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"Okay, great! As long as there's a broad discussion!"

Long Ze's face glowed red, and the light from the screen reflected on his pupils. He was very excited now.

"I'm not far away from success!"

…

"Dad will pick you up after school today."

On Friday morning, Xiaohe, who was having breakfast, held toast and said to his daughter.

"Eh? Why?" The daughter put on her backpack and yellow hat and turned around in surprise.

"Because this time, the work progress has been accelerated, and the comic has been finished."

My daughter was speechless, "It's so rare."

"Yeah, this is the first time," Xiaohe turned sideways, "So, do you need it? Dad will pick you up."

"Yeah! I'm very happy."

"Aren't you worried that your classmates will laugh at you?"

"No problem, I'm the boss."

"Haha." Xiaohe couldn't help laughing.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, he arrived at the gate of a primary school.

After her daughter went out, she looked back and stared at her, saying, she must come.

He couldn't let his daughter down.

There were some parents at the gate of the primary school, mostly housewives.

When I saw the river, I couldn't help but point.

Probably something like "doesn't work hard" or "is an unfit father".

Xiaohe coughed and walked to a corner.

There is a man here, about the same age as Xiaohe.

"Those women were chattering so noisily." When the man saw Xiaohe, he didn't reject her. Instead, he was as friendly as if he saw his companion.

Xiaohe said: "Because women have few opportunities to work, they can only serve the family."

"You are really serious." The man looked at Xiaohe in surprise, "But you are right."

Wearing a suit, he took out his chest pocket, took out a card, and handed it to Xiaohe.

"This...this is..."

Xiaohe was stunned for a moment.

That card is Sayaka's magical girl costume.

That is, comic peripheral cards.

"Ah, sorry!" The man hurriedly put the card away.

His face turned red and he was at a loss, "I want to get the business card."

"that is……"

Xiaohe doesn't know yet that "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" has released peripheral products.

Because the "Madoka" animation has not yet been produced and broadcast, I didn't expect that the peripheral products were already one step ahead.

"Puella Magi Madoka Magica, don't you know?"

"Of course I know, it's just..."

Jump is for teenagers to watch. Adults will always feel a little uncomfortable watching this.

Gives the impression of not growing up.

Not to mention people in their thirties.

"I would also like jump at my age." The man said seriously, "Even in my thirties, I still clearly remember "The Three Cat Eye Sisters" that I read when I was a teenager. Yeah, that eldest sister is really concentrated. The charm of women.”

He never put down Jump and kept looking at it for so many years.

It's become a habit.

Xiaohe couldn't help but reminisce, "The tears in the next life are really moving, with its slightly melancholy eyes, noble and elegant temperament, and graceful figure..."

This is a classic work by Mr. Hojo Tsukasa, and it is still a timeless comic.

"Oh, you said it very well." The man said, "That's it, because it's a hobby, so I don't want to give it up because of what other people think."

Xiaohe gave a thumbs up, "That's right."

The man continued: "But as I grow older, I now prefer comics with in-depth plots, like "Puella Magi Madoka Magica". You may not think of it as a comic with a magical girl theme, but in fact the content of this work is very complex. A ring within a ring. Now that I see it, I always feel that there is some foreshadowing that I didn’t understand in the first chapter. The comic tells more about selfish and selfless love.”

"To only regard it as a magical girl work would be too superficial."

The man's long speech made Xiaohe look at him with interest.

Having said all this, isn't it just to explain why I carry the little girl's card?

"That's it, so..." The man felt guilty, "I'm not a pervert who likes little girls."

"I understand, I understand." Xiaohe smiled.

"My name is Xiaohe, what's yours?"

"Kusakabe, Kusakabe Qi."

They introduced each other and finally got to know each other.

"Kusakabe-san, actually I have been reading "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" because my daughter likes this comic very much." Xiaohe said.

Kusakabe's expression became distorted, and he murmured in a low voice, "Why don't you just say I bought it for my child?"

"Kusakabe-san?"

"Ah, it's okay, you can continue."

"Yes," Xiaohe nodded, "It's just like what you said. "Madoka" is exciting enough, telling a thought-provoking story in a young age genre."

"That's right."

The two of them talked about "Madoka".

Their conversation was interrupted only by the school bell.

"Mr. Oga, you know "Madoka Magica" very well."

"Because of work."

After all, he is the assistant of the original author Tori Akino Mirai.

The two fathers looked at the school gate, and saw students walking out slowly, but not their children.

"I've actually been thinking about it," Kusakabe said with some reluctance, and then discussed, "How was the witch born? Is it Homura Akatsuki's fault? She feels mysterious."

Xiaohe said with some embarrassment: "The negative will of human beings or something... From jealousy, greed, anger, etc., witches representing the dark side were born."

As an assistant who knows what will follow, he cannot spoil it.

Kusakabe was very excited, "It's possible, very possible! Magical girls represent the hope of mankind, and witches are also born from people's negative will."

In the comics, Kyubey says that witches are beings born from a curse.

This curse most likely comes from humans.

Kusakabe became more and more convinced of this.

Seeing Kusakabe being led into the ditch by him, Xiaohe felt a little apologetic.

"What does Xiao Meiyan know?" He was very confused about this. When he asked Tori Akino, the other party mysteriously said that it would be bad to reveal it too early and did not tell him.

He is hiding it from his assistants, so he really has it.

Xiaohe thought helplessly.

"What is the purpose of her existence? Why does she care so much about Madoka? Where does this feeling come from?"

"I always feel that Xiao Meiyan's words are very meaningful. After transforming into a magical girl, there is no hope. Why is Xiao Meiyan so extreme?"

"There are too many doubts about this character."

Xiaohe said a lot, and Kusakabe spread his hands, "I don't know either."

The two people said in unison: "Toriakino-sensei, he really likes to titillate people."

At this time, Xiaohe saw his daughter looking at the school gate. When he said goodbye to Kusakabe, he finally said: "Do you like Sayaka very much?"

"Well, because Sayaka is just, hard-working, and naive."

"It might be a little strange, but you'd better be prepared."

"What?"

"Be prepared like Tomoe Mami will die in Chapter 6."

Xiaohe waved his hand and walked towards his daughter.

Kusakabe shook his head, he had actually been prepared for it.

Sayaka, who was headed for destruction, could die at any time.

Seeing Xiaohe, Xiaoxiaohe complained, "Dad, you are so slow."

"Sorry," Xiaohe rubbed the back of his head and bent over, "It's just that I'm very pitiful, Kusakabe-san."

"What?"

"It's okay, I'm going home."

…

It's Monday.

"Oh, Mingjiu, why come so early to buy jump?"

In the supermarket, the monitor saw Mingjiu.

It's eight o'clock in the morning. Akiji is often late. She has never seen Akiji wake up so early.

"Because I care a lot and want to know the follow-up plot of "Madoka"." Akihisa replied.

Sayaka saw Kamijou Kyousuke and Hitomi coming together. She couldn't collapse anymore. She killed her familiars like she was venting her anger. There was almost no pure part of her soul gem.

Akihisa is worried that Sayaka's life is over.

"Eh? Didn't you say that "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" is boring?"

"Xiong Er said it, not me." Mingjiu defended.

He walked to the bookshelf, took a deep breath, took down the "Weekly Shonen Jump", and then went to pay.

…

The sun was rising. Ming hadn't gone to school for a long time, so he sat in a nearby park. After getting ready, he opened "Weekly Shōnen Jump".

Akatsuki Homura came to Sayaka and gave Sayaka a Lament Seed.

Sayaka said, "I don't want to hang out with people who do that kind of thing by not saving someone and taking advantage of him."

She understands that a person like Xiao Meiyan, who has an empty heart and has given up everything, will not want to save herself.

He must be thinking about something else.

Sayaka doesn't want to accept charity from someone with ulterior motives like Xiaomi Homura.

"In that case, you will cause Madoka more and more pain." Xiao Meiyan's face was in the shadows, and only her sharp eyes could be seen.

Everything she did was for Madoka.

Xiao Meiyan decided to let her kill Sayaka.

But Sayaka was rescued by Kyoko.

"Why? Why are you so extreme, Xiao Meiyan!" Mingjiu didn't understand.

Not to the point of killing Sayaka!

Moreover, Akatsuki Homura's inexplicable feelings for Madoka also left him confused.

"Ah, even magical girls, I can't understand it!"

On the subway, Sayaka heard the conversation between two men.

The content is that there is a woman who loves him very much, but he is just using her.

Throw it away when it's no longer useful.

This conversation gave Sayaka the final blow.

Her eyes were full of despair and death, her body gradually turned into water waves, and finally music scores appeared in her eyes.

Sayaka no longer looks like a human being.

Madoka, on her side, decided to make a wish to Kyubey to restore Sayaka's body to its original state.

"I...I want to become a young magician..."

"Is Madoka finally going to become a magical girl!"

Jijiu swallowed and looked at the comics nervously.

"Bang!" A gunshot sounded, and Kyubey was shot into a sieve by Xiao Meiyan and died.

"You, why do you always have to sacrifice yourself like this?"

"It's useless, meaningless. Don't not cherish yourself so casually!"

"Can you think more about the people who value you? You have to stop!"

"If I lose you, someone will be sad."

"Why don't you notice?"

"What should you do with someone who wants to protect you?"

Xiao Meiyan shed tears and collapsed weakly on the ground.

This made Madoka very scared, and she ran away amidst Xiao Meiyan's pleas.

Another Kyubey appeared and very cutely ate his dead "self".

"You're not from this timeline, are you?"

From Kyubey's mouth, Akijiu finally understood.

It turns out that Akatsuki Homura is a magical girl who controls time and came to the present from other timelines.

So, her almost love feeling for Madoka is something that will happen in the future?

"That's it, I suddenly became enlightened."

Xiao Meiyan knows about Witch Night, knows more information, and has a reason.

"Tori Akino-sensei really gave a perfect explanation."

"From the very beginning of Madoka, he had everything set."

"How terrible."

"Like "One Piece", Shanks' hand was bitten off by the King of the Near Sea or something..."

Xiaomi Homura came here to change Shikama Madoka's fate.

In the future, something bad must have happened to Madoka after she became a magical girl.

Xiao Meiyan calls Kyubey - "The Incubator."

"Hatch?" Mingjiu wondered, "Don't hatch mean witch?"

He thought of something, his face turned pale, and he held Jump with his fingertips, "It's impossible...that thing..."

Kyoko found Sayaka.

She cares about this kind of person.

To Akihisa's relief, Sayaka is still human.

Sayaka couldn't figure out the meaning of her existence, she just felt that nothing mattered.

She opened her palm, revealing the soul gem that was almost completely dark, "The balance between hope and despair disappears to zero, I remember you said that."

She saved many people, but she also accumulated corresponding resentment and jealousy in her heart.

"If you pray for someone's happiness, you have to curse others in equal measure. This is the structure of us magical girls."

"I'm such an idiot."

Sayaka burst into tears.

Tears fell on the Soul Stone, its last glow disappearing.

A huge shock wave appeared, and Kyoko was knocked away.

In the interplay of light and shadow, Sayaka's soul gem shattered and turned into a seed of lament...

"Ah..." Mingjiu opened his mouth, feeling very weak, "Magical girls are ultimately... witches..."

This was supposed to be a shocking reveal, and the secret was buried in the first episode of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica."

A witch hatched from a curse.

Magical girls bring hope, but also accumulate curses. What finally emerges from the curse is their old enemy, the witch.

"The soul gem will become turbid, that is, there will be a curse after using magic..."

"Sayaka, the messenger of justice, eventually became the incarnation of darkness..."

At night, Kyubey stood high above the city and said cutely:

"In this country, growing women are called girls. So, you who will eventually become witches should be called magical girls."

…

"Those witches who were defeated were all magical girls who saved mankind..."

The squad leader carefully recalled that all the witches who appeared in the comics actually have the shadow of girls.

A scene of cute fantasy amid horror.

These girls, with beautiful dreams, eventually turned into terrible monsters.

A twisted, evil witch.

"What a despair, "Madoka Magica"..."