The term "magical girl" was naturally something Kisara Tendo knew about.
Back when the world hadn't become like this, two-dimensional culture was popular in this country.
Among the types of works in that culture were character settings like magical girls.
The main plot involved adolescent girls who would encounter some cute familiar, be told that the world was in danger, and need to make a contract to become magical girls so they could use supernatural powers to defeat evil forces and save the world.
Such works that seemed to involve fighting should be full of blood and violence, right?
However, magical girl works didn't have such obvious descriptions—they were mainly aimed at children. So the battle scenes were somewhat comedic and cute in style.
After all, these were for children—children's anime—how could they be filled with bloody violence? These were healing-type works.
Therefore, they were also very popular with children.
That little brat also liked this type of work—the show seemed to be called "Heavenly Punishment Girl."
Now, from Black Cat's explanation, Kisara Tendo understood just how dark the world of "Magical Girl Madoka" was, opening another extreme in the magical girl industry.
It shattered the image of magical girls as always being symbols of healing works, transforming them into despair-inducing ones.
The profession of magical girl, so cute and safe, had become a high-risk occupation.
This so-called Kyubey was such a spine-chilling demonic familiar, actually persecuting and deceiving magical girls to such an extent.
A utterly insane creature.
This thing calling itself Kyubey also had another name: Incubator. It could be said to be alien life from the perspective of Earth in that world.
The Incubators, having developed their civilization to a very advanced level, discovered the increasing entropy of the universe. At this rate, the universe would face heat death.
To avoid this situation, they needed massive amounts of energy to fill the universe and prevent it from heading toward heat death.
So they developed technology to convert "emotions" into "energy"—a miraculous technology.
Unfortunately, their species had no emotions, so they set their sights on adolescent girls on Earth, as girls at this age had the richest emotions.
They exploited the hope-filled hearts of these girls, extracting the massive energy produced when their hearts changed from "hope" to "despair."
When girls changed from hope to despair, they fell from magical girls into witches.
Kyubey tricked girls into becoming magical girls to hunt witches—not knowing that the witches had also once been magical girls. With each hunt, after becoming magical girls, the girls' souls would be materialized into Soul Gems, separated from their bodies. Once the Soul Gem was too far from the body, the magical girl would become like a zombie.
So in this state, the magical girl's body was controlled by the Soul Gem. Beyond a certain distance, consciousness couldn't perceive the body, plunging into darkness.
When magical girls used magic and fought, they consumed magical power. Accumulated pain, emotions, or falling into despair would make the Soul Gem murky.
In such situations, they needed to regularly use Grief Seeds to absorb the corruption.
When a magical girl's Soul Gem became completely polluted and turned pitch black, it would give birth to what was called a Grief Seed.
This process was how magical girls fell into becoming witches.
At the same time, when Soul Gems shattered to produce Grief Seeds, they would release massive amounts of energy.
Kyubey collected this energy to prevent the universe from heading toward heat death. It seemed like sacrificing the few for the many, for the sake of more species in the universe.
In reality, this was more about satisfying their own consumption of the universe's energy, sacrificing Earth's girls in the process.
During the process of absorbing this energy, countless girls had already been sacrificed without humanity knowing.
The ancient stories on Earth about shrine maidens, saints, and others defeating demons were all Kyubey's operations.
Up to modern times, they had cruelly killed countless girls, and in Madoka's generation of magical girls, they had created a great tragedy—infinite loops.
A magical girl named Homura Akemi, to save Madoka, kept performing time reversals, trying various methods to prevent Madoka from becoming a magical girl.
In the end, all failed. She could only watch helplessly as her dear friend died before her eyes again and again, becoming a witch.
The reason Madoka was chosen was because Kyubey saw that she could provide the most massive energy in history.
In the final loop, this time Madoka made a great wish different from all previous ones.
This wish would save all magical girls who had become witches in the past, rescuing them from despair and giving them new hope.
However, the massive hope Madoka's wish gained correspondingly produced massive despair—on a universal scale.
Because she wished to bear everything, taking it all upon herself.
But this time, she didn't despair, because the wish she made was for everyone to be happy. For her, that meant no despair existed, so there was no despair.
As a result of this, Madoka became—a god.
It seemed like reaching heaven in one step, a very good thing, but in reality it was also extremely cruel.
Because she collected the Soul Gems of countless magical girls from parallel worlds and timelines who were about to become witches. Due to the universal reconstruction caused by making this wish that transcended existing order, Madoka's own existence disappeared, becoming a omnipresent yet imperceptible and unmemorable universal law.
In the new world, her existence disappeared, with only Homura Akemi, who had time-traveled, remembering her.
Madoka would also be eternally lonely, which was very cruel.
This was the story Black Cat told.
[Tendo Civil Security Company: Since that Homura Akemi looped countless times and still couldn't prevent Madoka from becoming a magical girl, how can we stop it?
Fallen Saint Black Cat: If this time is the beginning of the main story, it means Madoka will become a god, but that kind of god is pure torture!!!
Golden Toilet: Since becoming a magical girl can't be avoided, then manipulate the wish when making the contract to become a magical girl
Martian: Manipulate the wish?
Kouzuki Yuuko: Oh? You mean something like wishing to a genie lamp, and for the third wish asking for three more wishes
Golden Toilet: Right, exploit the bug
Asuna: But as the most powerful civilization in that universe, there probably wouldn't be such obvious loopholes. They definitely wouldn't allow such wishes
Golden Toilet: Wrong. I believe Kyubey would keep its word and actually fulfill such a wish. There probably have been magical girls who made such wishes. But granting the wish doesn't necessarily mean successfully exploiting the bug. For example, Kyubey might play word games, or arrange small accidents—like dying or becoming a witch before the three new wishes could be made, or some sudden situation leaving no time to think, hastily using up the three wishes and forgetting to exploit the bug again on the third wish
Asuna: What if the previous wish was to never die and never become a witch?
Whisperer: Not becoming a witch doesn't mean not becoming something else. If the wish isn't clearly stated, Kyubey might cause trouble this way
Kouzuki Yuuko: Simply put, you need to make a perfect wish that gives that civilization absolutely no loopholes to exploit
Golden Toilet: Exactly
Kouzuki Yuuko: This is interesting—it's equivalent to competing in wisdom against a civilization that has developed to that level ]
Using just the wisdom of the members in this group to challenge the wisdom of a civilization that had developed for who knows how many years.
Was this naive? Or foolish?
Was it ignorance? Or fearlessness?
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