Thank you for the invitation. He's in heaven now, he's become God.

According to that group admin...

Is it just following the storyline?

Or, like Mami, place your hopes on Yahweh.

Clearly, the latter is the right choice; Yawe has never disappointed.

Although he usually takes a very laid-back approach to things, he won't hesitate at all when he's really needed.

Things that even he takes seriously are not suitable for younger generations to learn from.

"Um... Mr. Yahweh, what exactly are we trying to do?"

In the end, they just strolled around the streets of Mitakihara. Mami-senpai seemed to enjoy the atmosphere, which felt like a date (?), but Homura, due to the huge gap between her imagination and reality, became a little impatient and couldn't help but ask Yahweh this question.

"Don't worry... this is probably the place..."

Yawes simply waved his hand dismissively.

He led the two girls to a very famous bridge in Mitakihara, a smile spreading across his face.

"Ok?"

Homura was initially puzzled, but his expression quickly turned to shock.

Because, even though it was still early morning, the sunlight in the sky instantly turned dim and yellow as Yahweh's words fell.

Although Homura himself was a user of the power of time, he was still incredibly shocked by such earth-shattering power.

On the contrary, Mami, one of the chat group's veterans, was well-informed and didn't seem to care much about it.

In her view, Yahweh was capable of doing all of this...

Isn't that obvious?

However, this is not the end.

The neatly paved bricks underfoot soon changed with the sunlight, transforming into a strange abstract painting.

The sky was replaced by oil paintings that made people lose sanity just looking at them, and towering buildings that seemed to have been cut out of the paintings rose from the ground.

This is……

A witch's barrier?!

Homura and Mami's expressions changed instantly, their instincts as magical girls kicking in.

They instinctively wanted to transform and defeat the witch, but Yahweh held them down.

Transformation is prohibited!

"No fighting is needed,"

Seeing the two girls' questioning gazes, Yahweh smiled and explained.

"A magical girl will come to save me..."

Chapter 598: The First Time Around - Twisted Fist

Upon hearing Yahweh's words, the doubts on the two girls' faces faded, replaced by a subtle and eerie feeling.

Good grief, with your power, you really need a magical girl to save you?

What kind of witch and magical girl could these be?

However, neither of the girls asked any further questions.

Houmura was too embarrassed to say much because he wasn't familiar with Yahweh.

And Asami-senpai...

Mr. Yahweh must have had a deeper meaning in doing this!

Seeing this, Yahweh didn't mind and continued speaking with a light laugh.

"But before that..."

"...Let's go find someone first."

"Who?"

"flame……"

Yahweh looked in a certain direction with a smile on his face.

"...Homura Akemi!"

"???"

Upon hearing this, the young lady was immediately filled with question marks.

find her?

Isn't she right here?

Just when Homura thought that Yahweh was looking for someone with the same name as her, a figure appeared and cleared up her doubts.

She was a petite girl wearing the school uniform of Mitakihara Middle School.

That alone wouldn't be enough to surprise Homura.

However, the girl's identical appearance revealed her identity—Akami Homura!

No, there's the braided pigtails, the outdated red-rimmed glasses, and that bewildered and timid expression...

It was Homura Akemi, whom she had almost forgotten!

This is also known as "twisted flame".

"What exactly is this..."

The shocking truth caused the usually aloof girl to completely lose her composure, and she murmured softly.

"……what happened?"

"Just like that qb said..."

Seeing Homura's reaction, Yahweh, who was standing nearby, also spoke up to explain.

"...Because of your countless reincarnations, you have endowed Xiaoyuan with a vast causal relationship that allows her to change the world."

"Although she eventually became a god because she originally possessed that aptitude."

"But this cause and effect... is also crucial!"

"If I want to interfere with it..."

"...we need to get involved in this cause and effect!"

"Where we are right now..."

"...is the point in time before everything even began!"

"To put it simply, this is what's called the first playthrough..."

Is it even possible to do something like this?

After hearing Yahweh's explanation, Homura's shock did not lessen; on the contrary, it intensified.

Because of her desire to reunite with Madoka, she gained the ability to travel through time, which is the basis for everything she does now.

But what Yahweh did went even further than that.

If her time travel was a linear process of constantly jumping back in time, then...

So Yahweh incorporates her constant journeys back to the past into this storyline, but when she returns to the past again, it's the past before everything even began!

Is this the power of the God of the Bible?

It is truly unimaginable, the power of a real god!

"Alright, let's go over there first..."

However, Yahweh wouldn't give her much time to sigh and said this directly.

Upon hearing this, Houmura panicked instantly.

Meeting your "past" self or something...

The girl was inexplicably at a loss.

"No need to worry,"

Yahweh's voice rang in my ears once more.

“You are not beings of this time and space. If you were to appear in this time and space, it would have unpredictable effects on it.”

"Therefore, what you see is merely a phantom of the past."

"You cannot interfere with the past, and they cannot observe you!"

Homura and Mami realized that their bodies had begun to emit a faint glow, looking strangely illusory, as if they were some kind of projection.

Knowing that he didn't need to meet his "past" self, Homura breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt inexplicably lost.

Yawei, however, ignored her reaction and strode up to Ma Huayan.

"Eh? This... senior..."

Ma Hua Yan, who was standing there flustered and somewhat at a loss, couldn't help but be slightly delighted when he saw Ya Wei, and quickly asked.

Do you know... where this is?

"Witch's Barrier".

Looking at the adorable girl in front of him who had no aloofness whatsoever, Yawei didn't keep him in suspense.

"Witch's barrier?"

At this point, Homura Maki, who was not yet a magical girl, obviously could not understand the meaning of these four words.

"To put it simply... it's the witch's domain, her hunting grounds."

"As for witches... just think of them as the common villains in ACG works."

"Look……"

A pale, door-shaped object suddenly rose up, from which emerged several crooked, eerie creatures made of lines.