Full-time comic artist

"Ok!"

Xiao Yuan, her face contorted with pain and exhaustion, responded.

The scene shifts to Witch's Night.

"We're... finished too..."

The witch was defeated, but Homura Akemi and Madoka's Soul Gems became murky and were about to shatter.

"Let's both become monsters together and make a mess of the world until all the nasty and sad things are as if they never happened..."

"Destroy, destroy, keep destroying."

Don't you think that's fine too?

Tears streamed down Homura Akemi's face as she spoke to Madoka, utterly exhausted.

"How pitiful," the class monitor opened his mouth, feeling Homura Akemi's pain. Several cycles of reincarnation had ultimately failed to change her pessimistic fate.

The little circle she longed for kept dying before her eyes.

"Perhaps it's related to the murky Soul Gem. Sayaka hurt her good friend Madoka's heart with her words because the Soul Gem was murky."

"What about Madoka? Will Madoka also turn evil now?"

The class monitor looked at Jump, and Madoka took out the last Grief Seed and used it to purify Homura Akemi's Soul Gem.

The Seed of Lamentation bore musical notes, and the class president couldn't help but feel sorrow, "Does this belong to Sayaka?"

……

"Xiaoyan, you can go back to the past, right?"

"Can you go and save me, the idiot who hasn't been deceived by Kyubey yet?"

As Hoshino Katsura looked at Madoka's tears and the forced smile on her face, her own eyes reddened.

Kewpie is a real scoundrel.

They tricked this kind little girl to this extent.

She initially thought Kyubey was adorable.

"Waaah." Hoshino Katsura shed tears.

Hearing Madoka's words, Homura Akemi resolutely replied, "I promise you, I will save you. No matter how many times it takes, I will protect you!"

Xiaoyuan smiled and said, "I don't want to become a witch. Even though there are unpleasant and sad things, there are still many things in this world that I want to protect."

Looking at the contents of the manga, Katsura Hoshino sighed, "Even at the very end, Madoka remained kind."

Even as she is about to become a witch, she retains her gentle heart.

Time rewinds to the past, and Homura Akemi gets out of her hospital bed.

She took off her glasses, used the Soul Gem to cure her nearsightedness, and untied her twin ponytails, letting her silky hair flow freely.

That sharp and resolute gaze shows that Homura Akemi is getting closer and closer to the Homura Akemi that readers are familiar with.

Homura Akemi steals from the US military armory; this time, she'll take care of Witch Night all by herself.

The comic, like an ouroboros, has returned to the content of the first chapter.

Madoka arrives in the floating city, with Kyubey standing beside her, anxiously watching Homura Akemi fight the witch.

"Sign a contract with me and become a magical girl!"

Cupid is deceiving the little girl again.

Madoka's talent was enhanced, and despite Homura Akemi's heart-wrenching, desperate screams, she still became a magical girl and defeated the witch in one fell swoop.

However, Madoka also became the final witch, capable of destroying the Earth in about ten days. Kyubey had collected enough energy and was ready to run away.

"Repeat, I will repeat it countless times."

Homura Akemi's gaze was exceptionally firm as she walked forward, beginning an endless cycle of reincarnation.

"Repeating countless times within the same time period, searching for the only way out."

"In order to find the way to save you from a hopeless fate."

"Xiaoyuan, my only friend."

She attacked Kyubey, then saw Madoka hugging Kyubey with a pitying expression, and the scene returned to the beginning of the manga.

This time, however, readers understood Homura Akemi's thoughts.

To understand, to become, to transcend.

If they were Homura Akemi, Kyubey wouldn't have died so easily.

"For you, as long as it's for you."

Homura Akemi walked resolutely toward Madoka.

"Even if I am trapped in an eternal labyrinth, it doesn't matter."

……

Friday.

"How many times has it happened? Homura Akemi's cycle of reincarnation."

Every time she suffers, how wounded is Homura Akemi's heart now?

Katsura Hoshino was unaware of these things.

She only glimpsed Homura Akemi's past and understood the character within two episodes.

"As expected of Akino-sensei," Hoshino Katsura sighed.

It's not just about Toriaki's cold-heartedness, but also the details in his manga.

These two chapters correspond perfectly to the beginning of the manga, full of details, with every line of dialogue having a corresponding place.

Like a constantly repeating circle, although the trajectory may deviate, it will eventually return to the starting point.

The intersection of countless circles represents the foreshadowing planted at the beginning of the comic, which is being resolved today.

"No plot holes, no deviation from the theme, it's a truly terrifying creation."

From the very beginning, all of this was in the cartoonist's mind. In the end, he fully grasped the story and drew it without deviating, so that everyone could see it.

"Can I do that?" Hoshino Katsura wondered, then shook her head.

"Teacher, time to draw comics!" An assistant called from outside the living room. "No time for leisure!"

The female assistant went crazy.

Working as an assistant to Hoshino Katsura, she finally understood the efficiency of a new manga artist.

The storyboard was finalized this Wednesday, and since then I've had to work overtime to draw the original artwork, spending more than ten hours a day on it.

The key issue is that Katsura Hoshino is incredibly slow at drawing.

Even her assistant was worried about Hoshino Katsura.

"If we keep delaying, this week's comic will have to be on hiatus."

She called out again.

"Excuse me," Hoshino Katsura said hurriedly as she walked out the door.

"Hurry up, Editor Yoshida is almost here."

"Yes."

"Teacher, is that something very important to you?"

Katsura Hoshino said sheepishly, "I've always been curious about the sequel to 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica,' but I haven't had the time...until today."

“Little Circle,” the assistant exclaimed, “that’s really important. I can’t sleep well if I don’t read it. Teacher, look into my eyes.”

"Ah, there's blood in it, I'm so sorry." Hoshino Katsura bowed apologetically, "It's all my fault for being so incompetent, preventing you from getting a proper rest."

“What? It has nothing to do with the teacher. Actually,” the assistant pointed to his eyes and pouted, “it’s all the fault of Mr. Tori Akino. I cried all my tears watching ‘Puella Magi Madoka Magica’. It’s even more tear-jerking than ‘Anohana’. Waaah, talking about this makes me want to cry again.”

"Sigh," Hoshino Katsura sighed, exchanged a glance with his assistant, and then sighed together.

They are all victims of Akino Miki's works.

"Ah! No time to be sad, let's draw comics!"

"Oh!"

The two of them ran to the studio.

Not long after, Koji Yoshida knocked on the door; the situation was urgent.

"Is it not finished yet?" Yoshida entered the doorway and faced the anxious Hoshino Katsura. He was already used to it and said calmly, "Then I'll wait a bit."

"Okay, almost done." Hoshino Katsura raised his hand high.

"Right away?" The assistant shook his head speechlessly. "Teacher, you really dare to say that."

“Go ahead, go ahead,” Yoshida waved his hand, sat on the sofa, and flipped through the manuscript of “Puella Magi Madoka Magica” that he had just received.

Ten minutes later, Yoshida nodded in satisfaction:

"Tori Akino-sensei is as worry-free as ever."

"Mmm-hmm," came the response.

Yoshida turned around. "Hoshino...kun! Why aren't you drawing your manga right now? What are you doing here?!"

Katsura Hoshino snapped out of her reverie. "Sorry! Editor Yoshida, I got so engrossed in reading!"

"You really are!" Yoshida's fingers trembled as he sighed deeply. "Ah, never mind, it's just right. I have something to tell you."

He talked about the ceremony that Sasaki was preparing to hold to bid farewell to manga artist Tori Akino Mirai.

"I will definitely go!" Hoshino Katsura said, her eyes brimming with tears. "To commemorate my youth."

Her voice was loud and resolute.

"Teacher, where are you going! You need to draw comics!" the assistant shouted desperately. "We don't have time to rest and play! Working seven days a week isn't enough!"

"Huh?" Hoshino Katsura blinked and asked Yoshida, "Can I take a break from publishing then?"