Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"Although these ribbon-turned guns are discarded after firing a single shot, the magic power will be lost in mid-air. As the gun loses its shape and disintegrates back into the ribbon, it returns to Mami, so the magic power consumed is not that much."

"Because the ribbon's own attack power is also very weak, we want to use firearms to provide kinetic energy to enhance its power. Anyway, this simulated firearm can't have much impact on the ribbon transformed into a bullet."

"After learning this, I realized that the root of the problem was still Kyubey's doing. So on the eve of Witch Night, I heard the whole thing from Kyubey."

"Besides the basic enchantment operations and a weapon that you can adapt to, there are only the unique skills brought by the magical girl's wish."

"For example, Mami's ribbon can transform into a false version of herself, Kyoko can also create multiple magical clones, Homura can stop time, Madoka can create a rain of magic arrows, and Blue Hair can provide healing abilities."

"In order to prolong the magical girls' lifespan, Kyubey stated that they had modified their bodies. Similarly, they also gave the girls, who had never fought since childhood, certain fighting instincts, allowing them to more easily wield weapons to fight the witches."

"It's the same question again. Asami has already proven that the structure of a firearm can increase its destructive power. So why doesn't the purpose of extending the magical girl's lifespan be to primarily use modern firearms?"

"Even though Homura doesn't have the corresponding combat instinct, she can still use firearms to fight Asami. If she had been able to use firearms from the beginning, with the combat instinct, it would have been much easier to deal with the witch. At worst, she could have used magic bullets instead of normal bullets like Madoka."

"We've been in the age of firearms for hundreds of years, so why are magical girls' weapons still so outdated that they require close combat? Not to mention the magic casting and magic circles you see in normal movies and TV shows. Besides sharing the witch's name, where's the magic left?"

"Kyuubi said they were helpless because the magical girls' mechanics weren't under their control. The energy allocated to their weapons could only produce the simplest and most direct structures, and couldn't form firearms with more parts. Mami is a genius, so she can't be imitated."

"The rapid concentration and condensation of magic power is crucial in a battle with a witch. Few magical girls can maintain full control under such circumstances."

"It is precisely for this reason that more magic power is used to strengthen the body, rather than turning it into individual spells. Learning and research are needed to achieve greater effectiveness."

Chapter 90 The Last Circle

"This reason is obviously far-fetched. After all, Mami has already added an extra step to use a gun, but the magic can still only turn it into a ribbon, not a gun and bullets in one step."

"What's more, weapons are all pre-made. Creating bullets at a distance is much better than recreating weapons at close range. Besides, magical girls won't engage in head-on battles with witches. They'll dodge attacks, so the advantages of melee weapons won't be fully realized."

"Unless the original design was based on the premise of a civil war between magical girls."

"In a civil war, magical girls don't have the massive bodies of witches to target. With a girl's quick reflexes, it's easier for her to dodge long-range attacks than close combat."

"So, after ruling out the possibility that the magical girl system changes based on personal wishes, a suspicious point arises."

"Why can't Madoka just make a wish and become a magical girl?"

"Each witch has her own nickname, but just like we can refer to them all as witches, can we also refer to Magical Girl Sayaka, Magical Girl Tomoe Mami, and Magical Girl Sakura Kyoko as magical girls?"

"There must be people who can't think of a wish but want to become a magical girl. Is it because they don't have enough causal energy to replace the magical girl community? Or is it that there are already corresponding magical girls? Just like a certain note needs to know a name and appearance, if there is already a being with the same name, it might distort the corresponding being?"

"Unfortunately, this cannot be proven because Kyubey forbids it, and the word 'magical girl' does not appear in history books."

Zhixing looked at the content that had been written, and always felt that it was not quite the same as the numerical magical girl he had imagined. Although there were a few examples at the beginning, there were no specific values, so Zhixing did not intend to write them in the notebook. The rest of the content revolved around weapons, instincts, and names. No wonder the magical girl's values ​​​​had to be written into the information.

"In this country, underage girls are usually called girls, so since you will grow up to be witches one day, you should be called magical girls."

Zhixing recounted Kyubey's explanation of the magical girl in the original plot as part of uncovering the truth about the magical girl.

If we follow this naming method, witch is a name that has been used since ancient times, while magical girl is just a local name. Maybe earlier she would have been called a sorceress or a saint?

If that's the case, then there shouldn't be any other problems. What does your wish for a potato have to do with me, a potato? You can't think that just because they're all called potatoes, they all have an impact...

It seems...that's really the case?

The paper industry can still accept this kind of illogical idealism, and then rationally follows this logic---

"Grandpa and Grandma, I want to be an astronaut!"

“I wish you become a scientist soon!”

“I want to be a teacher!”

"I want to be the emperor!"

Will this seemingly normal desire become hopeless because of the problem of the name?

The first person Zhixing thought of was a person named Kaname Madoka.

Although her past experiences were not mentioned, based on her initial inability to communicate, she couldn't even know what this world was at the first moment, so it was inevitable that Madoka would become a magical girl. Then, as the opportunity for Homura to make a wish, Madoka must have disappeared at the beginning.

In order to meet the being named Kaname Madoka again, Homura obtained the magic of traveling through parallel universes - reincarnation.

Then, she met Madoka Kaname in other parallel universes, all with the same name Madoka Kaname, and through the common name Madoka Kaname, their cause and effect were superimposed on each other... I guess.

Could it be that I am also playing with this nesting doll?

Zhixing couldn't help but think of the mystery of time travel that he didn't know yet.

Could it be that he actually started out in the final round, in a universe where the witch had even disappeared, and then borrowed someone's wish, and without knowing there would be problems with the name, he chose the name of Homura Akemi as the object of the wish, which resulted in him following Homura in reincarnation over and over again?

"A miracle against a miracle?"

If this speculation is true, then Kyubey, who also has emotions on Kyubey's side, can also verify Homura's hypothesis in the same way and "become a witness to the final scene of the birth of the Law of Rings"!

When Zhixing thought of this, he couldn't help but look at the ceiling in horror, as if his sight could pass through the ceiling and time and see the Kyubey on the moon who made the sound.

"Shouldn't this be in the * part? Why is it... Oh right, my wish for translation skills will cancel out the previous wish, so I can't have come here like this..."

The collision of miracles and the offset of wishes, something that had been mentioned many times in the materials, awakened Zhi Xing from his wrong imagination.

Although he woke up, Zhixing figured out the reason why the events in the movie happened.

However, although Kyubey reincarnates with Homura, he watches from afar without interfering and only confirms his guess. This seems to be a more rational approach for Kyubey.

"Did I guess wrong again?"

Zhixing scratched his head, gave up further speculation on the name, and simply wrote on the notepad:

"Rules for making wishes: 2. Make wishes with precision and detail. Do not use names or codes that are well known to the public unless you can afford it."

Putting aside the name issue that could not be proven, Zhihang looked at another point that he cared about.

"...the energy allocated to the magical girl's weapon..."

Making a wish itself is also a kind of equal exchange. Similarly, the conversion of emotions into energy is also an equal exchange no matter how you look at it. It’s just that human technology is not yet able to utilize it, so it seems like magic.

Therefore, the magic power used by the magical girl is also limited. Although there is a limit on the container of the soul gem, the input efficiency is also limited. Therefore, the magical girl's clothes, the magical girl's body, and the initial weapon template.

The magic power requirements for these three fixed combinations should also be stable, and only then will the magical girl be able to freely use her magic.

For example, you can change your clothes and turn yourself into Saint Mami, strengthen your strengthened body even more, directly reconnect broken limbs, give your weapons more magic power, and directly make them Gigantamax.

As we all know, stability means that it is calculated.

So the * part is Kyubey's experiment and verification of the magical girl profession setting?

Zhixing couldn't help but make some guesses about this, and secretly gave himself a shot of defense in his heart, hoping to reduce the impact of despair, so that he could just finish reading these *-marked parts in one go as soon as possible, and then consider whether there is anything new.

Zhixing checked his notes again, which was a rare occurrence. After making sure he had digested this part of the content, he looked at the last text in the document, "Conclusion of the Investigation into Familiar Characteristics---8".

"Familiars are originally inferior to witches. They are consumables that can only rely on numbers and waste the magic power of young girls. They are used to make it difficult to stabilize the consumption of witches."

"A familiar has four stages of transformation: within a barrier, independent barrier, witch-like, and witch-transformed."

"How familiars appear is unknown, and all experiments have failed. Perhaps they were familiars that cast the Witch's Kiss outside and became independent when the witch disappeared. Or perhaps they were familiars that existed within a barrier, and when the witch disappeared, the barrier collapsed, gathering a large amount of residual magic power and forming an independent barrier."

"But what really makes the experiment impossible is that there is more than one familiar, and the cycle of its appearance is not immediate."

"Witches usually wander into the city from outside, so even if you eliminate the witch and monitor the entire route, other familiars or witches belonging to the same witch may appear on the other side. It's impossible to tell when the familiar wandered out on its own."

"As for the newly born mermaid witch, although no corresponding familiars were found in the city after she was eliminated, the entire cycle only lasted for a month. It's impossible that the mermaids appeared for experiments from the beginning. They were all working towards a perfect cycle, and when that failed, they were passively reused for the next weekend. Therefore, this period of time cannot be used as favorable evidence at all."

"But this experiment discovered another phenomenon."

"According to witch breeding expert Xingzi, there can only be one witch at a time. No matter how much the other familiars grow, there will only be one Seed of Sorrow. As long as the witch carrying the Seed of Sorrow is not destroyed, the other familiars will not have new Seeds of Sorrow."

"It is said that some magical girls, based on this principle, try to kill the same witch and take turns to blast the Seeds of Sorrow."

"But the familiar has grown to the point where it resembles a witch. Therefore, even if it possesses the Seed of Sorrow, it will not retract into the Seed of Sorrow to hatch again."

"As a result, after the first one is destroyed, it is uncertain who will have the Seed of Sorrow."

"Plus, the familiar's barrier can penetrate walls, so the magical girl has no means to restrict the familiar, resulting in each familiar being in a different location."

"Even though they appear to be independent familiars, it's impossible to count how many heads this familiar needs to be upgraded to a witch-like form."

"So, with various optimizations, only two familiars of the same witch will remain in a city. The rest of the familiars need to be either guided and driven away, or eliminated to avoid further wasted effort."

"After understanding this, I proposed that Witch Night was also a familiar. After all, neither of them could drop the Seed of Sorrow, and they possessed the form of a witch."

"But even though a familiar may resemble a witch, it's still just the familiar itself, not the witch itself."

"Therefore, both the scale of familiars distributed within the barrier and its own operational logic are incomplete."

"A familiar is only a part of a witch. Without the Seed of Sorrow, it cannot be combined into a complete witch's memory, and naturally it will not act exactly like the original witch."

"The witch in the movie and her familiars, the children of the pseudo-street, each represent an emotion. If they don't contain the seeds of sorrow, then even if they grow up to resemble the witch herself, they won't act exactly like her."

"After understanding this, I just feel that Witch Night is more like a familiar, but they feel that Witch Night's behavior is complete, not the type with only partial memories."

"After all, as a comparison material, on one side are ordinary witches and familiars, and on the other side are the familiars in the movie that are comparable to Witch's Night. The power levels of the two are different. Without knowing the difference, it is impossible to compare them."

"But this is nothing. After all, it's a familiar, so it just doesn't drop Seeds of Sorrow. I already knew that."

"But familiars have a more serious problem: they have no weaknesses."

"The human body is full of weaknesses, so it's easy to cause fatal injuries."

"To this end, Kyubey unified the girl's body, leaving only the Soul Gem as a weakness."

"And the witch is also like that. The witch's body is composed of the magic power emanating from the Seed of Sorrow as its core. After the connection with the Seed of Sorrow is interrupted, the result of destroying the witch can be achieved."

"This gives the behemoth witch the best means of attack and a place to outsmart her. Homura uses this to his advantage, and is able to eliminate the witch faster."

"So, without the weakness of the Seed of Sorrow, yet possessing the witch's massive body and offensive and defensive capabilities?"

"An ordinary small familiar, actually no bigger than a junior high school student."

"Even if she's strong enough to surpass an adult, she's still too small for a magical girl aiming to become a witch."

"A single blow can shatter a familiar, so the familiar's only advantage is its numbers and its small size, which requires more effort to aim at."

"But how do you break a witch's body that's several stories tall?"

"Answer: Consume more magic power and try to split it in the middle, just like you're trying to hit the Seed of Sorrow within the witch's body and break open her body."

"So, what if my body transforms into Witch Night, as tall as a ten-story building?"

""

"I didn't ask about this, but I think Homura, as the magical girl with whom we've fought the most times, should have noticed this."

"But if I tell it, I might not even get any help from Anzi. After all, the difficulty is the same as the witch, but the cost is multiplied. The bond left over from Mami and Anzi's falling out isn't enough to pay the price."

"Compared to the first two conclusions, the next one may be insignificant."

"That's the Witch's Kiss released by the familiar. It won't allow people to go to the barrier, but will instead make the familiar come to it on its own."

"And as the familiar approaches, those who have been inflicted with the Witch's Kiss often react violently, such as harming others, causing car accidents, or simply refusing to react. It can be said that where there are many familiars, there will definitely be more violent news, while where there are fewer familiars, there will be more mysterious collective activities."

"If you need to leave Mitakihara in the future, you'll need to use this as a consideration when deciding where to live."

"Although there's a high probability that I won't have the chance to use it."

P.S.: Don’t get slapped in the face when you turn back to heaven, and don’t drop too many seeds of sorrow!!

Chapter 91 Three Days Passed in a Flash

Zhixing stopped writing and sighed as he looked at the information in the last three asterisks after finishing the main text.

Witch Night is a familiar. Zhixing has considered this kind of thing before. After all, those independent familiars cannot open a second barrier within their own witch's barrier.

But this matter has nothing to do with the Paper Bank or the Five Colors Team. Anyway, they will only come to this Witch Night, and there will not be more or stronger witches.

At most, it will put an end to the Witch Night. Even if no one turns into a witch again on the spot, the Witch Night will come again without interruption.

Perhaps, a young girl saw that the witch was too powerful, so she made a wish and sealed her, which resulted in the appearance of a familiar that could not drop the Seed of Sorrow.

But this kind of thing cannot be verified, so it cannot be confirmed.

Zhi Xing stretched his muscles and glanced at the last part he hadn't read:

Conclusions of the familiar's characteristics investigation*, basic magical girl abilities*, and a brief summary of past experiences*.

After arranging the order in which I would read the books, I stared at the extra blank area in the directory.

"Where can there be anything new?"

"Puella Magi Madoka Magica" is only 12 episodes long, and most of the time is spent on the conflicts between girls, so there is not much need for world settings.

It's just that the enemy is a witch, the crisis is transforming into a witch, the breaking point is making a wish, the breakers are Homura and Madoka, and it serves as an explanation for the actions of Kyubey, the boss behind the scenes.

There is already corresponding information on Witch Night, and there is no need to think too much about the habits, barriers, familiars, attack methods, and routes of action. Xiaoyan will pay attention to and use the summarized things in actual combat.

The extension of familiars is nothing more than confirming the identity of Witch Night. There are too many familiars, but they are not worth targeted research unless you want to breed them.

The magical girl's combat power is based on Mami's training and her own instincts. The only thing that can be considered is how to distribute the bonus of the enchantment. No matter how much enchantment is added, there will be no game attributes such as percentage damage. In the end, it is still a comparison of the magic power of the enemy and us.