Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"I haven't heard of it at all. I think Kyubey saw Homura's true form when I was in trouble, so he told Kyoko."

Seeing Mami instinctively trying to make amends for Kyubey, Zhi Xing thought for a moment, then looked at Homura and asked:

"What is your attitude towards Kyubey in this plan?"

"As long as you don't touch Madoka, then don't worry about it."

"Now?"

“It’s the same at this point in time.”

Zhi Xing nodded thoughtfully and wanted to ask more, but Mami interrupted:

"It sounds like you two have different opinions about Kyubey?"

"Two? No no no, three."

Zhixing nodded in Anzi's direction, directing Mami's gaze over there.

"Apricot? But not today..."

"Huh, that's what Kyubey told me when I first came to this city. Now it no longer appears in front of me."

"Did that kid do something really bad?"

Asami understood something but still asked in disbelief.

Anzi moved the corners of her mouth, turned her head away and didn't say anything bad. Xiaoyan also kept walking forward without looking back, and her attitude was not visible at all.

So, walking in the middle of the paper row, under Mami's inquiring gaze, he had to rack his brains to think of some less stimulating words.

"Um, ah, this, Kyubey, um, it's very important, business is very busy, ah, it's this... why don't you ask the question so I know what to say."

Zhixing looked conflicted. As a straight man who usually spoke the truth, it was a bit too difficult for him to make up a lie on the spot.

What? Did we talk about Kewpie last time? Sorry, if the paper line can remember it, it won't be impossible to learn anything.

Mami decisively accepted the proposal and asked:

"Well, let's start with the fact that Kyoko has an opinion about Kyubey. What did Kyubey do while I was away?"

Zhixing recalled Kyubey's theory, considered whether this was appropriate to say, and then asked:

"I remember that your wish was made to yourself."

Anzi raised an eyebrow, she didn't expect Asami to actually talk about her wish, it must be to take Sayaka with her.

Although Asami was a little surprised by the change of topic, she still responded with a heavy heart:

"Well, at that time, I didn't think that much. I just simply hoped to save myself. By the time I realized this was an opportunity to make a wish, it was already too late."

Mami's tone was a little depressed, and Zhixing's breathing became rapid. He blamed himself for choosing the wrong beginning, but after all, Mami had survived the incident, so it didn't affect him for too long. He asked:

"So, what Kyubey did is related to this? Did Madoka make a wish in the same situation as me?"

Mami said with a puzzled look on her face as she gave an answer that she herself didn't believe.

“The problem isn’t your situation, it’s who you wish for.”

"You mean there's some kind of interaction between the magical girl and the messenger?"

Asami quickly realized what was happening, but she didn't quite agree with it.

"Although I call the person who receives the wish the magical girl's messenger, it's actually because those who receive the wish are often close to the magical girl and can, to some extent, represent the magical girl's decisions. Generally, when magical girls come into contact with each other, they use messengers as intermediaries. Those who maintain the highway rely on messengers to exchange information with us."

"To be more precise, it's not just the wisher and the one being wished for who interact. Any magical girl who comes into contact with the one being wished for will experience misfortune."

"Unfortunate? Did I hear the word wrong?"

"Just the possibility of misfortune, rather than the death-related word, can cause Kyoko and Kyubey to be at odds?" Mami asked in confusion.

"It's not so much misfortune as it is that every contact pushes the other party into the abyss."

While Zhixing was still thinking, Xiaoyan took over the conversation.

"The law of conservation of energy, we learned about this in school, right? The process of making a wish is like extracting our own heat, condensing it into fire, and handing it to the messenger, while we ourselves solidify into ice."

"And no matter which fire they get close to, the magical girl will continue to be melted away until the final straw that breaks the camel's back appears."

"Once it melts into water, it can't be transformed back? How exactly does it manifest? Physical strength? Magical power output?"

Even after listening to Homura's analogy, Asami still couldn't understand such an abstract explanation.

"It's probably probability, the probability of something bad happening."

Zhixing took over the topic again and said:

"It's like a girl who fights every day, and by chance a witch appears at home, and by chance her own messenger arrives, and then the other party eats the greatest misfortune, her faith is shattered, and she becomes the Xingzi she is today."

"I don't think I'd talk to you about this, and you just..."

"Take Sayaka for example. She helped her beloved recover, but unexpectedly missed the hospital handover. After finally seeing each other often at school, she was immediately faced with a long-awaited confession from her best friend. In the end, she had no choice but to let go. Even so, Sayaka would eventually encounter the bad guys that already existed in society, shattering her only hope of defending justice. In the end, she was helpless and fell into the witch's barrier."

Asami looked at Zhixing who was getting more and more excited as he spoke, blocked out Anzi's interruption, and listened with a frown as she talked about Sayaka's future.

"Finally, there's the girl who was just rescued. It's possible... er, that is, ahem, I almost faced the witch who restrained the binding two days ago, just when I was acting alone."

Just as Zhixing mentioned Mami and was about to talk about some past plots in the fan game, Zhixing noticed Mami's expression and ended it hastily.

Following the magical girl analogy, Paper Line turned to look at Homura and opened his mouth as if he had discovered something.

"Oh, yes. Now, I basically don't interact with my messengers. I only offer some help during brief interactions that don't have much impact."

Homura briefly explained her situation on behalf of Zhixing, and at the same time, she also tacitly agreed with Zhixing's statement, which Homura agreed with.

"Then why do you still want to take me in?"

Zhixing recalled the original plot, and the contacts between Yuanyan CP, except for their acquaintance at the beginning, became less and less frequent as time went on. They even couldn't control their emotions until the second time, and then they hugged each other.

"Rather than letting you wander around and come into contact with Madoka, it would be safer for me to watch over you."

"Wait, Madoka isn't a magical girl yet, right?"

Mami thought about Zhixing's theory and raised questions.

Zhixing looked at Xiaoyan, and Xiaoyan also looked at Zhixing, as if they exchanged glances. Xiaoyan nodded, giving Zhixing a definite signal.

So Zhi Xing swallowed his saliva, lowered his head and said to Mami:

"I lied to you before, I'm sorry."

"Which part of lying do you mean?"

"Although I don't know for sure myself, perhaps I am actually, Madoka, no, I should say Kaname Madoka's wish recipient, the messenger of Madoka's future."

"Is this true or not?"

Anzi, who had been listening, couldn't accept it and stared with her eyes wide open like Mami.

"If you have anything to say, let's talk about it later. The witch's barrier is nearby."

The leading Homura was not affected, and under Homura's guidance, the four of them were talking at a fast pace.

"Ah? Yes, it's here."

As the only tool who could locate the witch, Zhixing finally realized it and closed his eyes, then confirmed Xiaoyan's statement.

Mami and Anzi also came to their senses and followed Zhixing's final guidance to come out of the witch's barrier. Then they looked at each other and both changed in front of Zhixing!

But the transformation was successful just by covering the whole body with magic power, there was no transformation animation or dancing at all.

Homura opened the barrier and stood at the entrance of the passage waiting, while Asami and Kyoko rushed in directly.

Suddenly, only Zhixing and Xiaoyan were left outside the barrier.

"Huh? Did I miss an episode?"

Zhixing felt confused about the conversation he had missed.

"It's just a normal distribution. With more magical girls, this kind of thing is natural."

After explaining to Zhi Xing, Xiao Yan followed him into the passage.

Only the paper line was left, standing still as the passageway got smaller and smaller.

Fortunately, there were no gangsters here, and the witch had no intention of moving towards Zhixing, so after waiting for a while, Zhixing saw the space in front of him distorted, and three magical girls appeared in front of him.

The red apricot took the lead, picked up the Seed of Sorrow standing on the ground, and looked at it in her hand.

"Tsk, it really is that Minotaur. I didn't expect to run into him again."

"Well, this time it didn't have a second witch to live with, so you can defeat it alone."

"Of course, I'm much stronger than I used to be."

"The bull head you are talking about, is it..."

"Oh, that's right. It's the witch they defeated when they first met."

"It's been almost a year, and I didn't expect that a familiar of the Minotaur Witch would grow up to become a witch."

Mami sighed, then looked at Zhixing and asked what she remembered when she entered the barrier:

"By the way, according to you, the messenger will bring misfortune to the magical girl, right?"

"Although you haven't mentioned me much, I don't feel I've experienced this level of misfortune. Although there have been some setbacks and difficulties along the way, after overcoming them, I haven't seen any misfortune until now."

"What are you talking about? Weren't you arrested because you had frequent contact with this guy?"

"This was just an accident. I just used a technique I don't know, so..."

"Hmm~ Technique?"

Kyoko glanced at Zhixing, who hadn't revealed the truth to Mami, while thinking about the explanation Zhixing had given her.

Zhixing avoided Kyoko's gaze and explained to Mami:

"In fact, magical girls who make wishes for themselves can often live longer than other magical girls. After all, regardless of whether it will cause misfortune, the fact that their power is not divided by the messenger is equivalent to having two combat forces."

"Just think about it, if Kyoko's clone and her father's ability to make people believe what they say were combined, how perfect would it be?"

"If I remember correctly, it seems that only you, Mami, can upgrade Ribbon from a melee fighter to a long-range gun shooter. Perhaps this is the diversity that only magical girls with the blessing of making wishes can achieve."

Paper Action explained to Mami, and a voice appeared in her mind.

"...by my own hands..."

Chapter 55 Are You All Alone?

"So, making a wish for others not only makes you less capable, but also brings misfortune to yourself?" Xingzi asked in return, speaking from her own experience.

"But if you make a wish for yourself, the level of misfortune will be very low, and it will actually help you survive?" Asami also questioned, setting an example herself.

"Uh..."

Zhixing also felt that something was not right, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

"Let's think about it another way. If Kyoko's tragedy is her family, and getting rid of them won't deepen her misfortune, then what about Mami's family?"

Homura offended the two magical girls as soon as she spoke, adding for Paper Line.

"Suspended sentence becomes immediate execution?"

Zhi Xing's expression changed slightly and he looked at Xiao Yan.

"How dare you say that! You made a wish for yourself too, right? What did you pay for it?"

"Nothing, it's just that I didn't save the person I wanted to save once."

As Homura said this, she looked towards Zhixing intentionally. Zhixing was stunned and did not avoid looking at Homura, but she thought in her heart that this was a trick to hide Madoka.

"What's that? Isn't this just a wish for yourself? Your..."

"Let's stop here, Homura Akemi. Although I don't like being mentioned about my family, if what you said is true, then the person you want to save should be better than your family. That feeling must be very uncomfortable."

"So let's leave this topic for now. We can still work together later, right?"

Mami ended the topic and the scene fell silent for a moment.

"It's already very late. I won't keep you as a guest at my house any longer. Take care of yourself."

Xiao Yan lifted her hair and walked towards the subway station first, waving to the paper bank.

"I was careless this time. I won't let you succeed next time."

Mami looked at Homura's back, said something polite, and then turned and walked in another direction.

Zhi Xing stood there, watching Homura and Asami go their separate ways....and go back to their respective homes, not knowing who to follow.