Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

The list of foreign aid has basically announced that Witch Night can only be played with five colors. The official is unreliable and the local authorities are unwilling to come. In addition to representing the unreasonable situation that fan settings may also exist in this world, it is also impossible to use it because those situations require many people to make wishes to create them.

Madoka's translation ability seems to have been effective in attracting attention, but aside from Homura's safe room, there's probably nowhere to place the megaphone. This would only work once, and since it's so rare, it must be put to good use, right? Even if Homura can locate the starting position and launch an initial attack...

Past experiences only gave me a general understanding of the background. Apart from making it easier for me to give up the current round and fully support the future, it seemed to be of no help.

Daily life is even less helpful for Witch Night, and it only further proves the idea of ​​giving up this week's program.

Only in the familiar barrier, the condition that the witch cannot be seen on night is a little strange.

On the one hand, he wanted to lure out Witch Night in advance, destroying the situation where he could defeat Witch Night and end the cycle of reincarnation.

On the other hand, he told himself not to see the Witch Night, which should mean hiding in a shelter far away from the battlefield, waiting for everything to settle down, and then seeing what happens.

You can't just pit yourself and hide in the shelter, which will change the appearance position of Witch Night, causing the shelter to be stolen, and thus enter the next round, right?

If this situation had happened once, Homura would have known about it and made her own arrangements. Furthermore, being able to draw a conclusion generally meant that it had been verified, and the conversion into ciphertext encryption gave Homura time to memorize it.

There's no way it was completed temporarily after seeing Witch Night.

In other words, this condition was likely to have been verified for at least two weeks before it was finally recorded?

Zhixing summarized the known situations and determined that these were just tools to make himself despair and could not provide any other help.

I only read the main text about the duration of the wish, and I haven't read the conclusion of the investigation on the characteristics of familiars and the basic abilities of magical girls.

Just by looking at the title, I knew that it probably wouldn't be of much help to Witch Night.

Zhixing gave up the idea of ​​thinking deeply about the content of the information and turned to thinking about what conditions were needed to deal with Witch Night.

First of all, during the battle, with Homura's battlefield layout and heavy firepower, if she could use the time-stopping technique to allow Kyoko and Asami to zoom in, she might be able to kill Witch Night in one second by consuming 3 Seeds of Sorrow.

If they can't take them down in one go, and the battle turns into a fight of attrition, in this ultra-long-distance battlefield spanning the distances between buildings, no one except Xiaoyan will be able to adapt to this combat environment that is different from usual, and there will be no targeted training, so there will probably be no cooperation.

As they each fight alone, the key is whether they are willing to defeat Witch Night.

So the factor that influences the outcome is still the determination of the four colors to fight against Witch Night?

Mami Tomoe will definitely feel obliged to do so, and Sakura Kyoko will be reluctantly forced to join the battlefield because of the bond with Mami Tomoe.

Sayaka Miki has a bond with Kamijou or Madoka Hitomi, and will also fight hard. As long as she doesn't abandon her friendship for Kamijou and then loses her reason to protect him because of Kamijou's affairs, it should be fine.

Homura Akemi also has a relationship with Madoka

Zhixing was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly looked through his past experiences, but found that there was no similar explanation before the key description, and there might not even be an opportunity for mutual agreement.

Zhixing covered his face, immersed himself in the darkness, and began to think about his previous guesses.

"The Principle of the Circle hasn't been born, and the witch still exists. I remember when I considered this issue before, the answer I came up with was that this parallel world is controlled by Kyubey, so the Principle of the Circle doesn't involve it."

"But Homura has reincarnated more than once, and witches have been present in all her previous reincarnations. So it's not that Kyubey learned a plan to counter the Principle of Circles from his own variable, but rather that the Principle of Circles wasn't born because Homura wasn't devoted enough to Madoka and gave up reincarnation?"

"It shouldn't be like this. The birth of the Principle of the Ring should have meant that either this possibility didn't exist, or if it did, it would have already completely covered the past and future."

"As long as the Principle of Circles appears in the future, the current witch would have been eliminated by Madoka at the very beginning. She can only see her current self and would never have the chance to see the witch."

"If Kyubey hadn't interfered with all the worlds Homura had been and would be involved in, causing the Principle of the Circle to be unable to interfere, then the probability of the Principle of the Circle appearing would be 0%."

"If we consider the impossibility of a ring appearing in the future, then either Madoka used me as an open-book exam and the cause and effect never materialized, or, as I imagined, my wish was intercepted and tampered with, like the reason I traveled through time."

"But the problem remains. Without the Principle of the Circle, no one would know the depth of Madoka's talent. And with the Principle of the Circle, no matter how hard you try, you won't be able to enter the old universe that has already been reset by the Principle of the Circle."

"Unless the power is higher than the Principle of the Circle, or there are kyuubi and the others with the same level of power."

"After all, even Homura, who made a wish, and Kyubey, who could witness the end, couldn't stay in the old world. What power could allow me to reincarnate in one old world after another?"

As Zhi Xing thought about it, his thoughts returned to the brain in the vat, a dream of a vegetative person, an ending that was purely in his own imagination.

Zhixing looked at the new phone and thought of the various mind-blowing settings and character creations, music, paintings, and other things inside it. It was impossible for him to have thought of them.

Coming back to his senses from his thoughts about his own ending, Zhi Xing looked at his notebook and saw the sentence he hadn't finished writing. He sighed:

"So, how much of a fixation do you still have on Madoka now, Homura? Is it still possible that saving Madoka is your only salvation? With someone you can trust and cooperate with by your side?"

Zhixing closed his mouth and rethought the famous scene of Yuanyan's appointment.

"First, there was Madoka, who learned the truth about the magical girls. In the end, she couldn't survive the Witch Night, so she had no hope for the future and could only let Homura go to the past to save her."

"Even after knowing the truth, Madoka wouldn't immediately think of redemption. At least after she personally killed Mami, she still managed to hold on until Witch Night."

"So, how do we meet this condition? He was attacked in Act 3 after revealing the truth to Mami, so even the magical girls won't reveal the truth afterwards. So how does Madoka know it?"

"In the original story, Homura told everyone before they knew about it, which led to this ending."

"As for me, although I'm also in the third round, what did Madoka know about the truth? At that time, I was the one who asked Homura to reincarnate early. Did we make an agreement?"

"Are you keeping yourself away from Madoka now to protect her, or do you want me to avoid having any expectations of her fulfilling your wishes?"

Zhixing rubbed his head, then looked at the time, ordered takeout with his mobile phone, turned to another page in his notebook, and decisively gave up this pure speculation that had no evidence to prove it.

"You shouldn't doubt Homura's determination to destroy Witch Night. If Homura doesn't persevere, who else can we rely on?"

"So we need to keep the situation stable. The only variables are Kyoko and Kamijou's situations."

"Without Kyoko's fighting power, I wonder if Homura can fight any better than before in a 3 vs 1 situation with her current condition."

After summarizing it in his mind, Zhixing opened his empty schedule and added a plan to meet Xingzi again when everyone else was at school. Then Zhixing went to watch anime while waiting for the takeout.

After finishing dinner, Zhixing set the alarm clock and watched a few episodes of anime before heading to the subway station at the urging of the alarm clock.

Zhixing wandered around the subway station for a while, but didn't see Xiaoyan, so he took the subway to the meeting station.

After getting off the tram, Zhihang looked at the people in the station, but didn't see a familiar face.

I opened my phone and looked at the time "19:13". I took out the note and checked the name of the station again to make sure I was not in the wrong place and the time was right. So, what went wrong?

Before Zhihang could figure it out, a voice came over.

"Yo, who are you waiting for here all by yourself? Why aren't you with your Homura-chan?"

Zhixing slowly turned around and saw Xingzi who had just come from the ticket gate.

"What about Asami and the others? Didn't they come with you?"

"Who knows, maybe the party was cancelled because there are no witches today."

"Haven't I started yet?" Zhixing asked doubtfully.

"I say, if witches could come so frequently, other cities would no longer be able to maintain peace. They would just become a place where magical girls gather together in groups."

"So, there aren't many magical girls in other cities?"

"Yes, it's precisely because witches don't come often that Mitakihara, a place that can support two or three magical girls, is valuable."

"Two or three? Can't we get a five-color team?"

"What are you thinking? Even if Homura Akemi finally promised to leave this city, it's actually too much of a stretch to even sustain three magical girls, especially since Asami is planning to clean up the familiars. So after dealing with Witch Night, I'll be back in Kazemino and waiting for the reward I deserve."

"Is the consumption of the Seed of Sorrow really that great?"

"You're not a magical girl, so don't try to understand too much. The Seed of Sorrow is much more important than you think."

Xingzi chatted with Zhixing to pass the time, but after just a while, she impatiently took out a bag of potato chips from her pocket and interrupted Zhixing's questioning.

Zhixing looked at Xingzi who started eating by herself and tried to find a few topics to talk about, but got no response, so he could only wait for others to arrive.

"Hey, don't you have anyone else's phone number? Contact them and see what's going on. I don't want to just sit there and wait."

"No, you can use my phone to make calls you know."

"Ha, you can't even tell me the phone number. How did you get involved in the world of magical girls?"

"I remember I said I wasn't the best choice in the first place. I can't help it if I can't remember."

Xingzi snatched Zhixing's phone, searched for it, and without trying to enter the phone number, threw the phone back to Zhixing.

"Wait another 10 minutes. If they don't come, I'll leave too."

Zhixing looked at the fully charged phone in his hand and thought for a moment:

"Although I can't contact other people, I can try to see if there are any witches around. If there are, we can go together. If not, can we just disband right here?"

"Okay, you'll need to try it once we're together anyway, so why not give it a try now?"

Zhixing got Xingzi's approval and did not get on the bus. Instead, he sat on the bench waiting at the station and started playing the * part of "Duration of the Wish" which seemed to be the least likely to bring negative emotions among the two options.

"The distortion of magical girls' wishes, trapped in a witch's barrier that they have to face, so what kind of wish can last the longest? How long did the wishes made by princesses or saviors in history last?"

"Although there's no clear record in history books, the nations of those girls who once had names seemed to prosper for a while before quickly declining. It's as if, because they affected the interests of other girls, they were repeatedly challenged by the wishes of others, and their successes couldn't last long. They weren't even as long as Athena's history."

"What if their wish isn't to serve their country, but to become a god?"

"I've found many images of the God of Incense or some other deity here, but none of them bear any resemblance to a specific girl's name, so I have no way of verifying it."

"Originally, the investigation into the duration of wishes should have ended here, but Homura reminded me that as Kyubey, who possesses the skill of wishing, why didn't he make a wish?"

"You know, emotional energy is not a necessary condition for making a wish. It's the energy of emotional transformation that Kyubey desires, the energy that can't be provided by a wish. That's why he uses the opportunity to make a wish as a bargaining chip in exchange for the girl's life."

Chapter 88 Decryption: The duration of the wish

"First of all, it's clear that the wish that can create the Principle of the Ring is definitely a separate technology, not a wish made to the high-tech Kyubey."

"Otherwise, it wouldn't be to the point where even Kyubey himself would forget about it, or even directly restart the universe. Based on this premise, it's possible that Kyubey even needs to make a wish."

"To this end, we consulted the famous honest player, Kyubey. After learning from him how wishes were used, I summarized them."

"As you might imagine, with the technology to grant wishes and a clear problem to solve, Kyubey's early attempts at granting wishes were quite abusive, leading to many negative consequences."

"Even with controls, there's no guarantee that the technology for making wishes will be preserved. Because of previous wishes, the world is constantly in turmoil."

"It was as if contradictions had accumulated to a certain point, and saviors arrived. In that era of strife, a group of kyuubi, at different times and in different places, spontaneously called for everyone to be rational. This desire, which would normally only affect a certain area or a generation, combined with the influence of distortion and swept across the entire race."

"Because everyone has become relatively more rational, their desires have been reduced. Each request automatically calculates the time and energy required, and the need to make a wish no longer arises. As a result, the situation where everyone can only make small wishes has disappeared. Instead, the causal capacity far exceeds that of others, allowing those with mental illnesses who are not affected by rational wishes to make larger wishes."

"But this particularity is undesirable in the face of a group, so it was studied and exploited, and emotional transformation technology was invented to make the group more rational."

"Although cause and effect transcend individuals, facing the empathetic persecution of an entire race, the impact of a single Kyubey's wish becomes insignificant."

"But Kyubey, who can transcend causality among a rational group, is truly extraordinary. Wishes are powerless to resist, so we can just divert the conflict."

"A certain Kyubey made a prophecy by making a wish, using the solution of entropy in exchange for the survival space of sentient Kyubey."

"Of course, the solution is to find a human planet at that coordinate, and use the wishing and emotion conversion techniques to obtain energy that transcends the law of entropy."

"So, primitive humans, still in their savage days and no different from gorillas, were found by Kyubey and gradually developed to our current level of technology."

"No wonder Madoka could make a wish to prevent Kyubey from coming. It turns out that the coordinates of the Earth were revealed by the wish, so as long as the prophecy of more than an unknown number of Kyubeys is exceeded, it can be stopped."

"So even if someone knew the truth about Kyubey in the past and wanted Kyubey not to come, the karma of one person could only delay the discovery for a few hundred years. This amount of time is not enough for the ape-men to develop to any level."

"Wishing is some kind of black technology of Kyubey. It might even have been granted by Kyubey long ago as a gifted skill of his tribe. However, wishing is a double-edged sword."

"Without relying on wishes, the speed of rational Kyubey development is far greater than that of a civilization that relies on geniuses who grant wishes. Therefore, Kyubeys who have reviewed history understand that the power gained through wishes will only be distorted and gradually corrected by forces that cannot be determined. Therefore, for Kyubeys with strong karmic connections and the ability to grant great wishes, they do not utilize their ability to grant wishes, but instead study the extraction of emotional energy."

"That being said, no Kyubey has ever wished for sanity, except for Kyubey's own period of sanity."

"However, it's impossible to judge the time that Kyubey himself has developed. However, on the human side, for thousands of years, they have been rationally and emotionlessly using girls to trade energy."

"This can be said to be a wish that lasts longer than those pseudo-immortal vampires."

"Why, then, has this intellectual desire not been corrected?"

"Qupi said they are still studying this and have not reached a clear conclusion. This is an ambiguous statement of the truth."

"But the mechanism of making a wish itself doesn't change. It's just a matter of the amount of cause and effect."

"So, the power of ordinary people's wishes is continued by relying on magical girls to transform into witches and be exiled to another dimension."

"And the mechanism by which magical girls transform into witches is achieved by Kyubey using emotion conversion technology. So, it's only natural that Kyubey knows that this will prolong the time it takes for the wish to be corrected."

"So, can the aspirations of one civilization be sustained by being exiled to another dimension by another civilization of a different size?"

"If that's possible, then we'll become the chickens that Kewpie wishes for."

"After all, it doesn't make sense that the energy needed to fight against the endless entropy would have been collected in Madoka's time."

"But what if we could use it to combat the distortions that come with wishing?"

After hearing the whole passage, Zhixing's first reaction was that Kyubey couldn't possibly be telling the whole truth.

However, it is certain that rationality comes from making a wish. In order to resist the correction of the wish in the future, they use Kyubey, who has many causes and effects, to develop emotion conversion technology to make their own race more rational, which is indeed reasonable.

As for the final result of this rational wish, Zhixing responded to the gratifying Kyubey in the movie and couldn't help shaking his head.

Even Kyubey, who has done the most in-depth research and applied the technology of wishing, cannot rely on making wishes to obtain eternal results. It turns out that making a wish is nothing more than a disguised equivalent exchange. The so-called miracle is nothing more than a misunderstanding of a low-level civilization caused by not knowing how much effect energy can have.

Moreover, this equivalent exchange is not completed in one transaction, but has to be returned, which further weakens the value of making a wish.

So is this making me despair about not being able to use Madoka's wishes?