Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

So he knocked on Homura's door and said:

"I made some midnight snack, do you want to come out and have some?"

"coming."

Homura responded, then opened the door a few seconds later and saw Zhixing sitting back down, waiting for her meal.

Turning her gaze away, Xiao Yan went to the kitchen to get a bottle of salt, then washed her own dishes and sat down opposite the paper shop.

"Um, did I put too little salt?"

"Just in case. After all, it's your first time cooking on your own initiative, although it will also be the last time."

Zhixing watched as Xiaoyan tested the soup expertly and began to replenish the salt that was missing from the dish. He swallowed but did not act rashly.

Afterwards, he waited until Xiaoyan had replenished Zhixing's dishes, and then began to divide the dishes into four and six, and gave six of the portions to Zhixing who was sitting and waiting.

Although Zhixing stayed at Xiaoyan's house for 9 days, most of the time, he ordered takeout and even had dinner outside.

But including when Homura was teaching Jixing how to cook, and when he was not busy seducing witches, Jixing always ate with Homura.

But although it is a meal, it is not the traditional way of eating where two pairs of chopsticks pick up a dish.

Instead, the food is divided into two parts: guests eat their own food and you eat your own food.

Although Kamisuke didn't eat with Homura very often, he basically ate like this with Mami during the 12 days he stayed at Mami's house, so he was used to this way of eating.

After Homura had distributed the food, and then after Homura finished her opening remarks on the Japanese meal, Jixing started to eat the dinner in front of him.

"How far have you gone in terms of encryption?"

"Oh, right away, I'll do it in a moment... No, I'll do it now."

Zhixing said this, picked up his own meal and returned to the house. He looked at the circled part on the notebook, picked up the code book and dice used for translation, and started the encryption work that he had not been interested in a few minutes ago.

“Is the most positive optimism the kind of nonchalant optimism that emerges when despair reaches its limit, looking down on other despairing emotions?”

"My thoughts are still as straightforward as ever, but I neither stand up to despair nor let it break me down. I squander my time recklessly on a path I know is wrong."

"Just because you're hungry, you can get rid of your psychological despair, and then because you've eaten, you automatically ignore the previous emotions. Conan, no, Shinichi, no, the bystander, what kind of person are you really?"

As Homura ate her midnight snack at the end of each week, which seemed like a routine, she was mentally summarizing her kitchen training with the paper company and what dishes she wanted to eat next time.

After finishing these simple and rough dishes without any rice or noodles, Xiao Yan simply cleaned up his bowl and chopsticks, then looked at the paper that was encrypting the contents of the notepad, which he had cooked because he was obviously hungry, but now put the dishes aside.

After hesitating for a moment, Homura stepped forward and interrupted:

"Tomorrow, you and I will go to the place where we set the bomb and wait for the Witch Night to come. Do you understand?"

"It's not that I can't see the devil..."

Zhixing responded without even looking up, then suddenly realized what was going on and stopped himself from talking.

"If I heard correctly, you just wanted to say that you can't see Witch Night?"

"Ah, no, it's just that, you see, I don't have much fighting power. What's the point of me being so close to Witch Night? I think it's better to stay away and save you from being distracted and wasting your magic power."

"No, you can't go to the shelter. Who knows if you might suddenly have an idea that will drive you into despair and attract Witch Night."

"Whether it's changing the landing location or speeding up the movement during Witch Night, it will have a significant impact on future references, so you must stay on the scene."

"Will I... not be affected? After all, there are buildings being smashed, explosions, and flying debris. I have no way to escape. I don't usually need to go out. I only know how to ride a bicycle."

"It's okay. I've considered your speculation about the initial formation of religion and deliberately let a few capable ordinary people know the truth about the witch. Now they are all ours. They will take you out of the battlefield when the Witch Night appears."

Zhi Xing blinked his eyes, looking at the information that Xiao Yan inadvertently revealed, and said in disbelief:

"Do you want to start a reincarnation cult too? Why are you collecting followers?"

"Isn't that what you said yourself? You complain about your own lack of accomplishments, and you're trying to slack off by thinking that if I had the talent, I could still help even without the power."

"So I found someone for you who you thought would be useful, and then tried to get him to come up with some advice."

"The result is limited influence and powerlessness. Besides knowing that some people are willing to sacrifice their own lives and believe in the threat of Witch Night, they will assist these individuals. There is no other benefit."

Zhi Xing nodded, not caring at all that it was his past thoughts, and instead mocked himself:

"Indeed, a single person, no matter how talented, needs time and resources. After all, Kyubey has such a powerful black technology as wishing. It's still the lack of powerful resources that prevents perfect results."

"Even if I'm strong and powerful, even if I have an exceptional skill, without strength, I'm powerless compared to magical girls and familiars."

"What's more, there are many people in this city who are better than me. There are all kinds of capable people who can make money under high pressure. Why am I indispensable?"

Then Zhi Xing looked at Xiao Yan and changed the subject:

"Compared to other people, there is only one thing that others cannot compare to, and that is I know the future. It's not the future you can tell them at any time, but the future that will come from your success, different from your current failure."

"With my greatest advantage, which is knowing the future, even though I don't have any special skills, I am more important than others."

Homura flicked her hair and said casually:

"Even if you knew a successful future, what would it matter? Would you tell me the strategy for success? Can you gain anything from this future besides Madoka's wish?"

"When you know something but can't say it out loud, it's no different from not knowing it, isn't it?"

"I"

"It's okay. I know this isn't your fault. After all, even with the wish to travel with you, you wouldn't say anything that could change the future. Even if you tried, you'd be interrupted by something unexpected, causing your train of thought to be interrupted and you wouldn't be able to recall it."

Homura looked at the one on Zhixing's, trying to use the signs of success and stability to encourage herself, and couldn't help but speak up in time to stop Zhixing from repeating the work. After all, Homura had already realized the value of failure.

Zhi Xing listened to Xiao Yan repeatedly emphasize that the ending would not change, and he could not help but close his eyes. Then, his argumentative spirit broke out and he asked in a suicidal manner:

"All I can say is that it won't change the final outcome, right?"

"That's right, even if the process is tortuous, the ending remains unchanged."

"So, what's my ending?" Zhi Xing opened his eyes and looked into Xiao Yan's eyes and asked.

"What... do you mean?" Xiao Yan couldn't help but have a bad feeling and asked back.

"If I'm not here in the next round, don't be afraid of failure, just wait for me to come back." Zhi Xing said this half for the sake of argument and half for experimentation.

Chapter 119 What if I disappeared?

"What do you mean I'm gone? Did you discover something?"

Zhixing nodded, but did not explain immediately. Instead, he repeated:

"If I'm not here in the next reincarnation, can you bear the failure alone?"

"From what you're saying, would I be someone who can't bear it?"

"No, you are a very strong person, so you persisted until you succeeded."

"Then why do you ask that?"

"Because, it seems I came too early."

Homura looked at Zhixing suspiciously, abandoning the question-and-answer format. Sure enough, when no one else responded, Zhixing continued to speak out his thoughts:

"I could have endured darkness if I had never seen the light, though I wouldn't be able to be a light. After all, Madoka is the one who probably fits that definition."

"But I will believe you, because I know that you are truly in the cycle of reincarnation. So I could be a confidant in you, someone you can share secrets with, allowing you to tell me things that you can't say."

"However, I've noticed that although you and I have communicated with each other through this resource transfer, we actually don't have much communication anymore."

Zhi Xing looked at Xiao Yan who was listening to him without interrupting him and chuckled:

"So, I've been thinking, instead of losing my memory over and over again, it would be better to keep some of my memories."

"You said it before, I can't influence the outcome of events at all, and I can't do anything that might change the future."

"So, I want to go back. It's all a matter of closing my eyes and opening them again. If I return to the successful timeline I know of, then when you see me again, you will understand that this time it will definitely succeed."

Homura finally understood Kazuyo's motives and interrupted:

"A wish isn't guaranteed. Are you so sure you can go back? What if you don't make it to your original timeline? What if this situation is the result of the wish you intended to use? Time flies by in the blink of an eye until you finally succeed. Doesn't this sound a lot like your current situation?"

Without even thinking, Homura guessed that Kabuki's plan was probably based on using Madoka's wish. After all, there was no other way to proceed except making a wish, and the only person who could make a wish in Mitakihara was Madoka.

"Indeed, if I were at the time when you became a magical girl, then I would want to jump directly to the timeline where you finally succeeded. Such a wish would likely be distorted into the timeline where you constantly lose your memory, so that when you finally succeed, your memory would stop at the moment you made the wish and arrive at your destination the next second."

"Without the inheritance of memory, who knows how many years will pass in these few seconds."

"Then why would you say such a thing even though you have already deduced this?"

Zhi Xing smiled and squinted his eyes as he expressed his opinion:

"Because I can't change the ending."

"How to say?"

"I know Asami's ending, Sayaka's ending, Kyoko's ending, Madoka's ending, and your ending too. Don't get excited. After all, every story has a beginning and an end. It's normal for you to achieve a successful ending yourself and put a full stop to the story."

"But what about my ending?"

"Shinichi-kun is not a magical girl. It's far from your end yet. After all, it's only a month away. You have to live longer than the rest of us."

"No, no, no, you may not understand. Let me explain it in more detail."

Zhi Xing closed his eyes and thought for a moment before speaking:

"I've told you about some of the future, I've told Asami, and I've also told Sayaka Kyoko a lot of this information I'll get from the future."

"But this kind of information, even if you already know it, won't change the outcome, so it's okay to share it."

"And the information that could truly change the future will be blocked by me, and will also be affected by my wishes and cannot be known."

"What about the other way around?"

"If I can tell you what will happen to you after I'm gone, it means..."

"I could literally disappear, and you couldn't stop me."

"Ah~" Xiaoyan sighed helplessly, feeling that her sixth sense was not worth it.

He turned and walked towards his room, saying to the paper to comfort him:

"There's a logical disconnect between the cause and effect in what you said. If you think carefully, you'll find you're wrong again. Don't worry too much about the approaching Witch Night. I can be alone, and don't be afraid to face tomorrow."

Zhi Xing turned around and gave Xiao Yan a look that said, "Why don't you understand?", which made Xiao Yan shake her head.

The kind of situation where people panic and look for a life-saving straw when danger is approaching, and then come up with some theory that cannot stand scrutiny, and still think that their idea is very correct, I often see it in Shinichi. It is because the guess is wrong that it needs to be verified through experiments.

"Shinichi is still an ordinary person after all. The despair he's been seduced into by the Witch's Kiss for the past month must have affected his thinking. I really should consider shortening the length of the information. No, I should give Shinichi a break next time. If his desire to translate can be inherited, perhaps his physical condition can be inherited as well."

After silently revising her plan for dealing with the paper line in her mind, Xiao Yan returned to her room and began to think about what experiments to conduct in the next round to verify these rules.

"Didn't you understand? I thought what I said should be very direct."

"Unless... my explanation made the wish work again, so without the Witch's Kiss interrupting it, I forgot my thoughts! Is there any information here that can change the future?"

Zhixing touched his head in distress.

"I clearly remember deducing that I could disappear from the cycle of reincarnation. How come my train of thought suddenly fizzled out?"

Zhixing turned back, turned to a new page in his notebook, and began to try to reverse the conclusion he had drawn.

"I can say that I will disappear because I want to see if I can make a wish to escape in the future."

"Whether it's going home, returning to the TV series or the Warcraft series."

"At any rate, it can help Homura not waste her limited energy on me. Otherwise, after taking care of her for too long in the reincarnation, she'll start to feel like a nuisance and a burden."

"If, by the time of the TV series, Homura no longer has any special care for me, then my repeated failed rounds would be completely useless. I might even be too familiar with her to take any effective action, leaving me with the same fate as any other round, where I can only be a bystander."

"Humura can't end the cycle of reincarnation, because saving Madoka depends on Homura's efforts, but I have no direction to work towards, so I should be able to skip the time I can't participate in fighting to become stronger."

"So, how can I prove whether I can succeed? After all, there are many limitations to making wishes. What if I make a wish, but the result is just a continuation of my current state, and I enter the next round with amnesia?"

"The best way is to use the rules of desire to provide evidence."

"So, if you try to use information that will change the future, if you can say it, it means it won't change the future. If you can't say it, it means it will change the future, so it will be corrected by the wish."

"But what was that message? How come it hasn't changed so much that I've forgotten it?"

Zhixing thought and recalled for a while, and when he found that he had not achieved any results, he reluctantly gave up the idea of ​​fighting against Xuyuan's mental block, turned back to the part circled by Xiaoyan, and began to encrypt it sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph.

Time slipped into the night bit by bit.

Zhixing knocked on Xiaoyan's door with the encrypted notepad.

"Done?"

"Well, the circled part is these five pages, and this page is the * part."

Zhixing handed two separate copies of the information to Xiaoyan, and then returned to his room, not wanting to disturb Xiaoyan who was staying up late to memorize the encrypted and incoherent text.