Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"Look, besides the master of the temple, isn't the temple also able to exist cognitively? If my temple is really in the witch's barrier, then isn't it normal for there to be a cognitive you?"

"Then what do you think I would call myself?"

Zhixing was speechless, because although Zhixing asked the witch's name several times without getting a clear answer, he even added a name like Little Bear himself, and regarded the witch whose soul was entangled with his own as a part of himself.

But it is really unlikely to let the other party claim to be Zhixing. Zhixing gets goosebumps just thinking about it.

Since it is something you would not do, then the existence that belongs to your own cognition will naturally not have corresponding behavior.

"So, you are the master of the palace?"

"Humph, of course. Have you ever seen a cognitive creature that can communicate normally like an ordinary person?"

"Well, An Takamaki from Kamoshida is not okay, but several people after that are okay, like the fiancé from The Young Lady's Father, Futaba's mother, Akechi from Shido..."

"Okay, okay, I was wrong. You understand this world better, so there's no need to explain."

The girl listened to the unfamiliar names and immediately waved her hand, otherwise she would continue to recall.

"I just can't remember your name. Don't you have another name for the outside world? I think you don't want this name anymore, so I just used your name. It's just a name anyway."

“It always feels awkward.”

"Tch, cheapskate."

"what!"

"Then you should call me Little Bear, although I like more than just bears."

"Little Bear? Can't you remember your past memories even after turning into a shadow?"

Only then did Zhixing dare to take a closer look at the girl's clothes.

I don't recognize him, but he's very nondescript and is wearing clothing that looks like a badge.

Although it is not the style of Mitakihara Junior High School, seeing such unremarkable clothes, Zhixing also understood that this is probably a kind of school uniform.

As we all know, magical girls generally only have 3 types of clothes.

A very personalized magical girl costume.

Junior high school uniform that is appropriate for your age.

And after not having to go to school, I wear fancy private clothes.

The shadow belongs to the human subconscious, and even the memories that Futaba herself has modified can be known clearly by the shadow.

If she can change from a witch to someone wearing a school uniform, it doesn't seem like she has forgotten who she is.

"If you don't remember, you don't remember. You can't find the original parts of the toy once it's broken. You can only use extra needles and thread, or parts from other toys to put it back together."

"After I felt I had gotten over the effects of despair, I tried to recall, but the memories I didn't have were simply gone."

The girl crossed her arms and explained helplessly:

"My memories were probably discarded when I became a witch. After all, I've been trying to get rid of this feeling since I became a witch."

"Huh? Do you still have any memories of your time as a witch?"

"What do you mean by still? I only have memories of my time as a witch. The rest are just memories of trying to make myself happy so as not to fall into despair."

"What about magical girls? Do you still remember anything about being a magical girl?"

"Nothing, nothing at all. Perhaps these memories can be discarded."

"What's going on? Can you tell me?"

When Zhixing heard this unprecedented situation, he immediately became interested and looked at the little bear in front of him excitedly.

Little Bear silently changed the subject:

"Is this the time to be concerned about such things? Shouldn't you be trying to escape?"

"Escape?"

Upon hearing this, Zhixing looked around and saw only ordinary white walls. There were no windows, no doors, and even no lights.

If the ground was not made of straw mats and there was a black line at each corner forming the shape of the room, Zhixing might have thought that he had entered some strange world at the first moment.

However, Zhi Xing only glanced at it for a few seconds before retracting his gaze and asking the girl:

"Let's talk about that later. We can get out of here eventually. I'd rather know about your experience than this."

"Every time you come here, you either come to sleep or are in a hurry to leave. I didn't expect that after we were able to communicate, you wouldn't run away."

The girl looked at the paper line that was different from usual, sat down, and said with a gesture of telling a long story:

"Okay, let me tell you how I felt at that time!"

"I forgot what happened earlier, but when I remembered, my body was being invaded by a certain thought."

“It’s a feeling I don’t know how to describe.”

"Under this feeling, I couldn't help but want to keep the place where the feeling appeared away from me."

"With constant tearing, the feeling is relieved, but this tearing also has its limits."

"Since it's relief, it means it's far from over. As soon as I stop, the feeling will come back again."

"And when I was at my wit's end, all the toys I had received from my family appeared in front of me one by one."

"At that time, our family wasn't well off. My parents seemed to be working in a toy factory."

"Perhaps to cheer me up when I was little, my parents brought back some broken dolls that were piled up in the factory."

"Although it was tattered, it was my parents' love. I treasured it very much at the time. With my mother's guidance, I learned how to sew the doll together."

"Perhaps that feeling clouded my judgment, so I didn't think about why these dolls appeared. Instead, I instinctively repaired the broken dolls."

"Strangely enough, just by doing the repairs, the sensations I feel have diminished a lot."

"This feeling continued until I noticed a stitched-up toy I had never seen before appeared behind me."

"Now it seems that they are probably ordinary people."

Zhixing listened to Little Bear's story and had a preliminary understanding of this.

"Is it because my cognition has changed?"

"Yes, yes, I didn't realize it at all. I instinctively took apart the added components of this new doll, blew up the remaining toy, and then put it in the room where I used to keep my toys."

"This kind of life continued until I met you."

Facing Xiao Xiong's experience, Zhi Xing swallowed his saliva and said with some heartache:

"All day long?"

"Ah~ I never had this feeling before, or rather, I didn't have the time to think about it."

The girl ignored Zhi Xing's complaints and continued to describe with her hands dancing excitedly:

"I was surprised when I heard your voice."

"At that time, it was as if I hadn't spoken in years. When I heard your voice, I didn't dare to fiddle with the extra stitches on your body."

"When I heard your voice, a somewhat unfamiliar word popped up in my mind: robot toy."

"Once I realized you were a machine, I knew you probably needed to be charged or have your battery replaced."

"But I don't want to touch you, for fear of damaging your ability to speak."

"So I chose to squeeze water from those electric toys and put it in front of you."

Zhixing blinked, listened to the girl's description, and couldn't help licking his lips.

"Why did you choose to press it into water?"

"Because when the battery is dead, it's like when there's no water in the cup, so... I might have been still thinking, so I wasn't quite clear-headed... Anyway, I made you turn into water."

"That's when I started to regain some of my sanity. I felt like the annoying feeling in me was less severe."

"At the time, I thought that maybe I had fixed you with this method, so I kept charging you, and I had more and more energy to think."

Little Bear hesitated a bit, but Zhixing came up with this hypothesis while thinking:

"In other words, after you became a witch, you didn't actually die, but were affected by some feeling."

"Then this feeling prompts you to separate your familiar and restrict your behavior, making you do things you used to enjoy in order to get rid of this feeling."

Little Bear nodded, and Zhi Xing continued:

"And you feel your mind recovering because you turned those familiars that contained that feeling into water. Then, due to the reset within my body, I don't know where it went."

"But even so, the feeling in you is still there and will continue to grow."

"But the number of familiars in the barrier has reached its limit. You can still rely on familiars to reduce the sensation, which means that this power is most likely transmitted further out."

Zhixing touched his neck and said:

"And the only thing I know of that can be released by a witch is the Witch's Kiss."

"And the feeling that can be contained in the Witch's Kiss is probably despair."

As a result, despair appeared in the witch, and in order to get rid of it, the witch split into her familiar.

On the other hand, a large number of familiars contain words of despair, which could explain why the Witch's Kiss is released by familiars.

Considering that familiars will bring ordinary people to the witch instead of killing them directly.

The familiar had probably also freed itself from the despair it carried.

Speaking of what familiars can do.

That's the Witch's Kiss and... the barrier that allows you to go out independently.

If the barrier is made of a feeling of despair.

The familiars that can go out contain despair, but most familiars cannot go out, which means that despair is no longer there.

If despair can form a barrier, then the witch's barrier is composed of these numerous familiars.

In this case, it makes sense that even if the Witch's Kiss was not released by this witch, once it enters the witch's barrier, it will break free from control.

Because the barrier will exclude despair.

The familiar's despair was cleared, but the witch herself still had it.

Therefore, the familiar began to work hard to create a scene that would please the witch based on her memories.

He even knew to capture other souls who could bear this kind of despair.

Since the soul of a magical girl can split into familiars without the main body dying, then the soul of an ordinary person can probably do the same.

The girl's soul is somewhat split, and the despair it carries is limited, so she can use other people's souls as carriers.

When Zhixing thought of this, his thoughts jumped for a moment, and he thought of the conditions for a familiar to grow into a witch.

"The Witch's Kiss contains despair and the witch's magic."

"So, we use the souls of ordinary people as material to separate the despair contained in the Witch's Kiss."

"It only takes the weight of a few people to restore it to the level of a witch."

"So it's not ordinary people's souls that are used as energy. No wonder I don't understand how a few people's souls can rival the magic of witches. If there are only a few magical girls in that city, how could Kyubey go to such great lengths to do that?"

"But according to this line of thinking, if we use the souls of several people to share the feeling of despair brought by the Witch's Kiss, we should be able to do it."

"Then, the source of the magic power that formed the witch's body is either the magic power of other witches in the space where the barrier is located after they dissipated."

"Either..."

Zhi Xing glanced at the little bear who had grown up from Conan's world to become a witch, and said something that he himself didn't believe:

"...The witch's magic is just like the magical girl's restored magic; it can create something out of nothing."

This may be really unreasonable. If he could create something out of nothing, then Kyubey would not have developed the girl's emotions and played it out.

But it is possible that Kyubey would do such a thing.

After all, wishes are also a power that can create something out of nothing, and Kyubey did not choose to rely on it.

"Maybe... these two are the same power?"

"For example, if the contract to become a magical girl or a witch is Kyubey's wish."

While Zhihang was still pondering the feasibility of this idea, Little Bear interrupted and said:

"Oh, there's one more thing I forgot to mention."