Chapter 438 Surrounded
“Ahhhhh——!”

In the closed space, Sakura and the others were stunned, their heads swaying back and forth as Xia Yu was bounced around and screamed.

Seeing that Xia Yu had no intention of stopping, Xiaoying was the first to come to her senses and hurriedly asked: "What is going on? How can we get Xia Yu to stop!?"

"Well... In my opinion, Xia Yu was trying to break the floor with brute force just now, but was bounced back directly. It seems that the wall that traps us is made of rubber and cannot be broken by brute force." Li Xiaolang touched his chin and gave his own guess.

Xiao Ke nodded and continued, "Little ghost, what you said makes sense. Since we are trapped in a space similar to a balloon, I guess we can get out if we pierce the wall."

"Yes, I can summon my sword to pierce it, so there is no problem getting out."

"Hey, I didn't expect you to be so well prepared."

Listening to Xiao Ke and Li Xiaolang discussing how to get out, Xiao Ying hurriedly said, "Wait, now is not the time to discuss how to get out. Let Xia stop first before talking about this!"

Feeling Sakura's anxiety, Tomoyo, who had been holding the camera to film Xia Yu's miserable condition, suppressed her smile and said, "Don't worry, Sakura, Xia-kun can handle it himself."

"Eh? Really?"

Hearing what Tomoyo said, Sakura looked at him blankly, while Tomoyo nodded and said, "That's right, even though Xia Jun is screaming the whole time, maybe he's enjoying it?"

"Uh-huh!"

Sakura widened her eyes and looked at Xia Yu who was being bounced back and forth in surprise. Why did she feel that Xia's screams were so real and didn't look like he was having fun at all?
But since Tomoyo said so, maybe Xia is really enjoying it. After all, Tomoyo definitely knows Xia better than her.

for a long time--

Xia Yu: 0(:3）～_(X3」∠)_
Looking at Xia Yu lying on the ground, as if his soul had left his body, Xiaoying walked up to him, squatted beside him and poked him with her hand.

"Xia, are you okay?"

“…I have something to do.”

Xia Yu arched his body and tried to get up, but after struggling for a few times, he failed to get up.

Life has successfully knocked him down, so he might as well lie down for a while.

Looking at Xia Yu's hopeless look, Xiaoying asked in a low voice: "Xia, are you not having fun?"

"..."

"..."

"...Do you think I was just playing?"

"Eh? Isn't it?"

Sakura was surprised and said quickly: "But just now Tomoyo said that you were enjoying it. I saw you bouncing around like you were playing on a trampoline, and I really thought you were playing."

“…Tomoyo.”

Xia Yu turned his head but couldn't see Zhise, then he turned around and saw Zhise who was holding a camera and filming him.

Noticing Xia Yu looking over, Zhi Shi covered his mouth and chuckled, "Xia Jun, did you have fun just now?"

Xia Yu: (ノへ￣、)
"Happy, I am so happy..."

Xia Yu struggled to get up, looked fiercely at the wall that had just embarrassed him, then turned to Xiaoying and said, "Xiaoying, get ready!"

"Eh? Ok, ok!"

Facing Xia Yu's gaze, Sakura nervously clenched her wand and nodded heavily to show that she was always ready.

Xia Yu stood up straight, raised his hand and waved it. The flowing wind condensed in his hand and turned into an invisible sword.

Then he grasped the sword with both hands and slashed it downwards fiercely.

"Blade Storm!!!"

The storm is gathering! The sword energy is surging!
Sharp wind blades appeared out of nowhere, whistling and tearing the pure white wall with strange patterns into pieces. Behind the wall was a dark void.

Seeing Xia Yu seeming a little angry and embarrassed, Xiaoying subconsciously took a step back and swallowed. It seemed that she had to be careful not to make Xia angry.

Also, I always feel that the momentum of the blade storm this time is more terrifying than the last time it was filmed.

"O ownerless thing, follow the guidance of the Wand of Dreams and turn it into my power!"

While the wall was shattered, Sakura raised her wand, chanted a spell, and then smashed it down hard.

"Get the card!"

As the star in the center of the Dream Wand rotated, countless sparkling crystals instantly appeared from the front end of the wand.

Then, after the crystals expanded to their limit, they shattered instantly and gathered at the front end of Sakura's wand. After a few seconds, the ownerless object was wrapped in the crystals and shattered into a new card.

The card slowly fell and was caught by Sakura. The card was still transparent, with the English word "SIEGE" written at the bottom and the Chinese characters "包囲" written at the top.

The central image is a pure white hexahedron with strange patterns. The card still has the same strange pattern, as if surrounding the hexahedron.

"Surrounded?"

Looking at the new card, Sakura read out the name of the card and said with some realization, "So it means siege. No wonder it surrounded us."

"Surrounded?"

Xia Yu looked at the transparent card in Xiaoying's hand, lowered his head and pondered, always feeling that this card seemed to be useless. After all, other cards could do the job of surrounding alone.

But since it's a new card, why not use it?

"Sakura, how about lending me the card for a day? I'll return it to you tomorrow."

"Okay."

Xiaoying nodded and handed the card in her hand to Xia Yu, but just as Xia Yu took the card, there was a knock on the door.

dong dong dong-

Then the door opened. Touya opened the door and looked into the house, frowning slightly.

"It was so loud just now, what were you doing?"

"Um, we..."

Seeing her brother suddenly appear, Sakura subconsciously hid her wand behind her. When she was about to find an excuse, Touya suddenly fixed his eyes and walked over.

Facing her brother's direct gaze, Sakura was a little nervous, and then Toya stretched out his hand.

Seeing this, Sakura quickly closed her eyes, but Toya just gently stroked her cheek and then touched the corner of her eye with his thumb.

"Have you cried? Who made you cry?"

Hearing this, Xiaoying was shocked and quickly opened her eyes and shook her head: "No, I didn't..."

But her attempt to cover up made Touya frown even more. Without any hesitation, Touya looked directly at Li Syaoran.

Perhaps it was because he had the feeling of being a brother, he always felt that it was this brat who made his sister cry.

On the side, the silent Li Syaoran noticed Touya's gaze. Facing this condemning look, Li Syaoran lowered his head in self-blame.

"Hey, you little brat..."

"Okay, brother, Xiaolang has already apologized, so don't talk about him anymore."

As soon as Touya opened his mouth, Sakura interrupted him and pushed him towards the door.

"Brother, go prepare dinner and don't worry about us anymore."

As soon as these words were spoken, the door of the room was closed by Sakura from the inside. Touya, who was pushed out of the door, stared blankly at the closed door and subconsciously clenched his teeth and fists.

hateful!

Just based on this reason, he would never be able to give that brat a good face.

After gritting his teeth for a moment, Taoya snorted coldly and went downstairs in a huff.

inside the house.

Seeing Sakura pushing Touya out, Li Syaoran pursed his lips and said, "Sakura, this is not good, right? Your brother is just concerned about you."

"It's okay, my brother won't care."

Sakura smiled and waved her hand. Her brother always bullied her with malicious intentions, so she was already being very gentle.

After this little episode, everyone started discussing the new cards again. During the discussion, Syaoran Li also called Elio and told him what Sakura already knew.

Although Elio was a little surprised by Li Syaoran's confession, since Li Syaoran had confessed, he no longer hid it from Sakura. He told Sakura everything he knew and apologized to her.

Sakura naturally said it was nothing. After all, they hid it from her just to protect her. She could understand their actions.

But compared to this hidden protection, she would rather know the truth and then face it herself. This was something she caused, and she would not escape from it no matter what.

……

After the break, the usual school life started again.

Going to school and coming home from school is like this every day. Because there are no morning and evening self-study classes, junior high school is actually no different from elementary school, except that the schoolwork has become more complicated.

However, the daily peaceful routine does not affect the changes in the weather.

A sudden heavy rain fell in Tomoeda Town. The students were all confused about the rain that fell without reason, because the weather forecast clearly stated that the rainfall in the next few days would be 0%.

But weather forecasts are not 100% accurate. Although the students were confused, they did not think much about it.

Lunch break, school cafeteria.

Because it started to rain suddenly, Sakura and her friends did not eat lunch outdoors, but instead went to the restaurant to eat their bento boxes.

The school restaurant is called a canteen, but it is more like a buffet restaurant. All kinds of food are placed on the counter and students can choose them themselves.

However, Sakura and her friends basically brought their own lunch boxes, so they didn't have to specifically choose meals in the cafeteria.

During lunch, the rain outside the window seemed to get heavier, from the previous drizzle to a heavy downpour.

Looking at the heavy rain outside the window, several people chatted casually.

"It's raining harder."

“It doesn’t seem to be stopping at all.”

"I don't know if it will stop when school is over. Even with an umbrella, my clothes will get wet in this heavy rain."

"Speaking of rain..."

At this moment, the big liar who was eating quietly suddenly spoke up and said with a smile: "The Japanese pronunciations of rain and sugar are the same. In ancient Egypt, rainwater was sweet. It is said that they used vessels to collect rainwater and then solidified it. This is the origin of sugar."

As soon as Huyou finished speaking, Chiharu interrupted and said, "How is it possible? How can the etymology of Egypt be related to Japanese?"

"That's because the Egyptian papyrus floated to Japan through the sea, so there is a connection."

"That's even more impossible." "Actually, Yamazaki is right. In Chinese, rain and sugar are related."

Xia Yu, who was eating, suddenly chimed in, saying confidently, "Because there is an idiom in Chinese called 甜盐蜜雨, which means salt is as sweet as sugar, and rain is as sweet as honey."

"Eh? Is that so?"

After hearing what Xia Yu said, Qianchun was stunned and even believed it a little.

But the next second, she immediately reacted and asked back with considerable suspicion: "Let's not talk about the rain that's as sweet as honey, the salt that's as sweet as sugar, isn't that sugar?"

"No, no, no, you are wrong. That is not sugar, but salt which is as sweet as sugar."

Xia Yu tried to struggle, but Qianchun just looked at him with suspicion, as if to say "It's up to you whether I believe you or not".

"I see--" ×2
However, Chiharu didn't believe it, but a pair of stupid lovers did.

Looking at Sakura and Li Syaoran's eyes shining as if they had learned something, Chiharu looked helplessly at Yamazaki and Xia Yu who were of the same mind, and couldn't help but cover her forehead.

"Don't you feel guilty when you two look at them?"

"Conscience, what is that? How much is a pound?"

"a ha ha ha--"

It is obvious that neither Xia Yu nor Yamazaki has a guilty conscience.

After the little episode, Tomoyo suddenly asked, "By the way, Yamazaki, did you still join the hockey club?"

"Yeah, although I was still hesitating between the hockey club and the gardening club until the end." Yamazaki nodded and replied.

Hearing this, Naoko also said, "The Gardening Club is also a good fit for Yamazaki."

"Thank you for the compliment."

Noticing the new topic, Sakura also asked curiously, "By the way, Xia, how is your nap club going?"

"To be more formal, please call my club the Summer of the Far East Magic Daytime Napping Club, or the Summer of the Far East Magic Daytime Napping Club, or the Summer of the Far East Magic Napping Club."

Xia Yu spoke seriously, this name is so cool, it can’t be called the Nap Department casually.

"interesting……"

Sakura smiled awkwardly. How could she possibly remember such a complicated name?

"So what happened in the end?" Naoko asked directly.

"Ugh……"

When asked again, Xia Yu sighed deeply, poked his chopsticks into his lunch box, looking quite unwilling, and squeezed the words out of his throat with clenching teeth.

"What else can we do? The teacher rejected it. Damn it. The teacher who is in charge of the club is so short-sighted that such an excellent club was rejected."

"I went there with the determination to die, but the teacher rejected me without hesitation, without considering my expectations at all!"

"Ready to die... your determination is really used in a strange way." Chiharu made an appropriate complaint.

Seeing that Xia Yu didn't want to talk more, Xiaoying asked again: "Naoko, how is the drama club over there?"

"It feels quite interesting, but there may be too many girls. I'm currently thinking of a few male characters in the story." Naoko thought for a moment and replied.

"Will there be women dressed as men?"

"There should be."

"It's cross-dressing again."

Tomoyo murmured, stroking her face with one hand as she recalled, "This reminds me of the past, when Sakura played the prince and Li played the princess."

As Tomoyo said this, everyone at the scene fell into memories, and Sakura and Syaoran even blushed and lowered their heads.

Lunch time passed by chatting and laughing.

In the afternoon, school is over.

The heavy rain not only showed no signs of stopping, but it was getting heavier. Rain water accumulated on the ground, forming large puddles.

On the way home, Sakura and her three friends walked home together under an umbrella.

The umbrellas were provided by Xia Yu. After all, the rain came very suddenly. The sky was clear in the morning, but it started to rain heavily around noon.

"In the end, the rain didn't stop until school was over."

"It's rare that today is the first day of the club activity."

A few people were walking on the street and chatting casually. When it came to the topic of club activities, Sakura looked at Chishido with a smile.

"Although I was unable to participate in the event today, I will work hard during junior high school. Tomoyo, if your choir club has a competition or a presentation, please let me know."

"Of course."

"And Xiaolang, if you join a club, be sure to tell me."

"Ah."

"And classmate Xia, you..."

When talking about Xia Yu, Xiaoying was speechless for a moment and didn't know what to say. After all, Xia Yu neither joined any club nor failed in his application to establish a club.

"Hehe! In the dictionary of genius, there is no word impossible."

Xia Yu snorted twice and said confidently: "I believe that with my unremitting efforts, the teacher will definitely agree to my club application. If he still doesn't agree, I will keep harassing him until he agrees."

Hearing this, Xiaoying said awkwardly: "Xia classmate, isn't it a bit bad to harass the teacher?"

"Really? Isn't this a very normal teacher-student relationship?"

"No, this is definitely not normal..."

Swish——! !

Just as they were passing by the Penguin Park, the rain suddenly got heavier again. This time it became almost a downpour, and they couldn't even see the road ahead.

This is no longer ordinary rain, it is like pouring water directly, and pouring whole basins of water down.

Sakura and Tomoyo, who were hit by the heavy rain, screamed subconsciously, and Li Syaoran said quickly: "Go to shelter first, we can't walk in this road condition."

After saying that, he pulled Sakura and ran towards the park, and Xia Yu also pulled Tomoyo to follow.

After arriving under the king penguin, they finally breathed a sigh of relief and put away their umbrellas.

Because the rain suddenly got heavier, the small umbrella couldn't stop it and they were all soaked.

"Are you okay?" Li Syaoran asked nervously, looking at the soaked Sakura.

"It's okay." Sakura shook her head and reached out to wring the water out of her skirt.

"Don't worry, a little magic will do the trick."

Xia Yu casually took out his magic wand, waved it lightly at the four of them, and said, "Clean up."

As the spell was used, the originally wet clothes became clean again, and the body wet by the rain became dry and refreshed.

Feeling that their clothes were no longer wet, the three of them expressed their gratitude. Xia Yu waved his hand to indicate that it was not a big deal and looked at the pouring rain outside again.

"This rain is like a waterfall. Never mind. It's a good time to give it a try."

"Hmm? Xia, what are you going to do?" Seeing Xia Yu looking at the rainy sky outside and raising his wand, Sakura asked curiously.

"Try a new magic."

Xia Yu responded and pointed his magic wand towards the sky. Suddenly, a ray of light appeared at the tip of his magic wand, which looked like a wooden stick.

Then the light, carrying a bubble-like glow, rushed straight into the sky.

Then the bubble exploded in the sky, spreading out along with a ripple, and the dark clouds that had originally covered the sky disappeared, as if the dark clouds had been wiped away by an eraser.

The puddles on the ground also evaporated and disappeared at this time, the soil soaked in the water became dry again, and even flowers emerged from it.

Xia Yu continued to wave his magic wand, and the tip of the wand continued to emit a glow, leaving behind a white light like starlight in the path of the wand tip.

The lights were like a dream, flashing for a moment and then disappearing without a trace.

A few seconds later, the downpour had stopped, the sky became clear again, and the lawn was covered with bright flowers.

"Okay, so awesome!"

Looking at this earth-shattering scene, Xiaoying subconsciously exclaimed, and Li Xiaolang also looked at it in surprise, and couldn't help asking: "How did you do it?"

This kind of magic that can directly change the weather is not something that can be accomplished easily. At least among the magicians he knows, there are only a handful of people who can directly change the weather.

But Xia Yuming is only the same age as them, yet he can use this powerful magic effortlessly.

Although he had long known that this man was stronger than all of them, he still couldn't help but be shocked when he witnessed this magical scene again with his own eyes.

Hearing Li Xiaolang's question, Xia Yu waved his wand, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Ancient magic, kid."

The ancient magic in Hogwarts Legacy has the ability to change the world. Simply turning a rainy day into a sunny day is not that difficult at all.

In the world of Hogwarts, wizards who are truly proficient in ancient magic can directly transform a barren and dry land into normal terrain.

Of course, the protagonist of Hogwarts Legacy, who is proficient in ancient magic, is a wizard among wizards. He can turn Avada Kedavra, who can only kill one person, into a ruthless person who can kill a group of people with Lightning Chain.

"Ancient magic? Is there such a thing as ancient magic?"

Li Xiaolang was greatly shocked. His family was obviously a Taoist family passed down from ancient times, but how come he had never known about such a thing as ancient magic?
Could it be that this is not Eastern magic, but Western magic?
That’s right, Xia Yu has never used any magic. The magic he uses is more like Western magic.

"Okay, the rain has stopped and the sky is clear, let's continue going." After putting away the magic wand, Xia Yu looked at the few people and said.

But just as he finished his words, dark clouds gathered in the sky again and the rain fell once again.

But this time the rain was not as heavy as before, but just a drizzle.

Xia Yu: "..."

"Damn it, how dare you act so rashly just because of the weather."

Xia Yu took out his magic wand. Since ancient magic didn't work, he would just use the fire explosion to disperse the water vapor in the sky.

He just didn't believe that this would cause the dark clouds to gather again and start raining again.

"and many more!"

But before he could do anything, Sakura's eyes suddenly focused and she took out the crystal key from around her neck, which at this moment also emitted a crystal-like glow.

Looking at the key in her hand, Sakura looked at the others and said, "The key is glowing. The rain may be the reason for the new card."

(End of this chapter)