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Chapter 572 The Horrifying Beast Hatcher

"AAA Magical Girl Sales Department: Space Expansion + Micro-Advertisement"

"I'm QB, looking to recruit some girls around 14 or 15 years old, preferably those who like magical girls! Long black hair and devils should be avoided, I prefer pink hair! You can DM me to have a wish granted~ and you can become a righteous magical girl!"

。 ∧一一∧.

/Renren\
"Make a contract with me and become a magical girl!☆"

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What exactly is the upper limit of the Incubator Civilization?

This should be considered an unknown quantity, but at the very least it is at the galaxy level, and the upper limit is no more than a single universe. In addition, it also possesses special technologies related to causality.

The simplest example, and also a common misconception, is that magical girls don't only exist on Earth.

In the civilization of the incubators, the emotion of "feeling" is something that only a very small number of mentally ill patients possess.

Although Kyubey said that humans are one of the few species in the universe with emotions, "few" does not mean "only". It does not mean that only humans have emotions in the universe. There are other species that also have emotions, whether strong or weak.

And without exception, they were targeted by evil alien creatures, who manipulated them through a wish-granting mechanism, extracting their emotional energy like livestock.

In the experimental fields established by those alien Cupids, countless cycles were conducted to verify how to obtain the maximum value more efficiently and simply, and in the process, countless tragedies also occurred.

For example, the "Forgetful Witch" born on the other side of the Milky Way is a product of their past.

The Forgotten Witch, whose nature is "revenge," is named "Itzli" in English, which is derived from the Aztec word for "obsidian" and is also the stone god in Aztec mythology.

She is rumored to be a magical girl who came from the edge of the galaxy. In their homeland, the magical girls there forgot their past and thus became what they are now, and are called witches by the magical girls on Earth.

Clover from all over the world is her spy, constantly monitoring every move on Earth, and she can even fight across galaxies.

How many testing grounds the Kyubeys have set up in the universe, how many alien witches they have controlled, and how much combat power they can ultimately mobilize are all unknowns.

Finally, the incubator civilization's methods matured and became more sophisticated, and the best experimental subjects appeared before them—

That is, each individual possesses independent emotions, and at the same time, they can live together in groups to form a civilized human being.

To use a rather clichéd term, that would be…

【Miracle】

The history of this planet, and the history of humankind, are miracles.

Through a series of mistakes, little by little, history has accumulated to become a habitable environment for humans today. It appears to be the result of human efforts, but behind almost every piece of history, there is a group of alien creatures called incubators secretly manipulating things...

Looking at it this way, they must have worked quite hard.

Because Earth's ecosystem is very brutal.

The universe is designed to be a place where one can survive without taking anything from other life forms, but species on Earth must plunder other life forms to continue their lives.

Humans are the most brutal species on Earth. The struggles of human civilization will not disappear because they have imitated the brutal ecosystem of this planet and completed their unique evolution in a small, isolated environment.

It is quite difficult for humans, a species with a fierce fighting spirit, selfishness, and an inability to survive without plundering others, to have developed to this point without being wiped out by civil wars they themselves have started—the neighboring Beidou world serves as a cautionary tale.

It is truly a miracle that Kyubey was able to find such a special species as humans in the universe, and it is also a miracle that humans were able to encounter the Incubator Civilization secretly protecting them.

Ultimately, choosing adolescent girls as the contract partners was the best choice that the Kyubeys came up with after countless experiments.

After all, it's not easy to plunge boys who are in their chuunibyou (adolescent delusions of grandeur) stage but actually possess special powers to change the world into utter despair...

"Fighter and foe are of the same origin? Might makes right! I don't care about this or that, let's get this card and beat Henshin!"

"If I turn into a monster, I'm counting on you guys..."

"Senior, I'm coming to kill you all!"

"Sorry, I'm a magical boy."

"I didn't have a choice before, but now I just want to be a magical boy."

"Shouldn't you thank Brother Qiu Bi in a loud voice?"

……

To be fair, although the Kyubeys have become smarter and no longer target boys with delusions of grandeur, knowing what to say and what not to say, and when to say it, the wish they offer is genuine.

Miracles and magic exist in this world.

Leaving aside girls who don't have enough karma to carry, as long as the karma and aptitude are sufficient, then it's truly a matter of giving them away whenever they want.

Compared to the Holy Grail, which requires fighting Heroic Spirits until you're bloodied and battling, and which you might not even be able to use, and the various sizes and types of Dragon Balls, Kyubey is a model worker who is dedicated to his job, always available, and works year-round.

Even those magical girls from other planets, before they became witches, must have made a wish and received what they wanted, right?

This is the only point that is beyond reproach.

Calm adults are willing to make a contract even if they know the price, but they are not qualified if they can bear such a future without despairing. On the other hand, girls who cannot accept such a price and would despair are qualified. This is the only contradiction.

Otherwise, if the Kyubeys repackaged themselves and gave the "Incubator Civilization" a nicer name, such as "Galactic Empire" or "Qiula A Meng Wishing Machine," and even clearly listed all the conditions, there would definitely be plenty of people willing to form contracts with them.

Moreover, they are indeed using the collected witch power to ignite stars, destroy black holes, and expand the universe in order to delay their destined extinction.

This universe had actually long been doomed, but the Incubators diligently maintained it with their unparalleled technology, constantly prolonging the life of a universe that should have perished long ago.

Even more astonishingly, in order to gain better profits, the Cupids also care about the mental health of the victims before they know the truth. It seems that advanced civilizations are indeed much more moral than hairless naked apes.

Even if it's just a temporary fix, at least they're doing something... and in the seemingly endless, arduous work, finally...
—The opportunity to address the root cause has arrived.

I won the ultimate prize that was clearly impossible.

Upon seeing Takihara, Kaname Madoka.

The potential she possesses has reached a level that is theoretically impossible to achieve.

They observed for a long time and discussed many possibilities, but ultimately failed to provide a reasonable explanation, nor could they determine why such a unique existence would be born in a human's underage individual.

But to them, Madoka Kaname is the universe itself—

"Miracle"

Therefore, they also have to seize this miracle.

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In front of a faded, light brown old apartment building, there are nameplates on the mailboxes at the entrance, followed by elevator doors leading to the residents.

——Boom! Boom!

Heavy footsteps, like the rumble of the earth, sounded.

At the very top of the steps, the elevator stops outside.

Then, a girl appeared in the moonlight. She was an adorable girl with pink hair in pigtails and a round face.

It is none other than—the former champion of the end of the century, now the chairman of the Mitakihara Health Committee, Madoka Kaname!
A majestic posture, a burning spirit.

A girl releasing abnormal stress.

His eyes were sharp, like those of a world-ruling overlord.

The mere presence of a person can change the atmosphere.

On the other side of the elevator entrance stood the mature and elegant third-year senior.

"Xiaoyuan" looked at the blonde senior and said:
"Hmph... Jagi's gotten taller and bigger..."

"Ha! You've gotten a bit shorter..."

After the girls finished their conversation, which seemed incomprehensible to outsiders, the two walked side by side, took the elevator, walked through the corridor, and stopped in front of room 401, whose name, "Akami," was written in neat handwriting under the doorplate.

—The Akemi Homura family.

Pushing open the door, the room had no wardrobe, no coffee table, not even a kitchen... It had no sense of life at all, like a dressing room in a space station in a movie.

Although the underlying principle is unknown, there are several display panels suspended above the room, displaying various numerical values ​​and town maps.

Below these panels, what came into their view was a pretty girl with long, straight black hair, sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed.

She floated upright in mid-air, motionless, her body about half a meter away from the soft sofa where she should have been sitting.

This is what is known as the floating state in the air.

"Wow. Is this the kind of auspicious movement that brings the Big Dipper to life...?"

The Beidou disciples exclaimed that this profound technique, which they had witnessed several times before, was used by a young girl with a unique beauty, just like Toki's style.

If she were to engage in combat, she would likely unleash beams of light from her palms while simultaneously rotating horizontally. As the name suggests, the light would strike the body's vital points, causing the opponent to explode and scatter.

Therefore, this move is also known by some as the "Beidou Sentimental Rotating Destruction Cannon".

Sensing the movement, Toki opened his eyes and looked at them.

At the same time, the last two magical girls entered the room, and their conversation drifted in.

Kyoko: "Don't you regret it?"

Sayaka: "Even if I regret it, I still have you guys to rely on, right? Let's talk about it when I regret it. Sigh, if I had known it would be this easy, I would have worried like an idiot for so long~"

Kyoko: "Stop messing around!"

Kyoko frowned, while Sayaka made no attempt to hide her emotions; a tense atmosphere hung between them, ready to erupt at any moment—"Mami" intervened with a smile.

"Arguing is bad, right?"

"We didn't argue!" x2
Kyoko and Sayaka, who had been separated by "Mami," also sat down.

Sayaka had been told the same thing before: "Too eager to get an answer." Was it Madoka, Madoka's mother, her best friend Hitomi, or her homeroom teacher Saotome?
She couldn't remember exactly, but she believed this was her way of doing things and didn't need to change, so she made a decision, just not now...

All five of them were present at this operational meeting.

Chitose Yuma, Momoe Nagisa, American Oriko, and Kazumi Chiru... or some magical girls who arrived later, whether they were hostile companions or wanted to help them, or even wavering wild magical girls, none of them are included here.

Because "they" are the strong, and those children are the weak who should be protected by them.

Jagi had pondered why the Kyubeys were gathering so many magical girls at Mitakihara, and his intuition as a villain, honed through numerous crises, told him—

It's not about hoping those magical girls will surpass them or defeat them in terms of sheer strength, but about using these ignorant magical girls to create a situation that will drive Madoka Kaname to despair.

He wondered what he would do if he were Cupid.
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He considered "total war," thinking that Kyubey could mobilize all "quality people" to fight them together. However, no matter how many magical girls there were, they couldn't defeat them, so he couldn't consider it from the perspective of combat power.

Therefore, we should think about it from the opposite perspective.

What will happen when so many magical girls gather here?
There is only one possibility

——Witch transformation.

Kyubey is looking forward to their transformation into witches.

Because no matter what kind of magical girl she is, no matter how strong or how special her abilities are, as long as she uses magic, she will consume magical power. As long as she maintains her physical existence, she will consume magical power. As long as she falls into despair, the final result will only lead to the corruption of the Soul Gem and becoming a witch.

in other words,

It wasn't magical girls who arrived in Mitakihara; rather, it was all "beings in the world that could potentially fall into witchhood" who arrived in Mitakihara...

All that's needed is to obtain Madoka Kaname's emotional energy; magical girls are consumables that the Incubator Civilization can have as many as it wants.

"to this end."

"They might be planning to turn all magical girls into witches..."

And the method is very simple—

Reveal the truth about magical girls.

One-button detonation device.

Aside from Oriko and the Pleiades Holy Order, the magical girls who learn the truth will surely go mad... All the witches they killed were magical girls.

Negative thinking, destructive tendencies, destructive desires, homicidal impulses, apocalyptic beliefs, denial of happiness, harmful habits...

Once the truth is revealed, if even one of the magical girls falls into despair and transforms into a witch, the despair will spread, causing a chain reaction that leads them to fall one after another.

Even if someone can resist, they will inevitably consume their magic power in the process of defeating the witch, turning into a witch themselves, and dying one after another.

This is a naked conspiracy.

"Because of you, everyone has become a witch."

They had calculated Madoka Kaname's personality perfectly, knowing that her kindness, which could not be erased no matter how she changed, was enough for Kyubey to watch Madoka Kaname end up alone and forced to sign a contract.

Even if all the magical girls were mentally resilient enough to withstand the truth without despair, and even if they lived in peace without fighting each other, just maintaining their daily lives, their magic would still be depleted.

Unless a new witch appears, the seeds of sorrow stored up in the past will eventually run out, so the outcome will remain the same.

And the Cupids can hasten this ending—

Above the suspended Homura Akemi, on one of the larger display panels than the others, one can see a huge, bizarre, and terrifying image of a witch.

—"A super-powerful witch has arrived!!!"

(End of this chapter)