Watching the anime from Madoka Magica and writing the rules

Back in the room, Zhixing felt bored again for a moment.

But even though it was already late, Zhixing didn't feel sleepy at all.

"After all, tomorrow is the last day my memories will be preserved. It would be a shame to use such precious time to dream."

Zhixing sat at the desk in a daze and thought about this. After all, he had already taken a nap at the desk yesterday, but he did not hear his own message from the sixth round, so the Witch's Kiss state must be one of the conditions, and Zhixing no longer had to go to sleep.

But that being said, there was nothing else that Zhi Xing could do. He could only move around the room restlessly until the sunlight shone into the room through the window.

Zhixing slumped in his chair, witnessing the sunrise for the first time in his life.

"Why are you sitting here instead of taking a rest?"

Zhixing turned his head numbly and saw Xiaoyan left his room and came to Zhixing's room to visit Zhixing instead of wearing school uniform, but ordinary casual clothes.

"I can't sleep. It's my first time at Witch Night, and I'm a little too nervous."

"Nervous? From your expression, I only see confusion."

"is that so."

Homura walked over to the desk, picked up the mirror placed in the corner of the desk, and said to the paper:

"It's only been one night, and you've become so listless. Where's the confidence you had when you told me your conclusion? Come on, have some confidence."

Zhixing looked at himself in the mirror. Although his hair didn't turn white overnight, he looked like he was in the late stage of laziness. It was as if he didn't want to move and just wanted to sleep.

"Have confidence, have confidence, have confidence."

Zhixing patted his head, trying to wake up his brain which was a little fuzzy after staying up all night.

"It's time to go. The dark clouds brought by Witch Night will gather at an unimaginable speed. Now, we can still see the location of the bomb."

As Xiao Yan said this, she walked to the door, and then she found that Zhi Xing had not followed her, but was still sitting on the stool. She frowned and said:

"Are you feeling alright? I remember you should still have enough energy to face another bout of despair. Come with me, and I'll tell you the *ed content from the past that I haven't mentioned before."

Zhi Xing looked at Xiao Yan with a tired face and said:

"I'm sorry, Homura. I really don't want to go to the battlefield. After all, I can't be of any help in the battle of Witch Night. It's too much trouble for you to call for help."

"If you don't go to the battlefield with me, Shinichi might seduce Witch Night over there in his current state, thus implicating more people. Is that what you want to see?"

Zhi Xing listened to Xiao Yan's repeated reasons and said without saying anything:

"Why are you still trying to bluff me? Didn't you say I can't change the final outcome?"

"So even if I stay in the crowd, only those who deserve to die will die, and those who don't deserve to die won't die."

"You could also say that if the people around me wouldn't have died in the first place, then I definitely wouldn't have been able to attract Witch Night and implicate them."

"So, Shinichi is thinking this way, thinking that since it won't actually affect Witch Night, so even if he stays here and doesn't go anywhere, it'll be fine?"

"That brings me to the question I asked earlier: What will be my ending?"

"You said that my end has not yet come, right?"

"Ah."

"That is to say, I can get through this month without any burden, because I come from the future after June of 2012. According to the assumption of a closed space-time loop, my ending must at least last until I can return to that timeline."

"Is that really the reason? Isn't Shinichi trying to use the time I'm unable to split myself up to find Madoka in the school shelter?"

"I've been seen through. I did have that thought, but I'm so sleepy now. This is the first time I've stayed up late not to play computer games. I'm really sleepy during the day."

Although Zhixing gave a reason for wanting to stay at home, Xiaoyan was still unmoved and said:

"No, with your mobility, I can't leave you here alone. After all, Madoka isn't in school right now, and the shelter won't prevent strangers from entering or leaving."

Zhixing was about to continue tugging to achieve the condition he had come up with in other rounds, which was not to knock on Witch Night, but as if some keywords were triggered, Zhixing asked Xiaoyan to repeat what he had just said.

"Mobility?"

"Why, is there anything wrong with what I said? He was fine before, but suddenly he disappeared, and even woke up Asami, causing the loss of Anzi's men. Isn't this enough?"

Zhi Xing raised his head and asked Homura:

"I should have told you before that as long as you can still see me, it means you haven't succeeded yet, right?"

"That's not what you meant, but you did say that you're currently lacking something for a successful future."

"Well, give it a try."

"try what?"

"If you fail to defeat Witch Night this time and are forced to reincarnate, I will try to bring my own end forward."

"Do you know your own end?"

"No, but at least you know that I didn't do what I should have done because of the Witch's Kiss, right?"

"You do!"

Zhi Xing didn't look at Homura's surprise, but instead said, "The idea of ​​execution is this:

"Changes that simply destroy are always much easier than changes that achieve victory, aren't they?"

Chapter 120 Heading to the Stage

"I don't agree. It's already this late. Why are you suddenly telling me this?"

"I'm different from you. You're the one who's actively traveling, and I'm the one who's passively following. So I'll take the risk that you can't take."

"Is there any need to try this, Shinichi? Wake up and don't be too deeply affected by the Witch's Kiss. ​​Haven't you always said that it's better to live a miserable life than to die?"

Homura said as she walked towards the paper walker, looking ready to use violence.

"experiment!"

These two words made Xiao Yan subconsciously stop and listen to Zhi Xing's ideas as usual.

"If you don't experience death, you won't know if you're a demi-human... or a zombie."

Just as Homura remembered, Paper Line started with the setting of an unknown anime, and then made revisions based on the current worldview.

"If you don't suffer a fatal injury, you won't know that the magical girl's body has turned into a zombie. Similarly, if you don't experience death, you won't be able to experiment with the abilities granted by your wish."

Xiao Yan shook her head, then took a slow step and walked over.

"If you're considering the application of my abilities, I've already verified them many times. My time-stopping ability is merely a means of traveling through space."

"Just like a witch can exist in another dimension, so she can pass through real objects without any hindrance."

"Real things will be unconsciously sent back to the real space within the witch's barrier. Unless blocked by magic, they will not be touched by the witch's barrier."

"However, this repatriation is so weak that after the witch's barrier dissipates, anything without souls or magic will be lost in the space on the way back and unable to return to reality. Even if the witch appears again in the same location, she will not be able to find the items left behind. Examples include cell phones, bullets, bombs, flames, and corpses."

Xiao Yan walked up to Zhi Xing, put on a purple glove on her right hand, then lifted Zhi Xing up and walked out the door.

"I've already said that everything about this was completed yesterday. I need to seize the time to prepare for the battle today. It's time to set off now."

Zhi Xing stumbled and was followed by Xiao Yan without any resistance, but he still insisted on his own thoughts and said:

"What I want to talk about is not that your time stop is entering a space where time flows slowly, but more importantly, your reincarnation."

Xiao Yan had just opened the door and couldn't help but look back at Zhi Xing after hearing this:

"Do you have to have such a brilliant idea only at this moment? And if it's based on your death, then I won't agree to anything you say."

Zhi Xing saw that although he was still dragging himself forward, he did not use magic to seal his mouth, so he continued:

"There are two types of time travel that I know of. One is the way of time travel described in the Future Diary, where you travel to a parallel world, kill your parallel self, and take your place."

"The second is the memory-transferring method in Steins;Gate. Using the same self as a coordinate, memories are transferred into the mind of the self in another world line."

"The third type is the death return in Re:Zero , which means reloading the save file and preserving a certain point in time. Each time you die, you will return to the corresponding time point until this ending is reached, and then save a second save file."

"Type 3.5 is a bit more advanced, like Undertale. It allows you to save your game automatically and return to the saved time at any time, reversing any events that happened to a slightly different degree. It can also be triggered by death."

Homura thought for a moment before responding:

"Are you considering whether you can start over again if you die unexpectedly?"

"No, no, no, I'm considering the fourth one now. I didn't count them all just now. There is a fourth one that also fits the current worldview."

Xiao Yan stopped on the road with the paper company, and soon a car drove over, and a man got out of the car and opened the door.

"Saintess, Holy Son, please."

Zhi Xing blinked, but before he could raise a question, Xiao Yan threw him into the car.

"Drive to the witch's stage."

"Yes!"

Zhixing looked at this awkward situation and didn't know whether he should complain in front of the driver.

"So, what's the fourth point you mentioned?"

"Apostle."

"You mean we..."

"Do I change every time you see me? I mean, do I still have traces of the last time?"

Xiao Yan shook her head. Regardless of whether she was injured or her clothes were damaged, the simplest thing could prove it.

Witch Night landed in the form of a typhoon, so rain is essential.

But judging from the initial set of equipment that Zhixing wears every time he appears, it doesn't look like he just came back from the Witch Night battlefield.

"You and I are both returning to the past in our original state, so both your glasses and my body need to be readjusted."

“So, there’s something that’s very strange because it follows the past into another past.”

"You mean translation?"

"Yes, you should have read the rules."

Zhixing glanced at the driver who was secretly listening, and seeing that Xiaoyan didn't care about his eavesdropping, he no longer paid attention to his presence.

"Are you referring to Rule 4, regarding the person you wish for?"

"Yes, I now strongly doubt that I followed you here as an apostle."

"Are you trying to say that the Conan who followed me is no longer the original human being?"

"Right. Rather than saying I was transported back in time, it's more accurate to say that my wish created me at that time. This creation was based on my previous future self. That's why I have both the ability to translate and travel back in time without any conflict."

"But you've already acknowledged that apostles are human, so what's there to worry about? You wouldn't consider death, after all. Besides, if the person you wish for is already dead, they'll reappear. Isn't that already proven?"

Zhi Xing looked at Xiao Yan with some doubts after hearing this, and Xiao Yan explained to Zhi Xing:

"If I take Kyoko's father as an example, you should understand it easily. He used the method left behind during the Witch Trial to cut off the possibility of becoming an Apostle, which is why he died completely."

"But compared to him, what about Madoka's situation? If I had known this earlier, I wouldn't have made meeting her a condition, but would have directly given Madoka..."

"By that time, Madoka must have been gone before you could react."

Zhi Xing interrupted Xiao Yan's regret and immediately changed the subject:

"Indeed, if you want to make an apostle disappear, you probably have to eliminate his existence. Unless he becomes a magical girl, it will be difficult to eliminate him."

"Similarly, the magical girl's memory is useless for the resurrection of the apostle."

Zhi Xing watched as Xiao Yan shifted her attention and said word by word:

"In the past, you are the only one who can remember me."

"I come from the more distant future, so at this point in the past, there's no one who can remember me."

"Therefore, if I, as the one who made the wish, die, then the apostles who used me as a reference will no longer appear."

"But if I die randomly, then there's really no hope for me, except under one condition."

"You mean, now?"

"Yes, if I die because of Witch Night, then I will have a chance to be resurrected."

Zhixing looked at Xiaoyan, who tried to guess the future outcome from these words after hearing them, and then looked at the driver whose breathing became heavy, and secretly refuted in his heart.

Although he learned that he could not change the future outcome, he felt that the reincarnation after that would be meaningless and would consume Homura's favorability towards him, so he wanted to rely on Witch Night to interrupt himself here, and then with the emergence of the Principle of Rings, rewrite this past to achieve a resurrection without Witch Night so that he would not actively seek death.

At the same time, it also explains Homura, who can verify whether she is really a pawn of some existence. She is forced to accumulate Homura's favor so that she can seize Madoka's wish that is enough to influence all universes in the final round.

Although after thinking about the connection between wishes and cause and effect, I feel that Madoka's wish is not as big as I imagined.

After all, in the few rounds before the final round, Madoka shot through Witch Night with one shot, and destroyed the entire human civilization within a few days. Although the power was already something that Paper Walker could only dream of, the power gap was too big compared to the radiation range of the Principle of Rings.