Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"What's more, I'm still translating. I'm still relying on my own abilities, constantly trying and failing, to find the words that can be combined into these sentences, and then give them to Xiaoyan to memorize."

"This encrypted information, since the ability has been recovered, cannot be discovered. Therefore, the conclusion that it replaced Madoka's wish can be denied."

"The subsequent thoughts are only natural. Since Madoka's karma has been traded away by Kyubey's wish, how did Homura's karma overlap with Madoka's to become the world's strongest?"

"Guess what? In the second round, Homura has no causal energy left, and neither does Madoka. In the next round, Homura transforms from an ordinary person into a magical girl in a split second, giving Kyubey a surprise, while Madoka becomes an ordinary person with causal energy +1."

"Ah~ Where did that karma from last second go, Homura?"

"How is it such a coincidence that in this cycle, with one increase and one decrease, the energy is conserved?"

"This explanation seems to perfectly align with the origin of Madoka's qualifications in the TV series ending, and the reason why Homura is also abnormal in the movie because Madoka is gone."

"But I can't find the words in Homura's wish that would allow for this kind of causal transfer."

"On the contrary, making a wish based on protecting her has only made it more difficult to do so."

"So, this is actually a distortion of Homura's wish?"

"The more you want to protect someone, the more you lose them under the influence of distortion, and ultimately you can't protect anything."

“But there are still problems with this view.”

"Kyuubi praised Madoka's abnormal karmic talent in her later years. So, the blessing bestowed upon Madoka, used by her to make a wish, was it Homura's distortion? Or Homura's karmic talent? Or perhaps both?"

"The distortion is just a channel for exchange, not Madoka herself?"

"Those are things that TV can only verify at the end, but now, I can also infer my own situation."

"The power of the previous wish was exchanged for a distorted one, and the girl's karma was bestowed upon others. Then, by consuming the girl's karma, wishes were continuously fulfilled."

"Based on this, I have come to a conclusion: the cause and effect of Madoka Nidaime is within my body."

"If the other people are all immune to the Witch's Kiss because of their own karma plus the girl's karma."

"Then my situation is that the cause and effect of the second generation Yuan's wish was distorted and transferred, and the cause and effect of me + the second generation Yuan

"Magic power is the result of cause and effect—the remainder left after a wish is consumed. It's the result of normal energy conservation that even Kyubey disdains."

"So, where is my karma?"

"Quppi's explanation of cause and effect: A princess of a country and a savior, such an existence would have a huge cause and effect."

"According to explanations elsewhere, cause and effect should be the entire past, present, and future, and the things you can do that affect the fate of others."

"Every cause has its effect, and every effect has its cause. The result of any matter, if we trace it back to its origin, must have a cause that gave rise to it."

"Under what circumstances would karma be small? So small that, combined with the girl's karma, which already exceeds that of an ordinary person, she would be more easily ensnared by the Witch's Kiss than an ordinary person?"

The information ended here. Zhi Xing frowned and rummaged through the information, trying to find the next part.

However, the page numbers marked on the document tell the paper that this is indeed an open-ended conclusion.

Zhixing was a little at a loss for a moment. He took out his mobile phone to compare the electronic version of the information, and then listened to it a second time out of concern.

After a long while, the voice ended. Zhi Xing lowered his head, then raised it again, looking expectantly at Xiao Yan who was sitting across from him and asked:

"There should be a follow-up, right? Was it added to the top-secret oral history? This possibility should also be overturned, right?"

Homura yawned when she heard the question, sat up, looked at Zhi Xing's neck, and then stabbed him with a knife.

"Like I said, this document was mainly written for yourself. I'm sure I didn't miss anything. You've confirmed this with me more than once, so let's face it."

"That's impossible. After all, I have my own Butterfly Effect. It can't be the same ending as Steins;Gate."

Homura looked at the paper and began to not care whether he could understand or not. He said some words to himself, but he didn't know what they meant. He stared at it for a few minutes, then nodded, checked the time and said:

"It seems there won't be any surprises today. Go to bed early. Your next task is to spend more time thinking besides reading the materials every day."

Seeing that Zhixing was immersed in his own thoughts and did not respond, Xiaoyan shook his head and said good night helplessly, then returned to his room and closed the door.

Seeing Xiaoyan leave, Zhixing, who had been muttering just now, suddenly stopped talking, fearing that Kyubey would hear anything. Then he silently turned off the lights, returned to the room, and without changing clothes, he lay directly on the bed, flipped over the quilt, and covered himself with the whole body.

Rather than sitting in a chair to think, Zhixing, who had rarely needed to get out of bed for several years at home, was more accustomed to hiding in the darkness and isolation of the quilt, eliminating visual and auditory interference, and began to continue thinking about the information he had just received without interruption for the first time.

"I was clearly looking at the list of foreign players, so why did I end up looking at something related to karma and wishing?"

I opened my phone in bed, checked the number of pages I had translated, and confirmed the table of contents.

"The causal relationship of the foreign aid list came first, and then it was time to make a wish?"

Zhi Xing frowned as he looked at the layout. It was just like writing out the witch's barrier first, and then deducing the possibility of summoning the witch's night through the witch's kiss.

Now this article first discusses one's own cause and effect issues, and then there is information about making a wish. No matter how you look at it, it seems to be laying the groundwork for something.

He took out a pen from under the quilt, went out and got a notebook, and then, under the light of his cell phone, began to organize the contents with a pen.

"The first is that the conclusion may be true, but the reasoning is very problematic."

"I remember that what Madoka saw were clearly her own memories from the previous round. How could it be that they were Homura's karmic blessings?"

"Although I don't see it every round, I don't have any sense of déjà vu, but it should be the causal influence of my otherworldly counterpart."

"After all, as a magical girl, she should have some of her own karma left. Otherwise, how can she replenish her magic power in real time? Maybe she was just brought along by Homura's magic."

"Besides, not every Madoka is destined to become a magical girl. Some don't become one, but pass away first, or fail the Witch's Night and choose reincarnation. Doesn't that mean the karma is superimposed?"

"So, the power of wishing in me shouldn't be considered as cause and effect, right?"

Zhixing quickly objected to his statement due to the lack of evidence, then looked at the information about the duration of the wish after that, and became a little unsure.

If we simply avoid this conclusion now and then provide some evidence in the official wish-making chapter, wouldn't that directly confirm the result?

After all, it was information that I left behind on purpose, so I shouldn't be lying.

"I'm not going to get into the TV plot right now, so if I want to verify my hypothesis, I can only start from other people's similar experiences, so..."

Looking at this material that was destined to look back into the past and record the history of the person to whom the wish was made, Zhixing really had no intention of verifying his own thoughts.

"So, if this is true, my karma is low?"

"Borrowing money, buying things, eating, providing food and lodging, eliminating the witch ahead of time, almost causing the accident, keeping Asami and Sayaka alive, and...that stranger on the street."

"If karma is the kind where everything happens for a reason, then even if I'm a time traveler and my initial karmic value is 0, my karmic value should already be higher than that of an average person."

"Maybe it's just because of the other world, so there's no immunity to the Witch's Kiss, which is why it looks like there's nothing there."

For speculations that could not be verified, Zhihang quickly denied the conclusion after confirming its own results.

It's just something you made up to scare yourself. You just didn't think about it carefully for a while. As long as there is no substantial evidence, the speculation can be overturned.

The paper bank replayed the * part, and only after confirming that the final conclusion did not arouse his emotions did he go back to the questions at the beginning.

"Is it a reappearance of fan works? That's the biggest problem."

A brain in a vat? A futuristic holographic game? A vegetative state?

"If the story of Madoka Magica is true, then the Principle of the Circle should have been born by the time I learned about it, and at that moment it transformed the entire world's past, present, and future. There is no possibility that I could have traveled here again."

"So even if Madoka Magica really existed, there would only be the Demonic Beast arc, or even the Silver Garden arc at the end of the movie."

"I've been through so many rounds, and the plan Homura mentioned is something I haven't thought of before, but it does match my knowledge. Even if I modify my memory, I shouldn't be able to... imitate it, right?"

Letting the phone screen go off automatically, Zhixing closed his eyes, and the scene of Xiaoyan wearing a red ribbon, waiting alone at the school gate appeared in his mind.

"Wasn't this a prank I suggested to Homura in a certain episode? After all, after leaving the subway station, Homura returned to her original headdress. That...was just a cosplay to...help me calm down, right? I think that's what I said at the time...right?"

"Besides, what's so special about me that Homura in the movie would waste her time on me, perform, stay overnight, and even prepare a serious document that Homura herself wouldn't collect?"

"With Homura's skills, with simple memory manipulation, I can completely become a native of this place and won't participate in this magical girl world."

Although it was a question he had just thought of, Zhixing quickly reached out and covered his neck, providing himself with a substantial answer.

"Because the witch reappeared after the movie, I will be dragged into the witch no matter what, so you have no intention of modifying your memory?"

"Memory modification is not perfect, just like the monsters that blurt out in the movie, and Sayaka's uncontrollable opposition in the Silver Garden at the end."

"While it can be suppressed further, it doesn't resolve the fact that memory modification is unreliable."

"In order to dispel my doubts, you didn't modify my memory, but only erased my past memories in this world?"

"No, Homura shouldn't be... Uh? Have Homura and Kyubey ever appeared at the same time? No, I didn't see the Snack Witch, Charlotte-Hyaku Nagise, at Mami's house! So this place is still..."

"Is it possible that my presence has taken her place? No, no, no, it's only been a week, how could that be possible?"

Zhixing poked his head out from the quilt and looked at Xiaoyan's room, which was two walls and a hall away from his own room. It seemed that he only needed a few steps to go over and find out what was going on. At worst, his memory was really erased. If it was fake, it would just reveal some information about the future.

"How did the author know the story of this world? If only Urobuchi had access to the story, then how could doujinshi and spin-offs exist? Even now, it seems that only people with matching names exist. After all, they are not from the original story, so who would remember so many names?"

"But I recognize people by name now. The only other evidence is the terrain and the magical girl's appearance. So, is it impossible for these things to be artificially changed?"

Zhi Xing looked in Xiao Yan's direction with a conflicted look, and after thinking for a while, he made his own decision without relying on the coin.

Chapter 76: Decoding: Avoiding pitfalls in daily life

I put my head back on the pillow, without even looking at my phone, I closed my eyes and went to sleep.

"Even if I want to ask, I can't go right now. It would reveal where I got the information from."

"If I'm really in the latter stages of the theatrical release, then without the threat of Witch Night, my only value is probably translating materials."

Zhixing adjusted his sleeping position, trying to relax himself and clear away distracting thoughts before going to bed.

But after all, it was a long period of depression, and with the constant intrusion of thoughts, Zhixing found it difficult to fall asleep.

"Twist~"

The sound of the door being opened reached Zhihang's ears.

Zhixing felt like he was back in his childhood when he was checked into his dormitory. He instinctively pretended to be asleep and showed no unusual behavior.

After a while, Zhixing quietly opened his eyes and found that the door was closed.

He quietly glanced around the dim room but found nothing. Then he touched the notebook next to the pillow, which was still there intact.

"Is it Homura? Or Kyubey?"

With an answer that could not be verified, Zhixing still managed to fall asleep after lying down for half an hour.

“2012年6月7号木曜日（周四）11：40”

Zhixing got up from the bed with a tired look on his face.

Compared to Mami's family where they were required to go to school and have breakfast together, life at Homura's house was more in line with her own habits.

Without the pressure of an alarm clock, or even the pressure of physical limitations of mobile games, I could sleep until noon.

If I hadn't stayed up past midnight yesterday and gone to bed early, I would probably have slept until the afternoon today.

I fumbled for my phone to order takeout, but couldn't find the paper line for my old phone. I searched for a while in confusion before I remembered that my old phone had been sacrificed to locate myself in the witch's barrier.

In desperation, Zhixing had to look through the notebook again, found the phone number he had translated before, and the corresponding product name, and used the phone number Xiaoyan gave him to make a takeout call.

After making lunch arrangements, Zhixing looked at his phone with only two call records, feeling a little disappointed. After all, this meant that Asami, Sayaka, and Saotome could no longer contact him directly.

I couldn't tell Sayaka that I had broken the appointment.

After washing up for a while, Zhixing waited for the takeaway to finish his lunch. Then he looked at the paper materials still in the hall. Although there were still 3 main texts, Zhixing confirmed that he had plenty of time to finish reading them. So he returned to his room without any regrets and started another round of catching up on the anime.

Although there were no mobile games or computers, most of the films that I had selected attracted my attention, so time passed quickly.

When Kazuyuki woke up from his distraction, Homura had already opened the door and returned from school.

"Don't look anymore, clean up, it's almost time to go on patrol."

"Does time pass that fast?"

Zhihang looked at the paper and saw that it was already dinner time, and was a little surprised.

"I'm done with today's work, but I don't have time to cook. Tomorrow, just prepare the meal by this time. It's OK as long as it's edible. Do you understand?"

"Huh? I've only watched it twice."

"That's enough. You can read the book later."

With that, Homura returned to the room, put away her backpack, and then took out a chef's instruction book and said:

"This is a picture and text, quite detailed. The ingredients are already in the refrigerator. Although they won't be very fresh, as usual, as long as they are edible, it's fine."

Then he went out with the paper he had prepared in his room.

On the way, Zhi Xing observed Xiao Yan for a while.

She wore a black headdress, no earrings, and had a businesslike demeanor, as if maintaining interpersonal relationships for the sake of a plan.

After thinking for a while, Zhi Xing asked indirectly:

"Will you still meet Kyubey now?"