MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 233 Cognitive Area

Several girls walked along their familiar route to school, chatting and laughing. Kaname Madoka, surrounded by girls in the middle, always had a gentle smile in her eyes.

Looking at the familiar girls around her, walking on this familiar road, all sorts of bizarre and fantastical images involuntarily flashed before her eyes.

The blue-haired girl, tears streaming down her face, murmured in despair, "I really am such an idiot..." In that soul-deep despair, she transformed into a mermaid witch.

Before the endlessly dancing mermaid witch, the red-haired girl uttered a sorrowful voice: "Sayaka, you must be lonely by yourself. Alright, I'll be with you..." A massive explosion engulfed everything.

The blonde girl let out a broken cry: "Isn't everyone just going to die...?" The pink-haired girl, who had killed her friend with her own hands, hugged the girl with long black hair and cried bitterly.

Familiar friends are transformed into witches time and time again, and she kills them with her own hands. Time and time again, they fight to the death in the night against the witch...

Again and again, again and again...

Since last year, when I came into contact with that "other self," that other corpse of Madoka Kaname, these images have been like a tide, appearing before my eyes countless times every night, every hour. All sorts of bizarre and wonderful scenes have been unfolding before my eyes.

Countless battles, and the occasional daily life interspersed amidst those endless battles, often leave Madoka Kaname in a daze, unable to distinguish between dreams and reality, or which scene truly represents "the present."

In her delirious state, she almost always acted on instinct, without any apparent reason, and subconsciously.

"Mantouka!" Suddenly, a soft call came from behind.

Sakura Kyoko suddenly smiled mischievously, and taking advantage of Kaname Madoka's distraction, she reached out from behind to sneak a hand to her petite breasts.

Sayaka, who was chatting with Mami Tomoe nearby, noticed this action and was shocked. She was about to speak when she heard, "Kyoko..."

At that moment, in Madoka's somewhat dazed mind, such a scene flashed through her mind—(Mantouka, I'm sorry...) In the red-haired girl's guilty voice, a crimson spear pierced through Madoka Kaname's chest from behind.

Subconsciously, the instincts that had been etched into his soul during those endless battles automatically unfolded.

Her entire body twisted backward and to the side at an incredible speed, her spine as if it had been stretched to its limit by a spring.

Watching his soft, delicate right hand, which might not even be able to lift a bucket of water, suddenly swing behind him with a slight cracking sound from the bones, like a venomous snake emerging from its hole, in a bizarre posture that defied joint alignment and was completely contrary to ergonomics.

This was not a complete turn; in fact, most of her upper body was still facing forward. But her right hand, as if it had an independent life of its own, precisely stabbed towards Sakura Kyoko's throat with a piercing shriek that tore through the air.

A drop of blood spilled from her throat, staining Madoka Kaname's delicate fingertips crimson.

Just before her throat was pierced, Madoka Kaname's dazed state was jolted back into control, causing her to instinctively stop her movements.

Looking at the contorted arm in front of her, Sakura Kyoko was stunned. She subconsciously took two steps back and covered her slightly sore throat.

With a flash of magic in his hand, the insignificant wound vanished without a trace.

Her heart was pounding, and she stammered, "Mantou... Mantou card, I... I just wanted to grope her breasts, there's no need for such a big reaction, is there?"

"Ah, Apricot Jam, I'm sorry. I was thinking about something just now, and I just..." Madoka Kaname flicked her right hand, and her dislocated joint automatically returned to its place. She clasped her hands together apologetically and said, "Please forgive me. I'll treat you to pudding next time."

"Ah..." Sakura Kyoko opened her mouth, swallowed hard, and said, "Madoka, your athletic ability is just too outrageous."

"Ah!" Sakura Kyoko suddenly cried out in surprise, her face flushed as she grabbed her hands, which were covering her chest. "You bastard, where are you touching me?!"

Sayaka Miki grinned mischievously, "Kyoko, you rascal! How dare you sneak up on my adorable Madoka! I'll get my revenge on Madoka right now!"

"Haha, stop touching me, it tickles..."

The girls played and joked on their short journey to school, and soon arrived.

However, the moment they stepped into the school gate, Sakura Kyoko and Tomoe Mami turned their heads at the same time and looked at something outside the school.

After exchanging glances and nodding, they went into a corner, quietly transformed, and left.

Two strangely dressed girls ran at high speed through the school, but blended into the background and did not attract the attention of any students.

In the classroom, Sayaka Miki slumped onto her desk, looking distressed. "Ugh, another math test today. I have absolutely no confidence..."

She turned to her friend and asked, "Xiao Yuan, what about you?"

However, she noticed that Madoka Kaname was staring absently out the window. "Hey, Madoka, what are you looking at?"

"It's nothing." Madoka Kaname smiled and pulled out her notebook from her bag. "Sayaka, there's still a while before the math test. Do you want to look at your notes? I think I've written down the general range of topics for the test."

Sayaka quickly took the notebook: "Oh! This notebook is such a help, Madoka! Luckily your grades are getting better and better, I love you so much!"

...In an underground parking lot outside Takihara Junior High School...

The roses were inserted into a strangely shaped thing that was hard to tell if it was a head or not. It was connected to a bizarre body that looked like a slug, and two more normal-looking butterfly wings grew from the back of the body.

All around, wriggling thorns and butterflies formed the main color scheme of the barrier, while some familiars that looked like cotton candy with beards scurried around.

This is the barrier erected by the Rose Witch.

"Mami!" The multi-sectioned spear, swaying like a snake, firmly bound the Rose Witch's true form. Sakura Kyoko retreated and shouted.

As the witch screamed and tried to struggle to escape, Mami Tomoe, having completed her charge, fired a deadly bullet from a distance.

As the witch was killed, the barrier filled with thorns and butterflies gradually dissipated, and Mami Tomoe and Kyoko Sakura returned to the dark underground parking lot.

Kyoko Sakura picked up the Lament Seed from the ground. "This time I'm lucky, it's not a familiar."

Mami Tomoe stepped forward: "Kyoko, there's still room for improvement in this battle. Since we've decided to conserve magic power as much as possible in the future, we must remember to coordinate well and stay in a safe zone as much as possible."

"Our destructive power is sufficient; we can kill with a single blow, so there's no need to add any extra attacks."

Sakura Kyoko waved her hand. "Alright, I know, I know. It's just a little bit of magic power. I'll be more careful next time. For weaker witches, just restrict their movements so you can snipe them safely."

“By the way.” Sakura Kyoko touched her throat, recalling the pain of the small cut on her throat that morning, and said, “Mami, Manjuka really does have the potential to become a magical girl, right? Her subconscious reaction was a bit too exaggerated. Even when I wasn’t transformed, I couldn’t react at all.”

"Even if he doesn't have the aptitude of a magical girl, could that guy Mantouka be some kind of martial artist or esper from the underworld? He's just a small, soft-looking guy, yet he's so powerful."

"This..." Mami Tomoe paused for a moment, then sighed and said, "Madoka does indeed have very high potential. Even Sayaka probably has the potential to become a magical girl."

"Did you notice?"

"What should I pay attention to?"

“Xiaoyuan can see us after we transform, instead of ignoring us like other ordinary people.”

Mami Tomoe said with a complicated expression, "Kyubi once said that unless one is pulled into the witch's barrier, only qualified humans can directly detect the traces of witches, familiars, and us magical girls."

“And Madoka, she…” Mami Tomoe shook her head. “I already asked Kyubey, and they went to find Madoka a long time ago, trying to make a contract with her, but she refused.”

Sakura Kyoko bit off the candy in her mouth and mumbled, "That's good. Being a magical girl isn't a good job; you can die if you're not careful. That gentle guy, Manjuka, is pretty good at fighting, but it's better if he doesn't become a magical girl."

"Besides, if there are no other magical girls, the two of us can still maintain our supply in Mitakihara City. But if a few more magical girls come, the Grief Seeds dropped by the witches might not be enough."

In the dimly lit parking lot, the two walked out unhurriedly.

Mami Tomoe casually asked, "By the way, Kyoko, didn't your class have a math test this morning? You're still so relaxed, are you okay?"

"Hmph!" Sakura Kyoko pouted unhappily. "It's all Mami's fault. I haven't even finished elementary school, but you insisted on using magic to arrange for me to attend Mitakihara Middle School."

"Why do I have to go to school? All I need to do is stay at home, watch TV, play games, and eat cake every day!"

Mami Tomoe sighed helplessly: "Kyoko, if it's really like you say, you'll become a NEET. Besides, Soul Gems are easily corrupted under extreme emotional conditions. Going to school with peers should help you feel better and reduce your magic consumption."

"Didn't you make two good friends, Sayaka and Madoka, right after you enrolled last year?"

"Oh, right." Mami Tomoe suddenly recalled a somewhat blurry figure and asked with a frown, "Kyoko, have you seen Fang Zheng recently?"

“Fang Zheng…” Sakura Kyoko frowned, thinking, “When I saw him last time, I felt like something was off about him.”

"I ran into him at the arcade a few days ago. I don't remember exactly what we talked about, but I do remember that he seemed to be fighting monsters and waging a global supersonic cruise war or something. I don't understand what he was talking about."

“Kyoko,” after listening to Kyoko Sakura’s answer, Mami Tomoe thought for a moment and said doubtfully, “Do you think we might be just like ordinary people who subconsciously ignore us magical girls, gradually ignoring Fang Zheng, this ‘magical warrior’?”

"Huh? Wait a minute!" Sakura Kyoko suddenly stopped, recalling what the boy Fang Zheng had said, and asked in confusion, "Mami, whether it's a magical girl or a magical warrior, theoretically, even if most of the battles take place inside the witch's barrier, even if a very small part takes place outside, it should still cause quite a commotion, right?"

She clutched the Soul Gem in her hand, recalling: "Take Fang Zheng, for example. I seem to remember that he said he would spend some time using supersonic cruise to kill all the dirty politicians in all the major powers in the world."

"This guy is definitely not joking!"

"But while there are only the two of us magical girls in Mitakihara, it's impossible for all the other magical girls in the world, and those magical warriors who might exist, to all be well-behaved and not make a sound."

"So, where did they all go?"

(End of this chapter)