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"Then... Mami-senpai, do you know how witches are formed? In more detail, what is the process?"

Sayaka looked at Mami Tomoe with anticipation.

What she really wanted was a positive answer from someone, so she could convince herself.

"Oh... I don't know much about this either."

Mami Tomoe looked embarrassed; she hadn't expected that her boast would be so easily stumped by Sayaka.

"So even Mami-senpai didn't know?"

Sayaka was a little disappointed.

"Sayaka, why do you want to know this?"

"Uh, I was just curious."

"I see... Then I'll ask Kyubey for you next time I meet him."

"Okay, thank you Mami-senpai."

Sayaka forced a smile, and after confirming that Kyubey wasn't there, she stayed for a while before making an excuse to leave.

Back home, Sayaka lay on her back on the bed, covering her eyes with her arm, lost in thought.

Kyubey emerged silently from the darkness, looked at Sayaka's slightly murky Soul Gem, and suddenly spoke:

Sayaka, I heard you were looking for me?

"Khubi?! You finally showed up! Explain yourself!"

Sayaka glared at Kyubey. If it weren't for it, she wouldn't have been so conflicted these past few days.

"What do you want to ask?"

Faced with Sayaka's questioning, Kyubey showed no panic and continued to stare at her with his emotionless red eyes.

"Was that really a witch that day?"

"Yes, without a doubt."

"Then why did it turn into a little girl in the end that day?"

Having received the answer she wanted, Sayaka breathed a sigh of relief and then continued to ask follow-up questions.

"because……"

Cupid paused for a moment before continuing:

"Witches are transformed from humans, or more accurately, magical girls transformed out of despair."

"What?!" Sayaka's pupils shrank, and she looked at Kyubey in disbelief.

At this moment, Kyubey stood at the boundary between light and darkness in the doorway, and his originally cute appearance unknowingly became ferocious and terrifying.

"You mean I'll become a witch someday?"

"Yes."

"You're lying! You liar!"

Sayaka roared angrily.

“I didn’t lie to you, Sayaka.”

"I'm not going to be a magical girl anymore! Change me back to normal!"

Sayaka's eyes burned with anger at being deceived.

"Once the contract is signed, it cannot be revoked. Sayaka, you will be a magical girl for life, once a magical girl!"

"You bastard!"

With tears in her eyes, Sayaka instantly transformed into a magical girl, summoned her weapon, and cleaved Kyubey in two with a single sword strike.

But Kyubey instantly revived, ate his own corpse, and then spoke to Sayaka:

"Becoming a witch is the destiny of magical girls, why do you resist?"

"Go to hell!"

Sayaka cut it in half again.

"It's no use. Even if you try to avoid it, it's still a fact."

"Get out of here, you beast!"

Sayaka kills Kyubey again and again, and Kyubey is resurrected again and again, then continues to speak to Sayaka in a calm tone.

Finally, Sayaka could no longer bear it and broke down.

"Waaaaah... I don't want to become a witch, I don't want to become a monster, I didn't kill anyone... I didn't kill anyone..."

Sayaka covered her face with her hands, tears constantly spilling from between her fingers and dripping onto the bed.

"Sayaka, why are you so sad? Think about it, if you became a witch, what's killing a few people? Just accept your fate, isn't that better?"

Cupid spoke to her in a seductive tone.

"I......"

Sayaka choked up and couldn't speak.

But her soul gem, which was gradually turning black, revealed her state of mind.

Neither the person nor the beast spoke; only Sayaka's soft sobs could be heard.

But just as Sayaka's Soul Gem was about to turn completely black, a hand suddenly appeared and rested on her shoulder.

"Sayaka, don't cry."

A voice that felt strangely familiar and warm came from behind her, and she stopped crying, looking up with tears streaming down her face.

"......Who are you?"

"I am Li Xiao."

Seeing her like this, Li Xiao felt a little sorry for her.

He used emotional manipulation to calm her negative emotions slightly, and then took out a Seed of Sorrow and placed it on her Soul Gem to purify it.

"Do we know each other?"

Even though we had never met before, the moment I saw him, all the heartache and grievances seemed to leave me, and an unprecedented sense of peace welled up in my heart.

"You could say we know each other, or you could say we don't."

Li Xiao gave her question ambiguously.

"Are you still going to get involved in this?"

Cupid was not surprised by Li Xiao's appearance; it had already noticed this person who had been lingering around Xiao Yuan and the others.

It also set its sights on the peculiar power within Li Xiao.

However, because Xiaoyuan has gone through so many reincarnations, the karma entangled on her is too enormous, so it has a higher priority.

“You’ve gone too far, Cupid.”

Although he wanted Kyubey to tell him about magical girls and witches, he also didn't want Sayaka to actually turn into a witch out of despair.

"Are you going to stop me?"

"Our goals are the same."

At least on the matter of Xiaoyuan, they are of one mind.

Kyubey glanced at Sayaka, who had calmed down and was hiding behind Li Xiao, staring at it with fierce eyes.

"If that's the case, why are you stopping me?"

“They are also very important to me, and I would never let you hurt them.”

Cupid didn't say anything more, stared at him for a while, and then turned and left.

"Whoo~"

Seeing that it was gone, Sayaka breathed a sigh of relief.

At this point, she already regarded Cupid as the big boss plotting some terrifying scheme.

In addition, she couldn't kill Kyubey no matter what she did, so she couldn't help but feel a little afraid.

"Thank you!"

Sayaka knelt on the bed and solemnly thanked Li Xiao.

If it weren't for Li Xiao's appearance, Sayaka felt that she would probably have become a witch by now.

Li Xiao readily accepted her gratitude, and then asked her a question:

So what are you planning to do now?

"this......"

Sayaka was at a loss. Although Li Xiao had suppressed her negative emotions, she still felt extremely uncomfortable whenever she thought about becoming a witch and killing people.

"You already know the truth about magical girls, but your friends don't seem to know yet, right?"

Yup!

After his reminder, Sayaka suddenly thought of Madoka and Mami Tomoe.

"You're right, I have to tell Xiaoyuan and Mami-senpai about this right away!"

After saying that, she immediately got out of bed, stuffed her white-socked feet into her slippers, and got up to inform them.

But just as he reached the door, he remembered something and quickly ran back.

"Um...can you come along?"

She felt inexplicably at ease with this person, and he seemed reliable because he knew a lot about the inside story. She wanted him to continue helping them.