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She saved many people, but she also accumulated resentment and jealousy in her heart.

"To pray for someone's happiness, we are forced to curse others in equal measure. This is the structure of us magical girls."

"I'm such an idiot."

Sayaka was in tears.

Tears fell onto the Soul Gem, and its last glimmer of light vanished.

A huge shockwave appeared, and Xingzi was thrown away.

In the interplay of light and shadow, Sayaka's Soul Gem shattered, transforming into the Seed of Lamentation...

"Ah..." Akihisa's mouth hung open, feeling utterly powerless. "A magical girl is ultimately... a witch..."

This was supposed to be a very exciting reveal, as the mystery was already hidden in the very first episode of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica".

A witch hatched from a curse.

Magical girls bring hope, but they also accumulate curses. Ultimately, what emerges from these curses is their nemesis, the witch.

"The Soul Gem becomes cloudy because it's been cursed after using magic..."

"Sayaka, the messenger of justice, ultimately became the embodiment of darkness..."

At night, Cupid stood high above the city, speaking sweetly:

"In this country, growing women are called girls, right? So, you who will eventually become witches should be called magical girls."

……

"Those witches who were defeated were once magical girls who saved humanity..."

The class monitor carefully recalled that all the witches in the comics actually had the shadow of a young girl.

A scene filled with both horror and adorable fantasy.

These girls, who harbored beautiful dreams, ultimately turned into terrifying monsters.

A twisted, evil witch.

"This is truly hopeless, Puella Magi Madoka Magica..."

Chapter 344 I'm such an idiot

"I'm such an idiot."

After Sayaka shed tears, she hatched into a witch.

When the Soul Gem is tainted and turns black, it becomes the Seed of Lamentation, and magical girls are reborn as witches.

This is the inescapable fate of those who become magical girls.

Upon seeing this scene, Kusakabe's mind immediately went blank. This man in his thirties was so shocked by the world created in the manga that he was speechless.

"It's...it's worse than I thought...the truth about magical girls is actually like this...despair..."

Compared to this, his previous understanding of the "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" worldview, which involved dying in battle with witches, seemed much simpler.

"I was so naive. I never imagined that there were even more terrifying monsters lurking in the deep darkness."

"What is Toriakino Mirai thinking? How many more times does he want to make the magical girls despair before he's satisfied?!"

"Does he really... lack human emotions?"

After a long pause, Kusakabe shakily pulled a card from his shirt pocket. It showed Sayaka transformed into a magical girl, smiling happily.

At this stage, she felt joy at having saved Kyosuke Kamijou.

They are also proud to be able to protect humanity from witches and become partners of justice.

Following in the footsteps of my beloved Mami Tomoe, I will complete her unfinished work.

But now...

Sayaka, with her empty eyes, shed her last tears and became a witch who would take lives.

"A lively and cheerful little girl full of a sense of justice experienced despair time and time again, and finally went down a dead end. Is this what Akino Mirai wanted? The truth behind the so-called fairy-tale-like innocent magical girl."

The plot of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" was even more tragic than he had imagined.

After experiencing an overwhelming shock, Kusakabe became depressed.

……

"Everyone has seen episode 16 of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, right?"

Koji Yoshida looked up and gazed out the window.

He was deeply amazed when he saw the storyboard for this episode more than half a month ago.

It turns out that the foreshadowing that "Little Circle" had been laying all along was meant to be used here.

He reread Homura Akemi's lines, and many of them revealed to the readers the cruelty of the magical girl world.

"Give up on Sayaka Miki."

"This is the same as the fact that the dead cannot be brought back to life."

"Once you become a magical girl, there is no hope of redemption."

Koji Yoshida covered his forehead. "Seriously, Akino-sensei, he decided on the direction of the plot from the very first episode of 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica'."

"Even I, the editor, didn't know that."

If he had known this earlier, he would have understood the extraordinary nature of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" and would never have considered it a cheesy work.

"I shouldn't have underestimated my teacher; his final work was indeed meticulously prepared before he started drawing."

He had forgotten why he thought Akino Tori would retire from writing.

It's just a pity that Tori Akino's last work was still of high quality.

Their ability to control their works has reached a new level.

As Yoshida was thinking, his phone beeped with an email notification.

He picked it up casually and looked at it, discovering that the email was sent by Omori.

"My comic has been serialized for more than half a year now, so we should meet up."

Yoshida was embarrassed.

In fact, "The Diary of Despair" started serialization in February, and now it's mid-August, which is several days past the agreed time.

Yoshida checked his phone again; the last email chat between Kotomi and Omori was a week ago.

"It's time to end this. Come to think of it, all this embarrassment I've faced is for Teacher Tori Akino!"

……

Omori Studio.

Omori put down his phone, his expression unchanged.

"Tori Akino-sensei is really going too far."

The assistants are chatting.

"That's right, I never expected that the righteous magical girl would eventually become an evil witch. Teacher Toriakino is really calm."

"Calm should be replaced with cold-blooded."

"Too."

"Teacher," someone looked at Omori, "you were once Professor Tori Akino's assistant, what do you think of Professor Tori Akino?"

“Emmm…” Omori pondered for a long time, “It’s terrifying, isn’t it?”

"horrible?"

"That's right, the teacher's control over the entire manga is terrifying. Works like 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica', where there are no flaws in the comparison between the beginning and the end, are extremely rare."

"Mr. Omori..."

"Ok?"

"You're frighteningly calm too."

"Haha, not at all," Omori said with a smile, looking at the comic he was drawing. "It's just that right now, I'm thinking more from the creator's perspective. When I look at comics, I'm thinking about what I can learn from them. So the conclusions I draw are different."

His mind was entirely focused on manga creation, unlike that of a reader, so he wasn't saddened and instead cheered for the ingenious plot development of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica".

“That makes sense…” The assistants looked around and nodded.

"If I can grow to the level of Akino-sensei, then I won't have to worry about whether my manga will be canceled."

Omori looked up at the ceiling.

Every time he thinks of Tori Akino, he realizes his own shortcomings, and then he has fewer and fewer worldly thoughts, only thinking that he can work harder to get closer to Tori Akino's abilities.

……

“Homura Akemi jumped from another timeline.” After experiencing the unparalleled impact of “Puella Magi Madoka Magica,” Naoko Takeuchi began to think about the character of Homura Akemi.

Judging from the details in "Puella Magi Madoka Magica", Homura Akemi has experienced all of this many times.

What she hopes to change by constantly traveling to the present is probably the fact that Madoka has become a magical girl.

Chasing Kyubey, a mature and composed demeanor beneath a youthful appearance, familiarity with the school's layout, attempts to save Mami Tomoe, knowledge of Witch's Night, and rejection of Madoka becoming a magical girl, etc...

These are all experiences Homura Akemi has gone through many times in her life.

Just then, the first volume of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" was released, and Naoko Takeuchi, who had reread the manga, had a deep impression of the plot.

When Homura Akemi first met Madoka, she bit her lip and tilted her head back to stop herself from crying.

"Never become a different version of yourself, or you will lose everything."

There must be more stories to be discovered behind Homura Akemi. This usually aloof character now seems to have many tragic aspects.

Unbeknownst to many, Naoko Takeuchi had already broken with conventional views about magical girls and begun to immerse herself in the story of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica".

It would be pointless to fuss over whether or not a manga with such an interesting premise is magical girl.

……