Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"Though thankfully, that dark place allows me to ignore the witch's barrier and lead myself away."

"But if I choose not to go back, I will just go back to where I was."

Zhixing raised his head and looked at the witch. Because Zhixing was not paying attention to her, she swayed her body and looked at her side from time to time, while instinctively doing what should have happened in the witch's room, repairing the dolls of the mutilated familiars that kept lining up.

"There can only be one witch at a time. The others are just higher-level familiars without the Seed of Sorrow."

"I didn't encounter any dead people this time. The only death happened a long time ago, and it's unlikely that the Witch's Kiss in my body would be absorbed."

"I thought that the pitch-black place could ignore the witch's barrier, and naturally it could also cut off the connection between the witch's barrier and myself. After I returned to reality, the witch moved freely at the dock."

"But I've only been back for less than a day, and I even entered that dark place again. Judging from the witch's speed, she couldn't have sensed my location from the dock and rushed over. After all, I didn't show any anti-tracking sensors."

"That is to say, the witch is actually always in my body. At least that dark place cannot be isolated."

"Then falling back to where I was would mean I'd still be within the witch's barrier."

Zhixing looked at the soup in front of him, which had been mostly consumed, and sighed.

"If I choose to go back, then I still have two possibilities."

"If we compare these two worlds to the relationship between games, then skills and states can coexist in various games, but when we return to reality, these states and skills cannot be brought back."

"If I lose contact with the supernatural power, I will faint in reality due to malnutrition or excessive hunger."

"Unless you leave with real food still in your stomach, which means you only have this one chance tonight."

"And if this is not the case, and it unfolds like a real infinite flow, then the power and negative influence I gain will also be brought into the real world."

Zhi Xing finished his soup, stood up from the maintenance table, approached the witch and asked:

"Little Bear, how about we make three rules?"

The witch turned her head, glanced at the paper, and then discovered the empty bowl.

He immediately stood up, picked up the bowl, and handed it to the one-legged familiar who was waiting in line.

"As expected, if the topic isn't related to the little bear itself, the little bear won't pay too much attention to me."

"Even if it's my topic, it's only because toys are what Little Bear is interested in that he responds to me from time to time."

Zhixing looked at his hands. The barrier-like barrier he had seen before had long since disappeared, and the situation he had imagined, where he was half-transformed into a toy by the witch, did not happen.

"If I could really bring Little Bear back to the real world, could I stop her from releasing the barrier and unleashing the Witch's Kiss?"

"In reality, there's no such thing as a situation like in Detective Conan where people frequently commit crimes, which makes it easy for the police to put it in the newspapers."

"It's not like Madoka Magica, where natural selection has already chosen those with genes that are less prone to despair."

"If the witch's barrier appears in reality, will the witch's kiss really not remain?"

"Or should I take a gamble and bet that I can leave the Witch's Kiss behind, take advantage of the difference in the speed of time, become stronger in other worlds, and then return to reality to deal with the Witch's Kiss?"

"If I fail, I'll be a sinner who knowingly acted in such a way that would harm others."

"Not to mention that by the time I can fix the problem, someone might have already suffered."

"At least I haven't found any anime in the world of Madoka Magica that matches the real world, so my world probably doesn't have any so-called protagonists or superpowers."

After analyzing both of the two ways to go back, Zhixing felt that both of them were dead ends, and both had a slight chance of accidents.

For example, if you don't go back, the witch will not open the barrier just like in the morning.

For example, when you get back, you still have food in your stomach and won’t faint from hunger.

For example, when the speed of time flows at different rates, as long as you shorten your stay time and go to some more dangerous worlds but with a greater possibility of gaining power, you can prevent the Witch's Kiss from spreading.

"Alas, what is the right decision?"

Zhixing saw that the witch had returned to her work and no longer paid any attention to him after feeding him.

His body instinctively spread out his hands to both sides, ready to welcome the toy bird to use its claws to take him back to the small room.

But Zhixing silently watched the familiar come to the witch, be repaired, leave, dismantle it by itself, put it in the material box used by the witch to repair familiars, and then leave through the entrance when he came.

I don't know how many familiars I saw coming in and out, Zhixing was getting a little sleepy, and then I suddenly realized something was wrong.

"Little Bear? Where's the bird? Aren't you going to take me back?"

Because since Zhixing appeared this time, he has been on the platform in the center of the witch's room.

Although Zhixing found out from his own experience that there was no Xiaolan around, it was only one or two experiences after all. Even the experiment failed to control the variables, so it could not be called a definite conclusion.

Therefore, Zhixing really wanted to go back to the room and take a look, back to the room where he had entered the witch's barrier.

Although according to Zhixing's idea, anyone within a hundred meters of the witch's barrier may be brought in by the witch's barrier.

But compared to the people who might be in the maze, the situation in the room is easier to confirm. At least so far, there has been no human figure in the hands of the familiars entering and leaving.

The witch glanced at the paper line, then at the room where the toys were stored, then lowered her head and stretched out her hand.

Seeing this, Zhixing quickly retracted his arm. For a moment, he didn't know what position would make him more comfortable when being caught. After all, Zhixing was not a member of the Survey Corps, so how could he normally think of such a situation?

But after trying it out, Zhixing realized that it was useless.

The witch reached out her hand and picked up a doll from the stage.

"Bear? Isn't it a bird? The barrier seems to be almost complete, but there are not many familiars like this?"

While Zhixing was still thinking, the witch handed the teddy bear to him.

The teddy bear also opened its arms and gave Paper Bank a big hug.

In this hug, Zhi Xing was lifted up by the witch and quickly dropped from the sky to the ground.

This immediately raised Zhi Xing's heartbeat by more than double.

"Huh~ Looks like Asami is taking care of me a little bit."

Although we were not in the water, the height difference was significant, and the opponent did not have any control over the force.

This caused the paper line to suddenly fall to the ground from an unknown height of several meters at a speed far exceeding free fall and in a posture that was completely inconsistent with air resistance.

My heart can't take it anymore.

Fortunately, the time was relatively short because nothing really happened to the paper shop.

After the witch put the teddy bear back on the ground, she turned her attention back to the task of repairing the teddy bear, which made her happy.

The teddy bear held the paper in one hand and supported himself with the other as he jumped towards the starting room.

As the teddy bear's single arm moved, the paper lines gradually recovered from the constant shaking of vision.

"Oh, the stuffed bears before didn't have legs?"

After adapting to the thrill of falling from a high altitude and the ups and downs like a pirate ship, Zhixing couldn't help but have some new thoughts about the teddy bear.

This idea was confirmed when the teddy bear came to the stair-like doll tower.

"Only three?"

The paper line was placed on the head of the teddy bear, firmly grasping the seams on the teddy bear's body, and then with the teddy bear's jumping and climbing with his hands, he climbed from the bottom floor to the third floor step by step.

"Hippopotamuses and monkeys?"

Zhixing looked at the two dolls above and did not find any connection that matched his guess.

But there was no need to think about whether there was a connection between animals and humans. The paper soon climbed up along with the teddy bears and saw the various patches on the two dolls.

"Is the color combination on this hippo... a suit? And the other one is... a monkey wearing a hat and a thick coat?"

Zhixing was a little unsure, because this was, after all, a familiar in the witch's barrier. In fact, the shape was quite abstract. The shadow area formed by the splicing of the doll looked like some kind of animal, but it itself did not have a complete animal appearance.

Except for the stuffed bear.

Zhi Xing set his eyes on the teddy bear that he had rarely looked at before.

After looking at it a few more times, I realized the prototype of this stuffed bear.

"Miyano Akemi? Didn't you realize the teddy bear wasn't the first one created?"

The teddy bear came to the top of the tower, then slowly closed its two hands above its head, picked up the paper, and put it on the ground.

Then he walked back to his seat silently, opened his hands, and soon became motionless.

Zhi Xing stood up from the ground, stood on the edge of this floor and looked down.

The height was very familiar to Zhi Xing, but the entire doll tower seemed empty because there were only these three dolls.

"So, that room that was so full that even the doll tower across the street was filled with dolls, was that really the number of people affected by the witch?"

Zhi Xing glanced at the stuffed bear he had brought with him only because of the witch's order, then looked at the empty doll tower across from him, scratching his head and thinking:

"I hope I won't end up having to count the days by the number of dolls here."

Zhi Xing casually touched the stuffed bear, which felt like a plush toy, and walked around it, comparing the color blocks of each patch before confirming:

"So I stole Miyano Akemi's soul then?"

"That white figure got so close to me not because my presence made him want to attack me, but because he wanted to take the soul of the deceased? But because I escaped and took the soul away, he wanted me to make up for the loss, didn't he?"

Zhixing looked at the teddy bear, which did not behave like a human at all from its body to its will, and shook his head helplessly.

What is the difference between this stolen soul and death?

"Hmm?" Zhixing suddenly raised his eyebrows, thinking of something.

"The little bear can inherit the witch's memories from the residual magic of the witch's kiss. In other words, the witch's magic can contain her own memories. If not all of them, at least most of them are still there."

"So, you, made of the witch's magic, also contain all your memories?"

Chapter 165 Turning a blind eye

Zhixing looked at the teddy bear in front of him and completely didn't believe the idea that came to his mind.

It feels like a doll when you touch it, it sounds like a doll when you hear it, it looks like a doll when you look at it, and even its actions are like a doll.

In this situation, how can I convince myself and the other party is still the other party.

Zhixing always felt that he had been sighing since he entered the other world, but he still couldn't help but sigh.

"This is the witch's barrier."

"This isn't like the movie where she just transformed from a human sane being into a witch."

"What's more, after she transforms into a witch in the movie, her actions become uncontrollable. What's more, it starts with a witch's kiss, no, it starts with an unknown amount of magic power."

"To grow into a witch, you definitely need enough energy."

"And the source of energy..."

Zhixing shook his head, having already come to a conclusion in his mind.

The witch obtains energy by eating human souls.

So no matter how similar the dolls look, they are just shapes in the end.

Moreover, Zhixing had seen the witch make the police officer into half a doll.

Maybe this is how the witch devours souls.

Zhixing confirmed his conclusion in his mind, then collapsed to the ground.

"As expected, being too quiet isn't good either."

I feel like there are many things I don’t understand and many things I need to do.

But when I am really alone, have enough time, and nothing to distract me, I just look for an explanation to the question in front of me and then start to get lazy.

"I slept enough this morning, but now I can't fall asleep at all."

The paper lines kept rolling on the ground, trying to exhaust their energy.

But maybe it was because he had just drunk some soup, but Zhixing didn't feel tired at all.

"What time is it now? Can't it be midnight? Can't you come earlier?"

Zhi Xing got up from the ground, shook off the non-existent dust on his body, looked at the teddy bear beside him, and said in a tone without any fear:

"I'm planning on taking a stroll. Could you give me a lift? Hello? Can you hear me?"

The teddy bear didn't respond as usual, but its eyes were fixed on Paper Line as it moved.

Zhi Xing waited there for a long time, but still couldn't sense the meaning of this gaze, so he ignored the familiar who was working as a puppet, and squinted his eyes and came to the edge of the ground.

"It's higher than before. It seems the witch has really just formed a barrier, so the scene is arranged bit by bit."

Looking at the distant floor below, although Zhixing felt the softness of the floor with his hands, this floor was not like a carpet that he could climb down directly, and Zhixing did not dare to jump down directly.