Chapter 548 - Continuing Winter? (7)

"You mean the pictures and videos?" Charlotte froze the fire tornados to make them vanish.

"I don't care if you took the pictures and videos. You posted the wrong ones!" I yelled.

I shot ten gunshot bombs, rotating around her to eventually enclose her. Covering myself with the barrier, I clenched my hand into a fist to activate the bomb. Looking for the result, a great wall of smoke in the shape of a ball splattered into the radius of several miles. While the trees and ground were filled with its debris, turning into a trashed landscape. I was disappointed when Charlotte managed to create her own barrier to avoid the impact. I needed to pull out more offensive spells against her.

"What do you mean by the wrong ones?" Charlotte coughed.

"You should have posted the truth.. You only posted the ones that looked nice!" I argued while pulling out a giant fire sword.

"What did you expect? I only posted the ones that would be popular," Charlotte pulled out an ice sword.

After gathering a few pictures of Rika, Charlotte created a fan page for magical girl Rika from her dormmate's suggestion. She uploaded all the photos she had of her, wanting to share them with the school. There was a swarm of positive responses, everyone scrambling to write comments under her posts. Her heart started to feel warm, finally finding a connection with the rest of her schoolmates. She was finally a part of the school community now.

Following the creation of the fan site, people started to talk to her during the breaks. Charlotte had friends now, the first time she wasn't alone in months. They offered to help with the fan page, creating their own version after she transferred them the pictures. Rumors started to spread in the high school section, searching for the person who always posted high quality pictures of Rika.

Charlotte enjoyed trying to meet the expectations of all her site visitors. It was a great common topic to talk about with her classmates. However, everyone demanded for more, making the pictures not enough. This made her work hard to adjust her spell to include videos as well. Studying the popular posts, she knew what kinds would bring more views than the other ones. Although a few people knew she was the original fan site master, no one dared to tell the teachers. Everyone knew this entire thing would end as soon as she got discovered.

"Well I can't go to school now because of you," I swung the swords towards her neck.

"Why?" Charlotte blocked my swing.

"I'm confined inside a mansion because you're deemed to be dangerous," I pushed more force into my attack.

"Is that why you're trying to kill me?" Charlotte began to fight back by increasing the wind around her sword.

"You need to die so I get my freedom back," I jumped back before shooting fire balls from my sword.

"You're not human anyways!" I summoned more fire tornados.

"Maybe, but I can help you. I need you as much as you need your freedom," she blew out all my tornados.

Charlotte needed Rika to not be alone again. She needed to continue taking more pictures and videos of Rika so they wouldn't lose their interest in talking to her. Her schoolmates only started to pay attention to her once she used Rika as their connection together. No one would pay attention to her if it wasn't for Rika. Like how everyone started to ignore her again after she stopped transferring them more content about Rika. Charlotte struggled to make friends without using Rika.

While she remembered everything from her former life in the middle of her last fight, she was reminded of the emptiness inside her heart. Although the Rika in front of her was different than expected, she still admired magical girl Rika. Magical girl Rika was able to save everything in the video, unlike her that couldn't save her kingdom. If she was magical girl Rika, none of her subjects would have thought of marching up to her tower to kill her. With her current and past memories merged together, her obsession with Rika increased.

"Well I don't need you as much as you need me," I threw a x-shaped fire wave towards her.

"But I still need you," Charlotte created an ice tsunami.

"And thinking of it, you're weak against physical attacks, aren't you?" She dashed towards me.

I immediately created a strong barrier around myself, layered with hundred weaker spheres encasing me. I gritted my teeth since she knew my weakness. The best chance I had were long-distance attacks. Apocalypse was the best trump card I had in my hand. Beginning to imagine a volcano spurting magma everywhere, I mixed it with gasoline. Gasoline would help with fueling my fires strong even in its frozen state.

"Respect your seniors!" Charlotte broke my barrier with a single swing.

Too immersed in chanting, my eyes widened as she brightly smiled. Spinning into a fighting stance, she lifted her leg to kick me down onto the ground. I didn't have a chance to dodge, encountering the brunt force, rushing down to the hard snow. My vision blurred, lungs constricting as she chose my ċhėst. Coughing blood once I crashed to create a crater, I bounced off the ground from the strong impact. I was running out of time, but Charlotte was dashing towards me with great obsession.