Panic, an unforeseen panic, completely occupied Tang Qi's mind in this moment.
No reason, pure instinct.
Just like how a fragile life feels in the presence of a higher-level creature.
Reborn on Origin Blue Star, the moment Tang Qi awoke, he faced himself becoming the Devil, along with the evil Soul Swapping Ceremony, the Old Black Man who mastered witchcraft, and later Tang Qi even killed people, including slaying Extraordinary Monsters such as the Manatee Sea Demon, a creature of that caliber.
But no matter what, Tang Qi had never had this kind of feeling before.
When he locked eyes with Sally in the mirror, the surrounding environment drastically changed, just like a reversed reflection, a small changing room turned into numerous pieces of glass, moving rapidly, reassembling, and finally turning back into a real room.
The only unreality was Mrs. Hudson, seemingly frozen at the moment she took off her glasses.
She stood there, stunned, maintaining a faint smile, seemingly very pleased with her new creation, yet Tang Qi could no longer feel her heartbeat.
Is she dead?
Or is she no longer in this world?
In that huge full-length mirror, the two are still staring at each other.
It's just that Tang Qi can no longer see any trace of the original Sally in those eyes, as if she had completely... become someone else.
"Who are you?"
Tang Qi slowly placed the book in his hand down, speaking with some bitterness in his voice.
Blood Python No.1, tucked behind at his back.
In the left pocket of his shirt, there's a box of Molten Furnace Bullets.
In the right pocket of his pants, there's a box of Sea Demon Bullets.
In the lining of his chest, a red Sea Demon's Tear is placed.
Even if facing the Manatee Sea Demon again, Tang Qi was confident that he could slay it in the fastest speed possible.
But now, Tang Qi did not make any move.
Not that he didn't dare, but he couldn't.
A terrifying pressure was oppressing him at this moment, and the act of putting down the book almost exhausted all his strength.
The only thing Tang Qi could do now was to keep his eyes open, allowing that terrifying pressure to wildly consume the strength within his body without any intention of falling down and conceding.
When he asked that question, Tang Qi's eyes had already seen a scene completely different from reality, two special interfaces emerging at the base of his eyes at this moment.
Sally had changed.
She was still in the same body, but her previously timid, shy personality had vanished without a trace. In her eyes, staring at Tang Qi, there was unbridled arrogance, disdain for everything, and a kind of allure that made any man want to kneel to her.
Stream after stream of grey-black mist, invisible to the naked eye, continued to pour out from Sally's body, turning the small changing room into an Exotic Realm, and her dress, intertwined with gold and white like an Elf's gown, gradually turned pitch black.
The flower crown on her head, far from withering, instead bloomed with more and more intriguing black flowers of charm, enchanting, making it impossible to look away.
If the previous Sally was an incredibly beautiful Elf maiden.
Then the current Sally is an alluring Witch who irresistibly demands submission.
Tang Qi's Special Ability confirmed his premonition.
The first special interface to jump out came from that pair of exaggerated black-frame glasses.
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[Curios: Glasses That Seal Misfortune.]
[Information Fragment One: These are glasses that have acquired Extraordinary Power from the blessing of the Gypsy Witch Leader, capable of sealing the power of Misfortune and restoring a piteous girl to an ordinary life.]
[Information Fragment Two: When the girl wears them, she will not be perceived by the Transcendent.]
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The information contained in the black-framed glasses was straightforward and brutal, leaving Tang Qi utterly shaken.
And the interface he saw from Sally made Tang Qi both amazed and regretful.
He never would have thought the day would come when his kind deeds would turn out bad.
The opponents he had faced in the past had the words "Extraordinary Creatures" displayed in their interface.
But this time was different.
The first line of text Tang Qi saw contained, startlingly… "Divine."
[Exotic Realm Divine: Witch of Misfortune.]
[State: secondary personality.]
[Information Fragment One: The Misfortune Witch from a different plane, in an attempt to break through her limits, dispersed her Magic Power into an unknown number of parts, sending them to different worlds, and the baby Sally received the portion from Origin Blue Star.]
[Information Fragment Two: Due to the power of the Doomsday Magic, all of Sally's relatives died, and in the final moment, the Gypsy Witch Leader who happened to be passing by infused her own power into the black-framed glasses left by Sally's father, capable of sealing the Doomsday Magic for at least a hundred years.]
[Information Fragment Three: As the Spiritual Tide approaches, cracks have appeared in the seal of the glasses, and removing the glasses has given the Witch's alternate personality, conceived from that Magic Power, a chance to break free.]
[Information Fragment Four: Since the Misfortune Witch's alternate personality shares the body with Sally, she needs the help of an external force to take full control of this body, and taking advantage of the return of the Spiritual Tide to help the original personality break through the Divine limit.]
"Hum"
When Tang Qi saw the fourth Information Fragment, a Light of Hope almost spilled from his eyes, he used all his remaining strength at that instant to lower his head so as not to let the Witch's alternate personality, who was now in control of Sally's body, notice.
Now Tang Qi understood, what had he done?
He wanted to give Sally a gift, but inadvertently he let the biggest, most terrifying secret inside Sally leak out.
Witch of Misfortune!
These four words perfectly explained Sally's lifetime of misfortune and the reason why those affected by her suffered the same fate.
The power of Misfortune, even though mostly sealed by those glasses, but the faint traces that leaked out were enough to create the reputation of "Unlucky Sally."
If nothing unexpected happened, the glasses would continue to seal the Doomsday Magic until Sally's death a hundred years later, and that portion of Magic Power would return to the Misfortune Witch's plane, not causing any significant impact on Origin Blue Star.
Of course, it is also possible that with the return of the Spiritual Tide, the glasses would lose their effect prematurely, and by then, the fully conceived Witch's alternate personality could emerge and take care of Sally's weak original personality, take control of the body, and add another Witch of Misfortune to this world on the brink of great change.
What major events would happen then, Tang Qi couldn't predict.
Nor did he need to predict anymore because all of this had been accidentally interrupted by Tang Qi.
The glasses were taken off, and what Tang Qi was facing now was the still developing secondary personality… the Witch of Misfortune.
Tang Qi hung his head low, hiding the unusual color in his eyes, using all his strength to resist the Magic Power filling the small dressing room, although it was futile, Tang Qi could even feel that with just a thought from the Misfortune Witch, his fragile body would be completely disassembled, leaving no corpse intact.
"Tap-tap-tap"
Previously, Sally had a hard time walking in high heels, but now, what Tang Qi saw from the corner of his eye was a figure exuding infinite charm, sashaying like a Dark Elf, slowly approaching Tang Qi, a pale finger gently lifting Tang Qi's chin.
Then, Tang Qi saw that perfect face again, and a pair of blue eyes which gradually turned dark, the mysterious grey-black aura enveloping him, Tang Qi felt as if his soul was about to slip into a special world.
ps1: Regarding the explanation of the glasses, I had annotated in a Chapter Say long ago, but it seems some readers do not read Chapter Says, so I'll add it here: In the setting, those are the Witch's glasses, which, together with Sally, are part of the sealing. She herself can take them off temporarily, accidental drops would leach some Magic Power but not trigger the alternate personality. From a young age, she was entrusted and would quickly put them back on, and before that time, the Spiritual Tide had not returned, and the alternate personality had not been born, unable to cause trouble. The disturbance in the Magic Girl shop was caused by the accidental appearance of both the Spiritual Tide and the alternate personality. It was also an incident that the Witch Leader hadn't foreseen with the Spiritual Tide; otherwise, she would not have left a loophole.
ps2: It's Fat Fish's fault, so go easy on him.