Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

"And so ends Kyoko's story."

After saying this, Homura looked at the sudden information that had made Zhixing confused, and stood up, ready to pick up her phone and leave.

But Zhihang, who seemed to be in shock just now, actually saw this scene and suddenly shouted:

"Wait, you can't read the original text of this."

Homura looked at the pictures she had taken on her phone.

Although I have taught myself Chinese, this self-study is limited to the level of daily expression and the keywords I have specifically looked up.

But if you really want to understand it all, you still need the help of translation.

"Are you sure I can't watch, Shinichi-kun?"

Seeing Homura's change of attitude, Zhi Xing hesitated for a moment, but remembering the Rule 9 he had just added, he gritted his teeth and said:

"Yes, you can't look at it."

Xiaoyan looked at the photos on her phone, then turned the phone towards Zhixing and pressed the delete button in front of Zhixing.

Zhi Xing also did what Homura expected. Seeing what Homura did with the photos, deleting the photo of the wishing rules and revealing Madoka's photo, he couldn't help but glance at Homura subconsciously.

Xiaoyan didn't react much, but put away her phone and walked back.

"Um, yes..."

"No need to apologize. I told you I believe you won't hurt me."

Homura said as she reached out and covered the space below 9 and 10 on the paper, then took another picture according to the rules 1-8.

"That's fine, right?"

"Uh, probably, that's fine, but how do you know it's 9 and 10?"

Zhi Xing looked at Xiao Yan's skillful movements and for a moment he also gave up the idea of ​​apologizing.

After all, my only value is to think here, but I have clearly written it down, but no one is allowed to see it. This doesn’t make sense no matter how I think about it.

So Zhixing confirmed the shots that Xiaoyan had taken and felt that they did not have much impact, so he raised his own questions.

"So, did you use reasoning to fill in the last two points, or did you use some other method?"

"I...I just discovered that this could actually be translated, so..."

As soon as Zhixing said this, he felt a sense of disobedience, but before Zhixing could think about it, Xiaoyan announced the answer directly:

"Yes, because it's content that I can't know, you encrypted it. Because it's content that I can't know, even if you add more, you will prevent me from watching it. Because it's content that I can't know, even if I read the first part, I can't deduce the last two."

"This is not a coincidence, Shinichi-kun, you can understand, this is..."

"...Is the wish taking effect?"

Zhi Xing continued Xiao Yan's words with a slight tremor.

Xiaoyan nodded, looked at Zhixing who seemed to be lost in thought, and left Zhixing's room with her phone. Then she walked back to her own room and locked the door.

"I'm sorry, Shinichi. I'm a Wallfacer and can't express my feelings, but I can't help you."

Homura translated the photo on her phone and then closed her eyes, memories of the past flooding back into her mind.

"What, am I already locked in a wish?"

"Yeah, so no matter what we do, we can't win, neither Shinichi nor I."

"Don't say such discouraging things. You and I are different."

"Just because I'm a real magical girl? That's useless. Aren't there enough examples of magical girls betrayed by wishes? I went back to the past to change things, but the past is affected by the wish and can't be changed. This kind of thing..."

Homura felt the filth beginning to surge from her gemstone, and her despair deepened. At this moment, Shinichi spoke encouragingly:

"Do you believe what I say?"

"Well, we agreed. You trust me and I trust you."

"That's enough, then."

Zhixing met Homura's eyes. Homura knew that was the gesture when Zhixing wanted to speak seriously. She couldn't help but stop her slipping thoughts, wiped her tears, and waited for Zhixing's explanation.

"I come from your successful future, or rather, I know your success, so I don't understand why I'm here."

"Believe in yourself, you will succeed. Because I remain unchanged, you are destined to reach that successful destination."

"Come to me for verification, come to me who has never thought about it, I know it very well, I understand it very well, you will definitely succeed."

"So, don't lose heart. As long as you persevere, you will definitely be able to save Madoka perfectly."

"So, with my confirmation and consent, can you give up using reincarnation? I'll be your benchmark for success."

"Really? Did it work? Then why, why didn't you just tell me how to make it work? I don't want to have to endure this situation of losing Madoka anymore."

Homura couldn't help crying, looking at Shinichi in front of her who looked reluctant but kept his mouth shut and didn't offer any suggestions.

After a long while, Shinichi spoke:

"Just think of it as me being influenced by a wish. You know, a wish will make me subconsciously avoid options that might change the past outcome. So since I won't say it out loud, it means this is something that will affect the future."

"I'm not very smart, so I don't dare to take risks."

"I would rather recreate a future that worked than a future that could have been otherwise."

"So, just as I'm affected by the wish and can't change the outcome, can you pretend to be affected by the wish and therefore not explore the part of knowledge that's within reach that I refuse, leaving the future unchanged?"

"Can it really succeed? How long do we have to wait?"

Zhi Xing lowered his head and didn't think for too long before confidently declaring his intention:

"Go deceive the world!"

"Humura, as long as you do these two things and don't let other experiences shake you, you will definitely be able to do it."

"What is it?"

"1. Maintain your original wish and don't give up. Even if you are alone, you must face the battle of Witch Night with enthusiasm."

"Didn't you say you should try to gather your companions?"

"2. When you succeed, find me. Find a girl who hasn't made a wish yet. Ask her to make a wish, such as hoping that I can see you when she fails."

"Huh? This is it?"

"The present I'm participating in is only the past in my perception. So no matter how the process changes, the ending cannot be altered due to my wishes. Therefore, the advice I'm offering now is real and unchangeable."

"Although the wishes may be slightly different, the general meaning is fine."

"Humura, you will send me to the past of reincarnation. Even though I am not sure how I got here, my unchanging nature will confirm that I will definitely be here."

"So, as long as you add the condition that you let me come back after you succeed, then when you meet me, it means that you are destined to succeed. Do you understand?"

Homura nodded, but still a little confused.

"I understand, but if I'm certain to succeed in the future, then why would I need someone else to send you here? It wouldn't be pleasant to be afflicted with the Witch's Kiss."

Shinichi stood up and didn't answer my question directly. Instead, he muttered to himself again:

"If one day you don't see me appear, don't panic too much. It's enough to still maintain the two points mentioned above. After all, my existence is certain in your experience."

"unless"

Shinichi didn't finish his words because the appearance of Witch's Kiss interrupted his thoughts.

But even without saying it out loud, Xiaoyan couldn't help but have a guess in her mind.

"If I don't find any Shinichi in the future after I succeed."

"Then make a wish and create another Conan, thus completing the time-space loop."

Chapter 118: Parting Advice

"Even though we've met a few times, I'm still not familiar with Xingzi."

Zhi Xing looked at the closed door of Xiao Yan's room, and turned his mind from the notebook in his hand back to the story just now.

"I don't know why Kyoko didn't harm Mami's beauty witch, and after leaving the battlefield, she came to Mami's body. I guess she was afraid that Mami's body would disappear."

"But Asami's body was still able to stand up, and with such strength and speed that Kyoko couldn't react."

"It's obviously not the Mami I awakened. It should be the real apostle born from a wish."

"The appearance of the apostle means that the person who made the wish is not dead yet, that is, before the familiar turns into a witch."

"No, it should be said that because the apostle was born, the demon no longer recognizes the Asami in the Soul Stone as Asami, so he took action."

"Does the Apostle have this kind of hidden setting? The wish identifies the body as Mami, and the familiar also identifies the body as Mami and destroys the Soul Gem."

Zhixing simply thought about the possibility that after the apostle Madoka turned into the Principle of the Ring, she killed the Wishing Madoka, and then the Wishing Madoka was judged to be Madoka by the wish and went to guide other magical girls again, but he couldn't find a reason that could make it true.

But at the same time, it was the first time that he couldn't understand what the apostle said. No matter how he thought about it, it was probably because he didn't judge the other party to be Kamijou.

Is there any difference between the two?

"Knowing that the Soul Gem would transform a witch, and that Mami's Soul Gem contained a large amount of magical girl magic, not impurity, is it possible that Kyoko believed Mami was still alive? And then, unaware of the existence of apostles, she carelessly approached the magic that drifted away before her eyes, and was killed by Mami's sneak attack, who she thought was harmless."

"It's not a self-destruction, it seems my influence doesn't end with the final round, but with the conclusion of each world line."

After Zhixing had roughly digested Xingzi's story, he didn't want to think about the matter of the twin Asami. Instead, he looked at the circled and encrypted content on the notepad, and suddenly his previous passion disappeared.

"If the ending is predetermined, then what's the point of passing on what I worked so hard to the next round? Is it self-satisfaction? Is it the false fruit of hard work?"

"It's really strange. Why me? I can't do anything already, and you still want to give me a buff?"

"Could it be that you are destined to be unable to make any changes, so you chose me, who has good stress resistance and is somewhat fascinated by Madoka Magica? But, what is your purpose?"

"If everything I do is meaningless and can't change the outcome of things, then what am I wasting my time on?"

Zhixing looked at the notebook on the table, squatted on the stool and curled up.

"Oh right, I think I worked so hard to write these rules just to prove my existence. I only have less than a day's worth of memory left."

Zhixing glanced at his phone but did not click to check the time, because he knew very well that the current time was a countdown to his death sentence.

It was obvious that Homura would protect most of the residents of Mitakihara while protecting Madoka, and she was definitely one of them.

However, unlike others, Zhixing knew clearly that the memories he could retain were almost exhausted.

One day later, the brand new Paper Line, which has not been baptized by the Witch's Kiss, will appear next to Xiaoyan again.

And after experiencing the memories of this entire month, the not-so-pleasant cohabitation life with the girl, all his thoughts and ideas will come to an end with Homura's failure in the fight against Witch Night.

Jixing will not die, and Xiaoyan will not kill Jixing, but the erased memories are comparable to death.

The paper line originally allowed me to think about my wishes to distract myself and ignore time.

But with Xiaoyan's affirmation that Zhixing's future would not change the ending, Zhixing's attention was drawn back to reality.

"If today were the last day of your life, what would you do?"

Zhixing never imagined that he would encounter this kind of problem, but Zhixing now has the answer.

"I feel the time slipping by bit by bit. I don't want to do anything and nothing interests me."

"Goo~~"

The paper line starts from the end of lunch, to when Homura returns from school, and then to when Homura wakes up.

The stomach, which had not had a drop of water during the whole period, finally made a sound of protest, interrupting the paper's depressed time.

Zhixing raised his head from his knees, as if it was an instinctive habit. Although he had no motivation to do anything, his body still moved. Without thinking, he came to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator.

Then I saw uncooked ingredients placed in the refrigerator, but there was no cooked food.

Zhixing then remembered that Xiaoyan had no time to cook as she had been busy preparing for the battle these past two days.

After glancing at the night view of the city outside the window, Zhixing looked at the mobile phone thrown on the desk, and subconsciously didn't want to check the time.

So he lowered his head and looked at the food in the refrigerator again.

"It seems that Xiaoyan has made this before, and this is also taught. This egg can be used to make soup."

The feeling of weakness from the stomach began to fill the whole body, but Zhixing simply stopped worrying and turned his attention to cooking.

"Although Homura is also a magical girl, using magic power instead of food is not impossible. After all, a witch's magic power can be eaten, but it is also a form of consumption."

"I didn't get to eat dinner, and Homura also slept in and missed dinner, so I'll make her share as well."

Thinking of this, Zhixing, who had lived alone for several years and had never cooked, started cooking for the first time because she was hungry.

After a period of hard work, the late-night food was prepared and served to the table. Zhi Xing had a magical feeling that he was not so hungry anymore in the heat of the food.