MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 257 A Wish Worth Keeping On
The morning mist had not yet dissipated, and warm sunlight streamed through the gaps in the curtains, gently bathing Madoka Kaname's room.

The two girls' faces nestled together, with tear stains still visible at the corners of Homura Akemi's eyes.

The two woke up together, seemingly forgetting the entanglements in their dreams. They woke up together, washed up together, ate breakfast together, and then, hand in hand, skipped and hopped to school like girls their age.

Life seemed to have returned to normal. They spent their days together like ordinary friends, enjoying a simple and happy daily life, as if those heavy past events had never existed.

However, the peace was eventually shattered.

Woo——woo——woo——

The piercing air raid siren shattered the morning tranquility, and an urgent and serious voice came over the loudspeaker: "According to the latest news, a super-large storm cloud is rapidly gathering at sea and is expected to make landfall in Mitakihara City in about four hours. All citizens are requested to finish their work as soon as possible, gather necessary belongings, and proceed to the shelters in an orderly manner!"

Upon hearing this news, Kaname Madoka's father, Kaname Tomohisa, looked worried. He said softly to his daughter, "Ah, this is going to be troublesome. Madoka, come and help your father prepare."

"There are no private kitchens in the shelter, so we need to prepare enough food for two days in advance, otherwise we'll only be able to eat dry bread. We also need to bring enough diapers for Tatsuya..."

“Okay, Dad!” Kaname Madoka smiled and joined the packing effortlessly.

A short while later, Kaname Toshiko, Kaname's mother, also rushed home after finishing her work in a hurry.

The family of four quickly packed their bags and prepared to leave, but when Kaname Madoka opened the door, she suddenly stopped in the garden in front of the door, turned around and said to her parents, "Mom and Dad, and Tatsuya, you should go to the shelter first."

"What's wrong?" Kaname Tomohisa and Kaname Junko asked in unison, their voices tinged with unease.

"I'm sorry... Mom and Dad," Madoka Kaname said, her head bowed, her voice as soft as a feather, "I... I have something to do, so I have to go now."

"Where are you going?!" Kaname Junko's face instantly flashed with anxious anger. "You're just a child! A storm is about to break, where can you go at a time like this?!"

“I’m sorry, Mom,” Kaname Madoka shook her head gently, her voice still very soft, “Didn’t you already guess? I should go do what I need to do.”

"What you should be doing? You wouldn't..." Kaname's anger quickly turned into dejection, her emotions seemingly drained, and she slumped down.

“Okay, Mom…” Kaname Tomohisa patted his wife’s shoulder, pushed up his glasses, and said in a slightly trembling voice, “Madoka, we believe in you.”

"You are a good child. You will make the right choices and do what you are supposed to do."

He paused, then continued, "After seeing the child's body, we knew that you possessed some kind of... some kind of unimaginable power."

"It's probably some kind of battle where you travel through time to save the world. We might not be able to help you or stop you, but we'll always be here, waiting for you to come home!"

“No matter how long you’re gone, we’ll wait for you. Tatsuya will wait for his sister too, right?” He looked at his youngest son, who was babbling in his arms, one last time.

"Mantouka! Mantouka!" Xiaoda called out her sister's name indistinctly, waving her little hands.

……

The sky was shrouded in dark clouds, becoming gloomy and oppressive.

Madoka Kaname looked up and could vaguely see a blurry but enormous shadow slowly approaching on the distant horizon. It was the walking calamity known as "Witch's Night".

At this moment, most people in the city were rushing towards the shelters, and the streets were sparsely populated.

Madoka Kaname, however, walked side by side with Homura Akemi, their pace neither hurried nor slow, as if they were taking a leisurely stroll.

Her gaze held a hint of nostalgia as she carefully looked at everything familiar around her, as if trying to imprint this scene of impending departure deeply into her soul.

"What are Mami-senpai and Kyoko doing?" Madoka Kaname asked softly.

Homura Akemi seemed a little downcast. She replied, "The two of them are preparing to fight Witch Night. They even came to ask me to join them, but I refused. Kyoko seems a little angry."

“Hehe…” Kaname Madoka chuckled, her gaze drifting to the distance, where she could vaguely see two tiny figures, one yellow and one red, atop a building on the outskirts of Takihara City.

Those were Mami Tomoe and Kyoko Sakura, vigilantly watching for the arrival of Witch's Night, ready to launch another attack and protect the city.

Their combat power increased dramatically after their battle with the magical girl Fang Zheng last year, simply because of the difference in perspective.

Even if the Witch's Night is powerful, they are confident that they can drive it away or even kill it.

“Speaking of which,” Madoka Kaname suddenly said, “this time, it seems Sayaka hasn’t signed a contract yet…”

Homura Akemi pouted and said in a low voice, "Hmph, that blue-haired idiot, even if he hasn't signed up yet, it won't be long before he becomes a magical girl again, all by some random mistake, after you and I leave."

"After all, she always turns into a witch and gets beaten up, then becomes your 'divine messenger,' and this time will probably be no exception."

They chatted as they walked to the park, where they saw Fang Zheng sitting leisurely on a bench. Upon seeing them, he greeted them, "Hey, good morning."

Good morning, Mr. Fang Zheng.

"Are you ready to take action?"

"Yes."

Have you made up your mind about the final answer?

"I've made up my mind."

“Hmm,” Fang Zheng nodded, “Since you’ve already made up your mind, why don’t you help me out a bit when you’re at it? I’ll do my best to help you.”

"Chubi, Chubi, come out and make a wish!" Fang Zheng shouted.

From the shadows of the bushes, a figure resembling a small animal emerged. Kyubey nimbly leaped onto the bench, its ruby-like eyes gazing quietly at Madoka Kaname, and said in its clear, childlike voice, "How exciting! Madoka, have you finally decided to make a wish?"

“Yes, Kyubey, I’ve made up my mind.” Madoka Kaname nodded gently.

"So, what is your wish?"

"The Incubator..." Madoka Kaname took a deep breath, her voice calm: "I will destroy all witches before they are even born. All universes, all past and future, all possibilities, all of them... by my own hands!"

Kyubey said with a slightly surprised tone, "If this wish comes true, it won't be as simple as Homura Akemi rewinding time. It will be a reversal of the law of causality and a reconstruction of the entire causal network."

"Madoka Kaname, are you really planning to become a god?"

It continued, "Whatever the wish, if it does not conform to common sense, it will inevitably give rise to corresponding distortions, and this distorted cause and effect is the source of the magical girl's power."

"In this universe where everything exists in parallel, choosing the wish for a miracle means that the opposite curse is also chosen. This is why the lives of many magical girls seem to be cursed."

"A magical girl who wishes to live alone will die when she gains companions; a magical girl who wishes to save others will die when she is saved by others..."

"Madoka Kaname, do you really know what your wish truly means?"

Madoka Kaname smiled, her eyes gentle yet firm: "Of course."

She calmly recounted her inevitable fate: "Even now, my causal capacity is still finite, not infinite."

She gently squeezed Homura Akemi's hand and continued, "Just like Homura's wish can distort time, travel back to the past, and reconstruct the cause and effect of the past."

"My wish will also allow me to achieve the ending of time travel. I will enter the beginning and end of time, and enter the time and space of every witch."

"However, in this universe where everything exists in parallel, and is chaotic and disordered, time does not exist in essence; there are only different sequences of observation from different perspectives."

"Therefore, rather than saying that I am entering the beginning and end of time, it is more accurate to say that I will construct and choose from my perspective a vast causal network of order in this chaotic and disordered world."

"I will fight, I will personally fight and destroy every witch before they are officially born."

“But,” she changed the subject, “the filth they have accumulated will not disappear, because it is the universe itself, a chaotic and disordered universe, under different perspectives, under the self-referentiality of different lives, and under their observation, destined for a chaotic end in the distant future.”

"That is destined to fall into chaos, and the point of interaction with an unsolvable set."

"However, my reversal of causality will allow me to transcend the perspective of life and intervene in that chaotic world where everything exists in parallel."

"I myself will inevitably die in endless battles, until one day, the filth in my Soul Gem accumulates to its limit, and I will eventually become a witch."

"But similarly, I will also destroy my own witch. This seemingly contradictory event will be like a cause-and-effect cycle, without beginning or end."

"I will not be born, nor will I die, nor will I exist at any point in time, yet I will exist simultaneously in any time and space."

"After I destroy the witches I have conceived, the seeds of lamentation they drop—the data of the interaction points between unsolvable and solvable sets—will be used to absorb the filth of every witch I kill."

"This will lead to my witch being reborn, growing stronger, and being killed once again."

"Gradually, the karmic burdens I bear and the filth I endure will grow larger and larger until such karmic burdens and filth completely crush me."

"However, everything exists in parallel."

"At the moment you make a wish, death at the end of time has already arrived, yet it will never arrive."

"As Madoka Kaname, I will fight eternally until the day I am utterly crushed, until the day the witch formed by my Soul Gem becomes so powerful that she cannot be defeated by me once again."

Cupid asked, “What will you do when that day comes? It will be a death and despair that you were destined to have the moment you made your wish.”

Madoka Kaname calmly replied, "In this universe where everything exists in parallel, in this universe where cause and effect do not exist, I will make a wish once again."

"I will reconstruct cause and effect once again, fight forever once more, and kill myself with my own hands once more."

Cupid then asked, "And what about next time?"

"again!"

"What about next time?"

"Again!"

Kyubey said calmly, “That alone is still not enough. In this infinitely chaotic and disordered universe, everything finite is only a fraction of the infinite, just a speck of dust.”

Kaname Madoka looked at Kyubey and suddenly smiled gently: "Just like you, I will make a wish again and again, I will count from the beginning to infinity."

“Incubators, aren’t you the same? In this cycle of reincarnation, in this reconstruction of cause and effect, you are the same, eternally trying to nurture more possibilities.”

Kyubey said, "Because we have already transformed our past lives, our civilizations from the infinitely distant past, into an eternally running algorithm. But what about you? You are ultimately just a human being. Can you really last forever?"

Madoka Kaname smiled again, a smile filled with determination. "Why not? I will keep going, forever!"

"At the end of time, at the end of infinity, I will finally save this infinite universe!"

"This is my wish, this is my dream that I will hold onto forever, a path that will never end and that I will walk on forever!"

(End of this chapter)