Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

I don’t know if it’s because the familiar is concentrating its magic power to evolve into a witch, but there’s no sense of light around, it’s pitch black.

But Kyubey's appearance could be seen clearly, just like white paint on a black drawing paper, neither dim nor with scattered light.

The paper man lying on the ground looked at his hands in confusion. Sure enough, he could see everything clearly, including his entire body and clothes. Then he asked:

"Kyubi, if it's really just an accident as you said, then why did you show up? You can't escape."

"As expected, you've been hostile to us since the beginning, but you haven't truly known us. The idea that you came from the future specifically doesn't make sense anymore. With such limited knowledge of the future, the carrier must be a story."

Qiubi spoke slowly about his speculation about the origin of Zhixing, without any intention of clarifying his doubts.

Zhi Xing frowned, carefully groping on the dark ground, and slowly stood up, interrupting:

"It probably takes a long time for a familiar to become a witch. Homura and Asami should be here soon. Until they arrive, I won't return to any of your speculations about me."

"Well, after all, to warn someone, I have to get close to the area of ​​the body where people are most alert, so I didn't intend to ask you to cooperate."

Kyubey stretched out his short legs and walked to the side calmly. After a few jumps, as if stepping on something, he stopped in the air at the same level as Washi Xing's line of sight.

Zhixing looked at the place where Kyubey had just jumped, trying to find the outline in the darkness, but he couldn't see it even with Kyubey as a reference. He could only squat down and look up at Kyubey to notice the black irregular block-shaped object that covered part of Kyubey's body.

"If you want to see my instinctive reaction, wouldn't it be better to hide like before? Or is it that this barrier is so dark that you can't hide anymore?"

"I've seen your reaction many times. You're indeed an introvert. You're always silent and won't reveal the secrets you know."

Kyubey frankly admitted that he had been monitoring the paper bank before, but did not get many valuable clues.

"So faced with this unclear problem, did you choose to take the initiative?"

Zhi Xing reached out and touched the black substance under Kyubey. Judging from the rough feel and irregular shape, it should be a stone. However, this stone was formed by magic after all, so it neither fell off nor got dusty when touched.

"Don't worry, even if you're not a magical girl, we won't attack you. Just like the witch, your problems will be left to you to solve."

After saying this, Kyubey looked at the stone under him and said:

"This is the witch's room. It's clearly in the incubation stage, so there shouldn't be a barrier to lock people in. But not only did you get in, but you even went this deep inside. You really have quite a few secrets."

Upon hearing this, Zhi Xing subconsciously moved away from where Kyubey was. He retreated carefully while breathing a sigh of relief.

"That is to say, there should be no one else here except you and me."

Zhixing thought that he was just surrounded by a crowd. If this was really a fully hatched witch, it would probably be like the Rose Witch who was attracted before, and all the people around would be drawn in. He shouldn't be talking to Kyubey alone.

"Originally, you should have been the only one here."

"Originally? What do you mean!"

"You left, away from the location near the train, so the familiar deployed a larger barrier to contain you."

Zhi Xing turned around and looked at the darkness behind him. Anger welled up in his heart and he said:

"Is that why you told me before I was caught in the barrier? Kyubey!"

"How could that be? I originally thought that you were the type who, when faced with danger, would give up struggling once you realized you couldn't escape, and only start hiding once you entered the barrier."

As Kyubey spoke, the red mark on his back suddenly lit up, and then the middle became empty like a gate.

The tentacles on the ears stretched into the space on the back, flipped it over, and through it, a mobile phone was taken out by Kyubey.

"By the looks of it, could this be the phone Homura gave me?!"

Zhixing felt in his pockets and found nothing but an old cell phone that he could use to contact Saotome and surf the Internet, and some coins.

Zhixing recalled and remembered that since the new phone could not access the Internet even when outside, he did not bring it with him when he checked the map for the route in the afternoon. After all, he arrived an hour early, so he should not be able to go out on patrol just after the meeting. So instinctively, Zhixing did not want to bring the new phone with him.

"Yes, it's the phone that contains the encrypted data you have."

Kyubey revealed the identity of the mobile phone, which also made Zhixing very alert. While smearing and retreating, he looked at Kyubey puzzledly:

"What are you trying to do by taking this out now? You probably don't understand."

Kyubey nodded and said:

"Indeed, apart from the Chinese table of contents at the beginning and the content after issue * of Witch Night, which can be understood through language, the rest is just a patchwork of different words, and it's impossible to understand what they are saying."

Kyubey fiddled with his phone and casually clicked play, only to listen to the content read aloud, one word on the left and one word on the right, as if it were garbled code. Whether from the perspective of Chinese or Japanese, even if it was an onomatopoeia, Kyubey could not effectively interpret it.

"Although we have observed that you can indeed obtain the information you want to know from it, and Homura Akemi was also struggling when she wrote it down in class, but Homura Akemi used her magic to unilaterally block my telepathy, and you are also particularly unable to communicate telepathically, even though you are clearly communicating back and forth with Witch's Kiss. ​​Why is that?"

Seeing that Kyubey was fiddling with his phone without his permission, Zhixing knew that he was in trouble.

As expected, there was no need for Zhixing to figure out what would happen to him next, as Kyubey publicly stated:

"This is the witch's room now. Not only can the magical girl's magic power stimulate the witch's early hatching, but similar to magic power, the despair of humans can also stimulate the hatching of the seeds of sorrow."

"I've confirmed that for at least a few hours, no magical girl will notice this Seed of Sorrow, which has very low magical traces due to its incubation."

"And this isn't a city-circling tram, it's a six-minute round-trip tram between cities. Even if there's residual magic due to the barrier, the magical girl won't be able to pinpoint the specific tram, so there's no escape route if you rely on the magical girl to save you."

While looking at Zhixing's new phone, Qibi ruthlessly blocked Zhixing's escape route, which gave him the right to remain silent.

After listening to the explanation, Zhixing realized something and stopped retreating. Instead, he rushed towards Kyubey's position eagerly.

But the paper lines with a pitch-black vision are no match for Kyubey who can be aware of the surrounding environment.

With a few jumps, Qiubi came to a height that was beyond the reach of the paper line with his mobile phone.

"Well, let me begin. Let me translate what exactly this document says."

Kyubey kept a smile on his face, without opening his mouth or using telepathy. He simply vibrated the air around him and spoke to the paper line that covered its ears because it couldn't climb up:

"Let's start with the part you've already seen but haven't finished. You're stuck at the * part. This should be very important content, Edogawa Conan."

"What, someone disappeared from the tram station?"

"Yes, and based on the description, it should be the boy from yesterday."

You felt overwhelmed when listening to the staff's report.

"Have you found out about that guy's life trajectory? Which magical girl did he have any connection with?"

"From the surveillance footage, it seems he was the first to have come into contact with the magical girl from Mitakihara Town, Tomoe Mami. The two have been living together for almost two weeks."

"But it seems that Mami only came into contact with Edogawa after she was granted a wish, because she would take her on patrol every day, and Mami became a magical girl a year ago, but I can't find any other magical girls."

"Wasn't there someone waiting for someone at the tram stop last night?"

"For a period of time, the video footage was tampered with, and we couldn't see when Edogawa got on and off the bus."

Yuu picked up the file with Tomoe Mami's name on it, looked at it for a few seconds, and sighed:

"Let's inform Tomoe Mami, even though it's probably too late. Really, as an apostle, why don't you just stay with the magical girl instead of running around for no reason?"

"Do I need to inform the other magical girls?"

"No, just talk to Mami alone. Don't mention Edogawa. Just tell her that we've received news of someone missing on the train, causing panic. They think there's a witch on the train. We'll control the panicked crowd, but we can't sense the witch's exact location, so we'll leave it to you."

"Yes!"

You watched the staff leave, then called up a real-time tram operation status and saw that among the more than 100 trams in operation, one was specially marked in red.

Yu weighed the pros and cons in his mind and decided not to stop the train from running. After all, this was equivalent to telling Mami that he knew what had happened.

"Among so many people, except for the one in the closest carriage, no one else was affected by the barrier. It couldn't be the witch's barrier. So, apart from the apostles who were blessed by the magic and caught up in the familiar, there shouldn't be any other casualties."

"Normally, it only takes three or four people to hatch into a witch. Now that it has eaten so many people at once, if it hatches into a witch, I'm afraid it will be very powerful. I hope you can stop it in time."

"Ugh! Where is this? Did the tram lose power in the middle of the tracks? Why am I lying on the ground?"

Jiro Tanaka covered his head which hit the ground, and spoke somewhat at a loss in this pitch-black space.

As if it had just started, there were sounds coming one after another all around, as if many people around had just woken up, but not only could they not be seen, even the sounds could not be heard clearly.

Jiro Tanaka stretched out his hand toward the place where the sound came from, and as expected, he touched someone else's body. The other person was startled and dodged at first, then touched him again as if he had found his organization.

"Is it alive? Can you hear me?"

"Okay, I hear you, do you hear me!"

"I heard it! I heard it! But do you understand what's happening here now?"

"I don't know either, but let's look for other people first. Those places where the noises were made just now should also be occupied. Let's gather together first and then consider the current situation!"

Tanaka vaguely judged that the other party should be a woman, but her voice was still too soft, so Tanaka could only shout loudly, hoping that the other party would speak louder.

Afterwards, the two of them worked together, searching here and there, and soon gathered a group of people.

Although they had to get closer to each other to talk, they quickly shared a common piece of information: "They were all on the tram before the incident."

Tanaka was thinking about where the tunnel would be on this tram line while looking for others.

I don't know when it started, but the surrounding scenery began to vaguely show some colors. Then, although it was still very difficult, I could also make out the general outline of the person who was being pulled.

"I think I can see it, what about you?"

"It seems a little clearer now. I see you!"

Just as Tanaka was about to respond excitedly, a voice completely different from the small voices of others rang out:

"Don't talk, keep quiet. Those guys outside are almost attracted by you. Stand against the wall!"

Then, a figure came running over quickly and pushed the people holding hands aside.

"That's it, stop, and don't talk, don't make any noise!"

Everyone suddenly fell silent, and soon Tanaka heard a sound of something being dragged from not far away, followed by a panting sound with a hint of roar.

"Sigh~"

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Tanaka and the others were too afraid to speak out, and none of them dared to take any action after hearing such a voice.

After a while, the person in front who was pushing everyone against the wall broke off the physical contact. With the sound of coins flying around, the roar quickly disappeared.

"It's not safe here, come with me."

Tanaka could tell that the other person was speaking in a low voice, but even at this volume, his voice was clearer than that of other people.

Tanaka couldn't help but nodded, and then he found that the other party was holding his shoulders and leading him in a certain direction, leaving for a while from time to time, and then coming back to continue leading the way.

"Okay, let's stop here for now."

After walking for a long time in the dark, they finally stopped after hearing the command. Tanaka felt that the other party was no longer lowering his voice, so he couldn't help but ask:

"Who are you? What happened just now?"

"Me? Um, I'm Conan Edogawa, a detective."

Zhixing said impolitely, then looked at the people in front of him and asked:

"Is that all now? I see there are only sixteen of you. That's not enough for a whole carriage, is it?"

"I wasn't looking at my phone at the time. I remember that before the accident, more people got off at the previous station, so it wasn't full."

"Okay, listen up, you should have seen the creature by now, and you should have realized that this is not a tram..."

"Mr. Edogawa, what is that creature? I can't see it at all!"

Tanaka interrupted Zhixing's words tremblingly. Zhixing was also stunned when he heard it and asked:

"Didn't you see it?"

Then, a lot of sporadic voices came from the side. Although Tanaka could not understand, Zhixing heard it clearly. Then he suddenly said:

"It turns out that what you hear and see now is not very clear. Then be quiet. You are all talking too loudly. If you want to talk, please speak softly."

Tanaka heard the surrounding voices suddenly disappear, and then he heard Zhixing continue to explain:

"You're no longer on the train, but in an alternate dimension. Well, there's one of those urban legends, where everyone on the train suddenly disappears, something like that."

"You are now in a state of disappearance from the outside world, so don't act separately on your own."

"Another dimension or something? You must be kidding! Aren't we supposed to be stuck in the subway and the police will be here to rescue us soon?"

Tanaka felt that the woman he had pulled over at the beginning was making a questioning sound that he could hear, so he couldn't help but take out his mobile phone, turned on the phone light, and could see a little bit of things dimly. Then, relying on the feel of the keyboard, he tried to make a call.

Just as the other party said, although I couldn't hear it clearly, at least it was not the frequency of the sound broadcast like "beep~beep~beep".

"Keep your voice down. If we attract those things now, we won't be able to get everyone out safely."

Zhihang calmed down the excited crowd and said soothingly:

"Rescue will come. Someone should be here to save us in a few hours, but no one can die accidentally before then. Do you understand?"

Seeing that everyone was hesitant, Zhi Xing hesitated for a moment, then spoke:

"Listen, although I don't know much about them yet, I can give you a brief introduction."