing, a sudden sound was heard, which immediately attracted the attention of the three people.
I saw a small figure sneaking in from the side door of the art gallery, and the sound just now was made by the small figure falling to the ground.
"Is it a thief?"
"How suspicious."
"We seem more suspicious."
The three of them communicated with each other, and the small figure was now completely revealed under the moonlight.
The moment she saw that face, Sakura was startled: "Is it him?"
"he?"
"who is he?"
"I saw him in the art gallery today." Xiaoying took out a name tag from her pocket and pointed at the little figure and said, "This name tag was dropped by him. His name seems to be Xiaoyong."
"child……"
Xia Yu looked at the little figure, and combined with the name that Xiaoying just said... Well, okay, he still couldn't remember who this child was.
But it's easy to guess that this child must be related to the Clow Cards, and maybe he is helping Sakura seal the Clow Cards.
But this time, with his help, they must have arrived earlier than in the original book, so they didn't meet each other.
This is not a novel with a confusing timeline. In some fan fictions, even if the plot is completely changed, the characters are like NPCs. As long as the plot triggers a node, they will be refreshed and reappear.
Just as Xia Yu was daydreaming, the child had already come to the painting, but when he saw the painting with the Clow Cards on it, he was suddenly stunned.
Because the original painting had the Clow Cards attached to it, the main body of the painting was the Shizue Card. However, when the Clow Cards were sealed , the original painting was revealed.
It was a smiling little girl with long hair draped over her shoulders. She was lying on the window of a wooden house by the sea, with an innocent and bright smile on her face.
