Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"If you're talking about the situation with Xingzi's father, that's not necessary."

"No matter how much power an ordinary person has, it can only affect magical girls. It won't help at all in defeating witches or even Witch Night. In fact, when Kyoko made such a wish, she ended up gaining the ability to create phantom clones."

"Did Homura Akemi tell you all this?"

"No, nothing like that... Wait, do you know Homura's name?"

"Well, I just met him not long ago. He should have gone back to sleep now, leaving only this note for me to read."

Upon hearing this, Zhixing immediately strode towards Mami and looked at the information in front of Mami.

Well, there is no Chinese catalogue, it’s not for me to read.

Asami watched the paper approach, then nodded at the words on the desk, and asked curiously:

“Is everything written there true?”

"Ah, I don't know. I can't understand these words. I usually use my phone to translate..."

Zhixing felt his pocket and realized that he didn't bring his cell phone because he was only a few steps away.

"Um, can you tell me what's written on it?"

"Nothing much, just some information about witches and some statistics about Witch Night."

Seeing that Zhixing couldn't understand, Mami skipped the information such as the time and place of appearance and responded casually.

"That's it."

After hearing this, Zhixing realized that it was useless to read it, so he stopped thinking about it. Then he realized that he had run to Mami's side, and it would not be good to run back. But he would feel guilty if he didn't leave. He stood there in silence for a while.

Mami waited for a while, but when Zhixing didn't ask the question she had asked at the beginning, she looked at Zhixing, who didn't dare to look her in the eye, and could only speak:

"You wanted to know what happened the day before yesterday, didn't you? I also want to know what happened afterwards."

"Ah, behind, Xingzi...she ate the cake you left at home!"

"Hehe, that one was originally meant for her, don't worry about it. It's just that the cake that Apricot made just doesn't seem good enough."

"It seems that Sayaka and Kyoko did it together. I haven't seen it clearly yet."

"Okay, let me first tell you what I know."

Mami looked at the paper line that was talking about something else and interrupted helplessly.

Mami placed her hand upside down on her forehead, pondering for a moment before recounting her experience from the day before yesterday:

"Sorry, there's something I need to tell you first."

"what?"

"When you passed out, I asked Kyubey to look for clues, and Kyubey found the notebook you dropped on the ground along the way."

"Eh?!"

It was not until this moment that Zhixing remembered that he had lost his notebook. After all, he had not used it much except when looking at the map. When he threw away the notebook, he had no time to think about such things because the witch was coming, so he had forgotten about it because no one pointed it out.

"I just wrote something casually. You probably can't understand it. Look, it's all in a foreign language."

As the matter of the old notebook was brought to mind, Zhixing also recalled what he had written on it. Although he could not remember everything, he knew that it revealed a lot of information about the future.

"Well, at first I was planning to return it to you after you woke up, but Kyubey said he found something special in the notebook, so after remembering what you said, I went online to translate it."

"But that's not the point. The point is that I saw a hand-drawn map on it."

"After comparing them, I found that the starting point of this map is near Jiro Mall, so I asked Xingzi to protect you instead of me, and I went to explore the relevant clues myself."

"Clues? What are you investigating?"

"Of course it's the magical girl behind you."

"Ah, didn't I say I was from the future? The girl who made a wish for me doesn't even know about making a wish for me."

Mami looked at the paper and shook her head, saying:

"As you know from always accompanying me on patrol, I patrol the entire city every day. So, when were you captured by the witch and taken into the barrier?"

Zhixing was about to say that it was the weekend, so he might be late, but soon, Zhixing remembered something.

Although when Asami took him on patrol, it started before dinner.

But when Asami and Sayaka were together, they started to make plans to meet up after dinner and then go on patrol.

So, what about when Asami is alone?

That day, I was captured by the Witch's Kiss just after school. Did I really miss the ring-shaped subway?

Seeing that Zhixing had realized something, Mami responded affirmatively:

"Yes, since the day you were controlled by the Witch's Kiss, there has actually been a magical girl following you."

"The traces of magic left on you are far more intense than those left by the witch's movements and are difficult to dissipate. Therefore, even after two days, I was able to detect it the moment I arrived at school."

"We also discovered that during these three days of patrols, all routes that could lead to your traces were blocked by human intervention."

"Based on this alone, we can conclude that there is another magical girl in this city, and her purpose is unknown."

"I deliberately erased all traces, but I left the school gate uncleaned. It's as if I deliberately let you stay with the witch for two days, knowing that you would be fine and wait for me to rescue you."

"But if they deliberately lured me away from school, I didn't see anything happening inside. I took Kyubey around the school, but I only found Kaname Madoka and Miki Sayaka. No other classes had any missing students or anyone on leave."

"That's why I need to investigate. After all, Witch Night is not far away, and we can't let a magical girl with unknown purpose continue to stay in this city."

"So on the last day of my break, I got up, made breakfast for Xingzi, and then headed to the pedestrian street. After searching around, I actually found the clue."

Zhixing swallowed hard and listened attentively to the Mandarin coming out of Mami's mouth.

"I found a store surveillance camera at an intersection on the way to the park. After looking back a few days, I saw you. So I went to the park again and found the surveillance camera at the entrance that showed you on your earliest visit."

"Finally, based on the time, we checked the surveillance cameras of shops along the street and found the starting point of your drawing. We saw you eating noodles at that time."

Noticing Mami looking at him, Zhixing turned his head and began to recall what he had been doing.

"From the surveillance footage, it seems you were unaware of coming here. But similarly, you probably haven't seen the magical girl behind you, so you're probably concerned about finding her."

"Although I'd like to say that you just made up this stuff from the anime you just opened online, but from the information revealed in the notebook and the things about Kyoko and Sayaka, you know everything."

"I'd like to think that this is all the information the magical girl told you during those two days before you were trapped by the witch, but it conflicts with the information you wrote in your notebook."

"The surveillance cameras in the park are quite far away, so I can't see clearly what you wrote in the notebook, but I know from watching all the way through that you wrote this notebook from the beginning."

"So after observing that you couldn't find any clues, I decided to follow the route on your map and explore it completely."

"Is the surveillance here so easy to check? Why do you seem to be watching the surveillance all the way here?" Zhixing couldn't help but ask.

"Of course, it's difficult to check for ordinary people, but I'm a magical girl after all, so there are still times when I need to monitor them. For example, someone stole my phone and wallet from a victim I rescued while I was chasing a familiar."

Zhixing looked up at the ceiling, his hands scratching behind his back, not daring to make any sound.

Asami looked at Zhixing's performance, even though she felt that Zhixing, as an adult, was just like a child, her suspicion towards him was somewhat alleviated.

Asami looked away again and recalled:

"I was prepared to spend the entire day, but on my way to the nearest hospital that wasn't marked with a cross, I discovered the Witch's Lament Seed."

Hearing the appearance of the Snack Witch, who is known as Mami's natural enemy, Zhixing looked back with a serious expression.

"Because the Seed of Sorrow wasn't discovered hatching until I approached, I didn't attack immediately. Instead, I carefully explored the surroundings."

"As expected, the Seed of Sorrow appeared out of thin air, leaving no magical reaction anywhere."

"Or perhaps it was a trap deliberately set by a magical girl."

"But it's a hospital after all, and the Seed of Sorrow is about to hatch a witch, so after making sure there are no magical girls around, I stimulated the Seed of Sorrow and formed the barrier."

Mami paused for a moment. Since she was receiving saline and nutrient solution, her body didn't need to drink water. So after licking her lips, she continued uncertainly:

"Since the barrier had just been formed, there shouldn't be many familiars. This was a good opportunity to save mana and head to the witch's room. Therefore, I was caught off guard and canceled the transformation I had just made to explore the magical girl."

"Just as the transformation was lifted and the magic power in my body was condensed into the Soul Gem again, an attack came from nowhere and knocked my Soul Gem away."

"Then, as I dodged towards the Soul Gem, my vision went black and I lost consciousness."

"When I woke up again, I was already here, weak and with these things inserted into my body."

After Mami explained the cause and process of what happened the day before yesterday, she looked at the paper line.

Although Zhixing subconsciously felt that something was wrong, under Asami's urging, he could only improvise and tell what he knew that day.

This includes how he immediately chose to despair after knowing that Mami was alone, and then he went downstairs from the familiar barrier, and then how Anzi and Sayaka got along, and how he searched the room yesterday because he couldn't wait for Anzi and saw the inheritance that Mami left for him.

After confirming that everything had been said, the two began to digest the information in each other's words.

At this moment, Zhi Xing looked around, saw the heat lamp in the room and the IV drip in Mami's hand, and then he belatedly asked:

"Wait, are you saying you just met with Homura??"

Chapter 50 Life at Homura's House

"Boom boom boom!"

Before Asami could respond, she heard a knock on the door. Then the door opened and Homura, who was already wearing her school uniform, said to the paper in the room:

"Come out, Conan. I'll only teach you twice, and then you'll have to prepare breakfast."

When the paper shop heard the knock on the door, it was as if it had been caught doing something bad, and its whole body trembled.

It wasn't until he heard Homura's words that Zhixing's eyes widened and he glanced between the two of them.

"You go eat first. I don't think I've eaten for a long time, so I can't eat these right away."

Seeing that Mami showed no hostility towards Homura's appearance, Zhi Xing said to Mami uncertainly:

"Then...I'll be leaving first, huh?"

Mami smiled her usual smile, nodded, and then checked how much nutrient solution was left in her body.

Zhi Xing hesitantly followed Homura out of the room, closing the door behind him before leaving.

"Boom."

As the door closed, the smile on Mami's face faded, and she felt worried as she looked at the pile of information in front of her.

"It's the future again."

"Eh? Are you from the future too?"

Although he was still a little fuzzy after getting up and couldn't understand the situation at first, he just watched Homura Akemi put the IV in his hand.

But when Homura Akemi was about to get up, a hand reached out for the Soul Gem at her feet, and Asami instinctively reached out to take it back.

But as soon as he raised his hand, the feeling of weakness from his body spread to his heart.

The slow and weak hand naturally could not match the speed of Homura Akemi, so the Soul Gem fell into Homura Akemi's hands again.

After putting the gem away, Homura Akemi said to Tomoe Mami:

"You haven't eaten for a day and are very weak now. Don't fall asleep for a while. Remember to change the IV drip. The guy will wake up at 6 o'clock to take care of you."

"Who is it? How did I get here? Who are you?"

Mami weakly tried to prop herself up with her hands, but because a needle was inserted into her right hand and she was receiving an IV drip, she felt uncomfortable and could not exert enough strength and failed.

“现在是6月5号0点，距离魔女之夜的降临还有10天16个小时。”

"I'm sorry, but I have to ask you to wait here until Witch Night arrives. Until then, I'll be holding the props you use to transform into a magical girl. Don't even think about using magic to escape."

"Are you a magical girl too?"

Asami raised her head and looked at Homura Akemi's fingers. As expected, she saw the ring on her left hand and the nail art pattern corresponding to it.

Homura Akemi had no intention of hiding it, but admitted it generously:

"Yes, I am the fifth magical girl you have always wanted to find. Actually, I am Kuroko, the purple one, and I am Homura Akemi."

"Mami-san, please be patient with me from now on."

After saying that, Homura Akemi took out a stack of witch information that she had written in class from the closet behind her and placed it on the desk beside her.

"Edogawa Conan, did you let him get close to me? What was your purpose in doing this?"

Mami covered her head with one hand, feeling as if she had been anesthetized and her whole body was uncomfortable, but fortunately she was waking up gradually and her memory was gradually coming back.

"What happened with Edogawa Conan wasn't arranged by me. It's more like I didn't actually want him to come into contact with magical girls so quickly."

"But for some reason this time, the pressure on the opponent was a bit too much, and the Witch's Kiss was triggered early."

"this time?"